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yr1945 · #616 Post by **yr1945** » Mon 05 Aug 2013, 15:13

Smil99... no further progress on wireless printing... I have followed your directions very closely...

I am still confused about the ppet yourprinter.pet instructions... when I insert it into the terminal with my printer name, all I get back is deskjet3510.pet not found!... I guess that you are telling me that the .pet for my printer must be obtained from rcrsn51...

However, even without the printer .pet, the cups website can "find" my printer... I have added it to my pc and it shows up when i want to print...

I tried printing wirelessly and with the usb connection... but, no luck... however, the control screen lights up in both cases... which, to me, means that the printer is receiving some communication from my pc... otherwise, the screen would not be lighting up...

I will occasionally keep working on this issue... but, I wanted to THANK YOU for pointing me in the right direction...

smil99 · #617 Post by **smil99** » Mon 05 Aug 2013, 22:32

Hi again yr1945,
Searched and found the following pets from rcrsn51's arsenal of printer solutions for you to try

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ppet hplip_print-3.13.7.pet
ppet hplip_scan-3.13.7.pet
After downloading, install them with ppet. That is, in a console, type

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ppet hplip_print-3.13.7.pet

enter, and then

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ppet hplip_scan-3.13.7.pet

After install, reboot and then go to cups interface at

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localhost:631

Open the Administration tab and select 'Add Printer' or 'Find New Printers' and install your printer by scrolling down the list of printers until you find the exact name of your printer. Follow the cups instructions from there which I guess is quite straightforward

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You may have to test USB printing before trying the wireless one.
Cheers.

yr1945 · #618 Post by **yr1945** » Tue 06 Aug 2013, 08:26

Smil99... well, you won't believe this, but I can now print wirelessly... THANK YOU for all of your support... I really appreciate it...

cinclus_cinclus · #619 Post by **cinclus_cinclus** » Tue 06 Aug 2013, 09:44

I use a NVidia G210 graphics card. On booting the xorg-driver hangs. Several restarts by Alt-Ctrl Backspace solves this annoying problem though.

Question:
how can I force the xorgdriver either
1) to repeat the start of the xserver until it finds the correct resolution of my TFT-display.
2) or to use directly the correct resolution (1680x1050).

Any hints highly appreciated.

simargl · #620 Post by **simargl** » Tue 06 Aug 2013, 21:45

cinclus_cinclus, is that problem with compiled nvidia driver? You don't need to force driver to load, new Xorg relies on eudev and will choose what's best for your hardware automatically. There can't be conflict with nouveau driver, because nouveau is disabled in kernel configuration. You can add boot code pfix=nox to stop X from starting, or change line X_AUTOLOGIN="yes" in /etc/rc.conf. X -configure will make new xorg.conf file in /root. You can change resolution in that file, copy it to /etc/X11, then start X server with alphaosx.

simargl · #621 Post by **simargl** » Tue 06 Aug 2013, 21:54

Porteus/Arch aka Sensei (Porteus w/pacman package manager)

http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=2386

For those that don't remember, stifiling was making Xfce versions of Archpup some time ago...

simargl · #622 Post by **simargl** » Wed 07 Aug 2013, 10:45

I have made patch for gpicview that allows setting wallpaper in alphaos directly from this Image Viewer. Button for "Set As Wallpaper"is added in toolbar and in right click menu on right side/bellow "Full Screen" button. Later I will change wallpaper.sh script, so it will not be so root-centric., means that wallpaper choice should be saved in $HOME/.config, not in usr/share/backgrounds.

rameshiyer · #623 Post by **rameshiyer** » Wed 07 Aug 2013, 11:19

Now I am able to setup Static Wired LAN through Frisbee. Moreover, my 3G modem also detected in AlphaOS 9 !. Hope to connect ISP. Thanks for the same. What about Printer setup?

simargl · #624 Post by **simargl** » Wed 07 Aug 2013, 11:43

That's good news rameshiyer, I remember you had some problems with Internet connection previously using Pwireless. Now when those problems are solved I think this is one of, if not the most stable distribution based on Puppy Linux. Very competent people from Arch Linux make packages for us, and what is extremely important we use those packages directly, no need to convert them to pet format, click examine dependencies, and choose mirror manually every time. Everything is fast, bugs free, it looks like mission accomplished.

/usr/bin/wallpaper.sh is slightly changed, wallpaper can be set in two ways - right click on image file in Spacefm file manager, or with gpicview image viewer toolbar or right click. Config directory is now /root/.config/wallpaper/, chosen background will be linked to /root/.config/wallpaper/default.jpg and set from /root/.start when window manager is started.

watchdog · #625 Post by **watchdog** » Wed 07 Aug 2013, 12:10

I had success installing and printing in alphaOS-9.0: HP Photosmart C3190 Ink Jet and Brother HL2130 Laser. My way is the following.

