After waiting a couple of days in the hopes someone could shed light on the several issues reported in my previous post here (BTW - somehow my e-mail notification of new posts in the thread has been blocked), I decided to simply try again, with the same PC, DVD-burner, and LiveCD as the first time.
The only change was the monitor, substituting a PC-enabled 20" Sun Microsystems model for the Viewsonic E90 I used in the previous boot Both monitors are attached to the system via a DualHead2Go connector, and booting with either or both powered up has not created any difficulty in 4.3.1 or lupu. After setup was completed, I powered up the second monitor, and it displayed identically to the Sun. So I don't believe this change can account for the massive difference in the desktop appearance and function, let alone the failure of major components to work, or the automatic setup of a wary savefile without user input. It's a very intriguing mystery to me, and I'm astonished that neither Barry nor anyone else here has expressed the slightest interest.
I booted the CD with
, to avoid booting from the warysave-SD5.3fs file created automatically by the installer on the first bootup, and also to avoid waiting for Wary to search the whole system for savefiles.
The installer presented the keyboard, timezone, and local/UTC options, and after that I selected xorg's probe option, as I did the last time. As previously, the xorg wizard offered a ridiculous resolution of 1024x768, and I tested it. It used only the top two thirds of the screen, so I hit CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE, reconfigure, and as always, was offered no option except to tweak the refresh rate.
I chose TWEAK, and chose 60Hz (which I know from experience is the only rate the xorg wizard will accept for my monitors (I wish I knew why!)), and presto! - the screen filled at 1600x1200 resolution with the announcement that the Radeon driver was installed.
Hitting OK gave me a normal desktop, with all the icons, and the wallpaper. The drive icons were there, ABI worked. I was even able to run the Pwallpaper image chooser and substitute a wallpaper from Puppy 4.x for the ghastly selection provided.Go figure!
And furthermore, this time the Wary installer DID NOT take it upon itself to created a warypet folder and install a 384MB 3fs warysave file on a partition of its choice without consultation (not yet, anyway).
However, the failure of the Pmount preferences tab to do anything persists. And another strange thing is that whereas the first Wary 5.2 boot had Gimp available and working in the Graphic menu, I don't see it this time...
BTW - I wonder why the pets for UFRAW (standalone and GIMP plug-in) and RAWSTUDIO, which are available for lupu and 4.3.1, are not found by Wary's packet manager?
Overall, I guess I've got some good news this time. I wonder if that means I'll be notified of new posts in subscribed threads once more...
Update: tried playing some mp4 videos after upgrading to 5.2.1. All I get from MPlayer is a console and audio, but no video.
I then tried installing xine-ui. 099, and a number of listed dependencies, and after all that, there was yet another notice of missing libraries, but no option to download.
Finally, I installed gxine 059.. But it had missing dependencies too.
Gxine shows in the Multimedia menu, but nothing happens when I click on it. It seems there's no way to play an mp4 video.
OTOH, clamAV installed without a hitch, and supposedly is accessible through the utilities menu. But I can't find a tab for it anywhere...
What was "broken" about x-fprot, anyway? It worked fine for me in Puppy 4.xx and lupu.