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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9387 Location: SwedenEurope

Wanted to use an old computer HP/Compaq d230 Celeron CPU
1.5GHz for test of odd Linux distros but seems too old.
Lupu 528 frugal install fails to get desktop after first set up settings
and the restart of xorg. Xwin never starts. I tested with 1024.x 768
because that is what the monitor expects. I guess I ahve to test with lower?
Puppy 431 do work with 1024.x 768 but I want a very modern Puppy.

HP d230 only have 247MB RAM so that is maybe too small? I should
try to add to at least 512MB

But I remember vaguely we have had many reporting on black screen
after restart? Or rather xwin never starts.

Or it can be something with the video card.

Would it work better with some otehr Puppy or why does xorg not start
It looks all okay when it start up then after the restart of xorg it never work

800 x 600 did survive a restart of xorg but voi what big text Smile

Is it the low amount of RAM that makes it fail to start xorg?

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 420 Location: Wish I knew

Full Install of Lucilibre-5.2.8-005 on Pent 4, 2.8ghz cpu, 2gb mem

Using stopwatch, takes 3.45 to 3.55 sec to open writer..
Abiword is almost instant, however, I like libreoffice better

Guess libreoffice -writer takes longer because it is much larger program

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9387 Location: SwedenEurope

Thanks James C,
I will try a better computer with better graphics and more memory instead.
And move this internal HD over to that one and get 1GB RAM instead.
Sadly that one is more noisy and I hate fan noise.

bigpup · Posted: Sat 31 Mar 2012, 02:13 Post subject:

DC · Posted: Sat 31 Mar 2012, 06:57 Post subject:

re: lupu-libre-5.2.8-005

Hi,

Would Libreoffice auto update? (can't test as its up to date)

DC

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 420 Location: Wish I knew

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2943 Location: Sydney Australia

Lucid Plus.

Nice to see that this opened an ISO file immediately.

Best I have seen after Saluki.

Should be a Puppy standard.
When you are used to running >> 7zip >> in Windows
you get spoilt.

Anyway....a nice find.

Chris.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2465 Location: Ontario

I've written two right click programms
that might be of interest.

One creates empty files with a right click on a folder

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=616796#616796

the other is general utilty to rename files etc.

rename-files

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=616256#616256

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playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Lucid 5.2.8.005 Sanity Check

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/lupu-528.005.iso
c6d77fb54c88d6c55704f2ba679c783c

ffconvert 1.2 - shinobar; sfs-load 1.3 - shinobar; PupControl 2.0 - radky; Sylpheed 3.1.3 - playdayz; mtpaint 3.44.3 - don570; PupApps 1.8 - radky; PupSnap 1.6.3 - radky; pprocess 2.2.4 - zigbert; Pburn 3.5.1 - zigbert; firewallstate 2.1 - tasmod; grub4dos 1.7.2 - shinobar; isomaster 1.3.9 - BarryK; pbackup 3.1.9 - zigbert; pfilesearch 1.28 - zigbert; pfind 4.25 - zigbert; PupClockset 1.9 - radky; PupSysinfo 2.1.4 - radky; Bacon Recorder 2.7 - don570; dillo 3.0.2 - playdayz; geany 0.21 - playdayz

New Programs -> PupMenu 1.0 - radky; getflash 0.9 - shinobar

Fixed -> guvcview 1.4.1-1 (the previous version would often crash if changing video size and capturing)

Abiword with working Help
Abiword defaults to saving in .odt (opendocument) to address problems of failing to open abw documents it had saved
Homebank with working Help
gvfs 1.6.1 installed to enable Help - gvfs is the Gnome way to access http://, file:///, etc.

BigPup did a lot of detective work to get the Help working in Homebank. We found that not only did gvfs have to be installed, but also Firefox had to be installed and FF had to install itself as "default browser" which is different than the Puppy defaultbrowser. But the Help works with all browsers now. And now all of the desktop icon programs have working Help (and many of the menu programs).

Sanity Check means this is it unless something terrible turns up quickly.

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

528.005 frugal install to ext4 hdd pfix=ram on dual p6100 hp laptop.
broadcom sta_5.6.48.36-k2.6.33.2pet installed with wl wifi driver detected on eth1.
Broadcom Corporation BCM4313. connection wizard used without issue.

will continue testing. thanks

jpr · Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 102

Tried Lucid Puppy-528.004 Live CD on Dell Latitude C840, and the optical PS/2 mouse didn't work. However the PS/2 keyboard did work.

Also had problems with a hadware-based USB modem.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=617087#617087

Cheers.