Precise Puppy 5.4 and 5.4.2
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Actually, I had two of those Geckos. I gave one to a NGO charity organisation in India. The other just stopped working one day, completely dead.technosaurus wrote:Everyone needs to realize that Ubuntu packages are built for 686 cpus with the CMOV instruction. This means that Precise will fail on all 486 and 586, the via c3, pentium, pentium mmx, amd geode and the vortex86 series of cpus and several others (see /proc/info to find out if you have the cmov flag)
This is a likely cause of the non-reproducible bug reports. @Barry, didn't you have a gecko edubook? That would be a good test box for this.
Edit: at 1 point choosing PAE in the kernel config also enabled some cmov instructions that prevented booting on these cpus, though IDK if it is still the case.
Interesting, same thing happened to the Intel Classmate mini laptops. I had two of those also, also gave one to the India charity, and the other also went dead one one day.
The only thing I have left that is pre-Pentium is my old PC with Cyrix 6x86 CPU. But that is currently in a friend's backyard shed.
I had to make some pretty tough decisions when I sold my house at Perenjori, got rid of so much stuff. But, at least I did keep some old hardware, in storage until one day when I settle somewhere permanent. ...which probably will happen mid-2013.
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Re: regular expression evaluation and learning tool
Yes, that was a long time ago. If I recall rightly, there were two of them, one was written in tcl/tk, the other gtk1.2.L18L wrote:Once upon a time (version 1.04) I have used it much.file:///usr/share/doc/HOWTO-regexps.htm wrote:[Note: Puppy has a regular expression evaluation and learning tool in the Utilities menu]
But now it seems to have disappeared
Which was why we had to leave them behind.
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Regarding epdfview, see my blog post:rcrsn51 wrote:In 5.4.0.90, the problem with ePDFview not rendering colours correctly is still present.
While I appreciate the inclusion of YASSM and Network, I expect that many users will miss Pnethood if it has been working for them.
http://www.bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00017
Regarding Pnethood, yes, good point. I have reinstated it.
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From the forum FAQBarryK wrote:I think that John Murga has made changes to the Forum recently. It keeps on logging me out. Anyone else got this problem?
Why do I get logged off automatically?
If you do not check the Log me in automatically box when you log in, the board will only keep you logged in for a preset time. This prevents misuse of your account by anyone else. To stay logged in, check the box during login. This is not recommended if you access the board from a shared computer, e.g. library, internet cafe, university cluster, etc.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
Firewall Status does not show in tray (taskbar).
I find this program useful to me.
I assume you did not include it in Precise for a reason.
I find this program useful to me.
I assume you did not include it in Precise for a reason.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
The z_epdfview_fix_precise-20121106.pet works correctly for me, both to screen and printer.BarryK wrote:Regarding epdfview, see my blog post:
Remember that Pnethood required the older version of nbtscan to work correctly, as discussed here.Regarding Pnethood, yes, good point. I have reinstated it.
z_epdfview_fix_precise-20121106.pet works correctly
Precise Puppy 5.4.0.90 works fine on my Pentium II 266 with 768MB.
Using the frugal mode on a 2GB hard disk.
The 'z_epdfview_fix_precise-20121106.pet' works fine too.
Regards Feodor
Rem. For the ones interested, I have added 'hardinfo _report'. Posting with this 'oldish' system right now.
Using the frugal mode on a 2GB hard disk.
The 'z_epdfview_fix_precise-20121106.pet' works fine too.
Regards Feodor
Rem. For the ones interested, I have added 'hardinfo _report'. Posting with this 'oldish' system right now.
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Tray missing
I am using retroprecise installed on usb and it has been working well until today. Tray is missing except for section with "menu" and "show desktop" icons. System icons in lower right are missing and minimized apps disappear. Tray does not extend across bottom of screen - only displays in lower left corner. Also, yesterday I tried adding panel button with jwm panel button configuring tool, but they never appeared in the tray.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
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I have recompiled glib from original sources and that fixes the module loading problem.akash_rawal wrote: Also gio has problems using modules. It's a glib bug and affects some other distros as well.
