Acer laptop backlight gets dimmer with each boot
Posted: Thu 07 Jan 2010, 22:02
Hi
As I have only a laptop since one year (Acer emachine with AMD64 2 GB RAM HD 160 GB, 2 USB plugs, no FD) I test and test one puppy after the next because all Puppy's beginning with 4.31 have the same bug and I hope to find one without the bug:
the backlight of the screen is not correctly managed and the screen become more dark after a few restart (with upup 4.54 is the screen completely black now ) and the special keys of laptop don't work to in- or decrease the brightness don't work
I see a problem in the kind how the developer of Puppy are working:
a/ I miss a crew of testing contributers with divers (difficult) hardware to test the new puplet's before more work is done with them. probably all new puplet's would have been without bug if puppy 4.31 would be tested correctly
b/ dark background picture are more imposant...
... but only if you can see somewhat . not all puplets offer the possibility to chance to white or light grey or really light blue background
Last demand: Swiss people produce a great number of new small Linux (actually SliTaz and Debris but it was more in the last years). I find, a reason is that existent distributions like Puppy don't give access to minimum commodity like keyboard configuration (the main keyboard configuration proposed in SliTaz is ch_fr !); you can't work so you cock your own solution... The ch-keyboard design is probably the map covering the most European languages! All West-European languages can be written about correctly with it excepted renversed Spanish question mark and one or two Danish signs. Possible special letters: with the signs äáàãã ç éêèë iíîìï ñ oóôòö ß uúûùüũ yýÿ !
And the internationaled US map would be better...
Thank you for the attention.
Bye
-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-
That problem is now really good solved by the publication of Quirky Linux 0.0.8, a very good new Linux! Thank you Barry for that development!
As usual we have now to find out which packages we can use in Quirky Linux 0.0.8, and I will try to give as follow some indications about my experience with some existent packages for other distributions used with Quirky 0.0.8.
My first tested download is following:
BROWSER
SEAMONKEY 2.0
available here: http://www.filefactory.com/file/a07ecga ... 0-i486_pet
- it works immediately after installation without restart!
- it is possible to transfer you bookmarks from seamonkey 1.1.18 at the first start
- I use it also in a remastered version of quirky and I suppose it is from the same pet but I am not certain (the pet was already in my repertory "pets" on my harddisk)
INSTANT MESSENGER
I did spend a lot of time to try to use ayttm as proposed in the distribution!
But it will not work on my PC ; only IRC chat but that can Seamonkey! I don't need an extra IRC chat tool at all...
I did help me with instantbird. It is easy to install:
download in /usr/lib, click on it in the rox filer, mark all, and click on "extract"...
To start, rename ayttm in /usr/bin and install a link
ln -s /usr/lib/instantbird/instantbird /usr/bin/ayttm
and change the text in /usr/local/bin/defaultchat from
#!/bin/sh
exec ayttmshell "$@"
into
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/lib/instantbird/instandtbird "$@"
erase the downloaded file instantbird.....tar.bz2 in /usr/lib !
INTERNET PHONE
SKYPE
miss a library to start!
(you will see that if you install and try to start from the terminal emulator ! You find an clear error message in the terminal emulator! If you directly try to start by clicking on the appearing icon in the Menu, you see nothing: nothing happens...)
get the library package libXss-1.0.0.tar.gz
at http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/Libs/
and install it as you did do with instantbird
when finished, please move the file contained in the new subdirectory in /usr/lib (/urs/lib/libXss-1.0.0) directly into /usr/lib !
then install a skype package.
INTERNATIONALIZATION
I did insert following lines in [url]file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf[/url].
Option "XkbLayout" "ch,ro,in"
Option "XkbVariant" "fr,,"
Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
and mark the existent XkbLayout line with "#" at the line head,
and I did add fonts directories in /usr/fonts/default/TTF
I always load in that directory new subdirectories copied from Debian or Ubuntu with
- ttf-devanagari-fonts to write in hindi language
- freefont
- ttf-dejavu (large)
- ttf-liberation
- ttf-lucida
after that folling by restart X through the Menu
I can now write with keyboard layout swiss roman, indi and romanian and change it within the same document by shifting and pushing the ALT key at the same time!
MAJOR TOOLS FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES: Java, Flash, Wine, qemu:
download
- adobe_flash_player-10.0.22.87.pet
- java-1.6u17.pet
- wine-1.1.23.pet
- qemu-0.91.pet
qemu usage:
Short instruction for the usage of qemu (adapted to play old windows 95 games):
- http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... =&ie=UTF-8
OPEN OFFICE
as AbiWord makes errors if writing in complex languages (for ex. Hindi; AbiWord don't write correctly the short signs marked using the "virama" for example in the word "hindustani" itself, where the first "n" and the "s" have to be shorted) I did spend a long time to find, download and install diverse existing PET-packages. but I did find a SFS-file on my hard disk with a development version of OO-3.2.0 being free of above error!
you will find the download information at the food of following wiki page:
http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy ... fice_suite
and the installation's instructions on this page:
http://www.puppylinux.org/news/releases ... -puppy-430
after the first start of OO, you have to set up the OO-system for writing in CLT (complex language mode) if you want to do that!
CLT usage:
- > tools >> options >>> language settings >>>> languages
at the food of the little window mark:
- enabled for Complex Text Layout (CLT) and enter your wished CLT-language!
