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#41 Post by abushcrafter »

It has booted! There's a bug with pcdripper when it will just ask you if you want to rip another CD but you can't get to the rip screen.

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Re: No Audio

#42 Post by tazoc »

Barburo wrote:Hi TazOC,
I get no audio when I run Alsaconf
Any suggestions how to go about getting sound?
B.
Disregard the errors you found, they are normal. But no sound? Have you checked a couple of mixers to make sure everything is up? Also try the Multiple Sound Card wizard in Menu | Settings | Wizards. Did the sound suddenly stop or was it never working? That's odd. Jim1911 had sound problems in 4.43, not sure if he fixed it or how.
Barburo wrote:One other quirk.
Using LXDE - I configure it with wbar at the bottom and system bar at the top.
When I exit to command prompt (say to run alsaconf) then xwin to reshow LXDE the system bar doesn't show. I can switch to other WMs (JWM Xfce) but on switching back to LXDE still no bar. I can only get it back by rebooting.
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Make sure that /Startup has an lxpanel script in it. If clicking on it doesn't show the panel <4 secs, open the script with a text editor and paste the lines, one at a time in a terminal to see if there are any errors. I wonder if the --profile default is right? The panel configurations are in /root/.config/lxpanel/.
No, but unfortunately it didn't apply to Quirky-based puplets, but thanks, though!
abushcrafter wrote:It has booted! There's a bug with pcdripper when it will just ask you if you want to rip another CD but you can't get to the rip screen.
Thanks, we'll have to see if there is an update for that.
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Re: No Audio

#43 Post by abushcrafter »

tazoc wrote:
No, but unfortunately it didn't apply to Quirky-based puplets, but thanks, though!
I forgot it had been fixed in woof! Oh well.
tazoc wrote:
abushcrafter wrote:It has booted! There's a bug with pcdripper when it will just ask you if you want to rip another CD but you can't get to the rip screen.
Thanks, we'll have to see if there is an update for that.
TazOC
Don't think there is a update. Well I can't find anything from searching all the forums with the term "pcdripper".

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#44 Post by Barburo »

Operator error perhaps - mixer had no controls selected.
Even though the system tray volume control showed 3/4 volume and no muting I only got sound after selecting controls in mixer. (I should have tried this first).
I cannot reproduce the lxde error today - I'll keep testing 5.00A to see if it comes back.

I'm really liking this version - the new default GTK theme with the "vista-like" green progress bars, the ability to turn off automount, the icons on the LXDE desktop for the mounted drives.
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#45 Post by misiek998 »

Hello.
Im beginner user puppy linux.
Today I install lh-puppy in my old computer, and yet found bug.
I cant use polish kayboard - I dont have polish letter, for examle: ż,ć,ą,ę... etc.

If I click right Alt, and try make Any letter, comuter think that I use enter, and text go down.

I try change kayboard for english and again for polish, reboot computer, but It nothing to do.

PS: In normal puppy linux (5.01,5.00,4.3.1) polish kayboard work exellent!

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#46 Post by tasmod »

Hmm, first time I have really struggled to get an iso working. :(

Video problems with i810.

I had all the symptoms as described at each point. Finally got it working and it crashed out at the save routine. !!

Option of save created a new line in a cli showing the bash prompt and wouldn't do anything else.

Needless to say it didn't create the save file.

I'll continue on with my favourite LHP4 version for now. :D
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#47 Post by dwillis »

This looks like a truly great pup. But i have tried with both a fixed and multi-session CD burn and neither releases the CD so it can be unmounted to play movies. Tried a search for the problem, but no luck. Must be something simple i'm doing wrong. Ideas?

I'm looking forward to switching to this version. It's worth a donation, for sure. Thanks.

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No Belgian keyboard

#48 Post by Béèm »

Me too, I had the kernel panic issue, but when using pfix=nocopy I could load and use Lighthouse 5.00
But there is a showstopper for me
Altho I have selected the Belgian keyboard, and altho this is correctly in xorg.conf, the keyboard stays in qwerty.

