Classic Pup 2.14X -- Updated 2 series

[clarf]

Hi clarf I forgot about the superswitcher, But I just compiled, feel like testing?
ttuuxxx

Hi ttuuxxx, It´s working really good after half hour. No more segmentation faults...

I can kill any application and Superswitcher still works without any problem.

Thank you,

clarf

[ttuuxxx]

excellent clarf glad its working right
ttuuxxx

[James C]

Thanks for the early Christmas present, ttuuxxx. It's 10:30 pm December 24th here so this was a nice holiday surprise.

Already installed on my trusty P3 test box and in the process of trying everything out. Looks like your usual great job.......

Here's hoping everyone has a safe and happy holiday.

[Roy]

Downloaded 214XRC2 and ran as a Live CD on a 2004 laptop. N-i-c-e!

Selected all the defaults upon initial boot-up, with the exception of the 1024x768 16 bit color resolution. Selected 1024x768 24 bit color and ran TEST instead; the test worked -- and the final selection took me to a totally black screen. No cursor, no icons, nada. Rebooted, and chose Xvesa -- looks good, but no drive icons on the bottom left of screen. Rebooted and just selected ALL defaults (16 bit color), and everything came up normal. Not my machine, and I don't have the specs -- but if the specs are desired, I can ask for them later.

Would not play a DVD from the optical drive. Gave these GUI error messages:

"Read error from: /dev/dvd", and
"The xine engine failed to start. No input plugin was found. Maybe the file does not exist or cannot be accessed, or there is an error in the URL."

So, I created an absolute link (re-)named dvd in the /dev directory to the CDROM icon from the desktop (see below image) and it worked.

Don't know if this was (is) a correct fix or not, but a guy's gotta' do what a guy's gotta' do....

All in all, this is a REALLY nice Puppy with a lot of thought apparent in the design. You guys are great!

-Roy[/img]

[Roy]

Two more things while I have internet access:

1) May everybody here have a Merry Christmas!

2) Does anybody have an opinion (or source) on which Skype dot-pet would work best with 214X?

(Of course, none of our above posts here are intended to be negative -- but rather as informative feedback.)

-Roy

[sinc]

just wondering where the new control panel is? i can't find it.

[ttuuxxx]

just wondering where the new control panel is? i can't find it.

Hi its under Menu/Personal/ControlPanel hmmm probably should move it to Menu/Setup
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Two more things while I have internet access:

1) May everybody here have a Merry Christmas!

2) Does anybody have an opinion (or source) on which Skype dot-pet would work best with 214X?

(Of course, none of our above posts here are intended to be negative -- but rather as informative feedback.)

-Roy

here's the latest skype
http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/2.14se ... 1.0.47.pet
username:puppy
password:linux

ttuuxxx

[Roy]

Thanks, ttuuxxx!

I am wondering about my "fix" for playing DVD movies, though. I don't see a dvd link in 431's /dev, so I am certain that the real solution is elsewhere....

With only my best wishes throughout this holiday season,

-Roy

[ttuuxxx]

Thanks, ttuuxxx!

I am wondering about my "fix" for playing DVD movies, though. I don't see a dvd link in 431's /dev, so I am certain that the real solution is elsewhere....

With only my best wishes throughout this holiday season,

-Roy

Hi Roy I don't have a issue with the DVD playback what so ever, It works perfect for my 3 home pc's, I don't have to make links or anything, I just open gxine and select File/DVD and it works, I wonder why you have issues. Anybody else with dvd issues?
Also best wishes to you and your family
ttuuxxx

[pemasu]

I havent got sounds working. With previous releases updating Alsa packages has worked and the onboard intel sound started working. Well I updated all Alsa packages from the ttuuxxx 214XX folder, but that didnt work. Propably not good idea to load all the packages.

Wireless with intel onboard wireless loses connection and wizards does not get it working again. Ndiswrapper got the driver working ok thought. Iwlagn would be the right driver. Needs propably command line hacking.

zdrv_214.sfs cant be added to boot up. No sfs found /mnt/home. Well it is nothing important anyway.

Md5 sum was ok. Cd burned with Puppy.

