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Re: Inferno 3.0b

#91 Post by ttuuxxx »

TrailerTrash wrote:I am sure that I will like this edition of FH and am now downloading it but would like to know if this is the 3.00 or 3.01 version. If it is the older should I wait for corrections/updates when Inferno 3.01 is ready?

tks
well its based on 3.0 build, I added all the updates to make it identical to 3.01
but as the next "Inferno" is in the planning stage and could use some feedback:)
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#92 Post by earlytv »

I have Inferno installed on a Intel D201GLY. I use 1024x768 which like all Puppy had noise, dots, on the screen, so I installed the Intel sis_drv.so driver. I did this right after install.
No more noise but with this driver way larger than orig I dont know what else if anything it did? ( It does have a small black boarder all around screen that was not present before?)
I see screens that are way wider than 1024x768 and need to scroll side to side and then next screen that fits 1024x768 with no scroll? I would like if possible to have no scroll side to side?
Is this possible?

Next Xsane dont seem to work? Click then nothing happens?

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#93 Post by ttuuxxx »

earlytv wrote:I have Inferno installed on a Intel D201GLY. I use 1024x768 which like all Puppy had noise, dots, on the screen, so I installed the Intel sis_drv.so driver. I did this right after install.
No more noise but with this driver way larger than orig I dont know what else if anything it did? ( It does have a small black boarder all around screen that was not present before?)
I see screens that are way wider than 1024x768 and need to scroll side to side and then next screen that fits 1024x768 with no scroll? I would like if possible to have no scroll side to side?
Is this possible?

Next Xsane dont seem to work? Click then nothing happens?
Hi earl

Basically Xorg and xvesa work, The problems you are having is a regular thing on puppy with some hardware, I would run the xorg setup again, then when its finished the test, hit ctrl+backspace and the select "Use Generic Driver" try those drivers, they seem to work best for me.
I never tried xsane but you could always try to reinstall the original packages over the top of those.
http://www.puppylinux.ca/pet3/xsane-0.994.pet
and
http://www.puppylinux.ca/pet3/sane-1.0.18.pet

plus if you need anymore of the ordinal packages you can get them here
http://www.puppylinux.ca/pet3/

if you need anymore help just ask
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can't reboot or shutdown

#94 Post by kinjeng »

hi tuxx i have instaled firehydrant on my pc
after i make a custumization on it i have a problem
it can't reboot or shutdown
the error message is cat: /tmp/oldmousedevice : no such file or direktory

and it back to icewm again

i allready work arround and copy that from live cd or from fresh instalation on ather pc its not work , and the file oldmousedevice it's gone again !!

walah i wasted 2 day for wondering why it can be, alltough i can install ea new one , but it botherin me so much till i can't sleep well haha..

thx

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Re: can't reboot or shutdown

#95 Post by ttuuxxx »

kinjeng wrote:hi tuxx i have instaled firehydrant on my pc
after i make a custumization on it i have a problem
it can't reboot or shutdown
the error message is cat: /tmp/oldmousedevice : no such file or direktory

and it back to icewm again

i allready work arround and copy that from live cd or from fresh instalation on ather pc its not work , and the file oldmousedevice it's gone again !!

walah i wasted 2 day for wondering why it can be, alltough i can install ea new one , but it botherin me so much till i can't sleep well haha..

thx
Its not a Fire Hydrant problem its a puppy problem read this
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=166683
if your remastering puppy don't use dougal remaster script, use the puppy one, Dougal remaster script in puppy 3 series is broken.
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#96 Post by kinjeng »

no tuxxx its my problm i havent remaster it yet

this morning i found it
the problm is coz i set the partition and mount like this

hda1 swap
hda2 ext2
hda3 ext3

i try to saperate "/ " and "/root"

my fstab is

/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda3 /root ext2 defaults 0 0


and it works , but...

maybe at shutdown reboot script its unmount /root first so it can excute xinitrc scrit.. isn't it?? i don't i didn't try yet

after i move again /root to normal instalation its back normaly..

maybe i need think twice to do that again :roll:

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Great puppy!

#97 Post by recycler »

Thanks for this - obviously lots of hard work gone into this! I did a frugal install of inferno on my test machine today and got it to boot up from grub so I was really pleased! (btw ubuntu is the only way I can manage to get grub setup but it works...). I am using it as my main puppy - really like the choice of additions and the overall look is very polished and appealing.

