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exon · Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 19

well ttuuxxx you did your best but it ain't working. yes the scim icon is there yes you can use all kind of selections but it won't let you jump to a different language with the ctrl + spacebare. to view chinese characters on a webpage you only need to install the good fonts. (and yes that's working) but to write the scim need to work proppertly the languge data the scim bridge etc etc need to be installed ...i can't get any language working in your scim version.

too bad Sad

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 03 Jul 2010, 02:27 Post subject:

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3697 Location: UK

Also, how did you get Abi to work properly? I downloaded the 2.8.6.pet but is still dont display graphics like yours (this is for Quirky, not Qret)
The Xorg_high driver comes from the Lucid repo.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3697 Location: UK

CPU frequency scaling does not work on my system. This was true in Quirky as well and the reasin is discussed here:http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=424471#424471
The final fix is explained here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=424694#424694

This little .pet just overwrites your /usr/local/cpu-freq/cpu_func file with rcrsn51's correction and fixes it nicely.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3697 Location: UK

I have the updated network tray applet installed. Around half the time, it loads at boot up with a red cross (signifying no network even though it is all working). Re-starting X corrects the display of the icon. My guess is it needs a 'sleep' command somewhere to slow down its loading?
The same thing ALMOST happens in Quirky 1.2, but then the red cross disappears after a split second and the icon correctly displays as active.

Sylvander · Posted: Mon 05 Jul 2010, 02:26 Post subject:

Any idea why this version of Quirky fails to boot [kernel panic] on my 2002 hardware, when the basic retro Quirky [qret-104.iso] boots just fine? Confused

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3697 Location: UK

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 05 Jul 2010, 06:46 Post subject:

Sylvander · Posted: Mon 05 Jul 2010, 10:52 Post subject:

1. Tried qret-120.iso and that won't boot either.
Halts at:
Loading initrd.gz...isolinux: Disk error 80, ax = 4200, drive 9f
Boot failed: Press a key to retry...

2.
(a) When I 1st tried to boot qret-120-firefox-03.iso...
It started looking for suitable pupsave files to use...
I right then realised it would find and use the pupsave for qret-104->[qretsave.3fs], so I powered off the PC, then restarted and used...
puppy pfix=ram.
May have done something nasty to the qretsave.3fs contents at 1st boot attempt.

(b) That Quirky-1.1 [qret-104.iso] is now misbehaving.
Processor is displayed as running at high %-usage.
Optical drawer won't remain open; keeps closing soon after opening.

(c) Deleted qretsave.3fs and about to restore from a backup, but can't remember if that was made before [hope so] or after [hope not] the 1st attempt to boot.

charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 812 Location: South of Belgium

Hi ttuuxxx!
SOLVED: see EDITED below
see EDITED below

thanks again for this ! I enjoy the latetst abiword2.8.6 as also firefox3.6.6 !
I went just running it from live-cd and installing the french version (decompressed the tar.bz2 fr-archive in /root) of firefox - installed seems OK ! (on live-cd session - i.e. not frugall nor full install, just in RAM for testing).
I just noticed that:

1. I could not mount a USB stick nor the existing drives FROM the pop-up MENU (MENU/Filesystem/Pmount etc...). They do open well by clicking on their respective desktop icon instead.

2. Upon locale choice (Menu/Setup/Wizard Wizard/Configure Pup...country TT/choose your locale TT), fr-BE ALONE appears in the list ... whereas fr-BE@euro is listed on other locale choices on puppy derivatives as let us say...4.2.1 Deep Thought or others.

Does someone else also noticed this?

Cheers, Charlie

Edited:
Pmount works from menu on a fresh live-cd session - it seems that installing firefox_french could somehow bring the problem 1. above if the Firefox archive is decompressed in /root.
SOLUTION: If firefox-fr.tar.bz2 is decompressed inside /lib all is OK! no more problem

I have downloaded glibc_locale-2.7.pet from quirky ibiblio repository: fr_BE@euro was listed at first item instead of sorted along "f" chrarcter ...? I restarted X and ... OK: to check the locale, I verified in Gnumeric that the comma is actually used as decimal separator.
SOLUTION: No need to install any glibc_locale-X.X.pet : making a fresh new install, I noticed that the fr_BE@euro is listed at the 1st position in the locale menu (this is new for me ! ) Shocked

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 07 Jul 2010, 05:06 Post subject:

Here's a video converter I used system links and knocked the package down from 2707kb to 28kb Smile

Please test it and report the results
ttuuxxx

The original Transcoder thread is located at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=432302#432302

charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 812 Location: South of Belgium

Hi ttuuxxx,

again thanks for this version including Firefox + Abiword2.8.6

see EDITED below: it seems the cause to be linked to the xorg video driver choice

It seems that editing xorg.conf has no effect (I have edited it to get a wacom tablet working by copying the bits from an already working pup4.20; as also having installed the wacom-0.8.4-4-k2.6.30.5.pet driver according to Pizzasgood (thkx to him!) thread
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=56436&start=30

DaveS as already reported this here
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55406&start=240
and here
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=56436&start=30

I made this acc. to rscrn51 and Barry's post (thkx to them)

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4768 Location: Kentucky

A little late but I finally got around to doing a manual frugal install on the trusty P3 test box.
So far everything is working great and barring any surprises I'll be using this to replace the regular Quirky install on my main Linux box.Great work as usual. Smile

wuwei · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 740 Location: de

Hi ttuuxxx

thanks for your excellent make-over of Quirky.
Guess, however, you don't have a pppoe connection, because the original Quirky's pppoe problem has manifested in your version, as well.

In your 432v3 and your Quirky 120v3 pppoe is established the same way. After AutoDHCP for the LAN card, use pppoe_gui and setup the connection parameters, then start the connection. So far so good, this works in both versions.

To maintain the connection through a reboot 432v3 requires merely a symlink from /usr/sbin/pppoe-start_shell to /root/Startup. That works flawlessly every time.

No so in 120v3. The symlink has zero effect. A connection is not opened.
When rebooting without the symlink, it is NOT possible to use pppoe_gui and just click on the Start button. This does not open the connection. Rather one has to Start, then Stop, then Start again. After that the connection is open and stable.

Consequently I have created a startup shell script called pppoe.sh with this content:

wuwei · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 740 Location: de

This is very strange:

Converted a youtube flv video with Quirky's build-in FFconvert, using xvid and mp3 codecs. Conversion goes well, but when I want to play that transcoded video with the default player gnome-mplayer the entire system freezes. Not even Ctrl-Alt-backspace works anymore.