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#21 Post by Barburo »

Here's that other error (image.gif). It occurs for first use of KDE Menu editor on each boot.

My other comment was difficult to view "grey-out" text when I was using the pan newsreader (image1.gif).

I think about it it's probably something to do with GTK Themes but no matter which one I choose - same result.

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#22 Post by tazoc »

Hi Barburo,
I d/l pan 0.14.2 and there is a Colors tab in Edit | Preferences. Click on the Header pane (read) button to change. Does that help? I don't have access to a newsreader server so couldn't try it myself.

I will look into the KDE Menu editor error.
-TazOC
Update: Can you try launching the editor by unlocking the panel and right-clicking on the 'K' icon | Menu Editor. That will launch the KDE3 version instead of KDE4. I will update the LookNFeel panel to check which v. of KDE is running and then launch the appropriate version.
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#23 Post by chris »

jasmac wrote:Hiya tazoc, nice work. Have a small problem with connecting via wireless, get the error as per attached. I am using a Linksys Usb adapter that uses the RT73usb driver. Am working on fixing it myself but any help appreciated.

cheers

Jason
I had the same problem with a D-Link PCI WiFi adaptor which worked out of the box with LHP 442, boxpup 412, standard edition 430 puppy ... yeh I'm checking out the dogs ;)

After plenty of googling and snooping around I found out that the kernel module for my device was rt61pci and it was being loaded properly and my hardware was found. But the network connection could not be made (the ifconfig wlan0 up command) because the device firmware was not found. So after using pfind a bit (what a cool tool that is) on this pup and an installation of boxpup I found that the firmware for my device exists in /lib/modules/all-firmware/rt2x00.tar.gz. The rt*.bin files stored within the archive need to be extracted to /lib/firmware/. Once I did this I fired up the network setup, scanned for my WiFi connection and voila ... I'm on-line.

Jasmac, perhaps this is all you need to do to get your rt73usb based WiFi connection going.

Tazoc, I don't know why the firmware was already extracted in all the other puppies. Is that part of installation or kernel module loading? Thanks for putting so much work into this puppy. Even if this one isn't the one I keep for life I appreciate the effort and will enjoy the distraction that comes with it. :)

hth

Chris

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#24 Post by chris »

I wanted to report a success, a problem and also ask a couple of questions.

Success:

I tried the new nvidia driver archive you posted earlier. Works with my 8800GT after I added the kernel patch SFS.


Problem:

I downloaded LHP443-mariner iso since I wanted mariner anyway. I assumed this iso comes with mariner stuff already included. But I recall now that I did not see the nvidia-latest entry in the drivers list when I setup xorg. Then when I tried to add the Voyager SFS I got an error saying that I needed the Mariner SFS. So is Mariner included in the iso? Given the larger iso size I figured it was. Is this supposed to work as I was expecting or do I need to download LHP-base iso and Mariner SFS separately? :? If I have to do this separately how to I go about changing my frugal install to hard disk from the lhp-mariner iso based download to the lhp-base iso download? I'm guessing its simply a matter of replacing the main sfs, vmlinuz and initrd files. Did I guess right?


Questions on settings etc:

The Office SFS gives me six desktop icons that overlap wbar. Where to I find the settings so I can change the location, remove them, or perhaps even add them to wbar?

I have 4 hard drives with lots of partitions so all these get mounted at boot time. How can I control which ones get both displayed as desktop icons and which are auto mounted?

How can I increase the number of SFS files I can mount from the limit of 8 specified in the boot manager?

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#25 Post by tazoc »

chris wrote:Jasmac, perhaps this is all you need to do to get your rt73usb based WiFi connection going.

Tazoc, I don't know why the firmware was already extracted in all the other puppies. Is that part of installation or kernel module loading? Thanks for putting so much work into this puppy. Even if this one isn't the one I keep for life I appreciate the effort and will enjoy the distraction that comes with it. :)

hth

Chris
Chris, thanks for the help, indeed. I will try to find out why the modules aren't extracting.

Jasmac, As Chris suggested extract '/lib/modules/all-firmware/rt2x00.tar.gz' into 'lib/firmware' then reload rt73usb.
chris wrote:I tried the new nvidia driver archive you posted earlier. Works with my 8800GT after I added the kernel patch SFS.
Glad to hear that it works. I wouldn't think the devx or kernel SFS would be needed, unless you're compiling the drivers directly from the nVidia website.
Problem:

I downloaded LHP443-mariner iso since I wanted mariner anyway. I assumed this iso comes with mariner stuff already included. But I recall now that I did not see the nvidia-latest entry in the drivers list when I setup xorg. Then when I tried to add the Voyager SFS I got an error saying that I needed the Mariner SFS. So is Mariner included in the iso? Given the larger iso size I figured it was. Is this supposed to work as I was expecting or do I need to download LHP-base iso and Mariner SFS separately?
It sounds like the Mariner SFS didn't get copied from the Mariner ISO/CDR to /mnt/home. Right-click the Mariner ISO in ROX and choose 'Mount-virt-drive0' and the copy '5-LHP-Mar-4a_443.sfs' and if desired, '4-KDE-4.3.1a_443.sfs' to /mnt/home, then add them to the RH pane of BootManager: SFS files and reboot.
Questions on settings etc:

The Office SFS gives me six desktop icons that overlap wbar. Where to I find the settings so I can change the location, remove them, or perhaps even add them to wbar?

