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[sindi]

[quote="sindi"].

On this laptop palemoon will not play youtube videos in lupu or Win7.
(It does in Firefox.) I click and nothing happens. On other laptops it plays but only at 360p.
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The problem was a buggy 'cinema-look' add-on. Palemoon now plays youtube on here but I still prefer smtube, and the required latest version needs a newer puppy (or a lot of added libqt5 libraries not available in lupu ppm, libgst* and other libraries not found in lupu, and probably updates to others).

Should I be manually editing some config file for X to make the three newer linuxes work in X?

[foxpup]

[Hesse James]

Hello
I have started a thread where I would like to summarize additional software for Xenial64 which is not included in the quickpet or other repositories.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=980848#980848

Maybe others like to contribute too ?
Thank you.
Christian

[Yoliano]

@foxpup
@bigpup

My apologies for the delay in replying to your latest posts. I have had to deal with various other priorities in these last few days and have not had time to return to this issue, until today.

With regard to bigpup's various code entry proposals, yes I have been entering each one correctly, just as foxpup describes. To assure myself of this, today I repeated the ultimate proposal and again encountered a kernel panic.

With regard to Radeon R5 Drivers, I found myself today, getting mired up in this issue and reached the conclusion that my knowledge is inadequate to handle the installation of a new driver. In my desolation at not having any success in this quest to boot xenialpup64 on my Toshiba L/T, the idea came to me that I should try some of the alternative boot options available in the last boot menu screen. So, first, I tried booting with the option: "Deactivate Radeon Driver". This did not change anything and xorg launched and then exited, as before. Next, I tried with the option: "With KMS - No". This was a shot in the dark, because I don't know what "KMS" refers to! (If someone cares to enlighten me, I will be grateful). But to my great surprise, xorg did not exit and the xenialpup64 desktop came up, followed by the basic config. window. Apparently it was a perfectly normal boot sequence and I was able to accomplish the basic config. and create a save file. I closed the Toshiba and rebooted OK, using the same option and I am typing this post on it, with the help of Palemoon. I also noted that the automatic config. of the graphics driver chose the correct, (actual), resolution of the Toshiba screen, (1600X900). Previously, when I tried to configure the G. Driver via xorgwizard, that resolution was not available.

So, I am sitting here, in front of the keyboard, astonished, greatly relieved and thankful that there is no serious problem of incompatability between xenialpup64 and my Toshiba. All I can say now is thank you both very much indeed for your ongoing interest and generous help, which I appreciate greatly. These Forums are marvelous institutions! Allowing for these good hearted interactions. I am sorry that, in my ignorance, I have created this storm in a teacup. My apologies to you both.

[Moat]

@Yoliano - here's a small blurb about KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) - "...a method for setting display resolution and depth in the kernel space rather than user space."

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_mode_setting

Bob

[foxpup]

[april]

Installing and running Printers in xenialpup64 7.5
HP Deskjet 2131($19)
I got "hplip". via Puppy Package Manager.
Installed it ...rather a long one
Went to "localhost:631" in my browser
Modified the printer to use "2130"

Away it went and scanner worked with sane as well.

Canon MG2560 ($15) works straight off

[Hesse James]

About Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability: latest kernel 4.9.77 with RETPOLINE mitigation for Xenial64.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80274&search_id=36531023&start=36
Christian

[duetta]

First time poster.

I was having a similar problem as Yoliano installing Xenialpup64 7.5 (and 7.0) on my home-built music PC, which uses an AMD Kabini APU, on which I had been using TrustyTahr 6.05 as one of several OSs. No matter which option I chose, I could never get past the stage of the install where the graphical video driver was supposed to kick in.

I solved the problem in an interesting way, however - and this knowledge may prove useful for others. By browsing this board, I discovered that another member had created an alternate version of 7.5 with XFCE desktop. On a whim, I attempted to install that version - and that installation worked like a charm.

There is evidently a file important to users with AMD APUs included with that remix that is not present in the original version. It's also present in TrustyTahr - which I have been using for several years.

Perhaps this will help someone else.

[april]

Mine went the opposite way

I was using a TV as a monitor and the one you mention would not work past that point also.

This one worked straight off .

So it is a setting in the video configuration that gets first loaded to the screen before the x11 configuration jumps in to see what it has to work with and because it has nowhere else to go it fails .

Maybe someone knowledgeable can tell us what configs each of these uses for initial screens ..

[april]

When I tried to add a printer a while back setup-cups didn't work got a funny page with bookmarks that didn't work.

Turns out from the cups script it expects the default browser /html viewer to be set . As Xenialpup64 7.5 comes out of the box with the viewer set to "auto" it did not get there .

So change default html viewer to palemoon and the cups setup comes up normally

[trlkly]

The boot-up help file is inaccurate, as it seems the puppy alias hasn't been included in the boot list. (All of the existing menu options use .linux instead.)

It also would be nice if the pfix=nocopy option was in the boot menu. I would think it would be commonly used for fast boots at the cost of slower running.

(It's also useful for testing purposes, since it gives you a larger save file by default.)

[shelezyaka]

Hello .
I'm using Xenialpup 64 7.5. Need to display the layout of the languages in the tray. After installing the fbxkb package, the languages are switched and there are no icons in the tray. What should I install?

[GeraSats]

[shelezyaka]