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Hi,

Lucid Puppy has newest Rox 2.9 and for localization I found some XML-Files getting localized entries for the context menus - fine for german users

But in a contect menu of a directory (inode/directory) type I didn't found the way to do this.

There is are entries "Search with Pfind" and "Add Panel" - look at the screenshot. How was Pfind set to the context menu?

Thanks!

uuups,

suddenly I saw the Pfind-entry in ~/.config/rox.soureforge.net/...

So "Add panel" only in english. Is in the ROX-binaries (.po) files or is the context menu ready for user edit?

Hi playdayz,

There are some serious problems with frugal upgrade:
1. Minor - 5.01 still uses the lucisave file and cannot recognize the lupusave files unless they are renamed.
2. Major - The renamed save file was trashed with all kinds of errors upon bootup, probably software conflicts, regardless, an update cannot be performed. This hasn't happened with the beta and rc versions which always updated fine. I'll redownload later, try again, and report back.

You are fast, before I could download 5.01 again you had already uploaded a new file. You corrected both problems. Tried it on two different save files which updated without a problem.

Edit: As James C reported below, all 4 cores show up on my system also.

Great,
Jim

playdayz wrote:

Luci for some reason caused the post message say it was 3 cores and put me in a endless loop of entering pfix=ram and getting nowhere. I had to enter setup and disable the core software to 2 cores and then enable it on reboot. Lucid is working again with four cores but am concerned that an update might bork the system.

I am using the very same system I bet--B50 it identifies itself as. It's great imo. I am seeing 4 cores in htop right now. I did not do anything in making luci-000 or Lucid Puppy for that matter that would influence use of the cores. But who knows, I am using a later version of the update than luci-000 and the 4 cores are working.

I tried Lucid Puppy on my AMD Athlon II x4 and all 4 cores showed up in Htop here as well.

It seems to be only when booting from DVD that there is a problem. If I boot with only two cores all works well. Install with two cores and then boot and activate other two cores, all works well.

The above quandary is also present when I tried to install Fatdog Beta3. Install and boot with 2 cores, then activate remaining cores on subsequent boot. Probably some setting in BIOS that I have setup wrong.

Hardware never shows that I have installed RadeonHD driver just unknown Xorg.

Luci-001 lets me boot into vesa without the need for nox or xorg.old,
on my inspiron 700m; 855gme.

Gxine doesn't crash instantly as before.
It plays the previews but won't play the movie on some dvds.
It quickly rises to excessively high temps. playing the dvd movies
that do work.
Quirkys' gnome-mplayer has the same temp. and other problems.

Luci-001 lets me boot into vesa without the need for nox or xorg.old,
on my inspiron 700m; 855gme.

Good. That's what we want. Thanks for staying with us.

Gxine doesn't crash instantly as before.
It plays the previews but won't play the movie on some dvds.

We are going to work a lot on multimedia playback for 5.1. Barry is also working on it in Quirky.

A lupu-501 for testing is also posted on the previous page.

Okay;
Tried same things with lupu-501.

It also lets me boot vesa without problem.
One small thing;. both luci and lupu automatically give me 1024x768
resolution, even though 1280x800 is native for this 12" screen.
Being a 6yr.old laptop, the screen proportions work well with either
res., and 1024x768 is easier on my old eyes.

Gxine works fine on this one and allows me to pick and choose menu
items and play movie.

About the temperature issue.
Playing dvds with these new kernel versions and gxine, or gnome-mplayer,
my cpu runs at 70c or above.
With my 4.1.2 install using ttuuxxxs vlc8.6h-engv5-1, the cpu temp
ranges from 49c to 53c.
53c is the normal xp desktop resting state on this laptop.
Nothing comes close to the vlc, 4.1.2 combination for cool running.

playdayz don't get me wrong.

I love that we get the choice of browsers and the QuickPet choices.

What I am disappoined with is that both Luci-100 and Lupu-500 shut down when I try to log in to Spotify

Fortunately spotify works in Quirky 1.00 instead so I will use that one until this spotify shut down works.

As I reported before the whole x just dies and I get thrown out to the prompt and have to do xwin and it just repeats that way if I test spotify again. All else just works.

Some improvements to "browser-default".. (that little tray icon that changes browsers)

-bugfix -some bad coding led to some unnecessary process.. fixed.
-now splashes the choice so you know something has happened, ...no change, no splash
-executes the browser upon choice

let me know if you like the new features

Cheers

Fortunately spotify works in Quirky 1.00 instead so I will use that one until this spotify shut down works.

