Lucid Puppy 5.1.1 Release - This is the official release

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pemasu · #361 Post by **pemasu** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 14:49

Shinobar has been delightfully active in fixing the pdf viewing and printing problem. Starting from here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 619#446619

Looks really promising.

Lobster · #362 Post by **Lobster** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 15:48

BTW, luci is brilliant!

Yes and there is a mini review in Distrowatch.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue ... 30#feature part of 3
Larry (Playdayz) wants to keep the name Lucid 'brand name' right into 5.2.
Even if we start using Maverick Meerkat binaries with 5.2.

Seems fine to me - so Luci can be the developer name
with a number based on the development version number

Luci 220 is the latest or just 220
but when the testing is done it will be released as Lucid 5.1.1
. . . and then later Lucid 5.2 work will begin

The Puppy News updates t(currently at 003)
are primarily for 5.1 users and are not the same as the Luci ISO which
contain more testing features for the release of 5.1.1

Ah one thing whilst I remember
I have two sound cards (internal and PCI board)
and I have to set this twice for it to take
Not sure why but just to mention.

We are Puppy.
Kats will be assimilated

playdayz · #363 Post by **playdayz** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:01

Any tips on setting a usb wireless conection up with it??
P4 2500mhz 2048mb ram, our lass wants puppy on her computer and after reading back in this thread it seems like pwireless2 is the way to do it. I think the encription is wep (well it needs a password). any advice would be greatfully accepted.

Stripe, My usb wireless connection shows up in Simple Network Setup (SNS). It is wlan at the bottom right of the first screen. Does yours not?

playdayz · #364 Post by **playdayz** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:31

Does anyone remember a problem with usb bootflash earlier in Lucid Puppy development? What I am trying to remember is what fixed it. Anyway, please test installing to a usb flash drive. I just did and installed to an ext2 filesystem on a usb flash drive and all was well. Thanks.

playdayz · #365 Post by **playdayz** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 16:35

Ah one thing whilst I remember
I have two sound cards (internal and PCI board)
and I have to set this twice for it to take
Not sure why but just to mention.

For two sound cards, even if one is usb, I have been using Audacious.

Audacious with multiple sound cards.
Boot fresh without doing anything special to sound config.
Open a terminal and enter 'alsamixer'.
In alsamixer press F6.
For me, both (actually all 3) sound cards show up on the alsamixer list.
I have found that if they show up on this list then Audacious will play through them.
Then I hit ESC to close alsamixer without doing anything else.
Install Audacious.
In Audacious, Menu, Preferences, Audio and the button Output plugin preferences
There is a long list. I have been picking the first listing for each card, called default and the name of the card.
Then I have to go back to alsamixer F6, choose the bottom card and then raise the volume,

pemasu · #366 Post by **pemasu** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 18:11

Does anyone remember a problem with usb bootflash earlier in Lucid Puppy development? What I am trying to remember is what fixed it.

Was it chmod 1777 /tmp

playdayz · #367 Post by **playdayz** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 18:21

pemasu wrote:
Does anyone remember a problem with usb bootflash earlier in Lucid Puppy development? What I am trying to remember is what fixed it.
Was it chmod 1777 /tmp

Ah yes. Thanks pemasu.

DaveS · #368 Post by **DaveS** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 18:38

Playdayz......... I just downloaded the latest, being a glutton for punishment, and read your comments about mistakes etc. Do you mind if I disagree? Linux is all about throwing something out there and expecting the community to help perfect it, EXACTLY the way it is with Lucid. Lucid is already far and away the most competent Puppy ever. If I wanted 'finished' I would use Mint (actually just deleted it, screw passwords).
Thanks for everything to all of you. Remember, its the Bazaar, NOT the Cathedral.

scruffy · #369 Post by **scruffy** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 18:52

Luci 220 Frugal Install
--------------------------------

USB Boot Flash worked fine for me on a VFAT USB flash partition.

Now on to 222

rcrsn51 · #370 Post by **rcrsn51** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 19:16

Based on shinobar's work, here is a patch file that should fix the problem with printing PDF files. Please test it and report.

Karl Godt · #371 Post by **Karl Godt** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:10

Now a minor fault at luci-220+CUPS-1.4.3+geany

somehow geany wouldn`t print page 1-9 , 10-19 and so on.
saying in the header being page 10 it was page 1

had to resize the lucisave-file because /var/spool/cups occupied 2 MB for each page !

cups at luci-219 and 220 seem to be equal.

also tried the epson simple printer driver

is there a link for the CUPS driver path ?