Now trying the office pup version on a 633 mhz HP desktop, 125MB RAM. Runs fine. What I would like to see most is increased screen resolutions. 800x600 is ok and the HP can do it with xvesa. However, trying it on a Dell Dimension 2400 can only get 640x480. Personally (until the next version is released) I will be using this on my two PIII 512mb machines at home and it runs fast on both of those with a high screen resolution...mmm...they both have FX5200 graphics cards which is why (lol).

So anyway - really impressed and will let you know more when I have played around with it a bit. Now...off to see of I can revive the ex windows HP desktop with a HD install of fire hydrant!

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#98 Post by ttuuxxx »

kinjeng wrote:no tuxxx its my problm i havent remaster it yet

this morning i found it
the problm is coz i set the partition and mount like this

hda1 swap
hda2 ext2
hda3 ext3

i try to saperate "/ " and "/root"

my fstab is

/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda3 /root ext2 defaults 0 0


and it works , but...

maybe at shutdown reboot script its unmount /root first so it can excute xinitrc scrit.. isn't it?? i don't i didn't try yet

after i move again /root to normal instalation its back normaly..

maybe i need think twice to do that again :roll:
Well it sounds like your figuring it out, Thats excellent, Keep posting your findings, that way it might help so other user who runs into a problem similar to yours:)
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Re: Great puppy!

#99 Post by ttuuxxx »

recycler wrote:Thanks for this - obviously lots of hard work gone into this! I did a frugal install of inferno on my test machine today and got it to boot up from grub so I was really pleased! (btw ubuntu is the only way I can manage to get grub setup but it works...). I am using it as my main puppy - really like the choice of additions and the overall look is very polished and appealing.

Now trying the office pup version on a 633 mhz HP desktop, 125MB RAM. Runs fine. What I would like to see most is increased screen resolutions. 800x600 is ok and the HP can do it with xvesa. However, trying it on a Dell Dimension 2400 can only get 640x480. Personally (until the next version is released) I will be using this on my two PIII 512mb machines at home and it runs fast on both of those with a high screen resolution...mmm...they both have FX5200 graphics cards which is why (lol).

So anyway - really impressed and will let you know more when I have played around with it a bit. Now...off to see of I can revive the ex windows HP desktop with a HD install of fire hydrant!
Your welcome, I always like a compliment :)
, One of the problems with it is K3B it needs some extra libraries, It shows you in the setup or preferences.
You can go to wwww.linuxpackages.net and missing slackwarec 12 packages and just extract them to / (the directory above root.)
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Inferno

#100 Post by puppyluvr »

:D Hello :D
@Ttuuxxx,
Finally got around to trying the Inferno CD I burned..
Very nice!! :D Could you have squeezed in one more program?? :D Or another Fire Plug?? LOL..But seriously,
all this and functional too...And fast...Love all the extra "Ttuuxxx touches") ......A guy could learn a lot from you... 8) All I could really find to add was Hotpup...
And Pimpzilla....what can I say.... :D

..........This is a lesson on how a Distro should be........


...Puppyluvr,,, :D
@ how do you like the background? :D

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#101 Post by ttuuxxx »

I like the background a lot, If you can upload it to imageshack or send it via PM, I'll use it in the next release :) Anything you would like to in the next release you leave a message in the Fire Hydrant Forum located at http://ttuuxxx.com/chitchat/index.php?topic=5.0
also thanks for the compliments :)
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Shut down issues

#102 Post by puppyluvr »

:D Hello Ttuuxxx :D
Ran Inferno for 3-4 hours..Worked great..Changed very little, hotpup and background..
When I tried shut-down ..Blank screen...no CLI..nothing except the CD drive winding up
to warp speed, (it did not burn a save, I checked) Had to cold kill to get out..
When I reboot Inferno, I will try various shutdown methods and post what works(or not).

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#103 Post by Colonel Panic »

I've just installed Featherweight and it's working well apart from a lockup when I overloaded it. It seems to be a good bridge between Puppy 2 and Puppy 4, with some good themes and visual effects as part of the package.

Thanks and well done for a fine effort.

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#104 Post by ttuuxxx »

Colonel Panic wrote:I've just installed Featherweight and it's working well apart from a lockup when I overloaded it. It seems to be a good bridge between Puppy 2 and Puppy 4, with some good themes and visual effects as part of the package.

Thanks and well done for a fine effort.
Glad you like it, There will be more 'Fire Hydrants' In the near future, just after 4.2, I have a couple of 'living water' builds to do. Then comes the next 'Fire Hydrant' Series :)
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#105 Post by Colonel Panic »

Thanks. Sadly, it locked up again and for no obvious reason so at the moment I'm back using puppyluvr's Icecat 3.01, though using the savefile I had from Featherweight. I'm not saying it was the fault of Featherweight but so far (3 hours' later) this combo hasn't crashed or locked up, so I'm sticking with it for the time being.

