Lupu-515 Beta New Version DEC 18

[playdayz]

Bye Bye XineDVD.

It crashed on me a couple of times, right out of X. We will just stay with our strengths.

Iron 7

Has there been any more trouble? Use this pet and start it from the menu or the browse icon--the cache should be limited. If there is a problem please tell me what you were watching. Thanks.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -Lucid.pet

[playdayz]

Zhaan (K6 2 500) and while I haven't noticed any problems on the former machine, I can't say the same of the latter.

How much ram in the K6? We discovered a problem with Luci-238 loading on machines with 256MB ram or less. It doesn't load correctly and one indication is that there is no background or icons on the screen. I have one myself. This has been fixed in luci-239pre which will be available in a few days. Thanks.

If it's just the case that K6 2 CPUs aren't going to be supported anymore I'm happy enough with Lupu 511

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We don't intend any difference from 5.1.1--if it ran we intend that 5.2 should run. But you know there is Wary for older machines as another option..

[don570]

Does anyone know how to make a wacom tablet driver
persistent i.e. stay loaded even after a reboot

wacom driver by tempestuous

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=34481

called xf86-input-wacom-0.10.8.pet works well
except for this flaw.

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[playdayz]

Picasa 3 beta is available and works from the deb install file at
http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html#picasa30
Except no menu item, so picasa in terminal.

[Jim1911]

Bye Bye XineDVD.

It crashed on me a couple of times, right out of X. We will just stay with our strengths.

I trust that it will still be available through Quickpet or PPM. It works great on my hardware and has given no problems. It just works, others such as the Gnome media player just don't work at all in Luci.

Jim

[shinobar]

Does anyone know how to make a wacom tablet driver
persistent i.e. stay loaded even after a reboot

How about the boot manager?
You need to rmmod the module before starting the boot manager.
It registers the module name at /etc/rc.d/MODULESCONFIG.
Like:
ADDLIST=' wacom'

[shinobar]

- I have to define UTF-8 to get Viewnior show my files containing norwegian chars.

Code: Select all

# export LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8; viewnior /root/nær.jpg

As the commandline shows urxvt also troubles without UTF-8

The utf8 issue is long persistent issue on Puppy/Woof.
See the posts on Wary:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 0&start=95
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=104
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=120
They are not different format or encoding, but the issue of the name of locale.
Most of Puppy and woof use '.utf8' as the UTF-8 encoding, whereas most of Linux distributions use '.UTF-8'.
(Need to modify rc.country)

[gabe]

you could add Xorg_High to get max performance.

Aha! ...what does that mean? Edit an xorg.conf and put in...what?

I'm interested in installing this on my mom's old 256mb desktop but I only have 2 hours to do it, so I want to learn as much as I can first!

Needless to say, 5.2... even in a development stage... might still be the best choice.

[James C]

On the other hand.........

Fluppy is 161mb, will not eject cd with 256ram, but that doesn't
effect my decision to use it or not..

At the moment I'm running Fluppy 008 in ram on a box with 512 mb ram and a 1 gb swap partition and can't eject the cd either.


-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 513MB (154MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.43
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 24 Nov 2010 07:16:28 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

[gabe]

I found a critical (?) bug: won't boot from USB (or SD card). Sorry to interrupt all these technical discussions about UTF and whatever, and about size vs efficiency philosophy discussions, but really... netbooks have no CD drives. Puppy 4.x seemed to work.

I used the latest UNetBootin to place the Luci-238 ISO on my sd card. I went to my computer, stuck it in, and the Puppy image came up, it said "loading drivers to access disk drives" and all... then it searched folders for puppy files. Then subfolders. Then sub-subfolders. Then failed.

It's all right there on the SD Card! luci_238.sfs, right on the main sd card (not in a folder).

[01micko]

ok ttuuxxx..

you asked for it, you got it!

new2dir fix!

Ok, the problem wasn't make at all. I looked in /usr/bin/installwatch and couldn't see anything obvious. But the file /tmp/pkginstall.list was churning out rubbish...

Hmm... I notice we had a very old version of installwatch, from 2006/7. I searced for a lucid package, and installwatch turned up in the checkinstall package. I unpacked it and took a peek. I repackaged and hacked the installed watch script to be puppy compliant and ditched all the docs and checkinstall script, not in puppy.

The end result is a working new2dir

Yippee!

Now ttuuxx can compile us some skinny stuff!

Cheers!

This package replaces /usr/bin/installwatch and /usr/lib/installwatch.so

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Note to playdayz: this package must replace installwatch-0.6.3.pet in woof

[rjbrewer]

On the other hand.........