[ttuuxxx]

Here's a terminal ink monitor for printers, basically install the package and open a terminal and type ink and press enter then it will give you the commands like

Code: Select all

ink v0.5.0 (c) 2009 Markus Heinz

ink -p "usb"|"parport" [-n <portnumber>] | -d <device_file> | -v

'ink -p parport' Query first parallel port printer
'ink -p parport -n 1' Query second parallel port printer
'ink -p usb' Query first usb port printer
'ink -p usb -n 1' Query second usb port printer
'ink -p bjnp' Query first bjnp network printer
'ink -d /dev/usblp0' Query usb printer on device /dev/usblp0
'ink -b printer.my.domain' Query bjnp network printer on printer.my.domain
'ink -b 111.222.111.222' Query bjnp network printer on ip-address 111.222.111.222
'ink -v' Show version information

also there are better gui's for this library, but they either use QT or Gnome neither of which are included by default, So if anyone wants to hack together a little puppy gui using ink as the backend that would be real handy.
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

lol have a look at this webserver message when it can't find a file, lol its really good reading.
http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/.404.html
ttuuxxx

[pemasu]

I think the Webserver has brother called Marvin, the depressed robot, according to Douglas Adams.

Really awesome page not found, cut at the end...

"Everything here is just mind-numbingly stupid.
That makes me depressed too, since I have to serve them,
all day and all night long.
Two weeks of information overload,
and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash.
What kind of a life is that?
Now, please let me sulk alone.
I'm so depressed._"

Better New Year

[clarf]

I don't have any issue with DVD movies in gxine.

I have a symlink in /dev/dvd pointing to hdc. Puppy created it at startup...

clarf

[Roy]

Thanks, guys. If I am the only one with the problem, I am thinking it must have been a bad CD or something (rare, but not unheard of).... I am going to ask for a return of the CD in question to investigate further on my end (used it fresh from the burn to set a co-worker up with Puppy214X).

Again, I honestly appreciate you guys taking the time to verify the problem was only on my end. Makes me feel like 'family'.

And Clarf, now that you mention it, I do see the dvd symlink in 4.31's /mnt/dev/ as well (as an icon, not a folder). Thank you for pointing that out!

-Roy

I think when 214X finalizes, I'm going to be giving a lot of CD's away....

EDIT: STILL NO GO... Md5sum verified, but burn not verified when burning a new disk using burn2iso in Puppy 4.31. Everything looks okay except for the /mnt/dev/ directory; no dvd symlink and a curious-looking 'core' symlink that says "File doesn't exist, or I can't access it: /dev/core" (see attached screenshot). Burned another CD using xfburn from that 214XRC2 CD and the verified iso image -- and got the same thing. ATM I am testing on a Dell D610 laptop with common Intel hardware -- pretty standard fare, I should think. Help?!

[ttuuxxx]

Thanks, guys. If I am the only one with the problem, I am thinking it must have been a bad CD or something (rare, but not unheard of).... I am going to ask for a return of the CD in question to investigate further on my end (used it fresh from the burn to set a co-worker up with Puppy214X).

Again, I honestly appreciate you guys taking the time to verify the problem was only on my end. Makes me feel like 'family'.

And Clarf, now that you mention it, I do see the dvd symlink in 4.31's /mnt/dev/ as well (as an icon, not a folder). Thank you for pointing that out!

-Roy

I think when 214X finalizes, I'm going to be giving a lot of CD's away....

EDIT: STILL NO GO... Md5sum verified, but burn not verified when burning a new disk using burn2iso in Puppy 4.31. Everything looks okay except for the /mnt/dev/ directory; no dvd symlink and a curious-looking 'core' symlink that says "File doesn't exist, or I can't access it: /dev/core" (see attached screenshot). Burned another CD using xfburn from that 214XRC2 CD and the verified iso image -- and got the same thing. ATM I am testing on a Dell D610 laptop with common Intel hardware -- pretty standard fare, I should think. Help?!

Hi could you go to /dev/cdrom and me where its link to? all you do is hold the mouse pointer over it, my pc's is linked to /dev/hdb same with my /dev/dvd also you could just right click on /dev/cdrom and select copy and rename it to /dev/dvd
but knowing where your link should go would be a big hint how to fix this by default.
ttuuxxx

[Roy]

ttuuxxx,

Thanks for the helping hand. Here is what I've got so far:

- I verified my download of 214XRC2 via md5sum; checked good.
- I have burned a different copy using the iso burner in 4.31 (official) and each iso-burner included in 214XRC2; remembered that maybe only one past Puppy ever verified a multi-session burn, so re-did this with single-session mode; verified good burn (Pburn image attached)
-I still do not have a /dev/dvd symlink of any kind when running from a live CD (Well, that is unless I manually create one per your guidance)

Hi could you go to /dev/cdrom and me where its link to?

My /dev/cdrom link points to /dev/hdc and gxine plays a music CD just fine.

-Roy

[ttuuxxx]

Hi Guys here's a finance software that used to be in puppy 2 series, This is a new version that came out this nov
plus I made a locals package
ttuuxxx

[sinc]

so this is kind of weird... when i try to use "chat" in facebook, when i receive a message it opens gxine every time. weird, but annoying. not sure what could be causing that.