Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[BarryK]

Use this thread to post 3.00beta bug reports.

[Sage]

When running XVESA, it is still necessary to run TEST, rather than OKAY in order for the default res. to be changed.

[Robb]

My initial impression is that it looks great. Booted from the CD flawlessly. Used pfix=ram but noticed a lot of hard drive access during bootup. Is this normal? I *think* it did this in the alpha, too. I have 2.17.1 installed to it's own partition and I'm wondering if it still looks for installed files.

Puppy continues to be my favorite linux distro - great job!

[keithcleaver]

When I've tried to copy the files over to my USB stick, I've noticed two of the files have different numbers in the names than what's in the release notes:

[GeorgR]

'switch_root' to new Unionfs fiilesystem ... done
Making filesystem useable ..... failed!

After 60 sec Pause booting was continued and Puppy runs very well.

All Hardware was detected and runs without any problems.
- PC with NVIDIA 6150 Chip, 1366 DVI LCD, spdif sound
- Notebook Armada M300

First booting Live CD or after Frugal Install - everytime on both computer the same picture:

Bootfailure message with 60 sec pausing and then starting without any problems.

[Sage]

Boot up is significantly faster and easier. The k/b setting for USA is shown twice - first entry and next UK towards the end. The shutdown fiasco is still present. Will it- won't it, depends on m/b, BIOS setting and whether there's a statement <force=acpi> or somesuch in one of the configs. This is irksome, many other distros manage to work out what to do.
NetSurf sure is basic, but lacks the fantastic speed (and small size?) of Dillo. Only the two extremes are needed? Seabloat and Dillo. Opera is always the better single option!
When attempting load Dillo.pet (using 800x600 XOrg), the message panel about missing dependencies fails to float, so it's necessary to increase resolution to see the button options at the base of the window. This is an ancient deficiency that used to abound with most flavours of penguin. Damn annoying!

[Lobster]

[8-bit]

Boot and full HD install to a second HD went fine. I let it install GRUB and I may have got in a hurry, because I told it to install grub to the 2nd HD and it used that menu.lst when I rebooted. I know this because I modified menu.lst on the 1st HD and it did not show up when I rebooted.
Also, I have to update my cd burner drive as well as my DVD drive as they seem to be flakey. I cannot use burniso2cd with the drive although it seems to work with NERO in WIN98SE.
Other than that, all seems well so far. The CD burner drive is a Philips CDRW model 1280.
I did discover for those that say burniso2cd does not work for them to open a terminal first and run it from there. It will tell them (in the terminal) what errors may have occured.

[kirk]

[tronkel]

CUPS does not work on my system running Puppy 3.0beta
Using the CUPS setup program via the wizard, everything seems OK at first. The browser loads the localhost:631 url, with a message stating that it cannot find resources. This might indicate that the daemon has not been started.

If the the url is altered to read localhost:631/printers, a CUPS printer setup screen then loads but minus its normal graphics logos.

If an attempt is then made to add a printer, the routine exits with a "server_error" message.

ALSA now retains is config over reboots.

Can now resize the pup_save OK

For the first time ever on this machine, XORG gets a far as displaying the monitor table, something which no other distro has managed.as yet. Not quite there yet though. XORG will still not run at 1024 X 768 at 16bit colour - something I know that the video card is capable of - without a manually created xorg.conf. Progress here indeed though.

eth0 is not setup automatically at boot time as happened with 2.20alpha. I wonder what has changed.


Apart from this, its looking very good. Nice lively fast crisp feel on this slow old Compaq 128MG ram 400MHz and very fast boot.

Congrats Barry!

[wuwei]

Started from CD then from CD and flash drive with 2.17 files on it. Both went fine.

Two bugs that I noticed:

JWM themes cannot be changed. It stays at default.
When I choose roaring penguin from the connect icon, set it up with my data, it will not run upon clicking on the start button.

Both items worked perfectly in 2.17.1

Sorry about the other post, need to find my way around here

[Artie]

I have been playing with 3.00 beta a bit today and so far I have the following remarks:

Chooselocale Fetch doesn't work just get ERROR: Aborting

Pidgin not preconfigured for Puppy Chat and why have both Meebo and Pidgin?

I would love to have the Liberation Fonts pre-installed.

I would suggest you replace Xine with VLC 0.8.6 as the last one is much better in my opinion.

For some reason text size in SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups in the Message Display is bigger than everywhere else in SeaMonkey and have to be set to 90% every time I open it to get the same size as the letters here. Any idea how to set the font size permanently down will be very welcome...

Artie

[veronicathecow]

Hi Barry, sadly I still can't get on line. The network Wizard does not show any network card (3C940) same as with the Alpha, perhaps it is the backgrounding?
Every Puppy for as long as I remember had no problem with this card.
Cheers
Tony

[veronicathecow]

Hi Barry, also no sound (A7V600 motherboard (ADI AD1980 codec [SoundMAX])) which in PC Linux loads module snd-via82xx
Thanks

[veronicathecow]

Also CUPS, it allows me to select the printer but no test prints and it does not show any jobs waiting...