Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[slvrldy17]

"The problem with xvidtune has been reported repeatedly on earlier versions. It comes down to Xorg ignoring the modeline xvidtune produces, for reasons I still don't understand. I can add this to the configuration file by hand, but it still doesn't have any effect.

Gxine has issues, no question. "


Prehistoric, Tronkel

Have been mucking about off and on with various flavors of Puppy for quite some time now and I have to agree that some problems are on going. Strangely enough while I was working with Gray's 3.01 based NOP Puppy the Xorg problem wasn't really all that annoying - the needed tweaks for Xorg seemed to carry over between boots - what the difference between the versions is that makes this so I don't know.

As for the problems with Gxine - if memory serves there is a version of Puppy that uses the VLC media player - one of ttuxxx's efforts I think - it might be worth a look. I've had good results using VLC as a "portable app" from a USB key on windows machines and the Linux version might be a fit substitute for Gxine. I'd be quite willing to accept a bigger ISO to get a reliable media player - within reason of course! Keep up the good work guys - and thanks for your eforts.

[slvrldy17]

Sorry - double post!

[geneven]

Gxine works horribly for me when viewing Destinos, the free, fun video series for learning Spanish. Static shots work fine, but movement doesn' register quickly enough. It forces me to run Windows to see the series. Here't the url:

http://www.learner.org/resources/series75.html

Free registration is required to play the videos.

[Lobster]

Can someone host, test and report back on this giant Chihuahua
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=193639#193639

[ttuuxxx]

[HairyWill]

There is a bug in init for puppy 3.01 and the latest dingo. They don't always set PUPMODE=13 for ideflash type installs. I presume that 3.02 has the same problem. There is a fix here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=193681#193681

[prehistoric]

@HairyWill,

I'm pretty sure I've seen this, and wondered where the Save icon went. At the time, I wasn't sure I'd done everything correctly, so I didn't report it.

Thanks for the code and link!

[gerry]

A request: could you put "Booting Puppy 302 (or whatever)" immediately above "Choose a pup-save file" at boot-up, please. I sometimes forget which cd is in the drive.....and it messes up the pup-save file.

Gerry

[prehistoric]

[jonyo]

Compaq sr2020nx (AMD Athlon 64 3500+ / 2.2 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE) 2 gig ram, linksys wusb54g usb adapter using native rt2570 driver setup via net wiz & rutilt with wep 64 hex.

#5 -3xx series pup setup with linNwin & xpsp2.

Only problem I'm having is when I select Xorg, the mouse cursor goes away (disappears) but works in the background; xvesa solves that. Same thing happens with the other 3xx setups on this 'pute 'cept ..I think in muppy 08.2

[rerwin]

slvrldy17,
In Puppy 4 I added logic to create a line in the monitor section of xorg.conf:

[prehistoric]

Hi rerwin,

Jonyo seems to be reporting another case of an invisible mouse cursor, like those I saw before. One was also on a Geforce 6150.

Now I'm off to try that fix you suggested to slvrldy17 on another machine of mine.

@Jonyo,

If this is what I think, there is a simple fix that will allow you to run Xorg. Edit the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 to uncomment this line in the "Device" section.

[tronkel]

@prehistoric

Any idea which version of Puppy Muppy 008 is based on? I haven't had the time to follow Muppy's development recently.

I did notice that MU had altered the window manager shutdown script to remove exec from the last line there. The relevant files are /usr/X11R6/wmreboot and /usr/X11R6/wmpoweroff This is what may actually be the solution to your xorg shutdown problems. Maybe you could try that and see if that works for you.

Other than that, I think I would need the appropriate Xorg basic package from Muppy 008 as used in the Muppy Unleashed as the replacement for that as currently used in Chihuahua.

I also get the impression that Muppy is running well from what I've heard. Stuff in there could well help to solve some Chihuahua issues.

[tronkel]

@prehistoric

Just tried removing exec from the files as mentioned in the above post.

I can't replicate your shutdown problem here, but the result seemed promising. I'm getting less shutdown text showing in the black screen and then goes straight to reboot. Seems like a cleaner shutdown and no harm done. Rebooting from a pristine live CD startup showed the correct save to file options as well. So worth a try.

Next thing is to see if a retro version cures the process contentions problem.

Then will have to download Muppy and retrieve the fixPuppyPin script for HotPup

@ MU

Wenn Du diese Nachricht siehst, kannst Du bitte das Xorg base package von der letzten Muppy-Version irgendwo aufladen?

Danke im Voraus

Tronkel

[jonyo]