(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Karl Godt wrote:Printing seems to work OK with

cups_pdftops_filter-1.3.11.pet found there :

Just printed a puppy_drake thread page from the

Drake Puppy feedback

from SeaMonkey-2.3.1 and after adjusting the settings in the print preview the gtklp window showed up and the html page was send directly to my usb-epson-scanner-printer without having opened the cups-web-interface .

I ran into problems with it Karl. Here is a scan of a document printed from Slacko and Racy (patched). You can see some of the characters in the Racy section (the upper one) are garbled.

I dont know, but I guess there is some way to tell Puppy to use another font when the required font is not on the system, something like verdana=sans.
I suspect this may be missing for Arial, but dont know where to look. Advice please.

No idea , I do not know .

In some puppy derivatives , the preview looks blurry in the browser tabs from similar .

There def seems to be a problem with fonts in Racy. Here is a screenshot of a tiny little .doc file using Arial font. As can be seen, it is scrambled. Every other Puppy on my system, including Wary, can display this file.
Somewhere there has to be a file that tells Puppy what to use when a specified font is absent. My guess this file is either absent, or does not contain a reference to Arial, but I dont know where to look.

Dave,

Just a hunch.

Barry has a new thing in woof that sets minimum font size. Maybe adjusting that and resetting the gtkrc fontsize will cure that issue, both printing and abiword.

01micko wrote:Dave,

Just a hunch.

Barry has a new thing in woof that sets minimum font size. Maybe adjusting that and resetting the gtkrc fontsize will cure that issue, both printing and abiword.

No luck.... BUT.... all the font aliassing info seems to be in /etc/fonts. Comparing the contents of this dir with the one in Slacko shows a major re-write, so I swapped them out. Deleted /etc/fonts, and installed the one form Slacko, and, I'll be Damned.... it fixed it!
So far, nothing broke

mave wrote:Hi Barry,

while reporting trouble of un/mounted drives in puppyinstaller I didn't looked closer, sorry. That's not the problem, but puppyinstaller script breaks in Racy when going "CONTINUE" on my test machines:

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# ./puppyinstaller

** ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 1, near token '(null)': syntax error

aborting...
./puppyinstaller: line 589: [: too many arguments

** ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 1, near token '(null)': syntax error

aborting...
# 

Some changes....?

mave

I think that is fixed.

scsijon wrote:4/ I have a savefile problem for you!
I usually clone a duplicate install onto a second partition so I can "play" with one while keeping the other pristine for both comparison and cleanup. ie the content of /sda1/racy101 is copied to /sda2/racy101. They each contain the same named savefile and have their own menu lines in grub.
Normally when I boot one of the two up I get a "select list" asking me to pick which savefile to use, but not in this case, it's using the first from /sda1/racy101 in all cases unless I change the name of the savefile in one of them. It seems / looks like that racy101 can't diferentiate between savefile partitions if the directories are the same name.

It is not a matter of "can't differentiate", it was a deliberate design decision, requested by forum member Beem.

DaveS wrote:There def seems to be a problem with fonts in Racy. Here is a screenshot of a tiny little .doc file using Arial font. As can be seen, it is scrambled. Every other Puppy on my system, including Wary, can display this file.
Somewhere there has to be a file that tells Puppy what to use when a specified font is absent. My guess this file is either absent, or does not contain a reference to Arial, but I dont know where to look.

I fixed it. I edited /etc/fonts/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf.

Racy 5.1.110 (5.2 beta2) is released:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02570

Hopefully this has fixed most things posted about in this thread.

It also has the new Quick Setup, but you will only see that if you start without a prior save-file.

I did a manual frugal install.
First boot to desktop but resolution was wrong so I chose the video
upgrade option and restarted X.
I chose probe and the proper resolution and it installed the nouveau
driver.
Racy Puppy, version 5.1.110 on Thu 27 Oct 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation Device 1082 (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

Rebooted creating save file.
===============================================================================
I wanted to install the proprietary nvidia driver (for games) so I found
nouveau.ko with Pfind and deleted it, changed the menu.lst entry to
pfix=nox and rebooted.
I installed the nvidia driver and ran xorgwizard and chose nvidia then
xwin to get back to the desktop.
I changed the menu.lst entry back to what it was.

Racy Puppy, version 5.1.110 on Thu 27 Oct 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation Device 1082 (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (513x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

I think I should have skipped the video upgrade option and just installed the
proprietary driver after creating the save file and installing the
devx and kernel source sfs files.

Computer
Processor 8x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory 16613MB (98MB used)

First time it needs acpi=off to boot.

dmesg is full of blahblah like : ...

Unable to connect to internet. My Broadcom wifi not detected. Tried loading module... fail

EDIT: re-install, was able to load module. Survived re-boot, but no auto-detection.

Well done Barry!!!!

