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#321 Post by scabz »

it works for me in sda1 sda2 sdbx and so on
try changing the psubdir to psubdir=LightHose442

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#322 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi TazOC,
TazOK wrote:Exit amarok, rename or delete the amarok folder in '/root/.kde/share/apps' and the file amarokrc in '/root/.kde/share/config'. Then restart Amarok.
Tried above, it indicates that it is playing, however, still no sound. I do get greetings on entry and exit from KDE.
Jim

EDIT: Weird! Although, the sound worked with greetings, I exited to a prompt and ran alsaconf, reselected the same driver, and now Amarok plays fine. All fine for now.
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#323 Post by tazoc »

Hi Jim,
[Edit: check pcm level in mixer. ] Amarok plays fine for me. Make sure the volume is up and not muted in Amarok. Maybe check the Multimedia panel in system settings. Or we could google 'Amarok 2 no sound' or something. Otherwise you could try Juk or Audacious.

Stormson5150,
I appreciate your feedback, thank you.

rockets,
SFS add-on packs are compressed software (Squash File System) packages that are layered at boot up and are less apt to fill up your pup_save as dotPETS may. Place them in /mnt/home, root directory of the partition where your pup_save file is, then reboot. If their name ends with _nnn it should match the LHP version you have, currently _442.sfs

If the name does not end with _nnn, use Puppy BootManager in the System menu, uncheck 'ignore...' at the bottom and move desired SFS's to the right-hand pane, click OK and reboot. The link at the beginning of this post details what is in Mariner, Voyager, etc.
-TazOC
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#324 Post by Stormson5150 »

scabz- (Slaps forehead) Yes, duh, of course that was it LOL.... Not sure how I missed it, but thank you!!! :D

TazOC- Now that it is indeed working on my etx3 partition, and I've had some time to play with it, i have to say I'm quite impressed! Perhaps you're best work yet... Stable, snappy and visually pleasing... Everything seems to work so far, except for kfmclient. No idea why.. or even how... it doesnt work, as konqueror web browser works fine, which in 3xx versions was little more then the browser side of kfmclient... If one didnt work, the other wouldnt either. Does this mean that they are completely separated in 4xx versions?

Any idea why it wouldnt work? kfmclient and net-attach are a huge part of KDE's appeal for me... And like many I have heard from around the web, I'm just not sure if I like dolphin yet. If there is no way to get it working with the KDE sfs, I can dump it (the kde sfs) and install 3.5.10 ( gots me a 4gig save file, the reason I had to have it on my ext3 partition). Again, if this has already been covered please excuse my lack of having read it... Not much time these days, so I chose to spend todays free time playing with this great puppy instead of reading! :D

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Love it!

#325 Post by Tommylee567 »

Hi TazOC,
just downloaded LH and i ran it on VMware and it installed as usual, but didn't boot without the cd.
Also, i downloaded all the sfs addons from your site (voy, Compiz etc) and put them on the 570MB iso and made it to 713MB. It still ran OK, but anyway i can't boot without the cd. (GRUB error)

Burned the cd (16x speed) and installed on a Core 2 Duo 2.8, 2 GB RAM, 250GB HDD & 1TB HDD, with onboard Intel DG35EC Video, and a 1920 X 1080 HD Acer 23" LCD.

1# Tried both sides (Frugal & Full) but LH won't boot, only the error "GRUB loading error 2" comes along. couldn't do anything. and i'm still trying to get it work. So i need the cd to always boot.

2# Another problem is the video. Text comes garbled when i exit LH. and i have to some 'by faith' work to enter the keys. can't see them properly.
Also the resolution at whatever size has the one same result. (1200 X 1600 comes same like 800 X 600)

3# I loaded all the sfs files. and i changed the desktop to KDE and LXDE (whatever that was) and both of them comes quick and then a screen (like a demo) comes and then all of the whole screen goes pure white.
then i had to manually restart (exiting to cmd prompt then escape).
Is it because i unnecessarily loaded all the sfs files and enabled them?

Please correct me. Thank you

Super duper system, trying to always use as abase system instead of XP

Thanks!

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Fixing

#326 Post by Tommylee567 »

Sorry for the double post. cause i tried in a different way and i managed to find out the problems.

1 the video going white is from Compiz Fusion. disabled it and works fine.
2 Garbled text after logging out from any desktop, installed in another pc and that worked correctly. it is something with the main pc
3 Installed the original puppy 4.2.1 and then installed LH as Frugal and updated the GRUB and now it shows ok. GRUB from the original puppy and just added the link to LH frugal. Now that too works fine.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks again

Tim

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#327 Post by tazoc »

Stormson5150,
kfmclient works fine for me. try these in a terminal:

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kfmclient openURL file:///
kfmclient openURL
kfmclient openURL http://www.lhpup.org
I can't find net-attach in KDE or Google. What is that?

Tommylee567,
Didn't know it could work on VMWare, good job! Thanks for the feedback. If the text is garbled try this in a terminal:

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cp -f /initrd/pup_ro2/etc/fonts/* /etc/fonts/
and restart X.
-TazOC
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#328 Post by Stormson5150 »

Tazoc,

I did indeed get it working... I should have included the fact that I was attempting to use it FROM jwm... Sorry about that... As soon as I logged into KDE, it worked fine in both KDE and jwm.

Net attach is from 3.x.x... It basically sets up ftp, ssh, etc as permanent folders in konqueror... I didnt see it in 4.

Unfortunately, as impressed as I am by LH, I have to report that I am equally unimpressed by this new KDE. No reflection on YOU'RE fine work of course... In fact I am quite amazed that you actually got it to work, as I had dabbled with it back in the 4.2 days.. Was way too much headache.

