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#691 Post by peebee »

greyowl wrote:The wireless initially connected but thereafter I could not get it to work on subsequent boots.
That sounds like the known problem of the wl driver erroneously claiming a wifi device it shouldn't.....and may be showing up because you upgraded a savefile from 15.02 to 15.05? This was meant to be cured in a pristine install of 15.05.

Run lsmod - if it shows the wl driver loaded & you don't have Broadcom wifi then I suggest you should blacklist wl & reboot

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#692 Post by vanlong441 »

just registered to say thank you. Keep up the good work, friend!

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LxPupTahr-15.05.2

#693 Post by peebee »

Updated 15.05.2 versions of LxPupTahr have been uploaded - see:

lx-pup.weebly.com

The 15.05.2 pae and nopae versions have the following changes:

- openbox-3.6.1
- tahrfix7 as of 6-aug-15
- smaller iso size (from bigger .sfs block size)

Everything else including kernel remains the same - (hence the minor version increase to 15.05.2)

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LxPup : a Puppy with LXDE as its desktop environment

#694 Post by Billtoo »

New manual frugal install to the hard drive of my Acer Revo nettop pc.

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
Memory 1807MB (199MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System LxPupTahr - 15.05
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu 20 Aug 2015 11:48:58 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 3840x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer ION/integrated/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio Adapter PC-Speaker - pcsp

OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer ION/integrated/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.76
Direct Rendering Yes

Kodi works great on this pc.


Added applications from Quickpet and PPM, also compiled cmus-2.7.1
music player if anyone wants it.

Cmus creates an entry in the Multimedia section of the puppy menu, the
number keys 1-7 bring up screens, 7 has available commands.
For example: you can add music on screen 3 by entering:
":add /mnt/home/music" no quotes in the bar at the bottom of the
screen, ":clear" will allow adding music from some other directory,
pressing RS will Shuffle the order the songs are played.
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inicio menu

#695 Post by clasico3124 »

hello

exist some way to get this menu in lxpup ?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=88530

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Re: inicio menu

#696 Post by peebee »

clasico3124 wrote:hello

exist some way to get this menu in lxpup ?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=88530
I believe that is the Whisker menu which is specific to xfce - it does not work on LXDE and as far as I can tell nobody has implemented a LXDE equivalent.
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LxPupTahr 14.10.1

#697 Post by pinotte »

Hello Peebee ,
I have installed lxPupTahr - 14.10.1nopae since its release on my computer ( pentium4 3.20ghz 2gb ram) ... recently my computer freeze while I was using a program with wine and I stopped the machine with the button and when I restarted my lxpanel disappeared. I try to do an upgrade with LxPupTahr15.02nopae and it has not worked. I am in live cd . Is there a way to recover lxpanel ?
I hope to make myself understood because I use a translator, I apologize .

Thanks in advance
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Re: LxPupTahr 14.10.1

#698 Post by peebee »

pinotte wrote:Hello Peebee ,
I have installed lxPupTahr - 14.10.1nopae since its release on my computer ( pentium4 3.20ghz 2gb ram) ... recently my computer freeze while I was using a program with wine and I stopped the machine with the button and when I restarted my lxpanel disappeared. I try to do an upgrade with LxPupTahr15.02nopae and it has not worked. I am in live cd . Is there a way to recover lxpanel ?
I hope to make myself understood because I use a translator, I apologize .

Thanks in advance
Hello pinotte

Bit confused as the screenie you've attached is showing the jwm desktop rather than the lxde desktop of lxpup.....

You say you are booting from cd - but don't mention where and in what format your personal savefolder/file is stored?

FIRST ACTION before attempting recovery is to BACKUP your savefolder/file!!

The easiest way to recover would be to start afresh with LxPupTahr-15.05 and create a new savefolder and rebuild your system from there.

