Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Henry]

I'm trying to read through some of this long thread of the release and followup of Racy 5.22 final (not RacyNop)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=564671#564671

gray built RacyNop on/out of Racy. Same or similar problems (as logout to locked blank screen) were reported and fixed more or less in that thread, so it wouldn't be surprising to find them cropping up in RacyNop and we cannot blame gray for them!

Thanks to gray we have a series of excellent Nops, all of which I have used exclusively as my OS. I am not looking forward to "raspberryPiNOP"

[Ray MK]

Hi Henry -

SOME GENERAL NOTES - HOPEFULLY USEFUL TO ALL.

Recent Puppy developments provide a massive choice of newer Puppy's all suitable for Netbooks.
Here are some of my favorites,
waryNOP-511, racyNOP-522, quirkyNOP-120, Saluki-021/022, Lucid-528, Dpup-Exprimo.
If you have a 64bit proc. then Fatdog64 and Lighthouse64 are superb.

IMHO,
The simplest and most reliable way to boot, dual-boot or multi-boot Puppy is to use grub4dos,
installed to a USB stick or an SDcard. (although the exact same proceedure can be used on a HDD partition)

After downloading your chosen ISO's and burning one of them to a CD, boot it and use it to do the following.

Install grub4dos to a vfat formatted usb stick or SDcard after,

1) first making sure it is marked as bootable (using Gparted),
2) creating at least one Puppy folder containing the puppy files (copied from ISO) required to boot,
(you can put as many different Puppy's in thier individually named folders, as space or desire allows)
3) tell grub4dos to install itself to that disk only (making sure you tick the appropriate box),
4) grub4dos will automagically search the disk and prepare a suitable menu.lst file and install itself to the selected disk (it will read multiple disk's if so instructed).

Finally - reboot - and go.
The above proceedure can be repeated ad-infinitum.

(Saluki, Lucid-528, Exprimo and all the later NOP's have a good version of grub4dos).

If you prefer to boot from HDD or usbHDD (instead of USB or SDcard) Prepare the HDD first by:
1) using Gparted to make 3 ext partitions of roughly equal size and then make a 4th swap partition of approximately 500/800mb in size.
2) flag any partition as bootable (1st is ok in this instance)
3) make a folder(s) on 1st partition named Saluki (luki, luci, rNOP, wNOP, Pup1, P2, P3, or whatever)
4) copy the essential puppy files (or all of them if unsure) from the ISO/CD to your folder(s)

Now start grub4dos and follow the instructions.

A note of CAUTION -
the above use of Gparted assumes that you have no desire to keep any other OS's or files that may be on the disk.
Anything that needs to be saved should be backed-up first.

HTH - regards - Ray

[Henry]

Good morning, Ray,

Thanks for that orderly and useful tutorial that clarifies a number of situations. I will file it for future reference, as I'm sure others will.

Henry

[Henry]

I apologize for not being more thorough. The blank screen was not locked, only blanked. Unfortunately it didn't occur to me to start typing into a dark screen. I never see a prompt or the exiting and saving messages, which occur in the dark.(Other than that everything is fine.)

I hit control-alt-backspace and the screen goes permanently dark unless I type reboot , which it does.

If instead I type xwin, (or was it xorgwizard?) X eventually reappears with a different resolution, apparently a default? video driver, the one I originally replaced to see circles, not ellipses.

But wait- there's more - I do ctl+alt+bksp and I get a command prompt, something I haven't seen for a long time. I type xorrgwizard and get the familiar probe, etc. and somehow emerge with a working X but with ellipses instead of circles and a pop up saying since it was working I could hit OK to decline the video upgrade. What a choice.

Anyway, I restored from a backup racysave, guessing I know a little more about the problem now. Sorry for misleading - I hate looking dumb.

Just to confuse things more, if I try Restart WM I get a screen split into two halves, right and left reversed. I'm not making this up. See the photo - it has to be a photo because it's correct in a screen shot. Only a reboot will fix this.

EDIT: Sometime later. I have concluded that it's some kind of a video driver problem/incompatibility that I will have to learn to live with, rather than continuing to plague all you nice people here.

Both the new netbook and RacyNop have proven extremely sturdy after all my beating on them. I'm not letting go of my super QuirkyNop desktop, but I think Racy is the one that should have been called quirky.

[Henry]

I'm testing on a brand new Acer Aspire One 722 using fresh "bare" bootflash drives as follows:

RacyNop-r1, Racy-522, and Racy-53 all have the above described blind logout problem.

QuirkyNop-12, Slacko Final , Wary-53, (and likely most) do not have this problem.

Does this suggest something about Racy? The other thing that may be common to the Racys is the optional Xorg-1.11.0 upgrade, which may be also involved. As you can probably tell, I'm a user, not a developer.

[Henry]

Hello, again,

We've run out of ideas here but I still have both real problems so have moved them to hopefully more appropriate places:

EDIt: Wireless problem solved per following URL. Was my problem, not RacyNop's.

Wireless: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=635219#635219

EDIT: Still have blind logout, apparently because of kernel and new netbook incompatibility. Living with it for the present. Ugh.

Logout: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=634908#634908

[greengeek]

Nice work Gray. Quick and clean version of Puppy.
I am trying to improve the readability of webpages viewed in Opera and I seem to be unable to change the main "default font" for webpages. On my netbook the font seems very condensed and hard to read (even with my glasses on). If I increase the "minimum font size" from 1 to 14 it does help - except that the font still seems to be "too tall and too skinny". As far as I can tell the default seems to be a skinny version of Nimbus (at approx 8 point maybe?). I would like to change away from the skinny Nimbus font and use the same font as the browser titles (Deja Vu sans).

I have tried changing each of the changeable settings for font type / size, but none of them seems to change the default for ordinary webpages. I must be missing something here, but no idea what.

[oligin10]

Hi, sorry I can't remember where, but there is a font improvement pet for Wary and Opera browser somewhere here on the forum. I am without power right now, posting from my cellphone. It should fix the font problem. I have used it on all the NOP puppets with great success. Thanks, Rob

[greengeek]

[greengeek]

1) Couple of problems with mtPaint:
- a) It won't let me save a new file as a jpg (no option for jpg in file format selection box). Maybe I am using some feature that is not supported by jpg?? I'm just using the default settings when creating a new file - It has "indexed palette" ticked but I don't know if that might be significant or not. EDIT:Sure enough, if I change from indexed palette to 24bit RGB I can save with the jpg option. Not sure what that is about. Have to do more research.
- b) It "pretended" to save my file to sda2, but I had forgotten to mount sda2, so my file did not actually get saved at all. I would have preferred it if mtPaint had said something like "Error - Save destination not mounted"


2) A problem with creating a .pdf from the browser: If I "print" a webpage by selecting "print to file" and select .pdf format it creates the file but won't let me open it without using a password (which I don't have..). I can print the same webpage to .ps format successfully.


3) The screenshot function seems to be in the "utility" menu, whereas I am more used to finding it in the "graphic" menu. Is this intended, or a temporary thing?

[ikaros262]

How about a NOP based on Wary 5.3?

[wjaguar]

[greengeek]

[wjaguar]

[greengeek]