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#201 Post by Stormson5150 »

Thats a good idea... i ran into an issue awhile back, with lupu, IF I remember correctly, where almost everything I needed to install relied on one or more of the various Xcb* libs.. which in turn promptly broke the desktop.

Having them excluded from the jump would have saved many an "ooppps" moment for me LOL :lol:

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#202 Post by 8-bit »

First, frugal install on an ext2 partition.
Used the suggested addition to get video set up for xwin.
Installed Nvidia driver pet.
All was well.
Decided to load VirtualBox SFS file using bootloader.
Rebooted and set up 2 virtual machines.
About the third boot after that, I got a blank screen, but the audio "hello" played.
I tried alt-ctrl-bkspace .
Still blank screen, but typing xwin would again get the hello audio file played.
So now, I am stuck back in Puppy 5.00 until I figure out how to cure this.
BTW the version of LHP I installed frugally was the one with all the SFS files included.

AMD Athlon X2 4800 Dualcore, 3 gigs ram, Nvidia GeForce 6150SE graphics.

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#203 Post by tazoc »

8-bit wrote:AMD Athlon X2 4800 Dualcore, 3 gigs ram, Nvidia GeForce 6150SE graphics
First, frugal install on an ext2 partition.
Used the suggested addition to get video set up for xwin.
Hi 8-bit,
Are you booting from GRUB or CD or USB Flash? By suggested addition, do you mean xforcevesa nomodeset on kernel line?
Installed Nvidia driver pet.
All was well.
Decided to load VirtualBox SFS file using bootloader.
Rebooted and set up 2 virtual machines.
About the third boot after that, I got a blank screen, but the audio "hello" played.
Which NVIDIA driver pet please? Can you add pfix=nox and get to CL? If so, run xorgwizard | Options & Tools | Edit xorg.conf to check that nvidia is next to #card0driver. If so, go back to main menu and switch to nv or vesa. If still blank screen (no CL), make sure you're booting with xforcevesa nomodeset and please post your menu.lst entry if using GRUB. If USB Flash post your syslinux.cfg. And xorg.conf also please.

Maybe nouveau.modeset=0 on kernel line would help? Or video=640x480
-TazOC
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#204 Post by Q5sys »

tazoc wrote:Would it be OK with you if I make a PET from your new clutter-cairo-Intel archive that would be compatible with the xorgwizard in LHP? As it is I think the intel_drv.so in LHP 5.00C might over-write yours if xorgwizard is run. Maybe then you could test our PET on your Intel graphics and if it works, I could incorporate the packages into the next release.
-TazOC
Works for me. :)

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#205 Post by 8-bit »

tazoc wrote:
8-bit wrote:AMD Athlon X2 4800 Dualcore, 3 gigs ram, Nvidia GeForce 6150SE graphics
First, frugal install on an ext2 partition.
Used the suggested addition to get video set up for xwin.
Hi 8-bit,
Are you booting from GRUB or CD or USB Flash? By suggested addition, do you mean xforcevesa nomodeset on kernel line?

I am back after adding the line above to grub menu.lst and then downloading the Nvidia PET you compiled for LHP. I checked to make sure I downloaded the correct version for my Nvidia card and set up VirtualBox again after loading it with Puppy Boot Manager and also Mariner.
So far, it is booting to desktop and I also edited my menu.lst entry to remove the xforcevesa part, but left the nomodeset there.
I hope that part will keep things working with the Nvidia driver.

I will keep you informed.

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#206 Post by 8-bit »

I loaded the Mariner SFS with Puppy Boot Manager and found that when I click on HELP, I am shown the help page for Puppy 4.3.1.
How do I get the correct help page to display?



Also, the utility menu shows no indication that it is scrollable. But moving my mouse pointer to the top of that menu does scroll up to the top giving more apps that are not normally seen.

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#207 Post by tazoc »

Hi 8-bit,
Glad your GeForce is working again. There are 3 NVIDIA PETS on the LHP site, am I correct then that you're using the NVIDIA 195? I am using it with my NVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP with xforcevesa nomodeset on the GRUB kernel line. xforcevesa when used with nomodeset seems to be the most reliable method of preventing a black screen at bootup. It has no effect on the nv or nvidia drivers even though it sounds like it would 'force the vesa' driver. If you get a black screen again, please try again with xforcevesa nomodeset. You can verify which driver is active with Menu | System | Video Reporting Tool or report-video in a terminal, or by checking the Driver Section of xorg.conf or by scanning /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

Yes, the help page is outdated--I will either update to the latest from Slackpup or use the Tips page on lhpup.org.

If anyone knows how to improve the IceWM menus layout and lack of scrolling indicators please let me know. I'm leaning toward switching back to JWM as default WM for the next release. So far the focus bugfix in LHP 5.00C update1 PET seems to have fixed the problems I had with ROX desktop in JWM.
-TazOC
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#208 Post by Q5sys »

Has anyone run into an issue when running XFCE when compiz loads of it giving a completely white screen and X locking up and the system becoming unresponsive? It only happens with XFCE for me. Not sure why.

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Compositing in Xfce

#209 Post by tazoc »

Q5sys wrote:Has anyone run into an issue when running XFCE when compiz loads of it giving a completely white screen and X locking up and the system becoming unresponsive? It only happens with XFCE for me. Not sure why.
I just tested Compiz-Fusion in Xfce on two machines, one with the NVIDIA 195 driver and one with ATI 10.6 Catalyst, both proprietary drivers and C-F worked on both in Xfce.

