Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[dejan555]

Sorry for confusing you, petget is another name for Puppy Package Manager (also reffered to as PPM). Download libgl1-mesa-dri from lenny repo, that's also hint for gerry

EDIT: Yes, that pet you installed is compatible with 4.x series haven't tried it in dpup though. When you install dri just restart X and system should activate DRI if present.

[nooby]

The xorg_xorg_full_dri_7.3 full dri did install and are now listed in the ppm but it is impossible to get the lenny repositry because everytime I try the ppm freeze and the only way to get out of freeze seems to do ctrl+alt+bkspace. And it all repeat with a new locked application.

anyway the full drivers did not help with playing streaming video.

Out of some 15 puppies I ahve tested running in RAM there are only three that behave like this and that is Dpup and Upup and FatDog but it was some time me tested Fatdog and not sure what drivers that one make use of.

What is common between these three distros that make them choppy when they render online video?

Am I the only one having that problem with these three?

[gerry]

Firefox just won't behave for me- when I scroll up or down, the screen gets sliced into overlapping horizontal bands.

Dillo is ok.

So.... I thought to install ice-weasel from the debian repo. No go. Even though I checked the url's and got answers that indicated ok, none of them will download.

Firefox had been working for a week or two, but started misbehaving. I did a total re-(frugal)install, but the problem is there straight away.

Ah well... wait till next beta.

gerry

Acer Aspire One.

[Béèm]

Also in other puppies I experienced this kind of issue.
Therefor I always install SeaMonkey, now at 2.0.3.
I install via the tar file and outside the save file.
In this way other puppies take benefit of this way of operating.

[shankargopal]

[Béèm]

I have this kind of slugginess with FF also in the other ugly OS.

[gerry]

What has lately been done is: I thought I'd install Epiphany from the Lenny repo. All went well, until at the end the dependency check showed that a lib was missing. When I clicked on the "Libraries" button to find it, the package manager was frozen- completely crashed. Had to do cntrl-alt-backsp to get out.

Rebooted, and started Package Manager, which loaded one of its lists, and froze. So I couldn't finish installing Epiphany, and couldn't uninstall it either.

So I deleted the Pupsave (it's a frugal install) and booted up and will when I've finished this post create a new one.

So far, Firefox is behaving.

But what a palaver to set up wlan0 again!! I had to go through the process over and over, before eventually getting a connection set up. How can a scan show no networks available, then another scan a few seconds later show five?

gerry

[Béèm]

[gerry]

Firefox crashed again. Went to a black screen, cnt/alt/backsp did not do anything. Rebooted. Then found that Firefox had gone into the break-up-into horizontal-stripes-on-scrolling mode that I had before. Also, the minimise/maximise/close buttons at top right of screen had disappeared.

EDIT: More- it's an Acer Aspire One, with 1GB ram and a hard drive. When it happened, I was using an external mouse to scroll, using the right hand scroll bar.

Using Seamonkey pet from the 5d repo now.

gerry

[stu90]

Wireless B43 set up with network wizard ok - however Pwireless2 shows no networks.

+/ - volume control in the task bar doesn't change volume level - volume +/ - works ok in mixer and video, audio player and streaming etc.

Other than these minor problems nice distro

cheers.

[Shep]

[gerry]

@Shep- no, only one Firefox running.

As I said above, I installed Seamonkey 2 pet, and after a few days the same thing happened, although the minimise/maximise/quit buttons have not disappeared. So it's not a Firefox-specific problem.

I use this same Seamonkey pet on my desktop, with no problems over some weeks. That's an old machine, 600MHz cpu and 256MB ram. I have to try all the new puppies on the Acer Aspire One, as the desktop needs a retro kernel.

gerry

[papos]

I experiment some problems with locale
locale for keyboard and writing are not affected
but application like kino gimp pburn are not in locale langage
exept QT application like scribus
where does i look?

some test with
# locale
LANG=fr_FR.utf8
or
LANG=fr_FR
or
LANG=DE

[ttuuxxx]

[stu90]