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#2321 Post by nooby »

The reason I make use of Lucid Puppy or Lupu 528-005
is that the way I set it up is beyond me to set up on other Puppies.

I don't even know how to set up nother Lupu that way. the knowledge is gone
I fail to know how to ask google or ask foru, I would ahve start all over
and ask and ask and ask for each detail. That did happen now yesterday
when FatDog reset my hardware clock two hours I had no memory of how to set it right again. Early dementia in my brain?

Some weeks ago I knew how to change FF19 to FF20 now I have no clue
on how to change from FF20 to FF21
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#2322 Post by ASRI éducation »

James C wrote:Still using Lucid every day.......
Same for me. Lucid is still my favorite distro.

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#2323 Post by Colonel Panic »

I’ve just done a full install of Lucid 5.28 FAT (i.e. with LibreOffice) and it's working fine except for the spell checking in both AbiWord and Libre Office, which in each case seems to be fussy about what kind of document it operates on, so I’ve further installed Softmaker Free Office which works really well in Lucid. I've also added a couple of extra browsers such as Iron and SeaMonkey as I like to have the choice of a non-Mozilla based browser and I think SeaMonkey is lighter on resources than Firefox. Iron is based closely on Chromium except that its settings are modified for extra security.

All this on a twelve year old computer! We sometimes forget (or I do anyway, though I try not to) how lucky we are with Puppy.
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.

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#2324 Post by nooby »

Thanks to PuppyT and to 666philb for encouraging descriptions
based on my long experience to always screw up such things
I don't dare to try it yet but much appreciated that you shared your knowledge
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#2325 Post by toowoombalinux »

G'day,
I always thought that puppy 3.01 would never be surpassed (in my book) but I must admit that Puppy Lucid is winning my heart.

Just starting to customise though the new menu system needs a little work...

Cheers
Martin

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massive changes to psync

#2326 Post by Moose On The Loose »

This pet is written to upgrade a system and also be cleanly removed when uninstalled. It remembers the files created by the older version and puts them back if you remove it.

I added the feature of having psync run by pschedule so that people who leave their systems running for long periods can have their clocks stay reasonable. It is no replacement for "ntpd" but good enough for a user work station.

I opted to make the GUI be forced on and report the problem if either the startup case or the pschedule case runs into trouble. For example if during startup, your network may not be working. If that is the case, it detects it and invites you to run the wizard. This way, the clock on you PC won't just be mysteriously wrong.

BTW: If the author of pschedule is reading this: I like it but I found a bug. When I get a little time again, I will document the problem in a "bug" comment for it.
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#2327 Post by Eyes-Only »

Thanks for this re-write Moose! I always had a "sneaking suspicion" that psync v-1.0 had some sort of errors in it as I never could get it to behave quite "right" on any of my computers no matter what. And I always had the right locale set ( America/New York or America/Eastern when no other choice ), the bios was always properly set... yet psync would consistently reset my clock either four hours fast or slow. A great idea but I had to quit using it as it became rather frustrating. Looking forward to trying your v.2.0! :)

Thanks for your dedication and work my Fellow Puppian Friend!

Cheers/Amicalement,

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gtkdialog

#2328 Post by sheldonisaac »

Sorry if this was posted elsewhere that I can't find.

I'll paste at bottom a post today from a developer Sigmund Berglund, in the Multimedia section, re Pmusic.


Thanks,
Sheldon
zigbert wrote:
It would be nice if someone running Lucid could compile the latest gtkdialog. sheldonisaac is not the only one struggling with this....


Thanks
Sigmund

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Re: gtkdialog 0.8.3 for lucid pup

#2329 Post by rerwin »

zigbert, quoted by sheldonisaac, wrote:It would be nice if someone running Lucid could compile the latest gtkdialog. sheldonisaac is not the only one struggling with this.
I looked into this and compiled gtkdialog-0.8.3 into a 900K+ executable! The version included in precise pup is less than 200K. Not knowing how to cut down the result, I tried simply using the precise/wary gtkdialog4 pet package in lucid pup. It seems to work just fine!

That package and the "examples" for it are here:
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pac ... 3-i486.pet
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pac ... 3-i486.pet

That led me to complete my effort to make frisbee and the new network_tray available to lucid pup 5.2.8 along with my accumulation of fixes taken from woof. See my next posting.
Richard

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Upgrades for Lucid Pup, at last!

