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Hi pemasu,

rcrsn51 mentioned this before:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 532#658532
While attempting to create a bootable USB-Key frugal install of Exprimo 5.X.3.4.12, I called up gparted intending to reformat the Key. Gparted 0.7.0 in Exprimo 5.X.3.4.12 with 3.4.2 kernel did not recognize the partition table on a Fat32 USB-Key created using some other OS (Don't recall which). Lupu 5.28 does, and Exprimo is able to browse the folders on that Key. Reformatting using either Lupu or the latest Slacko did not create a partition table recognized by Exprimo, and without such table, Exprimo's Gparted could do nothing with it. Precise recognized the table. So did Exprimo 5.X.3..6.2.1 with kernel 3.6.2. Formatting using Exprimo 5.X.3.6.2.2 also produced a partition table unrecognized by Exprimo 5.X.3.4.12.
Another piece of the puzzle: After formatting using 5.X.3.6.2.1, I switched back to 3.4.12 and attempted to install Grub4Dos. Although, while using 3.6.2.1's gparted, I had set the flag to "boot," 3.4.12's Grub4Dos reported that the no flag had been set or it couldn't find it, or something.. Switching back to 3.6.3.1, I had no problem installing Grub4Dos to the Key and creating a bootable Puppy.

mikesLr

Hi Pemasu,
this happens on 5.X.3.4.12 as and 5.X.3.6.2 as well:

my PC is connected with one or two others on an internal ethernet network;

This happened once that the ethernet connection went broken for any reason - this happened using FF14, 15, and now 16.0.1.

Restarting X did not help to get the ethernet connection again.

I would have found a solution whitout need to reboot.
So, as i did not know what to do, i did as on puppies 412, 420 etc..., i went into menu and activated the good-old-manual-internet-connection-wizard.

Using SNS, I finanly got an ethernet connection again ... but before that, exprimo seemed to perform several trials to get the ethernet (i.e. eth0) again:
- there were displayed several times the splash withe/blue-dog-head telling «eth0 is down»;and then nothing more.
- running Simple Network Settings reports that there is no erh0 connection ;
- aftrwds running there DHCP helps to get the internet connection again;

Now when rebooting, i got two times displayed the splash withe/blue-dog-head telling two times one after the other
- «Recquiring IP adress for eth0»
and afterwards, two times again
- «IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xx acquired for eth0» (note: xxx.xxx.xxx.xx is one of my IP adesses)

So Exprimo now looks as if it has two network connection search running parallel;

Now, i left whit the question: «how to get back the eth0 when broken without rebooting?» and without using SNS?

Thanks for any help

Cheers,
Charlie

Charlie6. You have 2 dhcpcd running...that is the reason. It behaves as it should when you use SNS without disabling Frisbee first.
If you dont disable Frisbee and you use SNS....you should have 2 parallel dhcpcd running.

You should use first Menu > Network > Frisbee enable-disable manager and disable Frisbee with it and reboot. There is some connections still alive if you dont reboot.
....Or suffer the conflicting 2 dhpcd connections...which probably does not do good for connections.

About those losing network connections....I cant say anything reasonable/sensible atm.....

hi pemasu,
i'm very like the aurora2 gtktheme. it's look like apple, great. . But when I open rox filer, then i want to select a file by keyboard, i have difficult to choose where's the file i select.
i just discovered a way to show the box bounding a file/folder when we select that in rox filer.
there is in /root/.gtkrc.mine, i add a small gtk script and i put a "select.png" in midi-icons. i make it to a pet file.
after install this pet, please select a gtktheme and then apply.
go to rox filer, now we can see that.
thanks in advance

Thanks recobayu. select.png will be added to the next release surely.
Thank you !

Hi Pemasu,

About those losing network connections....

what to do then when network/internet connection has been lost ...? and also whitout need to reboot?

Btw, i disabled Frisbee ...thanks for your reply ...i was not aware of that menu entry ... nor that Frisbee is used for network connection neither ... so thanks for the lesson !
Now there is only one blue-white-dog-telling-«IP...acquired on eth0»

Cheers, Charlie
ps: i did not find the name of the icon of blue-white-dog-telling ...

I'm still using dpup exprimo 3.2.14.2, but media player plugin is crashing all the time.
Maybe that's because it's version 1.0.6.b1?
I want to upgrade it to 1.0.6, but that's a tar.gz file.
I downloaded it, but how do i get that into firefox and working?
thanks

Bruno. Sorry. I have jumped to the 1.0.7b version staight. To get gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer to compile. You need first gmtk-dev of that version. I have them for those versions I have compiled. Then you compile gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer from those ....tar.gz source packages.

So....the package you found is for compiling, it is source package. How to compile....it is another story and there is whole compiling thread dedicated in this forum....I dont repeat info found there....here.

