Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

BarryK · Posted: Fri 22 May 2009, 18:21 Post subject: Jaunty Puppy Alpha9 feedback

Announced on my blog:

http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00768

I have started this forum thread for bug reports and general feedback.

Note that I have put the Smooth Color desktop icons (who created those?) in the live-CD. Along with the squiggly crayon wallpaper (ttuuxx?) it's an interesting combination ...just needs matching JWM and GTK themes!

What's new? well, lots of little things, you would have to scan my blog. The PPM now has the puppy-5 repo, although not much in it yet. Then there's the Xdelta GUI (see Utility menu). And more...

floborg · Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 194 Location: Fort Worth, TX

The Isolinux bootup screen could use a font color with better contrast for the boot options line than dark blue. When F2 is pressed, the same line is now white and easier to read.

Very interesting color choice for the desktop wallpaper as well! Otherwise, the JWM, GTK, and icon theme work well together.

As I've commented on your blog previously, it would be nice to have some new boot options to skip past the configuration screens on first boot. Bootup is interrupted 4 times now. pkeys=xx can get you past one of those screens, but there's still 3 more preventing an unattended bootup.

Béèm · Posted: Fri 22 May 2009, 19:59 Post subject:

I really don't have luck with my Medion MD8818 as I still have the black screen with the 3 iso's. I am thinking now, that puppy 5 won't be for me after all.

I got the idea to boot with loglevel=7 and I can compare between the good working alpha 6 and this alpha9 (the picture is kinda blurred)

The good working one in spite of the PCI-Express Device error:

boscobearbank · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 63 Location: MN

it's been a while since I've looked at a upup (or is that an upup?), but at this time I can report the following:

1. Selecting 1680x1050 from the Xorg wizard now actually gives me 1680x1050 rather than 1024x768.

2. gxine crashes trying to play an mp3 (Pmusic is ok):
# gxine JohnnyCash_I_WalkTheLine.mp3
CDROMREADTOCHDR: No medium found
WARN: could not retrieve file info for `image.nrg': No such file or directory
WARN: can't open nrg image file image.nrg for reading
The program 'gxine' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
(Details: serial 476 error_code 11 request_code 131 minor_code 19)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

<added upon editing:>
3. Abiword launches properly from urxvt, but not from the desktop icon and not from Menu->Document on the panel.

tasmod · Posted: Fri 22 May 2009, 21:03 Post subject:

Same problem as I've had with previous versions on my favoured PC, it uses a wireless keyboard and it doesn't work at the point of keyboard country entry.

This has not been a problem in the 4 series, it always worked during and after startup.

In the Woof series, am able to type puppy pfix=ram, the rest of startup continues through till after loading in ram. First blue screen appears for keyboard select and I can no longer use keyboard. That's as far as I can go.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Ok... PC1.. asus a7s8x mobo, athlon 2100=, 768 ram, raedon 9200 w/128 ram

Xorg worked fine with the card and displayed the max monitor res, of 1380x768x24.

Works fine (just testing some basics, network, mount, save) except all mini-icons will not appear, even in the menu button itself. Weird

ok... PC2 IBM Thinkpad R31, Celeron 1066, 512 ram, 8M onboard graphics

Xorg would not work, it usually does in all puppies with 1024x768x24. Used Xvesa with said res.

Looks good but no drive icons. Try to run Pmount and sda1 and sda2 show up in the gui, I will click one and Pmount just vanishes. I tried this in terminal

Lobster · Posted: Fri 22 May 2009, 21:42 Post subject:

new colorful background gives the impression of newness - good plan
Never underestimate the Occams razor cheap trick mentality
Simple works - and it does - very nice.- good to see some fun Smile

Must admit I had to change the background after 5 minutes but the initial impression is lively . . .
as are the new theme icons . . .

Must mention that leafpad does not have a menu icon

Good to see Puppy 5 package management up if rather bare
puptv is simplified - xine only - and better for it - the BBC news link needs an update

Combined with the devx.sfs Puppy is an innovative vala/genie development system with c and c++ and the valide and glade interface

It is a mark of the inherent stability of Puppy that I was able to use the previous alpha 8 as my main system for two weeks

Now I am enjoying 4.2.1 and its polish Smile

If you use alpha 9 to code - please let us know
Please compile packages so we can get some great software available for the beta

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Ahhhh .... narrowing down this Pmount bug, It must be related to Xvesa. I changed to Xvesa on my PC1 (never realise Xvesa doesn't support widescreen Crying or Very sad

) and I got exactly the same behaviour with Pmount as my PC2.

Hmmmm... what to do?

Ok, tried "mount" command. I can only mount /dev/fd0... floppy. Nothing else will mount while using Xvesa. I tried my NTFS, ext2, ext3 partitions and sr0(cdrom).

Going back to Xorg now to see if it's broken.

Ok, back in Xorg now, all's well except mini-icons.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 23 May 2009, 00:17 Post subject:

Béèm · Posted: Sat 23 May 2009, 02:56 Post subject:

tasmod · Posted: Sat 23 May 2009, 06:41 Post subject:

I was trying to solve my wireless keyboard issue and think I have come across a clue.

In /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit the routine for usb mouse detection has been commented out by Barry as he wishes to drop this.

Now I'm not sure about this, but this is the point at which the usb 'wireless dongle' is recognised. I believe the dongle emulates mouse and keyboard input via usb.

So without investigation I'm assuming this is the point at which I lose keyboard (I don't use the wireless mouse part).

I will try and study this further.

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

When the user clicks on the localisation menu item, an XML data screen appears instead of the selection dialogue. I remember this problem from past versions.

The default language in Osmo is set to a language other than English and seems not to be configurable as far as I can see.

Ext4 mounting now works fine.

Request: when searching in the Package Manager dialogue box, it would be nice just to be able to hit the enter key instead of having to click on "GO".

Nice version and improving all the time and works fine on the ASUS eeepc..

On that subject, I had a play with the latest Moblin 2 Beta netbook distro. It looks great but is only half-finished at the moment. Not many packages available from the Moblin repo. It's based on Fedora.

Puppy Woof blows Moblin out of the water as a netbook distro. Maybe some Puppy bling specialist could pinch its Clutter interface though and port it to Puppy.

bugman · Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2131 Location: buffalo commons

i am mad as i was 60% through downloading alpha 8 when i read this

Shocked

clearly a bug

Laughing

[start over]

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

bugman · Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2131 Location: buffalo commons