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[scsijon]

Found a problem with a 500 frugal to 502 upgrade.

Booted with 502 cdrom on my test box with wary5 (frugal)
it found the savefile for 500 and I selected it
it said it wanted to copy the 502 files across to the savefile partition
I said yes
it said it was doing so, cdrom flashed for a while and hd light also flashed
it said it had upgraded the savefile

I tried a few apps, worked ok

rebooted, removed cd, expecting it to come into 502 when I picked the wary5 menu item
it didn't, said savefile was last used by 502, do I want to upgrade to 500
I said no and it started in ram
checked out directory for upgrades, nothing visable, nothing found on a search

rebooted from cd
it started ok as 502
did a check and then search for 502 files
nothing found!

Manually copied the 502 files across to the 500 frugal partition (moved the 500 files to a 500 subdir first)
rebooted, removed cdrom
all came up ok as 502

also noticed a mix of hda1-10, sr0-1, sda-b for devices visable.

over to you I think


will download and test 503 tomorrow am.

[shinobar]

all of my HDD and CDD ide(wary-502 did not detect) and sata are detected with wary-503.

[rjbrewer]

Inspiron 700m; full install.

Like the other versions after Wary 098, this one also has a very
long usb-pcmcia loading count when booting.
It can cause the cursor to freeze on occasion.

Classic network wizard would not make wpa connection;
sns did.

Right click on icons still has menu pop-up glitch on occasion.

[Terryphi]

[rjbrewer]

[2byte]

With my Smartlink 56k PCI modem I can set it up with the connection wizard but it will not dial out, and the modem will not be recognized on the next boot.

Steps:

Used the Connection wizard to set it up as ttySL0. Success

Ran Efax:

[gcmartin]

I asked this earlier on another thread and got blank stares. I'm using my local LAN and each PC is in the same subnet.

[James C]

Another frugal install of 503, this time on my old P3 test box. No problems....everything working well on initial boot. Added Mesa, Firefox 3.6.13 and Htop.....all good.


VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 503

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub]
Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

Here's "free" with a couple of tab open in Firefox....
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 254352 242588 11764 0 21572
Swap: 1020088 0 1020088
Total: 1274440 242588 1031852
#
-Computer-
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 254MB (110MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.50
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 09 Feb 2011 05:37:27 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH

[James C]

[Billtoo]

I'm running live with a save file.
On first boot using probe to set the video driver at 1024x768:
# glxgears

5020 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1003.730 FPS
5040 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1004.894 FPS
5040 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1004.704 FPS
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 503

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

Sound is working and I used the network manager to set up the wireless
network.


...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
I downloaded and installed nvidia-260.19.12-k2.6.32.28-w5.pet, exited
to the prompt and entered nvidia-xconfig then xwin.


# glxgears
25039 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5007.800 FPS
32426 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6485.200 FPS
32416 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6483.200 FPS
32424 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6484.800 FPS
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 503

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
#card0driver

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
Computer
Processor 2x Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz
Memory 2854MB (143MB used)
Operating System Puppy Linux 0.50
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Wed 09 Feb 2011 08:41:58 PM EST
Display
Resolution 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce GT 220/PCI/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 220/PCI/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 260.19.12
Direct Rendering Yes

It's working well on this pc.

[scsijon]

started the test box with a 503 cd

it said it wanted to do a 502 to 503 upgrade

I let it

it also wanted to copy the puppy.sfs over to the same location as the savefile and I said yes.

let it start up and was ok.

stopped my testing process here.

I wanted to find where the new puppy file was being placed

Eventually found it. What it is doing is creating a new zxxxxxxx directory for 503, copying the 503's zdrv.sfs AND puppy.sfs here **NOT** as it says it's doing (copying to the same location as the savefile).

copied manually to the correct place and rebooted

everything came up ok on reboot.

so that is the problem

shutdown for now.

Will go back to my testing processes later today, update this message if necessary.

regards
scsijon

ps zdrv hash is correct.

pps @BarryK for his pc problem, from a vague past memory, doesn't the default setting for memtest actually start testing at either 256K or 640K and work upwards, I seem to remember that you need to tell it to actually test below that, and different again for the bottom ram blocks, and this had to be done from a floppy start, it couldn't do these low areas from a hd start. Another thing to check is if the two "directories" on the hd have the same info, I do remember having a 214 install giving random problems when the second directory was out of sync to the first as linux will use the second copy in r/o mode if the first copy is "in use".

[CHLee]

For my three PC hardware, the 2.6.32.28 kernel is better. At least, my two USB wifi work good(rtl8187 and zd1211rw).
In the 2.6.31.14 kernel(wary500), these two USB wifi could not connect to my wireless router(WEP).
Thank very much!

[Sage]

The strange case of the disappearing icon has popped up. Heard about it before, but this is the first time I've seen it:
- liveCD, right click on Sr0, icon disappears
???

[2byte]

Regarding my problem with the smartlink modem not being recognized after a reboot, /dev/pts/0 is not being recreated at boot. The /dev/modem symlink is there.

Still no luck dialing out.

[peebee]

I reported earlier in the thread that I had problems with a sticky / jerky cursor under wary502 on my Thinkpad.

Pleased to report that this has gone away with 503 which runs AOK on both my ancient Thinkpad with just 196MB ram and also on my HP550 laptop. Haven't got sound on the Thinkpad yet but that is a common problem.

Cheers
Peter