If you are using a SAVEFOLDER and you don't want to do this you could try RENAMING the folder /root/.config (a hidden file notice the .config) in the savefolder and rebooting. If this works you could then move back from the old .config any items other than those for lxde - i.e. not
autostart
gtk-2.0
libfm
lx-autostart
lxpanel
lxpanelx
lxterminal
openbox
pcmanfm

Also, you should rename/delete file /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/LxPuppyPin if it exists.

You should also drop out to the console and type: xwin startlxde

If you are using a .2fs/.3fs/.4fs savefile then it would be more complicated.

I've tested upgrading from 14.10 to 15.05 and it proceeds ok apart from a need to fix parcellite in autostart because its been replaced by a different clipboard manager.

Hope you recover.
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#699 Post by pinotte »

Hello Peebee,

My personal savefolder / file is Stored on sda1 and with puppylxtahr_14,10.sfs and other .sfs files

1) I backed up my files, my bookmarks, etc ...

2) I removed my lxtahrsave.2fs

3) I start afresh with LxPupTahr-10,10,1 and create a new savefolder and rebuild my system from there.

4) I just have to configure programs with my wine, I'm not too comfortable with that, but I'll get there.

The puppy is fine now
Thank you for your info.

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SpaceFM

#700 Post by peebee »

For anybody who fancies trying the SpaceFM file manager....

SpaceFM-0.9.4.pet

tailored for LxPup
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Folder icons

#701 Post by peebee »

Flat-remix icon set has a number of alternative colours for folder icons....

The attached pet provides a shell script to choose a different colour and switch to it.

This will probably be integrated into the desktop appearance changer in the next release - so it doesn't have a menu item - run

lx-folder-options

either via the run command in the menu or in a terminal.
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#702 Post by Billtoo »

I burned the LxPupTahr-15.05.2-pae.iso to a multisession DVD+RW to use
on my macmini.
I used 2 sessions to do the setup, installed the kodi sfs in session 2
but it didn't show up in the menu after rebooting, I unloaded and
reloaded the sfs and it's back in the menu with all the settings from
session 2.

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz
Memory 16534MB (444MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System LxPupTahr - 15.05
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Mon 24 Aug 2015 12:14:17 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
Audio Adapter PC-Speaker - pcsp

Takes a while to boot but it's working well.

EDIT: I added wine-1.17.50 and some other applications.
Suspend works okay but needed a good shaking to wake it up.
Overall this is running smooth as silk :)


Thanks

EDIT:

root# uptime
10:05:34 up 10 days, 3:16, load average: 0.05, 0.21, 0.31
root#

Still running smooth as silk.
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LxPupPreciseRetro-15.09

#703 Post by peebee »

LxPupPreciseRetro is the flavour of LxPup suitable for older and/or slower computers, based on Precise Puppy 5.7.2

Download from here
The .iso is smaller due to better compression.

The previous release was LxPupPreciseRetro-15.02

I've updated it to the current "look and feel" of the other LxPup flavours (Slacko and Tahr flavours). So it now has flat-remix icons and W8PhoneColoursOB window borders.

Other changes are:

Opera is now the default web browser (Seamonkey is still available in the menu and can be set to the default using Setup -> Default Applications Chooser (neither have been updated).

The following components have also been updated:
  • bash_4.2-2
    frisbee-1.3.4-20150426
    getflash-1.5-6
    gtkdialog3
    openbox-3.6.1
    openssl-1.0.1p
    openssl-solibs-1.0.1p
    pfilesearch-2.0
    pfind-6.2
    ppm_auto-2
    PupControl-2.6
    Pup-SysInfo-2.6
    YASSM-2.7
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#704 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

LxPupTahr-15.05.2-pae.iso mirrored (though it downloaded from weebly plenty quick).

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LxPup-15.06.4-s-pae

#705 Post by peebee »

UPDATE
LxPup-15.06.4-s-pae.iso (the Slacko flavour) is available to download.

