Hi abushcrafter,
I'm looking through your updates. Were any of them affecting stability? I will use the Transmission Pet and some others. Have you tried any later versions of CUPS, I think 1.42 is the latest? I'm focusing on packages that work with
Slackware-current--which is a pre-release for Slackware 13.1 incl. their latest glibc-2.11, glib2-2.22.4, OpenSSL 0.9.8, Xorg 7.5, Mesa 7.7 and
KDE 4.4.2. I have a couple of test builds, one with Barry's 2.6.33.2 kernel. Likely that will be LHP5.0 A build 480. 'Xorg -configure' won't run on my ATI adapter but Xorg 7.5 starts OK anyway without any configuration. I'm working on the latest OpenGL/3D support built-in and hope that we won't need proprietary drivers for running CF/Desktop Effects. The Base ISO will hopefully have basic 3D working and Mariner will include the full 38M of Mesa dri modules for best performance. I'm trying to nail down whether accomplishing that requires Slackware's updated Hal/Udev/Message bus to be in Mariner or just with KDE as before...
Barburo wrote:Hi TazOC,
MU's pet fixed my screen resolution problems on the notebook, and tempestuous modified the ralink driver and my Buffalo wi-fi dongle now works so I get connectivity on the new notebook.
I've had a little time to try out the features of GU2.
I have two laptops (my new Acer 5810TZ and the older Sony Vaio), plus a couple of older desktops and I have put GU2 on all of them.
Sweet! MU and Tempestuous have contributed a great deal to Puppy.
I mentioned before that occasionally the boot process hangs. I've had this at least once on all of the machines. It usually happens just after the mount process because I get the messages that sda1 ... etc mounted then it hangs. I also get an occasional hang before the screen displays on one of the desktops. In all cases rebooting fixes it.
Weird, I wonder if something in the start-up needs a delay or two for certain machines. Intermittent bugs are tough to solve.
When using the Buffalo dongle I find the regular connection wizard wont work (scan finds my router but I cannot get a proper IP address that matches the router). The address it comes up with is 169.254.157.2
If I use the "old" connection wizard I can get an IP address that works but I need to run it two (or even three) times before I get a proper connection through the router. Sometimes the wizard will tell me that has established a connection but if I look in Hardware Info/network it's the 169.254.157.2 strange IP that I have been unable to identify on the web. Even after getting a good IP address it does not persist from session to session. I always need to reconnect each session even though the "Trying to get IP address ..." message is displayed during the last part of the boot process. Perhaps these symptoms are related - any thoughts?
Sounds like the DHCP/DNS process isn't quite right. Have you tried resetting your router? My dongle works fine on connection but with heavy traffic drops out occasionally and I have to re-connect. It's frustrating but fortunately at home I can connect wired, rock-solid and LHP does it automatically.
C-F runs on those machines with enough graphics to support it. One strange thing is that when C-F loads it brings up QPS and sometimes the QPS preferences dialogue too. Doesn't happen if I leave the C-F .sfs file out of the boot.
I'm having that problem with a newer build of qPS, even w/o C-F, so will keep working on that...
Sidebar is good to look at but doesn't show my wireless links - it only shows eth0 so I use GKrellmon which does show it.
I'm attaching a substitute Sidebar theme, for CF/Desktop Effects in '/root/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/Sidebar_Effects/'. If your Wi-Fi connection is not wlan0 there is a readme inside on how I did it--a simple search|'replace all' in Geany works.
One last cosmetic comment - I much preferred the "white on blue" reversed text and bold blue boot messages you used previously to the white/green and green bold that you've used in GU2.
I thought something different would be fun, but I agree with you. I'll switch back to the previous color scheme.
Others in this thread have complimented you on being able to do all this development on your own. It staggers my mind too, and I still think LHPup is the best Puppy derivative. I'm also testing out Lucid Pup 6 based on Woof and Ubuntu binaries. I find that connectivity is much less of an issue (uses the 2.6.33.x kernel) but it doesn't have the look or all of the amazing features and desktop alternatives that LHP has. I know you're working on the next iteration of LHP and I'm sure it'll be in line with your regular first class efforts. Keep up the fantastic work.
B.
Thank you, I will. I received one donation so far this year and it was a generous amount. Really made my day! My work relies on the substantial efforts of many others--Linux truly is a global collaborative achievement. [--=feeling proud and grateful=--] Most of it unpaid, shared with few expectations and thankfully mostly free of the politics and ruthless corporate mechanics of for-profit operations. I only wish I had the energy and enthusiasm needed to make Lighthouse Pup earn praise throughout the Linux Community. Well, just keep working on that and take it one day at a time!
Take care,
TazOC
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