4.4 Alpha 1

[technosaurus]

Has anyone else had issues with a save file?

My links is for the sfs linker so that you can install an sfs file without having to reboot. It simply mounts the sfs as normal and makes symlinks to proper places in the main file system. There are still a couple of bugs with it though - the devx.sfs doesn't work due to an obscure symlink issue.

It is 435 because it is alpha 1... A2=436 B1=437 B2=438 RC=439 & release =440... fairly standard practice to skip a few numbers for bugfix releases (ttuuxxx is working on 432) and start a few numbers back from the next to build toward the next stable release number.

As far as the icons go, it is nice and clean for the minimalists and yet very easy to add back any icons you want using the add icons tray on the left. (which reminds me - I still need to put up a couple screenshots)

[wjfs]

In Quirky 018, the synaptics touch pad on my laptop Acer Aspire 4736Z doesn't work properly. There is no respond when I click on the pad so I have to use the button bellow it. However, in Puppy 4.4alpha1 everything is fine. Is there any differences in drivers of the two versions?

[jpeps]

Has anyone else had issues with a save file?
)

It might have been a freak event, but after saving the first time, it knocked out my grub bootloader, so I had to reinstall one. After that, I copied in another pupsave. The update process was very impressive, and got everything. Everything working nicely!!!

[FlyingRedGoat]

Has anyone else had issues with a save file?

No hickups yet.

K

[gjuhasz]

When you change the number of desktops, the "menu" button ceases to respond.

To fix it, edit .jwmrc-tray and insert this:

<TrayButton icon="/usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/start-button.png">root:3</TrayButton>

In some cases, this line is there with root:0
Shall be replaced with root:3

[arby]

I noticed the graphics viewer 'gview' is now absent.
Please reinclude this little program, it operates in ways
the present viewer does not.

I've found it very handy to have gview be the default in
my systems, and use right-click/open-with for the 'big' viewer
when needed.

It's a speedy, effecient way of viewing multiple small images.
Resizing on-the-fly with mouse wheel and being ablt to click&drag
by grabbing *inside* the picture.

[technosaurus]

I noticed the graphics viewer 'gview' is now absent.
Please reinclude this little program, it operates in ways
the present viewer does not.

please provide .pet and its NLS package for evaluation or a link to them

[arby]

>please provide .pet and its NLS package for evaluation or a link to them

If I knew what those things are, I would.

I only know gview was in 4.31, now it's gone.

[technosaurus]

replacement script for gview which will work in nearly every distro with X

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#!/bin/sh
Xdialog --icon $1 --msgbox "" 0 0

[jpeps]

This version seems short of libs like libao and libsamplerate needed for apps like rdesktop. I don't know if this was intentional.

[technosaurus]

I only included the libs that were required for what is installed.
libsamplerate was statically compiled into mhwaveedit (the only installed program that needed it)

this is how I look for library dependencies to remove unneeded ones

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ldd /*in/* /lib/* /usr/*in/* /usr/lib/* /usr/X11R7/bin/* /usr/X11R7/lib/*  
|grep = |cut -s -d "." -f 1 |sort |uniq -c |sort |tr "\n" "," |tr "\t" " " >libs

and this is how to tell how many programs depend on each lib to determine whether to statically compile them or not (larger size with few dependent binaries)

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ldd /*in/* /lib/* /usr/*in/* /usr/lib/* /usr/X11R7/bin/* /usr/X11R7/lib/* |cut -s -d . -f 1 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n >deps

[jpeps]

Any idea why ldd doesn't work with /usr/bin programs like gnumeric?
(compression??)

[technosaurus]

they are upx'd (after I verified all dependencies)

[kkoceski]

I can't get wireless to work on my new Dell Latitude E6500. It has a "Dell Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card" (according to Windows XP Device Manager). This same laptop worked fine with the previous pre-alpha version that came out a couple months ago.

Still works :
1398318d72c3e1f744f68b6cd708503c *pup-431-2.iso

No Wireless:
caf22e9658134778897066f4ad570620 *pup44-a1.iso

So, I tried the new one (burned to CD) - no wireless. Went back to the old one (burned to CD), and wireless works fine. Now I tried the new one again, but with a USB stick, and wireless still fails.

The problem is that the card is never "seen". I always get something that says "no wireless networks found". In all these cases, I never "saved" anything to the hard drive.

Thanks, Kurt

[jpeps]

they are upx'd (after I verified all dependencies)

Thanks...ldd works after upx -d

[technosaurus]

Drivers: I will merge the /lib/modules from before and any others that are posted in the drivers section for the full zdrv (There may be some stuff in etc/modules that needs updated as well - from rerwins post in the bugs thread and from tempestuous in the drivers section)

[zigbert]

technosaurus
I see you use your own configuration of Stardust. Would it be easier for you if I made the changes to the DuDE pack. I am sure we could agree on something

Puppy 4.4 looks good, and I am very impressed by the content of the kilobytes. Even smaller than Vary - where will this end

This post contains some background information about Stardust.

If you need any help, please ask.
Sigmund

[zigbert]

Galculator doesn't start

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# galculator 
[galculator] configuration file: couldn't open configuration file /root/.galculator for reading. Nothing to worry about if you are starting galculator for the first time. Using defaults.
Segmentation fault

[zigbert]

While testing DuDE-0.2, I tried Puppy 4.3.1, Puppy 4.4 alpha, Vary 020 and Lucid Puppy 009. The only place where xlock worked was here - Puppy 4.4 alpha1........


Sigmund

[zigbert]

Maybe you have done it by purpose, but retrovol is missing in the menu. I completely agree with you, using alsamixer as defaultaudiomixer


Sigmund