Anyone Tried Woof Yet?
Anyone Tried Woof Yet?
Has anyone tried Woof yet? Or is it too soon to download it to see what it looks like?
Gerry
Gerry
Yes.
Boots like Puppy but I typed
woof pfix=ram
Puppy type menus.
Plain background.
Seamonkey works fine....actualy pretty quick.
I can mount the drives....but read only.
I forget how you change this in Ubuntu.
This has to be a definite Must Do fix from BK.....please.
Playing MP3 seems to be an issue for me,
but Youtube worked fine.
Overall....extremely fast.
Chris.
Boots like Puppy but I typed
woof pfix=ram
Puppy type menus.
Plain background.
Seamonkey works fine....actualy pretty quick.
I can mount the drives....but read only.
I forget how you change this in Ubuntu.
This has to be a definite Must Do fix from BK.....please.
Playing MP3 seems to be an issue for me,
but Youtube worked fine.
Overall....extremely fast.
Chris.
Woof
Per Barry's Blog, Woof is still in the pre-developent stage.
He has requested that if you down load it and find a problem you can wait until the offical release and try it or you can find a way to fix the problem and let him know what it took to do the fix.
He has requested that if you down load it and find a problem you can wait until the offical release and try it or you can find a way to fix the problem and let him know what it took to do the fix.
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Didn't recognise my Nvidia Geforce 7050M video card and no fall back to vesa (hooray)* So it did not run despite running xorgwizard and editing and tweaking etc
*Vesa not possible if using xfce
Should I try it on another machine?
m m m [pondering cructacean] . . .
OK will try on a laptop and report back
*Vesa not possible if using xfce
Should I try it on another machine?
m m m [pondering cructacean] . . .
OK will try on a laptop and report back
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I'm posting this reply from Woof with Firefox 3 (sorry, I just don't like Seamonkey). I also have OpenOffice 3 running from the .sfs that someone posted on here. My outdoor weather station software is running just fine.
Puppy user dinky prepared a .pet of the nVidia 173 driver that my old Geforce 5500 uses. So I'm not having any of the crashes that the lack of that driver used to cause me in other Puppies.
Overall, an excellent alpha.
A couple of tips: Barry mentions somewhere that the XFCE shutdown isn't set up yet. So you have to use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to exit X and then enter either "reboot" or "poweroff."
If you enter "wallpaper" in the terminal you'll get the program that gives you a large choice of wallpapers.
Lane
Puppy user dinky prepared a .pet of the nVidia 173 driver that my old Geforce 5500 uses. So I'm not having any of the crashes that the lack of that driver used to cause me in other Puppies.
Overall, an excellent alpha.
A couple of tips: Barry mentions somewhere that the XFCE shutdown isn't set up yet. So you have to use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to exit X and then enter either "reboot" or "poweroff."
If you enter "wallpaper" in the terminal you'll get the program that gives you a large choice of wallpapers.
Lane
This is not always true. I reported earlier that, on some chipsets (eg SiS), CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will immediately shut down all power to the board. This is curious indeed, because these are the same boards for which the conventional shutdown procedures also fails, leaving one at a prompt.you have to use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to exit X and then enter either "reboot" or "poweroff."
BK showed absolutely no interest in these fairly significant features which I would rank as requiring priority attention since they do not occur with any other distros (apart from those based on Puppy). Great opportunity for one of the coding gurus (like Dougal, tempo or pakt?) to grasp this nettle, perhaps.
Some Experiences with Woof
I tried Woof on two machines: A newer HP with 1G RAM and my old Gateway (400mhtz, 256 RAM). The HP booted up fine, went to the internet in a flash, and generally performed well, EXCEPT
1. Mouse wheel didn't work for scrolling
2. NTFS HD was read only.
The older Gateway missed the lack of VESA. I finally got a screen at 800/600 resolution, not really satisfactory.
I like many things about this distro, but I'd better wait for the beta.
1. Mouse wheel didn't work for scrolling
2. NTFS HD was read only.
The older Gateway missed the lack of VESA. I finally got a screen at 800/600 resolution, not really satisfactory.
I like many things about this distro, but I'd better wait for the beta.
Woof
Did a full install in an empty partition.
gxine doesnt run from desktop icon or menu.
gparted doesnt run beyond initial dialog box
wvdial responds with failed to connect /usr/bin/pupdial line 528 wvdial command not found.
