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All seems well for PAE testing. Ran into a PPM issue and have PM to you on it.

Thanks

01micko wrote:Barry is gonna get sick of my feature requests! ( . ziggy you're not the only one ).

It's a pleasure.... Do you know why? - You're always behind schedule, so I never feel any rush

gcmartin wrote:All seems well for PAE testing. Ran into a PPM issue and have PM to you on it.

Thanks

Yeah "ziggy" gui is broken in PPM, see Known Issues in the main post.

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Sigmund...

My motto.. better late than never...

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James,

The old drivers for nvidia wont work as kernel names are different, now identifies as 3.1.10-slacko_4gU, that's enough to bork all existing nvidia drivers, it only means more work for me..

Once this kernel is proven solid and stable I'll compile and upload to ibiblio nvidia and amd video drivers, and ndiswrapper (not done as yet)

01micko wrote: James,

The old drivers for nvidia wont work as kernel names are different, now identifies as 3.1.10-slacko_4gU, that's enough to bork all existing nvidia drivers, it only means more work for me..

Once this kernel is proven solid and stable I'll compile and upload to ibiblio nvidia and amd video drivers, and ndiswrapper (not done as yet)

Pretty obvious now that you mention it......

Hi Mick,

I had the same problem as reported above using an existing save file that had a recent NVIDIA driver version 290.10. I was able to manually select nv to get it to work, however, reinstalling the NVIDIA driver contaminated the background images so I discarded the old save file and created a new one.

Installing the new NVIDIA Driver Version 295.20 was successful with the new save file. Everything appears to be working fine.

Cheers,
Jim

D/L 5.3.2.6 iso, booted to desktop
sound- ok
auto connect to internet- ok

Next did clean full install to hard drive on 4gb ext4 partition

Upgraded Seamonkey to 2.8 beta 3 - ok

Installed xscreensaver 5.15- ok
Installed Shermans Aquarium 3.01 - ok

Hp Pentium 4, 2.8ghz cpu, 2gb mem, 40gb hd 4 partitions and 20 gb hd 4 partitions, Intel 82865g graphics controller,

No problems to report.

Don't know how you do all this and still go to school full time.
Hat's off to you

Don't know how you do all this and still go to school full time.
Hat's off to you

Multitasking is an acquired skill, it is not exclusive to women

hm, just a thought!

I'm wondering how much is actually different between a pae and non-pae build and if part of the install could test and install the correct files.

Something, I think, to put into your 5.3.4 todo anyway.

downloading now....

As I reported earlier with the previous release, Gparted errored out again while attempting to reformat a partition.... leaving the partion as "unknown". Prior occurance was on the P4 test box, this time was on the Athlon XP box.Went ahead and formatted with Exprimo both times with no problem.
Evidently it's only happening here but thought I'd report it.

Otherwise though,looking pretty good.

Hi Mick

5.3.2.6 seemed to work fine using an updated 5.3.2.4 savefile...

however have just tried to make a new system with a new savefile and after the reboot I get no background and no icons - see attached.

My disk is ntfs formatted. The savefile I created was ext2 no encryption.

Very strange.
Cheers
Peter

I'd be interested peebee if the same occurs on racy which uses roughly the same woof. What this is indicating is that the save didn't work at all.
Also, perhaps you could try again using shinobar's pupsaveconfig, which creates the save before shutdown. Barry has changed a fair bit in shutdown scripts lately.

To remedy the current situation run: restart X then reset your wallpaper.

01micko wrote:I'd be interested peebee if the same occurs on racy which uses roughly the same woof. What this is indicating is that the save didn't work at all.
Also, perhaps you could try again using shinobar's pupsaveconfig, which creates the save before shutdown. Barry has changed a fair bit in shutdown scripts lately.

To remedy the current situation run:

Code: Select all

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache

restart X then reset your wallpaper.

Just tried shino's pupsaveconfig and this worked fine......

>>> Dell Studio XPS 1340

I got Broadcom >> b43 to work on previous slacko....9th post.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=240

Courtesy of pemasu >> his pet and grump's post.

This time >> nothing.

"""""""""""

I did the same steps in the above post nothing.

Rebooted again ...fresh boot...

pinched the previous files from older Slacko....lib/firmware/b43

renamed your b43....copied my older b43 to the same >> lib/firmware

Then in the network wizard unloaded the b43 module,

then reloaded it....but it fails to find wireless.

But Puppy barks first off this time....
no fiddling >>> ticking speaker for the Dell.

And a nice wallpaper.

I will now get out old baked bean tins and string...
bewdy mate.

Regards...Chris.

Hope your course is going well mate.

01micko wrote:I'd be interested peebee if the same occurs on racy which uses roughly the same woof. What this is indicating is that the save didn't work at all.
Also, perhaps you could try again using shinobar's pupsaveconfig, which creates the save before shutdown. Barry has changed a fair bit in shutdown scripts lately.

To remedy the current situation run:

Code: Select all

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache

restart X then reset your wallpaper.

racy 5.2.2.7 worked OK - created a pupsave same parameters and successful reboot to working desktop....

see 5.2.2.8 is available - haven't tried that yet....waiting waiting waiting for download - sometime later - racy 5.2.2.8 also worked OK - again successfully created a pupsave same parameters and successful reboot to working desktop

[update] 25-03-12
I've created a forum page for all of the Broadcom-STA wl drivers:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76495
[/update]

Cheers
peebee

Some days ago I've had the same problem with Gparted as James C. It was with 5.3.2.4. I thought, it was because of playing with truecrypt before. I used Gparted with Lupu and it worked fine. After this I could also format my usb stick again with 5.3.2.4. Ext2. ext3, VFAT, no problem.

Now testing 5.3.2.6.

First surprise, I'm able to create an encrypted save file with 3fs.

Is it a bug or a feature? I would prefer the latter, but using it, I get the same problems as peebee, no background and no icons. This happens with .3fs heavy or light encrypted save files on an ext3 partition. Unencrypted save file .3fs works OK. Will check Racy later.

Compiz works fine. No need to patch radeon.conf or xorg.conf as before.

Cheers
Rolf

Rolf, the crypto thing is probably a new feature of the newer kernels, I bet racy works too, I suggest the solution I said to peebee to get back to a normal desktop. The thing is, Barry, and therefore the puppy scripts don't know about the new feature. Thanks for your enlightening post! We will make use of this new feature . Oh, glad compiz is fine for you too.

peebee, I can create a save file in ntfs that is just fine , just not using pupdialog! . If you drop to a prompt and shutdown/reboot the old way then all's well. I have sent a report to Barry and I captured a log of sorts which doesn't seem to mean a lot but I'll publish it anyway. Ignore the disktype error, it's only a probe of the floppy controller, no floppy drive present.

Cheers!

Glad to report that SiS Mirage chipset works OK, although default needs CTL-ALT-BKSPCE to adjust res., etc. Thanks Mick.

01micko wrote:I suggest the solution I said to peebee to get back to a normal desktop

For getting icons back, this works fine.

restart X then reset your wallpaper.

This does only work if I create manually a folder .pwidgets in /root/. Could have something to do with Compiz. I remember that I've had this problem some weeks ago, trying to run Slideshow from Nathan Wallpaper Setter. With Compiz, the same error, with a fresh save file without Compiz it worked. But not so important, just for info.

The thing is, Barry, and therefore the puppy scripts don't know about the new feature.

That's hard to believe, see attachment.

All in all, it's very interesting, also the internationalisation part.

Cheers
Rolf