Puppy 4 Beta 2

[Kal]

Upgraded Beta1's pup_save-398.2fs to Beta2 (changed it to 399) with frugal install, my KDE 3.5.9 and apps came thru with flying colors, which were in the pupsave. Hotpup turns off now, when using JWM (I don't use it with hal and dbus working). JWM configuration worked also. The things I use, just work, this seems to be the best Puppy, I've seen.

Had to tweak the refresh rate in xorgwizard to get 1280x1024 instead of 1024x768 to work, but that was all.

Good Luck, Kal

[veronicathecow]

DUPLICATE SOMEHOW...

[veronicathecow]

Additional info
No sound. When trying to play an MP3 DVD drive gets accessed.
1200Mhz Proc plus 1GB RAM Seamonkey takes 33 seconds to load (same time approx for each loading)
No FLAC support
Boot time a respectable 35 seconds from grub with all "Speed up " options chosen.

Cheers

[WN2A]

Preliminary Findings:
Here's what works that did not before with Beta 1:
qucs (all versions, - yeeess!)
fldigi (ham radio---you may need to run ALSA wizard first)

Here's what didn't but found a workaround:
openoffice_cutdown3-2.2.0.pet
The Workaround:
Install dopuphandler-0.0.4-2.pet
Then install openoffice.org2.0.pup (from MU's site)

Also, I always install .pets and .pups from /
More later.....73's

[GrumpyWolfe]

Hey Berry

Just wanted to say, I set up Ayttm for my yahoo account but when I rebooted it did not have my account anymore had to set it up again but have not tried it yet.

[rerwin]

In wrapping up my improvements to rc.modules, which loads the needed hardware drivers, I have updated its (and rc.modules2's) logging statements to make them consistent and civilized: mainly capitalization, indentation, and removal of the alarming "FATAL". I also needed to add a statement for modules that aren't loaded due to lack of hardware (as for possible built-in ISA LT modems).

Besides updating those scripts, I changed modprobe so that it won't print a blank line most of the time. As usual, the scripts are attached with their difference listings. I annotated them with "v3.99".

Here are "before" and "after" examples of the rc.modules' part of the log:

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Starting /etc/rc.d/rc.modules...
 loading modules for core usb...
 loading modules for pci interfaces...
loading module yenta_socket

loading module yenta_socket

loading module ltserial
loading module i2c-piix4

loading module donauboe

Running PCMCIA cardmgr program...
cardmgr[13142]: watching 2 sockets
Fetching x dri modules (but not loading)...
FATAL: Module neomagic not found.

Setting hostname: puppypc
 loading extra usb modules...

FATAL: Error inserting battery (/lib/modules/2.6.21.7/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko): No such device
Loading /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map

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Starting /etc/rc.d/rc.modules...
 Loading modules for core usb...
 Loading modules for pci interfaces...
  Loading module yenta_socket
  Loading module yenta_socket
  Loading module ltserial
   Module ltserial not loaded - no appropriate device found
  Loading module i2c-piix4
  Loading module donauboe
 Running PCMCIA cardmgr program...
  cardmgr[13142]: watching 2 sockets
 Fetching x dri modules (but not loading)...
   Module neomagic not found.
Setting hostname: puppypc
 Loading extra usb modules...
Loading /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map

None of this affects functionality, but it completes my modem/modules improvement implementation.
Richard

[geneven]

I'm sorry that the interesting wallpaper has been removed and boring wallpaper has been substituted, at least that's what I found when I did an installation to my usb stick.

It's not optimized for Puppy and otherwise may not be suitable, but I like the attached picture I took as background.

It's from Montserrat, a Catholic Monastery near Barcelona, Spain. Go there if you get a chance.

[floborg]

New problems:

* No tray volume control
There is a blank placeholder in the tray, but no speaker icon. I went through the ALSA wizard twice, selecting the same things I do every time. My jwmrc-tray file has no volume control in it, but the process is running. I don't, however, have any sound. I normally probe for legacy cards and select ES18xx. I have an onboard ES1869.

* New PETGet is too large for a screen size of 800x600.

Fixed:

* Lock app appears to work again.

* Gxine preferences can be accessed.

* Battery monitor is hidden - I'm using a desktop w/o a battery.

Unresolved:

* Blinky still using double the memory

* Copy2RAM threshold appears unchanged. I thought the purpose of Dingo was to copy to RAM on a 128MB machine.

[Lobster]

One positive point I forgot to mention . . .
On the EeePc when setting up the screen
Xorg offers 16 or 24 bit colour at the right resolution
- nothing else. Two choices.

Simple. Nice.

Ah yes another thing - the hotspot icons were moved to the right
to accommodate screen icons? Still were scrunched on the Eeepc.
So I am still feel moving them up would remove this initial jumble . . .

Also I need this confirmed
(a few more hours of usage)
but turning off Blinky seems to get better hits with the browser.
Sometimes I have to reload up to 8 times
to get a URL hit (this might be an ISP issue)
So I am just introducing that in case anyone else has the problem
and turning off blinky solves it.

[linuxcbon]

geneven I find wallpaper from barry good enough, then it is personal taste, you can change yours.

what is xcfgt2 ? is it needed ?

I dont have DRI enabled, not sure if needed though (does it make Xwindow faster ?) It needs the r200_dri.so
Also glxinfo, glxgears not there. Should I try with full_dri pet ?

