The Official Release of Lucid 5.25 (Lucid Five Twenty-Five)

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James C · #841 Post by **James C** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 19:06

Fresh manual frugal install of 257 on the old P3 test box. Only installed Firefox 4 and Xorg_High but so far so good........ everything working on initial boot and no problems.

chrismt · #842 Post by **chrismt** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 19:42

I was very excited to test this version so i burned everything and while I was booting i got this error in the first initial screen

No Default or UI configuration Directive found

So, I couldn't even try it out

James C · #843 Post by **James C** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 20:04

Fresh manual frugal install of 257 on my main Linux box. Everything working and correct on initial boot....sound, internet and display.
Installed the Nvidia driver pet and Firefox 4....all good.

VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 257

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
5459 frames in 5.0 seconds
5420 frames in 5.0 seconds
5589 frames in 5.0 seconds
5322 frames in 5.0 seconds
5445 frames in 5.0 seconds
5464 frames in 5.0 seconds
5493 frames in 5.0 seconds

VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

Still have the little problem of sound being muted on boot.......however waiting a minute or two and the sound magically begins working on it;s own and is persistent until a reboot,then the cycle repeats.

Multimedia audio controller : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

Looking good so far, more testing.

Tasgarth · #844 Post by **Tasgarth** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 20:23

Luci 257
1) Cd-Live (pfix=ram) > pupsave : no problems but only 128 MB (maxi size allowed). Why ?
No problems with sound and its tray-icon...

2) Update Luci 256 to 257 (old 253 > 254 >256) : no problems.(except icons)
Driver NVidia : OK
azerty, fr-FR : OK
SFS : vlc, Skype, seamonkey( web and mail) : OK
Pets : Gimp, Fotoxx ans UfRaw, Viewnior : OK
webcam (gubcview, skype) : OK

chrismt · #845 Post by **chrismt** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 21:12

chrismt wrote:I was very excited to test this version so i burned everything and while I was booting i got this error in the first initial screen

No Default or UI configuration Directive found

So, I couldn't even try it out

LOL

I burned another cd and it worked

I did a full install and everything is working

playdayz · #846 Post by **playdayz** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 21:54

LOL

I burned another cd and it worked

I did a full install and everything is working

OK, I'll get up off the floor now

playdayz · #847 Post by **playdayz** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 22:01

4) installed Firefox 4 RC1 and updated to FF4 Final within FF (shouldn't the final version be provided instead of RC1?)

Used ALSAMIXER which showed muted sound and HD-Audio-Generic under card and correct chip under chip. I unmuted the sound (though not possible for PCM - no box under the volume). I tried Mplayer, not really expecting it to work, and it hanged as per usual when attempting to play 2barks.au (or any other sound file)

Yes on Firefox.

On sound, Do you use F6 in alsamixer to see what sound devices are available--then you can choose one and turn up the volume. Pmusic that is installed by default and Audacious in PPM can both allow you to play to different devices. In Pmusic it is File -> Preferences -> Sound Card. Audacious is also under Preferences. This should be done *before* running alsawizard, if you do, because after running alsawizrd only one sound device is configured--at least in my experience.

playdayz · #848 Post by **playdayz** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 22:02

1) Cd-Live (pfix=ram) > pupsave : no problems but only 128 MB (maxi size allowed). Why ?

Tasgarth, Is that all that's left on your hard drive by any chance? I'll check that.

I was just able to create a 512MB lucisave file on an ext4 hard drive after booting the Live-CD.

.

Tasgarth · #849 Post by **Tasgarth** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 22:16

Playdayz wrote :

Is that all that's left on your hard drive? I'll check that.

Sorry it's that, partition sda7 was full after pupsave 257

I deleted old pupsaves and old luci sfs. Now large space for luci258, 259 children...

playdayz · #850 Post by **playdayz** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 22:36

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -Lucid.pet

Firefox 4.0

Default Firefox font is set to DejaVu Sans. If you would like to change to Liberation it is Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Default Font.
(Interesting to me--I tend to prefer DejaVu Sans on the Desktop, but in Firefox think Liberation might look better. That could be because Liberation uses the exact same spacing as MS fonts and web pages are designed for MS fonts???)

To update Lupu PPM: Quickpet -> More Pets -> Update Lupu PPM

666philb · #851 Post by **666philb** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 23:04

don't know if this has been mentioned, in the roxfiler options, setting the icon grid step to medium, pushes the text of the drive icons slightly below the taskbar

Tasgarth · #852 Post by **Tasgarth** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 23:12

Firefox 4.0 tested : OK but
Preferences > content > default Font > Size :
no changes if size is modified. (tiny fonts)
It's midnight so...

puppyluvr · #853 Post by **puppyluvr** » Fri 25 Mar 2011, 01:05

Hello,
Geez playdayz, I havent even been able to really test 256, and here its 257 already...You are a "Man on a mission" arent you....

LOL, OK...D/Ling now....

rjbrewer · #854 Post by **rjbrewer** » Fri 25 Mar 2011, 01:48

666philb wrote:don't know if this has been mentioned, in the roxfiler options, setting the icon grid step to medium, pushes the text of the drive icons slightly below the taskbar

Click and drag the icons up a notch,
or run puppy event manager - erase and realign icons.
Restart x.

playdayz · #855 Post by **playdayz** » Fri 25 Mar 2011, 01:53

Geez playdayz, I havent even been able to really test 256, and here its 257 already...You are a "Man on a mission" arent you....

LOL, OK...D/Ling now....

In developing 5.2, 01micko did convince me of the value of a "relaxed development cycle." It would have blown your mind the couple of times I released on two consecutive days! 256 has been out for a week hasn't it, or 5 days at least. I am trying to post between 5 days to a week now--In 5 days people usually find about 10 or so changes, which I think is enough for the next version. We are getting very close here--probably the next is a release candidate unless we find something nasty. Thanks for helping.

P.S. We make jokes, but the pace of development does matter, or can matter, to the quality of the final product--so it is something theoretical that deserves discussion, imho, not that I have any answers. We slowed this one down because of suggestions from the testers.

666philb · #856 Post by **666philb** » Fri 25 Mar 2011, 07:23

rjbrewer wrote:Click and drag the icons up a notch,
or run puppy event manager - erase and realign icons.
Restart x.

cheers.......i feel stupid now

tubeguy · #857 Post by **tubeguy** » Fri 25 Mar 2011, 09:49

luci 257 so far so good. Liberation fonts I like. Still working with tempestuous on my Linksys WUSB100 wireless fob. Installed Firefox 4 pet, watched a sneekylinux vid with no problems. FF4 seems to start faster than 3 although I never timed it before.

chrismt · #858 Post by **chrismt** » Fri 25 Mar 2011, 10:07

I dunno, I can get a open network which has 32 percent strength. but i can connect it with Puppy but I cannot browse anything.

I rebooted, and went into Windows XP, and I can connect it and also browse.

Why is it? Any idea?

My USB modem is Alfa AWUS036E and driver is available here

http://www.alfa.com.tw/in/front/bin/ptl ... ory=105397

After further analysis, I realized it is actually Realtek rtl8187L on the inside

stu90 · #859 Post by **stu90** » Fri 25 Mar 2011, 10:45

Great work as ever Playdayz.

I have been testing and using each luci as my every day OS - i wish i could contribute more to this thread but they all work so darn well for me!

yarddog · #860 Post by **yarddog** » Fri 25 Mar 2011, 12:59

Luci 257 full install
no problems with sound - works great out of the box
no problems with any pets i have installed

playdayz
thank you for all of your hard work

regards
yarddog

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