Lucid Puppy 5.0.1 - 24 May 2010

[chrisdev]

Lupu117, fresh frugal install on /dev/sda2, on a Thinkpad T20 laptop. (I have to boot with acpi=force in the >2.6.30 kernels in order for my hard drive to be recognized.)

If I click on the sda3 drive icon to mount it, and then click in that window on pup_save.2fs to mount it, it is successful. Although the pup_save.2fs icon doesn't show a green dot or other indicator that it is mounted.

If I then try to unmount /mnt/sda3 without unmounting the pup_save.2fs first, I get the warning box that ought to say something like 'Unmount failure. Click "exit" and close relevant programs, or as a last resort click "kill" to terminate processes... PLEASE CLICK THE "EXIT" BUTTON!'

But the warning is underpopulated, from the first line ('-wrap FAILURE!') to the last 'PLEASE PRESS THE "" BUTTON!'. This seems important in that unmounting uncleanly can indeed lead to data loss, but the warning doesn't say what button to click. Screenshot attached.

[Edix]

Where is the libGL shortcut? I have been trying to get my Nvidia cards OpenGL support working with this for 2 weeks now!

[8-bit]

The GL library shortcut/link is in /lib.

[chrisdev]

mp has been upgraded in the recent puppies. The ~/.mprc config file included with Puppy is circa 2005, and is not usable, even as a guide for setting mp's configuration from within mp.

If you try to use anything from Puppy's sample config file, either you get a syntax warning, or mp quits with "Segmentation fault".

I did some research. I can provide a config file to replace the one included in Puppy. In fact, I will attach here what I'm currently using; it covers only a small amount of possible configuration settings. If it is useful, I can work up something more extensive.

mp (or mp + urxvt) is buggy compared to the mp version in Puppy 4.1.2, unfortunately.

config file attached.

[BarryK]

Puppy 4.2 WhoDo corrected a misspelling that the following Puppies still carry on - "take affect" instead of "take effect". The respective dialogs are in

/usr/sbin/eventmanager (2 instances)
/usr/local/jwmconfig2/jwmConfigMgr (1 instance)
/usr/local/jwmconfig2/taskbar (1 instance)
/usr/sbin/set-xftdpi (1 instance)

This is now fixed in Woof, so all future puppies built with Woof have the fix. I also updated the 'jwmconfig2' package.

[Lobster]

Lucid promo website
http://tmxxine.com/luc

[01micko]

[snip]

Quickpet did give one problem, as reported for lupu-117, the update function froze the desktop which would not respond to any key presses or mouse movement. I waited about 10 min before pressing Ctrl > Alt > Backspace followed by xwin to restore operation. This problem was repeatable, and occurred even though above post indicated an update is available.

Jim

Jim, I think I found the problem.. I will attach a patch, please test.

Also, for those interested, this patch contains a link to the puppy wiki for open office.

Cheers

[01micko]

Free Space: Look in /root/.quickpet/downloads/ and delete the pets.

Or do it the easy way and click "File">"Download Directory" in the Quickpet Gui to see what's in there.. and save any packages for future use... if you want.

Or click "File" > "Clear Downloaded Packages" to delete if you want.

To find out about these features click "Support" > "Help'.



Cheers

[01micko]

fresh frugal install 1gb ext3 save

regarding drive icons - when restarting x the icons are moved from a user specified location on screen and redrawn and realigned in the bottom left default location.

Don't know if this is a problem with my HDD/ext3 partition? noticed a fsckme.err in sda1 partition "sda1,ext3,/lupu499/lupusave-499.3fs"

Stu

Regarding drive icons, this is a trade off to get things working well enough, after you make a pupsave you should be ok. Let me know if you still have a problem.

The fsckme.err file is a flag that invokes a filesystem check if your partition is not unmounted cleanly..(say as in a power failure). It is a new feature BarryK introduced for late model Puppies. It is supposed to be there. I think it get's deleted at shutdown so if it's there at boot then 'fsck' will be run at boot.

Cheers.

[nooby]

I am in Q21 and tested the link about Luc
and it shut down the Firefox 3.6.3 when coming to the page with the swf?
I can not link to it beacause it shut down again I guess.

[cthisbear]

Screen good again with 499.

Seamonkey scrolling better than the last offering
a few days ago.

Looking very strong at this stage.

Pup Radio????

Thanks..........Chris.

[kkoceski]

Hi, I brought this up many pages ago, and maybe I've missed the solution in the many pages since (now up to 62 pages), but Wireless does not work on my Dell Latitude E6500. Presently, if I want wireless, I have to attach a USB one. Other than that, it's super - Fast boot, fast wired connection, Fast load of selected browser - again it's Great, but the lack of a convenient internal wireless connection is a show-slower (not a stopper, 'cause I'll still play with it).

