Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

divisionmd · Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 608

Hello,

Dont know if this bug is already reported in.

- Cant connect to a WPA 1 wireless network, using PSK passphrase.

This did not work in Alpha 1 or in Alpha 2.

- However using Puppy 2.17 it works like a clock and connects without anyproblem.

My access point is a Proxim Ap-2500M. Standard product when building large wireless networks (mesh).

Best regards,
Johan

Béèm · Posted: Wed 26 Mar 2008, 14:58 Post subject: Adding syndaemon and synclient

Not directly a bug report but a request to add this support in order to better control the synaptics driver, f.e. to disable completely the touch pad.

disciple · Posted: Thu 27 Mar 2008, 23:16 Post subject:

EDIT - Ignore - that doesn't seem to be what fixed it after all...

nic2109

disciple · Posted: Fri 28 Mar 2008, 07:50 Post subject:

What level of hardware is Puppy compiled for now?
I copied my main (non-Dingo) setup onto an older PC with a 350Mhz Pentium 2 processor. This setup has the Dingo Mplayer and ffmpeg packages installed. Mplayer crashes with

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 971 Location: England

A week ago (bit of a time lag here!) I used to Petget package manager to download and install the GIMP 2.4.0-rc3 package. It was supposed to be a 16MB download, but only 6MB downloaded. I let it install, but got a list of missing dependencies that went off the bottom of the screen- presumably the missing 10MB?

So I suppose Dingo is ok- the bug must be in the PET package? Or is it fixed already?

Gerry

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

Not sure if this counts as a real bug, but I have problem with Xorg locking up on hardware probing, while running Puppy in QEMU. Xvesa works correctly. Any way to debug it? Tried using loglevel=7, but as far as I see it worked only until video selection.

paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 875 Location: ST862228

Full HD install. en_GB, UK keyboard configured.

Keyboard oddity:
keys do not "repeat" & I have to press a key repeatedly to get repeated characters.

Esoteric keyboard oddity:
When running x11vnc from an Acer 5610 laptop to the HD dingo, the keymapping is incorrect as I cannot obtain a "pipe" sign or a "Pound sterling" sign (latter produces just "3" , former produces backslash -- i.e. they aren't "shifted") ; Key repeats however work fine.

capoverde · Posted: Sat 29 Mar 2008, 04:32 Post subject: Double file entries.

With alpha7, when saving or loading a file from an application, sometimes all file entries appear twice in the file selector window. This gets back to normal by going to the "parent" directory then re-entering the "child".

Found no other report of this, and it seems odd. Is it happening only to me?

BarryK · Posted: Sat 29 Mar 2008, 11:24 Post subject:

GrumpyWolfe · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 496

Hi to all

I have been trying to make a replacement for gxset. This time I may have made enough headway for it to be at least a working start. There is one problem, with gxset still installed it will reset the xsetting on each reboot. But I have been able to reset most of the setting untill I reboot. I had it to where it would reopen the main window but the same line of code all at once stopped working. I will try and find out why.

Berry I hope this will work as a replacement for gxset and mite make it into puppylinux.

So please someone give it a try and give me some feed back.

Greatnessguru · Posted: Sun 30 Mar 2008, 06:08 Post subject:

Thanks, Barry...

I'm using Puppy 3.96, but plan to burn 4.00.BETA.

I just did both Full and Frugal installs on a
1997 Gateway 2000, Pentium MMX 200 MHz, 64 MB, 2 GB.
(The local 12 MAR 2008 ad said: FREE GATEWAY COMPUTER
with monitor and keyboard. As is.)
I'm using the Full installation ATM to compose this.

1. Please: Could NEWGRUBTEXT be put in the
Frugal install directory?

2. When unused, but running, Puppy seems to be accessing the HD
every few seconds. This is very bad for HD longevity.

Could the HD be left alone, not accessed,
and Powered Down, please,
when Puppy is unused, but running,
for minutes/hours/days at a time?

The screen blanks after the 12 minutes I selected in the BIOS Setup,
but the HD stays active.

3. Very much need a way to access WebDAV directories/"Folders".
I do not know what options you have, but providing an
Official PET of "cadaver" might help for now:
http://webdav.org/cadaver/

Thank you, and the all volunteer crew, very much,
Eddie Maddox

BarryK · Posted: Sun 30 Mar 2008, 07:00 Post subject:

Greatnessguru

Using Puppy 3.96:

# cd /
# cd mnt
# mkdir dav0
# mount -t davfs "http://..." dav0
mount: unknown filesystem type 'davfs'

Barry, I need webDAV access. So, can this be fixed, please?

An official PET of "cadaver", as mentioned before, would also be nice, for flexibility, but, fixing "mount -t davfs" is a "must". Ok?

Thanks very much,
Eddie Maddox

disciple · Posted: Sun 30 Mar 2008, 21:41 Post subject:

Thanks for that mplayer information Barry.

Does anybody know if there is a good reason for the userChrome.css hack that prevents the Seamonkey gui from obeying GTK font settings? Because if I remove it, then Seamonkey still appears to work fine, and it actually matches everything else (except JWM - I changed the font preferences in every config file I could find, and it still doesn't work:cry: Rolling Eyes

)

Now if only I could fix a couple of the other annoying things about seamonkey...