Lucid Puppy 113 Bugs, Fixes, and Poll

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Jim1911 · #21 Post by **Jim1911** » Wed 28 Apr 2010, 15:22

Although, I haven’t used this Gparted to do any operations, I did try to locate information about my partitions. Partitions are identified accurately, however, as the desktop photo shows, some key information about partitions is not present in particular the UUID which must be used in the menu.lst with some pups and is primarily used by major distros.

Sorry, don’t trust this one.
JIm

stu90 · #22 Post by **stu90** » Wed 28 Apr 2010, 19:02

Just noticed no volume icon/control in jwm-tray copied absvolume to .bin from 112 solved it.

Magruder · #23 Post by **Magruder** » Wed 28 Apr 2010, 22:09

I didn't experience any Firefox crashes on 113, until I downloaded Opera. Firefox crashes if Opera is also running. Opera occasionally makes the system hang -- and Iron (Chromium) frequenetly makes the system hang.

This version has difficulty remembering the correct time. I have reset it several times.

8-bit · #24 Post by **8-bit** » Wed 28 Apr 2010, 22:12

Copying absvolume from lulpu-112 did not work for me. I still had no tray volume icon (seemed hidden as mouse over area where it should be showed a volume setting. So I clicked on that bank area and a volume bar came up. But I was still unable to change volume with it and had to use zmixer.

chrismt · #25 Post by **chrismt** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 07:48

I cannot connect to the Internet.

I am having to rerun the Network wizard every time I reboot my computer.

I am using the Wirelss LAN setup

It seems the Network default setting saved is not starting on reboot

01micko · #26 Post by **01micko** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 09:00

as for volume, absvolume has been unstable since the switch to 2.6.30.5 in Puppy-430. Let's go with Retrovol http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50744

that timezone bug is funny, I ran "timezone-set" out side of X and my timezone is saved now... I can't work out why, especially since it threw an error...

pa_mcclamrock · #27 Post by **pa_mcclamrock** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 09:46

01micko wrote:that timezone bug is funny, I ran "timezone-set" out side of X and my timezone is saved now... I can't work out why, especially since it threw an error...

What puzzles me is why this and other bugs that don't exist in Puppy 4.3.1, such as drive icon misalignment, are now popping up in the Lucid Puppy pre-releases. Why not just re-use the identical code from 4.3.1 that makes these things work right?

01micko · #28 Post by **01micko** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:08

What puzzles me is why this and other bugs that don't exist in Puppy 4.3.1, such as drive icon misalignment, are now popping up in the Lucid Puppy pre-releases. Why not just re-use the identical code from 4.3.1 that makes these things work right?

Easier said than done. Using the Ubuntu binaries seems the issue, but in saying that, new ground is being broken here. With exploration there are always obstacles. We will find and conquer! (After all, they are only bugs

)

Cheers

aarf · #29 Post by **aarf** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:24

pa_mcclamrock wrote:
01micko wrote:that timezone bug is funny, I ran "timezone-set" out side of X and my timezone is saved now... I can't work out why, especially since it threw an error...
What puzzles me is why this and other bugs that don't exist in Puppy 4.3.1, such as drive icon misalignment, are now popping up in the Lucid Puppy pre-releases. Why not just re-use the identical code from 4.3.1 that makes these things work right?

playdayz has rolled something back

stu90 · #30 Post by **stu90** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 12:44

01micko wrote:as for volume, absvolume has been unstable since the switch to 2.6.30.5 in Puppy-430. Let's go with Retrovol http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50744

that timezone bug is funny, I ran "timezone-set" out side of X and my timezone is saved now... I can't work out why, especially since it threw an error...

Just installed retrovol to test works ok for me apart from:

Editing .xinitrc per Pizzasgood instructions results in retrovol dialogue box with the volume mixers pops up on boot/restart.

leaving absvolume entry in .xinitrc results in no dialogue box popup but the retrovol icon back ground in tray doesn't match jwm theme.

ecube · #31 Post by **ecube** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 19:04

pa_mcclamrock wrote: What puzzles me is why this and other bugs that don't exist in Puppy 4.3.1, such as drive icon misalignment, are now popping up in the Lucid Puppy pre-releases. Why not just re-use the identical code from 4.3.1 that makes these things work right?

You can realign the icons manually. I assume that only some event controlled activations are missing.

ecube

#32 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 20:36

I had the drive icons overlapping and even worse at a subsequent boot.
I had to use the redraw function to get the icons properly aligned.

#33 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 20:38

I reported already earlier.
I have a long list of routers. Normally I drag the list with ALT and left mouse button, but this doesn't work.
I have the same drag problem when I display a pdf file.

#34 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 20:51

Altho all seems ok, no pdf file is created.
I tried when printing from my e-mail (wine) application and from a text file in geany.

However when printing from text in geany I get the opton print to file which works, not in my e-mail (wine) client.

EDIT
This solves the problem.

pa_mcclamrock · #35 Post by **pa_mcclamrock** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 21:09

ecube wrote:You can realign the icons manually. I assume that only some event controlled activations are missing.

Correct. To me, a staunch Puppy user for years now, realigning the icons manually is a minor inconvenience. To at least some newer users, I think, it would be a sign that the Puppy developers might not know how to get things done right. But of course it won't really, since the problem will be solved before the final release of Puppy 5!

moonguard12 · #36 Post by **moonguard12** » Fri 30 Apr 2010, 02:05

I'm using Lucid Puppy 113. I chose it because it has screen panning and the newer kernel. I thought the EEEpc ACPI scripts were integrated into this kernel, but the hotkeys are not working. I tried installing the deb from http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... 10_all.deb. and rebooted, but still no luck.

I know tempestuous created a patched kernel for these scripts, but I think it is for .25, not .33.

Also, only the Lucid Main remains selected after OK in the package manager. Multiverse and Universe do not remain selected.

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#37 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Fri 30 Apr 2010, 06:16

I think I reported it before.
Either here or in a quirky feedback thread.
When going with the mouse cursor over the drive icons on the desktop, normally the file system and size is displayed in a pop-up.

Not in Lucid (nor in quirky). Only the file system is displayed, not the size.

01micko · #38 Post by **01micko** » Fri 30 Apr 2010, 06:26

Béèm

It works for me, did you set your locale yet? Pmount crashes if you don't, maybe that is related?

Cheers

#39 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Fri 30 Apr 2010, 06:26

Alltho I did set the timezone to my zone Europe/Brussels the clock is 2 hours ahead.
I went into desktop|set timezone.
I saw the correct timezone Europe/Brussels was displayed, so all I did was push ok and the clock jumped the two hours back to the correct time.

Rebooting this morning I saw the clock was again 2 hours ahead.
I did the same manipulation again resulting to have the clock jump back 2 hours to the correct time.

Kinda annoying.

#40 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Fri 30 Apr 2010, 06:41

Kinda annoying for those having a non-US keyboard.

Now that boot is done to the desktop to eventually do some more setup there is this annoying thing that for selecting the keyboard, when one pushes the button to do so the X command prompt is displayed and xorgwizard has to be typed.

Well try to do this on a non-US keyboard. A real pleasure and puzzle.

So I prefer that at least the keyboard can be selected during the first boot as it was before.

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Lucid Puppy 113 Bugs, Fixes, and Poll

Which describes your experience with Lucid Puppy graphics?

Drive icons.

Simpel Network Setup

Printen to cups-pdf

eeepc acpi scripts

Desktop drive icons information

Time off by 2 hours

non US keyboard selection.