Classic Pup 2.14X -- Updated 2 series

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taca0 · #3801 Post by **taca0** » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 13:16

Problem:
I have an via epia m board.

I select xorg and test and not show anythings (black)

ok I select vesa and starts but the keyboard dont work righ, only shows a graphic in the center o screen but I can not do more..

Aitch · #3802 Post by **Aitch** » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 15:49

taca0

The EPIA M has the VIA Unichrome chipset AFAIK, but may have different versions, VIA CLE266, KM400/KN400, K8M/N800, PM/N800 and CN400 chipsets being common
I believe the XORG VIA driver in puppy should load OK, but there may be issues with hardware acceleration/DRI or OpenGL

I think also bios updates have been known to fix this, but need doing from windoze or MSDOS boot using a win98 boot disk, with the bios update downloaded to C:\ or floppy

There are a couple of threads, but for earlier puppies

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28061

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16903

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22933

tempestuous did a lot of work on this so may be best to solve it with you

HTH

Aitch

James C · #3803 Post by **James C** » Sat 28 Aug 2010, 04:53

Running top-3 some every day, nothing really to complain about but just trying to get accustomed to Metacity.Really solid release.

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clarf · #3804 Post by **clarf** » Sat 28 Aug 2010, 19:38

MinHundHettePerro wrote:
MinHundHettePerro wrote:BTW, how do I change the number of desktops in 214X-xfce, I know I've done it in other xfce distros, but can't seem to find how to do it here .
To answer my own question:
Rename (uncomment) /root/.gconf/apps/metacity/general/%gconf.xml to /root/.gconf/apps/metacity/general/%gconf.xml, i.e. remove the leading % from the filename, and edit the line
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<entry name="num_workspaces" mtime="1282316500" type="int" value="2">
to read
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value="3"
Took some fumbling in the dark, peeking and poking around, to find out how... Anyhow, I'm a much happier puppeteer now that I have 3 virtual desktops... ...

Cheers /
MHHP

Hi MHHP,

There´s a faster way to change the number of desktops in metacity, this command apply changes instantaneously. Type:

gconftool-2 --set --type int /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 4

change the number according to your needs, I also found another good gconftool tricks:

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-Display some metacity settings:

gconftool-2 -R /apps/metacity

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- Disable animations and effects to reduce resources consumption:

gconftool-2 --set --type bool /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources true

If someone need it, I could build a new GUI application to control this metacity settings.

I also played with lxpanel:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 8&start=25

clarf

MinHundHettePerro · Sat 28 Aug 2010, 21:54

clarf,
Many thanks for your info

!

It will make my metacity learning curve less steep.

One thing I haven't found out yet, though;
Right-clicking with mouse on the backdrop is sent by Rox to window manager (if option ticked, of course), but how do I get metacity to then call xfce (or any other panel's) menu?

Have found myself right-clicking on the desktop umpteen times, expecting a menu, but getting nothing (power of habit is strong

).

Cheers

/
MHHP

puppyluvr · #3806 Post by **puppyluvr** » Sun 29 Aug 2010, 15:58

Hello,
Well been running the rc5 version for 24 hours now and well, very nice work Ttuuxxx, as usual..Runs very fast and smooth on my dinosaur....Have installed Wine, Java, Conky and Fotoxx...Firefox is now 3.5.12 and heavily tweaked for social media...Firefox remains very stable thru updates..
At idle CD boot w/save..................................................................w/Firefox running....

.

Nice and light, and swift...
Great for this old machine..

Machine specs: P3 600 w/ 384mb ram, 512mb swap partition, intel i810 video and audio, 1 -2gb (boot)hdd, 1 -200gb (storage)hdd, Lite on "tulip" ethernet..

Will try a frugal install next...

crsrds · #3807 Post by **crsrds** » Sun 29 Aug 2010, 17:40

I tried top3 today, works fine with all the applications I need. Upgraded to top3 from RC5. Set it as my OS.
Tx tuuxxx.

crsrds · #3808 Post by **crsrds** » Sun 29 Aug 2010, 19:48

Hi,
I connect to a SCO server using a thin client with 214 and putty. Each user has a $Home directory on the server. This directory has the user files that get flushed everyday(sysadmin policy).
I need to write a script that will enable me to see all the current files in my $home directory, select one or two of them and copy them to my local machine. The files are not large, The server supports ssh.
The need is to place this scipt on the desktop so that users can click on it, see the files in their $Home directory and copy the needed files from the server to the local thin client.
This is very essential for me and any help is most welcome.
I can use pscp/psftp, but the syntax is long and many users cannot use these features. We need a click/select./copy application. Pl help.
Thanks,
crsrds

clarf · #3809 Post by **clarf** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 03:18

Hi ttuuxxx,

I discovered a bug in 214XRC5, related to the initialization of Network Services (/etc/init.d scripts).

