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ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 26 Jul 2009, 21:44 Post_subject:

Hi Minnesota as printing goes, There has been so many upgrades to 2.14X that somethings like printing might get broken, I did compile cups once a while back, but haven't include it yet, I did include the lib for a pdf viewer,gimp for compiling, that way extra drivers would be made for anticipation that a newer Cups will be installed in the future once the backend is finished updating. I'll focus on Printing for 1-2 releases later on, But for now if there are wireless issues, that needs to be fixed first.

Also I included a new program called VanRed under multimedia, its basically a dvdripper, you need to have the space to use it Smile

To use VanRed, just place a dvd in the drive and click the menu/multimedia/VanRed and it will find the dvd and ask a couple of simple questions and rip the dvd to a folder. I tried it yesterday and worked really well.

Also PMirrorget is a website downloader by gposil, if you want to download a whole website the use it Smile

I also included the full version with all options filled for Asunder, so now you can convert music cd's to wavpack hybird,flac,ogg,mp3,wav

ttuuxxx

sinc · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 422 Location: Tampa, FL USA

as an inexperienced puppy user I am a bit embarrassed to post these thoughts b/c they are probably something I am doing wrong but I figured I will add my thoughts just as what I see as really a "non-computer guy". Many of these things feel really small and insignificant but I just notice them and figured I would bring them up.
I am using an older laptop and did a frugal upgrade to 2.14x7 from x5 that I have been using for a few days.

1. this is probably the biggest issue - simple mail freezes my system. I usually use firefox in fullscreen and thought that may have been the issue but I tried "in fullscreen" and "not" and every time it freezes my system and I have to power off manually and reboot. Maybe it is incompatible with one of my other add-ons???
2. My mouse moves sooo fast. I would like to slow it down but cannot get it to change speeds. I tried to use gxset but didn't find that it did anything. How can I slow down my mouse pointer.
3. the lock icon right justifies on my screen no matter where I move it after I reboot
4. this is probably a jwm issue but I cannot minimize firefox in fullscreen mode. it will close and unmaximize but not minimize
5. Upup has an icon changer that I liked. I would like to be able to change the icons on the desktop (I really like the smooth color icons) but am not sure how to do it without the icon changer. I think I could even use puppy-look and download the new icons I just wouldn't know how to set them.
6. I really would like to change the order that my partitions show up on my screen. Right now they show up (hda3 : home : hda4). Is there anyway to get them to show up in order- (home : hda3 : hda4)?
7. B/c I like fullscreen firefox I set my taskbar to autohide. On the desktop on the right side, there is a small dot left after the autohide. REALLY not a big deal but I just always see it and so I thought I would bring it up.
8. Why are there so many CD/DVD ripper/writers? Is there not a single program that can do all those things, make the menu a lot cleaner and still not add much size to the .iso?
9. I am not sure what gpccard is supposed to do but when I click on it I don't see anything happen. I have a pcmcia wireless card slot.
10. I see a lot of forums online talking about how to optimize firefox. Is firefox already optimized or are there really settings that can be changed to make it faster? If so, why not do it in the 2.14x release and already have it done for us inexperienced users.

Thanks again, this already is the best working and fastest OS I have used on my computer. If nothing above is changed I am still going to use this version of puppy as my main OS and I am VERY happy with it. Thank you again so much.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 1171 Location: Kentucky

Downloaded and installed (full) on my P3 733/256 test computer.

Installer works fine again.......haven't tested much but every app launches from the icon like it should and FF 3.5.1 still seems really stable.

Wired dsl is working...everything is fine so far.

Ttuuxxx, thanks for all your hard work.

By the way, 2.14x7 uses a lot less resources than 4.20 or 4.21.

ttuuxxx

MinHundHettePerro · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 482 Location: SE

On printing:
Installation of my HP815C printer worked nicely. Printed documents from Firefox, AbiWord and Gnumeric without problems. Printout from Geany looks a bit messed up (font issue ?). Couldn't print pdf's at all, epdfview is lacking a print function, ghostview on the other hand seems to just Very Happy

need an updating of the internal printers list?

I know printing is a bit further down on the to-fix-list, just wanted to report somewhat of a half success Smile

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ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 28 Jul 2009, 07:53 Post_subject:

Glad to be back online again Smile

anyways here's a bunch of upgrades for wireless and pcmcia.
They've all be compiled on 2.14X the only thing that wasn't compiled was pwireless since its a script, That I had to repackage with a new Icon. Since the default package doesn't come with a compatible icon for 2.14X.
ttuuxxx

Minnesota · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 213

ttuuxxx

Is it just me? Ran the wireless pets and new TV pet... several times on x7 (even two machines).... and now on x4.... no responses.... click, gives start....then nothing....

clarf · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 495 Location: The old Lone Wolf

Thanks ttuuxxx for another great release, it´s seems the most stable version as far as I can see.

A little thing, you forgot to add the bcm43xx extra firmware files (28 KB pet). Sad

Now, Where are you focusing you attention ttuuxxx?, I imagine you are working in Multimedia apps and updating libs for gxine.

Well I was testing some sfs files but none from ChoicePup is working in Puppy 214x (I think these were made using sfs 4) and I didn´t find many sfs for Puppy 2 series. Where could I found some?. My objective is see how to add more than five sfs files at same time (of course counting the System sfs), for now I could research a way to add more loop devices in Puppy, but I need more sfs files to test them.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 28 Jul 2009, 10:56 Post_subject: Re: Pets Sub_title: no responses

Minnesota · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 213

No....not the wizards....well different story...

THE pets are apparently not loading.... I tried running them on X7 then for a test (417...and it gives an error message...)

As I said... click them on...and NOTHING happens after it says it will start to load.....no finish???

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 28 Jul 2009, 11:52 Post_subject: Re: pets Sub_title: not loading

ttuuxxx · ayttm-0.5.0-111-i386.pet

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 28 Jul 2009, 12:40 Post_subject: Re: pets Sub_title: not loading