Lucid Puppy Revitalized as 5.2.8.7 - Nov., 2017 - Final

[sheldonisaac]

Hi, my (new-ish) Dell Latitude E6410 laptop seems to have a resolution of 1280 by 800?

It maked things rather small on the 14" screen.

How can I get, for example, 1024 x 600?

This is with Super Lupu Puppy Linux.

Thank you.

(my apologies: I've posted in Hardware also)

[bigpup]

sheldonisaac,

Look at your hardware/video post for answer.

[don922]

I have been using 528.6 with the JWM desktop for a couple of weeks. First with the Firefox26 browser and starting today with the Firefox27 browser.

Yesterday while using Firefox 26, before upgrading to 27 today, I tried to use

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firefox  -safe-mode

I could not get Firefox 26 to start in the safe mode. Today after upgrading to Firefox 27 I still could not use safe mode. I noticed today that the old 3hd, 528.9, won't use the firefox safe mode either. But 528.005 and 525 will still use the firefox safe mode.

How do I fix this?

[OscarTalks]

Quick test, Lucid 5.2.8.6 pfix=ram, tried both Openbox and JWM
Installed my new Firefox ESR 24.3.0 which has all the same updates as Firefox 27 but is the extended support release.

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firefox -safe-mode

Seems to run OK for me here.

[don922]

Quick test, Lucid 5.2.8.6 pfix=ram, tried both Openbox and JWM
Installed my new Firefox ESR 24.3.0..........

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firefox -safe-mode

Seems to run OK for me here.

I am not sure what your "Quick test" demonstrates -- you are using pfix=ram and a different version of firefox. I am not sure why you interjected Openbox into your reply. Also, your graphics don't necessarily show that Firefox is in Safe Mode because you are booted pfix=ram.

Are you implying that I have not encountered a failure? Certainly, your comment is not helpful!

[nooby]

Shinobar have an easy to understand Download page but slow.
But how does one know the difference between all the iso's ?

[bigpup]

Quick test, Lucid 5.2.8.6 pfix=ram, tried both Openbox and JWM
Installed my new Firefox ESR 24.3.0..........

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firefox -safe-mode

Seems to run OK for me here.

I am not sure what your "Quick test" demonstrates -- you are using pfix=ram and a different version of firefox. I am not sure why you interjected Openbox into your reply. Also, your graphics don't necessarily show that Firefox is in Safe Mode because you are booted pfix=ram.

Are you implying that I have not encountered a failure? Certainly, your comment is not helpful!

Not sure if it works or not.
I tried getting into safe mode by using the console command and by going to help->restart with add-ons disabled.

With help->restart with add-ons disabled.
I get the warning window about safe mode.

With the console command it just starts firefox in safe mode.
Maybe?

The question is:
How do you really know you are in safe mode?
To me, Firefox looks the same as normal, when it first
starts.
I do not see anything on the initial Firefox window that indicates you are now in safe mode.

[don922]

The question is:
How do you really know you are in safe mode?
To me, Firefox looks the same as normal, when it first
starts.
I do not see anything on the initial Firefox window that indicates you are now in safe mode.

The answer is all of the Add-ons have been disabled and do not appear on the Menu Bar or the Navigation Bar. For example, Adblock Plus, NoScript, or any other Add-on which shows an icon will be missing. As an alternative, look in Tools>Add-ons and all your Add-ons will be disabled.

[sszindian]

WiFi is still dropping!!!! Seems to drop mostly in Facebook and some online Newspapers.

There appears to be NO AUTO RECOVERY when this happens and only a cold hard shutdown turns the computer off.

X-Precise-2.2 is (so far) the only puppy that auto recovers when wifi drops.

Using: Linksys USB w/rt2800usb config

>>>---Indian------>

[cthisbear]

"WiFi is still dropping!!!!
Seems to drop mostly in Facebook and some online Newspapers. "

Change your wifi channel.

""""""""

Also look here

Internet connection drops after 15 min [solved]

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91857

Chris.

[rerwin]

For those of you using LibreOffice and wanting the latest 4.1 bugfix, I have uploaded 4.1.5 to the Supplemental SFS files directory. The direct link to the file is:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/vm8wl ... -US_gz.sfs
md5sum: b145a60368720867eb206f517867da72 LibreOffice-4.1.5_en-US_gz.sfs

Of course, if you are using lupulibre this is not appropriate. LibreOffice -4.1.5 will be part of the next lupulibre ISO, the next time I upgrade the set of "lupus".

