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rcrsn51 wrote:In 5.4.0.90, the problem with ePDFview not rendering colours correctly is still present.

While I appreciate the inclusion of YASSM and Network, I expect that many users will miss Pnethood if it has been working for them.

Yes, it looks funny. (I think I'm going to buy the green one.)

@rcrsn51

Hi,
If you would print this pdf file with a colour printer (-I don't have any-) how will the colours look like? (I mean using Precise Puppy for the print job.)

I have installed your pet: 'epdfview_precise_revert-0.1.8.pet' ; it coverts the jpg file to a pdf file, but the colours still don't match.

Regards Feodor

Finished downloading precise 5.4. Testing it reveals several problems.

On first boot it refused to save the session. After asking for save file name it rebooted without saving session. Next time I ran wmreboot in terminal but this time it worked properly. Will try again to reproduce the problem.

Display, opengl and internet is working properly. Posting from there now.

In devx gdb doesn't work. Installing libpython2.7_2.7.3-0ubuntu3_i386.deb fixes gdb.

Also gio has problems using modules. It's a glib bug and affects some other distros as well. See here.

Edit: Didn't see precise 5.4.0.90.

Great Job!

BarryK killed the black screen bug. (Bug described on page 14.)

Thank you very much!

Regards Feodor


Rem. Problem fixed with Precise Puppy 5.4.0.90

rcrsn51 wrote:In 5.4.0.90 ... While I appreciate the inclusion of YASSM and Network, I expect that many users will miss Pnethood if it has been working for them.

I agree. Pnetwood could be retained in the iso while YASSM might be proposed package.

BarryK wrote:Precise Puppy 5.4.1-beta1 is uploaded.

This is the first beta of the upcoming 5.4.1 bug-fix release for 5.4.

164Mb. Is not too much for a puppy ?

Integrated-Frisbee testers,
I fixed the greyed-out wireless-tab problem! The corrected (20121106) package is here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 521#662521

For now, though, the "configure wireless..." part of the Frisbee window will be greyed out until Frisbee is set as the default network manager, followed by a reboot. I hope to improve that as we go on. So, the test steps are:

• - Install the frisbee package and all 5 of the puppy-mod pet packages (posted 2 messages above frisbee).
  - Use the Connect Wizard to start Frisbee.
  - Exit Frisbee either by the X or by tabbing to the wired network part and clicking Exit.
  - Click on the "Set Frisbee as default" button (or whatever it is called).
  - Reboot and the wireless tab should be usable.

If you already have the original test setup, you can simply uninstall the old Frisbee package and install the new one, assuming the other 5 packages are already installed and you have not made other changes.
Richard

FeodorF wrote:I have installed your pet: 'epdfview_precise_revert-0.1.8.pet' ; it coverts the jpg file to a pdf file, but the colours still don't match.

?????

ePDFview is a PDF viewer, not a JPEG-to-PDF converter. All we are doing here is installing an older version of the program that renders colours correctly.

Tried Precise 5.4.0.90 and it still produces mostly black screens at
startup once in awhile. The wireless connection issues are still there
as well, though they aren't severe. For example now and again Precise
will startup with no connection (frugal installs). Sometimes it takes
three or four tries of SNS to get a connection. No such problems with
Lucid 528.

On a PC I just purchased, Precise pulls a new trick of stalling out
(freezing) during startup at the line:
recognizing media devices ... optical input
Out of curiosity I replaced the CD rom drive with a different one. Same
thing. Can't get Precise to work at all on this PC (an old Dell Dimension
with P4 2.0 ghz and 768 meg RAM). The machine works perfectly using
Windows XP or Lucid 528.

Art

As reported to Barry's blog.

:::::

But I forgot to add....still no Frisbee.
Although I read recently it is in his repository.

I still think it should be a Pet in network,
like Lucid was.

Still...a good result.
Thanks to all.

:::

Dell from Hell B43= good

Dell Studio XPS

Wireless works...yippee!!!!
Broadcom B43

Notice comes up to add the module,
OK! happens in some Pups with this hardware.
"wl mod added "

Posting from Dell now>

Copy and pasting...good...easy to see.