Racy 5.1.110 (5.2 beta2)

Auto configed everything on boot... correct graphics (1440x900), sound was there, internet connection was there and ready to go... Never had a pup do all that before, not to mention I have intel SIS graphic card on an old (probably 10 to 15 years old) PIII which I had no problems on startup with (most other puppy's gave me a headache and a half with) and the new 307 Kernel works really great and is FAST on this old box.

I know you favor Seamonkey Browser and it's really a pretty good browser however, after trying them all, Iron (for clarity, speed and overall performance) and I for one would like to see a .pet available for Racy with Iron-14? I tried the Iron-14's for Slacko and Luci but they don't even fire up, at all...

Most other regular programs work good so far, will test more!

Overall, I'd say you are going to have a real 'winner' here!!!!!

>>>---Indian------>

PS: My little 'Cloud .pet' installed and works great in Racy.

Hi Barry,

I’ve been trying your latest Racy that uses the 3.0.7 kernel. It’s working fine although I’ve run into two problems.

1. Bootmanager will not operate if the frugal installation is located on an ext4 partition that has more than 6 sfs files. I got the following message when running it in a console and trying to choose which sfs files to load. I tried it again with a frugal installation on an ext4partition that had only 5 sfs files and it works fine.

# bootmanager
/usr/sbin/bootmanager: eval: line 236: syntax error near unexpected token ‘(‘
/usr/sbin/bootmanager: eval: line 236: ‘pupdialog --helpwindow “/tmp/bootmanager_help_sfs

glxgears : command not found

@Barry

There are 2 things i think you would be interested in, at system start. The following 2 tools has some minor issues:

• FirstRUN
• Internet Connection Wizard

FirstRUN
After making initial changes, the desktop restarts. If you should need or want to revisit FirstRUN (say, Menu>Settings>FirstRUN) one does NOT find their changes showing as one would expect. (Shown attached)

Internet Connection Wizard
There are 3 items of issue in this.

• The SMB/CIFS international "valid" characters for a hostname is A-Z, 0-9, and the hyphen character(s). When used in the tool, it is stripping our the hyphen when found.(For example, RACY-RCtest1 is being changed to RACYRCtest1)
• When the hostname is changed via the tool, should one want to re-enter to verify, before restarting the desktop, the original information is found in the tool.
• And, I have found that most, if not all system fields are attempted to be changed, even though the desktop was not restarted. Fields are:

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  # hostname
  RACYRCtest1
  # echo $HOSTNAME
  RACYRCtest1
  # cat /etc/hosts
  127.0.0.1 localhost RACYRCtest1
  192.168.1.1 pc2
  192.168.1.2 pc3
  192.168.1.3 pc4
  # cat /etc/hostname
  RACYRCtest

All of this is attached in reports for review and verification.

Finally, a system report is enclosed.
The system appears healthy, responsive, and stable overall.

Hope this helps

Booted fine to desktop from syslinux usb stick ....
sound&net both good

# report-video
Racy Puppy, version 5.1.110 on Thu 27 Oct 2011

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: # vesa

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
====
Then exit to prompt, ran xorgwizard, probe and select res:
# report-video
Racy Puppy, version 5.1.110 on Thu 27 Oct 2011

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

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on antique machine from same usb syslinux stick - pfix=ram,
(started via grub on hard disk>plop> syslinux on stick)
ancient non ddc monitor is out of sync with newer xorg's, so ctrl-alt-backspace, then xorgwizard, all good now.
# report-video
Racy Puppy, version 5.1.110 on Thu 27 Oct 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)
oem: ATI MACH64

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: mach64

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 800x600 pixels (212x159 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

still running pfix=ram now and posting from seamonkey

Added:
I forgot to set timezone on first run on this machine, fixed, subseqent boots are fine.

Hi Barry

Absolutely blinding - using Opera12 alpha - luvly puppy.

Manual frugal to sda1 ext3. 9yr old acer laptop Travelmate 243LC.
256mb ram, 2.5Ghz Celeron Proc, 800mb swap partition.

This is so fast - amazing.

Looks and feels great - thanks so much for this.

Very best regards - Ray

Even though I still don't see the point of using a kernel that only benefits users with 4 Gb or more of ram........Wary 5.1.110 live saving to a usb flash drive.
Initial boot had working sound and internet (wired dsl) but incorrect screen resolution (1280x1024).Used xorgwizard to change to the nouveau driver and the correct 1366x768 resolution.

Racy Puppy, version 5.1.110 on Thu 27 Oct 2011
Chip description:
d.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3884MB (173MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 27 Oct 2011 03:50:24 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia




Kernel : Linux 3.0.7 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Sat Oct 22 23:34:56 GMT-8 2011
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 3884120 445436 3438684 0 53612
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 3884120 445436 3438684

From this brief testing so far things appear to be working well.