(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 18:02**

hi all

mick devx link broken in slickpet PAE version (no file there)

cheers

Don

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 18:56**

Here are some Jwm themes for your consideration. My latest ones are further down the page.

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 19:08**

01micko wrote:Well .. it's 2 minutes to midnight.. ..

Changes
......
added scanpci -8-bit (for net_setup.sh)
...............
other stuff I forget

You must have been tired.
the file scanpci is not to be found.
The closest I could come was a file in /root/.packages/builtin_files/scanpci that contains two lines of "/usr" and "/usr/bin".

opps.

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 19:29**

manual frugal install to ext4 pfix=ram of RC++ without issue on this dual core p6100 hp. continues to auto-detect broadcom wifi driver on wlan0.

multi-sound card continues to appear not to work as it does not save the prior choice each time a movie is played.

continues to use the same name as iirc 4 other pups.

overall very fast and responsive.

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 20:21**

Used slickpet to download Cloud and after a reboot I see an icon named Cloud on the desktop which on clicking gives me a set of icons for...dropbox, facebook, gmail etc.
But clicking on any of these app icons does nothing.
Does this work for anyone else?
Frugal install to a HDD.

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 21:45**

8-bit.. weird, as you can see it got put in, maybe it went to devx? I'll fix it.

jim3630 .. can you check and see if /etc/asound.conf exists and if so are the contents consistent with your choice? (try xine-ui in ppm, let me know if it's ok)

666philb, sorry , it will be in, alsaconf is a must. (ok, found woof bug, getopt will be in)

eternal-sunshine, just shecked "cloud", fully working here

Was you browser minimised? Sometimes some browsers in some situations don't maximise when something is called externally.

Stripe, the xz compressed devx downloaded for me in 5 mins using seamonkey. I always use wget normally. The easiest way is to drag the link directly to a Rox folder, voila! Wget just starts.

tasmod.. is zdump part of the psync package? If not then it's awol too.

(ok, it's on devx)

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 22:13**

Zdump is part of libc-bin package in debian squeeze.

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 23:10**

Cloud working for me
template is good plan

enclosed cleaned up 48x48 cloud icons

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 23:30**

pemasu wrote:Zdump is part of libc-bin package in debian squeeze.

Trouble is zdump is redirected to devx.. I hacked 3builddistro... should be ok.

Still a real mystery about scanpci.. it's there in packages-slacko complete

. I made a template, maybe that will work, certainly a woof bug.

Template for modules-init-tools and util-linux are now fixed (lsmod bug, not that any body saw that one

and getopt bug)

For woofers I have scripted the fixes, will post later.

Posted: **Sat 22 Oct 2011, 23:32**

01micko wrote

eternal-sunshine, just shecked "cloud", fully working here Was you browser minimised? Sometimes some browsers in some situations don't maximise when something is called externally

Cloud now working okay. You were correct... it was a browser issue.

I had installed Chromium and although I said I didn't want it as the default browser it seemed to have set itself as default anyway. And to make matters worse it wasnt working either. Hence no cloud. Tried to uninstall Chromium in PPM but wouldnt work. This was chromium-16.0.881-slacko.pet obtained from slickpet by the way.
Sorry to trouble you.

Also installed to a laptop using SiS chipset and the trackpad is no longer slow with this version.

Many thanks

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 00:03**

Now downloaded Opera from slickpet and this doesn't show in Change Defaut Browser window in the tray.

Where can I manually edit the choice of browsers in the change default list?

Thanks

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 00:08**

8-bit wrote:I think I have found the problem.
I examined /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d and in particular lines 517 to 527.
I then copied them without a call to save to the pupsave and added a short sleep line.
Evidently the program id for yaf-splash is not being got correctly because it does not get killed as intended.

Maybe one of our members can make sense of this.
Code: Select all
#! /bin/bash
  yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -placement top -text "Saving RAM to 'pup_save' file..." &
  YAFPID=$!
sleep 0.5  # My added line
#  sync
#  nice -n 19 /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy

  kill $YAFPID

Ok... I'm definitely missing something

Hers's the lines from stock RC2 pup_event_frontend_d

Code: Select all

savepuppy_func() { #called every 4 seconds.
 if [ -f /tmp/snapmergepuppyrequest ];then #by request.
  rm -f /tmp/snapmergepuppyrequest
  #yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -placement top -text "Saving RAM to 'pup_save' file..." &
  yaf-splash -bg orange -placement top -close never -text "Saving RAM to 'pup_save' file..." &
  YAFPID=$!
  sync
  nice -n 19 /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy
  kill $YAFPID
 fi
}

You can see the comment. In fact that is the only instance of "yaf-splash -font" in the whole script. None at all in snapmerge-puppy.

