Puppy2 alpha snapshot 11th April 2006

[BarryK]

See the announcement here:

http://www.puppyos.com/news.htm

If you tried an earlier alpha, please make sure any pup_save.3fs file is deleted.

Any bugs you discovered before, try it this time!

I want to know if this one is good enough to be the precursor to a beta release.
The next release will have a puppy1-to-puppy2 personal info importer.

Mark's Debian installer did not make it into this release, as there are some
issues still to resolve.

[Ted Dog]

www.puptrix.org/alpha/puppy2alpha-snapshot-11apr06.iso

MD5SUM
2cc1b657dfe231fc9d441ae2af210d95 puppy2alpha-snapshot-11apr06.iso

[Lobster]

It's my home [sob!]

So far so good - feels solid
Nice to see icons and background polish . . .

Puppy2 Wiki page
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy2

[Leon]

My puppy2a-11apr06 installation report:
http://www.puppyos.com/nfphpbb/viewtopic.php?t=59

I attached /tmp/xerrs.txt and the other files from my /tmp folder.

[PeterSieg]

Hi.
I have a thinkpad 770z without floppy. There are some delay and error
messages related to that at boot up.. Than running is fine (background image did not showed? - but manually loading is no problem?).. However, when I want to save the session, the missing floppy really is a problem than..it hangs.. I reported some more info's in thread cutting edge - detect floppy..

Since I have only a ntfs partition, what is the idea there, to save the session?
In puppy1, one does manually install c:\pup001 for that.. puppy2..?

PS

[BarryK]

Peter,
Yeah, there was some messing around, re detecting the floppy, and it wasn't
resolved when I had to upload the snapshot.

[raffy]

Hey, Lobster, is that the last tsunami on your desktop? (can't tell whether it's from Puppy2 as am 90 km away from my downloading cubicle

Puppy 2 is "tsunami"?? M m m, "Kintetsu" could be better (high-speed train in Japan). Or "maglev", the train that does not touch its rails!

[marksouth2000]

Hi, the 11 april alpha fails at the X.org config step for me.

Details:
- Xvesa does work, but only up to 800x600
- X.org worked fine in the 29 march alpha and autoconfigured at 1024x768x16
- the 11/4 snapshot wants to run the same res but never displays the test screen
- it also never returns to the video setup, just freezes with a black screen

Machine is 600MHz P3, 128 Mb Ram, 8Gb disk. Graphics are Intel 810 onboard.

Puppy 1.08, 1.08r1, and 29 march alpha all ran fine on this machine with X.org at 1024x768x16.

The mouse does seem to be correctly autodetected, however.

All the best,
Mark

[Lobster]

Did not know what you were on about Raffy . . .
. . . then I got it . . .
the wave effect . . .
. . . it's clouds low on the horizon - just the pic is reduced in size. It is a nice image and works very well and is not confusing at all on the desktop

The image can be changed for those who wish - I rather like this one

[dominic]

Xvesa does work, but only up to 800x600

Hmmm, are you talking about using the xvesa driver with xorg? or using kdrive (xvesa) server.

using xvesa, i could never get it to go over 800x600 anyway unless i used xorg and set the graphics driver as xvesa.

Dom

[marksouth2000]

Xvesa does work, but only up to 800x600

Hmmm, are you talking about using the xvesa driver with xorg? or using kdrive (xvesa) server.

using xvesa, i could never get it to go over 800x600 anyway unless i used xorg and set the graphics driver as xvesa.

I mean that when the video driver choice screen comes up, choosing Xvesa works at 800x600, but choosing X.org results in Puppy offering 1024x768x16 and then failing at a black screen if one accepts this choice.

[BarryK]

marksouth2000,
Ah, maybe your PC uses the i810 Xorg video driver?
(look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, near the bottom, "Device" section).

[Hacao]

Hi !

It's work well in my laptop IBM R50e !

Thanks,

[marksouth2000]

marksouth2000,
Ah, maybe your PC uses the i810 Xorg video driver?
(look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, near the bottom, "Device" section).

Barry, the process all goes smoothly until I click the "Test X now" button, when the "X" of the mouse brifly flashes on the screen and then I get a black screen total system hang. Can't kill X server, can't get a prompt, can't read xorg.conf

The i810 would be the correct driver for this hardware, which works just fine with other versions of Puppy and has run many other Linuxes and BSDs too.

Sorry to take a while to come back to you on this one, I went away for the Easter vacation.

Cheers, mark

[BarryK]

mark,
I'll release another puppy2 snapshot in a few days, maybe will fix it.

[marksouth2000]

I'll release another puppy2 snapshot in a few days, maybe will fix it.

Barry, that's good news. It's eagerly awaited!

Cheers,
Mark

[lickthefrog]

weird keyboard issue:

sorry, i'm a newbie and don't really know what i'm doing, but here's what happened to me.

in searching for a solution to a usb keyboard problem i have with my ibm netvista (weird computer).

the computer comes with a usb keyboard that works while booting earlier versions of puppy, but not once it's up (not in x or at the # prompt). so i need a PS2 keyboard (which won't work during the boot process - weird to me).

anyway, so i am testing two puppy2 alphas.

puppy2 from march 28 will boot and i can use the usb keyboard only through the whole process. so i know that herein lies the solution to the usb keyboard problem.

BUT, puppy2 from april 11 is different. here i can use the usb keyboard to set "puppy ide=nodma" but when the script starts and then asks me which language to use for the keyboard, the keyboard does not respond.

so, i'm just concerned that the next snapshot will be more like the april 11th image than the march 28th one.

does that make sense?

thanks,
lickthefrog

[galdarian]

BUT, puppy2 from april 11 is different. here i can use the usb keyboard to set "puppy ide=nodma" but when the script starts and then asks me which language to use for the keyboard, the keyboard does not respond.

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=6350

As I haven't used the Alpha pup I don't know if this is the topic above is the exact problem. Can anybody confirm that the usbkbd module is still loaded in /etc/rc.d/rc.local0??