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Which describes your experience with Lucid Puppy graphics?

Poll ended at Fri 30 Apr 2010, 20:49

I am using the automatic desktop
14
67%
I am using the desktop created by xorgwizard
7
33%
I can't get a usable desktop
0
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Total votes: 21

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#31 Post by ecube »

pa_mcclamrock wrote: What puzzles me is why this and other bugs that don't exist in Puppy 4.3.1, such as drive icon misalignment, are now popping up in the Lucid Puppy pre-releases. Why not just re-use the identical code from 4.3.1 that makes these things work right?
You can realign the icons manually. I assume that only some event controlled activations are missing.

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Drive icons.

#32 Post by Béèm »

I had the drive icons overlapping and even worse at a subsequent boot.
I had to use the redraw function to get the icons properly aligned.
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Simpel Network Setup

#33 Post by Béèm »

I reported already earlier.
I have a long list of routers. Normally I drag the list with ALT and left mouse button, but this doesn't work.
I have the same drag problem when I display a pdf file.
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Printen to cups-pdf

#34 Post by Béèm »

Altho all seems ok, no pdf file is created.
I tried when printing from my e-mail (wine) application and from a text file in geany.

However when printing from text in geany I get the opton print to file which works, not in my e-mail (wine) client.

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This solves the problem.
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#35 Post by pa_mcclamrock »

ecube wrote:You can realign the icons manually. I assume that only some event controlled activations are missing.
Correct. To me, a staunch Puppy user for years now, realigning the icons manually is a minor inconvenience. To at least some newer users, I think, it would be a sign that the Puppy developers might not know how to get things done right. But of course it won't really, since the problem will be solved before the final release of Puppy 5! :D
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eeepc acpi scripts

#36 Post by moonguard12 »

I'm using Lucid Puppy 113. I chose it because it has screen panning and the newer kernel. I thought the EEEpc ACPI scripts were integrated into this kernel, but the hotkeys are not working. I tried installing the deb from http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... 10_all.deb. and rebooted, but still no luck.

I know tempestuous created a patched kernel for these scripts, but I think it is for .25, not .33.

Also, only the Lucid Main remains selected after OK in the package manager. Multiverse and Universe do not remain selected.

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Desktop drive icons information

#37 Post by Béèm »

I think I reported it before.
Either here or in a quirky feedback thread.
When going with the mouse cursor over the drive icons on the desktop, normally the file system and size is displayed in a pop-up.

Not in Lucid (nor in quirky). Only the file system is displayed, not the size.
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#38 Post by 01micko »

Béèm

It works for me, did you set your locale yet? Pmount crashes if you don't, maybe that is related?

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Time off by 2 hours

#39 Post by Béèm »

Alltho I did set the timezone to my zone Europe/Brussels the clock is 2 hours ahead.
I went into desktop|set timezone.
I saw the correct timezone Europe/Brussels was displayed, so all I did was push ok and the clock jumped the two hours back to the correct time.

Rebooting this morning I saw the clock was again 2 hours ahead.
I did the same manipulation again resulting to have the clock jump back 2 hours to the correct time.

Kinda annoying.
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non US keyboard selection.

#40 Post by Béèm »

Kinda annoying for those having a non-US keyboard.

Now that boot is done to the desktop to eventually do some more setup there is this annoying thing that for selecting the keyboard, when one pushes the button to do so the X command prompt is displayed and xorgwizard has to be typed.

Well try to do this on a non-US keyboard. A real pleasure and puzzle.

So I prefer that at least the keyboard can be selected during the first boot as it was before.
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Re: non US keyboard selection.

#41 Post by pa_mcclamrock »

Béèm wrote:I prefer that at least the keyboard can be selected during the first boot as it was before.
I agree, although I've got a US keyboard. The idea of booting directly to the desktop is to make things easier for users. If it turns out to make things harder for a considerable number of users instead, it should be dropped because it's a step in the wrong direction, not the right direction. It appears that booting directly to the desktop does make things harder for a considerable number of users, like those with non-US keyboards and those who don't want or can't use the screen resolution they initially get (about 35%, according to the poll right now).
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#42 Post by 01micko »

Ok guys and gals...

I got the swatter out and eliminated one of those nasties..

The dreaded timezone bug :roll:

It was all but a simple symlink, (which took me an age to find :evil: )

Try the attached dot pet and report results please. Pfix=ram is best, but it doesn't matter if you still have the bug in a saved configuration, try it anyway.

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Desktop drive icons information

#43 Post by Béèm »

01micko wrote:Béèm

It works for me, did you set your locale yet? Pmount crashes if you don't, maybe that is related?

Cheers
Hi Micko,
My locale is set as always to nl_BE@euro :Dutch, Belgium.
It started as well in quirky as in Lucid some versions back.
Found back the comments in quirky 10
Pmount works without crash.

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#44 Post by Tasgarth »

01micko wrote :
The dreaded timezone bug Rolling Eyes
It was all but a simple symlink, (which took me an age to find Evil or Very Mad )
It's OK and after a reboot it's OK

Thanks

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#45 Post by aarf »

boot to desktop and keyboard issues.
my thoughts: still boot to desktop but enable keyboard to be set in the initial start-up wizard similar to how time zone is set now.

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#46 Post by 8-bit »

With lupu 113, no visible volume icon in tray.
Installed retrovolume and got volume icon, mixer, and all worked.
But.....
I get smooth playback full screen from HULU, and the video channels that come with puppy, but I still get slo-mo effect in full screen Youtube.
That is using Youtube's full screen icon.
Also, it is a real pain trying to get back to windowed and I have to hit ESC a number of times before I get any response.

This is with the default Nvidia driver that was autoinstalled.
My PC is AMD Athalon X2 4800 Dual-Core Processor and 3 gigs of ram, so I know it is not my PC.
Also, the same Youtube stuff plays fine in Puppy 431 with SeaMonkey 2.04 installed on it.
And it uses the default shockwave flash and futuresplash plugins that came with it.
Also: In Puppy 431, I downloaded, and installed the driver directly from Nvidia for my specific graphics card and set it to 32bit color.

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#47 Post by 8-bit »

I am back with bad news.
I went to Barry's site and downloaded the kernel source and the NVIDIA installer told me the kernel was not compiled with the same version of gcc that was included in the devx for lupu-113.
Also, it did not recognize the devx source files as being correct.
So how do I try to install the factory NVIDIA package specific to my graphics card?

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#48 Post by 01micko »

ok, timezone bugfix take 2

I can't work out why this fix works but it is needed in Lupu.

Test please.
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#49 Post by playdayz »

I am back with bad news.
I went to Barry's site and downloaded the kernel source and the NVIDIA installer told me the kernel was not compiled with the same version of gcc that was included in the devx for lupu-113.
Also, it did not recognize the devx source files as being correct.
So how do I try to install the factory NVIDIA package specific to my graphics card?
You are not alone 8-bit. Someone else has tried also. Lucid Pup is a hybrid and that is not always good. The kernel is from Barry with gcc4.3 and the majority of the binaries are from Ubuntu--well, Ubuntu just upgraded gcc to 4.4 (or maybe that is 4.4.3 and 4.4.4) There are ways around it I understand, but they would take someone a chunk of time--it wouldn't get on my radar until after 5.0 is released. i would like to have it of course, but it is "not trivial" as they say.

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#50 Post by abushcrafter »

Bug: Gxine fails to play Theora video. bigbuckbunny makes for a good source of test video. You can also use ffmpeg2theora to convert your existing videos into Theora to test with.

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