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Lobster

Woof Alpha7 released
http://www.puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00741

Press f2 within 5 secs (new boot up image and auto numbering)
and then puppy pfix=ram
that will give you a pristine boot up (not load or update other Puppy versions)

Download = OK
Bootup = OK

Is anyone getting (see enclosed drawing) a time bottom right that looks like that? If you do a snapshot it says AM as it should - but it displays weird. Mmm seems the whole right side of the image display is stretched out - so for example the vertical scrollbar in Seamonkey seems very fat - just about to change resolution - I did try adding Nvidia drivers from package manger - gonna try some stuff - will be back . . .

Also Mt paint has no jpg output?

Just hope it is not the Chronology Protection Agency Confused

http://tmxxine.com/w/ChronologyProtectionAgency

OK was not the nvidia drivers but was specific to the 1024*768 res
I have upped the res, using xorgwizard and the effect is gone . . .

Martin · Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 13

My 2 cts worth:

* Pnethood Samba Shares is not finding any shares. The computers are found, but no shares.

Has worked flawlessly before with older Puppies. I have tested it on 3 machines (factory standard Compaqs D510 D530 D330) and as I'm running a mixed environment it's a real showstopper for me.

* After choosing and starting Xvesa, there is no option to choose the resolution. After choosing to reboot, X restarted. Second time Puppy rebooted Ok.

tasmod · Posted: Wed 13 May 2009, 03:43 Post subject:

Same problem as previous version. Unable to test it.

Wireless keyboard no longer functions once puppy pfix=ram stage is passed.

Compared to dialogue in 4.2 it appears it is not recognised as it doesn't show optical mouse, keyboard during 'recognising media devices' boot.

tasmod · Posted: Wed 13 May 2009, 04:00 Post subject:

OK, brought out a spare laptop. Boots fine and loads all OK.

Display good but dull in flat grey ( not a prob)

Seems very fast so far, I've further testing to do.

Rob

tasmod · Posted: Wed 13 May 2009, 04:18 Post subject:

Ok. So far clicking on 'Write' icon does nothing, all else works.

Same report on Paint as other poster, no jpg listed as save.

Lobster · Posted: Wed 13 May 2009, 04:49 Post subject:

tasmod · Posted: Wed 13 May 2009, 05:50 Post subject:

Works at console. Confused

Will link it.

Can't get PupTV to work in either mplayer or gxine by selecting station?

tubby · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 317

No xorg only low resolution vesa on a Dell Inspiron1150, this is the same with all upup releases so far.
Xorg ok on a Toshiba Portege but onboard wifi not recognised.
Same .config files in wrong location message.

Lobster · Posted: Wed 13 May 2009, 06:58 Post subject:

janeee · Joined: 17 Feb 2009 Posts: 20 Location: Sweden

Swedish keyboard works with AltGr and 2 = @ right from the start of the Live CD in Upup Alpha 7, very good.

SeaMonkey Composer HTML editor works with the Swedish spell-checking in the SeaMonkey browser, very good.

techtype · Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Posts: 181

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 13 May 2009, 08:22 Post subject:

This Is just a help item for Upup, Barry's had tried getting the latest Mplayer working, and had issues, so I looked at the Ubuntu Jaunty version and removed what Upup has and this is the difference of missing libs. I couldn't post it on his forum because it exceeded his max limit of characters.
Smile

ttuuxxx

dep: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5)
ascii art library

dep: libaudio2
Network Audio System - shared libraries

dep: libcaca0 (>= 0.99.beta15-1)
colour ASCII art library

dep: libdv4
software library for DV format digital video (runtime lib)

dep: libenca0 (>= 1.9)
Extremely Naive Charset Analyser - shared library files

dep: libfaac0 (>= 1.26)
an AAC audio encoder - library files

dep: libggi2 (>= 1:2.2.2)
General Graphics Interface runtime libraries

dep: libjack0 (>= 0.116.1)
JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries)

dep: liblzo2-2
data compression library

dep: libmpcdec3
Musepack (MPC) format library

dep: libogg0 (>= 1.0rc3)
Ogg Bitstream Library

dep: libopenal1
Software implementation of the OpenAL API (libraries)

dep: libpulse0 (>= 0.9.14)
PulseAudio client libraries

dep: libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1)
Simple DirectMedia Layer

dep: libsmbclient (>= 3.0.24)
shared library for communication with SMB/CIFS servers

dep: libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1)
The Speex codec runtime library

dep: libsvga1
console SVGA display libraries
also a virtual package provided by svgalib1-libggi2

dep: libx264-65 (>= 1:0.svn20081230)
x264 video coding library

dep: libxvidcore4 (>= 1:1.0.0-0.0)
High quality ISO MPEG4 codec library

dep: libxvmc1
X11 Video extension library

dep: libxxf86dga1
X11 Direct Graphics Access extension library

dep: mplayer-skins
Skins for the Ubuntu mplayer Package

dep: ttf-bitstream-vera
The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts

dep: ttf-dejavu
Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-core and ttf-dejavu-extra

dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
compression library - runtime

sug: ladspa-sdk
sample tools for linux-audio-dev plugin architecture

sug: mplayer-doc
The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux (Documentation)

sug: w32codecs
Package not available

ARAN · Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 113

I am writing this here from UPUP 4.71.
The new release looks and feels great.

Mounting drives with PMount dont work.
The manual mount from the console "mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/data" works however.

I have a question about the woof build system.

If i want to remaster upup with the woof build system what for i file do i need to change to shrink the size of the new build .

Is this the File with the name "Packages-puppy-woof-official" ?

If i understand the "3builddistro" Script the variable "PKGS_SPECS_TABLE" in the file "DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-ubuntu" is only used for additional packages to be builded in ?

What i want also to know is if i decide to use the ubuntu database how many packages would be downloaded and compiled in woof.
All packages that are in the ubuntu database or only those packages that are selected for building upup ?

I am asking this becouse i want to try to build a barebone upup and i dont have interesst to download and compile hundreds of heavy weight packages that i dont need for this build !

Thanks for the answer
Greetings aran.

Flash · Posted: Wed 13 May 2009, 11:48 Post subject:

Barry, when you announce a new release on your blog, please include a URL of where you want the discussions and bug reports. There are already two threads in the Puppy Linux forum. I locked one. There are probably discussions and bugs being reported on other sites as well.

ARAN · Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 113

I have booted with "puppy pfix=ram"
For some reason i cant reboot nor i can shutdown the pc from the menu !

The selected keyboard Locale "de-CH" is also not working somehow.
I am asking my self if this could be related to the fact that i have booted upup with xvesa and not with xorg.

What i dont understand is the fact that at the boot time
UPUP show only a small amount of keyboard layout.
But after this Dialog it come up with a new dialog for setting the locales and in this dialog it show all know and available locales.

Does it really need the first dialog anymore ?