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#376 Post by charlie6 »

Hi again,
charlie6 wrote:Hi,
Still more intriguing ... I booted from 312.37 live-cd pfix=ram on the very same machine+TFT screen - but skipping the Personalize Settings - : result: ... everyrthing looked OK
now booting live-cd pfix=ram and with setup of Perso Settings to BE_french, I got the same fuzzy screen as earlier, as also MHHP .

So things here looks going different whether the Perso Settings are set, or skipped.

Cheers, Charlie

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#377 Post by 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.

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#378 Post by DaveS »

01micko wrote:
Dave.. SM-2.3b3 is 42 minutes through compiling at this minute.. (any second now :P ).. will upload when done.
I guess when theming tray icons it's great at first... :lol: (gnome, kde, win7 all have that issue! Apple don't.. but then what can you do with a mac apart from eat it?)

EDIT: Seamonkey-2.3 Beta 3 uploaded [17M]
This build outperforms Firefox 5.0.1 on Peacekeeper :)
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#379 Post by nooby »

This build outperforms Firefox 5.0.1 on Peacekeeper
Such maybe need a thread of it's own then :)

I would want such a thread but I am not fit to provide one.

So in what way is that SM good then? We need a thread about it.

Would be unfair to take up space on Slacko thread debating the pro et cons of SM here. Slacko is too important for that. Friendly smile
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#380 Post by DaveS »

First there was just Slacko, Openbox, and MyGtkMenu

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Then some configuration

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MyGtkMenu. I shall be eternally grateful to Stu90 for this

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Well how about that, it all works

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Even the Openbox root menu
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#381 Post by pemasu »

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

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#382 Post by jim3630 »

01micko wrote:Brown Mouse, next version (delayed a few days) will have at least nvidia-280, including glxgears :)

Dave.. SM-2.3b3 is 42 minutes through compiling at this minute.. (any second now :P ).. will upload when done.
I guess when theming tray icons it's great at first... :lol: (gnome, kde, win7 all have that issue! Apple don't.. but then what can you do with a mac apart from eat it?)

EDIT: Seamonkey-2.3 Beta 3 uploaded [17M]
01micko, thanks for the pet it sure is fast just got to use it today and found no errors yet.

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#383 Post by 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/2011/07/2 ... layer-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) 8)
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#384 Post by 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. :wink:
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#385 Post by 01micko »

Thanks bigpup!

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

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!
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PPPOE problem in slacko

#386 Post by 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?

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#387 Post by 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..

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Re: PPPOE problem in slacko

#388 Post by rcrsn51 »

wuwei wrote:At the very end, after entering the last "y" and clicking ENTER a window "PDF-writer Save as..." opens.
This odd behaviour once showed up in an early Quirky or Wary. BK fixed it, but I don't know how.
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#389 Post by wuwei »

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

Thanks rcrsn51.

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#390 Post by peebee »

jim3630 wrote:If you cannot use Frisbee exclusively to configure your driver and use sns or connection wizard to acquire your wifi, I did this once, just reboot before using Frisbee. after reboot only use Frisbee which will read those scripts and thus acquire your wifi settings. hope this helps.
Have tried every combination I can think of of both sns/network wizard and frisbee and cannot get frisbee to establish a working wifi connection on 312.37

To make sure I wasn't dreaming I downloaded 311.37 again and installed exactly the same frisbee pet and was able to get a working wifi connection straight away just using frisbee - see attached screen shot. Am posting from there now.

The same frisbee pet also works fine in Wary513 by the way.....

So some change in spup312.37 is stopping this frisbee pet working - the new unique host name maybe???

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#391 Post by 01micko »

peebee wrote:[snip]

The same frisbee pet also works fine in Wary513 by the way.....

So some change in spup312.37 is stopping this frisbee pet working - the new unique host name maybe???

Cheers
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Interesting.. I'll need to take a look and see if jemimah hard coded it, but I doubt it, she is a network guru and that is I believe her profession [network consultant, unix]. PPPOE may be a different story though..
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#392 Post by charlie6 »

Hi,
Testing Slacko 312.37 on one more clunker 11 years old:
Medion LT9399 PIII 600MHz 192MB Ram (should be an Asus ):
Personalize settings set on fr_BE + NumLock: this was checked OK ( q encoded as q, a for a, é ,...etc...) in the check box displayed before X server restart.

Problem: Texts in abiword, gnumeric, terminal, are encoded according to us_en (q instead of a , etc...)

note: upon Xorgwizard settings, driver must be choosen on SiliconMotion manualy to get Slacko running.

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VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 312.37
Chip description:
oem: Silicon Motion SM720 VGA BIOS

Driver used by Xorg:
device
smi
Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1024x768"  Depth: Depth 24
depth remains 24 even if 16 is choosen in xorgwizard settings after bootup.

Here is the corresponding xorg.conf:

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#Special base config file used in Puppy Linux.
# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this  section  is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
	Load "synaptics"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
    Load        "dbe"  	# Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
#    Load        "type1"
#    Load        "freetype"
# This loads xtrap extension, used by xrandr
#    Load       "xtrap"
# This loads the GLX module (if present). xorg 7.4/5 need explicit disable to disable...
    Disable    "glx" #LOADGLX
# This loads dri module (if present). 7.4 loads it by default, have to disable...
#    Load       "dri" #LOADDRI
#    Disable "dri"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Files section.  This allows default font paths to be set
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
    FontPath   "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection
# 
*********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerFlags"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><Fn> VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12).  This allows clients to receive these key
# events.
#    Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Enables mode switching with xrandr
# There is a report that this can cause Xorg not to work on some
# video hardware, so default is commented-out...
# but i want to use it in xorgwizard so leave on...
    Option "RandR" "on"
# With this, Xorg won't talk to HAL to add evdev devices and you'll be back
# with the old Xorg behavior (pre-7.4)...
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
# For no-Hal, kirk also suggests this...
#    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
# Xorg 7.4, Ubuntu Jaunty, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is disabled by default...
    Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection
#everything past here is auto-generated by Puppy's Xorg Wizard...
#PuppyHardwareProfile=Silicon_Motion_SM720
Is this machine too old for X 1.9.5 ?

Cheers, Charlie

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#393 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

Report on i82845 Brookdale rev. 3 vs. slacko-312.37

After successfully getting past the very first restart of X, (either by commenting out code in /usr/sbin/delayedrun as reported on the previous page, or by moving the mouse-pointer over the welcome splash before the personalise settings dialogue appears, thereby avoiding some conflict between the two first-boot scripts ...) Slacko-312.37 chugs along nicely :) :).

(Only relapse of scrambled fuzziness came after increasing the pupsave-file, maybe some extra script is run or there was a timing issue or something :?.)

Cheers :)/ MHHP
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#394 Post by Lobster »

Used Seamonkey 2.3 Beta 3 and Iplayer.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 102#553102
After running pet (click on it)
and restarting X server (Menu/shutdown) it installed with my addons and bookmarks and no sound echo . . . hope it continues to work well :)
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