Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Mark - I finally got it loaded, but there are serious problems with the keyboard. Neither the option for the UK nor (save us all!) the US are responding correctly, possibly not loading properly. The numerals are only obtainable by holding down the shift key and I couldn't set my network because I couldn't find the full stop (point, period). There were a lot of strange symbol keys present, but these didn't seem to correspond to any recognisable European or Asian script. This is fairly fundamental, probably meriting an incremental version issue rather than a patch? Indeed, I cannot d/l any patches until it's fixed.
[ If you need a selection of UK keyboards, let me know how many! I may have a French one somewhere, too. ]

Otherwise it is totally brilliant and you deserve a lot of congratulations. Glad to see the TuxRacer has become de rigeur at last - apart from Solitaire, and this one I don't know why small distro writers bother with some of the other cr*p listed under their token games offerings. Waste of space in many cases.

But, but, but - once you manage to refine and debug everything, I would strongly advise that you reinstate the full install to HD option. This one really is worth it. This facility should make it viable on an even larger range of HW.

MU · Posted: Thu 18 Jan 2007, 04:24 Post subject:

strange, I ran it on a notebook with US-layout yesterday.
Will investigate later, must leave now.
Anyone else has this problem?
Mark

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Stranger and stranger. Seems to be some machine-specific issues, possibly associated with memory capacity? My biggest, fastest machine runs OK with everything loaded including KDE, but lesser beasts seem to give a range of different issues, including k/b mis-function, lock-ups, etc. Initial selections can give some strange behavior, too, but not reproducibly. Await the results from additional testers. But it's still terrific and rivals the major distros now.
In the meantime, it would be helpful to have an assessment of the minimum memory requirement for the full monty, please.

MU · Posted: Thu 18 Jan 2007, 08:14 Post subject:

I ran it on a notebook with I think 256 MB (don't have it here).
It ran fine, but I used a 500 MB swap-partition.
Older Muppy-versions freezed the computer without swap, when I ran OpenOffice.
(when the memory-bar in Icedock reached maximum).

So on low-memory machines, a swap-partition seems to be a "must".

Mark

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Thanks for that, Mark. In the interests of speed of testing, I loosened all the HD cradles to run the CD, so no swap. Assumed those machines had enough main memory. Perhaps not. Bigger, does, of course, bring its own penalties! Perhaps a warning is needed in the initial boot screen so that new converts don't get a bad impression?

polux · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Switzerland

Im running Muppy 007 from CD in 2 laptops. One is a Compaq Presario, AMD Athlon XP2000, 500 RAM, no Hard Disk and with a US Keyboard, the other is a IBM T41 with German keyboard.

No problems with the keyboard layouts in both. Everything works Ok. Smile

I love my Muppy Twisted Evil

jam · Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 245

Mark,

Can't see Muppy007 service packs when using the PSI installer. I can install manually so it's no big deal, but I'm spoiled using PSI! Smile

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Apart from laptops, which I tend to avoid, there's a simple answer to using the full version of Mark's masterpiece. Fit one older CD drive to read and boot from and fit a more modern DVD/CD-RW/DVD-RW for running, saving, watching, burning stuff. Ideally, choose an older drive made after ~1997 with a speed >x20 if you want to boot to a CD-RW/DVD-RW image, but almost anything will boot to a CD-R. Nobody wants old CD drives any more so they can be canabilised from the local skip/tip/dumpster; around 50% are likely to be still working!!

jam · Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 245

Mark,

Would it be possible to auto-detect whether to use Xvesa or Xorg depending on the graphics card? There are problems using Xvesa with Intel chipsets, yet Xorg works just fine so I was wondering if it would be possible to revert to Xorg if an Xvesa functionality probe fails.

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1059 Location: Vienna Austria

Hi Mark,

Congratulations again on a great version of puppy. It is running very fast on my 400MHz processor with 192MB RAM and 500MB swapfile. Faster than Puppy 2.13. and also KDE is extremely usable for the first time ever on this PC

I wonder what I am doing wrong here with the icewin trayicons. Even if I associate an application-specific icon with the shortcuts contained in the /root/trayicons folder, they do not appear in the icewin tray even after having been refreshed using the >> and << buttons. Not an urgent problem. Have a good day! Very Happy

Best regards

tronkel (Jack)

MU · Posted: Fri 19 Jan 2007, 13:03 Post subject:

you must right-click the ">>" button.
This opens a drag-area (right-click to close it).
Drag programs on it, then left-click on ">>" and then "<<".
Mark

primalphunk · Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 20

Looks good but like Sage I have been unable to get the correct keyboard map(US in my case) to load.

peace,
James

MU · Posted: Fri 19 Jan 2007, 16:08 Post subject:

ah I see, I think it the keyboard-wizard has a bug with UTF-settings.

Please type in a consolewindow:

export LANG=C
input-wizard

If it works then, I'll add it to the servicepack.
Mark

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1059 Location: Vienna Austria

MU · Posted: Fri 19 Jan 2007, 17:07 Post subject:

ah I see, it uses the globicons from rox 1.2.

Workaround: edit:
/usr/local/MU-rox-traybuttons/resource/run-mu_rox_traybuttons

replace line 14: