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Béèm · Posted: Fri 04 Jun 2010, 13:28 Post subject:

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

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 901 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

lwill · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 168 Location: City Of Lights

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 Very Happy

)
Lyle

Béèm · Posted: Sat 05 Jun 2010, 13:41 Post subject: Re: Results of swap intel for vesa

rsaavedra · Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 8

Ran the live CD, worked fine. Then I used the Universal installer and requested a full install on a dedicated partition, this is on a PC that had four partitions in total: one with WinXP, another with just data, the third one a small partition I created for linux swap, and the fourth the one I was going to use for Puppy. (Wanted to have WinXP and Puppy on this machine in a dual boot mode.)

After installing Puppy I went for the menu option to install grub, and asked to have it installed in the MBR, even though it's not supposed to be the "safest" option, but it had worked before for me in previous versions, if I recall correctly.

Restarted the PC after the grub install finished, and grub's menu appeared. Selecting WinXP worked fine. Restarted and selected Puppy, but it did not work. It gave me a "Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel" message.

Fortunately, that was an easy to fix bug. The menu.lst file indeed did not have an initrd line.

What is more, for some reason the grub installation left the following line in /boot/grub/menu.lst :
kernel /boot/vmlinuz

When in fact, the installation had left the vmlinuz file right under /, not under /boot

I had to fix both of these problems in the menu.lst file. After that, choosing Puppy on the grub menu did finally boot Puppy.

As easy to fix as these bugs were, they are likely to ruin the installation experience for more than one newbie. Especially because a bare full installation on a dedicated partition using grub I think should require no user intervention to "fix" misconfigurations like these.

It is kind of ironic that the grub installation did perfectly find Windows XP and did launch it without a problem, whereas the fresh Puppy installation just created by the same Live CD could not be launched from that same grub install.

PS. I also think the universal installer could handle the installation of grub by itself, instead of telling the user to go ahead and install grub after having installed Puppy.

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4350 Location: merriam, kansas

The menu.lst for a full install does not use an initrd line.

The installer does the install of grub itself; just asking where you
want it.

rsaavedra · Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 8

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4350 Location: merriam, kansas

The important thing is; it's working for you.
My guess is that you did a frugal install; did it have you make a
save file?

Here is a full install video ; see if it's the same as the way
you did it.

This video doesn't include the dual boot with Windows.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=2032419465&t=29653

Maybe there's something strange about the installer in these new
releases

rsaavedra · Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 8

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

I used to be able to enter username root password woofwoof in CUPS for administrator settings,
Now it does not work,
So how do I change settings?

EDIT:
Got administrator setting working without having a window pop up for username password!

I edited cupsd.conf by commenting out the line "Require user @SYSTEM" as per the following segment.
Of course you must realize that this takes away some protection. But we never had that much with cups anyway.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2625 Location: Earth

@rsaavedra is sharing some important info here. Judging from his account of the GRUB changes, it seems that he has a install issue that is cause for some review.

Maybe should take note and address this. For newbie acceptance if nothing else.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Béèm · Posted: Sun 06 Jun 2010, 18:19 Post subject:

novellahub · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Shakopee, MN USA