-
As I have only a laptop since one year (Acer emachine with AMD64 2 GB RAM HD 160 GB, 2 USB plugs, no FD) I test and test one puppy after the next because all Puppy's beginning with 4.31 have the same bug and I hope to find one without the bug:
the backlight of the screen is not correctly managed and the screen become more dark after a few restart (with upup 4.54 is the screen completely black now ) and the special keys of laptop don't work to in- or decrease the brightness don't work
I see a problem in the kind how the developer of Puppy are working:
a/ I miss a crew of testing contributers with divers (difficult) hardware to test the new puplet's before more work is done with them. probably all new puplet's would have been without bug if puppy 4.31 would be tested correctly
b/ dark background picture are more imposant...
... but only if you can see somewhat . not all puplets offer the possibility to chance to white or light grey or really light blue background
Last demand: Swiss people produce a great number of new small Linux (actually SliTaz and Debris but it was more in the last years). I find, a reason is that existent distributions like Puppy don't give access to minimum commodity like keyboard configuration (the main keyboard configuration proposed in SliTaz is ch_fr !); you can't work so you cock your own solution... The ch-keyboard design is probably the map covering the most European languages! All West-European languages can be written about correctly with it excepted renversed Spanish question mark and one or two Danish signs. Possible special letters: with the signs äáàãã ç éêèë iíîìï ñ oóôòö ß uúûùüũ yýÿ !
And the internationaled US map would be better...
Thank you for the attention.
Bye
-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-
That problem is now really good solved by the publication of Quirky Linux 0.0.8, a very good new Linux! Thank you Barry for that development!
As usual we have now to find out which packages we can use in Quirky Linux 0.0.8, and I will try to give as follow some indications about my experience with some existent packages for other distributions used with Quirky 0.0.8.
My first tested download is following:
BROWSER
SEAMONKEY 2.0
available here: http://www.filefactory.com/file/a07ecga ... 0-i486_pet
- it works immediately after installation without restart!
- it is possible to transfer you bookmarks from seamonkey 1.1.18 at the first start
- I use it also in a remastered version of quirky and I suppose it is from the same pet but I am not certain (the pet was already in my repertory "pets" on my harddisk)
INSTANT MESSENGER
I did spend a lot of time to try to use ayttm as proposed in the distribution!
But it will not work on my PC ; only IRC chat but that can Seamonkey! I don't need an extra IRC chat tool at all...
I did help me with instantbird. It is easy to install:
download in /usr/lib, click on it in the rox filer, mark all, and click on "extract"...
To start, rename ayttm in /usr/bin and install a link
ln -s /usr/lib/instantbird/instantbird /usr/bin/ayttm
and change the text in /usr/local/bin/defaultchat from
#!/bin/sh
exec ayttmshell "$@"
into
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/lib/instantbird/instandtbird "$@"
erase the downloaded file instantbird.....tar.bz2 in /usr/lib !
INTERNET PHONE
SKYPE
miss a library to start!
(you will see that if you install and try to start from the terminal emulator ! You find an clear error message in the terminal emulator! If you directly try to start by clicking on the appearing icon in the Menu, you see nothing: nothing happens...)
get the library package libXss-1.0.0.tar.gz
at http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/Libs/
and install it as you did do with instantbird
when finished, please move the file contained in the new subdirectory in /usr/lib (/urs/lib/libXss-1.0.0) directly into /usr/lib !
then install a skype package.
INTERNATIONALIZATION
I did insert following lines in [url]file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf[/url].
Option "XkbLayout" "ch,ro,in"
Option "XkbVariant" "fr,,"
Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
and mark the existent XkbLayout line with "#" at the line head,
and I did add fonts directories in /usr/fonts/default/TTF
I always load in that directory new subdirectories copied from Debian or Ubuntu with
- ttf-devanagari-fonts to write in hindi language
- freefont
- ttf-dejavu (large)
- ttf-liberation
- ttf-lucida
after that folling by restart X through the Menu
I can now write with keyboard layout swiss roman, indi and romanian and change it within the same document by shifting and pushing the ALT key at the same time!
MAJOR TOOLS FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES: Java, Flash, Wine, qemu:
download
- adobe_flash_player-10.0.22.87.pet
- java-1.6u17.pet
- wine-1.1.23.pet
- qemu-0.91.pet
qemu usage:
Short instruction for the usage of qemu (adapted to play old windows 95 games):
- http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... =&ie=UTF-8
OPEN OFFICE
as AbiWord makes errors if writing in complex languages (for ex. Hindi; AbiWord don't write correctly the short signs marked using the "virama" for example in the word "hindustani" itself, where the first "n" and the "s" have to be shorted) I did spend a long time to find, download and install diverse existing PET-packages. but I did find a SFS-file on my hard disk with a development version of OO-3.2.0 being free of above error!
you will find the download information at the food of following wiki page:
http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy ... fice_suite
and the installation's instructions on this page:
http://www.puppylinux.org/news/releases ... -puppy-430
after the first start of OO, you have to set up the OO-system for writing in CLT (complex language mode) if you want to do that!
CLT usage:
- > tools >> options >>> language settings >>>> languages
at the food of the little window mark:
- enabled for Complex Text Layout (CLT) and enter your wished CLT-language!
-