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Posted: Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:42
by edoc
BootFlash install to USB worked fine and now I have Fluppy 005 working on my Samsung NB30 netbook - thanks to Jemimah
bit of a problem with lupu and xfce
Posted: Mon 13 Sep 2010, 13:59
by jump
I have installed lupu 511 and now the xfce4 pet which seems to work fine except something as messed up and i can no longer exit to prompt or reboot or shutdown. I was trying to see if lupu switched from one windows manager to another without problems using the graphical user interface to switch wm. I switched from jwm to xfce4 and it all seemed ok, then back to jwm and it all seemed ok then back to xfce4 and it all blocked up and i could not see the open windows.
Note. i had switched composing on for xfce4 i don't know if that would make a difference. and i have wbar installed.
after killing a couple of process i got to the command line and rebooted but now i cant exit to prompt etc.
thanks.
look what i get with the following commands
# wmexit
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec]
#
# wmreboot
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec]
#
# wmswitcher
** ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 16, near token '</default>': syntax error
aborting...
/usr/sbin/wmswitcher: line 130: 9713 Aborted gtkdialog3 -p switcheroo
Posted: Thu 16 Sep 2010, 21:04
by jpeps
Compiled compcache against kernel 2.6.33.2, and it works well with lucid.
swapon or swapoff /dev/ramzswap0
http://code.google.com/p/compcache/
Edit: NOT reeded for RamSwapManager
Posted: Fri 17 Sep 2010, 07:49
by jpeps
Here's a package for ramswap using compcache-0.6.2 compiled for Lucid.
I had to recompile the kernel to build it, but hopefully it will work for others (but no guarantees.....).
Posted: Fri 17 Sep 2010, 10:14
by cthisbear
How do you resize the desktop icons?
And can the bottom bar be minimised?
Classmate PC??? Celeron 900 Netbook..
used the Intel High Driver pet??
Looks like this.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9423478881.html
Pain in the neck to hit an OK button on some programs to
reconfigure it. So I need to have an answer.
Spent ages on it.
I then installed Fluppy 5.
But I could not see wireless.
I read somewhere about hitting F2 >> function key >> wireless
well after going back to Lucid.
Wireless works out of the box with Lucid.
Thanks....Chris.
Posted: Fri 17 Sep 2010, 14:36
by DM was on fire!
Ah, okay, seems I've run into my first problem. Not nearly as bad as I thought it would be though.
There's...no Flash? Opera informed me there was a missing plug-in when I went to go play Transformice. If there a pet somewhere with Flash, or what?
@cthisbear; Depends on your WM. I don't know much about IceWM, but I do know in the case of JWM, there's no way to resize the task bar or icons. The only thing I could think of is to back out of Xserver and type in xorgsetup, then when it comes to your resolution, head over to probe. Hopefully it should probe it and give you the right resolution.
What are you running it on right now?
Posted: Fri 17 Sep 2010, 15:06
by edoc
DM was on fire!
I am using Seamonkey 2.0.8 and discovered that for many sites one has to upgrade Flash to the latest version or else those sites respond as if you don't have Flash enabled at all.
Have you checked Help About Plugins to see what is installed?
Also, I have OpenDNS set up in Custom mode and find from time to time I have to explicitly instruct it not to block a domain.
HTH ...
Posted: Fri 17 Sep 2010, 23:02
by DM was on fire!
Thanks for your reply edoc.
I've checked Firefox 4.0 Beta, Opera 10.60 and Chromium...oh, whatever it is (all from the repos) and all of them are informing me there's no Flash plugin. I'll check my about plugins when I get back on in a little while.
I also don't have it on Konqueror, which I'm planning to use as my main browser as I now have KDE installed on Lupu.
Pardon my stupidity, but how exactly would one go about upgrading? I did a search on the forum before posting here in hopes of finding a Flash .pet, but nothing; and at the moment I'm unaware how to manually install and/or convert an .rpm to a .pet. (There's a guide somewhere though, isn't it?)
Posted: Fri 17 Sep 2010, 23:55
by edoc
If you got to Adobe's site they have a download link for Shockwave Flash Player. They offere different versions for Linux, Mac, and the various MS versions of windows.
This should work:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Download the tar.gz compressed file then click on it and Puppy will uncompress the "libflashplayer.so" file inside.