Yes nooby, That is one reason there are several different "breeds" of puppy available now, so if one doesn't work for you, then you have alternatives. We will try to learn from Quirky so that you can use Lucid Puppy again. Thanks.

Let's have some fun. This is what we can do with Lucid Puppy. Barry mentions WebM in his blog. It can be found in the Chromium nightly trunk builds this week.
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01614

Here is where to get the trunk builds--the bottom directory.
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snap ... rel-linux/

Here is a pet of 5 libraries that you will need
http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/chromium_libs.pet

I don't know if today's build has the WebM. Perhaps someone can let us know. Enjoy.

Hi playdayz,

just to echo what nooby was saying , I'm running a frugal install of Lucid 5.00 and everything works fine except Spotify. The logon window appears and it seems to log on but just before Spotify starts Puppy drops back to the prompt and I have to restart x.

Everything else seems fast and works reliably.

scruffy

AMD Athlon 512MB 1100MHz
Soundcard C-media CMI8738
Graphics Nvidia geforce 4 MX440
Netgear wired dsl

Fresh frugal install of 5.0.1 on the P3 test box, usual browser and pet installs. No problems.

Going to try an upgrade of the frugal, from 5.00 to 5.0.1, on my other box in a few minutes.

Successfully upgraded the frugal install on my main Linux box from 5.00 to 5.0.1. Other than a brief wait to upgrade some files at boot the process was smooth and everything appears to be working and all settings were retained.

I tried 5.01 on a Toshiba laptop that has intel graphics.
I went through the xorgwizard setup part, selected PROBE, the screen resolution and then TEST. I was greeted with a black blank screen and even ALT-CTRL-Backspace did not recover. I had physically power down and on the next try, I picked CHOOSE and selected "i810".
That got me to the desktop after the test and "xwin".
But for the newbe, they might be at a loss as to what intel driver to select and just assume they got a lemon of a linux OS.
Those are just my thoughts.
Over all, 5.00 and 5.01 are good IF the person knows what to do if he or she encounters a black screen.
When I ran the xorgwizard, I was expecting it to drop back to the selection menu with the DONE, Tweak, and Xvesa options.
The lockup is not a good thing to happen.

Just a quick query. How can I find out how the automatic detection was set up to work so I can improve the video settings for 501?
When I was testing an earlier version (lupu117) that had automated detection I got a better looking screen (icons and fonts much sharper) than using the xorgwizard to set my specific screen resolution in 5.01 to 1320x768.
I have an Acer Aspire Timeline 5810TZ that has for graphics an integrated intel GMA 4500M chip. Anyone else have this happen to them?

8-bit wrote:I tried 5.01 on a Toshiba laptop that has intel graphics.
I went through the xorgwizard setup part, selected PROBE, the screen resolution and then TEST. I was greeted with a black blank screen and even ALT-CTRL-Backspace did not recover. I had physically power down and on the next try, I picked CHOOSE and selected "i810".
That got me to the desktop after the test and "xwin".
But for the newbe, they might be at a loss as to what intel driver to select and just assume they got a lemon of a linux OS.
Those are just my thoughts.
Over all, 5.00 and 5.01 are good IF the person knows what to do if he or she encounters a black screen.
When I ran the xorgwizard, I was expecting it to drop back to the selection menu with the DONE, Tweak, and Xvesa options.
The lockup is not a good thing to happen.

Never, never, ever push something that says test! Bad Karma dude.

I went probe and straight to vesa with my intel graphic machine on
501 and it worked.

scruffy wrote:Hi playdayz,

just to echo what nooby was saying , I'm running a frugal install of Lucid 5.00 and everything works fine except Spotify. The logon window appears and it seems to log on but just before Spotify starts Puppy drops back to the prompt and I have to restart x.

Everything else seems fast and works reliably.

scruffy

AMD Athlon 512MB 1100MHz
Soundcard C-media CMI8738
Graphics Nvidia geforce 4 MX440
Netgear wired dsl

What we have in common are AMD Athlon and NVidia but hopefully they can learn from Quirky why that one survives.

Can it be they use different versions of Wine? How does one find out which version one make use of?

I don't know if today's build has the WebM. Perhaps someone can let us know. Enjoy.

It do!
It works!
Many thanks.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 401#421401

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