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Re: mpscan update needed
Done:peebee wrote:The new Network rox app needs the updated mpscan from:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81808
to work satifactorily in some configurations
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Did you include jemimah's patches for media/mnt and the help browser? If so, then it would solve bigpup's issue with the help in all gtk apps.akash_rawal wrote:I have recompiled glib from original sources and that fixes the module loading problem.akash_rawal wrote: Also gio has problems using modules. It's a glib bug and affects some other distros as well.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58347439/protec ... 0-i686.pet
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What I am reporting is a change in behaviour of the forum.bigpup wrote:From the forum FAQBarryK wrote:I think that John Murga has made changes to the Forum recently. It keeps on logging me out. Anyone else got this problem?Why do I get logged off automatically?
If you do not check the Log me in automatically box when you log in, the board will only keep you logged in for a preset time. This prevents misuse of your account by anyone else. To stay logged in, check the box during login. This is not recommended if you access the board from a shared computer, e.g. library, internet cafe, university cluster, etc.
Sometimes it logs me out only a few minutes after logging in. Even if I am active on the forum.
The previous behaviour was that it would log me out after a certain period of inactivity. I don't recall how long, maybe half an hour. It was a generous period of inactivity.
I used to have this problem with my Telstra mobile broadband connection. I did report the problem to John, but it never got fixed. After I changed to Optus, the problem went away.
Until now, suddenly I have that problem with Optus also.
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Do you mean even after installing your PET:akash_rawal wrote:Testing precise 5.4.0.90.
Looks like the session saving problem is solved, I'm unable to reproduce it now.
Problems with gdb and gio modules persist.
I'll continue testing and report back more.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58347439/protec ... 0-i686.pet
Precise still has module loading problems?
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Thanks, libpython2.7 will be in the devx.akash_rawal wrote:Finished downloading precise 5.4. Testing it reveals several problems.
On first boot it refused to save the session. After asking for save file name it rebooted without saving session. Next time I ran wmreboot in terminal but this time it worked properly. Will try again to reproduce the problem.
Display, opengl and internet is working properly. Posting from there now.
In devx gdb doesn't work.Installing libpython2.7_2.7.3-0ubuntu3_i386.deb fixes gdb.Code: Select all
# gdb gdb: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory #
Also gio has problems using modules. It's a glib bug and affects some other distros as well. See here.
Edit: Didn't see precise 5.4.0.90.
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Infrastructure mods to facilitate addition of Frisbee
Barry,
Testing of my integrated Frisbee is progressing well. Although I am not ready to submit it for additon to the puppy package library, the infrastructure changes are straightforward and would simplify users' and developers' addition of Frisbee.
Please consider updating woof with the first four packages posted here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 518#662518
The fifth (dhcpcd-dropwait) can also be added to the puppy package library, although substituting it in woof for dhcpcd could benefit connection stability for all network managers.
My main concern, though, is that the woof-resident changes be made, including the addition of a slot for a separate wag_profiles package. Please see the description associated with those packages at the above link. I recognize that it is late in the cycle, but ask for it because it would avoid users needing to modify to puppy infrastructure.
Richard
Testing of my integrated Frisbee is progressing well. Although I am not ready to submit it for additon to the puppy package library, the infrastructure changes are straightforward and would simplify users' and developers' addition of Frisbee.
Please consider updating woof with the first four packages posted here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 518#662518
The fifth (dhcpcd-dropwait) can also be added to the puppy package library, although substituting it in woof for dhcpcd could benefit connection stability for all network managers.
My main concern, though, is that the woof-resident changes be made, including the addition of a slot for a separate wag_profiles package. Please see the description associated with those packages at the above link. I recognize that it is late in the cycle, but ask for it because it would avoid users needing to modify to puppy infrastructure.
Richard