Fluppy is 161mb, will not eject cd with 256ram, but that doesn't
effect my decision to use it or not..

At the moment I'm running Fluppy 008 in ram on a box with 512 mb ram and a 1 gb swap partition and can't eject the cd either.

Yes;
Just tried 008 on my 700m with 1gb ram; won't eject.

[01micko]

I found a critical (?) bug: won't boot from USB (or SD card). Sorry to interrupt all these technical discussions about UTF and whatever, and about size vs efficiency philosophy discussions, but really... netbooks have no CD drives. Puppy 4.x seemed to work.

I used the latest UNetBootin to place the Luci-238 ISO on my sd card. I went to my computer, stuck it in, and the Puppy image came up, it said "loading drivers to access disk drives" and all... then it searched folders for puppy files. Then subfolders. Then sub-subfolders. Then failed.

It's all right there on the SD Card! luci_238.sfs, right on the main sd card (not in a folder).

I haven't had that issue, though I don't use unetbootin, did all the files transfer correctly to the usb stick? Are you certain the main sfs didn't get corrupted? Check the size of it compared to on your CD. Have you successfully booted puppy before from said medium?

Before you say it's a bug you have to search every avenue. If you test these things and they test ok, then you still can't boot please get back to us. It could also be a unetbootin bug.
Cheers

[shinobar]

At the moment I'm running Fluppy 008 in ram on a box with 512 mb ram and a 1 gb swap partition and can't eject the cd either.

Long persistent Puppy/Woof issue.
You can eject the live CD without savefile (pfix=ram).
But once you load the savefile, the live CD cannot eject.

Japanese versions and LupQ have modified inird so that we can eject the live CD anycase if the RAM is enough.

[gabe]

I found a critical (?) bug: won't boot from USB (or SD card). Sorry to interrupt all these technical discussions about UTF and whatever, and about size vs efficiency philosophy discussions, but really... netbooks have no CD drives. Puppy 4.x seemed to work.

I used the latest UNetBootin to place the Luci-238 ISO on my sd card. I went to my computer, stuck it in, and the Puppy image came up, it said "loading drivers to access disk drives" and all... then it searched folders for puppy files. Then subfolders. Then sub-subfolders. Then failed.

It's all right there on the SD Card! luci_238.sfs, right on the main sd card (not in a folder).

I haven't had that issue, though I don't use unetbootin, did all the files transfer correctly to the usb stick? Are you certain the main sfs didn't get corrupted? Check the size of it compared to on your CD. Have you successfully booted puppy before from said medium?

Before you say it's a bug you have to search every avenue. If you test these things and they test ok, then you still can't boot please get back to us. It could also be a unetbootin bug.
Cheers

I've tried unetbootin and the Universal USB Installer from pendrivelinux (which specifically supports 5.1.1, which I assume this is similar to). Both produce the exact same error.

Yes, I've verified the files on the card to be identical to the corresponding files in the downloaded ISO (which I also re-downloaded just to make sure). I've also attempted to place all of the files onto the root of my C:\ drive in Windows -- it also fails, but with a new message ("failed to find boot partition").

What's going on? Is it the "SCSI" in the filename? Isn't that just the normal build with an extra feature? It won't boot...

[gabe]

Yes, verifying that 5.1.1 works fine... but the browser is HORRIBLE. gmail.com or www.gmail.com fail miserably, the scroll bar disappears randomly, and whatnot. What is this "Midori" nonsense as default? XD

Thank goodness I caught that before my MOM used the computer... *gulp*

[playdayz]

Bye Bye XineDVD.

It crashed on me a couple of times, right out of X. We will just stay with our strengths.
I trust that it will still be available through Quickpet or PPM. It

Yes. The best version we can get. Speaking of which--would anyone like to try compiling Xine in luci-238, etc.?

[playdayz]

, verifying that 5.1.1 works fine... but the browser is HORRIBLE. gmail.com or www.gmail.com fail miserably, the scroll bar disappears randomly, and whatnot. What is this "Midori" nonsense as default? XD

midori is meant to be an internal browser for very limited purposes. When you start it from the menu there should be a warning message. There is a full version in the puppy Package Manager if you like midori

The first tiem you click the browse icon on the desktop youa re asked to choose a real browser!

[playdayz]

It is the matter of the developers who provide multiple window managers in their distribution.

LOL. That's the best one ever shinobar. I am still laughing.

But I do think Menu -> Desktop Settings -> WM Switcher will always say what window manager is running.

[playdayz]

new2dir fix!

Thanks and congratulations.

I have made the substitution in luci-239pre