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[tazoc]

There is a newer release here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=710846#710846

Lighthouse 64 6.01 B release notes | ISOs | SFS add-ons | What is an SFS?

Please refer to latest release notes for news, features, bugs, etc. To eliminate the startup music, click the File System icon --> Startup. Then drag-n-drop the login-audio icon into the nearby DisabledItems folder, selecting Move when prompted.

Also please re-size any screenshots to 600 pixels wide or less and wrap descriptions to keep posts from scrolling horizontally. Larger images can be linked. Thanks!

[Edit 2013.5.11]: The Remaster Lighthouse CD in the Setup menu doesn't work yet; will be fixed for the next release.

A frugal install is recommended, (with a new save file due to the new kernel and Xorg.) You can type ram at the LiveCD boot menu, then at shutdown you'll be able to save your session to a new save file.

Getting Started and System Requirements | Display drivers in LH64

To run Firefox as root, click Menu -> Setup -> Choose Default Browser -> Firefox (root). However I don't recommend doing so. Much safer to just run FF as default user spot, saving to the Downloads folder, then click on the Downloads desktop icon and move files elsewhere as needed.

With large downloads, it is best to use wget in a terminal, or click Menu -> Internet -> Pwget downloader and copy and paste in the URL.

-TaZoC

[Q5sys]

From the 515 thread where you announced this one...

[tazoc]

[gcmartin]

I should begin by saying that the system is in the tradition of prior LightHouse64s; namely very responsive and fully featured.

The opening FirstTUN tuility is very useful as well as is a good launch for newb as well as experienced users. It is a great intuitive manner to give the system a single place to address much/most of its needs for OOTB. And the traditional Update desktop service is also reachable via the FristRUN, if needed. A great single screen. Thanks for maintaining this version.

I've been having problems with video issues on a desktop which has motherboard's built-in nVidia adapter.

Problems (each of these yields a system with no possible way to get to the console)

1. The system does not wake up after leaving it overnight.
   
2. Booting with "lhp pfix=sfsauto noveau caused the system to lose video after hour of use.

Attempted to resolve by booting again with noveau parm and using Update to get nViidia's support. Then, I Got this message when using desktop's Update and selecting nVidia (shown below).

Anyone else with nVidia on the MB? Or any advice to get a system which has stable video and will resume after sitting overnight?

The Update subsystem ALSO offers the get_nVidia system addition also. Could I be using the wrong path to alleviate the problem?

I did read the help information available.

[Q5sys]

[tazoc]

[Q5sys]

[Pete22]

Love using xfce 4.10. Started up nice, and after going to wizard-puppy was able to get a
video driver that worked great on the first try. The new start up music was a surprise.

I notice several issues:

1- When I pull a link from the menu on to the desktop, it is removed from the menu.

2- I can close firefox by using the x in the top right hand corner. if I have more than one
window up. If I don't, I have to use the file menu and press quit.

3-I don't see the sensor plugin in the set of XFCE panel plugins, but I know one is available.

It just keeps getting better and better.

Pete

[Q5sys]

nvidia driver needs to be updated. Bug allows an attacker to run remote code on the system as root.

[Q5sys]

Anyone else noticing high CPU usage from /usr/libexec/gvfsd-metadata?
it's burning at 100% on one core of my quad core chip.

[Pete22]

I see high cpu useage at times. I did not check to see what file was doing it.
I will try and watch that file now.


;pete

[Q5sys]

Hard Info Report
Video Info Report

Obligatory Screen capture: (click for full resolution : 3840x2160 pixels)


Couple Things,

1.) Why does SuperKaramba only see 2 cores? Is it limited to physical cores and not total cores? Htop, and gkrellm both show 4 cores.

2.) When trying to make my first save file it refused to read my ext4 drive. It read my first 5 ntfs drives... but wouldnt read my 6th drive which was an ext4. Thats where I wanted to save my save file (yes I know I can move it later), but it means I cant use ext4 for the file system in my save file.

3.) Flash gives some glitches every once in a while. A flash image will 'bleed through' onto other tabs.
I've noticed this in Opera, Firefox, and Chrome

4.) Finally got 601 set up properly now. gvfs still seems to be running VERY high at times.
Built the latest Nvidia Short Branch Driver and got a kernel mismatch gcc error (said current gcc was 3.7 and kernel was built with 3.6). Driver works well though. http://puppy-linux.org/lhp601/lhp601-error.jpg

SFS Package Nvidia 313.30 LHP 601 Driver
MD5 = 94b13d9127eb57bf73e5e5b16c4786b0

5.) I've got a bunch of packages to upload when I get time later. Hopefully by tomorrow evening I'll have them all uploaded and I'll post links.

6.) This is still multi-lib right? I haven't peeked under the hood yet... but I was contemplating trying to build the latest toolchain, so I'd need to know that before I even bother to get started.

[Jim1911]

Hi TaZoC,

Sorry, it's taken me so long to take a look at your latest. I've really enjoyed checking it out. I keep being amazed at the superior quality of your distributions and this one is hard to beat.

Thanks for continuing support for Bibletime and theWord. I have been able to get Bible Analyzer and e-Sword to work also. You may want to include installers for them as well as for theWord.

I've noted two problems:
1. The nvidia driver cannot find the kernel although devx is installed.
2. Any actions that access drives takes an unusual amount of time. For example clicking on drives using KDE desktop took about 1.5 minutes. I encountered the same problem with Fatdog64-600 and it is apparently hardware dependent. I think that Jamesbond corrected the problem by replacing "blkid" with "disktype" although he may have made other changes.

Thank you again for another super distribution.
Jim

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[Jim1911]