Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

boof · Joined: 26 Sep 2012 Posts: 200

by default, a local directory to install downloaded programs from in PPM?

I grow tired of racking my brain trying to create this function, as I frequently try to install non pet files and find it difficult, if not utterly impossible-even though I know it is designed to do it. The lack of automation/clear 4 noobs documentation is abominable, or i'm not doing it right. I'm getting too old to keep doing this.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7841 Location: qld

devx is up at ibiblio, can someone check md5 please? I'm out for the day now.

Thanks

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6017 Location: Kentucky

MinHundHettePerro · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 856 Location: SE

Beware, though, that although nluug shows the correct devx-size, md5 bums out ...

/MHHP

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 2224 Location: Ontario Canada

I connected a 19" widescreen monitor to my netbook and set
it up with the catalyst control utility.
The external monitor is set to monitor 1 and the netbook is monitor 2,
each monitor has the correct screen resolution.
Never tried it before, it works well.
# report-video
Report Video 1.4 - Thu 13 Dec 2012 on Slacko Puppy 5.4 - Linux 3.2.33-4g i686

Chip description:
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver used: fglrx

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 2464x900 pixels (651x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz

bigpup · Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2012, 00:57 Post subject:

An upgrade issue with version 5.3.3 to 5.4 and the fix.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=82923

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7841 Location: qld

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6017 Location: Kentucky

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7841 Location: qld

Thanks again James, well we try yet again .. fingers crossed. (I think I'm wearing out my upload limit!)

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 4620 Location: Earth

In this other thread, here,a member is reporting a problem in 5.4 with it saving its session changes.

Question

Can someone post what would be needed from the member to address the problem he indicates?
Is this a known problem?

Thx

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7841 Location: qld

After 13 days in the wild the Firefox iso is finally up at ibiblio. I downloaded myself and checked integrity, it's ok! Will take a day or 2 to propagate to the mirrors.

I guess you could say we are "official" now... Laughing

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7841 Location: qld

NerdWithNoLife · Joined: 10 Nov 2010 Posts: 8

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1149

Slacko-5.4-PAE installed via Noryb009's installer on sda2 (NTFS) partition, on which is slackosave.2f as well.

Please take a look at this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83041

In short:
The OP have problems with frugal install - during saving to the savefile, system practically hangs for longer periods of time.

In my case it's less predictable - usually everything's ok, but sometimes ,especially when bigger files (>100MB) are being saved, after 70-150 MB HDD led goes off for longer period of time (>30sec), then just a few MB are being written, led goes off again and so on...
During this, no application can access savefile, even for reading, system barely responds, however DeaDBeeF plays mp3s directly from sda3 partition fluently.

I've made a few more tests:
- slackosave.2fs or slackosave.3fs
- savefile on NTFS or EXT3 formatted partition
- PUPMODE=13 or PUPMODE12
- real environment as well as VBox

In all cases (but not every combination of these above was tested):

consentient · Joined: 23 Oct 2012 Posts: 23

I'm been experiencing a problem that is not in the notes, which is that the savefile seems to take 10-20x longer to save than with 5.3. - mainly the one that happens periodically, not just on shutdown. Shutdown I don't care about and I think even on 5.3 it takes longer on shutdown than the periodic one cuz there is more stuff to sort out. But the periodic one on 5.4 takes a really long time and rapes the CPU usage more than it ever did on 5.3.

Other than that, I think everything else seems more or less the same. I dont get the error I had with the graphics card, due to the updated drivers?

So if I can clear up the savefile issue, it would be no complaints and all praise.

One thing I thought is: does the fact that I have the OS installed to an 8Gb USB with a 4GB savefile mean that I should be using the PAE version?

Could this be the source of my problem?

Thanks for any help.

[EDIT: I forgot to say that Thunar file manager doesn't want to boot. Installs fine (apparently) but then won't run at all. Have been using QTFM instead]