Quirky 1.3 RC Bugs, Fixes, & Feedback

[duke93535]

Brown Mouse,

Your lucky then,mine still says 1.2

What you’re running into is because of upgrading and the layered system. For example there are two default.jpg with the same name and one is in your save file and the other is in your new puppy.sfs. The one in the qrkysave file overrules the one in the puppy.sfs.

If you delete the one in /usr/share/backgrounds/default.jpg and then delete the .wh.default.jpg (whiteout files are hidden, so you need to hit the eye to see) file in /initrd/pup_rw/usr/share/backgrounds then the new one will be installed on a reboot

duke

[duke93535]

Gparted does not work correctly, with resizing and formating. I went back to gparted 0.5.1 and used Quirky 1.2 parted libraries.

duke

[shinobar]

Puppy Package Manager(PPM) of recent woof has 2 big problem with frugal install on flash.

PROBLEM
Assume furugal install with pupsave on flash device, using recent PPM.

1. Install, say somepackege-1.0.pet, unistall it, then again install the same package or the same package updated, say somepackage-1.1.pet .
The files somepackage must recover in most case.
But recent PPM with frugal install, the PPM shows no error but the files disappear.
In case uninstall, then reboot PC, and re-install the package, the files recover with no problem.
2. Installing some packages which has files under '/mnt/home', the PPM shows no error but the files under '/mnt/home' disappear.


REASON
There is a bug at the code add on 26 Apr 2010 and later, for boot from flash, bypass tmpfs top layer, install direct to pup_save file.

SOLUTION
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 934#452934

[shinobar]

Automatic LAN connection if eth0 and DHCP available.
In this case, right click the 'Connect' icon on the desktop, or the tray icon.
It has the menu items 'Autoconnect'/'Disconnect', but it does not but launches connection wizard in this case.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 017#444017

[Brown Mouse]

Brown Mouse,

Your lucky then,mine still says 1.2

What you’re running into is because of upgrading and the layered system. For example there are two default.jpg with the same name and one is in your save file and the other is in your new puppy.sfs. The one in the qrkysave file overrules the one in the puppy.sfs.

If you delete the one in /usr/share/backgrounds/default.jpg and then delete the .wh.default.jpg (whiteout files are hidden, so you need to hit the eye to see) file in /initrd/pup_rw/usr/share/backgrounds then the new one will be installed on a reboot

duke

Thanks duke93535,that worked a treat

[Brown Mouse]

Still unable to download anything from Puppy-Quirky repo from ppm with any selected URL.(except for the package Barry mentioned earlier 'ffplay')
I get'error,failed to download******'

[shinobar]

Some Puppys have 3 levels of menu - Quirky Puppy has two
On a small screen (such as on my Eeepc) 3 levels are not viewable
Quirky has 2 - works better - you can get to all components

Are you aware that there are 3 types of menu nesting?

• Qrky-1.3 has 2 levels, same as Wary, Puppy 4.x.
• LupQ-509(Quiqset edition) has 3 levels, same as Fatdog64.
• Lupu-511 is quite different, say 2.5 levels.

I tested these 3 puppies with 640x480 screen size.
No problem on Qrky-1.3 and LupQ-509, no matter with 2 or 3 level.
The only problem occurs on Lupu-511. Maybe comes from its specific menu style. See the attached.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 348#442348

[Karl Godt]

COPY this to the geany text editor

Code: Select all

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=PupDial modem dialup
Icon=mini-connect.xpm
Comment=PupDial modem dialup
Exec=pupdial
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;Dialup;
GenericName=PupDial

and save it as /usr/share/applications/pupdial.desktop

run fixmenus & restart jwm or restart x server

Categories=Network;Dialup; provides submenus at some puppies and some not even when /etc/xdg/menus and /usr/share/desktop-directories seem to be identical

[BarryK]

Quirky 1.3-final is released. New forum feedback thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60163

[Karl Godt]

Congratulations !

puppy.sfs runs really fine on my hardware (1.05 G AMD CPU 384 M RAM NVidia Card Generic CRT Monitor 3 IDE HD 350 W PowerSupply )

Like all the other Puppies !!

Nathan Wallpaper Settler is the one that indicates rc from official release

Something about modprobe.conf : While I was trying to get an older serial mouse to work (it`s from logitech .. so need to search for a driver I guess) I stumbled over /etc/modules.conf :

#I left this file here for old-times sake. 2.6 kernel uses modprobe.conf.
# Note, the script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit*
# calls script /etc/rc.d/rc.modules*
# to load the modules.
# modprobe* references this config file, modules.conf.
#v432 rerwin: This file is still used by Conexant-modems to retain major-number selections for the experimen

I could have posted it at the new thread but there is some graphics process going on atm

[Flash]

I tried to install the Firefox .pet from quirky's package manager and got this report of missing libs. Some of them I haven't been able to find.

[tigerwuff]

I have the same situation. On top of this, when I try to use seamonkey after the attempt, I get nothing. I have to uninstall FF and then all works well.

Compact Presario 3400+ 250GB hd 1.2g ram Nvidia on board 32" tv for mon
all running thru a belken 4 port switch.

Tiger