Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[DaveS]

[DaveS]

I dont know, but I guess there is some way to tell Puppy to use another font when the required font is not on the system, something like verdana=sans.
I suspect this may be missing for Arial, but dont know where to look. Advice please.

[Karl Godt]

No idea , I do not know .

In some puppy derivatives , the preview looks blurry in the browser tabs from similar .

[DaveS]

There def seems to be a problem with fonts in Racy. Here is a screenshot of a tiny little .doc file using Arial font. As can be seen, it is scrambled. Every other Puppy on my system, including Wary, can display this file.
Somewhere there has to be a file that tells Puppy what to use when a specified font is absent. My guess this file is either absent, or does not contain a reference to Arial, but I dont know where to look.

[01micko]

Dave,

Just a hunch.

Barry has a new thing in woof that sets minimum font size. Maybe adjusting that and resetting the gtkrc fontsize will cure that issue, both printing and abiword.

[DaveS]

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

Racy 5.1.110 (5.2 beta2) is released:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02570

Hopefully this has fixed most things posted about in this thread.

It also has the new Quick Setup, but you will only see that if you start without a prior save-file.

[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install.
First boot to desktop but resolution was wrong so I chose the video
upgrade option and restarted X.
I chose probe and the proper resolution and it installed the nouveau
driver.
Racy Puppy, version 5.1.110 on Thu 27 Oct 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation Device 1082 (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

Rebooted creating save file.
===============================================================================
I wanted to install the proprietary nvidia driver (for games) so I found
nouveau.ko with Pfind and deleted it, changed the menu.lst entry to
pfix=nox and rebooted.
I installed the nvidia driver and ran xorgwizard and chose nvidia then
xwin to get back to the desktop.
I changed the menu.lst entry back to what it was.

Racy Puppy, version 5.1.110 on Thu 27 Oct 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation Device 1082 (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (513x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

I think I should have skipped the video upgrade option and just installed the
proprietary driver after creating the save file and installing the
devx and kernel source sfs files.

Computer
Processor 8x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory 16613MB (98MB used)

[linuxcbon]

First time it needs acpi=off to boot.

dmesg is full of blahblah like :

[DaveS]

Unable to connect to internet. My Broadcom wifi not detected. Tried loading module... fail

EDIT: re-install, was able to load module. Survived re-boot, but no auto-detection.

[sszindian]

Well done Barry!!!!

Racy 5.1.110 (5.2 beta2)

Auto configed everything on boot... correct graphics (1440x900), sound was there, internet connection was there and ready to go... Never had a pup do all that before, not to mention I have intel SIS graphic card on an old (probably 10 to 15 years old) PIII which I had no problems on startup with (most other puppy's gave me a headache and a half with) and the new 307 Kernel works really great and is FAST on this old box.

I know you favor Seamonkey Browser and it's really a pretty good browser however, after trying them all, Iron (for clarity, speed and overall performance) and I for one would like to see a .pet available for Racy with Iron-14? I tried the Iron-14's for Slacko and Luci but they don't even fire up, at all...

Most other regular programs work good so far, will test more!

Overall, I'd say you are going to have a real 'winner' here!!!!!

>>>---Indian------>

PS: My little 'Cloud .pet' installed and works great in Racy.

[Jim1911]

Hi Barry,

I’ve been trying your latest Racy that uses the 3.0.7 kernel. It’s working fine although I’ve run into two problems.

1. Bootmanager will not operate if the frugal installation is located on an ext4 partition that has more than 6 sfs files. I got the following message when running it in a console and trying to choose which sfs files to load. I tried it again with a frugal installation on an ext4partition that had only 5 sfs files and it works fine.

# bootmanager
/usr/sbin/bootmanager: eval: line 236: syntax error near unexpected token ‘(‘
/usr/sbin/bootmanager: eval: line 236: ‘pupdialog --helpwindow “/tmp/bootmanager_help_sfs” --backtitle “Choose which SFS files are to be loaded at bootup” --title “BootManager: SFS files” --stdout --ok-label “OKAY” --cancel-label “Cancel” --checklist “Note1: No more than 6 SFS files may be selected\nNote2: These files are at /mnt/home or /mnt/home/Test6 (in sdb2 partition)” 0 0 0 1 4-KDE-4.4.4-G.sfs off 2 5-Voyager-5G.sfs off 3 Acrobat_Reader-9.3.3-Lucid.sfs off 4 amarok-1.4-lucid.sfs off 5 Bibletime-2.7.2b.sfs off 6 Bibletime-2.8.0-1.sfs off 7 bibletime-2.8.0-i486.sfs off 8 Bibletime_lucid-2.7.2a.sfs off 9 ch4-GoogleEarth-6.0.3.2197-i386.sfs off 10 Firefox-6.0-sp.sfs off 11 GoogleEarth-5.2.1.sfs off 12 java_jre-6u22-Lucid-sfs4.sfs off 13 jre-1.6.0.24-20110216.sfs off 14 jre-1.6.0.27.sfs off 15 jre-1.6u25-i586.sfs off 16 kde-apps-trinity-3.5.12.sfs off 17 kde-core-trinity-3.5.12.sfs off 18 kernel_sources-2.6.37.6-patched_spup2.sfs off 19 kernel_sources-2.6.39-4(0).sfs off 20 kernel_sources-2.6.39-4.sfs off 21 kernel_src-2.6.37.6-patched.sfs off 22 kernel_src-2.6.39-3-patched-lupe28.sfs off 23 kernel_src-2.6.39.4-lupe-29-patched.sfs off 24 kernel_src-2.6.39.4-patched.sfs off 25 LibreOfc-3.3.1_en_US_sfs4.sfs off 26 LibreOffice-3.3.1_en-US.sfs off 27 LibreOffice-3.3.2_en-US.sfs off 28 LibreOffice-3.4.1_en-US-fixed.sfs off 29 LibreOffice-3.4.2_en-US.sfs off 30 LibreOffice-3.4.3_en-US.sfs off 31 LibreOffice-3.4.3rc2_en-US.sfs off 32 Musescore-1.0-lucid525.sfs off 33 vlc-1.0.6+streamtuner-lucid.sfs off 34 Xfce-4.6.2-L2.sfs off >/tmp/bmrettags.txt’

2. Power-off computer reboots rather than shutting the computer down.

Otherwise, I really like your new 3.07 kernel which is fast and works fine on everything I’ve tried.

Cheers,
Jim

System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One