Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[James C]

Concerning the drive icons, mine were misaligned after initally using xorgwizard to get my desired resolution on my frugal install.I didn't bother to realign them, merely rebooted and they were then correct and have stayed correct through numerous reboots and restarts of X.

Moved 3 regular icons to make room for Pwidgets and they've stayed correct as well.

Burning a cd as I post and will test graphics on some other equipment in a few.

[James C]

Running live on a box with S3 graphics Prosavage.....correct resolution on boot and drive icons were correct.Exited to prompt and ran xorgwizard.....all drive icons still correct.

[Sylvander]

Is it possible to [easily?] update Lupu [say 114 to 115], whilst retaining the lupusave file [on a Flash Drive]?

Up to now, I've been doing afresh with each new release:
Re-installing all my preferred packages, and making configuration tweaks.

It takes a lot of [duplicate] work each time.

[James C]

Now running live (pfix=ram) on a box with Intel 82865G graphics.Correct resolution of 1440X900 on initial boot and no problem the drive icons.

[8-bit]

I wanted to let you know that the Nvidia factory package I initially used when I had problems was wrong. I had used the one I had for my Puppy 431 install.
But lo and behold, the Nvidia site showed a different package for my video card.
I tried it in quirky and it worked and stayed on reboot.
So If you want to install a Nvidia factory package, make sure you have the right one!
The one I used for my Nvidia GeForce 6150SE graphics card that worked was : NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24.pkg1.run.
It did error on a "depmod -aq" command. But I was able to continue on to finish and before restarting xwin, I typed "depmod -a" followed by typing "modprobe nvidia".
Just thought I would pass that along.

Also, for making PDF files, If one is printing from web content, use print to CUPSPDF. If you are creating a local PDF file with abiword, just use "print to file".
But a word of caution goes with it. Watch the size of the inserted picture!
I inserted a picture and did not resize it and when I went to view the created PDF file, I was prompted for a password.
After going back and reducing the dimensions of the picture, and writing to file again, I was no longer asked for a password.

[tronkel]

@playdayz

A new beta version of Chromium has just been announced that has its own version of flash built-in. It is now supposed to be the fastest browser of them all. Its start-up is virtually instantaneous as well. It's a relatively big download though at 22MB. May not matter too much since it would not be included in the ISO anyway.

As you know this is an open source developer version that eventually ends up as Google Chrome.

see here:

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/05/beta-channel-update.html

I had to install missing libraries from Debian Unstable and from my Seamonkey install to get it to run in Quirky. Probably the same for Lupu I would think. Five or six libraries are missing if I remember correctly.

So any pet would need to include these.

[01micko]

Maybe.. just maybe the "filthy fix" isn't so bad, James C has a good report.

Now, I have seen when changing screen res in xorgwizard in any Puppy that drive icons go up tthe scrren if you increase the resolution and have unpredictable behaviour if you go down in resolution

Maybe we need to add that flag to call clean_drive_icons to that excon script that Pa uploaded, like so...

[Terryphi]

[Béèm]

I wanted to inspect the boot log files and went to /tmp.
In the picture the red line indicates the time I booted.
The snapshot of /tmp was taken some 5 minutes after boot.
So the weird thing is that I have quite some files with a date and time from the previous day of which the bootsysinit.log and bootkernel.log

How can that be possible?
As far as I understand, /tmp is emptied on shutdown.

Also there are files which have a time which is some 1:40 hour later than the boot time. Weird also.

I did the exercise for Quirky 018 and the files in /tmp start at the time of boot. But I also have that jump in time with respect to the boot time as indicated by the red line.

[Lobster]

The above s a Geany thing - we had it before and it cleared up
Can not remember how it was solved.

Tests

Initial setup as expected - fine
When running the Lucid update I was disconcerted by the
wait button (we Puppys think that a 5 second wait is a crash)
it was fine - and I seem to remember you had to put in some pause
deliberately

*Volume control icon is present

yeah baby!
and I did not have to set my sound card - Lucid recognized it

*Graphics setup is complete--automatic with gui tools to personalize

Yes!

*Drive Icon fix is implemented

I only have two partitions - put in USB hd - which appeared as I would expect

* Youtube/Flash videos play full-screen smoothly

Smooth!

* Xogwizard does not crash when run from the menu

you mean xorgwizard?
No xog
no crash - fine

* Quickpet 1.4 is introduced.

eh . . . I have 1.5
am I ahead of time?

Thanks guys looking forward to 116

[01micko]

[Lobster]

guys just ran the top command because the connection icons are on green but nothing running -
that I know of
So gonna restart x to clear it
. . . might be of interest

[01micko]

Hi Lobster

Nothing too bad I can see in there, your cpu is 96% idle .. a bit of memory being used by X :0 -br -nolisten tcp..

here's my coressponding line..(on my old P3, 256MB RAM, 400MB swap)

[Lobster]

It was an online one - so I think we are talking about flash or Firefox memory leakage? Yet again?

one of the ambient stations on this page
http://www.listenlive.eu/chillout.html

[01micko]