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#141 Post by DaveS »

eternal-sunshine wrote:01micko
Thanks for your reply and explanation re deps. Away from my test rig now for 24 hrs but will report back then.
Cheers
eternal-sunshine (cool name) I have Dropbox running just fine without Python. Will build you a .pet for it in a couple of hours. The Chromium you need is the one packaged by Playdayz for Slacko (Chromium 16). Posting from it now with no problems. It is somewhere in this or the B3 thread. Will also locate that for you when I get a moment.
Open Office... sorry, no clue.
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#142 Post by Tasgarth »

Davids45 wrote :
Tried the acpid-2.0.12-s.pet on a Frugal & Full B4 on this desk-top.
Still goes to re-boot ("requested re-boot" message displayed after Slacko quits so I know what's coming).
Exiting to Prompt then typing 'poweroff' gives same re-boot situation.
Same thing for me :cry:
Same problem with sound.
pfix=ram,acpi=force
no action
Same problem with sound

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PCTel 789 pci dialup modem not detected ?

#143 Post by charlie6 »

Hi,
PCTel chip 789 pci dialup modem not detected, this already on Slacko B1 and later
...although /lib/modules/all-firmware/pctel.tar.gz is present...as also «PCTel Inc HSF MicroModem 56» reported in Hardinfo System Information under PCI Devices.
Do I have missed something?
thanks for any advice
Charlie

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#144 Post by 01micko »

hi Charlie,
Most dialup modems will not work in later kernels, depends on third party support. The firmware is part of the woof template. Anything on your pci bus should be recognised, whether supported or not is another matter. Sorry I couldn't do better in answering!

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#145 Post by peebee »

The Chromium you need is the one packaged by Playdayz for Slacko (Chromium 16). Posting from it now with no problems. It is somewhere in this or the B3 thread. Will also locate that for you when I get a moment.
Chromium16 is in the slacko official repository - using it now....

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#146 Post by DaveS »

DaveS wrote:
eternal-sunshine wrote:01micko
Thanks for your reply and explanation re deps. Away from my test rig now for 24 hrs but will report back then.
Cheers
eternal-sunshine (cool name) I have Dropbox running just fine without Python. Will build you a .pet for it in a couple of hours. The Chromium you need is the one packaged by Playdayz for Slacko (Chromium 16). Posting from it now with no problems. It is somewhere in this or the B3 thread. Will also locate that for you when I get a moment.
Open Office... sorry, no clue.
Dropbox.pet is here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/dropbox/
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It will autostart on boot and can also be started from the internet menu. If you want to disable autostart, go to /root/Startup and delete dropboxd
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#147 Post by Sage »

pfix=ram,acpi=force
Necessary to try acpi=off and acpi=on (cf. discussions of ~5yrs ago/ search:Dougal). I prefer not to use the comma delimiter but space when using equalities; not because I know anything about coding - I don't - but it doesn't seem to sit comfortably mathematically. Probably irrelevant!
ie pfix=ram acpi=off

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#148 Post by DaveS »

I still get no joy with unmounting an SD card. My laptop has a built in SD card slot as do most now, and inserting a card is fine, puppy displays a desktop icon, and clicking the icon mounts the card and opens Rox, but clicking the little red X does not unmount it as it should. Instead, it just opens it in Rox again.
Right click unmount from menu works fine.
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#149 Post by 01micko »

hi all

That acpid pet I uploaded before is broken :roll:

[note to self : RTFM! ]

This one is ok, someone please test if shutting the lid suspends? Do we want a battery script?

edit: Nah.. on battery script.. only knows when plug is in or out.. no use

Dave.. that's one for BK (card slot), it would affect all pups I expect.
Last edited by 01micko on Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:08, edited 1 time in total.
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#150 Post by DaveS »

01micko wrote:hi all

That acpid pet I uploaded before is broken :roll:

[note to self : RTFM! ]

This one is ok, someone please test if shutting the lid suspends? Do we want a battery script?

Dave.. that's one for BK (card slot), it would affect all pups I expect.
It does.. posted to his blog.
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#151 Post by davids45 »

G'day,

No joy with second acpi pet on this desktop. Also tried acpi=off and then acpi=force, but same result.

On power-down, black screen text lines mention killing processes and then "requesting reboot" appears... and the computer does.

Don't have this issue on this desktop with any other Pup (Exprimos/Lupus/numerically-superior-pated-dogs/Finnish geographical pups/Drake/lighthouse pup) or the 64-bit versions.

Is there a significance in this issue only appearing in slacko betas 3 & 4 whereas beta 2 was OK?

What is the common factor with other computers doing this, I wonder?

David S.

