Lucid Puppy 5.0 - Bug Reports and Bug Fixes

[enhu]

anyone can tell me how i can make the compiz work please.
please tell me the link -- i'm using the lucid5

[enhu]

anyone can tell me how i can make the compiz work please.
please tell me the link -- i'm using the lucid5

[Béèm]

anyone can tell me how i can make the compiz work please.
please tell me the link -- i'm using the lucid5

Not by posting twice

[reo]

@Beem

yes i have a save file.

[Béèm]

@Beem

yes i have a save file.

Could you post your xorg.conf here?
Also what video controller do you have?

[Béèm]

I wanted to take a snapshot, but it didn't work.
Running in a console I saw libjpeg.so.7 was not found.
Downloaded a libjpeg package and now mtpaint and snapshot taking is working.

[imnotrich]

So I'm trying to boot puppy 5.0 live cd on a gateway ml-3109 laptop with two gigs of ram, and the boot hangs at keyboard selection. My laptop has a rather standard usa qwerty but the keyboard has been somehow disabled during the boot process and I am unable to select USA.

Possible clue - Quirky 110 does the same. Guess it's back to 4.3.1 for me!

Would love to use either distro on my laptop, but with no keyboard? Kind of a dealbreaker.

[Snail]

Downloaded 501, checked the md5sum and frugal installed to USB. First boot went well, xorg ok, woof woof ok, wifi using BK method ok. Saved with ext3 savefile. Rebooted ok.

I selected the Puppy browser for fun. When using the well-minded search, text which I had highlighted in urxvt started appearing in the search box

Starting Gxine via desktop icon or by clicking on a file in a rox window leads to a black-screen lockup. Even the power button is dead and I have to remove the battery to recover.

Compaq C793VU labtop
CPU Intel Celeron 560 @ 2.13GHz

[peebee]

HP 550 laptop running Puppy Linux 5.0.1 Live CD
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2066MB (144MB used)

When I click the media player gxine crashes the whole machine leaving a black screen with a stuck pointer.

Cheers
Peter

[Béèm]

HP 550 laptop running Puppy Linux 5.0.1 Live CD
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2066MB (144MB used)

When I click the media player gxine crashes the whole machine leaving a black screen with a stuck pointer.

Cheers
Peter

Can you delete/edit this post as it is adouble post.

[Béèm]

HP 550 laptop running Puppy Linux 5.0.1
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2066MB (144MB used)

When I click the media player gxine crashes the whole machine leaving a black screen with a stuck pointer.

Just a wild idea.
What video driver is loaded and does it match your video controller?
(see f.e. xorg.conf)

[JustGreg]

I am using Lucid Puppy 5.01as a "full installation". It works well on my Acer Aspire Revo, 1 Gigabyte Memory, Nvidia Ion Video chipset and Nvidia audio. I have two suggestions. The first is to make the default email like the default browser. Please allow the user to select either Sylpheed and Thunderbird. Having a choice of the browser is great.

The second is to add traytemp to JWM tray like Quirky 1.1. It is nice to see how hot things are getting. This would be especially good for a laptop. I have tried using the Quirky traytemp Pet package to add it. But, it does not work (no display).

I found that my posted Nvidia driver works well with version 5.01. Thanks for the fixes.

[edoc]

It turns out that when I thought I had overwritten the original Lucid 500 with the "luci-001" some of the old remained in the folder - creating conflicts at boot. Cleaned that up and Lucid 500 w/luci-001 update boots fine.

Having to use the generic Vesa driver is creating the already-reported by others scrolling problem, horizontally-fractured lines of text that are impossible to read.

[looseSCREWorTWO]

@imnotrich,
Quirky and Lucid did similar things to me, but Wary 020 worked OK. Wary is Quirky built in a different way. Last time I tried it Wary still had a few bits missing (no Grub Installer for example) but it might have been fixed by now.

[Béèm]

The second is to add traytemp to JWM tray like Quirky 1.1. It is nice to see how hot things are getting. This would be especially good for a laptop. I have tried using the Quirky traytemp Pet package to add it. But, it does not work (no display).

I have suggested it some time ago already, but I had no reaction.
Indeed, I tried traytemp from quirky also and all it does is make the place in the syst tray, but no display.

[peebee]

HP 550 laptop running Puppy Linux 5.0.1
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2066MB (144MB used)

When I click the media player gxine crashes the whole machine leaving a black screen with a stuck pointer.

Just a wild idea.
What video driver is loaded and does it match your video controller?
(see f.e. xorg.conf)

The Device section from xorg.conf is below - does this provide any clues??

Section "Device"
# Available Driver options are:-
# Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
# <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
# [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel" #card0driver
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

[Béèm]

peebee,
You have indeed an intel board and the intel driver is selected.
I checked if there has been issues on your board, but I didn't have hits.
It probably is a new type of controller.
So the xorg.conf looks correct.

As I said it is a wild guess that this is of importance.

There is one other test you could make.
Change the

Code: Select all

Driver "intel" #card0driver 

statement in xorg.conf and replace intel by vesa
Then restart X.
If you still have the same problem, I don't know what the problem could be.

[peebee]

peebee,
You have indeed an intel board and the intel driver is selected.
I checked if there has been issues on your board, but I didn't have hits.
It probably is a new type of controller.
So the xorg.conf looks correct.

As I said it is a wild guess that this is of importance.

There is one other test you could make.
Change the

Code: Select all

Driver "intel" #card0driver 

statement in xorg.conf and replace intel by vesa
Then restart X.
If you still have the same problem, I don't know what the problem could be.

Hmmm - well mixed results - making the suggested change does stop gxine crashing Puppy 5.0.1 however I only get a partial screen display with VESA - big black stripes down the sides - and unusable as some windows do not fit the shrunken screen.

For interest and comparison I did not have any problems like this with Puppy 4.3.1 which works just fine - the xorg.conf for 4.3.1 is:
Driver "intel" #card0driver
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
which differs from 5.0.1 in the BoardName

I think I am one of the many who will stick with 4.3.1 until 5.0.1 is properly sorted. I am also having problems with my WiFi connection which I'll put in a separate post.

Thanks for your interest and help - if you think of anything else for me to try I'll be happy to have a go.

Cheers
Peter

[lwill]

Not sure if this is bug, or what it is a bug in. PPM? Package deps? Default paths for KDE stuff? Yes, I did a quick search and did not find a similar problem.
Testing Lupu live from CD. Started OK. Found video OK. Network OK. Installed Fire Fox OK.
Use PPM to install kmajongg from ubuntu-lucid-main. Installed ok. Did not run.
Menu entry pointed to "kmajongg" but was installed to "/usr/games/kmajongg" so did not run.
Ran from console got:
/usr/games/kmahjongg: error while loading shared libraries: libdbusmenu-qt.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Used PPM to search for lindbusmenu and installed libdbusmenu-qt2_0.3.2.
Changed menu entry.
Ran OK.
(I am considering installing this for the mother-in-law, so if she tries to install something, I don't want her to have problems like this. She likes games )
Lyle

[Béèm]

For interest and comparison I did not have any problems like this with Puppy 4.3.1 which works just fine - the xorg.conf for 4.3.1 is:
Driver "intel" #card0driver
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
which differs from 5.0.1 in the BoardName

I think I am one of the many who will stick with 4.3.1 until 5.0.1 is properly sorted. I am also having problems with my WiFi connection which I'll put in a separate post.

Thanks for your interest and help - if you think of anything else for me to try I'll be happy to have a go.

Cheers
Peter

Sorry to hear this.
Well, as 5.xx seems to give trouble, you might try quirky/wary either the normal or the retro version.