Don't see how I can change thhis.
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Xorg configuration issue at first start

#49 Post by Béèm »

At first start when I have to configure X and I take the 'default' xorgwizard, I get a black screen. I have to power off and when doing so I hear two barks before the laptop powers off.

My video controller is a ATI mobility Radeon 7500

On the next trial I used the ATI entry and selected the radeon driver.
This time I get to the desktop.
Not sure if I could/should use the radeonhd one.

Once in the desktop I haven't tried to go to the X prompt, type xorgwizard and see if I have the same issue.
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desktop drive icons show 0GB space

#50 Post by Béèm »

desktop drive icons show 0GB space
The desktop drive icons show correctly the file system, but don't give the size of the partition. They all show 0GB.

At bit annoying.
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#51 Post by Jim1911 »

Xsane which has never worked before with Lighthouse is now working with my HP Photosmart C5280 all-in-one. All I needed to do was turn the printer on, install the correct driver with CUPS, and then install the hplip-3.9.12-scan.pet from here.

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#52 Post by tazoc »

misiek998 wrote:Hello.
Im beginner user puppy linux.
Today I install lh-puppy in my old computer, and yet found bug.
I cant use polish kayboard - I dont have polish letter, for examle: ż,ć,ą,ę... etc.

If I click right Alt, and try make Any letter, comuter think that I use enter, and text go down.

I try change kayboard for english and again for polish, reboot computer, but It nothing to do.

PS: In normal puppy linux (5.01,5.00,4.3.1) polish kayboard work exellent!
Hi misiek998,
I haven't been able to reproduce the right Alt giving Enter behavior and the Polish letters are working for me from right Alt in Geany and Abiword, and here in Firefox: ąśðđŋħjĸźćńµþóę
However in Sakura console some of them don't work. Rxvt seems OK though.

It occurred to me that I've always selected the defaults at first boot and then changed layouts later so you might try booting with pfix=ram, choosing 'us' for all (just hit Enter), then once in X use the Input Wizard and Localization wizards to change back to pl. Certainly this workaround is inconvenient at best but until I find a better solution it may have to do.
-TazOC
tasmod wrote:Video problems with i810.

I had all the symptoms as described at each point. Finally got it working and it crashed out at the save routine. !!

Option of save created a new line in a cli showing the bash prompt and wouldn't do anything else.
Hi Rob,
Sorry about that, this Alpha release was a bit rocky huh? :wink: I believe I fixed the kernel panic bug for the next release by changing the timing (a sleep 1 in the right place) of the copy2ram progress loop in the initscript. But the save dialog at first shutdown bug continues to vex me. I wonder if there is a way to do it from X, instead of in the console dialog, post X? After all GParted runs in X. Maybe leaving X is necessary for committing all changes to the new save file or in certain modes?

You might try hitting the 'S' key if Tab/Enter don't respond. (If it drops you to CLI, just type reboot and it might go back to the Save dialog.)

I don't have an Intel graphics box to test on, but have you tried xforcevesa nosetmode at the boot menu, then in Xorgwizard, xorgwizard | choose | intel? Or is vesa the only one that works? I will have a go at compiling the proprietary drivers from Intel. I've already added nosetmode to the defaults in isolinux.cfg for the next release and I may put xforcevesa in also. A new F2 screen will display the various options to override as needed.
-TazOC
dwillis wrote:This looks like a truly great pup. But i have tried with both a fixed and multi-session CD burn and neither releases the CD so it can be unmounted to play movies. Tried a search for the problem, but no luck. Must be something simple i'm doing wrong. Ideas?
Hello and thank you. When booting from the LiveCD without copy2ram the CD cannot be unmounted as it is accessed for running programs. The next release should work better with copy2ram as long as there are about 311M free in RAM. Normally the main file is copied to local disk at shutdown so that the CD is not required for access to the main file, but with multi-session CD mode it may still be impossible to unmount the CD, as it has the save layer.
-TazOC
Béèm wrote:Altho I have selected the Belgian keyboard, and altho this is correctly in xorg.conf, the keyboard stays in qwerty.

