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#106 Post by Sage »

several years ago
Ah, time dims the memory; glad of your corrections, refs. and update.

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Thank you !

#107 Post by sejur2002 »

I would like to thank Sage , tempestuous for quick answers !
Given that almost two months I discovered " Linux world " , I think the best solution for me is to change the USB adapter with one from wireless / wifi cards confirmed list ! :idea: search function is useful :)

So again thanks for the support !!!
Sorry for my English .
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#108 Post by tempestuous »

sejur2002 wrote:The network manager auto loads the rt2800usb module for it, it detects the interface , but no connection at all .
I tried this : http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 245#672245 but no luck :( !
That's a driver (kernel module) for Precise 5.4. It's totally incompatible with Slacko 5.5.
sejur2002 wrote:I think the best solution for me is to change the USB adapter with one from wireless / wifi cards confirmed list !
There's no reason why you couldn't use your existing TL-WN727N with the rt3070sta driver that I mentioned in my previous post -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 360#513360
... but of course, you can only use this driver with Lucid 5.2.5 or 5.2.8.

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#109 Post by Karl Godt »

Not a biggy cos uncommon : Have a reiser4 partition for experiments and

# disktype /dev/sdd6

--- /dev/sdd6
Block device, size 1.804 GiB (1936630784 bytes)
Reiser4 file system (4.0 layout, block size 4 KiB)
UUID 058FD949-FE32-41B4-9084-7C6E39FAD09F (DCE, v4)
Volume size 1.804 GiB (1936588800 bytes, 472800 blocks of 4 KiB)

detects it correctly, but

# blkid /dev/sdd6
/dev/sdd6: UUID="058fd949-fe32-41b4-9084-7c6e39fad09f" TYPE="reiserfs"

not .

[ guess_fstype /dev/sdd6 unknown ]

This affects a little bit probepart script and scripts that rely on probepart output ( _fronted_d, pmount, partview, etc )

pmount and partview looking nice though !

Overall Slacko-5.5 (-4g) : Clean and nice fonts in FF in opposite to current Ubuntu Puppies . Good work !

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EDIT : Running an older Puppy 4.3.1 : blkid works correctly >
/dev/sdc6: UUID="058fd949-fe32-41b4-9084-7c6e39fad09f" TYPE="reiser4"
/EDIT
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#110 Post by Lobster »

:D

Got my backup computer and my main computer working again.
The main one really bothered me. Finally traced it to a ram module that was loose or dirty. Was not getting even a bios . . . so pleased.

Been using Ipad with a 'keyboard cover' as my main machine for months now. So Slacko is up against that.

They are very different. The Ipad is slick, polished and really just works. You are limited in what you can do though. It is a secure but limited environment.

I will go through the posts in this thread later . . . but for now:

No probs with boot and set up. May need the special ATI radeo driver. Using Vesa I think for now . . .

Sound was an issue.
I have two cards and the sound was OK for 'woof woof' but only worked with mediaplayer when I selected what card to use in the mediaplayer . . .

Loved them SFS, great programs. Openshot + Blender . . . hope that works, they are running but I may also need Python . . .

I have loaded Xfce, KDE and another window manager but forget how to run them from the command line. A util that does that and places them in the menu would be good. I am sure something like this is available?

Thanks Mick, wanted a woof based Puppy, either one of Barrys or Slacko . . . I was tempted by Precise and 'Carolina' and nearly installed 'Fatdog'. In the end I need solidity with tweaks.

Slacko delivers. I made the right choice. Thanks guys. :)
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#111 Post by Vee727 »

Not a major bug but a simple misspell, On desktop Spreadsheet is named "calc"

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#112 Post by 01micko »

Vee727 wrote:Not a major bug but a simple misspell, On desktop Spreadsheet is named "calc"
Yes, that's right. Been like that for years.
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#113 Post by Vee727 »

Hahaha.....developers aren't much concerned about the presentation then, eh? :D

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xwin boots slowly when loading from 4fs file.

#114 Post by spintronic »

I installed Slacko 5.5 4G on a Compaq Presario CQ62 on my main Windows 7 partition. The install went well and the system boots up just fine without a file image. But when I save a 2 GB file image onto the hard disk and boot from that xwin hangs for several minutes before finally loading up. I saved my setup in a ext4 file format. I had previously defragmented the hard disk. After loading the desktop is pretty sluggish. Any ideas why?

Thank you.

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#115 Post by Vee727 »

I read somewhere (forgot where :P ) that puppy doesn't work really well with save files of more than 1.8 GB (or was it 1.4??).

Try to backup your save file, then create a new one, smaller one.

Hope it helps. I'm a newbie too.

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UTC setting can't work

#116 Post by duck@japan »

Hi,
I'm a Japanese man lives in Japan so my time zone is Asia/Tokyo.
But on Slacko 5.5, time zone settings cannot work. Other puppies, Precise and Racy, don't have this trouble. How can I fix it?


Thank you in advance,
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#117 Post by npierce »

Hi Duck,

Welcome to the forum.

What output do you get when you enter this command in a terminal window?:

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export | grep TZ
Normally $TZ is not set (in which case you would get no output, which is good). If it is set incorrectly it could cause the symptom you have seen.

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#118 Post by duck@japan »

npierce wrote:Hi Duck,
What output do you get when you enter this command in a terminal window?:

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export | grep TZ
Normally $TZ is not set (in which case you would get no output, which is good). If it is set incorrectly it could cause the symptom you have seen.
npierce,

Thank you for your response. It seems that there was no output on the display of a terminal.

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#119 Post by npierce »

OK. It is good if there was no output, so $TZ is not causing the problem.

I'll try some experiments and see if I can find something else that would cause this.

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UTC setting can't work 2

#120 Post by duck@japan »

npierce,

Thank you.
I got a clue. I found "GMT +9" setting in the list of Country Wizard then changed to it. It seems it worked well at least for now. I think it would be some fault in the time zone setting list of "Asia/Tokyo."
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#121 Post by npierce »

duck@japan wrote:I think it would be some fault in the time zone setting list of "Asia/Tokyo."
I think you may be right.

What output do you get for:

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ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo
ls -l /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo

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Time zone trouble

#122 Post by duck@japan »

npierce,

Thank you for your effort. These are the spells I got from the terminal. "月" means month.

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ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo 
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 255  5月  4 19:05 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo

ls -l /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 331  9月 18  2012 /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo

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#123 Post by npierce »

Hi duck,

It looks like your /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo file was overwritten on May 4. Your /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo file is the original that came with your Puppy, and looks like the same one I have.

This (one-line) command will replace your /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo file with the original:

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cp -p /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/
If you are curious about what might be in the bad file, make a copy of it before copying.

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Time Zone Trouble

#124 Post by duck@japan »

npierce,

Thank you very much! It was fixed!

I don't know what I had done in May 4, 2013.
As for the Tokyo file. I saved it but I cannot read that and this forum denies uploading of it.

Anyway, I'm happy now. Thank you, again!
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Re: Time Zone Trouble

#125 Post by npierce »

duck,

You're very welcome.

Sometimes a package contains files that it shouldn't, and so installing it causes problems. Maybe that's what happened. Maybe not.

Anyway, I am also happy that it is fixed.

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