#2330 Post by rerwin »

Fellow fans of Lucid Pup 5.2.8,
It has been my intent for a long time to provide an easy way to upgrade lupu to add various fixes made in woof. I also wanted to try the new frisbee-1.1 and network_tray-2.7 in lupu. I seem to have succeeded.

I created separate packages for the puppy-infrastucture changes for the standard "lupu" and the "lupuplus" versions of Lucid Pup. The lupu package has to be split into two sub-packages to keep them smaller than the 256K attachment size constraint -- One has the /usr directory, the other everything else. The lupu pair also applies to the three-headed-dog derivative, because it is essentially the standard lupu but with a later kernel. (Since lupuplus already contains many of the components in the "plus" package, its package meets the attachment size constraint.)

So, install the "lupu" package pair to update the non-plus (lupu) installations and the lupuplus package for lupuplus and lupupluslibre. The result is the same for both cases (except that a lupu installation will not have the wifi drivers previously included in the lupupluses).

Then, install some packages from the wary/precise library to add frisbee and the newest network_tray. For downloading convenience, I collected the 5 essential packages into a tarball "kit". Or you can download each of them by using these links:To include the "examples" documentation for gtkdialog4, download it fromAlthough I have tried this upgrade on one of my lupu setups without issue, I recommend trying it on a nonessential puppy installation to satisfy yourself that it is solid, before upgrading your primary Lucid Pup installation. Once we have some experience with the updates, I plan to remaster a "5.2.8.6" ISO file, now that I have a mediafire.com account to host the large files.

Note that this frisbee implementation is incompatible with the "beta" Frisbee packages. It is best to install frisbee-1.1 only to installations that have not had the Frisbee beta installed. Next best is to uninstall any "beta" Frisbee before installing "1.1".

To remove some of the mystery about the fixes since lupuplus-528-005 (also included for "lupu"), here they are:
  • - mount - #120103 shinobar: need 'silent' option for ntfs-3g, avoid err msgs, permissions lost when copy.
    - 99-notify - Provides network state change popups for frisbee of if activated for other network managers
    - all-firmware/wl.tar.gz - improves loading of Broadcom wireless drivers
    - wmexit, wmpoweroff, wmreboot - #120425 appears to prevent misbehavior in full installation.
    - cups/backend/pdf-writer - #130126 correct detection of puppy linux distro.
    - AppRun - #110505 support sudo for non-root user; #130104 add frisbee control interface; #130117 remove redundant CURREXEC test, per shinobar
    - petget/pkg_chooser.sh - #120418 shinobar's internationalization fix
    - petget/removepreview.sh - #120121 shinobar: allow space chars in the "files" list paths
    - connectwizard - internationalized by rodin.s; #101206 pupdial_wizard_helper now called from pupdial; #111022 added hostname-set button; #111028 put hostname entry box directly in this wizard, internationalised; #111106 do not use $HOSTNAME, as hostname-set may have just been run; #120823 add frisbee interface; #120823 get correct pid in wait loop
    - connectwizard_2nd - #100810 moved SNS to top choice, improved messages; #120201 rodin.s: internationalized; #121029 added interface to integrated frisbee.
    - pmodemdiag - diagnostic logging improvement
    pupdial, modemdisconnect, pgprs - communication added for new network_tray
    - snapmergepuppy - correct handling of /dev/snd directory
    - xorgwrapper.sh - avoid insignificant error message
    - installpkg.sh - #130305 ensure tmp directory has all permissions after package expansion.
    - variconlinks (used by fixmenus) - #130728 correct patterns for xpm/png files only, avoid directory
UPDATE 9/17/2013:
Added "delta" package to correct omissions in the "5.2.8.6" packages. Adds internationalization and dhcpcd-dropwait interfaces (so networking can work), as well as USB3 support during bootup, correction of the usb_modeswitch interface and corrections of kernel version tests to handle kernels 3.x in 4 scripts. The files are:
  • /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
    /usr/bin/envsubst
    /usr/bin/gettext.sh
    /usr/bin/ngettext
    /usr/sbin/bootmanager
    /usr/sbin/dhcpcd_dropwait_option
    /usr/sbin/pmodemdiag
    /usr/sbin/pusbmodeswitch_protect
    /usr/sbin/remasterpup2
    /usr/sbin/updatenetmoduleslist.sh
    /usr/sbin/xgamma-gui
Richard
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Re: gtkdialog 0.8.3 for lucid pup

#2331 Post by sheldonisaac »

rerwin wrote:
zigbert, quoted by sheldonisaac, wrote:It would be nice if someone running Lucid could compile the latest gtkdialog. sheldonisaac is not the only one struggling with this.
I looked into this and compiled gtkdialog-0.8.3 into a 900K+ executable!
Richard, please excuse: I should have notified the LuPu thread sooner.

