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Woof Woof Brysche · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 35

Barry Kauler = GOD

Béèm · Posted: Sun 09 May 2010, 18:27 Post subject:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Fresh frugal install of 117 with a new save file on my trusty P3 test box. Used xorgwizard to get my desired 1024x768 resolution......no problem with the drive icon alignment. Partition sizes are correct on mouseover of drive icons.
Used SNS for my internet connection, worked fine and persisted through 4 reboots. Smile

Installed Firefox, Pwidgets and Htop with Quickpet without incident as well.

More testing...................... Laughing

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Fresh frugal installation of lupu-117. As with lupu-116, installed a good sample of the pets and sfs using Quickpet, all are working great. Installed gnome-games with the ppm. Also installed Barry's latest nvidia driver using Quickpet and it’s working great. As usual, I'm using zigbert's DuDE which is also working great.

Same problems as before with misaligned drive icons on reboot after creating a save file and selecting sfs with bootmanager, and the minor problem with CUPS-PDF not printing graphics to a pdf file.

Quickpet did give one problem, not previously noticed, pressing the update button, while Amarok was playing music, killed the sound and placed a “Please Wait ...” notice at the top of the Desktop. It also froze the desktop which would not respond to any key presses or mouse movement. Ctrl > Alt > Backspace followed by xwin restored operation. This problem was repeatable.

Other than checking above "Update"problem, just some cosmetic recommendations:

1. Move DuDE from “More Programs" and replace “RadeonHD Open Source Graphics Drive” in the Useful Pets tab with DuDE since it also appears in the new Drivers tab.
2. Make the new “lucid_puppygrey1024x768.jpg” desktop playdayz discovered default.

Kudos,
Jim Very Happy

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Been running 117 pretty hard for several hours, and numerous reboots, and the time shown has been incorrect once or twice. Reboot once and the time would be wrong, correct it and then it may be right for 2 or 3 reboots.......no pattern that I can detect.

Otherwise, its been pretty smooth sailing........ Smile

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Jim

I'd love to put the DuDE in there but I was actually against putting Pwidgets in there . The reason is that in a month's time Pwidgets will be up to ver 3.0 and who knows where DuDE will be, maybe ver 1.0? of course wea re fully aware that the radeonhd driver is in there twice! We are looking at possible replacements. Thankfully Lobster came up with his old app LIT, which at least gives a direct link to the DuDE. Smile

playdayz..

The Java issue.. hmmm what to do? People are going to want java, no stopping them. Firefox is the only browser with the issue, and unfortunately it is the most popular. They should have fixed it by now, 3.6.3 has been out for awhile. I don't know if Barry has uploaded his 3.6.4 pet yet but apparently if a plugin app crashes it doesn't bring down the browser.

I'm reluctant to take it out, sure I'll update the link but I think java is one thing many people will demand.

Java works with 3.5 series firefox as far as I know. I will be investigating this more, as we don't have too many serious bugs left.

Cheers.

capoverde · Posted: Mon 10 May 2010, 04:10 Post subject:

Testing LuPu 117, just saw a typo in the dialog for CPU frequency scaling -- "OUIT" instead of "QUIT". BTW, in Puppy 4.2 WhoDo corrected a misspelling that the following Puppies still carry on - "take affect" instead of "take effect". The respective dialogs are in

/usr/sbin/eventmanager (2 instances)
/usr/local/jwmconfig2/jwmConfigMgr (1 instance)
/usr/local/jwmconfig2/taskbar (1 instance)
/usr/sbin/set-xftdpi (1 instance)

Having the net connection configured from the "First run" tab is fine; maybe the locale setting, requiring X to be restarted, would be better at the last place there.
Is the clock set automatically at startup? There's no timeserver entry in the main menu (some of my boxes often "forget" the right time).

LuPu is snappy and friendly, installing more apps has never been easier, Chromium is unbelievably fast: the overall Puppy experience gets more addictive than ever...

P123 · Posted: Mon 10 May 2010, 06:06 Post subject: Ubuntu themes?

Is there a way to get Ubuntu themes working in this puplet? I love the Ultimate Edition 2.6 theme but could not get it to work here, whereas wallpapers downloaded in a .deb file for another derivative of Ubuntu loaded into the backgrounds folder without any problem.

Béèm

Wow, hadn't realized the tittle was changed to 117.

Started as usual with pfix=ram.

Unfortunately the issues I had reported are still there.

1- desktop drive icons at 0GB after having, on the first run, configured the keyboard (and thus X), and when the desktop came back. Before doing this, the desktop drive icons had the correct size.

2- After running bootmanager to add my pidgin sfs and wine sfs, the desktop drive icons are misaligned when the desktop came up after the reboot. Up to this point they were correctly aligned.

3- I took the advantage of setting up the network with the added option in the first run. When rebooted, the configuration didn't persist. I redid the configuration, but at next boot, that configuration was 'lost'. I am speaking about the Simple Network Setup. But when I look into /etc/simple_network_setup/connections, the correct info is in the file. So it looks that this file isn't read at boot.

4- The /tmp directory still shows files from some 24 hours ago and specially the booxxxx.log files. So in case I have to diagnose something, I am not sure I have the correct information.

BarryK · Posted: Mon 10 May 2010, 06:49 Post subject:

Re 117 beta:

BarryK · Posted: Mon 10 May 2010, 06:55 Post subject:

darwinev0lved · Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 83

Has anybody managed to install Java on lupup 117?
I had little trouble installing jre-6u20-linux-i586.bin on, I think it was either lupup 114 or 115. Now when I try, the CPU maxes out and nothing actually happens.
I may try copying the files I made before as I've still got the savefile from the earlier lupup that i used.
Can't do any more testing until I get Java installed (need it for Open Office and related writing tasks)
Still have to boot with pfix=nox, but once in, all seems (from my limited testing) to be good.

Regards, Jon.

puppymartin · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 207 Location: The Netherlands

117: works great.
Maybe mentioned at one of the 53 pages in this thread, but you can select only once a file in Nathans Wallpaper:
Click on a file then apply and then you cannot click (select) another file.

(I saw my old puppy4.3 was there. I made a Lucid wallpaper to replace the 4.3)