I've had lockups in several other distros I've used. It's always the same thing; the caps lock and scroll lock lights start flashing in unison and nothing works at all so I have to switch the computer off and start again.

The one it hasn't happened with yet is Lighthouse, for some reason (and even tazoc admits he doesn't know why). I'm going to try some others soon to see how they work out in this regard.

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#106 Post by Tedwood »

I would have tried to find the answer in this thread but I see the latest reply is over a year old, others much older, so I'll just ask.

I just took your puppy for a walk, (fire hydrant 3.01) found on the pulets page, thinking it is the latest offering.

It is great, really quick and has lot's of useful things, unbelievable for it's size. The only trouble is I would really like to recommend this to others based on the feature list and performance, but I have quite a big problem with the icons and wallpaper on starting it.

Half of the icons are just "cogs" and you can't tell what they do if you don't recognise the name, and also the wallpaper seems eratic, sometimes blank, sometimes dark, and sometimes clouds.

Maybe it's me not doing something, but I can't figure it out. Could anyone tell me if this is a known problem, whether I could get a different version that doesn't do this, or whether it's just plain old user error.

thanks in advance

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#107 Post by ttuuxxx »

Tedwood wrote:I would have tried to find the answer in this thread but I see the latest reply is over a year old, others much older, so I'll just ask.

I just took your puppy for a walk, (fire hydrant 3.01) found on the pulets page, thinking it is the latest offering.

It is great, really quick and has lot's of useful things, unbelievable for it's size. The only trouble is I would really like to recommend this to others based on the feature list and performance, but I have quite a big problem with the icons and wallpaper on starting it.

Half of the icons are just "cogs" and you can't tell what they do if you don't recognise the name, and also the wallpaper seems eratic, sometimes blank, sometimes dark, and sometimes clouds.

Maybe it's me not doing something, but I can't figure it out. Could anyone tell me if this is a known problem, whether I could get a different version that doesn't do this, or whether it's just plain old user error.


wow that sounds strange, I never had that issue with it, if you give me say 2 days, I'll have another look at that release, I'm almost finished helping out 4.2 and it might be released this weekend. So after that my time is free once again.
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#108 Post by Tedwood »

Thanks for the reply ttuuxxx, however I think it was user error - something to do with files/folders from another install of 4.1.2 on my drive, which I have got rid of and the problem seems to be cured too.

It's looking good now, but has rather too many icons and menu items for my needs, I will try to find out how I can lose some of those in the fullness of time.

The only problem I have now is Gparted doesn't deem to work - it just gets stuck scanning for ages, it finds drives eventually after several minutes though

I wonder what's causing that, because it's the best tool I have found for the job, but I can't always wait for it when it seems like it's not working

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#109 Post by ttuuxxx »

Tedwood wrote:Thanks for the reply ttuuxxx, however I think it was user error - something to do with files/folders from another install of 4.1.2 on my drive, which I have got rid of and the problem seems to be cured too.

It's looking good now, but has rather too many icons and menu items for my needs, I will try to find out how I can lose some of those in the fullness of time.

The only problem I have now is Gparted doesn't deem to work - it just gets stuck scanning for ages, it finds drives eventually after several minutes though

I wonder what's causing that, because it's the best tool I have found for the job, but I can't always wait for it when it seems like it's not working
Ya gparted was like that, what you could do is update Gslapt, then search for gparted, and update it. It might just do the trick. :)
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#110 Post by Colonel Panic »

Colonel Panic wrote:Thanks. Sadly, it locked up again and for no obvious reason so at the moment I'm back using puppyluvr's Icecat 3.01, though using the savefile I had from Featherweight. I'm not saying it was the fault of Featherweight but so far (3 hours' later) this combo hasn't crashed or locked up, so I'm sticking with it for the time being.

I've had lockups in several other distros I've used. It's always the same thing; the caps lock and scroll lock lights start flashing in unison and nothing works at all so I have to switch the computer off and start again.

The one it hasn't happened with yet is Lighthouse, for some reason (and even tazoc admits he doesn't know why). I'm going to try some others soon to see how they work out in this regard.
Hi. I've added some more swap (now up to 796 MB) and tried Featherweight again yesterday, and so far it's been fine, no lockups at all. Just thought you'd want to know.

Thanks for all the hard work etc.

Regards,

CP .

(BTW, using Firepup too).

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