OscarTalks made one a couple of days ago; it's near the
bottom of page 115 of the pmusic thread in Multimedia
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... start=1710

Again, my apologies: not sure what is OK re cross-posting or whatever?

Thanks,
Sheldon
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#2332 Post by Eyes-Only »

SheldonIsaac wrote:"Richard, please excuse: I should have notified the LuPu thread sooner.

OscarTalks made one a couple of days ago..."
Still Rerwin, I'm very, very interested in your idea of a Lucid-5.28.6 if you're still willing to compile and roll/offer the .iso file. Not that I'm still using Lucid myself - although I very happily use the derivative 3HD - I'd appreciate having a copy of said .iso for my files. Plus, I'm sure you've come across as many people on this forum as I have who to this day are writing, "Lucid Pup was the best version ever! That's why I'm still using it on my computer to this day even if it's somewhat dated..." I'm sure they'd very much appreciate the upgrade as well, eh?

Food for thought at least?

Cheers/Amicalement,

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#2333 Post by Sylvander »

Lupu-528.005 was my number-1 Puppy...
Until I bought a new PC in 2012...
And Lupu wouldn't boot on it.
So I moved on to Slacko-5.3.3.1...
And then discovered Precise-5.6.1, which is now my number-1.

But I decided to give "3-Headed-Dog" another try last night.
[luci-001.005.iso with pmedia=ataflash modification previously made and stored]
It looked like it was going to be all go, BUT...
Couldn't get it to make a lucisave file at shutdown/reboot.
Used simplepupsave [in a 2nd Puppy] to make an empty lucisave.3fs file in a folder beside the 2 SFS files that were previously working OK, but Luci didn't like that at bootup.
I'd previously tried using simplepupsave to make a lucisave within the running Luci, but that didn't work either.

Seems I cannot get it to "just work". :(

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#2334 Post by rerwin »

Eyes-Only, Sylvander,
Thanks for your encouragement. The "lupu" pair of packages should also support 3-headed-dog and contain a significant set of changes to the shutdown script. Please try them on your 3HD systems (although not your main ones). If I am to work on shutdown issues, we need to start with the fixes made so far.

Initially, try the pair without the added pets in the "kit". Once you are satisfied that all is well, feel free to add the others to implement frisbee and the new network_tray.

Note that I have re-uploaded the "not_usr" package (part 2). To better accommodate 3HD, I updated the pinstall script to remove the USB3 driver (if installed in 3HD), which is compiled only for the 2.6.33.2 kernel. If anyone has xhci.ko compiled for kernel 2.6.37.6, please PM it to me so I can add it to the "not_usr" pet. The only link I see for the kernel source does not seem to work -- it times out -- so I cannot compile it myself.
"Lucid Pup was the best version ever! That's why I'm still using it on my computer to this day even if it's somewhat dated..."
Now that I have gotten this far, I am open to recommendations on the most important components to upgrade or add, to make Lucid Pup continue to be desirable. Keep in mind, though, that I do not have playdayz' skills at resolving issues with new items. So, we need to focus on components that are safe to add, or can easily be made so, and can be tested/verified by someone besides me. I plan to start with recent woof fixes to add to the ones I have already included.
Richard

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#2335 Post by Sylvander »

@rerwin
Wooohooo! SUCCESS! :D
Installed your "pair of packages", and it worked.
Now appear to have a functioning lucisave.3fs file.
I think I'll make a remaster of Luci once all the tweaking is finished, and make a CD-R with it, and use it for online banking.
This'll be the 1st time I've done such a thing.
Aught I to re-master using the CD WITH or WITHOUT pmedia=ataflash included?
Since there wouldn't be any saving back to a CD-R anyway?

Oops...
Cannot get the following packages to install...
Neither using PPM...
Nor the PET files held on a Flash Drive:
wine-1.5.2-i486_v1.pet
pwidgets-2.4.1.pet

Nor can mounted PFS's [drives] be dismounted.
Nor will the luci shutdown using the "Menu->shutdown-Power-off computer".

