Lupu-515 Beta New Version DEC 18

[Tasgarth]

Playdayz wrote:

I do remember that the nv driver and fullscreen and flashplayer were trouble before. What about using the nvidia drivers from Quickpet: Drivers?

yes, now using Nvidia driver (Nvidia-256.35_lupu500-k2.6.33.2.pet, GEForce 7600GT ) it's OK (Firefox or Iron)
Thanks,

[Karl Godt]

Yeah but I can't get into flsynclient at all. Restart X doesn't make the error message stop.

# cat /usr/bin/synclient
#!/bin/sh
# synclient wrapper for Lucid Puppy 5.1
# 23 aug 2010 shinobar

There is a for loop :

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TOUCHPAD=""
for T in Elantech Alps Synaptics; do
   grep -F -q "$T" /proc/bus/input/devices && TOUCHPAD="$T"
done
if [ "$TOUCHPAD" = "" ];then
  pidof flsynclient &>/dev/null && killall flsynclient
  errmsg $(gettext 'No Synaptics touchpad supported found.')
  exit
fi

This is what I get at (u)rxvt :

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# for T in Elantech Alps Synaptics; do grep -F -q "$T" /proc/bus/input/devices; done
# 

This is part of grep --help :
-F, --fixed-strings PATTERN is a set of newline-separated fixed string
-q, --quiet, --silent suppress all normal output

This is what I got then :

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# for T in Elantech Alps Synaptics; do grep -F "$T" /proc/bus/input/devices; done
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"

usr-bin-synclient is 60 lines short. Last lines :

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pidof flsynclient &>/dev/null && killall flsynclient
MSG=$(printf "$(gettext '%s touchpad found.')" $TOUCHPAD)
MSG="$MSG $(gettext 'But you need to restart X-server to control it from synclient.')"
errmsg "$MSG"
exit

This is line 6 :

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[ "$DISPLAY" != "" ] || exec synclient.bin "$@"

I dont know where the $DISPLAY gets created.
And I dont know, why this works here ....

[James C]

Another fresh frugal install of Luci-237 on my P4 test box.Working sound and internet as well as the correct resolution on initial boot. Installed Xorg_High and Firefox 4.0 b7.



VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 237

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

# glxgears
1574 frames in 5.0 seconds
1732 frames in 5.0 seconds
1729 frames in 5.0 seconds
1750 frames in 5.0 seconds
1725 frames in 5.0 seconds
1729 frames in 5.0 seconds
1741 frames in 5.0 seconds
1724 frames in 5.0 seconds
2340 frames in 5.0 seconds
2457 frames in 5.0 seconds
2465 frames in 5.0 seconds


-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 513MB (118MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.23
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 14 Nov 2010 08:08:02 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5

Getting ready to try Trinity/KDE.

[gcmartin]

Testing LIveCD for PUP237. Running on X2 with 2GB with 2LAN adapters. All works well, thus far.

1. I booted with pfix=ram
2. at desktop I set the time and numlock and exited to desktop
3. I started QuickPET to install Nvidia driver "Lucid511_nvidia-260.19..."
4. I went to Menu...Setup....Personalize Setting to rerun First...
5. I selected nVidia icon now present, set my video

and have been running solidly all day.

Seems stable for the few selected things I do. Hope this helps other LiveCD users who have similar configurations.

[JMX]

Testing Luci-237, pfix=ram, frugal.

I cannot play RealAudio ra files in gnome-mplayer. Neither by direct entry, nor by using the default browser plugin.

Test files:

http://www.lvbeethoven-music.com/Beetho ... RealAudio/

The problem seems to be with gnome-mplayer 0.9.9.2. The problem occurs in every recent Puppy I checked (QNOP, Quirky, etc.) that uses that version. In contrast, version 0.9.6 used in LUPU 5.1.1 plays RealAudo files just fine.

[Iguleder]

GNOME-MPlayer is just a frontend, blame mplayer.

[superattilius]

hi, I'm using on my ibm thinkpad x40 luci-237 and my mic with skype, audacity and mhwaveedit don' t work
My sound card is Intel AC'97
thanks in advance

[Bert]

hi, I'm using on my ibm thinkpad x40 luci-237 and my mic with skype, audacity and mhwaveedit don' t work
My sound card is Intel AC'97
thanks in advance

Did you try the Alsamixer? (Menu > Multimedia > Mediatools >)
There you can navigate to "MIC" using the keyboard arrow keys, then, using the "up-and-down-arrow-keys" adjust the volume.

