Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Bert]

Seamonkey now has language packs for 20 additional languages. It is simple: just download your language file, go to 'Edit'>Preferences>Appearance>Languages and choose your language....

..except that in this Puppy-version of Seamonkey, "Appearance" does not have the "Languages" option!

There must be a good reason for this, I'm sure. Probably to avoid problems with non-western fonts or something like that.
But what a great pity, now that the Seamonkey guys have made localization so easy...

[playdayz]

Sorry all if my original message was not clear. What I meant was that the gparted that is in 4.3beta1 works much better for me than the gparted in any previous version. Since this was a forum for bugs, I "cleverly called it an "anti-bug."

Original message: an "anti-bug" gparted is working far better than ever before. Previously in all versions it would take 10-15 seconds to write a header on a unallocated partition and about the same time to set the boot flag. Now, both things happen instantly. much nicer. thanks.

[esmourguit]

Bonjour à tous,
@ Barry K,
With the help of MU's script and improved by Shinobar, we created for version 4.3 (from version 417) these 3 localized files xwin, xorgwizard and chooselocale .
To simplify the localization of Puppy and avoid to repeat translations when scripts are upgraded, would it be possible to include these localized scripts in the official version as Nathan Wallpaper Setter, for example.
Thank you in advance,
Cordialement

[Kenny-M]

BarryK,

I appreciate the work you are doing but have to ask after the
image you built for me below will the additions roll into the
next new release as standard because the SCSI Puppy also appears
to load fine on machines with SATA drives? Also, the video drivers
for Maxtox G550 and the mod. to the rxvt console colors stay?
Other problems are listed below.

Image: puppy-4.3beta1-k2.6.25.16-v423-SCSI.iso 8-14-2009 11:07

Now properly sets Matrox G550 card to 1024x768 at 60hz. OK

Properly indetifies Adaptec AIC-7880 and AIC-7890 SCSI chipsets. OK

Console rxvt screen much, much better with Black letters on White. OK

Problem - After getting Crystal 4237b audio working using lagecy
cs4236 and producing output after a reboot I notice the audio ICON
has disappeared from the taskbar. Running through procedure does
not restore audio ICON and now there is no output. How to reset to
normal or initial state?

Problem - Puppy Universal Installer always identifies installation
partition as ext4 even when it is Gparted to ext2 or ext3. Also,
selecting SCSI says Not Implemented so I tried internal IDE/Sata.
So can't install Puppy onto a SCSI drive.

Other SCSI drive operations work as expected. As with Gparted.

Problem - Grub fails on ext4 partition. Grub fails to SCSI drive
as sdb and it leaves boot MBR on sda with a prompt and dosen't boot.
Could not load XP on sda had to use DOS fdisk /mbr to recreate.

Problem - From rxvt console 'vi' command causes Segmentation Fault.

Problem - Downloading HP drivers from files foo2zjs-i486 and
hpijs-2.8.2_static-1-patched421 does not now show all the HP PSC
series like PSC 1310. Under 4.2.1 it worked. Per 8-bit Cannon
print drivers are also missing.

Problem - When certain jobs are queued I get garbage in the colsole
window. Open a console windows and type in the following:

lpstat -t

What should come back is the status of the print sub-system and queues.
Jobs in queue will look like <printer_name>-job_number <other info>
At times the printing sub-system status displays OK but when it gets to
the point of displaying the jobs in qeuue you will get back control
characters and the cursor is moved elsewhere on the screen.

Browsing - Becase the Dell Precision 610 Zeon 550 machines are older
and slower is there a way by default to up the priority of SeaMonkey so
streaming video is displayed normally and not choppy / freeze frame?

Thanks.

P.S. In trying Puppy and other Linux's I can see a great potential for
using Puppy to recover data from crashed Windows 2000 & XP file
systems. I.E. Fat32 and NTFS. Also, use Puppy as a bare metal backup
tool for Windows machines to make an image and store it on a NAS
server.

[Sit Heel Speak]

[panzerpuppy]

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[panzerpuppy]

A few excerpts from today's DistroWatch review:

[Kenny-M]

SHS,

Nice to hear from you again. Regarding :

[Haven't looked at this, but in perusing this page I see: "Process Lasso -- a freeware package that allows you to set the process priority of any thread. Bump up the priority of your web browser, for example, and see how lousy your system behaves." ]

This turns out to be a Windows based tool. Perhaps these machines simply don't have the horse power? But I have to say under Windows XP this choppy / freeze frame action does not happen hardly at all?

Thanks SHS,
-Ken

[Kenny-M]

SHS,

Nice to hear from you again. Regarding :

[Haven't looked at this, but in perusing this page I see: "Process Lasso -- a freeware package that allows you to set the process priority of any thread. Bump up the priority of your web browser, for example, and see how lousy your system behaves." ]

This turns out to be a Windows based tool. Perhaps these machines simply don't have the horse power? But I have to say under Windows XP this choppy / freeze frame action does not happen hardly at all?

Thanks SHS,
-Ken

P.S. How do you delete a duplicate post?

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[trio]

Barry,

No I did not do anything with b43. Anmd I am not the only one has a problem with b43, I think sit heel speeak and another person (few pages back)

I always have to do this also with 4.2, even until the final 4.2.1 I still need to do this. It has never been resolved. You may find posts about it in 4.2 related threads.

Hope that clarifies something.

Regards,

Trio

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