Note that first time users of LibreOffice may need to run "fixmenus" to install the LibreOffice menu entries. (The "load SFS" utility may take care of that for you.)
Richard

Update 2/16/2014: In working with LibreOffice 4.1.4 and 4.1.5 I get a long message regarding the file I use. That happens with both lupu and lupusuper2 (sulu2), but not in precise-5.6.1 (and I presume, 5.7.1). Google searches suggest the problem lies with some "lib..." files. I will look into that soon so that the next upload set is fixed, probably with replacements from precise. I post this to assure you that I am aware of the problem. I am not sure whether it actually impacts work on the document, but am using Precise for the document I am trying to finish.
R

Follow-up to update: I got nowhere trying to find a usable fix, but found that the message is not issued if the file name contains no space characters. Any fix for that would go into the source code of GTK-2, which is beyond what is reasonable to attempt for lupu. I assume the requirement for file names without spaces is an old one, that apparently was fixed between lucid and precise ubuntu releases. So, be warned about file names with spaces in them.
R

[cthisbear]

rerwin: Great job so far mate.

Still have to test On my evil Dell>>> for wireless.

Chris.

[sheldonisaac]

Help, please.

I can't get both wired and wireless network connections to be working after booting.

They are eth0 and eth1 on this Dell Latitude D610.
tg3 and ipw2200, according to SNS.

I think I tried a boot without save file, and eth0 was working.
Then I set up eth1 for WPA.
Made save file; rebooted.
This time only the wireless was working.

Of course I could use SNS after booting, to activate the interface which wasn't working.

But how can I have wired and wireless available at startup?

Or is there a script I could set to run which would make sure both are working?


Thank you,

Sheldon Isaac

[rerwin]

But how can I have wired and wireless available at startup?

I cannot advise you on SNS and Network Wizard, but I am interested in supporting that with frisbee-1.x. Unless you find that frisbee already solves the issue, we can take the problem over to the Frisbee thread and work it together.
Richard

[majorfoo]

I have been trying for past week or so to get my Brother HL2140 Laser printer to work using Lupu 3HD 5.2.8.6 and Lupu 528-006.

Today, I finally looked at error log in printer administration (mange printers) and found missing library = libssl.so.1.0.0
I was unable to locate this library, so I copied it from luci-001 series that Playdayz created.

This posted under Hardware / Printer section of forum

As information.

[as77]

Incredibly difficult to find a good Puppy for this Amilo L7320GW

I'm looking for a smoothly and silently (in RAM) running live-Linux.
Net connection using mobile broadband with Huawei modems (now E367)
To be used by a lady in a neighbouring city after XP soon dies

Slacko-5.5-4G: messy broadband settings show some signs of life
Lupu 528-005: messy broadband settings show some signs of life
Saluki 05, 10 and 23 boot to a blank screen
Slacko-5.6-PAE boots to a blank screen
Fluppy 13 boots to a blank screen
4.3.1 and 5.6 tried and deleted. As well as several other versions.
(Had to start using CD-RW's)

Q: why not have a boot prompt with tips to avoid blank screen?

Q: why not take Ubuntu's nice broadband connection code?

[bigpup]

as77,

Start a topic about your problem in the beginners section of the forum.
Pick a specific version of Puppy you want to use.
Pick the latest one of that version.
Example:
Slacko 5.6 not Slacko 5.5
Blank screens, at startup, are usually cured by some simple boot option entries.

Slacko-5.5-4G: messy broadband settings show some signs of life

Statements like this help no one.
You do what?
You see what?
If you could answer these questions, help would be much easier for everyone.
If You Need Help
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90471

[as77]

Pick a specific version of Puppy you want to use.

No way! Must pick a version which does not boot in a black screen!
Giving at least a boot prompt to start xorgwizard

Pick the latest one of that version.
Example: Slacko 5.6 not Slacko 5.5

Should the revitalized 5286 work OK? It doesn't ...

Blank screens, at startup, are usually cured by some simple boot option entries.

So at boot time there should be a boot prompt with instructions?
Very often there is not

[rerwin]

Thanks, bigpup, for replying to as77. I googled and found this about the graphics peculiarities of the Amilo L7320GW:
http://www.linlap.com/fujitsu_amilo_l7320gw

And it related to the original ubuntu lucid lynx, so seems relevant to lucid pup.

Here is another version of that solution from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1341937:

Re: Fujitsu L7320GW

Hi,
Previously in Jaunty I solved this by using the below in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Hope it helps

Last edited by SpearZ; December 8th, 2009 at 06:18 PM.

The appropriate xorg driver for this is 'openchrome', which is already in the lucid pups.
Richard

[Volhout]

Hi AS77,

1/ When puppy boots there is a 5 second window in which you can stop the auto configuring startup (that in your case results in a startup with blank screen) and get a prompt where you can boot with different parameters. This also gives the possibility to manually configure your video. Once you hit the right configuration (and have a storage file created) you should be okay.

2/ You are right about the Ubuntu broadband connection. It is a good example of how simple life can be. SNS (Simple Network Setup) in puppy linux comes close, but Frisbee (another tool) is more versatile, connects better, but has so many features users get overwhelmed. Maybe your post will trigger developers for puppy to improve this particular feature, or copy Ubuntu's.