Xfce also has native compositing, for shadows and transparency w/o Compiz (Menu | Setup | Xfce Settings | Window Manager Tweaks | Compositor.)
-TazOC
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Beta test: LHP_5.00C_cairo_clutter_Intel-2.11.0.pet

#210 Post by tazoc »

Intel 2010Q1 Xorg driver PET for LHP 5.00 C & Mariner SFS

What's included:

- clutter-glx-1.2.8

- cairo-1.9.6

- xf86-video-intel-2.11.0

- updated xorgwizard

Compiled and tested by Q5sys on an Intel 965GM Integrated Graphics Chipset

Supported chipsets: Intel HD Graphics (Arrandale & Clarkdale), GMA 3150 (Pineview), G45, GM45, GM965, 945GM, 945GME, 915GM, 855GM.

(Hardware acceleration requires DRI modules in Mariner SFS)

This is a BETA driver so first backup your pupsave, or test with new pupsave, just in case!

Download: LHP_5.00C_cairo_clutter_Intel-2.11.0.pet 6.7M md5.txt

Screenshot and report-video attached.
-TazOC
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#211 Post by 8-bit »

When I click on the taskbar volume icon, I normally expect a volume slider.
But I get a sgmixer window open instead.
Normally, this would be ok.
But....
When I click the Exit button in that window, the taskbar volume icon disappears and I have to restart X to restore it.
So how about a true volume slider for the icon and sgmixer as a menu item?

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#212 Post by tazoc »

Hi 8-bit,
Yes, sGmixer is missing from the menus--I will fix that for the next release. Meantime, Zmixer is in the Multimedia Menu. What I do is minimize the mixer after using it.

I don't know how to put a proper volume slider in the IceWM tray. I think all the other WMs in Lighthouse do have that feature, although Xfce's may require Mariner.
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#213 Post by CLAM01 »

Taz0c and 8-bit,
I like the volume control in Icewm as is. I run zero-volume most of the time, then, when I need, click it up with the tray icon, adjust, then click down, clicking on the icon again. Since the window is a good puppy it stays and reappears next time where it was told to stay. Mine right over the tray icon with the buttons down behind the tray, out of oops way. If you only adjust volume you can put the window down with only that slider showing and have only the roll-over disappear feature missing.

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#214 Post by Stormson5150 »

I commented out the standard mixer in /root/.icewm/startup and tried replacing it with absvolume, but it doesnt work at startup... Also tried linking it to the startup folder, that didnt work either... No problem, I just made a desktop icon and click on it at startup... Seems to work fine after that.

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Streamtuner2, Vlc-1.0.6, Pidgin-2.6.5

#215 Post by tazoc »

Streamtuner2 SFS Internet radio browser for Lucid Puppy, Slackpup or Lighthouse Pup 5

[2010.07.22 Updated VLC for Lupu and Slackpup]
Vlc-1.0.6-i486b.sfs 38M md5.txt A media player, encoder and streamer for Lucid Puppy, Slackpup or LHP 5

Pidgin-2.6.5b.sfs 5.1M md5.txt An easy to use, free chat client for LHP 5
-TazOC
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#216 Post by smokey01 »

tazoc Streamtuner2 did not work for me.

I'm using a frugal Lucid Puppy 5.0. I mounted the sfs file by clicking on it. Navigated to /usr/bin/streamtuner2 [clicked]. It said it was borderless and starting streamtuner2 but it did not. When I ran it from a terminal it could not find a python command.

# ./streamtuner2
./streamtuner2: line 12: python2.6: command not found

Does it also provide a menu entry when mounted as I couldn't find a menu entry in multimedia or internet.

Thanks

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Xscreensaver_fix#2-LHP5.00-C.pet

#217 Post by tazoc »

Barburo wrote:... also get this error with Voyager's screen saver each time a new saver is selected. Came up for first run of Voyager. Directory exists and file has universal read/write permissions. Operator error or ? B.
Here's a bugfix for the Xscreensaver "Error: Couldn't write /home/spot/.xscreensaver". It repairs the ownership of /home/spot recursively.

Please install this pet after installing LHP_5.00-C_update1.pet
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#218 Post by tazoc »

smokey01 wrote:tazoc Streamtuner2 did not work for me.

I'm using a frugal Lucid Puppy 5.0. I mounted the sfs file by clicking on it. Navigated to /usr/bin/streamtuner2 [clicked]. It said it was borderless and starting streamtuner2 but it did not. When I ran it from a terminal it could not find a python command.

# ./streamtuner2
./streamtuner2: line 12: python2.6: command not found

Does it also provide a menu entry when mounted as I couldn't find a menu entry in multimedia or internet.

Thanks
Hi smokey01,
It installs the same way as other Puppy SFS add-ons do. (This is different from installing a PET.) The procedure is described here. Once this is done there should be a Streamtuner2 entry in the Multimedia Menu. If not, open a terminal, type fixmenus and restart JWM.
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#219 Post by 8-bit »

I load Abiword, insert some scanned images of pages with a page break after each page and if I select save as PDF, the processor maxes out and the save fails.
But if I save the file as an Abiword file, exit, and run PuppyPDF to convert the file to PDF, it works.
Since PuppyPDF uses Abiword for the conversion, is there a bug in Abiword as to directly saving to PDF within Abiword?

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Abiword

#220 Post by tazoc »

Thank you for the workaround 8-bit. :) Yeah, Abiword is buggy, I tried different versions and it didn't help. Considering it's <8M with plug-ins I think its good enough for now. If OpenOffice (>175M with JRE) was small enough for the base ISO, I'd use it to replace Abiword in a heartbeat!
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