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Feverfew · Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 20 Location: USA

the Welcome, woof, woof! pages explanatory graphics are not the same as the new metallic/blue desktop so here's some that are Smile

P.S. the jwm menus have a weird ghosting effect; when moving though the menu's Confused

and I didn't see a screen record program so i cant show y'all Embarassed

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r__hughes · Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 336 Location: Canada

Hi ecube thanks for your msg of 4:06 pm 12oct09 with your perl script partview-type display. It worked first time & gives what I think is a more logical display --- and it works with built in perl too - I am going to have to look into this Smile

bigpup

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Lobster · Posted: Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:38 Post subject:

Got Puppy running on the Asus 700 netbook with wifi
just as in 4.3.
really appreciate this - as I bought the netbook to run Puppy Smile

notes: - had to enter the data for wifi and then restart x server and do it again, to get connect.
Uses WPA, even if you are using WPA2 encryption on your wifi
Use menu / desktop / JWM configuration to autohide the tray bar and give more screen space

One strange thing, I could not get the mic setting or other level bars to move in zmixer on the Asus 700 netbook. Tried plugging in USB mouse - nope would not work.
Zmixer working OK on my main PC.
Not sure why this might be?

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1318 Location: Maine, USA

The venerable burniso2cd script facilitates user actions that prevent successful verification and then leaves the user wondering what went wrong.

1. In preparation for verifying the disk's checksum, the user is told to click "okay" when the CD/DVD drive is closed. The verification begins when the "click" is done. However, the drive may require up to about 15 seconds to get the disk ready, during which time its light flashes. Actually, the user should click after the light finishes flashing. But one might find themself clicking as soon as the button is pushed to close the drive. If the drive is not ready when verification begins, verification fails and the user has no way to re-verify, possibly wasting a valid disk.

2. If the verification fails, there is no further information on why. The user can waste time and disks while guessing the reason.

To address both of these problems, I updated the burniso2cd script to wait 15 seconds before starting the verification following the "click", and to write the output from the "dd" command used in the verification to a log file. That shows whether an I/O error occurred and the number of bytes compared. These seem to be simple fixes that would improve the user experience of burning ISOs.

Since this might be considered a long-standing-bug fix, I offer it for the next RC.
Richard

tubby · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 317

Toshiba Portege

Internal wifi modem is not detected on boot, setup wizard reports no modem found then maybe it is switched off.
After switching off then back on modem is found and configures ok but on reboot no modem is found so reinstall after switch off and then back on.
Do you think it is a time out problem or something to do with rerwins modem program.
Usb modems are found ok on boot with internal switched off.

BarryK · Posted: Tue 13 Oct 2009, 06:51 Post subject:

Ok, I have modified the abiword package so that grammar checking is off by default.

shinobar,
Thanks very much for posting that fix for the overlapping drive icons.
I've implemented that.

toutix · Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 6

thanks for all the great work.

-I am testing puppy431rc from usb stick on a compaq mini 110c
-booting stops when 431rc is trying to load drivers to access disk
-puppy/toutou412 does not have this problem
-booting from CD (external usb CD drive) works on mini 110c, with sudden unexplained exceptions sometimes at same stage
-same usb stick with 431rc works on older IBM thinkpad X44
-option to burn stick was mbr.bin, other options not successful also for booting IBM X44 (brand of USB stick is Apacer)

-of course, network cannot be accessed from mini 110c at present as drivers for AR8132/L1c and BCM4312 are lacking in 431rc, but this would not matter as I am using puppy/toutou for my lectures

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1318 Location: Maine, USA

tubby,

kazzamozz

Hi there
have been testing 431 on the following hardware with success.
Booting from USB stick Toshiba Satellite Pro L300
Wireless Canon IP5200r hooked up successfully using IP address, and Canon driver IP5200
Wireless driver RT8187/8187B USB had not had much success with this until now.
Ethernet r8169
Alsa Sound works but not always loud enough, not sure if that's just some settings need adjusting as yet.
No Crashes in Sea Monkey over the last 2 days and nights, have used it solidly.
Vodafone 3G wireless USB stick using GPRs connect, very fast. Faster than when hooked up with windows.
Loaded Openoffice SFS files, icons appear and work nicely, converts Office 2007 document files and formatting was partially successful. Lost the fonts, but kept the tables. 10 Page document opens within seconds.
Fan on laptop working CPU not overheating.
Mouse touchpad fine, seem to have to tap it fairly hard, not sure if that's relevant. However very responsive with gliding of finger across the pad.
Still need to test keyboard function keys as yet.
Puppy is much faster than the Vista!!! it came installed with.
GXine ran flawlessly for 6 movies.
Occasionally when rebooting shutdown screen is all blurred, but doesn't seem to affect operations of anything.
Pmount no errors so far
Burn Iso to CD have burnt 6 iso files without errors

Here are some things that don't seem to work properly

Rox filer when right clicking on Iso asks if I want to burn file using Pburn asks for a disk nothing happens after that.
Disk just keeps spinning.
Anyway that's all for now
Cheers Cool

Kazzamozz

kazzamozz

[quote="rerwin"]The venerable burniso2cd script facilitates user actions that prevent successful verification and then leaves the user wondering what went wrong.

Toshiba Satellite Pro L300
Yes everytime I have tried to do a verification I get an error, stating it is unable to verify disk. However I check the disks by booting up with them and they are fine.
Confused

Cheers
Kazzamozz

tubby · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 317

Thanks for your reply rerwin, by reinstall i meant reprobe for modem as it is not recognised on boot. I will try your suggestion and post results when i use the portege next.

BarryK · Posted: Tue 13 Oct 2009, 09:24 Post subject:

Thanks to ljfr I now have a fix for the problem of some svg images not displaying. I reported this on my blog:

http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=01166
http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=01165

Tygua · Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Posts: 43 Location: France Rennes

Hi

It seems the rtc_timer not working on puppy 4.3.
For example, the gmorgan sequencer does not start.
Similarly, the rosegarden sequencer does not start with the RTC_timer but is OK when selecting another timer (eg timer system)
Both programs work perfectly with previous versions of puppy.

Tygua

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5243 Location: Valåmoen, Norway