Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

edoc · Posted: Tue 01 Oct 2013, 15:50 Post subject: 173 Processes?

Is it normal for GKrellM to show 173 processes?

EDIT: Powered up fresh this morning & before opening any windows it shows 132 processes. Is that normal?

Last night I looked and saw what appeared to be print processes (daemons) listed but there were no print jobs active active. Lots of "0%" entries in Pprocess, same now.

Or might that explain why I'm having trouble with VLC playing MP4 files - starting OK then audio drops out and video gets jittery then completely garbled?

Only Seamonkey was open with one Web page (this one), the main email page, and one compose page open.

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 1126

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

@edoc, is lots of these what you refer?

edoc · Posted: Thu 03 Oct 2013, 00:04 Post subject:

Yep, lots of them ...

edoc · Posted: Mon 07 Oct 2013, 09:22 Post subject: FireFox Update 24 Doesn't Load

I'm getting a pop-up to upgrade to Firefox 24.

If I click OK it appears to run but never accomplishes anything so I close the window.

Does this update need to be done a different way?

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 1126

edoc · Posted: Mon 07 Oct 2013, 22:12 Post subject:

Thanks Q5sys ...

I just remembered, I am still running under generic VESA as the problem with finding the proper video driver was set-aside for other matters when I first loaded LH64-602b.

Perhaps that is where the instability in VLC lies?

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

There is a Menu item which can assist all who need to take advantage of the FF Upgrade:

Go to Menu>Internet>Firefox Update Help
Click the Firefox (root) button to Open FF under the root ID (instead of Spot)
When this FF opens, go to Help>About Firefox
On the screen which pops up, Under the version number, FF will show the upgrade status/alert. Click if necessary.

Hope this helps

edoc · Posted: Sun 13 Oct 2013, 18:52 Post subject: v4l2-ctl?

I am trying to get a Dazzle DVC-100 analog to digital interface to work.

One of the steps in the Linux instructions I found is:

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 1126

edoc · Posted: Sun 13 Oct 2013, 23:25 Post subject:

You are amazing!

Thanks!

The menu item appeared in Multimedia and opened the V4L2 Test Bench.

The output of your console command:

edoc · Posted: Mon 21 Oct 2013, 22:58 Post subject: OpenShot - Status

Current version is 1.43

Based on this page:
http://www.openshotvideo.com/2013_09_01_archive.html

... the best-case scenario for OpenShot 2.0 is some time in December ... maybe.

That's a long ways away ... and probably will not happen ... more like January of February according to typical major-revision history ... sigh.

Maybe I will try again to get Avidemux to play nicely ... or hope someone gets OpenShot 1.43 working for LH64-602b?

BTW: Any imminent updates to LH-64 or Raring?

edoc · Posted: Tue 22 Oct 2013, 17:55 Post subject: Arista 2-Click Transcoder?

I have an 11g file from converting a VHS tape to AVI via a Dazzle box & VLC.

I really need to reduce that footprint!

The Arista transcoder app for Linux has been recommended as simple and reliable.

A brief review here:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/arista-twoclick-video-conversion-tool-linux/

Source code:
http://www.transcoder.org/downloads/

Anyone tried this in LH64-602b?

dancytron · Joined: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 1027

Not quite sure if this is a bug or a feature.

In the default window manager of Puppy, when you drag an icon to the desktop or do some other modification, those modifications are put in the file /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin.

LHP does the exact same thing.

However, the file that seems to be what creates the desktop is actually /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPinLHP. So, when you reboot, the desktop returns back to the original setup (losing your changes), unless you manually copy the PuppyPin file to the PuppyPinLHP file.

Thanks

Pete22 · Joined: 08 May 2009 Posts: 262 Location: Utah, USA

My friend asked me to update her Lighthouse. Currently she has LHP 443 on her Gateway NV78. It is old and I want to update her to the x64.version.

Unfortunately this lhp 64 602 beta 2 version allows intel to turn the backlight off at start up. This does not happen with lhp 443. I also found that lupo 528 also keeps the backlight on. Is there any way to get LHP 64 602 to turn the backlight on?

I figured out that I could attach an external monitor to her laptop to change the settings. I found workarounds that are temporary, that needs to be fixed each time the computer is turned on. However my friend is not geeky enough to do it each time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Pete.