Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

looseSCREWorTWO · Posted: Fri 07 May 2010, 23:34 Post subject:

G'day all. I've got WINE working in Quirky. Downloaded Wine 1.1.39 Pet file from here (thanks green_dome Very Happy

):
http://solidfiles.com/d/1095f2ac507c69c942554c1377b22f3c
http://solidfiles.com/d/8f30de0791db9d1f2c71c3b81a58a151

Downloaded Gecko from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Wine%20Gecko/1.0.0/wine_gecko-1.0.0-x86.cab/download

Created folder /usr/share/wine/gecko and copied the gecko file in there. Opened a terminal, typed in "winefile" (without the quotes) and it worked !!! Easiest WINE installation, ever. No mucking-about with dependencies. They were all just there. If some one finds they ARE missing dependencies, they might find them in a Post by green_dome in this thread: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=398253

@rjbrewer - you're right - having that fsckme-err file is a good sign but it had me worried cos of that .err tacked onto the end of it. Thought it was an error

@rcrsn51 - you're right about the suggestive file-name

Béèm

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 08 May 2010, 05:21 Post subject:

@f00

1. "does xfe open the /tmp dir okay for you?"
Yes, it does, no sign of any problem.

2. "with text (fg) you can read"
Don't understand.
What does this mean?
What is (fg)?

3. "dead-full-black can be a troublesome choice at times for bg"
(a) Again, I don't understand, what is bg?
(b) In Lighthouse I use a black color scheme, but it isn't deep black, it sorta glows as though lit from the edges of the screen.
Looks really good.
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Quirky-100

A. I like the "doggy = Puppy" logo; has a "certain something" about it.

B. Quirky has been pretty trouble free = "just works".

C. The appearance of text etc in the Firefox-3.6 window is very good [like Lighthouse].
Struggling to make lupu-114 Firefox look as good.

D. How do I give a black background to the [lime green] CPU graph down at bottom right?

rcrsn51

@Béèm

This is a bit of a mystery. I know that XSane works in Quirky because it detects my HP scanner with the add-on hpaio backend. So it's odd that Lupu can detect your scanner using the built-in epson2 backend but Quirky cannot.

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 08 May 2010, 11:12 Post subject:

Just recently I've been suffering the following:

1. [The recent version = 3.6 of] Firefox has been crashing on various Puppies, including BoxPup-413, and Quirky-100, but NOT Lupu-116.
How does Lupu-116 manage to avoid the problem I wonder?
I'll need to begin taking notes methinks.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2473 Location: Ontario

I tested Yudit multi-language text editor (www.yudit.org) and it
worked fine. I will test now on Lucid Puppy and report back.
available at www.esnips.com/web/lupu

Béèm

BarryK · Posted: Sat 08 May 2010, 20:26 Post subject:

headfound · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 331 Location: England

Booted nicely on my intel i5 board (which refuses to boot ANY linux distro with a kernel older than early last year!).
Detected my video card as geforce (its ati) and actually brought up the desktop but extremely dark. I restarted xorg choosing the ati driver and all was well.

The only problem i have is that no matter how many times i specify an english GB keyboard layout, it still stays as (i guess) american with @ and " swapped.

duke93535 · Posted: Sat 08 May 2010, 22:23 Post subject: JWM Info

Anyone using JWM and Quirky 100 might think about compiling the newer JWM 492. This solved the no alt key + left clink drag for moving a large window.

duke

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2421

...got hotkeys via jwmrc-personal working by changing openbox to jwm in /etc/windowmanger.

Sylvander · Posted: Sun 09 May 2010, 03:57 Post subject:

@BarryK
1. " You can also install my updated Sqlite PET but I haven't uploaded it yet."
(a) GREAT! Very Happy

I've discovered that lupu DOES suffer from that problem too. Sad

(b) Can that PET be used on all Puppies? Very Happy

e.g. BoxPup-413, Lupu-116, Quirky-100?

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

Sylvander I use Q1 as my main OS now and Firefox never crash.

What sites does it and which circumstances?

caveat? My FF are a cheat imported from a different subdir on the HDD and replacing the .mozilla.

But it didn't crash before either and I used youtube heavily with many tabs going at same time and going back in history which did make puppy 4.00 crash in 2008?

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2421

Running well on a Dell Latitude..
* samba-cups networked printer
* Firefox (no crashes)
* Skype
* Dude Desktop/pwidgets
*/etc/windowmanager/jwm (for hotkeys, etc)
* rdesktop (needed libsamplerate, libcrypto.so.0.9.8->libcrypto.so.1.0.0)

Nice!!

Sylvander · Posted: Sun 09 May 2010, 08:04 Post subject:

@nooby
1. "What sites does it and which circumstances?"
(a) It happens at random; any site, any time.
Often/usually when I then attempt to restart Firefox, that will fail...
It's necessary to reboot, which usually works [dropping to a command prompt and coming back in just doesn't do the trick].

(b) I usually have 3 windows open at the same time.
Each window normally has only 1 tab.

2. I've updated Sqlite in both BoxPup-413 [to v3.6.23.1-p4], and Quirky-100 [to v3.6.23.1-q].
Haven't yet seen Firefox crashing since doing that.
Here's where I got the Sqlite PET's.

3. Haven't yet updated Sqlite [now v3.6.22] within Lupu-116.
No more Firefox crashing seen as yet; haven't been using it much, time will tell.

4. Tally of number of crashes [after reporting, and] prior to fix/now:
BoxPup-413 = 5
Lupu-116 = 4
Quirky-100 = 0