Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[runtt21]

Anyone else having problems with Firefox? Mine updated itself to 3.5.4 and now it wont start.....

[Gedrean]

Mine updated, seems fine to me...

[James C]

No problems with mine either.

[timremy]

hello

i have to ask a question. first though, the remake is outstanding.

i use it all the time.

i was wondering if remake is a remake of pup-430, when the

final one, pup-431 comes out, how will puppies-431.1 be

updated to reflect the changes?

hope this made sense. i guess, i was wondering about fixes.

thank you

timremy

[jabu2]

Am personally using ttuuxx's 4.31 with firefox - and it is /was a very useful step up at the time of release. Thanks ttuuxx!

But with 4.4CE now on the horizon (as defined on http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy44)

Would it not be better to await 4.4CE for an "updated version" - it does look like 4.4CE will have what timremy (and others) are looking for?



jabu2

[stevesr0]

In 4.2.1, jwm doesn't allow full screen on my system, but switching to icewm does - so I did.

I downloaded your 431.1 iso (the "mainstream" version) and have played with it as a live CD.

If I stick with joewm, everything seems to work, and the shutdown menu works normally.

However, things change after I try to switch to icewm. Since it isn't an option in the shutdown menu, I shut the xserver (using the control-shift-backspace combo, I think) and restarted with the "startx icewm" command at the prompt.

The screen is unchanged and I don't have any evidence the icewm is now the window manager.

However, when I try to shutdown, nothing happens.

I eventually found a way to get to a command prompt and use poweroff (shutdown -h now doesn't apparently work in Puppy).

Is this fixed by installing the pshutdown-banner.pet?

Steve

[runtt21]

"isn't an option in the shutdown menu" That is because it dose not come with icewm. You need to install it.

[stevesr0]

Thanks for response.

I am not a real power user. When I used Pfind, an icewm file was identified.

I figured what the heck, try changing to icewm. I used the command line to do that and voila, realized that that action inactivates the shutdown menu.

With the good job that ttuuxxx did with this version, I really don't need icewm (nothing locks up [so far] and the full screen streaming video and voicemail checking with gxine both work, unlike 4.2.1 or the official 4.3.1).

However, since the icewm default theme is somewhat prettier than joewm (to me), I wanted to try it.

I will check to see if there is a pet for this.

Steve

[fm1st]

TEAM, please help me making my 1st remastered CD or to understand why I failed in my attempts when launching "Remaster Puppy live-CD" trying from the three different ways below:
1) multi-session CD
2) frugal install (with grub)
3) live CD with a stored pupsave file in a partition in the HD

It stoped without notice after the last click following the steps below:
- Menu /Setup /Remaster Puppy live-CD /OKbutton/
- Highlight desired (sda6 partition with over 3500M free and currently mounted) choice /OKbutton
- Highlight chosen (/dev/sr0) CD/DVD drive /OKbuttton

I have tried also from a live CD (without a pupsave file) with just a few changes in settings and this time it worked. This would be rather a dangerous solution accumulating so many daily changes in memory and not affording to loose power or shutdown.

I will appreciate very much any guidance

TTUUXXX, I am not sure whether or not this issue is correlated with my previous one (below) you have helped me out - you then suggested the fix "jwmfix.pet" that worked.

[runtt21]

"It stopped without notice" .That is because it has the remaster script from 4.3 and it has issues with several optical drives. Download the 431 service .pet . I suggest running the pet2tgz command on it ,then unpack the .tgz and copy the pupremaster2 script over . You may need to copy some of the probe scripts too but try it with just that one. I copied all of the scripts over and had no issues remastering. Dont install it as a .pet , it will reset everything and you will lose all your stuff.

[green_dome]

Under the '4.30 Main 4 Series X-Server ' from the first post, I have mirrored 'puppies-431.1-main-Xserver.iso' [1] [2] and 'devx_430.sfs' [1] [2].

If ttuuxxx objects to this, I will remove them.

[fm1st]

[lwill]

Is is possible to install the 4.31 update pet in this version, or will it hose up all of Ttuuxx's hard work?

I really like the way Ttuuxx has it set up and have installed it on my in-law's laptops, but one of them will not shut down properly and I noticed that was one of the things in the update. Since they are in Florida, and I in Chicago, it would be nice to fix it while I am visiting at the moment.

So Ttuuxx, can it be done, or can you tell me if I can unpack the pet and selectively install things (and which ones), or at least ones I should NOT apply?

Thank you in advance,
Lyle

[cthisbear]

" but one of them will not shut down properly and I noticed
that was one of the things in the update. "

I wonder if they chose Xvesa.
Normally my favourite.
But on my wifes' newer comp it plays like crazy.
Tried Xorg and it works.

Or maybe they do have Xorg but Xvesa would work better.
Give it a try.

Chris.

[lwill]

Using Xorg. Would freeze at shutdown some times with trash on screen. Next boot would say x failed to close properly ..yada,yada. Ignore and all was ok. I dropped to to prompt and "shutdown" and since then it has been ok.

But my question still stands about using the update pet.
Lyle