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#152 Post by 01micko »

I have fixed abiword so that it now works with .docx and .odt (Microsoft and Opendocument formats respectively). I am a bit disgusted actually.. the docx was the easy part! The open document format drags in almost 1 M of compressed libs! Docx was only a 200K compressed plugin. I almost decided to leave the odt plugin out, but then why even have abiword at all if it can only open .doc? (and whatever it's native format is).

This is at the expense of Psip32 which Smokey, Lobster Eric and Jamesbond have been working very hard on.. I have made a compromise though.. Psip is now on the 1st page of slickpet, at the expense of Pwidgets which is a victim of the old conky. The version of conky in Pwidgets is getting flakey and I guess in a year or so will be useless in a new distro.
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#153 Post by 01micko »

davids45 wrote:G'day,

No joy with second acpi pet on this desktop. Also tried acpi=off and then acpi=force, but same result.

On power-down, black screen text lines mention killing processes and then "requesting reboot" appears... and the computer does.

Don't have this issue on this desktop with any other Pup (Exprimos/Lupus/numerically-superior-pated-dogs/Finnish geographical pups/Drake/lighthouse pup) or the 64-bit versions.

Is there a significance in this issue only appearing in slacko betas 3 & 4 whereas beta 2 was OK?

What is the common factor with other computers doing this, I wonder?

David S.
Hi David. I think there are 2 bugs. One introduced by Barry's tinkering with the shutdown script for the pupsaveguithingy and another where a process wasn't killed in B3.. I think B5 might be ok.
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#154 Post by Tasgarth »

Question about pfix=ram and slacko-pupsaves :
F2 > pfix=ram => directly i get my 'personalized' pupsave with my programs ( gimp, startmount etc...) and not a clean Slacko.
I must change the name of 'slacko-pupsaves' in slackosave-xx.fs.bak
pfix=ram should ignore saved sessions and run totally in ram, is'nt?

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#155 Post by Sage »

No joy with second acpi pet on this desktop. Also tried acpi=off and then acpi=force, but same result.
Have you looked back through 'Search' yet?
At one time there was discussion about BIOS settings.
On some Cq/HP laptops there could be another issue with BIOS data held on a hidden partition, but machines of that vintage have probably all met a suitable conclusion by now? Despite protests to the contrary, anyone with one of those beasts can completely delete the HD, hidden and MBR and do a FULL Puppy. There was some doubt about this earlier, but I recently confirmed it works. Better still give all your laptops to the kids next door - sporting chance they'll drop them, then the world will be free of another technological failure.

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Update: sfs_load-1.2

#156 Post by shinobar »

Update: sfs_load-1.2
26 Sep 2011 v1.2: fix was undesired mount (thanks to mories), fix was fleezed input in combobox, fix ramsize
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64354
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#157 Post by charlie6 »

Hi Mick,
While trying to understand how xorgwizard script works, and where the BROOKDALE script is started, I noticed this:
line 1498 tells:

Code: Select all

1498   if grep -F 'oem:' /tmp/ddcprobe.txt | grep -i -F -q 'Brookdale' ;then
Here on my Brookdale, the file ddcprobe.txt doesn't contain 'Brookdale' but only the chipset type figures:

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#ddcprobe
...
oem: Intel(r)845G/845GL/845GE/845GV Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
...
#
So as all Brookdale chipset seem to be 845Gx, x being nothing or L or E or V, and vice-versa, me suggests editing line 1498 as:

Code: Select all

1498   if grep -F 'oem:' /tmp/ddcprobe.txt | grep -i -F -q '845G' ;then
Got a try on it restarting xorgwizard: the Brookdale warning is well displayed upon xorgwizard run.

Edited:
Also tested: the BROOKDALE script is launched as well and the xorg.conf file is adapted accordingly; and X does'nt crash.

Charlie

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#158 Post by rcrsn51 »

01micko wrote:I almost decided to leave the odt plugin out, but then why even have abiword at all if it can only open .doc?
It seems to me that anyone working with odt files would already have installed an Open/LibreOffice package. But lots of people would like Abiword to open their imported MS Word documents.

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#159 Post by Jim1911 »

Power-off computer does a reboot instead of shutting down power. I don't get the lines that Davids45 reported.

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#160 Post by charlie6 »

Bonjour Tasgarth,
Tasgarth wrote:...F2 > pfix=ram => directly i get my 'personalized' pupsave with my programs ( gimp, startmount etc...) and not a clean Slacko.
Hmmm ... upon live-cd «boot:» prompt, Just do verify you type «puppy pfix=ram» (sans les guillemets svp !) ... do not forget to enter «puppy» in front of «pfix=ram».
Another tip:
to get the azerty keyboard straight running in command line mode, you may enter «puppy pfix=ram pkeys=azerty» upon «boot:» prompt (sans les guillemets, ... toujours! ) - si ce n'est pas «azerty» le code correct est indiqué sous F2 ou F3.

Hope this helps!
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Charlie

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