Slacko 312.37 110807

[pemasu]

Qmmp depends on Qt and gstreamer libs. I compiled and included Qmmp in Polarpup 003.
To have Qmmp in base distro, means big base distro because it needs those Qt libs and also Gstreamer libs framework.

I would say it is mostly an addon if somebody wants to double his distro size for Qmmp.

[DaveS]

I always add the acpid pet so that I can shut down just by pressing the off button. In this pup, that does not work, though the script does shut down if I click on it directly, so somehow there is a disconnect between the action of the off button and the script.

[DaveS]

Moving an icon on the desktop causes screen to flash.

[bignono1]

Huawei usb modem not working and video support for intel is shaky , the 311 verssion is fine tho.
Tested on a Toshiba 450mhz and 192mb ram lap top .

[peebee]

Woah.. those are SOME numbers.. way outside anything that can be set by the Flsynclient GUI. Edited config file /root/.flsynclient to reflect numbers in this range and now have a nice touchpad again.

Here's the FlSynclient GUI on my laptop..........

this is how I set the values....

cheers
peebee

[crshbndct]

i am considering trying this out.. are all the same (specifically radeon) drivers available for this?

[charlie6]

Hi 01micko,
Let's cross the fingers... 'm writing this post on my 82845G's featured clunker ... all seems OK ... running Xorg with i915 driver

Considering the link given in my post see page16 this thread, I got some trials editing Xorg settings files.

1) Got a Boot up from live-cd puppy pfix=ram pkeys=be-latin1, so the desktop is already configured for my french-belgian keyboard.
When booted did Alt-F4 to avoid editing the personnalize settings and avoid mouse pointer passing on the "...getting informations" box.
2) have edited and added 2 files:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/disable-composite

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Section "Extensions"
  Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

and
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/i845G.conf

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Section "Device"
    Identifier 	"Card0"
    Driver 	"intel"
    Option 	"Shadow" "True"
    Option 	"DRI"  "False"
    BoardName 	"Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)"
    BusID 	"PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

In the meanwhile, jwm has broken (just the desktop and empty pop-up menus displayed); rox file manager is still working though.
Then Exit to prompt and typed xwin to restart X (clicked on the corresponding emptied menu entries locations to get /Menu/Shutdown/Exit to prompt) ... Then Bingo ! got a desktop + woof!woof! ...keeping clean ... could even restart X server without dropping to black screen ..!

Now will try to save the session and reboot
Fingers crossed
Cheers, Charlie

EDITED: reboot OK on the spupsave file ...
warning:
This is cut and try ... so I could not give any warranty ... It would be nice someone checking all of the above stuff.

[gcmartin]

Have several problems on this platform. Appears to be driver related.

1. Live media boot went to console's prompt after video xorgwizard Probe during boot.
2. While there, I checked the system and found that all hostname settings were consistent
3. xwin did NOT start desktop
4. xorgwizard required Choose, then, selecting Intel 740 driver AND 16 bit selections for
5. xwin to go to desktop
6. SPUP's Personalize Setting ran: Changed the hostname field from default to new one, and clicked the Xorgwizard button
7. Selected Prompt and recieved the same results as experienced on boot: namely, desktop would NOT start with the Prompt selection
8. While at console, I checked to system for the hostname changes from Personalize
9. Setting (see attachments). Found that environment variable for HOSTNAME was NOT changed in this console session. So, I logout (exit) command.
10. After command execution, the HOSTNAME now contains the value that it suhould.
11. Restarted xorgwizard, selecting Choose, Intel 740 driver and took 16bit as these are only settings that worked
12. xwin to desktop.
13. Personalize Settings automatically returned showing all current system settings.
14. Pressed OK, only to find out that the booted system does NOT have ANY wired or WiFi drivers present and does NOT see my laptop's NICs (reports are attached below)
15. Open a terminal window and found that all hostname values are the same as was seen on system console before returning to desktop
16. Created a Hardinfo report for review and verificaton.

Note: See PUP527 here for current HOSTNAME explanation. Pictures below ARE relevent to that post as well.

Please PM/post me if you have something specific for me to test on this laptop

Hope this is useful and helpful.

