Quirky 008 uploaded

Grab Quirky 008 from here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/quirky-008/

Please do read the release notes:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/quirky-008/quirky-008-readme.htm

...some very interesting new features to play with!

Forum thread to provide bug reports and any other feedback:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53142

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Comments

Wireless Connection


Quirky 008
Username: Ramachandran
"Dear Sir Thank you. I will get back to you after full installation. Thank you once again for great work.

Keyboard layout bug fix
Username: BarryK
"Important bug fix if you have a non-US keyboard layout: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=397400#397400

Burn Problem
Username: 8-bit
"I tried to use Burniso2cd and also PBurn and with both, I was unable to select /mnt/home/[my iso] For some reason, /mnt/home is not being shown even though it is mounted and Quirky 8 is running frugal from it.

Burn Problem update
Username: 8-bit
"It turns out that one cannot access /mnt/home from PBurn or Burniso2cd until a pupsave file is created! After making a pupsave file, I now can access /mnt/home from the burning utilities.

Quirky008
Username: Ramachandran
"While booting live CD, I am getting following message. Performing a switch_root' to the layered file system - Kernel panic - not sysnc in" what to do?

Xorg problem
Username: BoscoBearbank
"xorgwizard wants to set xorg.conf to use the nv driver, but this driver does not work with my desktop PC's onboard Nvidia-9100 graphics; I need to use the vesa xorg driver. However, xorgwizard did not offer me the option of vesa. FWIW, modprobe nouveau causes my screen to go black also. On the other hand, the kernel/xorg combination in the current Fedora 13 development branch, kernel-2.6.33-1.fc13.i686, xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-2.20100218git2964702.fc13.i686 does work for me.

nv driver
Username: BarryK
"BoscoBearbank, In the Xorg Wizard, after you have chosen to test the deault video driver, there is a window that offers to change to the Nouveau or Vesa drivers. Hmmm, I might have to download that Fedora, try it for myself. Interesting, I often read good things about Fedora. Perhaps I should expand Woof to support building from Fedora pkgs.

Puppy Linux
Username: raymundo dioncio
"Puppy Linux Go ahead... Finish your work... :) :) :)

Puppy Linux
Username: raymundo dionicio
"Puppy Linux Go ahead... Finish your work... :) :) :)

Xorg problem
Username: BoscoBearbank
"Just having the nouveau kernel module loaded seems to lead to a totally garbled display in X. This is true with either the nouveau or the vesa driver selected in xorg.conf. unloading the nouveau module, and selecting vesa in xorg.conf gives me a working X display. The last time I tried the nouveau driver in Ubuntu (Lucid alpha 3), I had problems similar to those I'm encountering here. I figure since it works properly in Fedora, it'll eventually work properly in other distros too. To me, there's actually an advantage to using the vesa driver in Puppy - I can boot it off a 1GB USB flash drive on any computer, and not have to worry about messing up my pupsave file. Although vesa modes don't include the native 1680x1050 format of my monitor, 1600x1200 doesn't look too bad.

Massive, Gigantic, Monumental Congratulations
Username: Sage
"No sarcasm intended on this one - 008 is the first P/Q to shutdown properly on SiS chipsets since ??? series one??? No idea how it was achieved, but it can now join the other thousand or so distros who have SiSsed how to do it.

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