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# qt3to4
qt3to4: error while loading shared libraries: libQtXml.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Same with other qtconfig,qtdemo.
Same with lrelease and lupdate

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# linguist
linguist: error while loading shared libraries: libQtNetwork.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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# pmirror
grep: /root/.pmirror_config: No such file or directory
grep: /root/.pmirror_config: No such file or directory
grep: /root/.pmirror_config: No such file or directory
date: invalid date `+%s'
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error

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# gaimshell
/usr/sbin/gaim-autosetup.sh: line 56: /root/.gaim/accounts.xml: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/gaim-autosetup.sh: line 76: /root/.gaim/blist.xml: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/gaimshell: line 5: exec: gaim: not found

[Sooty2]

The networking wizard works OK for me on a Gigabyte AirCruiserG, although I seem to need to run it twice to get all the settings in place and saved.

Run wizard..select wireless wlan0..scan network..select network..set up and save ssid and wpa / tkip settings with password..wizard attempts network connection..times out and falls over.

Run wizard..select auto dhcp..and away she goes.

With 3.01 I had to use WAG to connect, so the wizard does the trick for me now.
I Will have another play to see if I can get all it in one step.

Congrats to Barry and the team for their hard work...it's lookin' good!

Regards, Sooty2

[flynch]

Wireless works on my Elite Group Model A535 Prism2 Module without any problems. Thanks

flynch

[drongo]

Reported this in Beta 1. When I click on the "Lock" icon the password screen doesn't accept any input from the keyboard- or at least it doesn't print out letters or asterisks. It will accept "carriage return/enter" and I can use "carriage return" to unlock "lava blobs".

Keyboard works OK in console. Running puppy pfix=ram from a live CD.

drongo

[NathanO]

Would like the 'chat' to default to IRC #puppylinux like the 3.0x series for new users, just have it prompt for a screen name.

[Flash]

Upgrading multisession Puppy 3.01 DVD to Dingo 4 beta 2 breaks SeaMonkey.

To upgrade, I boot the 3.01 multisession DVD, use burniso2cd to burn the Dingo iso to a DVD+RW, then shut down. As I understand it, Puppy then automagically saves the part of 3.01 that's in RAM, as the first session on the Dingo DVD. When I boot the Dingo DVD, it asks a few questions and tells me there are some missing dependencies and what it thinks they are (a very helpful touch, by the way. ) But when I click on the "browse" icon, nothing happens. I open a console and type "mozilla", and get this:

# mozilla
/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.8/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 13695 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
#

I reboot the multisession Dingo DVD, only this time with "puppy pfix=ram". Dingo boots clean, I run the connect wizard, and SeaMonkey opens when the 'browse' icon is clicked. So it appears there's nothing wrong with the SeaMonkey in either 3.01 or Dingo beta 2, but upgrading somehow breaks SeaMonkey.

I really like the new mounting scheme, which shows all the partitions right on the desktop.

[Béèm]

I'm sorry that the interesting wallpaper has been removed and boring wallpaper has been substituted, at least that's what I found when I did an installation to my usb stick.

It's not optimized for Puppy and otherwise may not be suitable, but I like the attached picture I took as background.

It's from Montserrat, a Catholic Monastery near Barcelona, Spain. Go there if you get a chance.

Hi,
Can you edit your post, delete your current picture here and resize it on your PC to a max width of 700 and upload the picture again.
There are still people with 14" screens so the picture is running off the screen.
Thank you.

[GeoW]

NathanO,

Barry's current choice for default chat client needs some work before
it could be called user friendly - much less NewB friendly.

At this point it comes up slowly and you need to manually log on to
each channel. ( There is a check box for autologin but it doesn't
have any effect for me. )

Unfortunately, I think the only time Barry uses chat is when he is
testing for functionality. This probably means we will need to put
in some community effort to bring ayttm up to Puppy standards.

By the way, if you are on irc.freenode.net using Xchat ( or Gaim
I think ) and you type /j #ayttm it will put you in a chat room called
#ayttm. It will not show up in the list but you will be able to chat
with others who have done it too. I guess freenode generates
a temporary chat room. I currently have Xchat set up to autolog
me into #ayttm.

GeoW

[YoN]

About JWM file's FONT tag "DejaVu Sans-12"

I am translating Puppy into Japanese.

When making it to Japanese, JWM has the problem from 4.00alpha for a long time.

It is "The Japanese Menu and the title of the window bars are garbled".

The cause is "DejaVu Sans-12" of the FONT tag of the ".jwmrc" file.

When the hyphen is lost and this is assumed to be "DejaVu Sans 12", Japanese is correctly displayed.

I am similarly correcting other "/root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal2" file and "/root/.jwm/themes/*-jwmrc" files.

It was "DejaVu Sans 12" in old versions.

Why did it become "DejaVu Sans-12"?

Please correct without putting the hyphen if there is no special reason as "DejaVu Sans 12".

YoN

[dogone]

Pstopwatch locks up occasionally, generally in the first minute or two, leaving five processes behind (see below).

I've yet to have pstopwatch fail when run from a terminal but that could just be good luck. I'll continue testing.

[dogone]

Seamonkey 1.1.8 accepts my two 'must have' plug-ins, Mouse Gestures and NoScript. Installation is flawless and both work after the browser is restarted. Seamonkey however forgets the Gestures plug-in when Dingo is rebooted.

Reinstalling Mouse Gestures works, but Seamonkey advises that the plug-in is already installed and offers to "update" it.. Gestures works again after a browser restart.

I'm not certain this is a Puppy problem, but it did not happen in beta 1.

Update: The Gestures plug-in has now survived a Puppy reboot, so I'm not certain what to think. I'll wait, see and report.

Update: The Gestures plug-in has now survived numerous reboots.