Hope that helps

[tubeguy]

One note on luci-237 video, I was getting an average 250 frames in glxgears with luci-232, it has jumped to 270 frames, so yet another improvement!

[Iguleder]

playdayz, I found a "flaw" in Woof: add "-libdrm-*-dbg" to xorg_base in the DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS. Some debugging symbols of various X drivers sneaked in the ISO. I'm working on a new experimental Puppy, I found more examples for unneeded packages and I can take a look at Luci's package list too.

Also, I have lots of templates for many packages, including xchat (with automatic connection to #puppylinux). I also PM'ed you the pcpufreq I use.

Indeed, a productive Puppy day

[shinobar]

Thanks tubeguy.
Will you do one more favor?
Gzip the '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' and '/etc/X11/xorg.conf', and send it me with PM. or attach on a post.

[tubeguy]

Thanks tubeguy.
Will you do one more favor?
Gzip the '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' and '/etc/X11/xorg.conf', and send it me with PM. or attach on a post.

Will do. I'm at work now, will have to wait until tonight.

[playdayz]

I cannot play RealAudio ra files in gnome-mplayer. Neither by direct entry, nor by using the default browser plugin.

Test files:

http://www.lvbeethoven-music.com/Beetho ... RealAudio/

Yes, I get the same result. Smplayer will not play them either--confirming what iguleder said. They will play rm but not these ra's. However, Pmusic will play them. Audacious in the PPM will play them also and probably VLC. Real audio was very interesting--still for low bandwidth I do not think there is any better codec. Sorry, but that is about the best I can do right now.

[pupluser]

i was wondering if puppy 5.1.2 will have vdial 1.6 its usefull for 3g connections

[bigpup]

One note on luci-237 video, I was getting an average 250 frames in glxgears with luci-232, it has jumped to 270 frames, so yet another improvement!

What is your video card and what video driver are you using?
You should be able to get much better readings with the proper video driver setup.
I have an old Nvidia card with the proper Nvidia driver and get glxgears frame readings of above 5,000. With the proper setup, any video card should give glxgears frame readings of 1,200 or more.

[Bert]

Barely on-topic, but I can't control myself The new IRON pet playdayz posted is superb!!!.

My impression at first was "twice as fast as Mozilla", but today I found more scientific minds confirming Iron's speed in absolute numbers.

Here is the short thread from the Iron's forum.

Will it be in Quickpet or PPM?
Thanks again playdayz!.

EDIT Ah, just saw Iron IS available from Quickpet already, not yet in the browsers list, but in News.

[Dave_B]

First of all, let me thank those of you who have worked so hard on this release - good work. I have Luci-237 installed on two memory constrained, P3, "elderly" laptops and I couldn't be more pleased. The addition of the Iron browser was especially sweet.

My question:
I experienced an unexpected power fail with 236 during a download and upon reboot, the login script stopped before starting the xwindows with a prompt. No indication of fdsk activity, just a prompt. I booted to my 4.31 partition, ran fdsk (fixed several probs) and rebooted. Still stopped prior to xwindows start. I typed "reboot" at the prompt and the boot went fine. Now all is OK. What is the proper way to recover from an unexpected power fail? The partition is EXT3.
Dave

[don570]

Why not include mtpaint 3.34.57 ?
Wary is now including it.
Here's a version I compiled
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-fae7d43d.html

[superattilius]

hi, I'm using on my ibm thinkpad x40 luci-237 and my mic with skype, audacity and mhwaveedit don' t work
My sound card is Intel AC'97
thanks in advance

Did you try the Alsamixer? (Menu > Multimedia > Mediatools >)
There you can navigate to "MIC" using the keyboard arrow keys, then, using the "up-and-down-arrow-keys" adjust the volume.

[Bert]

Hi Superattilius,

Does your reply mean your mic problem is solved? or the opposite?

I only used alsamixer to adjust my loudspeaker volume, so i have no personal experience with tuning the mic.

My alsamixer looks quite different from yours, probably because this machine is Nvidia and yours is Intel.

Hope your problem is solved. Otherwise just continue posting here.