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pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland

Jim3630. You should have added libicu not that unicode_0.9.4_alldebs
Type in PPM libicu and it will find what you should have added.
That unicode alldebs does not help you.

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 792 Location: Northern Nevada

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland

Jim3630. Qtconfig does not change themes. About that QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme error. I have no idea what fix will help to that. Somebody wiser than me will be needed. It wont affect to the functionality anyway. You can change for example font, font size still.
And that is the main thing, have big enough menu and submenus.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland

Jim3630. I found one working solution for Qt4 QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme problem, Now the theme is included in the Qt4 applications menu bars also.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=775685

That thread had needed information.
I still dont know what stuff were essential, but.
Adding the first line in below script cut to the /root/.xinitrc near the end:

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 792 Location: Northern Nevada

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6725 Location: Kentucky

I just finished installing Mageia Gnome on yet another old box and decided to try Snow Puppy 020 too...... live pfix=ram. Booted to a prompt but ran xorgwizard and got the correct desktop.Sound and internet worked ootb.

Mon 20 Jun 2011 Operating System: Snow Puppy-020 Linux 2.6.35.7
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1
oem: Copyright 1998 TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC.

X Server: Xorg Driver: trident
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
Core 0: 1466 MHz

# glxgears
117 frames in 5.1 seconds
209 frames in 5.0 seconds
199 frames in 5.0 seconds
191 frames in 5.0 seconds
198 frames in 5.0 seconds
111 frames in 5.0 seconds

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
Memory : 1026MB (218MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 20 Jun 2011 04:17:27 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA686A - VIA 82C686A/B rev50

Multimedia audio controller : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Ethernet controller : ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
VGA compatible controller : Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1026620 717504 309116 0 91788
Swap: 1704956 0 1704956
Total: 2731576 717504 2014072

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland

James C. Your distro hopping, testing and reporting belongs to the AAAA class.

I retuned originally Sheepy`s posted GUI interface for xcompmgr. It creates menu entry to the Desktop section.

Xcompmgr is already installed in Snow Puppies.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland

James C. Trident driver. That is rare. I remember struggling with Trident graphics once. I hunted working driver long time once. Eons ago....it was probably about Win 95 time.

john3voltas · Joined: 23 May 2011 Posts: 102

heywoodj · Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

I'm trying out Snow Puppy 020 and am having trouble booting the CD. It fails after "Setting up the layered filesystem..." with

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland

Heywoodj. Not much to help you other than doing manual frugal install using those needed files inside the iso.

There has been some fixes for the boot time usb and cd detection in woof. I am not sure if I will continue to update with 2.6.35.7 kernel. I want and would like to upgrade to newer kernel atm. Not sure if I have stable 2.6.39.3 kernel now or not. Anyway....Snow Puppy 020 is at it is. If I do next version, it will be using latest woof with all improvents through it.

heywoodj · Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

Pemasu,
Very interesting... I did a "cheat frugal" by mounting the .iso and copying the files into a directory on my storage partition. Then by inserting some lines into my menu.lst, Snow Puppy boots without a hitch. I'm running Snow Puppy right now!

I'll be assessing its performance for a while. The CD not booting confused me. The trouble must be in my hardware.

Thanks.

heywoodj · Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

I hope this is appropriate to ask, but I'm unable to suspend my laptop with the lid switch in Fluppy 013 but suspend works fine in your SnowPuppy 020.
The machine is a hp/Compaq nx6125 (1.6 GHz, 1.4GB RAM, 40 GB HDD w/ 1.5 GB swap), running Fluppy in a full install, SnowPuppy in a "cheat frugal" install.

I did a XfDiff on the lid.sh and sleep.sh files in each /etc/acpi and they were identical. So, where's the "special sauce" that makes SnowPuppy suspend work, but Fluppy just shuts off the screen, not able to return without some difficulty?

Thanks, HJ

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland

Check /etc/init.d/rc.apci and /etc/acpi/actions. There is also acpid binary demon, so just adding those scripts is probably not enough.
I think I used Shinobar`s acpid pet. You will find it by google from our forum.
I had double mechanism for lid suspending. Stuff from Fluppy, and stuff I added independently.