Don't see how I can change thhis.
Hi Béèm,
I tried it myself and noticed that there was no 'be' keymap at first boot, just 'be-latin1' which didn't work. However if I choose 'us' and then ran Input-Wizard from X I could select 'be' which gives: &é"'(§è!çà azertyuiop qsdfghjklmù wxcvbn; with Right Alt: œþæßðđŋħjĸł
desktop drive icons show 0GB space
The desktop drive icons show correctly the file system, but don't give the size of the partition. They all show 0GB.

At bit annoying.
Yes, indeed you're right, if I don't choose the default 'us' at first boot. When I chose the defaults at first boot and then switched to 'be' once in X the partition sizes are OK. I don't know why that is the case.
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Xkeyboard

#53 Post by CLAM01 »

Hi TazOC, I'm not using 5 yet, but I use non-standard keyboards, international us (with deadkeys) and a couple of nationality specific. I'm able to set them up, starting from us and setting in X, but they don't stay through shutdown. Each reboot goes back to vanilla us. I work around by using the wbar looknfeel >mouse keyboard >advanced Xorg at the start of each session. I open the layouts and variants dialogs, see my settings there and so hit the cancel to leave them unchanged, then click the apply button to reset them for the session. The settings then work everywhere, including in open office, but go away at shutdown. I have found that the setting puts a script in /tmp. It apparently doesn't put the script in a directory that is saved at shutdown, and the X start scripts don't reset the one in /tmp. I don't know which would be the correct cure, or if a link from somewhere to somewhere is needed. Meanwhile the workaround makes non-us and international keyboards work in Lighthouse.
P.S. The background lighthouse labeled "a lighthouse in Oregon" is the Yaquina Head lighthouse.

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#54 Post by tazoc »

Hi CLAM01,
Thank you for the feedback. The Advanced Xorg keyboard button only updates /etc/X11/xorg.conf, whereas the first option, Choose keyboard layout updates keymap, codepage and fontmap in /etc. I tried several settings in Advanced Xorg and could not find a new script in /tmp.

I'm wondering if maybe you are using one of the proprietary drivers for Xorg (ATI Catalyst or nVidia) as I think they use the profile-specific /etc/X11/xorg.conf<ChipVendor><MonitorVendor> and it looks like the Advanced Xorg applet only updates the standard /etc/X11/xorg.conf. But if that was the case, I would think that restarting X would lose your custom settings, so maybe I'm on the wrong track.

In any case I will see if it's possible to update /etc/keymap from /etc/X11/xorg.conf so at least that part would be retained after reboot. However if you can verify that your settings are retained when restarting X and attach the script you found in /tmp that might help me figure this out. Otherwise I will give this some more thought and hopefully find a solution. Also please give me the specific keyboard model, layout and variant you've selected prior to rebooting so I can repeat the test after making changes to the scripts.

@All, I've updated the script /etc/rc.d/rc.country that runs at first boot and will test to see if it helps the keymap-related bugs discussed in my last post.
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#55 Post by Béèm »

tazoc wrote:
Béèm wrote:Altho I have selected the Belgian keyboard, and altho this is correctly in xorg.conf, the keyboard stays in qwerty.

Don't see how I can change thhis.
Hi Béèm,
I tried it myself and noticed that there was no 'be' keymap at first boot, just 'be-latin1' which didn't work. However if I choose 'us' and then ran Input-Wizard from X I could select 'be' which gives: &é"'(§è!çà azertyuiop qsdfghjklmù wxcvbn; with Right Alt: œþæßðđŋħjĸł
desktop drive icons show 0GB space
The desktop drive icons show correctly the file system, but don't give the size of the partition. They all show 0GB.