To resume, Network Services like Hiawatha can´t be loaded because they are executed before the network setup is complete.

The rc.services script already has a delay time but slow machines, slow network interfaces or HDD boots makes the delay not enough. The real solution is modify the rc.sysinit to remove the services execution and move it to the rc.local0 script, just after the network setup is executed.

I attach a new version for both scripts that solves the problem. Tested on different systems and PUPMODE.

Greetings,
clarf

crsrds · #3810 Post by **crsrds** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 04:36

Hello Forum,
Please ignore my previous post. I found a solution through filezilla.
Can someone kindly let me know the latest version of filezilla for top3?
Thanks.

#3811 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 12:22

crsrds wrote:Hello Forum,
Please ignore my previous post. I found a solution through filezilla.
Can someone kindly let me know the latest version of filezilla for top3?
Thanks.

i just compiled the latest, as requested, http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... 1-i386.pet tell me if its missing any libs, I was real tired when I packed this

ttuuxxx

crsrds · #3812 Post by **crsrds** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 18:00

Dear tuuxxx,
I downloaded the filezilla pet and installed it on top3. No, there were no missing libraries and it is working perfectly.
Thank you for doing this even when you were so tired.
Best regards,
crsrds.

sullysat · #3813 Post by **sullysat** » Mon 30 Aug 2010, 21:00

crsrds wrote:Dear tuuxxx,
I downloaded the filezilla pet and installed it on top3. No, there were no missing libraries and it is working perfectly.

Since it worked for crsrds, I added Filezilla to the mirror.

Sully

#3814 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 31 Aug 2010, 06:35

I recompiled and this time I gave it static wxgtk libs

It went from 5.9MB to 3.7MB compressed, nice savings

same link< I deleted the larger one.
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... 1-i386.pet
enjoy
ttuuxxx

#3815 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 31 Aug 2010, 11:23

Here's a chm file/document reader, compiled with static wxgtk libs
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... 7-i386.pet
the nice thing about it, if your using chm files is that you can export it via the printer as pdf and then you can open it with evince and copy and paste the text into abiword and from there edit away

also here's a nice text /code editor with static wxgtk libs http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... e-i386.pet
The only thing it doesn't like is xml files named .conf strange that.

ttuuxxx

sullysat · #3816 Post by **sullysat** » Tue 31 Aug 2010, 15:44

ttuuxxx wrote:I recompiled and this time I gave it static wxgtk libs It went from 5.9MB to 3.7MB compressed, nice savings
same link< I deleted the larger one.
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... 1-i386.pet
enjoy
ttuuxxx

Replaced the previous version with this one on the mirror.

Also added the editors above.

Sully

crsrds · #3817 Post by **crsrds** » Tue 31 Aug 2010, 19:19

Replaced.

puppyluvr · #3818 Post by **puppyluvr** » Wed 01 Sep 2010, 05:54

Hello,
Still running rc-5, from the CD...tried a frugal...
"init is the parent of all processes..."
Crazy huh...
Every time...is it me????

72 hrs in:
Runs sweet, and fast, on the old P3 600
Probably the fasted Pup ever on the old dino...
I`m pushing the "@#$%" out of it, and its taking it...
Gimp, Wine, etc...
Firefox has run into some rendering errors...
Nothing terminal....

All in all, incredible...
2.14.....2.6.18.7 kernel....Really???
Amazing....

I believe I`ll try a full install...

MinHundHettePerro · Wed 01 Sep 2010, 08:56

puppyluvr

For your frugal; to avoid being notified of the ancestry of all processes, add to your kernel line

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root=/dev/ram0

This was used for earlier puppy series, was deprecated from puppy3, I believe.

hth

/
MHHP

clarf · #3820 Post by **clarf** » Wed 01 Sep 2010, 17:24

MinHundHettePerro wrote:clarf,
Many thanks for your info !

It will make my metacity learning curve less steep.

One thing I haven't found out yet, though;
Right-clicking with mouse on the backdrop is sent by Rox to window manager (if option ticked, of course), but how do I get metacity to then call xfce (or any other panel's) menu?

Have found myself right-clicking on the desktop umpteen times, expecting a menu, but getting nothing (power of habit is strong ).

Cheers /
MHHP

Hi MHHP, I didn´t find a solution to call Xfce panel menu from metacity. But found binding keys related info that could be useful:

http://people.gnome.org/~bmsmith/gconf- ... acity.html

I also found that several errors are shown in /tmp/xerrs.log after metacity starts:

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Window manager warning: "(null)" found in configuration database is not a valid value for mouse button modifier
Window manager warning: Could not parse font description "(null)" from GConf key /apps/metacity/general/titlebar_font
Window manager warning: 0 stored in GConf key /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_size is out of range 1 to 128

Seems like a default configuration flie must be created with valid keys for metacity. I´ll test a solution tomorrow an let you know.

Greetings,
clard

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