Anyway, I wish I were smarter, so I could be more descriptive, but please see my post on page 5 of the "4.4 Alpha 1" puppy.

I am trying to run Lucid Puppy 499 on a Dell Latitude E6500 with a "Dell Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card via a USB boot created from unetbootin.

Thanks again, Kurt

[01micko]

[snip]

Pup Radio????

Thanks..........Chris.

Link in Quickpet Chris.. (btw, all bar 1 radio default stations work, all default telly stations work)

Cheers

[tubeguy]

Medion MD8818 lucid 499 issues

1 - the first run comes up in 800x600. Should be 1024x768

That happened for me on every lupu so far, but a quick run of the keyboard/display wizard always takes care of it. I have the same issue with Debian, Ubuntu and Mint, but I was never able to get the display set right, always gave up about a half hour into searching for an answer.

Truth be told, I've been trying Debian, Ubuntu and Mint over the last couple of years and the resolution issue has always been a dealbreaker. I go through the same routine every time expecting different results and end up back with Puppy. However dpup always came up at 1024x768, but dpup has the user run the resolution/keyboard wizard before getting a desktop on first run. I've been chalking up the lupu resolution thing to a Debian quirk and just feeling lucky to have the wizard to fix it.

[Béèm]

Medion MD8818 lucid 499 issues

1 - the first run comes up in 800x600. Should be 1024x768

That happened for me on every lupu so far, but a quick run of the keyboard/display wizard always takes care of it. I have the same issue with Debian, Ubuntu and Mint, but I was never able to get the display set right, always gave up about a half hour into searching for an answer.

Truth be told, I've been trying Debian, Ubuntu and Mint over the last couple of years and the resolution issue has always been a dealbreaker. I go through the same routine every time expecting different results and end up back with Puppy. However dpup always came up at 1024x768, but dpup has the user run the resolution/keyboard wizard before getting a desktop on first run. I've been chalking up the lupu resolution thing to a Debian quirk and just feeling lucky to have the wizard to fix it.

Strange it only happens on the Medion desktop, not on the laptop IBM Tinkpad R40. But indeed, we're lucky to have a wizard that takes care of thing.

[nooby]

Testing 499 but I am too stupid to get nvidia going. I guess I have to edit a config file or use the pet that cool pup have on his wikka?

A peculiar thing. I used opera to in Q100 to download a tmp file of Dizzy Miss lizzy Larry Williams. Reminded me of when I was 13 years old and loved the Little Richard screaming. It played in Q100 but did not play in Lupu 499.

Firefox can also save youtube files that way. You look into root/tmp and when all is downloaded make a copy of it to your home partition so it doesn't go away.
Then rename it to one name like DizzyMisslizzyLarryWilliams.mp4 and quirky can play it off line. YT maybe do't like it and plug the ability sooner or later.

[Jim1911]

[snip]
Quickpet did give one problem, as reported for lupu-117, the update function froze the desktop which would not respond to any key presses or mouse movement. I waited about 10 min before pressing Ctrl > Alt > Backspace followed by xwin to restore operation. This problem was repeatable, and occurred even though above post indicated an update is available.
Jim

Jim, I think I found the problem.. I will attach a patch, please test.
Also, for those interested, this patch contains a link to the puppy wiki for open office.
Cheers

Mick, after the patch, update has the same symptom with my existing save file. However, to eliminate possible conflict with other software, I tried it without a save file and it works properly. So now I will reload the software and try to identify the conflict.

Good news - Your patch worked, I loaded the 16 programs that I have been testing with and ran update after each one. Quickpet appears to run correctly and reports no update available, so your patch must have eliminated some software conflict. Since your patch was already applied, I did not determine where the conflict occurred.

Jim

[BarryK]

Bugfix for SNS, see this post:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 078#418078

[braindrain]

I get a blank black screen when starting gxine video (Lupu 117). I have a Intel GM965 video chip.

xine do not work well with the Mobile Intel Chipset GM965. xine project faq:
"unfortunately that's a known problem
with some chipsets and drivers (most commonly Savage chipsets) when
using Xv. You might want to try running gxine -V XShm
to see if the problem is related to the Xv driver. This will unfortunately
be much slower, as lots of things are now done in software instead of
hardware scaling/colour space conversion."

exec gxineshell -V XShm "$@" works.

[playdayz]

Hi, I brought this up many pages ago, and maybe I've missed the solution in the many pages since (now up to 62 pages), but Wireless does not work on my Dell Latitude E6500. Presently, if I want wireless, I have to attach a USB one. Other than that, it's super - Fast boot, fast wired connection, Fast load of selected browser - again it's Great, but the lack of a convenient internal wireles

s connection is a show-slower (not a stopper, 'cause I'll still play with it).

kkoceski, Kurt, Barry posted a bugfix for the Simple Network Setup. My fingers are crossed that it gets your problem. Otherwise, there will be discussion after release and then 5.0.1.....