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alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2291 Location: Winsted, CT - USA

Highest res w/Xorg is 800x600. Xvidtune can adjust to near-perfect 1024x724, though upon restarting X, new setting persists in xorg.conf, however screen remains the original distorted display. Commenting out the UseModes line doesn't help, either.

Box: HP Pavilion XE736E
Intel Celeron 600 (Coppermine)
RAM 256M
monitor - very generic Dell

Apparently the new Xorg doesn't like the i810 chipset.

Show stopper. Viva la v2.12!

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4012 Location: Heart of Texas

I booted via HD grub, initial boot all fine set up alsa, wireless, and x11-vesa mode 1280x800. choose save to pupsave and reboot competed fine. On next boot, kernel panic. If grub kernel line pfix=ram then no panic.

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

here i mentioned under "app troubles:" 'Pwireless just keeps opening back up when I X it out. One actually has to press 'quit' to make it go away. This made me chuckle a bit.'

I fixed it by adding this at line 420:

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1554

Thanks, I just updated pwireless with your bugfix.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23121

Kenn · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Finland

Hi,
I have a problem booting a thinkpad 600 with Dingo which dosn't exist with 2.16.
When there is either no drive or a CF disk on IDE the result is a loooong wait and drops to a prompt. The exact text is:

"loading kernel drivers needed to access disk drives ... done
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives ... pup_395.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off"

I tried a few different boot parameters without success, but none were necessary for 2.16.

Any insights?
-- Ken

JustGreg · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 785 Location: Connecticut USA

I found out the latest version of wpa_supplicant (v0.6.0) does not support -d ralink option need for the rt73. The new version of wpa_supplicant wants to use -d wext. However, the rt73 driver does not conform to the interface required by wext. One needs to use iwconfig and iwpriv commands to set everything up.

Here is the code of the script that works for me. This has work twice for me. However, on the second reboot, it failed. I need a break, back to shoveling snow and hauling in wood for the stove. There was an error in setting the encryption mode. Nothing like digging out the wood pile under 15 centimeters of snow in 0 degree centigrade to clear the mind Cool

. The code below has been corrected for WPA2 and AES

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

In the alpha4 bug report I mentioned, under 'JWM configuration troubles.' that "When I change the JWM theme using "JWM configuration" I get a couple spots that don't seem to get configured when I change themes.".

I went ahead and figured out how to fix it up (instructions included). I dropped a picture at the bottom to show how pretty it looks now.

Just one quick question. Is the background supposed to change also? It looks like that logic is in there, but it's not happening. I was going to fix that up if need be and try a shot at getting the volume icon and processor monitor background colors changing also.

Step 1) /usr/local/jwmconfig/jwmThemeSwitcher comment out Line 68-71

This will keep the jwm-default file from getting overwritten when themes are changed.

Step 2) Line 321 in /root/.jwmrc add this line

lederlunge · Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

bug report
installed latest dingo with extracted files from the iso and booted it with grub that was allready istalled on my mashine.

bug#1
have downloaded the dotpuphandler to listen to some mp3-s, as XMMS is missing as dotpet.

clicking a .pup just brings on a window telling the name of the dotpup.
bug#2
keybinding for the rox(i love it)filer for deleting is CTRL + X, wich could be changed to DELETE, whenever one installed the rox.pup.

cheers.

# Genesis 9:21
When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

Lobster · Posted: Tue 15 Jan 2008, 06:13 Post subject:

divisionmd · Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 608

Hello all,

When i tried to boot Dingo Alpha 5 from an USB disk i get the error during boot "pup_395.sfs not found. Dropping out to inital-ramdisk console..."

Maybe an easy fix?

Best regards,
Johan

BarryK · Posted: Tue 15 Jan 2008, 09:48 Post subject: Re: USB boot

Jnoble · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 7

When you put your Username, Phone # and password in pupdial and click connect it freezes up. The only way to get out is turn off power and start over. The same thing happens when you click on "Probe" or type Wvdial at a command line.

Jim

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5258 Location: GB

BK announced today:

Billcnz · Posted: Tue 15 Jan 2008, 16:16 Post subject:

Sage,
the cfdisk problem may be due to the new drive naming, if I call cfdisk on it's own it crashes but if I specify the drive it's OK:

# cfdisk

FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive
Press any key to exit cfdisk

# cfdisk /dev/sda

cfdisk (util-linux 2.13-pre7)

Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 40060403712 bytes, 40.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4870

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sda1 Primary W95 FAT32 (LBA) 26279.77
sda2 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 534.65
sda3 Boot Primary Linux ext3 13242.71

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

Barry, I thought of this the other night when a new user was trying to find 'make'.

If you rename 'make' to 'make-FULL' in the devx file and then put the following script in Puppy at /usr/bin/make it will give them instructions on what to do if they don't have devx already.

If the devx file is already loaded it will just pass the instructions on to 'make-FULL'.

If you like the idea, toss it in there.