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[prehistoric]

I have now put Lupu 5.00 on two netbooks: an Asus 1000HE and an Asus 1001P. I was able to get the 1024x600 display working on both GMA 950 and GMA 3150 video. On the 1001P with GMA 3150, there was tearing when scrolling in Firefox. (Also saw this in some other programs.) Xvesa insists on 800x600 with the GMA 3150.

On the 1000HE there is a Ralink RT2860 wifi adapter. Setting up with WPA encryption failed under the simple network setup. Strangely, it told me it could not associate immediately after I gave it the passphrase, without any delay when it might have transmitted anything.

The Dougal network setup handled this correctly.

[playdayz]

[playdayz]

[edoc]

When exiting a Youtube video in Lucid 5.00 using Firefox it freezes the laptop - Panasonic Toughbook CF-28.

One of three children's learning programs on CD worked (at least partially) via WINE in Lucid. More to test ... I may be forced to read the Help as it is not intuitive how one correctly runs a MS windows-yoked app under WINE.

It is a Frugal install -- does not remember the wifi settings - they have to be manually re-initiated every reboot.

[Jim1911]

[playdayz]

There is a development release of Lucid Puppy 5.0.1 available on page 76 of the Lucid Puppy thread in Puppy Projects. It may be released as soon as tomorrow. Thank you.

[edoc]

[Gurglin]

I tried to run the live CD on my 10-year-old laptop compaq presario 14 xl 250 (Trident CyberBlade graphic card), which has always worked with ANY puppy version (latest kernel), including Quirky.

With my major disappointment LuPu is the first Puppy Distro EVER which not only gives me problems, but that does not even boot! The boot process ends when on the screen I read “starting X, specs (...)”, and then I can only see no more than a black screen... and end of the game

[mightysween]

I am a long time Puppy user, and have never had a problem that I could not solve. But with 5.0 I am not able to save my session. On shutdown, i get "session not saved" and am never prompted to create a lupusave.2fs file.

I have tried just about every solution offered for previous releases to no avail, including booting with pfix=ram, pmedia=idehd, etc, and even manually creating the lupusave file.

I am booting from a USB drive. The "save session" feature works perfectly in every previous version I install (currently 4.3.1)

Any thoughts?

[Jim1911]

5.01 test has worked flawlessly, just 2 problems noted.

1 Abiword still does not print graphics to CUPS-PDF.
2. Using ppm to download games after update, gnome-games-Lite_2.26.1-i486-uj does not show up under Fun in puppy-5 section as it has before. However, the pet is still on ibiblio, just not shown by ppm. The dpup version is present.

[playdayz]

[rjbrewer]

[edoc]

Luci-oo1 solves the boot problem ... but CUPS is still making a nuisance of itself. I followed the instructions for a HP P1006 and still it fails. It shows
Driver: HP Laserjet p1006 hpijs, 3.10.2, requires proprietary plugin (color)
Connection: usb://HP/Laserjet%20P1006

Oddly, while the Driver says it is "color" I believe the P1006 is monochrome.

BTW: The saved-settings problem appears to be when the save happens it doesn't create the save file inside /puppy500 but outside of it (you have to notice that -- don't ask how I know this -- and tell it to put it there) OR you have to move it there then tell GRUB to look for it there.

[bigpup]

On shutdown:
When I select power- off computer
Lucid Puppy does normal system shutdown
Computer does not power off
Have to push power button to power off computer.

[Jim1911]