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Jimm · Joined: 31 Jul 2011 Posts: 4

@gcmartin - thanks for all your help -- I got Log Out finally working! Your first tip -- adding "lhp video=640x480" to the boot parameters -- had no effect. Logging out still resulted in the blank screen.

So I tried your 2nd tip -- adding "pfix=vesa,ram" to the boot parameters (described here; note: the boot parameters in the LHP Grub entry already had "nomodeset"). The system booted up, and in the Lighthouse Video Wizard, I choose option #1 (Auto configuration). Not sure if that was the difference, but I was able to log out to the command line!

At the command line, I was able to reboot my computer. As part of the shutdown process, I saved the session in a new file, different from the one I had originally set up. So when LHP rebooted and located session files, it now presents three choices:

When I select choice #2, LHP boots up and I was able to switch between X Windows and Console Messages without any problems. And again, Log Out to the Command Line worked fine.

When I reboot and select choice #1, LHP boots up, but logging out still results in a blank screen. Since the two session files are used with the same Grub entry, I assume that they must differ in some configuration settings. Is there a way to determine this difference? I'd like to know what causes the different Log Out behaviors.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2637 Location: Earth

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1278 Location: UK

I'd like to know why the different logout behaviours as well!

I guess one possible way to look for differences is to use your 'logout works' save file and then do another sysinfo (and post it here).

Then we can try and compare to the first one you posted to see if there are any clues.

You seem to have solved the problem by letting x-org automatically configure itself.

We may also get a clue by comparing the xorg.conf file in both versions. Now, where is that file stored?? I do not have access to lhp at the moment. It is something like \etc\..X11\ ...
Use Pfind to find it.

tazoc · Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2011, 19:35 Post subject: NVIDIA, S3 graphics

theblackpig · Joined: 11 Aug 2011 Posts: 32 Location: oldham -uk

Hi,
Started playing around with Puppy 5.2.5 a couple of days ago and all though I consider it a brilliant distro it didn't quite meet my requirements.
I then found Lighthouse, not as easy to install but worth the struggle Shocked

(It's even better!!!)
A few simple questions (I'm a bit of an ignoramus when it comes to the operating system Embarassed

1) I would like to make Opera my default browser - how?
2) I did an update and now have a thing called Mariner on my desktop,
how do I get rid of it?
3)I would like thunderbird as my e mail program , how do I download and install it please?

tazoc · Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2011, 16:15 Post subject: Re: Newbie loves it but needs help

tazoc · Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2011, 16:26 Post subject: Serbian keyboard layout

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Hi TazOC,

Great to have you back.

Cheers,
Jim

theblackpig · Joined: 11 Aug 2011 Posts: 32 Location: oldham -uk

Many thanks tazoc ,brilliant distro

theblackpig · Joined: 11 Aug 2011 Posts: 32 Location: oldham -uk

Tried to install windows in Virtualbox- got to about 20% ran out of "free space" .Had to reboot delete the virtual machine and start from scratch,
tried again the same happened again at about 50% of install.

Is there any way of increasing free space without a constant reboot?

tazoc · Posted: Mon 15 Aug 2011, 20:05 Post subject: Re: Problem with free space

Darkgame · Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 203

can u provide lxde.sfs? I want to try it out in puppy

theblackpig · Joined: 11 Aug 2011 Posts: 32 Location: oldham -uk

tazoc · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2011, 11:40 Post subject: LXDE Light for Lupu

Barburo · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 275

Hi Taz,
Good to see you back on the forum. Not much action over on the LHP64 thread - It really is a good alpha!

I did something stupid (don't ask) and it took me a week of frustrating web work looking at windows blogs forums and articles, to restore (repair) the partition table and recover the Windows component of my laptop. There's lots of mis-information, and straight incorrect advice on the Win7 side. However I'm a bit wiser, and now I know how to do it (and even some of the why).

In the process I lost both my ext3 and ext4 partitions. I was able to get back most of my data through my own backups and using Testdisk (with photorec), and as a consequence I also have a brand new 500Gb backup disk courtesy of Costco.

I had to reload 503 final, and this time the pet for Chromium installed - and you set it up with thoughtful extras. I especially liked the theme you provided (sort of greeny/Jungle/Gauguin style).

However I clicked once on "use GTK Theme" in the Chrome preferences and found there was no way to get back the original theme! I do not know the name (and Chromium doesn't store its themes like Firefox does) and I've looked through to no avail. The pet for LHP64 Chromium doesn't have the same theme.

One observation on both pups - I always change the menu bar to the top, and in LXDE (503) and Openbox (L64) part of the top row of icons get covered, and when some new windows open, their title bar is covered covered and I need to press alt and drag the window a bit to work with them.
Xfce as I recall adjusts the icon placement and where windows open. Any suggestions?

B.