Chris




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Dell from Hell B43= good

Dell Studio XPS

Wireless works...yippee!!!!
Broadcom B43

Notice comes up to add the module,
OK! happens in some Pups with this hardware.
"wl mod added "

Posting from Dell now>

Copy and pasting...good...easy to see.

Chris

rcrsn51 wrote:

FeodorF wrote:I have installed your pet: 'epdfview_precise_revert-0.1.8.pet' ; it coverts the jpg file to a pdf file, but the colours still don't match.

?????

ePDFview is a PDF viewer, not a JPEG-to-PDF converter. All we are doing here is installing an older version of the program that renders colours correctly.

Ooooops!
Sorry, O-H-S!

PDFviewer018.pet works fine with Precise Puppy 5.4.0.90

Regards Feodor

Acer Netbook >>eMachines eM350-21G16i

All working >>> wifi etc

Chris.

technosaurus wrote:Everyone needs to realize that Ubuntu packages are built for 686 cpus with the CMOV instruction. This means that Precise will fail on all 486 and 586, the via c3, pentium, pentium mmx, amd geode and the vortex86 series of cpus and several others (see /proc/info to find out if you have the cmov flag)

This is a likely cause of the non-reproducible bug reports. @Barry, didn't you have a gecko edubook? That would be a good test box for this.

Edit: at 1 point choosing PAE in the kernel config also enabled some cmov instructions that prevented booting on these cpus, though IDK if it is still the case.

Actually, I had two of those Geckos. I gave one to a NGO charity organisation in India. The other just stopped working one day, completely dead.

Interesting, same thing happened to the Intel Classmate mini laptops. I had two of those also, also gave one to the India charity, and the other also went dead one one day.

The only thing I have left that is pre-Pentium is my old PC with Cyrix 6x86 CPU. But that is currently in a friend's backyard shed.

I had to make some pretty tough decisions when I sold my house at Perenjori, got rid of so much stuff. But, at least I did keep some old hardware, in storage until one day when I settle somewhere permanent. ...which probably will happen mid-2013.

L18L wrote:

file:///usr/share/doc/HOWTO-regexps.htm wrote:[Note: Puppy has a regular expression evaluation and learning tool in the Utilities menu]

Once upon a time (version 1.04) I have used it much.
But now it seems to have disappeared

Yes, that was a long time ago. If I recall rightly, there were two of them, one was written in tcl/tk, the other gtk1.2.

Which was why we had to leave them behind.

I think that John Murga has made changes to the Forum recently. It keeps on logging me out. Anyone else got this problem?

Hi BarryK,

I think that John Murga has made changes to the Forum recently. It keeps on logging me out. Anyone else got this problem?

Yes, I've been "auto" logged out sometimes recently. I thought it was my mistakes; but I couldn't think what I'd done.

My regards
and thanks

rcrsn51 wrote:In 5.4.0.90, the problem with ePDFview not rendering colours correctly is still present.

While I appreciate the inclusion of YASSM and Network, I expect that many users will miss Pnethood if it has been working for them.

Regarding epdfview, see my blog post:
http://www.bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00017

Regarding Pnethood, yes, good point. I have reinstated it.

BarryK wrote:I think that John Murga has made changes to the Forum recently. It keeps on logging me out. Anyone else got this problem?

From the forum FAQ

Why do I get logged off automatically?
If you do not check the Log me in automatically box when you log in, the board will only keep you logged in for a preset time. This prevents misuse of your account by anyone else. To stay logged in, check the box during login. This is not recommended if you access the board from a shared computer, e.g. library, internet cafe, university cluster, etc.

Firewall Status does not show in tray (taskbar).

I find this program useful to me.
I assume you did not include it in Precise for a reason.

BarryK wrote:Forum...keeps on logging me out.

Make sure your PC's clock/time [including the year] is reading the correct value.
If it's wrong, the [time limited] cookie will time out and log you off.

BarryK wrote:Regarding epdfview, see my blog post:

The z_epdfview_fix_precise-20121106.pet works correctly for me, both to screen and printer.

Regarding Pnethood, yes, good point. I have reinstated it.

Remember that Pnethood required the older version of nbtscan to work correctly, as discussed here.