Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[tlchost]

Beta 5403 - Selecting SFS files to load at boot not operating correctly. When files are selected, they are added to /etc/rs.d/BOOTCONFIG correctly.

Pup Control Panel > Manager > Boot Manager does not show files as loaded,
SFS-Loaad-on-the-fly shows the sfs files are loaded.

Bootable USB, 16 gigs memory

Thom

[zigbert]

Mick
I have an idea I want to test with gtkdialog-splash. Give me a day or 2, since it require some rewrite and I am in lack of time today.


Sigmund

[01micko]

[Billtoo]

I tried a frugal install of both the pae and non-pae versions of 5403
and I got the same result with both on my hp desktop pc with intel
graphics.
Things seemed normal on first boot, got to the desktop with
network,sound, working and proper graphics driver.
Rebooted creating save file.
I installed a few pets, then installed some apps from ppm.
While the ppm was working I noticed some missing icons here and there,
when everthing finished installing I rebooted but when back at the
desktop the screen was full of red triangles and the drive icons were
little red x's.
Same story with both versions of 5403.
I guess it has to do with the new font size wrecking the rox filer
pinboard (after seeing the message from ETP)

[vicmz]

Hello 01micko

Last year, there was a bug in ROX-Filer patched by npierce. The patch wasn't applied to Slacko, it remained until version 5.4. I can't tell if the new beta has the bug, no broadband to download here, so I'm posting the link to the information and the patch:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02758

[zigbert]

Ok, this one is for testing.

I used this testscript

[mavrothal]

Hi Mick,
just managed to update my 5.4 tp 5.4.0.3 ( ) without any issues.
I like the new JWM but I can find no way to decrease the font size, both in the menus and in the windows. Changes in /root/.jwm/ does not appear to have an effect, so will you spare me some searching/reading and point me to the right direction(besides global font size)?
Thx.

[drblock2]

01micko

Installed 5.4.0.3 linux_kernel-3.2.33-slacko_4g and am very positively impressed. Here some details and suggestions:

I used the save file from 5.4-PAE, but it updated without incident.

I downloaded the devx 5.4.0.2 and renamed to 5.4.0.3 also the appropriate kernel sources.

No problem in updating VirtualBox with the utility provided: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

The proprietary nvidia driver 173.14.35 also compiled with the new kernel and delivered an extremely respectable 3000 fps.

The global font size 96pt did not work well with my monitor(1280 x 1024), but this was easily resolved by reducing the point size to 72.

The built-in Opera 12.14 (as with earlier versions) does not download and play audio files (.mp3, ogg, flac, etc.). The reason for this is that Opera relies on the current gecko plugins (in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/) and these do not work. When replaced by the older mplayer plugins, the problem is resolved. For detailed discussion see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65426&start=155. This is clearly a problem for the Opera developers, but easily resolved so that Opera can be used as the default browser.

There is also a strange problem with the spell checker in SoftMaker freeoffice. Once again, not your responsibility, I mention it only because freeoffice textmaker has been discussed as a replacement for abiword and the problem was not present in Slacko 5.2.3.7 (k3.1.10-slacko_4ga) and perhaps you can shed some light on this. The problem is described here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=82904&start=55.

Finally, a small problem I noted with slacko 5.4 (but did not report). When rebooting from the menu, nothing happens. When I drop out of X with CTR+ALT+BkSpc reboot proceeds without any further action.

All and all, Slacko 5.4.0.3 makes a solid impression.

[rodin.s]

Russian Puppy forum member RoDoN has gma500 card and he was testing new Slacko-5.4.0.3 and he asked me to help with translation.
After start of X he had his mouse pointer disappeared. It was working but it was invisible. He managed to fix it by editing xorg.conf. He added this line:

[tlchost]

[SFR]

[zigbert]

full resolution!

A suggestion.
Since the mouse-settings(X) is rather aggressive (read accelerated), I will suggest to include a link to PupX in the mouse wizard. If I were new to Puppy, I doubt I ever found the correct setting. The menu states: 'PupX set properties of X' - What does THAT mean

And when we're talking about menu explanaitons. What is 'JWM configuration' for a user not familiar with JWM?

I have a feeling that ROX is faster when it comes to rendering of huge directories. /usr/bin/ is now really snappy to enter.

No issues so far...


Sigmund

[01micko]

[01micko]

SFR

Thanks for your earlier report about k3.8rc7 and the "BUG". I now have enough info I think to present the case for change to rc.sysinit to Barry. You know, I have been experiencing the bug all along on my laptop with USB install on VFAT, The snapmerge runs really slow but since the fix it runs properly. I'll just have to add a test to not apply the fix if kernel is >= 3.8.

[Billtoo]