I have 4 hard drives with lots of partitions so all these get mounted at boot time. How can I control which ones get both displayed as desktop icons and which are auto mounted?

How can I increase the number of SFS files I can mount from the limit of 8 specified in the boot manager?
I was mistaken about the limit of 8, it is actually 40 SFS so ignore the notices about 8. I don't know how to control drive display individually, but there is an option in Desktop | Settings | Desktop Drive Icons Mgr to uncheck 'Icon for each partition' so you'll just have one icon for each disk, not every partition. Click on Automount in /mnt to enable or disable automount for all drives. Mount specific drives by disabling Automount and then placing mount commands in /etc/rc.local, e.g.

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mkdir /mnt/sda2
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
In JWM/IceWM you can drag desktop icons at will, or right-click | delete. There is also an option in the Settings menu to 'Show/Hide desktop icons'. (All or none). In KDE4 you'll need to unlock widgets and then move or delete one at a time.

To customize Wbar, open /root/.wbar (or .wbar_kde for KDE) in a text editor, save the file and right-click on Wbar to see your changes.
-TazOC
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#26 Post by chris »

chris wrote:
I tried the new nvidia driver archive you posted earlier. Works with my 8800GT after I added the kernel patch SFS.
tazoc wrote:
Glad to hear that it works. I wouldn't think the devx or kernel SFS would be needed, unless you're compiling the drivers directly from the nVidia website.
just FYI - I have this rare problem with my Viewsonic monitor in which EDID data is not read and so xorg fails when it tries to find out the available monitor resolutions. On failure I get a default 640-480 display. To get my 1680x1050 display I have to edit in a customedid option to the display device settings in xorg.conf which points to a binary dump of the edid data off the monitor . So when I installed the driver as suggested earlier, edited the xorg settings and restarted X the settings failed. They only worked when I added the kernel patch so I figured that the driver file posted earlier in this thread was built with the kernel patch installed. I've made the mistake numerous times before :oops: of building the NVIDIA drivers against a specified kernel and then installing on a different kernel. Perhaps that's happened again.

Thanks for the other tips.

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#27 Post by jasmac »

Hi all,

Jasmac, As Chris suggested extract '/lib/modules/all-firmware/rt2x00.tar.gz' into 'lib/firmware' then reload rt73usb.

worked a treat, thanks, posting this from LHP now, again thanks

Cheers

Jason

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#28 Post by tazoc »

Excellent, Jasmac and thank you for the tip, Chris. For the next release, I plan to extract all '/lib/modules/all-firmware' archives into the main file as I couldn't determine why it isn't done automatically.
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Updating the GIMP

#29 Post by tazoc »

Recently I received a PM about updates for GIMP, Audacious and VLC. Here's my reply in case others find it helpful:
You can use Gslapt (in Setup Menu) to update GIMP to 2.6.7; click OK at the alsa-lib warning, it works anyway.

I tried to update Audacious to 2.1.1 from Debian. Unfortunately it seg faults every time. Slackware's latest is still 1.5.1 same as Lighthouse. This thread discusses v2.0 and possibly why no one I'm aware of has compiled it for Puppy: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=317162

I found a slackware vlc 1.02 by alien at videolan.org--but it refuses to run as root and gives a dbus error when run as a normal user.

Here's a vlc 0.9.9 pet I made from slackware, though I'm not happy with it because it won't open AVI, Quicktime, Real or Flash Video, and mp3 has glitches: http://lhpup.org/pet/443/vlc-0.9.9a-i686-3as.pet
Because VLC has these bugs I plan to remove it from LHP, posting a link to the pet. That will save 18M compressed from the base ISO. Audacious and GIMP work well for me, so I'll keep those in.
-TazOC
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#30 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi tazok,

I still have a problem with Amarok on this version also. It plays fine sometimes. I have narrowed down the problem to KDE/Amarok using a wrong driver. KDE shows a choice of HDA intel, ALC1200Digital (IEC958 (SPPDIF) Digital audio output), HDA Intel (ALC1200 Analog), and HDA Intel (ALC1200 Digital). Apparently, the HDA Intel (ALC1200 Analog) does not work but KDE/Amarok keeps defaulting back to it. I can go to a prompt and run alsaconf, and it works again but I have to do this daily.