But if you want that latest version.....I can upload them to the exprimo repo. I dont upload all the inbuild stuff...which changes frequently....like gnome-mplayer.

Oh thanks pemasu
Yes compiling is too complicated for me, I'm just a user of puppy, I don't know anything about compiling

charlie6 wrote:This happened once that the ethernet connection went broken for any reason - this happened using FF14, 15, and now 16.0.1.

Restarting X did not help to get the ethernet connection again.

I would have found a solution whitout need to reboot.

If something goes amiss with my ethernet connection, I open a terminal and kill the current dhcpcd and then start a new one:

dhcpcd -k
dhcpcd

It works for me.

Hi Shep,

Shep wrote:

charlie6 wrote:... ethernet connection went broken for any reason... would have found a solution whitout need to reboot.

If something goes amiss with my ethernet connection, I open a terminal and kill the current dhcpcd and then start a new one:

dhcpcd -k
dhcpcd

It works for me

Thanks a lot ! That's what i needed
Charlie

pemasu and all

xset-ssm2: a xset screensaver written with BaCon 1.0 build 26
OS: Puppy Linux Dpup Exprimo 3.4.2 .12, using devx_squeeze.
Laptop i686 1GHz 512Mb. Executable is for i386 and above.

After I had a better understanding of how to use the xset screensaver (see my previous post), I wrote a BASH script to correctly handle it. Next I wanted to create a GUI.

I went for BaCon. Not only did I write the dialog with BaCon but also all other handling of xset.

I also wanted to write a help file to inform the user of how the program works, but then I realized that there is nothing better than a graphical representation of what the program is doing. Run the program to see what I mean.

The executable is in C and should run immediately.

The attached file contains:

- Icons: these reside in the same directory as the executable.
- The executable.
- The .bac source file.

Put the executable and icons in a directory of your choice and run it.

The program writes some default values to xset and creates settings file /root/.xsetsaved. After that, these settings can be retrieved, changed and saved again for a next boot. Any changes are on-the-fly and effective immediately, unless canceled.

I'm by no means an experienced programmer and a newby to BaCon (as I am to Puppy). My code is not very clean and efficient. I'm learning along the way. Nevertheless I wanted to share this program and am curious to hear if it works on your system. Maybe I missed something…

Note 1: the program assumes that /root/.xset.sh is present at boot and executed by pupx. Is that true for all Puppies? If /root/.xset.sh is not present, it will be generated.

Note2: xset knows two screensaver modes, regular screensaver mode and DPMS (power saving or Energy Star) mode. The first blanks the screen with or without a simple animation. The latter has three submodes of which I only use the "off" mode, while skipping "standby" and "suspend" mode. Originally, screensaver- and DPMS mode work in parallel. In my program, DPMS mode follows screensaver mode, time wise.

I look forward to any comments.

Anyone using a native Linux/Puppy audio distortion analyzer?

Can you share a little about the contrast with a hardware device e.g. a HP 339a or an Amber 3501, please?

Thanks!

David

Here's an SFS for Iron-22.0.1250.0.Stable-for-Lucid that works for Exprimo.

DELETED

Rebuilt in Exprimo....it's 7M smaller and has a menu.

http://jpeters.net/apps/Iron-22.0.1250.0.Stable.sfs

193d299cc81b8e8d2a74ee15d1306021 Iron-22.0.1250.0.Stable.sfs

I tried the other one and it worked fine - really fast!

QUESTION: Does Google control the Chromium base or is that truly independent?

How may one trust that they won't embed a back door to presumed-private area and/or suddenly terminate the open-source updates?

Thanks jpeps

I use Iron browser myself because for me the chrome browser is the speediest, most friendly, yet the memory footprint is reasonable.

I guess Iron is actually forking Google Chrome, they removed the hidden services that Chrome installs. The browser size is bit large, but doesn't bloat the memory.

Iron browser Pet as compiled under Dpup Expimo 5.X.3.4.12 - size: 40MB

http://www.adrive.com/public/tHwynH/Iro ... 5_Dpup.pet

md5: 36cd7528cacb23baa4ce61577cb5e744

Thanks jpeps and Xtanova of Iron 22 sfs and pet.
I did use jpeps sfs and uploaded it to the exprimo repo.
I did strip it a little more and then I compressed it with -comp xz.
The result is now 30 Mb.

http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_pack ... 0-dpup.sfs

pemasu wrote: I did strip it a little more and then I compressed it with -comp xz.
The result is now 30 Mb.

http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_pack ... 0-dpup.sfs

Great...another 3M. I didn't strip any files, but used:

mksquashfs -comp xz -noI

I stripped...indeed, saves 3M

I just made a version for Spot (in keeping with discussion about running browsers in root). It likes to update .config prefs in root, however, so if you want to try running in Spot, initially chown the .config/iron files (e.g, startup wrapper).