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ArnaudN · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 71 Location: France

Hi everyone,

I have tried L64 5.12 on my laptop.
I like it because it is almost the only pupplet I can connect to the internet with (wifi chipset ralink 2500).

Problems I have are:
- CPU load does not fall below 20% doing nothing.
- Touchpad moves are desperately slow.

Any idea ?
Thanks for your answers

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 1126

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

tazoc · Posted: Mon 07 Nov 2011, 16:54 Post subject: Adjust Touch Pad

einar · Joined: 12 Nov 2010 Posts: 162

next release far away ?

best regards

Einar

Meshworks · Joined: 25 Oct 2011 Posts: 38

@ gcmartin

Hi there - I looked at the pet maker but couldn't get my head round it.

You're far better off going for the installer on the apache friends website - its a snip to install and you're guaranteed to get a clean install that way.

It really is as simple as my earlier post states!

tazoc · Posted: Wed 09 Nov 2011, 14:12 Post subject: Re: next release ?

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2460 Location: Texas, USA

Thanks for the update. Looks like another winner is coming.

Regards,
Jim

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

@Jim1911 is right. There are many others of us who also agree.

@TaZoC, Check your PM for a response.

ArnaudN · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 71 Location: France

Hi everyone,
I have installed flSynclient.
Works well, but though I save them, settings are not restored after a reboot, or even a X restart.

tazoc

Thank you, ArnaudN!

I just updated the flSynclient Pet for Lighthouse 64 5.12 with a Startup script to retain settings.

-TaZoC

BHINTZ · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 144

I have just purchased a 64 bit laptop and have fatpup working. I also got LHP64 512 working except for resume after suspend. I had the same problem with LMDE. Only fatdog seems to resume effectively.

I noticed that 513 was available and have set up a frugal install, but am unable to boot to desktop. I change gz to xz, but get a kernel panic and several lines that tell me very little. However there is some statement about kernel 2.6.35.?. I also tried pfix=pure64 in grub4dos boot menu.

Still no luck.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

bob

tazoc · Posted: Mon 28 Nov 2011, 02:20 Post subject: 5.13 kernel panic

Barburo · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 298

Hi Taz,
Still here despite the weather.
I have successfully downloaded 513 and now KDE works for me. I used the KDE .sfs that I had previously downloaded and which I never could get it to work in 512 (checked the md5 sums etc but no luck).
The only difference is that the 513 save file and partition it's on are ext3 not ext4. I can't see how that would make any difference, so maybe it was something I installed then un-installed. If I had gone back to a clean 512 install then KDE might have worked, but once you get a whole slew of customization you're less inclined to to start all over again
... so I have a lot of catching up to do.
Must confess I've been spending quite a lot of time with Mint 11 and 12 lately, but my roots (!) are in puppy.
I like the way 513 recognizes the screen resolution earlier in the boot process. No problems for me getting a working system first time. I guess that the gui for selecting save-file options prior to first time shutdown is a bit more user friendly but the functions seem to be exactly the same.
I'll now get to know the latest KDE and continue testing this release.
I thought that I detected a different font in 512 for the boot-up information messages, so that the /-\| sequence didn't have the gap in the vertical bar? Missing in 513.
Thanks as always for the work you put into these releases.
B.

LateAdopter · Joined: 27 May 2011 Posts: 321 Location: Reading UK

Hello tazoc

Thanks for the LH64 513 version. I set it up on Saturday and it works well.

The change in the display driver configuration had me going round in circles for a bit, but I got there in the end...

The reason was that the X.org on screen instructions say that, for the Radeon driver, you go to the desktop and click Update. But that only offers the AMD Radeon proprietary blob. The driver that I wanted was the X.org Radeon driver!

The good news is, that having got it sorted, 513 has the same X.org 1.9.5/7.10.3 that Fatdog64 520 has.

7.10.3 seems to be the first version that doesn't get blacklisted for hardware rendering acceleration.

With VLC the cpu load taken by X, when playing a 1920x1080 video goes down from about 40% to about 7% x 1 core.

Excellent! thank you.