Do you know where the drivers are placed? I'd like to rename the driver that doesn't work and try to get rid of it. I'm having no luck finding it.

Thanks,
Jim

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#31 Post by tazoc »

Hi Jim,
In KDE4, System Settings | Multimedia | tick 'Show advanced devices' | select and Defer as desired | Apply.

If that doesn't work, make a backup copy of '/root/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc', then edit it directly. I think you can remove the desired device by changing 'initialPreference=30' to a lower? number or changing 'deleted=false' to 'deleted=true'.
Hope that helps,
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#32 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi tazok,

Using KDE4, System Settings | Multimedia | tick 'Show advanced devices' | select and Defer as desired | Apply is how I discovered the driver names. The selection hasn't worked for me.

I edited '/root/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc' as you suggested. It didn't work, so I went out to a prompt and ran alsaconf, when I returned to the desktop, it still didn't work. Checked '/root/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc' and discovered that it had been automatically reset so the manual edits didn't stay. I then changed the value from 30 to 20 and rebooted. It is now working, a recheck of '/root/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc' shows initialPreference=20 is still there.

Rebooted again, and now it doesn't work. This is weird because the welcome and exit audio is working. Somehow, Amarok continues to try to use the wrong driver. Still need to find the driver location so I can disable the incorrect driver.

Thanks,
Jim

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#33 Post by tazoc »

Jim, I looked at the Amarok configuration files, but couldn't find a solution there. I think the kernel module snd_hda_intel is used and you could try removing it in a terminal with 'rmmod snd_hda_intel' but I'm guessing that either won't help or will break all of your audio until you restart it with 'modprobe snd_hda_intel'.

If you succeeded in editing the phonondevicesrc file, why don't we make a copy of that working version, say phonondevicesrcFIXED, then use it to overwrite the original at startup by adding the following code to '/etc/rc.d/rc.local':

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cd /root/.kde/share/config/
cp -f phonondevicesrcFIXED phonondevicesrc
If that doesn't take then KDE4 must be updating the file at logon so we could make a script in /Autostart with a delay. To do that just make a copy of another script like qps-tray, name it say 'fix-phonon', edit the contents like this:

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#!/bin/sh
sleep 15
cd /root/.kde/share/config/
cp -f phonondevicesrcFIXED phonondevicesrc
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KDE4 translations for non-English-US regions

#34 Post by tazoc »

KDE4 Translations (aka l10n) add-on for non-English-US: ar-fy 112M ga-nds 71M nl-zhtw 75M region codes

Requires LHP 4.43 + Mariner SFS + KDE4 SFS
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Wireless wlan iwlagn didnt work on lighthouse pup SOLVED

#35 Post by pemasu »

I got it working by using puppy 4.3 drivers and changing them here:

/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/. Get right drivers and change them:

/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko

Hope this help somebody else

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#36 Post by jur »

I installed the base final version but there are some problems.

The LXDE wm does seem to start when I select this in the JWM menu, but the panel doesn't show. Also, the background isn't that what is shown at the start of the thread. Wbar doesn't start either. The desktop doesn't look even close to the screen shots.

Any ideas?

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#37 Post by tazoc »

pemasu wrote:I got it working by using puppy 4.3 drivers and changing them here:

/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/. Get right drivers and change them:

/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
I compared Puppy 4.30 with LHP 4.43a and both have 3 modules in that folder and are the same versions dated 1 Sept 09. Can you clarify?

jur,
This thread is for LHP 4.43a, which has the new background by Jasmac and a fix for wbar in LXDE. (Edit /Startup/wbar, inserting '-above-desk' into the exec line like this:

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exec /usr/bin/wbar -above-desk -jumpf 0 -pos top -nanim 3 -zoomf 1.5 -idist 7 -isize 42 -bpress -balfa 50 &
lxpanel should start with LXDE, have you tried 'lxpanel' in a terminal?
Please post questions about LHP 4.42f at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 639#276639
Thank you,
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#38 Post by jur »

tazoc wrote: jur,
This thread is for LHP 4.43a, which has the new background by Jasmac and a fix for wbar in LXDE.
.
.

Thank you,
TazOC
Oh. Oops. Didn't see the difference. Back to downloading... :oops:

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Wireless Wlan iwlagn problem clarification

#39 Post by pemasu »

I got constantly error getting wlan up. Iwconfig wlan up announced error all the time. I checked that I was using right driver. So I chanced drivers in the folder and after that wlan worked.

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#40 Post by bignono1 »

There is no icon for the recycle bin on the desktop.

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