[don570]

I wasn't able to run the following command on the
terminal

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rxvt -geometry "64x10-0+0" -e arecord -vvv /dev/null 2>/dev/null

I just got an empty window to briefly flash.
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I couldn't get my audio to record.
Here is the message.



I have an IBM desktop with an Intel sound chip
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[Lobster]

i am considering trying this out.. are all the same (specifically radeon) drivers available for this?

I don't have the same ATI radeon drivers that are available (easily) in Quickpet and Lucid.
However we are in Alpha and I have moved from pre-alpha (getting no boot to desktop at all) to Vesa (older graphic display) to xorg (newer display).
Despite this you should be a 'Puppy Pioneer' because you will learn, you will help and you will be involved.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/NoobHelp

We are Puppy
You are Puppy Too

[charlie6]

Hi again,
trying opening
/usr/share/examples/ps-pdf/colorcir.ps (by default present on much puppies):
1) by clicking on its icon from rox: nothing happens
2) from terminal, no display but this message (looks OK ...but no image displayed )

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# pwd
# /usr/share/examples/ps-pdf/
#gs colorcir.ps 
ESP Ghostscript 815.04 (2007-03-14)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 2450032 1134906 1858404 523050 1 done.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

I also tried on another PC on which Slacko312 boots up «out of box» with no result.

cheers, charlie

[vanchutr]

(1). I'd translate ps to pdf:
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=3 -dLastPage=3 \
> -sOutputFile=fileout.pdf colorcir.ps
(2). Then, click on fileout.pdf to view.

*** gs can use as an ghostscript-viewer? -> Please read gs' manual

[charlie6]

Hi vanchutr !
many thanks for your reply !

/etc/xdg/rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-types/application_postscript
opens .ps file ( script launching gv )
But the gv script is not present in Slacko, whereas it is in other puppies.

Your reply helped me to make some trials and to remember forum member panzerkopf's (thanks to him) script gv (see 4th post on page link hereafter)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 15d6e39222
and to be downloaded here
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... h&id=29609
Uncompress gv.gz , make it executable and move it into /usr/bin/

Hope /usr/bin/gv would be added it in the next slacko updates.

Cheers, Charlie

[peebee]

A really minor thing - the new pnethood window isn't quite big enough,,,,
Cheers
peebee

[mikeslr]

Hi 01micko & All,

just a quick post to confirm that with your settings now in Slacko 312 while my system has builtin ATi Radeon 3100 graphics I was able to reach my desired resolution of 1600x900x24 via "probe," change my location, create a SaveFile and reboot into that desktop without incident. SNS enabled access to the internet which was persistent after reboot.
Will explore some more and report any difficulty.
Thanks for the great job.

mikesLr

[DaveS]

Could somebody check this please: open two Rox windows and drag a file from one to the other. Does your screen flash as the file crosses the desktop?

[mikeslr]

Hi 01micko, DaveS & All,

DaveS: I didn't experience a screen flash while dragging a file from one folder to another.

I tried to add mtsnapshotpaint to the tray using jwm configuration. Although x was restarted, and a .jwmrc-tray.bak now appears in / .jwmrc-tray did not contain any of the values I had input. This is a problem I've experienced in all recent puppies, although in some only the values relating to icon fail to be written, in which event the value appearing after icon= is simply "".

my workaround is to edit /.jwmrc by hand.

mikesLr

[James C]

Could somebody check this please: open two Rox windows and drag a file from one to the other. Does your screen flash as the file crosses the desktop?

Just moved a few mp4 files,didn't notice any screen flash here.Everything appears normal.

[DaveS]

Hi 01micko, DaveS & All,

DaveS: I didn't experience a screen flash while dragging a file from one folder to another.

I tried to add mtsnapshotpaint to the tray using jwm configuration. Although x was restarted, and a .jwmrc-tray.bak now appears in / .jwmrc-tray did not contain any of the values I had input. This is a problem I've experienced in all recent puppies, although in some only the values relating to icon fail to be written, in which event the value appearing after icon= is simply "".

my workaround is to edit /.jwmrc by hand.

mikesLr

Mike... the JWM config gui has been broken for a long time. Thanks for the video check all... I wonder if it is because I have compositing effects enabled? Will disable it and check.

[DaveS]

Yes, it only happens with xcompmgr enabled. BUM! I like my drop shaddows