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[tazoc]

Hi CLAM01,
Maybe the Xorg Xkb settings aren't taking because the Xorg Autosetup (xorgwizard option 1) doesn't generate a full xorg.conf, just enough to keep the xwin script happy. So either run xorgwizard, option 2 then probe or choose 'intel', or maybe copy your xorg.conf over from your Puppy 4.3.1 setup.

If that doesn't help please run the Video Reporting Tool in the System Menu and attach /tmp/root/report-video-full.gz to a post. You can attach any small file by renaming it with a .zip extension with a note as such, or by running gzip <filename>.
Thanks,
TazOC

Edit: Does the CPU Freq Scaling Tool cool your CPU?

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[Béèm]

When I installed Lighthouse, I had to choose a 128MB save file.
Now the system tray says it's 124MB. Where could the 4MB be?
I use LH now some week, but didn't install packages.
I only added 3 sfs files, OOo, Pidgin 2.6.1, and virtual box.
When I looked this afternoon, the free space was already down to 12MB.
I left the PC running and when I came back, another 4MB was gone.
Leaving me with 8MB.

I tried to look where all those MB's could have been gone to, but didn't find it.
Someone has an idea?

[tazoc]

Hi Bernard,
I'm working on a context menu for freememapplet_tray for that very reason. The pupsave can fill up very quickly! I usually start with a 256M pupsave and end up enlarging it to around 448M. If you chose a .3fs format, there is some overhead for the journal and file system so not all of the pupsave is available. You can close all your apps and restart X. That will clear away some temporary files.

The quickest way to see where the space went in a frugal install is to open GdMap Graphical Disk Usage in the Utility or File System menu and then open /initrd/pup_rw. Then just hover your mouse pointer over the biggest items and read the file names and sizes.

Xorgwizard in LHP installs some Mesa GL libraries that use about 3.6M. Wine gobbles up ~40M the first time it's used and browsers like SeaMonkey have security features that use a lot of space just by having the browser open a while. Rebooting will clear the cache and most of those temporary files. Otherwise just add free space with Resize personal storage file in the System Menu.

See also /usr/share/doc/freememapplet.htm. I'm updating that page as well.
TazOC

[CLAM01]

Hi TazOC,
I've been looking in logs and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files in both Lighthouse and puppy 431, hoping to find why kbd language settings persist in P but not LHP. The settings are there in xorg.conf in both and the Xorg logs of both list all the same being loaded in the same places. I did find that the two extra files in /tmp are for the Xorg keyboard settings gui. By short-cutting, going from llooknfeel just to the keyboard-layouts-variants gui and clicking "yes, activate" and exiting, the settings activate and the two files don't appear. The few clicks are easy to do, so the settings not persisting through X-restarts is not a problem, just a quirk, one of those little glitches that has to be some detail, a set not setting or being reset by something following.
The cpu fan not being started by acpi is common to both P431 and lighthouse. I checked for frequency scaling. It is on and seems to be working. Acpi recognizes eight throttling settings for the cpu cores and a cooling fan for each, and their state, on or off. When I restart it recognizes the cooling fan on. Frequency scaling offers two sets, 1.2 and 2. ghz. It advances frequency to 2. when the cpu loads seriously. Opera trying to add some kind of auto-update feature went loopy and tested this, loading the cpu cores to 100% on both at 2. ghz. Cpu temp went from 35C to 58C, but steadied there [I really like having the monitoring aplet in the tray--it's much better than the keyboard getting hot detection method]. airflow didn't feel faster, but 58C is well below the bios failsafe threshold, 84C, when it kicks the fan on full.

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[tasmod]

My fault

Forgot size issues with LHP.

I finally got a straightforward boot and shutdown, which offered a save option.
But it wouldn't create a save file

Finally I realised my partition was nearly full after I had d/loaded everything.

I removed other items and I could then create a save file.

I'm posting from Firefox in 5 now with xfce . As nice as kde, impressed.

[ICPUG]

Tasmod

How did you get your Intel graphics working?

[tazoc]

Hi Béèm,
I think I've got be-latin1 working right for the next release, at least in Linux. I edited several files; rc.country, input-wizard, .xinitrc, xorgwizard, /lib/keymaps, etc. Some keyboard layouts can now be changed without restarting X. I think pl (Poland) and maybe other layouts are working better also.

Wine still isn't right though. Alt keys don't register with be-latin1. I'll keep working on it. I noticed that the drive icon sizes register 0 in the latest Quirky when starting with be-latin1, so apparently that's not unique to Lighthouse.

It seems some of the layouts need the Alt key to produce many non-US characters. Is that because my keyboard is US or is that true for native keyboards as well?

йцукенгшщзхъфывапролджэячсмитьбю Weird, the ru layout doesn't seem to need the Alt key. Of course, I have no idea if it's working or not--sure looks Russian though. ضصثقفغعخههخحجدشسيبلاتنمكطئءؤرﻻىةوزظ Arabic works w/o the Alt key, too. Hmm, it went right to left! First time I've experienced that. It feels kinda strange.

-TazOC

[tasmod]

ICPUG,

Sorry I didn't. I'm running vesa.

[Béèm]

[tazoc]

Lighthouse Pup 5.00 B (Build 485) Base ISO released

* Several bugfixes and updates

* New Wine e-Sword 9.6.0 Bible Study downloader and installer, based on a script by david_kt and adapted for Lighthouse.

Lighthouse Mariner ISO 5.00 B - release notes

* Includes Mariner, Xfce, OpenOffice, Opera and VirtualBox SFS add-ons.

* Minor updates to Xfce 4.6.1d and Mariner 5B_485

* VirtualBox updated to 3.2.4

Google-Chrome-stable_5.0 SFS - Fast browser with themes and add-ons
-TazOC

[jduffy22335]

[Jim1911]

Hi tazoc

You've been busy. Downloading now. Where is this feature?

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