As for my impressions of KDE4...

1-Too much flash, not enough substance...

2-Too much taken away from user control...

3-Nothing of any real value added back in...

I honestly had horrid flashbacks to the one and only time I ever used gnome... :roll: :lol:

Thankfully, due to you're forward thinking, it was no problem to simply do away with the KDE sfs and install 3.5.10... I am glad to report that I have been using KDE apps under jwm ever since and life is gooood!

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#329 Post by Bruce_n_Duane »

Hello Tazoc,

Not having any more problems with Lighthouse Puppy loosing the mime's. Still do not know what caused that.

Have a question:
I am using Lighthouse Puppy 422d on my Toshiba Satellite A205-S5805 laptop. It has an internal Atheros interface and I have a USB donggle D-Link WUA-1340 interface. The Atheros uses module ath5k and the D-Link uses rt73usb.

Both work with your Lighthouse Puppy 422d and are detected and modules loaded when LHP starts up.

Other version of Puppy -- 4.2.1, Browser Puppy 4.2.1, TOP Linux based on 4.2.1 and even the new Puppy 4.3.0 do not work with either interface. I manually load the module listed above in the Network Wizard and sometime the wifi access point is found on SCAN but I can not connect to the network.

I see today on Barry's Development BLOG that he too is having wireless problems.

Question: What did you add or modify in your great Puppy to get the wireless working when Puppy 4.2.1 base does not work?

This is not a complaint!!!!! It is a point of wonderment!

Thanks for the great Linux!!
-Bruce.

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#330 Post by cthisbear »

" This is not a complaint!!!!! It is a point of wonderment! "

Yes! saw your post here and on Barrys blog.

Great that you have posted your success and are also hunting
up an answer to benefit others.

Nice to see some thought for others.

Compliments and regards.......Chris.

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#331 Post by jasmac »

Hello, back again, have some time and have been working on some new backgrounds. If you like it and would like to see some different variations please let me know.

Cheers

Jason

Edit: added a different version, colours are a bit bright
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#332 Post by tazoc »

Stormson5150,
Not sure why kfmclient didn't work from JWM, I will look into that. The next release I'm working on, 443, will offer an SFS with both KDE3.5.10 and the new KDE4.3.1 with option at logout to switch as desired. In KDE4, 'kfmclient' works and in KDE3 a renamed 'kfmclient3' also.

Bruce,
Thank you. LHP442's kernel is from Newyearspup, developed by forum members MU and I think wow also. I think credit for success with wireless would go to them. It also has Dougal's 'network-wizard-apr-1st.pet'.

Regards,
-TazOC
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#333 Post by jasmac »

Ahh, God bless inskape and Gimp tutorials, so much to do. Here's my latest creation

Cheers

Jason

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#334 Post by tazoc »

Hi Jason,
Very nice work! Can you post the wallpaper?
Thank you,
TazOC
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#335 Post by jasmac »

Hey Taz, thanks, I want to finesse it a bit more plus there are two others I am working on at the moment. Once I have them looking perfect I will post them for you. These tutorials are really showing me a great deal and I feel the LHP deserves only the best quality.

Cheers

Jason

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#336 Post by jasmac »

Hi all, well after a hard drive meltdown I had to start from scratch with my backgrounds. I have attached screenys of the two latest, and also the backgrounds themselves, just in case someone takes a fancy to them, they are 1600x1200.

Cheers

Jason

Edit: added one more screeny, it may be a bit much but if you are interested let me know and I will add it

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#337 Post by sprangalang »

This is really nice. I am quite happy with it. It is beautiful, and packed with features. :)



I have one issue though, the console. If I click on any of the Console-LHP icons, the console comes up for 1 second, then goes away. What is wrong?
It comes right up, then disappears.

edit: I also tried invoking it directly from usr/share/applications. same result. It comes up, with a blue square cursor for one second, then disappears.

Oh, I'm using LHP4.4.2 on a Micron laptop, P2, 256R, 10GHD, frugal, IceWM

Also tried JWM, same result.

Thank you
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New thread for new release. Console-LHP & wallpaper

#338 Post by tazoc »

@Jasmac,
Great work as always, Jason, thank you! One of your new wallpapers is on the default desktop for the new 4.43a base ISO as well as featured in screenshots at http://www.lhpup.org.

@sprangalang
Thank you for the feedback. Please click Menu | Utility | Rxvt and in the terminal type

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rxvt-LHP
/usr/bin/rxvt-xterm/aterm-xterm
and post the output.

There is another terminal in the Utility menu, LXTerminal you might find useful.

Hope that helps.

@All,
I've started a new thread for Lighthouse Pup 4.43. The release features a new kernel from Puppy 4.3, new graphics drivers, a new KDE 4.3.1--and brought back the classic KDE 3.5.10. I think most everyone comfortable with KDE 3.5 has had less-than-stellar results with KDE4 and will be happy to have the option to use KDE 3.5 back in Lighthouse.
-TazOC
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#339 Post by sprangalang »

Hi Tazoc,
I tried entering "rxvt-LHP", but it came back with about a hundred alarm # 8s.
Then tried "rxvt-LHP/usr/bin/rxvt-xterm/aterm-xterm", got file not found.
Then tried "/usr/bin/rxvt-xterm/aterm-xterm", got file not found.
It's giving me a lot of grief now, I can't even get the nic working. I'm afraid the machine can't cope with it all, or something is missing. Maybe I'll try a re-install.
Thank you for your help.

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#340 Post by timremy »

hello

tried lighthouse 442 and 412 and from the usb had no results.

nice program, but just could not get them to load on my

small laptop.


timremy

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