Changes are:Kernel unchanged

If you use this new version with an existing savefolder/savefile you should:

1. uninstall via the package manager wifitray-0.4alpha-lx.pet if you have installed this option

2. apply the following "patch" in a terminal and then restart the window manager if you get error messages about network_tray.desktop on startup:

Code: Select all

rm /root/.config/autostart/network_tray.desktop
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LXPupTahr with occasional boot failures

#706 Post by riedzig »

I use LxPupTahr-15.05.2 with nVIDIA propreitary driver 304.125, frugal install. Whereas the standard TahrPup 6.0.2 with the same nVIDIA driver has never shown any boot failures, LxPupTahr sometimes (cca 1 among 20) starts with frozen mouse and message "The nVIDIA X driver is found, but lacking the module for the current kernel 3.14.20". However, I can still navigate using arrow keys and keybindings and so get to reboot. After this it often starts correctly saying "nVIDIA driver is now running".

I read about conflicts with nouveau, blacklisted it, deleted parts of nouveau from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers, nothing helped so far. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Re: LXPupTahr with occasional boot failures

#707 Post by peebee »

riedzig wrote:I use LxPupTahr-15.05.2 with nVIDIA propreitary driver 304.125, frugal install. Whereas the standard TahrPup 6.0.2 with the same nVIDIA driver has never shown any boot failures, LxPupTahr sometimes (cca 1 among 20) starts with frozen mouse and message "The nVIDIA X driver is found, but lacking the module for the current kernel 3.14.20". However, I can still navigate using arrow keys and keybindings and so get to reboot. After this it often starts correctly saying "nVIDIA driver is now running".

I read about conflicts with nouveau, blacklisted it, deleted parts of nouveau from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers, nothing helped so far. Any advice would be appreciated.
Hi riedzig

That sounds very odd... What is the boot media? Is it pae or no-pae? Are you on a laptop or a desktop?

What is the md5 of your iso? You can check the correct value at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/files/LxPup15.05/

How have you installed the nvidia driver? by .pet or by .sfs? Where did you obtain the driver?
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#708 Post by riedzig »

Hi peebee, thanks for your interest
I'm on a desktop, motherboard GA-M68MT-D3P

It's LxPupTahr-15.05.2-pae, to be sure I downloaded the iso again, both have

6b11b68d795d9d22a95f55ca76b2360b

I installed the nVIDIA driver via Quickpet Tahr - Drivers - video upgrade wizard and selected 6.0.2.iso - nvidia 304.125 (I believe also PAE, I canˇt check it, though). The rest went automatically.

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#709 Post by peebee »

riedzig wrote:Hi peebee, thanks for your interest
I'm on a desktop, motherboard GA-M68MT-D3P

It's LxPupTahr-15.05.2-pae, to be sure I downloaded the iso again, both have

6b11b68d795d9d22a95f55ca76b2360b

I installed the nVIDIA driver via Quickpet Tahr - Drivers - video upgrade wizard and selected 6.0.2.iso - nvidia 304.125 (I believe also PAE, I canˇt check it, though). The rest went automatically.
Hi riedzig

It just so happens that my desktop also has an nvidia board requiring the 304.* driver....

I went through all the steps you took and rebooted a few times with no problems....

The only thing I can suggest is that the 304.128 version of the driver is now available - but you would have to build it yourself using getnvidia-1.0.pet to build either a .pet or .sfs from the .run file: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/304.128/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.128.run

This would need a compiling environment with the devx installed....

You could try posting on the nvidia thread to see if anybody else has the same problems - give as much info as you can - for instance can you capture the output from dmesg and lsmod when a problem boot occurs??

Sorry I can't help any more
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#710 Post by riedzig »

Thanks peebee, I´ll first try to make one or more parallel frugal installs, possibly with the driver assigned to 6.0.0 and let you know whether the issue persists.

Please one more thing: I wish to exclude "Recent documents" from the main menu, but find no option in configuration files (in /root/.config or /etc/xdg). Where can this be done?

Anyway Puppy with lxde is great!

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