Lucid Puppy 5.1 Bug Reports and Fixes

[svgt]

Behind the warning - deprecated config file - I get the message:

FATAL: Module usbhid not found

I can't use the usb mouse. I tried to configure it by setup, but no success. It is a twelve year old 64MB laptop. But with 431 the usb mouse is working.

[Béèm]

Great idea!

If the connection holds up it "might" eliminate the 5.1 network wizard
as the cause of the problem.

In the meantime I saw playdayz had announced the lucid 220 an I installed it.
It was only after installing the Pwireless pet that I have that possibility now in the network wizard. Configured the connection with pwireless and it was ok.
Rebooted.
The connection was up, but besides the classic connection icon from lucid, I have also the antenna now in the tray.
This antenna shows there is no connection, while in fact there is one.

Well the important thing is that the connection is up after a reboot.

[edoc]

Sorry for my delayed reply, had company all day.

I am just using a 10 letter alphanumeric password for WPA2.

I didn't know how else to describe Lucid 5.1 with the 003 update via Quickpet,
so I "invented" Lucid 5.1_003 as a simple label ... was I a naughty puppy?

[Béèm]

Sorry for my delayed reply, had company all day.

I am just using a 10 letter alphanumeric password for WPA2.

I didn't know how else to describe Lucid 5.1 with the 003 update via Quickpet,
so I "invented" Lucid 5.1_003 as a simple label ... was I a naughty puppy?

It's ok.
I was out for one week and apparently a lot has been doing in puppy, so there is no need to apologize.
When I finished installing 219, 220 came out.
Playdayz is as Lucky Luke, shooting faster then his shadow.

I still have no luck with the vanilla 220 either, but after installing Pwireless2 I can connect with Lucid 220.
Don't know why this happens.

Anyway thanks for your input.

[svgt]

I use a pcmcia controller TI-1225 in an old Mitac 5033 64MB laptop. This broadband ethernet connection works via LevelOne Card Bus Adapter with Puppy 431. But it does not work with Lucid Puppy 5.1

If I try to load the driver 8139too or 8139cp I am not successful. Auto-probe is not working.

Then I looked after these Linux infos for the LevelOne pcmcia card FPC-0106TX.
Two drivers are provided from LevelOne: rtl8139.c and 8139too.c
- The second one is listed by the Network wizard, but a trial load is not successful.

Regards
Svgt

[peebee]

I use a pcmcia controller TI-1225 in an old Mitac 5033 64MB laptop. This broadband ethernet connection works via LevelOne Card Bus Adapter with Puppy 431. But it does not work with Lucid Puppy 5.1

If I try to load the driver 8139too or 8139cp I am not successful. Auto-probe is not working.

Then I looked after these Linux infos for the LevelOne pcmcia card FPC-0106TX.
Two drivers are provided from LevelOne: rtl8139.c and 8139too.c
- The second one is listed by the Network wizard, but a trial load is not successful.

Regards
Svgt

Hi Svgt
Is your pcmcia being activated - use lspcmcia in a terminal to see if your card is being detected.
If it isn't - load the latest Ubuntu pcmciautils from http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/pcmciautils- this worked for me on an old Thinkpad laptop. You may also need to issue the pcmcia-socket-startup command....
Cheers
Peter

[kevin bowers]

I found a couple of interesting things about printing PDF files in Luci51:

If it's a PDF created in Puppy, even 431, ePDFView prints it fine. It won't print /root/puppy-reference/ps-pdf/Acrobat.pdf, just a blank page as rcrsn51 and others have reported. I tried a 105-page owner's manual as well and got one blank sheet for my trouble. However a two-page manual for a card-reader dongle did print; I'm guessing it's a scanned image saved as a pdf. Not that I presume to second-guess rcrsn51, he's way above my level of abilities, but this certainly supports his idea that this printing problem is related to fonts. I have installed the .ttfs but it didn't make any difference that I could see.

I was disappointed to find that OpenOffice couldn't import a PDF file so I could print it from there.

GIMP can import a PDF; it prints Acrobat.pdf just fine. If you don't need to print very many PDFs this might be a good workaround. I haven't tried multi-page documents.

Once Playdayz has Adobe Reader up and going I'll probably install it just for the form-fill functions. That's one less thing I need Windows for, hooray!

