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CHLee
Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 55 Location: Hong Kong
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 01:22 Post subject:
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Barry , can not start the Xwindow after I add the .fonts directory in /root .
The .fonts directory was symbol link to /home/fonts directory . My pup_save.sf2 is in /had2 ( ext2 fs) .
The fonts directory content only have one font file (fireflysung.ttf) .
I use the Rox-Filer to make the symbol link , after making the symbol link,
the seamonkey can not start . Then I reboot the puppy-3.92-seamonkey
live CD , the result is Xwindow can not start . I remove the .fonts symbol link and type xwin , the Xwindow return normal .
I use this method to add fonts file since Puppy 1.08 to 3.01 , it work very good . I enjoy Puppy linux very much , thinks !
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8526 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 03:20 Post subject:
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linuxcbon wrote: | Boot takes too much time when copying to RAM.
Auto DHCP doesn't setup DNS address. |
I have no trouble with it.
Quote: | Screen refreshing rate too low.
Xvesa lags when displaying, moving windows, scrolling etc. |
yes, we have always known that. alpha2 is a build with xvesa, so that's the way it is.
Quote: | Video wizard icons missing. |
You mean the "X Server Chooser Wizard". That shouldn't even be there, as this build dosn't have the full Xorg servers. I've now removed it.
Quote: | When resizing mplayer, it disappears in the corner.
Mplayer doesn't play video double, full size but always same size.
Codecs missing for mplayer.
Mp4, 3gp, midi etc formats not recognized as sound, videos (no programs associated). |
yes, there is a resizing problem. Okay, I may have to update some media file formats in Rox. JWM has a problem with displaying mplayer windows, I'll get onto Joe, the author about this.
Quote: | For Hardinfo : /usr/lib/libz.so missing |
Err, I don't find this problem. I tested with 'ldd /usr/bin/hardinfo' and it needs /lib/libz.so.1, which is there.
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BarryK
Puppy Master

Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8526 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 03:29 Post subject:
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cb88 wrote: |
mplayer is still locking up my big PC so not a speed thing
are you not starting it with gmplayer?
is there any way to prevent mplayer from opening again if you click on a new file...? |
I'm using a script, /usr/bin/mplayershell, to start mplayer. This is supposed to detect any special situations. Yes, gmplayer is used. The script could detect if mplayer already running then not start another instance ...but would everyone want that? or, I suppose the old instance could just be killed.
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tronkel

Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1120 Location: Vienna Austria
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 03:45 Post subject:
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On my ancient pre-2000 hardware here (400MHz AMD 192MB RAM), Puppy's built-in Seamonkey was always a slow starter (and also slow in browsing).
The versions downloaded direct from Mozilla were always a bit faster and even more so with the latest version 1.1.6.
The new cut-down Seamonkey is even faster to the extent that it is about twice as fast on startup times as the previous built-in versions 1.1.2 to 1.1.5.
Also, Seamonkey's performance doesn't seem to degrade as much over time, as is the case with the the later versions of Firefox., even if the browser is left running for an extended period. Has Seamonkey cured
the supposed "memory-leak problems" whereas Firefox has failed to do so?
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8526 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 04:05 Post subject:
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Raffy wrote:
Quote: | Re NTFS, when I mounted one NTFS partition, it displayed a red window saying "illegal option --i". Despite this, the NTFS partition was opened read-only. My take on this: leave NTFS alone (just read it, don't write on it), and use extra HD space through Gparted. Using NTFS and coping with its idiosyncracies is a waste of time, IMHO. |
Raffy, did you use pmount to mount that partition? I looked at the /bin/mount script and cannot see any way that a '--i' parameter can be there. So, I'm wondering if you tried to mount it some other way. But, as you got that red window it means the mount script did run -- but, the mount script screens out all passed parameters that start with a '-', so I'm puzzled.
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plinej
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1554
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 04:11 Post subject:
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the /usr/share/themes/Stardust/gtk-2.0/gtkrc file has an error. Line 443 should read:
base[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" #??
not:
base[PRELIGHT] = "ffffff" #??
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5370 Location: GB
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 04:19 Post subject:
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Sometimes I get the red screen in Pmount in 4alpha when looking at NTFS but I've ignored it as it is clearly incorrect - the NTFS files are visible. MUT sees all my drives without any spurious messages.
Maybe the Puppy 4 Alpha1 thread could be amalgamated with this one? The renumbering might be confusing, but perhaps John's board could edit out 4 alpha in the same way as on Barry's blog?
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BarryK
Puppy Master

Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8526 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 04:57 Post subject:
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plinej wrote: | the /usr/share/themes/Stardust/gtk-2.0/gtkrc file has an error. Line 443 should read:
base[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" #??
not:
base[PRELIGHT] = "ffffff" #?? |
Thanks, it's fixed.
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raffy
Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4839 Location: Manila
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 05:38 Post subject:
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Yes, it's pmount. Puppy users rarely use other ways of mounting, I guess.
Also, in a SATA-using PC that I tested, pmount hides the /dev/sdax (hard disk partitions) whenever I plug in a USB drive. This is where MUT can recover but pmount can't (I have tested that before, and it is the same with 4 alpha2). EDIT: Just to clarify, there is no MUT in 4alpha2 so no comparison this time.
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HairyWill

Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2946 Location: Southampton, UK
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 06:05 Post subject:
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I've just realised that the dropping of gtk1 means that pptpconfig probably won't work. I've just tried installing the existing dotpup I made and it is giving gtk errors. I don't think it will compile for gtk2 and it seems like, the author, James Cameron views it as a bit of a millstone. Debian and Ubuntu seem to have dropped it in favour of a Network Manager plugin which I still haven't got working on Debian Lenny. To be fair I don't have much Debian experience and only tried for about 4 hours.
Looks like it will be back to the command line to manage my VPN connection, this is a shame as pptpconfig did it better than me!
Really I think zigbert should learn how to use pptpclient and write us a nice shiny gtkdialog app. I'm sure it wouldn't be much work pptpconfig.php is only 2200 lines long!
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lluamco
Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 207 Location: Banyoles, Spain
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 06:42 Post subject:
petget and not enough disk space |
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This concerns Dingo 392 and also previous puppy versions.
Sometimes, when installing a pet package using the petget manager, a window warns that there is not enough space left on the disk. And often, there is enough space! I think that the reason is that the the units measuring the free space of the disk and the units of the estimated needed space are NOT the same. In fact, checking the output of the "stat" program, it can be seen that they are given in blocks of sizes 4096 and 512, respectively.
There is thus a factor 8 among them. Thus the required estimated space in petget is overestimated by this factor 8.
I suggest to change the line:
EXPNEEDB=`expr $EXPFILEB \* 3` #bz2 can expand up to x3, need twice temp space. v3.01 changed 5 to 3.
to
EXPNEEDB=$(($(($EXPFREEB*3))/8))
Hope it helps.
Lluis
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plinej
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1554
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 15:28 Post subject:
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After changing to the Stardust theme shouldn't all the yellow be gone in the taskbar? I rarely use jwm so I'm not sure what I need to do to get it to change with the theme.
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jonyo
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2725
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 15:48 Post subject:
Re: Puppy Dingo 392 testing, bug reporting |
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BarryK wrote: | ...some people do not get the picture, are not in the spirit of it, and really should not be involved in testing an alpha. |
No doubt about it & a few.. ought not be involved at all!
alienjeff wrote: | Now that's the spirit! Way to rally the troops! |
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ArnaudN
Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 71 Location: France
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 18:03 Post subject:
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Hi everyone,
Just played with dingo a few minutes on my laptop.
My remarks:
- Screen resolution not well detected;
- Network well detected with bcm43xx chipset, but dhcp returns ok but IP is wrong;
- Read-only warning when mouting ntfs partition;
- Local flash games very fluid
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cb88

Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1169 Location: USA
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Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 18:53 Post subject:
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umm just for clarification which is it that really works gmplayer or mplayershell?
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