Switched to using the CD-RW that hasn't had the pmedia=ataflash modification, and the above problems disappeared.
WINE and pwidgets now installed, and shutdown/reboot works OK.
Strange that the "Save..." icon is still on the desktop, although only the 1st of the 2 dialogs appears when I click it; not sure if it's functioning/saving.

Pwidgets won't display the rambar, or CPUgraph, only puppylinux, clock_analog, calendar.
No Xload display at bottom right.
Hmmm, looks like I've made a real mess of this.
Tried to remaster, but there is no display of the optical disk on the desktop.
May need to scrap the lucisave, and start afresh using the CD with no pmedia=ataflash.
.
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#2336 Post by tallboy »

Hi rerwin, thank you for the effort. I installed your LupuPlus package yesterday before closing down my live CD, but I unfortunately got some message about incompatible installation that would screw up my puppy! I'll repeat it in a moment to give you the exact text, and report back.
(My current LupuPlus is heavily remastered)

I only have old PCs, so personally I don't have any problems with the latest hardware. The 5.2.8 is quite good, the only improvement I want, is a better wifi connection, and please make it boot with JWM as first choice for windowmaster. I dislike that other....thingy! :D
I have also understood that 5.2.8 had serious sound problems for some people, solved by using software from the 5.2.5.

In general, I think the existing backward hardware compability is more important in the 5.2.8, than maybe upsetting good working solutions, by trying to incorporate a fix for all problems related to newer hardware.

Those problems are there for the later puppys! 8)

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#2337 Post by recobayu »

ya. I couldn't agree more..
I really hurry to download the lupu 5.2.8.6.iso..
:D

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#2338 Post by bigpup »

rerwin,

Thank you very much for trying to keep Lucid Puppy going!
I agree, its Linux kernel version will never be able to handle the latest hardware very good, but a lot of us have old hardware that it works very well on. Hard to support hardware, that was not even built, when its kernel was made.
It would be very good if some of the bug fixes, that have been implemented in Wolf, could get into Lucid, along with the updates to some of the Puppy core programs.
I still think of Lucid Puppy as the long term support version of Puppy.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#2339 Post by rerwin »

In general, I think the existing backward hardware compability is more important in the 5.2.8, than maybe upsetting good working solutions, by trying to incorporate a fix for all problems related to newer hardware.
It would be very good if some of the bug fixes, that have been implemented in Wolf, could get into Lucid, along with the updates to some of the Puppy core programs.
I still think of Lucid Puppy as the long term support version of Puppy.
I am in total agreement. I want to keep Lucid Pup "band-aided" as much as we can. These packages do that up to a point about a year ago. I need to check the woof updates since then, to find more back-portable fixes.
tallboy wrote:I have also understood that 5.2.8 had serious sound problems for some people, solved by using software from the 5.2.5.
Note that the lupu and lupuplus versions of the sound code are different. I attempted to fix the reported problems in lupuplus. The "lupu" package pair includes the upgrade(?) to the plus version of sound support. If there remain some sound issues, that is the version on which I would base any fixes.

Given my limited competence at system-wide upgrades, I need to avoid "asking for trouble" in choosing what to upgrade. I doubt I should make any "personal choice" default changes, as that goes beyond my intent, which is only to keep the current Lucid Pup in good repair, not to extend it.

Back to the new packages: I find two minor issues in my lupupluslibre installation. The network notification popups (associated with frisbee) at bootup initially are pink instead of orange. Only the "down" messages should be pink. But the color returns to normal after 15 seconds, or so. If I substitute the version of gtkdialog-splash from precise, the initial colors are correct. So, I will probably add that to the packages, unless someone objects.

The other problem is a mystery. After installing the network_tray package, the icons in a directory named network_tray-xpm, linked-to by the network_tray link, a few seconds later, a similar link appears inside the -xpm directory. That probably doesn't hurt anything, but I want to prevent that. Now I just have find where that is being done in lupu.

Regarding upgrading "Puppy core programs", I am nervous about taking that on because I probably cannot resolve issues with them. However, there may be particular ones that have been verified by others to work without undesirable side effects. I am open adding them if I know they are safe. Please identify the most important ones to consider, particularly those causing the most frustration. What do you (everyone) consider as candidates?
Richard

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#2340 Post by tallboy »

Sorry about the misspelling of compability in my post above, it should of course be compatibility. I thought it looked funny when used in a quote... :oops:

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