Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[charlie6]

Hi again,

[01micko]

Ok.. I'm finally trying my dyslexic logic here..

*312.37 reverted to xorgwizard, mainly because boot to desktop was ok, but after that disaster was looming
*I made 1 (and only 1) change to delayedrun, concerning sound only..but if that's not ready who knows what will happen?
*the bacon exec running the initial puppy info and the first-run compete, one needs to be removed. This is the key.
*while jwm is light, methinks it's slow. Light is not always fast. Brookdale is old, and slow as hardware goes, intel IMHO have never had good graphics chips, I avoid them if I can.

Conclusion: remove the bacon popup at first-run. Add a small delay to "delayedrun" so that jwm is ready, maybe 0.25 of a second.

I prefer the first-run wiz by shino in that it is internationalised. It's all well and good to answer 10 questions at bootup but who is going to translate that? I'd prefer full boot to desktop but it is in the too hard basket ATM for me. At least it's only a few short questions involving numbers at first boot the way it is now.

Thanks everyone!

[DaveS]

[nooby]

[DaveS]

First there was just Slacko, Openbox, and MyGtkMenu



Then some configuration



MyGtkMenu. I shall be eternally grateful to Stu90 for this



Well how about that, it all works



Even the Openbox root menu

[pemasu]

Dave S. Vowvow !!!! Looks really good. And even nice wallpaper

[jim3630]

[Lobster]

Just in case I forget:
I have the ATI radeon driver installed (I think) that Billy and Mick have been working on.
I make extensive use of Iplayer from the BBC
http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/07/28/24164-bbc-worldwide-to-launch-global-iplayer-app/
Yesterday I found the sound was running twice - like a sort of weird echo, I had to resize and play about to get it working correctly.

Will keep an eye on this behaviour and report it to the BBC if it persists once we move into Beta (and yes they do something about it - excellent geek dept)

[bigpup]

To 01micko and any other developers and programmers out there.
Resist the urge!
Do not go mouse during the process.
Your will is stronger.

[01micko]

Thanks bigpup!

It is with that in mind that I am delaying beta again..

Actually, I'm uploading heaps to ibiblio and getting the PPM in order.. it's a bit of work but best done now so everything syncs nicely with woof.

The method I was using is quite good though and I'd like to thank Saturn and Smokey01 for the repo support while we were in alpha and in the previous spup-100 series. It's a demo of what can be achieved in puppy's community. Anyone creating a puplet that wants there own repo can use my model as an example (all the script hacks are in /usr/local/petget/ and /root/.packages) as well as an old tut I did on the brainwave repo.

So sorry, beta tomorrow!

[wuwei]

This has obviously not been noted by anybody, so I wonder if I did something entirely wrong or if there really is a major problem with pppoe setup.

I did a manual frugal install of slacko to an ext3 partition (with Grub).
Starts alright with pfix=ram and the first order of business (after country wizard) is the internet connection.

Internet Wizard works fine, DHCP obtained.
PPPOE roaring penguin gui opens fine.
Click on SETUP and follow the procedure, as I have done dozens of times before.
At the very end, after entering the last "y" and clicking ENTER a window "PDF-writer Save as..." opens.
No way to get rid of it, not even with pprocess, no way to finish PPPOE setup and to start the connection.

Did this twice with fresh pfix=ram booting.

I have seen many a quirk with Puppies and their pppoe configuration, but this is really new and puzzling.

Any ideas? Anybody?

[01micko]

Hi wuwei

That certainly is a strange one I'll have a look, I did recompile pdfedit, but I can't immediately see a connection between that and PPPOE..

Cheers

[rcrsn51]

[wuwei]

Can't find any relevant post by Barry on his blog. But I asked him for an answer.

Thanks rcrsn51.

[peebee]