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elraven · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 80 Location: wnc-usa

hi all i've been trying midnight sun pup , and its doing good. I've no problems so far other than firefox , but i found something that works. I installed firefox 5.0b2 lucid pet over the other firefox. It worked ,firefox pops up when called for . Hope this helps . Well back to my new puppy...
elraven

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

I have reuploaded Midnight Sun Pup 001 with official Firefox-5.0 and with some other applications updates also.
The reupload just finished.

Elraven. Thank you of your report.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Chromium 14 announced by Playdayz works. It needed .desktop location fix first, which was explained by DaveS in Chromium 14 thread.

http://smokey01.com/pemasu/Pets/Chromium-14-fixed.pet

Also Opera 11.50 sfs worked: http://terryphillips.org.uk/warystuff/opera-11.50-1074.i386opt.sfs

For sfs usual username and password is needed.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

A friendly link to that firefox 5.0b2 lucid pet would be cool Smile

Is it this one?
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=68091

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Tman posted firefox 5.0b7 link in Polarpup thread, check his folder, it should be there: http://www.smokey01.com/Tman/apps/

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

Thanks then I test that one too.

All works but sadly it is the first Snow/MidnightSun puppy that fails to accept
1024 x 768 and instead show 1024 x 600.

Taht usually only happen exotic puppies not Lupu usually so something must have changed.

How do I tell it to use 1024 x 768. It says it des everywhere but it fails in practice.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Hi pemasu,

Fresh frugal installation of your latest, however had identical problem as reported earlier.

Thanks for the beautiful lake scenes.

Cheers,
Jim

Béèm · Posted: Tue 28 Jun 2011, 13:58 Post subject:

I liked very much the cold naming convention. Don't know why there should be a joke about it.
Well midnight sun refers to the north pole also.

So snow puppy is finished now?

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Jim1911. I will check your problem and those errors if I find any reference about it. Maybe I am missing some xlib.

Beem. Snow Puppy is not finished. This is something like summer version. The updating will continue as Snow Puppy when it is time. The kernel, innards are the same. I wont destroy this concept because I have compiled and added a lot kernel drivers since first Snow Puppy.

Midnight Sun Pup gives me nice reason to take camera with me when cycling. And It really is Midnight Sun time in Finland now. It is not really dark at the location I am now. And the default wallpaper pic was taken about 23.30 and the lake was quite luminous at pic taking time. It just looked dark because I took the pic straight against sun.

I noticed one mislocated binary in my latest upload. I am reuploading Midnight Sun now. The misplaced binary should be in /usr/bin and I placed it to the /bin, so it does not affect to the functionality, but I try to be precise.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Jim1911. Did you compile the Nvidia proprietary package yourself or do you use some already made Nvidia pet ?
And have you made xorg.conf file with composite enabled ? Maybe playing with that xcompmgr and gcompmgr. Disabling that composite row have been suggested also in my searches.
Your faced problem seems to find certain older Nvidia cards when I searched the net.
Have you downloaded the latest Nvidia package for your card and compiled it yourself ?
Or it can be that this kernel just dont like your new comp.

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Hi pemasu, The Firefox 5.0 that I posted was the generic version from mozilla. If it identifies itself as Firefox it is the mozilla version--Aurora is the custom version. I am just curious if you figured out any more about what the problem was. Thanks.

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I think I would like the midnight sun. I used to have a dream about walking home from a party at 1:00 am and the sun was coming up. My wife thinks it would be hard to sleep Wink

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Quick update....... Firefox is now working on the trusty Athlon XP box in the new and improved Midnight Sun Pup 001. Smile

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

Pemasu, hope it is okay to ask this.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Playdayz. I was just guessing and I thought that you have compiled that version also yourself.
About my version. I used mtune native, which means that the compile tried to make version for my i5 intel quad core. The gcc in Lucid Puppy does not support all the features so, there was several problems in my 5.0 version.
It is maybe best that I leave the browser compiling to other people and use official versions after this episode.
Anyway my compiled version worked fine for me, but making generic needs more experience. Mtune needs probably some more conservative specs than native definition.

Chromium 14 pet needed that location fix DaveS mentioned. I repacked it with that fix and it should install now only one menu entry and works as root. I uploaded your pet with that fix to the smokey01 ftp site under Pets. Link is above.