Copy that "libflashplayer.so" file to your /root/.mozilla/seamonkey/
HELP - ABOUT PLUGINS will provide this information (yours will probably be "Shockwave Flash 10.0)":
Shockwave Flash
File name: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53
COPY the "libflashplayer.so" you just dowbloaded and uncompressed to
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -- and overwrite the older one there.
When you close and restart Seamonkey and check HELP - ABOUT PLUGINS the new 10.1 version should show, if not you may have to reboot.
HTH ...
Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 02:12
by kevin bowers
Quote:
I'm unaware how to manually install and/or convert an .rpm to a .pet. (There's a guide somewhere though, isn't it?)
@DM was on fire!
There is a small utility called "unrpm" that will unpack and install .rpm and .deb files on a Puppy system. I've only used it to install LightScribe software (successfully on 4.3.1 and 5.1). It's command-line: first install the .pet, then:
#unrpm <full-path-to-filename>.rpm or #undeb /root/package.deb
unrpm
Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 03:41
by shinobar
kevin bowers wrote:Quote:
I'm unaware how to manually install and/or convert an .rpm to a .pet. (There's a guide somewhere though, isn't it?)
Edit /usr/local/bin/pupzip at line 100:
Remove last '2':
Click rpm files, then Xarchive opens.
But depends on the RPM version. Most of recent RPM's cannot extract .
See:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46276
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=48781
P.S.
LupQ-509 supports some recent RPM extracting.
http://shino.pos.to/linux/lupq/changes.html
Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 10:49
by edoc
Why does copying a ripped DVD (file is 6532MB) from my laptop to a USB stick (with plenty of space) fail at 4096MB?
It did so on two different USB sticks.
Max file size
Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 11:26
by shinobar
edoc wrote:Why does copying a ripped DVD (file is 6532MB) from my laptop to a USB stick (with plenty of space) fail at 4096MB?
What file system did you format the USB stick.
The maximum fille size of FAT is 4GB.
Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 14:57
by edoc
I forgot! Just reformatted it to ext2 and am trying the copy again. Thanks!
Posted: Sat 18 Sep 2010, 14:58
by DM was on fire!
I tried a lot of the suggestions here, and shinobar's was the one that did it for me. It's working on Firefox and Opera, and those are the only ones that really matter to me. X3
Unfortunately, whenever I try on Konqueror, nsplugin is popping up segmentation fault errors. Ah well. I justwon't use Konqueror for YouTube or Transformice.
Osewa ni narimashita, shinobar. c:
I hope I said that right? My Japanese is just a tiny bit rusty.
Posted: Fri 24 Sep 2010, 22:50
by jpeps
Link to sudo-1.7.4.pet, for anyone who creates users that require root access
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=660
Posted: Sat 25 Sep 2010, 17:39
by edoc
I have Lucid 5.1 with the 003 update.
I see there is a Lucid 5.1.1 with a 002 update.
Is there a reason to "upgrade" or is 5.1 with 003 essentially the same as 5.1.1 with 002, please?
Is there a 5.1.1 thread? I could not find one.
Posted: Sat 25 Sep 2010, 19:39
by kevin bowers
edoc wrote:I have Lucid 5.1 with the 003 update.
I see there is a Lucid 5.1.1 with a 002 update.
Is there a reason to "upgrade" or is 5.1 with 003 essentially the same as 5.1.1 with 002, please?
Is there a 5.1.1 thread? I could not find one.
Doc, surprised you missed this one.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58978
It's much the same but built with Barry's latest Woof.
http://diddywahdiddy.net/LupuNews/
Posted: Sat 25 Sep 2010, 19:49
by edoc
Surprised? Not. I miss a lot of stuff ...
I'm spread kinda thin and am often running on 4-6 hrs of sleep when I really need about 8hrs. I know, I need to deal with that! Meanwhile ...
COFFEE!
I am guessing I should use this?
Posted: Sat 25 Sep 2010, 20:12
by edoc
I don't get the XDelta app.
I have the Delta from 5.1 to 5.1.1
When I click on it, or MENU-UTILITY-XDelta it talks about creating something but the text is unclear.
Do they intend to say that if I click on the XDelta to update from 5.1 to 5.1.1 and accept the defaults it will take the existing lupu-510.iso and convert it to a lupu-511.iso?
Do I need the XDelta .iso to be in the same folder as my lupu-510?
It says ...
Old File:
/mnt/home/savestuff/downloads/lupu/lupu-510.iso
Delta File:
/mnt/home/savestuff/downloads/lupu/lupu-510.iso___lupu-511.iso.delta