Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 - Updated ISO Version 005 - APR 05 2012

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bigpup · #181 Post by **bigpup** » Sat 03 Sep 2011, 00:35

Playdayz,

The instant update 001 sure is an update.
I would say more like Lucid Puppy 5.2.8.1 now.

That new Puppy cloud sure adds a lot of game choices.

Now take a rest so your head stays screwed on straight.

Thanks very much for keeping active with improving Lucid Puppy!!!

playdayz · #182 Post by **playdayz** » Sat 03 Sep 2011, 00:43

The instant update 001 sure is an update.
I would say more like Lucid Puppy 5.2.8.1 now.

That new Puppy cloud sure adds a lot of game choices.

Now take a rest so your head stays screwed on straight.

rerwin did the hard stuff

Cloud Puppy is nice isn't it? Also radky's PupSysinfo in PupControl should be very useful to people in investigating under the hood.

Ah, That's a good point--I wasn't thinking specifically of games--more of providing a Puppy entre to the world of cloud computing,, but you can never have too many games

Hooray for sszindian!

bigpup · #183 Post by **bigpup** » Sat 03 Sep 2011, 01:05

Nothing but good things to say about the support rerwin has given to Lucid Puppy.
That under the hood magic he does is awesome!!!!!

I picture him as that guy that sits in a room surrounded by computer monitors and keyboards, with a pile of Hot Pockets and a big microwave.
You walk into the room and there is a smokey glow around him.
You just know he has the answer to the problem you didn't even know you had.

bigpup · #184 Post by **bigpup** » Sat 03 Sep 2011, 01:38

Test instant update 001

PupControl
a lot of preferences did not have default choices selected.

ASRI Ã©ducation · Sat 03 Sep 2011, 08:38

Test instant update 001

Gnome-mplayer: missing two icons (see screenshot).

jim3630 · #186 Post by **jim3630** » Sat 03 Sep 2011, 15:50

rerwin, playdayz, et. al. thanks for the update.

briefly testing today downloading junk movies noticeably faster. the hulu desktop loads and streams fast. sometime tried hulu via browser and recall it stalled sputtered and gave up on it at that time. thanks again.

playdayz · #187 Post by **playdayz** » Sat 03 Sep 2011, 15:53

Gnome-mplayer: missing two icons (see screenshot).

I see, ASRI éducation. Thanks. This seems somewhat familiar. I think it expects certain gnome icons to be present, but I can't remember where (or which ones). Perhaps someone has a better memory than I do. I will try to track them down.

OK, I am closing in. They are in gnome-icon-theme, so I should be able to find them. Whew, there sure are a lot of icons.

PupControl
a lot of preferences did not have default choices selected

.
radky has put them in Bigpup. Thanks.

ASRI Ã©ducation · Sun 04 Sep 2011, 09:10

Gnome-mplayer icons : it's ok with two 24 px

playdayz · #189 Post by **playdayz** » Sun 04 Sep 2011, 15:18

ASRI éducation, I was using the 16px because the 24 seems to be too large. I notice that gnome-mplayer will use the 16px preferentially if both are installed. Thanks for your help with this.

Sylvander · #190 Post by **Sylvander** » Sun 04 Sep 2011, 17:24

1. Still cannot get sound to work in Youtube.

Here's what I did:
2. Updated Lupu-526 [in which the sound works at Youtube] to Lupu-528.
This is my 2nd attempt.
Yet again, no sound in Youtube videos, so...

3. Installed the update-001 using the PET file, and rebooted.

4. Ran Getflash, and updated from Flashplayer-10.3-183.5-Lucid->[which I'd already updated to, having 1st uninstalled libflashplayer & flashplayer] to the latest.

playdayz · #191 Post by **playdayz** » Sun 04 Sep 2011, 17:43

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/mediatest.tar.gz

Sylvander, Can you download this and test whether the the mp4 and swf files have sound? Just unpack click to test each file. It's 13MB. Thanks.

I should ask, is it only youtube videos that have no sound?

Anyone else? What could we be overlooking?

