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starhawk · Posted: Sat 22 Jun 2013, 20:17 Post subject:

FAIL on two counts.

gvfs pet wouldn't install (got a "failed to install" box with a red icon). MATE wouldn't start -- examination of dmesg indicates that it's got the same gmbus issue that GNOME2.32 had.

Crying or Very sad

Jejy69 · Joined: 20 Jan 2011 Posts: 709 Location: Perpignan

Indeed I got a crash with Gvfs too.
I'll try to compile it, maybe it will work.

starhawk · Posted: Tue 09 Jul 2013, 21:23 Post subject:

Any updates, jejy69?

starhawk · Posted: Sun 18 Aug 2013, 12:29 Post subject:

May have figured out the problem. GMBUS is something to do with Intel, not GNOME. Whether or not it works is determined by the driver one uses with Intel hardware.

It appears, from what (little) I understand and can gather (and given the info in that last paragraph), that the gma500 driver (which I'm using) in Puppy -- particularly the Upup series of Puplets -- does not have support for GMBUS and GNOME/MATE happen need that support. There is a patch for the gma500 driver to fix this, and I've asked Pemasu if he can make that happen in his latest Puplet -- Upup Precise 3992.

IF that's the issue, and IF it can be fixed, then that should, reasonably speaking, enable this MATE to work on Poulsbo hardware.

EDIT: I was wrong Sad

it must be something else...

Pelo · Posted: Tue 17 Sep 2013, 13:13 Post subject: Links broken (september 2013)

Links broken (september 2013).
Can you retie the links with google please. Or elsewhere, of course !
Jejy, go on !

starhawk · Posted: Tue 24 Sep 2013, 12:16 Post subject:

Here: http://www.datafilehost.com/d/754df91c

IMPORTANT: uncheck the box about download managers, then click "download" -- do NOT click "download now"!!

DAY-LATER EDIT: now it's a link! D'oh!

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5087 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

It seems to me that Puppy is sorely lacking a desktop manager utility as one of it`s apps.
Lots of wonderful different desktops, and they all need "fiddling" with to get them to work.

A boot-time GUI list of available desktops to select from, and auto. start-up management.
With a CheckBox option ( ListBox? ) to set the selected desktop as the boot-time default.

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

starhawk · Posted: Wed 25 Sep 2013, 11:40 Post subject:

According to jejy69 you're supposed to put some code in xinitrc... lazy bum that I am I tend to leave it out and it works just fine for me anyways.

EDIT: well, for LXDE and XFCE. Can't get anything GNOME based working on the one piece of hardware I want it to work on Sad

but I'll get that sorted pretty soon...

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5087 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

starhawk; It might solve the problem if a DT manager made links to the various DT config. files.
So many different alias named config. files could be installed and pointed to by the links.
The DT manager would only have to over-write the links to point to the new current DT files.

vicmz; Lots of code, apps., and utilities have come and gone from Puppy. A shameful loss.
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starhawk · Posted: Thu 26 Sep 2013, 12:06 Post subject:

sunburnt, not to be a total idiot but what's DT stand for?

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5087 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

DeskTop, sorry for the abbreviation.

I figured the context of the conversation was enough to allow it.

starhawk · Posted: Thu 26 Sep 2013, 20:02 Post subject:

...shoulda gotten that just a little faster...

oldyeller · Joined: 15 Nov 2011 Posts: 888 Location: Alaska

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268