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rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1317 Location: Maine, USA

dougal, thanks for including the "dubious Toshiba HW" fix. However, one of the models that uses the MagicGraph video adapter has a screen size of 800x600, but does not indicate that in its ddcprobe output. (The larger-screen models appear to also support 800x600 but omit the "timing:" statement.)

In one of my early versions of the fix I added a line to append a "timing: 800x600..." statement to the ddcprobe.txt file, but only if one was not already present. That was because the Trident adapters do include that line, so no need to duplicate it.
Richard

Dougal · Posted: Sun 09 Dec 2007, 08:55 Post subject:

Dougal · Posted: Sun 09 Dec 2007, 09:05 Post subject:

Dougal · Posted: Sun 09 Dec 2007, 09:13 Post subject: Re: Toshiba fix enhancement

Dougal · Posted: Sun 09 Dec 2007, 09:28 Post subject:

I've got here a couple of little updates people might want to test.

- I've updated jwmconfig so it (hopefully) works ok with adding/removing etc. panel buttons. I've also added to it a dialog for modifying the clock format (but I need feedback on the offered formats -- any more suggestions?).

- I've updated the grubconfig script and the installer, so hopefully it would work ok with a frugal install (when grub isn't previously installed).

pdrito · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 50

Hi Dougal,

I load Pup214R v1.00 with pfix=debug command.
The following message come:
"Could not find kernel image for pfix=debug"

After that, the normal installations messages comes,
and the installations stop after the message.

mounting 2007-12-10-01-13 on /pup_rw ......... failed

------------------------------
Mounting the CD we can see all the normal files and directorie:
boot.cat
boot.msg
f2
initrd.gz
isolinux.bin
isolinux.config
pup_214.sfs
zdrv_214.sfs
vmlinuz
2007-12-10-01-13 [directory]
inside directory:
sub-directories: dev-etc-lib-root-usr

The only strange thing is on this usr sub-directory:
inside usr I found the file X11R7/bin/X , this X is a red colour filename of a yellow triangle icon with an " ¡ " on it. (meaning missing item ?).

Ok , that was I found till now.

pdrito.

Dougal · Posted: Mon 10 Dec 2007, 09:07 Post subject: Re: multisession issue

Dougal · Posted: Mon 10 Dec 2007, 09:13 Post subject: Re: Toshiba fix enhancement

Dougal · Posted: Mon 10 Dec 2007, 16:49 Post subject: Re: multisession issue

pdrito · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 50

Shame on me. !!!

You are absolutly right: I forget to put puppy on the sentence puppy pfix=debug

So,
with the puppy pfix=debug command I found:

PUPMODE is :12: [yes , 12 and not 13. I checked 3 times]
Coping /pup_214R.sfs to tmpfs ...done
/mnt/dev_save2007-12-10-01-13 No such file or directory
etc etc.
e2fsch 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
ext2fs_check_if_mount No such file or directory
etc. etc.

Hope this info are good to you.
And sorry again for my mistake.

pdrito.

Dougal · Posted: Tue 11 Dec 2007, 09:35 Post subject:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

I have to say KUDOs to you on the desktop drive/dev icons and the mount/unmount that is part of them. Compared to Pmount and MUT, it just flat flys in mounting a drive or partition.
My question here is:
Will there be a pet of this addition that can be made available to users of other versions of puppy that would like to add it?
I have pup214r installed (full hard drive install) on an OLD Compaq notebook 133mhz, 1.2gig hard dirve, no eth0, no wifi, no CD drive.
But It is running in 32 megs physical ram!
Just thought you would like to know!

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 944 Location: England

Do we actually need both:

Menu > setup > setup wizards > etc

and

Menu > setup> wizard wizard > etc

since the end result is essentially the same?

Also, Menu > system > Xpdq printer management

gets you to the Xpdq gui, but Printer > Add printer does not do anything. It only works if you come via a setup wizard. A bit of a downer if you try this approach first!

Gerry