Also, Sylvander, have you tried with a fresh install of 5.2.8? Or booting the Live Cd with pfix=ram?

simes · #192 Post by **simes** » Sun 04 Sep 2011, 20:04

A few months ago I reported that I could not get 5.2.5 working on my early-model ThinkPad T42. (I got the 'kernel panic' error - never could fix it, though I had no problems on my other PCs.) Anyway - I'm here to say that 5.2.8 worked first time, and it's great. Fast, and pretty, even on this 'old iron' laptop. Thank you very much.

cammy85 · #193 Post by **cammy85** » Sun 04 Sep 2011, 20:17

Awesome job, guys!!

My USB sound works great!! It also looks like some of my radio streaming pages that normally wait five seconds before even buffering, now start buffering instantly when the page is loaded. I'm using Chrome 13 BTW.

It's too bad my DJ software and Hasp through Wine don't work or I would be out of Windows.

Sylvander · #194 Post by **Sylvander** » Sun 04 Sep 2011, 22:51

1. "Sylvander, Can you download this and test whether the the mp4 and swf files have sound?"
(a) The swf file shows [in Xfe] as a document file type, so naturally it doesn't play in either gnome-mplayer or mplayer.

(b) The wheelie.mp4 file plays in both of the above players, but with NO SOUND.

(c) All of the other video files play in gnome-mplayer, but with NO SOUND.

2. "is it only youtube videos that have no sound?"
(a) Apparently not; cannot get sound when attempting to play a commercial audio CD using either Pmusic or pCD.
See screenshot below got when using Pmusic.

3. "have you tried with a fresh install of 5.2.8? Or booting the Live Cd with pfix=ram?"
(a) Will try pfix=ram ASAP [in the morning?], and get back.

playdayz · #195 Post by **playdayz** » Sun 04 Sep 2011, 23:05

Sylvander, Since it is not working anyway, you might try alsawizard and/or Multiple Sound card Wizard before you try pfix=ram.

Menu -> Setup -> ALSA Sound Wizard
Menu -> Setup -> Multiple Sound Card Wizard

I think Multiple Sound card Wizard might be worth a try even if you have only one card--I am not sure though.

Sylvander · #196 Post by **Sylvander** » Sun 04 Sep 2011, 23:48

OK...
1. Booted using puppy pfix=ram...

2. Found that sound was working everywhere:
Youtube, audio CD, your video test files.

3. Came to this thread, and saw your post.
Will now do as you suggest, and see what results.

4. Would be nice to get Lupu-528 working WITH all my additions and configurations.
Puppy is GREAT!
And Lupu is particularly good.
Takes something to get me away from Boxpup.

Spoiled for choice in Puppy.
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I'm back:
5. Used ALSA sound wizard, and sound is now functioning in Lupu-528+lupusave in Youtube, audio CD, and your video test files.

GREAT result!

[I'll now go save the session (changes)]
I can continue to use Lupu-528 with all my previous additions and configurations!
Don't understand why that was necessary?

Brown Mouse · #197 Post by **Brown Mouse** » Mon 05 Sep 2011, 14:52

Playdayz

Been using the instant update .pet for a couple of days and everything is behaving itself so far.5.2.8 is still running to perfection. Thanks

Sylvander

Glad you cracked your sound problems

playdayz · #198 Post by **playdayz** » Mon 05 Sep 2011, 15:49

5. Used ALSA sound wizard, and sound is now functioning in Lupu-528+lupusave in Youtube, audio CD, and your video test files.
GREAT result!
[I'll now go save the session (changes)]
I can continue to use Lupu-528 with all my previous additions and configurations!
Don't understand why that was necessary?

That is good news Sylvander. Thanks for staying with it. As to why it was necessary, well, updating is much more complicated than a fresh install--and in 5.2.8 we changed to the latest ALSA 1.0.24-2, so that made it even rougher for sound.

Sylvander · #199 Post by **Sylvander** » Mon 05 Sep 2011, 17:10

playdayz wrote:in 5.2.8 we changed to the latest ALSA 1.0.24-2

Ah...
That explains it to my satisfaction.

bigpup · #200 Post by **bigpup** » Mon 05 Sep 2011, 19:00

Playdayz,
Test instant update 001

Pburn just got updated to V3.3.6
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 534#560534

Seems zigbert is trying to improve video DVD copy/shrink abilities.
This version does have some bug fixes.
May have more improvements to video DVD's handling in near future.

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