At bit annoying.
Yes, indeed you're right, if I don't choose the default 'us' at first boot. When I chose the defaults at first boot and then switched to 'be' once in X the partition sizes are OK. I don't know why that is the case.
-TazOC
Very weird.
In other puppies I select be-latin1 for my Belgian keyboard.
So I wanted to try your procedure and got to the X command.
To my surprise I was in azerty.
But after typing Input-Wizard I got a message the script wasn't found.
So I restarted X and went into the keyboard setup.
I selected be instead of be-latin1 and restarted X.
I am indeed in azerty now.
As I said, weird as I never had to select be, but at least I can continue looking at Lighthouse.

As for the 0GB size, if I understand well, I have to do an initial install, leave us keyboard, then select afterward be. As I have a save file already, I'll leave it for the moment.

Thanks for the tip.
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missing keyboard keys in wine

#56 Post by Béèm »

Another showstopper.
Some important keys are missing in wine altho they are there in puppy.
The most important ones are é è ç à
As my e-mail and news clients are wine programs, and as I write often in French, this is a real showstopper.

Never had this issue in other puppies.

How can this be corrected?
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cpu frequency not displayed

#57 Post by Béèm »

When going with the mouse over the CPU icon in the system tray, I get the CPU load, Ram, Swap and ACPI Temp, but the CPU Freq stays at O,OOOGHz.
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Cpu running hot: cpu frequency scaling tool

#58 Post by Béèm »

My cpu, special when running video's from youtube, is running hot. At times at 80°C
There is a thread about this in BUGS and adjusting the frequency with the cpu frequency scaling tool temperature can be limited. For Lucid and Quirky this tool is in Utility.
I have looked through the quite extensive menu of Lighthouse, but didn't find this tool.
Isn't it there? Does it exist?
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#59 Post by tazoc »

Hi Béèm,
The cpu frequency scaling tool is in the Utility Menu. In IceWM you have to scroll up with your mouse pointer as it may not show all the entries (move the cursor all the way up.) If it's not there, choose Menu | Window Manager | Refresh Menus. Still isn't there? Open /applications in ROX and click on cpu_freq.desktop.

To fix the drive icon size info, choose Menu | Desktop Settings | Desktop Drive Icons manager and tick 'Re-align existing icons'. Then restart X.

If that doesn't help, delete the files keymap, codepage and fontmap, all in /etc. Delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Then in /etc/profile change LANG=be to LANG=en_US. Then reboot and press Enter when prompted for country/region/language. Xorgwizard will run again. Back at the desktop, repeat the step in the previous paragraph to re-draw the icons and restart X. Then reset your keyboard and locale to 'be' with Menu | Setup | Mouse/Keyb wizard | Choose Keyboard Layout and FR_be with Menu | Desktop | Chooselocale.

Sometimes the CPU graph in IceWM doesn't show the CPU Freq so use Menu | Desktop Settings | Conky and it will show the CPU Freq in the middle of the second line. I will continue working on the next release which hopefully will avoid all these workarounds for be_latin1.
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#60 Post by CLAM01 »

Hi tazOC,
My graphics chipset is the Intel G45M. I setup X using the Xorg-auto setup. My alternative Xkb setups also don't survive restarts of X. The keyboards I add most often are Danish and French, sometimes others, depending what characters I will need and how often. I add and remove since puppy doesn't have a chooser. When I activate alternate Xkb two files are added to tmp, one, XkbVariantDialog, which is the script, the other XkbVariantList. I have put screenshot jpgs of tmp before and after and of the added files open in geany in a file I will try to upload.
In caveat, I tend to mess my system up doing whatever I think might work. My setup is a mix now: To get desktop icons I copied a 4.3 pup-save file to my lighthouse partition and let lighthouse integrate with it. My background picture comes up during loading then goes away when the IceWM sets the desktop, leaving a dark blue background now, but everything seems to work, and I can drop files on icons to start the programs, which is what I wanted.
Apart from having to reset Xkb I have to start and then reboot to start cpu cooling. Apci doesn't start the cooling fans, or change their speeds. I let the cpu warm to about 40C then reboot, the bios sets the cooling fan on low, where it keeps cpu temp 35-38C. if I reboot at 50C the fan sets higher and the cpu runs 25-29C.
With these two fiddles I'm able to go to work.
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