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Barry,

You are amazing!

Downloaded ... may be too late in the day here to load it all up but will make a point of it asap and report back.

Thanks!

I did a frugal install of 040 on this pc which has an nvidia card but the only way I could get x to start on first boot was to choose the neomagic driver.I had downloaded your new nvidia pet earlier and saved it to a flash drive but no luck installing it on this pc, x won't start when I select restart x server after installing the pet.
VGA compatible controller nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200]
VGA compatible controller nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300 GE]

I have another pc with an nvidia 8600gt card in it and the nouveau driver causes the screen to have strange lines here and there on the screen.Rebooting and selecting the vesa driver on this computer allowed me to install your nvidia pet and x would start after doing restart x server but no accelerated graphics although the screen is okay otherwise.
I do get accelerated graphics after installing the nvidia pet in quickpet in luci-209 on the pc with the 8600gt but have to start with vesa before installing the nvidia pet on luci-209 as well.

The pwallpaper in /usr/sbin doesn't change the wallpaper, it will come up and you can select different background images but it won't actually change the wallpaper.

Just did a quick fresh frugal install on the old P3 test box.No problems yet...

on the 020 version, I installed viewnior and that allowed nathan wallpaper setter
to work.

For now, in 040, I just edit /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin at the top, eg :

<backdrop style="Stretched">/root/towercam.jpg</backdrop>


Otherwise, working great!

Hmmm, yeah, something is amiss with Pwallpaper. I'm running on an old 500MHz PC right now, I started "pwallpaper" in a terminal, chose an image, clicked "Apply" button and got a segmentation fault.

Anyway, I am pleased to report that modem dialup is now working. This old PC has a Pctel analog modem, and it works, using it right now.

I'm paying for a dialup account with Netbay Internet, but hardly ever use it. Still want to keep the account though, for testing purposes.

Htop is only showing one core on this dual core pc.

Edit: I booted up my frugal install of luci-209 on the same computer and htop is only showing one core as well.

James computer shows two cores, is this the twilight zone or am I just overtired?

Edit: screenshot-1.png is ubuntu on the dual core
hardinfoquad.jpg is spup 040 on my quad core

htop shows both cores in ubuntu on the dual core
htop shows 4 cores with spup 040 on my quad core
htop shows 1 core on the dual core under spup 040 and luci-209

I used the same htop pet on both computers.

Edit: James, I booted spup 040 live on the dual core and then installed the htop.pet and it showed both cores so it shows both cores running live but only one on a frugal install. I'm not posting another screenshot but thems the facts, now off to bed.

Edit: James, you are right.I looked at the menu.lst file this morning and this is what it looked like:

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Wed Jul 7 11:07:22 2010
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/sda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.sda.23612'. You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.sda.23612 of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/sda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux 209 frugal in sda3 dir puppy209
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
kernel /puppy209/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=puppy209 nosmp
initrd /puppy209/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux 040 frugal in sda4 dir puppy040
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
kernel /puppy040/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=puppy040 nosmp
initrd /puppy040/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
root (hd0,1)
setup (fd0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/sda2)
root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0,1)
pause Press enter to continue.
title - For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title - For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)

I edited out the nosmp part and it now shows both cores.
How did nosmp get in there? I didn't put it in there the script that generated the menu.lst file did so I guess there's a problem with the script..
A screen pops up when you do a frugal install and shows you what to insert in the menu.lst file and I just pasted that into the original menu.lst so that's where it came from.
Not being a linux expert I had no idea what that meant (or even really read it) , I just looked at the "Linux bootable partition config begins (and ends) part" and inserted that into the original menu.lst file.

yikes!

Not sure what happened to my good news previously-posted but here it is:

SPUP 040 upgrade from 030 is 100% so far on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-29.

Seamonkey 2.0.5!

CUPS 1.4.3 (may not be original)!

Barry's Simple Network Setup!

OpenOffice 3.2.1 (I added that.)

Tests tomorrow on the troublesome ACER and the eccentric Z500 laptops.

Thanks Barry!

Billtoo wrote:Htop is only showing one core on this dual core pc.

For what its worth, Slackpup 040 is showing both cores here.

Edit:

While I'm posting from this computer.......................



VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 040

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

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

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

Correct 1440x900x24 resolution.

Billtoo wrote:Htop is only showing one core on this dual core pc.

Edit: I booted up my frugal install of luci-209 on the same computer and htop is only showing one core as well.

James computer shows two cores, is this the twilight zone or am I just overtired?

Strange. I was running live but that shouldn't make a difference. I tested Luci-209 on my quad-core and it showed all 4 cores too.

Sorry I'm no help but this is puzzling. Wouldn't happen to have "nosmp" anywhere in your menu lst? Other than that I don't know.

All spup pppoe not work

I have fixed the wallpaper problem. Well, I haven't fixed Pwallpaper, but have fixed Nathan's Wallpaper Setter. See here for PETs to install:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01718

Frugal install spup 0.4

Working good here

Video / audio and streaming video / audio works.
Duel core works.
No problems with encrypted wireless connection.

I installed slackpup04 as frugal but do not get any sounds from the motherboard chip or my soundblaster card in pci slot. Video runs but no sound with it.

BarryK wrote:I have fixed the wallpaper problem. Well, I haven't fixed Pwallpaper, but have fixed Nathan's Wallpaper Setter. See here for PETs to install:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01718

It works now, thanks.

Hi,

Nvidia Fx Go 5200 card does not work in 0.4 beta.

regards Tony.

Running Spup 04 Beta on Intel Celeron 600MHz 256MB ram.

Problems: printer is connected to a windows machine. Set up ok in cups, using "windows printer via smbclient" (Or is it sambaclient?). Tried to print test page, got "Conversion from ASCII to CP850 not supported".

PNethood finds the windows machine, but reports "No Shares". WRONG, there is the printer and a share folder, Pnethood usually finds them.

gerry

gerry wrote:Running Spup 04 Beta on Intel Celeron 600MHz 256MB ram.

Problems: printer is connected to a windows machine. Set up ok in cups, using "windows printer via smbclient" (Or is it sambaclient?). Tried to print test page, got "Conversion from ASCII to CP850 not supported".

PNethood finds the windows machine, but reports "No Shares". WRONG, there is the printer and a share folder, Pnethood usually finds them.

gerry

The new smbclient program built from samba_tng is broken. This is testing in Quirky, but it explains gerry's problems in Spup. For example, the following command fails to identify the shares on machine PCNAME. [Edit] However, the samba_client-3.0.37-s131.pet does work with Pnethood, LameSMBxplorer and CUPS printing.

While 040 is working fine on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 it is giving me fits on the older CF-28.

I figured out that the CF-28 will only handle a video depth of 16 vs 24.

The Wifi connects and the Internet appear to work OK.

But when I go to reboot I get a bunch of text on the screen and it stops that way. I can arrow up and down but that's it.

I see the words "Stack" and I see the word "Trace" in the text.
.
The last line is "ath9k unloaded".

I am using a pcmcia wifi card for Internet access - it was working OK in wary 030.

Hi

JFYI - spup04 is working well on my acer laptop - even got mouse tapping to work - nice.

All the basics seem good - and automagically setup internet - very nice puppy.

Using it now - hardinfo report attatched if of any interest.

As always many thanks and very best regards - Ray

spup 0.4 beta modem dial up motorola SM56 - device id 1057:3052 class 0703 does not connect. until it is recognized but does not create connection.