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Posted: Mon 15 Aug 2011, 21:57
by pemasu
Dave S. Vowvow !!!! Looks really good. And even nice wallpaper
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 01:01
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
).. will upload when done.
I guess when theming tray icons it's great at first...
(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.
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 01:08
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)
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 01:26
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.
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 02:11
by 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!
PPPOE problem in slacko
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 10:17
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?
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 11:07
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..
Cheers
Re: PPPOE problem in slacko
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 11:34
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.
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 11:53
by wuwei
Can't find any relevant post by Barry on his blog. But I asked him for an answer.
Thanks rcrsn51.
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 11:54
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???
Cheers
peebee
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 12:01
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
peebee
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..
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 12:13
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
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 12:46
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
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 12:56
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
Chromium 15
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 19:53
by playdayz
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 20:16
by nooby
When I chose 800x600 then the save a download popup too big for the screen. I try to upload an example how it looks as you can see the save button is way below the line.
If I chose 1024 x 768 then it revert to 1024 x 600 instead and leave a huge space below to no use.
So either one have to change Slacko so it accept 1024 x 768 or find some other solution to this problem.
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 20:31
by playdayz
When I chose 800x600 then the save a download popup too big for the screen. I try to upload an example how it looks as you can see the save button is way below the line.
From the picture it looks like you need to resize Seamonkey nooby. One way is to right-click on the titlebar of the window, choose Resize, and then drag the lower right corner upwards and left-click when it is where you want it..
You could also hold down the ALT key and then click in the Seamonkey window and move it upwards. Then you can drag the right corner up.
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 20:48
by nooby
Thanks Playdayz.
But Geany is too big too. And the save of downloads are too big and so on. One way to solve it would to change from JWM to another window manager like Icewm or soomething like that because that one allow 1024 x 768.
Why does JWM alllow 1024 x 768 on Lupu and Snow and Fluppy and Wary and Drake but not on Slacko?
Sorry if I whine or sound critical
Not my intention but this has gone on or been like this for a very very long time.
So the better way would be to let Slacko work as good as both lupu 525, Two headed and three headed do. All of them allow me to choose 1024 x 768 and that makes everything look okay.
So what is it about Slacko that makes it behave this awkward way?
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 20:59
by playdayz
f I chose 1024 x 768 then it revert to 1024 x 600 instead and leave a huge space below to no use.
Nooby, After you change the resolution, try Menu -> Shutdown -> Restart X-Server. JWM does not automatically resize the desktop properly when the resolution is changed.
Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 21:16
by nooby
Jay! Much appreciated I got a severe headache due to the 800 x600 problem but now I am back in 1024 x 768 and you made it possible.
Playdayz, your a true Gem, Brilliant as we say over here in Sweden
I had no idea it was that simple. So many month of struggle and no solution and then you just say the saving words and it just works.
Now I can go to bed and know that tomorrow even Slacko works on my gear. Future looks bright.