[jpeps]

I found a couple of interesting things about printing PDF files in Luci51:

If it's a PDF created in Puppy, even 431, ePDFView prints it fine. It won't print /root/puppy-reference/ps-pdf/Acrobat.pdf, just a blank page as rcrsn51 and others have reported.

Try Foxit Reader.

edit: BTW. I found FoxitReader1.0 works better than the one in the Lucid repository, where setting "run action" doesn't work for clicking.

[svgt]

Hi Peter,

ls pcmcia or lspcmcia detects nothing here. I find these pcmciautils in my ubuntu system. I am able to downdoad this package too. But I have no idea of the technique to get it working inside the Puppy system.

Cheers
Svgt

[Béèm]

Issue the command lsmod | grep yenta in a console and if you see yenta_socket loaded, your pcmcia is activated.

[jpeps]

Maybe I'm missing something, but Pmount doesn't seem to save mounts across boots. (Meanwhile: mount /dev/sdxx /mnt/sdxx &>/dev/null in /etc/profile.local works).

[svgt]

Hi Béèm,

in the lsmod listing there is no yenta_socket included.

[rjbrewer]

Maybe I'm missing something, but Pmount doesn't seem to save mounts across boots. (Meanwhile: mount /dev/sdxx /mnt/sdxx &>/dev/null in /etc/profile.local works).

When you reboot, any mounted drives are unmounted.
Booting mounts the drive you select.

[Béèm]

Hi Béèm,

in the lsmod listing there is no yenta_socket included.

This means to me, your pcmcia card isn't recognized in 5.1
I have a pcmcia modem card and I see:

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# lsmod | grep yenta
yenta_socket           16079  3 
rsrc_nonstatic          6693  1 yenta_socket
# 

I don't use that modem, but at least I know the pcmcia is activated.

[jpeps]

Maybe I'm missing something, but Pmount doesn't seem to save mounts across boots. (Meanwhile: mount /dev/sdxx /mnt/sdxx &>/dev/null in /etc/profile.local works).

When you reboot any mounted drives are unmounted.
Booting mounts the drive you select

??? Without the script, they boot unmounted.

edit: looks like it's initially mounted, and then quickly unmounts.

[rjbrewer]

Maybe I'm missing something, but Pmount doesn't seem to save mounts across boots. (Meanwhile: mount /dev/sdxx /mnt/sdxx &>/dev/null in /etc/profile.local works).

When you reboot any mounted drives are unmounted.
Booting mounts the drive you select

??? Without the script, they boot unmounted.

edit: looks like it's initially mounted, and then quickly unmounts.

Weird; I've never seen that in previous puppies.

[01micko]

edit: looks like it's initially mounted, and then quickly unmounts.

Weird; I've never seen that in previous puppies.

That's actually rox retaining the last known desktop configuration and event manager kicking in to quickly update the desktop. 4.3x series behaves the same for me... noticed it when tasmod and myself built Startmount. (see my sig ..'tools').

Cheers

[jpeps]

edit: looks like it's initially mounted, and then quickly unmounts.

Weird; I've never seen that in previous puppies.

That's actually rox retaining the last known desktop configuration and event manager kicking in to quickly update the desktop. 4.3x series behaves the same for me... noticed it when tasmod and myself built Startmount. (see my sig ..'tools').

Cheers

That works. I had been using DUDE with 4.3-4.4, which incorporates Startmount, which I thought was part of Pmount. I guess it should be in Lucid Puppy as well.

[peebee]

Hi Peter,

ls pcmcia or lspcmcia detects nothing here. I find these pcmciautils in my ubuntu system. I am able to downdoad this package too. But I have no idea of the technique to get it working inside the Puppy system.

Cheers
Svgt

Hi Svgt
Just download the .DEB to any directory and then click on it - in Puppy5 it will then load. Reboot and issue the lspcmcia command again - if still nothing there issue pcmcia-socket-startup command - check again. If this works you may need to put the pcmcia-socket-startup command explicitly into a startup file.
Cheers
Peter

[8-bit]

Found this in /tmp/bootsysinit.log:
/etc/init.d/start_cpu_freq: line 9: [: too many arguments

Does that error happen because of a dual-core processor?