Correction: there other "yaf-splash -otheroptions -font" calls, all commented out.

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 00:36**

01micko wrote:Hers's the lines from stock RC2 pup_event_frontend_d

Yes. And the bug is at /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash in line 25-26.

Code: Select all

  eval "/usr/X11R7/bin/yaf-splash ${FIXEDPARAMS}"
  exit

It should be:

Code: Select all

  eval "exec /usr/X11R7/bin/yaf-splash ${FIXEDPARAMS}"

But the gtkdialog-splash in the Wary-511-01q is better solution.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4&start=15

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 00:59**

01micko wrote:
jim3630 .. can you check and see if /etc/asound.conf exists and if so are the contents consistent with your choice? (try xine-ui in ppm, let me know if it's ok)

01micko

/etc/asound.conf does exist and shows:
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 3

xine-ui from the ppm will not play avi.
it did in other distros.

now error: lacks codex XviD (Null).
but does output the sound correctly to the tv.

gnome-mplayer from the menu still will not save correct output to the tv
even given the asound.conf file.

although xine did output sound to the tv
think the default settings in asound.conf are incorrect. should not be pcm but HDMI

tried /etc/asound.conf:

defaults.intel[HDA intel].card 0
defaults.HDMI 0 [HDMI 0].device 3

but did not work.
-------
reverted to
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 3
--------------------------------------

01micko

checked in exprimo 5x9 where multi-sound card works.

/etc/asound.conf shows:
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 3

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 01:07**

shinobar wrote:
01micko wrote:Hers's the lines from stock RC2 pup_event_frontend_d
Yes. And the bug is at /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash in line 25-26.
Code: Select all
  eval "/usr/X11R7/bin/yaf-splash ${FIXEDPARAMS}"
  exit
It should be:
Code: Select all
  eval "exec /usr/X11R7/bin/yaf-splash ${FIXEDPARAMS}"
But the gtkdialog-splash in the Wary-511-01q is better solution.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4&start=15

That one line modification works just fine for me. And it allows the custom font to be used whereas the one from Wary does not.

I personally will be using your script with your modified one line.
Thank you for sorting that out.

Oh, yes. I did test it and it works fine with the modified line.
I left the "exit" in line 26, and only modified line 25.

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 02:02**

jim3630 wrote:[snip]
01micko

checked in exprimo 5x9 where multi-sound card works.

/etc/asound.conf shows:
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 3

Ok, so it's a bug in gnome-mplayer or even mplayer. It's way too late to recompile those now. Only suggestion is to try either, smplayer, umplayer or vlc (standalone) and see if they work.

If not release will be delayed by several weeks, I've gotten way too busy in real life, timing couldn't be worse

EDIT! jim3630.. I will post an older gnome-mplayer, I urgently need to know if it works, it does save the config
http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko ... 2-i486.pet

EDIT2: actually gmtk, a new dep for gnome-mplayer requires gconf to save configs properly, way too bloated to put in

. I really don't like the way gnome-mplayer has gone, the 1.02 version posted should work ok, After that gnome 3 became the focus..

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 02:25**

Am using shino's gtkdialog splash but with a mod so you can use a non-stock icon

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 02:35**

I did a frugal install, booted up, shut down, and saved an encrypted (ext2) save file. The next boot showed a kernel panic.

If I save with no encryption, the next boot is fine.

This was the same in RC1 and I waited in hope it would be resolved later.

Here is the bootloader info:

menuentry "slacko_529" {
recordfail
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7cd04108-7100-41b2-8d04-467fdb9760d2
linux /00_puppy/slacko_529/vmlinuz pmedia=ataflash pfix=copy psubdir=00_puppy/slacko_529
initrd /00_puppy/slacko_529/initrd.gz
}

TIA.

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 02:39**

jim3630 wrote: xine-ui from the ppm will not play avi.
it did in other distros.

now error: lacks codex XviD (Null).
but does output the sound correctly to the tv.

Can confirm same result from xine-ui in 2.6.37.6....audio but no video.Same avi files play fine in default Mplayer.

Posted: **Sun 23 Oct 2011, 03:06**

manual frugal install RC2

I am still seeing the issue with resolution setting as reported here when testing Slacko RC1
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 459#573459

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Slacko RC2

Re: Slacko RC2

Cloud