I`m sure there are a lot more but havn`t looked as I couldnt get on the net.
gxine doesnt run from desktop icon or menu.
gparted doesnt run beyond initial dialog box
wvdial responds with failed to connect /usr/bin/pupdial line 528 wvdial command not found.
I`m sure there are a lot more but havn`t looked as I couldnt get on the net.
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I fixed part of gxine...
go to /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.11/
right click on libmozjs.so
>File 'libmozjs.so'
Link...
change
/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.11/libmozjs.so <--the file it has
to
/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.11/libmozjs.so.0d <---the file its looking for
you can solve these errors by running programs from the command line and the using pfind to find the first part of the file... it is a really common problem
still getting errors though - I may need to manually create some blank files that it is looking for in /root
go to /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.11/
right click on libmozjs.so
>File 'libmozjs.so'
Link...
change
/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.11/libmozjs.so <--the file it has
to
/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.11/libmozjs.so.0d <---the file its looking for
you can solve these errors by running programs from the command line and the using pfind to find the first part of the file... it is a really common problem
still getting errors though - I may need to manually create some blank files that it is looking for in /root
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].
gxine
Thanks technosaurus the fix in gxine worked, but when i clicked off - without testing any music or video it came up with segmentation fault.
I tried pfind, it worked after I changed permissions - reinitialised. I found many instances of pfind files in /tmp, I suppose thats normal.
I tried pfind, it worked after I changed permissions - reinitialised. I found many instances of pfind files in /tmp, I suppose thats normal.
Yes, I've been playing with woof... and Pwidgets
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Did a manual frugal install to my Armada 3500 (P300, 192mb), but couldn't get past Xorgwizard - 'Test' kept throwing me back to the same screen again. Not had any problems with xorg (1024x768 LCD) on this machine with any other Puppies from series 2,3 or 4.
I noted that keyboard and locale selection seemed quite sluggish for some reason.
I noted that keyboard and locale selection seemed quite sluggish for some reason.
I can mount the drives....but read only.
How do you change this in Ubuntu.
I've read it somewhere on Whirlpool....but yawn ...yawn...
BK did everything for me in Puppy before.
Well Barry...3 days into 2009 and I'm unhappy already.
Might hop on a plane to Melbourne and give my
2 cents of ungratefulness....Ah! feeling better already.
Chris.
How do you change this in Ubuntu.
I've read it somewhere on Whirlpool....but yawn ...yawn...
BK did everything for me in Puppy before.
Well Barry...3 days into 2009 and I'm unhappy already.
Might hop on a plane to Melbourne and give my
2 cents of ungratefulness....Ah! feeling better already.
Chris.
Can't refresh menu?
I have added openoffice-2.2.0.sfs in the BootManager and rebooted but there is no option to refresh the menu to include OpenOffice. Can this be done from the command line? Or is there a file I can edit?
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sometimes I click on sfs and extract the files into a folder and make a pet then install the pet. That might work.
ttuuxxx
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
openoffice
The simple workaround is to open the OpenOffice folder (usually in /opt), go to /program and drag "soffice" to the desktop. You can then edit that shortcut or set an icon for it.Terryphi wrote:I have added openoffice-2.2.0.sfs in the BootManager and rebooted but there is no option to refresh the menu to include OpenOffice. Can this be done from the command line? Or is there a file I can edit?
Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? [url=http://puppylinux.info/topic/freeoffice-2012-sfs]Get the sfs (English only)[/url].
Re: openoffice
Thanks, raffy. That fixed it. I haven't found the OO icon yet but that is a minor issue.raffy wrote: The simple workaround is to open the OpenOffice folder (usually in /opt), go to /program and drag "soffice" to the desktop. You can then edit that shortcut or set an icon for it.
Thanks for the suggestion ttuuxxx but I need to use the sfs for more than one pup.ttuuxxx wrote: sometimes I click on sfs and extract the files into a folder and make a pet then install the pet. That might work.
Try this .pet. I stole the files (and renamed 'em) from my Mandriva installation. Works for me, read, write, delete, so far so good.
Hopefully will solve the NTFS read write dillemma!
REMOVED .pet
Hopefully will solve the NTFS read write dillemma!
REMOVED .pet
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