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Jemimah, I have 2 suggestions for Saluki:
-add evince as a default pdf and djvu reader
- if you use xfce4 desktop it needs a better gtk theme and a set of icons for thunar. Also xfce4-panel has plugins such as genmon and xkb-plugin( a very useful one but all pupplets with xfce4 had no this plugin). Genmon plugin can be used to output different scripts

Saluki-005 has been uploaded.

http://www.smokey01.com/jemimah/saluki/isos/

Boy was this ever a lot of work!

You'll probably want to install the attached extra themes.

jemimah wrote:Saluki-005 has been uploaded.

Downloading........

James C wrote:

jemimah wrote:Saluki-005 has been uploaded.

Downloading........

Me too

James C wrote:

jemimah wrote:Saluki-005 has been uploaded.

Downloading........

Installed......

Saluki-005..... fresh manual frugal install.Sound and internet connection working on initial boot.needed to use xorgwizard to get correct 1440x900 screen resolution.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Saluki, version 005

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
nouveau

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

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

# glxgears
510 frames in 5.0 seconds = 101.963 FPS
480 frames in 5.0 seconds = 95.868 FPS
541 frames in 5.0 seconds = 108.054 FPS
535 frames in 5.0 seconds = 106.956 FPS
540 frames in 5.0 seconds = 107.961 FPS
540 frames in 5.0 seconds = 107.887 FPS

Looking pretty good so far.

vesa is wrong!
That's it.. radeon . This bug has been in report-video for ages, I hacked out a different version, or I think tazoc's report-video-glx is accurate.

Frisbee wouldn't connect, I'll try later on my main box, see if it works there, maybe send a diag.

xfce is nice.. all set for compiz

I used this method I developed to install Firefox, grabbed 9.0.1, working well.

Hi jemimah

Pristine frugal install of luki005 onto my HP550 laptop...

Unable to enter a HEX key into Frisbee for my wep wifi connection so can't get wifi established.

Thanks
peebee

Sleek and good-looking, like its originator!
However, rather slow to boot up and operate. Guess that's the Xfce penalty.
Points raised earlier still pertain, viz. no default browser, Elinks unable call up Opera, Opera not in PPM, had to load Opera via Firefox, Flashplayer is wrong one for Opera11.6.
Loadsa other stuff not available via PPM, including Midori. Guess this'll all be sorted out later.
Otherwise, nice - even got my preferred resolution correct.
Later.

Boy was this ever a lot of work!

The ways of the Puppy Jedi are long and arduous . . .
Feel free to rant here away from the main kennel . . .
http://puppylinux.info/forum/saluki

This is the potentially best Puppy implementation of Xfce and the control panel is great. In particular because of the familiar layout - good call.
I went straight to desktop and was flummoxed by having to double click icons. However I have been confused by a kipper with no sell by date.

Just to warn people - this is early alpha build. It is for recent computers
but it is a great way to test and offer feedback . . .
This is one of the best ways to grow with Puppy

I would have to download a browser and a few other things . . .
Still not for everyday use. Already very distinctive.

I booted up the live dvd and installed about a dozen pet files,then
installed 4 sfs files.
I downloaded and installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-275.43.run proprietary
driver for my video card.
I rebooted and created my save file on a usb hard drive.

Wed 4 Jan 2012 Operating System: Saluki-005 Linux 2.6.39-ski
0.0 VGA compatible controller:nVidia Corporation GF108[GeForce GT 430](rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: GF108 Board - 1071v0p1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (382x302 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 430/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 275.43

AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Core 0: 2700 1: 2700 2: 2700 3: 2700 4: 2700 5: 2700 MHz

# glxgears
61951 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12390.115 FPS
62099 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12419.771 FPS
62081 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12416.086 FPS

I've just begun to use it but so far, WOW!

I was getting "GSEAL" error even compiling a simple gtk app.

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02618

HTH

Hi Jemimah

Looks and feels really good - also agree that xfce / thunar is a good choice.

Not sure why - but could not connect wifi - used frisbee and then SNS - both no go.

Posting this from saluki-002.

Will try again - and on another laptop - EeePc and newer Emachines.

Your efforts are much appreciated - Very besr regards - Ray

Hi Jemimah!

I also can not connect to the Wifi. Always says wrong password.
All other things work great!

Thanks!

Install 005 from CD on P4-2GHz Intel system (on sda4).

observations

- puppy installer prompts correctly that sda4 boot flag must be set and starts gparted, but does not inform you that ntfs is a nogo. It just quits.
- sound(*) and video work fine, thunar is different from rox, but is doing its job.
- frisbee setup worked (tested eth0 only), and reconnected at reboot.

anything you want tested specifically ?

Volhout

P.S. tried to test "secretly" at work, but the secret was revealed by the barking sound at puppy startup. Can you plz eliminate that ? It will enable testing Saluki secretly. My home PC (the SIS graphics) failed with 004, otherwise I would be stuck.

Barking in a MAJOR feature: Please Do not eliminate.

Volhout - can you unplug or turn down your speakers?

I did a manual frugal install to my emachines D620 laptop.
Frizbee doesn't work properly, it sees my wireless network but when I
enter the password it gives an "invalid password" error and then it's
totally euchred, can't see any networks at all.
SNS doesn't work either.
Network manager works but has to be rerun every bootup.

Wed 4 Jan 2012 Operating System: Saluki-005 Linux 2.6.39-ski
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M[RadeonX1200Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: RS690 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3

# glxgears
775 frames in 5.0 seconds = 154.999 FPS
775 frames in 5.0 seconds = 154.899 FPS
781 frames in 5.0 seconds = 156.064 FPS

AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2650e
Core 0: 1595 MHz

Ethernet controller Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet
Controller.
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY

005 works much better on my desktop pc

EDIT:Apart from the wireless problem 005 is working very well on this laptop, snappy even.

Finally got saluki 005 going on the XO-1.5 (just used the Lupu synaptics driver ! )
Also had problems connecting to WEP with hex password. Connected OK with network-setup.sh but after a while the connection was dropped and did not connect again.

Luki looks nice but takes some used to. Like double-click on desktop icons but single-click in thunar . Terminal opening at / by default, mmcblk volumes not showing on the desktop and other little things.
A whole new puppy

Xfce/Thunar is indeed heavier than ROX/JWM though and on a slow machine like VIA7/1GHz or worse Geode LX800/433MHz it shows a lot.

01micko wrote:I was getting "GSEAL" error even compiling a simple gtk app.

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02618

HTH

It's because gdkconfig.h is missing. I think woof is eating it but I forgot to check in this release.

Volhout wrote:
anything you want tested specifically ?

Frisbee was thrown in at the last minute, I'll see if I can sort networking out for the new release.

What would be most useful to test is drive mounting, thunar, and all the xfce features.