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Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England

Hi 01micko,

I tried a fresh install of 5.3.2.8 and would comment:
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In the first set up box under Country settings both the second and fourth items were listed as "en English", however I tested both of them and they both work.

Below is my opening screenshot after setting my screen resolution. The mainly black wallpaper is fine, but dark text on a dark background as in the menu and the time is bad - though I have no idea if this lack of contrast is almost unique to my computer.

The PPM is automatically set to "ziggy" style. So I assume whatever was broken is fixed. I never did discover or read what the problem actually was and as I'm still using 5.3.1 (which continues to be stable, fast and a pleasure) it might be nice to know what it was.

Somewhere, someone reported that, unusually, the Abiword paragraph setting would not accept double spacing - it seems that was and remains correct (though I have not yet personally needed that feature).
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I also tried an upgrade from 5.3.1 which went well but did not automatically reproduce my extra System Tray icons - so whilst I expect to fix that with ease I'm short of time now so I stopped there and will have a detailed look in the next few days.

My regards and thanks

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8675 Location: qld

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England

Hi again 01micko,

The lack of contrast is not a problem for me, but very probably for someone new to Puppy and Slacko. I'm pro Puppy and pro Slacko and I just want all who try it to be impressed.

My regards

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6543 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Made an install to a brand new Samsung-NF310 laptop 10".
No issues at all..... yet Very Happy

What is the reason for not including more repos in ppm by default?

Sigmund

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3461 Location: Ontario Canada

Manual frugal install to flash drive.
Installed mesa,devx,kernel source sfs,amd-driver-installer-12-3-x86.x86_64.run

Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.2.8p on Sun 22 Apr 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: PARK 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: fglrx

X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
26411 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5282.061 FPS
26587 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5317.214 FPS
26655 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5330.912 FPS

05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X
Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

That's it so far, no problems.

I made a pet of the newest emelfm2 file manager.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5382 Location: GB

zekebaby · Joined: 17 Nov 2010 Posts: 50

Fresh frugal install on a Dell D430.

The only real problem I found was that the save file ended up in the wrong directory. I boot with

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8675 Location: qld

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6725 Location: Kentucky

drongo · Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 378 Location: UK

The numbering problem may be nothing to do with having more than 9 partitions. It might just be the classic ascii alphasort problem. If you sort strings from the leftmost character 10 appears to be lower than 2 because 0x3130 looks "lower" than 0x32.

You can fix this in strings by putting in leading zeroes, i.e. 0x3031 is less than 0x3032 is less than 0x3130 which will sort as 01, 02, 10.

I don't think you can do that with partition numbers so you have to modify your alphasort/ordering routine to look at the whole number rather than just the most significant digit.

HTH

B.K. Johnson · Joined: 12 Oct 2009 Posts: 653

In the interest of updating anyone following,
No scripts to update seamonkey found. Googled, tried smokey01 pets_n_stuff (last update July 2, 2011) . But hope that from seamonkey, Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Software installation>Automatically download and install updates will work for next update. I'm unable to check now as the latest version 2.8 ) is already installed from a pet I got elsewhere.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8675 Location: qld

B.K. Johnson

This scripts works to get the latest official seamonkey and firefox in your default language (can be overridden)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=585860#585860

When I compile seamonkey auto update is turned off, and I don't think it has ever worked properly with a compiled version in puppy anyway.

HTH

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

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

This implementation and its PETs is really moving Puppy as a full LAN based Puppy. This includes all the correct services, and subsystem support for the best fully featured 32bit desktop in Puppyland.

This PUP can do everything on a LAN that any Apple and Microsoft has been doing for a decade. WOW!

Keep us moving appropriately @01Micko...."keep us moving appropriately."

Thanks for this heads-up approach.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2664 Location: Japan

Released pupsaveconfig-2.2.1.pet http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/
# v2.2.1 23apr12: fix was failed partition number >= 10, dialog shows all options, no choice under MINIMB
Thanks to zekebaby and jemimah.

Detail:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60678