It has changed since 4.3 : /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.2 isn`t it anymore

rcrsn51 · #372 Post by **rcrsn51** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:28

Karl Godt wrote:somehow geany wouldn`t print page 1-9 , 10-19 and so on.saying in the header being page 10 it was page 1

Are you saying that the wrong pages were printed or that they were numbered incorrectly? Try printing the document with NicoEdit to see what happens.

had to resize the lucisave-file because /var/spool/cups occupied 2 MB for each page !

Go to the CUPS web interface and see if there are some print jobs queued up. CUPS does like to leave some stuff in /var/spool/cups. You can make it auto-delete by adding these lines to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

Code: Select all

PreserveJobHistory No
PreserveJobFiles No

Then do a CUPS restart.

also tried the epson simple printer driver

Does this mean that it worked or did not work?

It has changed since 4.3 : /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.2 isn`t it anymore

The old CUPS 1.1.23 in Puppy 4.3 used that folder to create its collection of PPD files. New versions of CUPS do this on-the-fly and don't need a folder.

rjbrewer · #373 Post by **rjbrewer** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:30

pemasu wrote:
Does anyone remember a problem with usb bootflash earlier in Lucid Puppy development? What I am trying to remember is what fixed it.
Was it chmod 1777 /tmp

Thanks;
Worked for me.

rcrsn51 · #374 Post by **rcrsn51** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:35

chmod 1777 /tmp

IIRC, this was only a problem when running syslinux (ie a USB install) from the Live CD. Once Puppy is installed, /tmp has the right permissions.

[Edit] I stand corrected. This is also a problem with full installs.

rjbrewer · #375 Post by **rjbrewer** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:47

rcrsn51 wrote:
chmod 1777 /tmp
IIRC, this was only a problem when running syslinux (ie a USB install) from the Live CD. Once Puppy is installed, /tmp has the right permissions.

It wouldn't install ldlinux file from my full installs without it.

Now we need the shiny little ball back on the partition we're
running from.

Stripe · #376 Post by **Stripe** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:15

rjbrewer wrote: Now we need the shiny little ball back on the partition we're
running from.

Same here no indication of which drive was home
Cheers
Stripe

rcrsn51 · #377 Post by **rcrsn51** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:23

Now we need the shiny little ball back on the partition we're running from.

Do you mean as opposed to the discreet little ball with the X through it that's being used now?

I agree.

And I suspect that some newcomers will be confused by this, since an X usually indicates something negative.

scruffy · #378 Post by **scruffy** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:36

Testing Luci-222 Frugal Install
---------------------------------------------
PCD seems fine.
PMusic seems fine with audio CD and MP3,

PETS tested OK
--------------------------
Opera 10.1
Wine/Gecko/Spotify
Scribus 1.3.8
LAMP Pet - MySql/phpMyAdmin are working.

Not Working
----------------------
Abiword Help
Gnumeric Help

Sound and Internet work fine 'out of the box'

Cheers

Karl Godt · #379 Post by **Karl Godt** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:41

Are you saying that the wrong pages were printed or that they were numbered incorrectly?

number was o.k. page unofortonotolo noto !

Try printing the document with NicoEdit to see what happens.

never used them much (vim,pico etcetera)

You can make it auto-delete by adding these lines to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

Bookmarked !

Does this mean that it worked or did not work?

works but visibility not usable I think ....
thought about the required space
cups wizard at 4.3 wanted to free some 19 MB of space
2 versions of drivers == double space ?
I wasn`t connected to internet while setting up the printer so the drivers must be somewhere ....

The old CUPS 1.1.23 in Puppy 4.3 used that folder to create its collection of PPD files. New versions of CUPS do this on-the-fly and don't need a folder.

the setup ask to create a PPD file but I really don`t know the differece between pppd and ppd

I also printed 30 pages of .pdf now 155 MB pers.st.sp 81 MB free ... without any additional .pets : no problem at all
the only problem was to feed the printer because it was so fast

.pdf file about boot parameters

rjbrewer · #380 Post by **rjbrewer** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:24

rcrsn51 wrote:
Now we need the shiny little ball back on the partition we're running from.
Do you mean as opposed to the discreet little ball with the X through it that's being used now?

I agree.

And I suspect that some newcomers will be confused by this, since an X usually indicates something negative.

I think you're referring to the connection icon in tray that has a red
X until connection is made.

I'm talking about the drive icons.

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