Step 1 -

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pacman -S cups

Put in /root/.start before "sleep 7":

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cupsd &

Copy the attached file in /usr/lib (uzip it).
Then in console:

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ln -s /usr/lib/libsystemd-daemon.so.0.0.10 /usr/lib/libsystemd-daemon.so.0

Reboot.

Step 2 - I had no success accessing by browser cups server but you can install printers in another way.

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pacman -S hplip

Install all suggested dependencies. Then:

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pacman -S system-config-printer

Install with it all suggested dependencies.

Step 3 - Right-click on the desktop, Applications, Preferences, Print Settings.
Add your printers and see if they work.

smil99 · #626 Post by **smil99** » Thu 08 Aug 2013, 03:38

Hi yr1945,

...you won't believe this, but I can now print wirelessly...

Glad to know it worked for you ... finally

. Hope others will benefit from our discourse too.

Cheers.

Scooby · #627 Post by **Scooby** » Thu 08 Aug 2013, 19:42

simargl wrote: /usr/bin/wallpaper.sh is slightly changed, wallpaper can be set in two ways - right click on image file in Spacefm file manager, or with gpicview image viewer toolbar or right click. Config directory is now /root/.config/wallpaper/, chosen background will be linked to /root/.config/wallpaper/default.jpg and set from /root/.start when window manager is started.

Does this mean you will remove imlibsetroot in next realease?

simargl · #628 Post by **simargl** » Thu 08 Aug 2013, 20:50

Scooby wrote:Does this mean you will remove imlibsetroot in next realease?

No, it will just add option to set wallpaper, using imlibsetroot backend, directly from gpicview image viewer.

Actually I'm thinking to add this program http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87851, after it becomes more stable.

simargl · #629 Post by **simargl** » Fri 09 Aug 2013, 08:05

Screenshot of the new wallpaper setter called gwp from Natan F. written in gtkdialog,

and my Control Center written in glade and vala for callback functions.

Now there are 3 ways to set wallpaper: gwp, right click action in spacefm or directly from gpicview. I've modified wallpaper.sh script so they all use same mechanism - imlibsetroot and cwp which reads data from /root/.config/gwp/last.

Control Center reduces number of items in the openbox menu. Make new, or increase size of the current personal storage file, Set wallpaper, Configure firewall or Input devices is now possible only from this Control Center, after openbox System submenu has been removed.

smil99 · #630 Post by **smil99** » Fri 09 Aug 2013, 10:55

simargle wrote:

... new wallpaper setter called gwp from Natan F. written in gtkdialog, and my Control Center ...

Those are great stuff. How can one try them in V9?
I remember Nathan for his Grafpup of yesteryears. Good to see you around again mate

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Cheers.

simargl · #631 Post by **simargl** » Sun 11 Aug 2013, 07:39

I will leave http://alphaos.tuxfamily.org forum registration open today, if someone wants to join, then will disable it again to prevent spammers from registering or making comments.

anikin · #632 Post by **anikin** » Sun 11 Aug 2013, 13:07

Hi simargl,

Hope, you're doing well. I've done a quick test of alphaOS 9.0, mainly its startup routine. Will do some more testing and share my experience here later on. Both good and bad, in equal measure. In the meantime, I have a question, purely technical one: Can you apply the startup routine, as implemented in alphaOS to a classic puppy of your choice. So that, "xorgwizard" is taken out of the process, but leaving "quicksetup" intact. Can you make it happen?

Thank you in advance

simargl · #633 Post by **simargl** » Sun 11 Aug 2013, 15:04

Hi, I think xorgwizard in Puppy is started from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, and quicksetup from some script inside /root/Startup, so you can find xorgwizard there and comment that line to disable it. Every script from /root/Startup in original Puppy is executed when session is started, but that directory is not used here, instead of there is file /root/.start that sets background, tint2 panel, volume control and other programs on startup.

anikin · #634 Post by **anikin** » Sun 11 Aug 2013, 15:44

It's not that simple and the task is above my grade. The process is split into many parts, some moved to initrd, some to profile. Obfuscated, to say the least. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87662 I shouldn't have mentioned Quick setup as it is not related.

simargl · #635 Post by **simargl** » Mon 12 Aug 2013, 10:54

There is new Openbox release 3.5.2
http://icculus.org/pipermail/openbox/20 ... 08158.html

3.5.2:
* Fix crash in theme rendering code, and in theme parsing code.
* Maximize windows without borders to fill the whole screen, don't leave
a one-pixel empty space. (Bug #5996)

3.5.1:
* New translations: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Interlingua, Hebrew, Romanian,
Greek.
* Updated translations: Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish,
German, Arabic, Polish, Dutch, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Estonian.
* SVG icon support. This is optional, depending on librsvg being installed.
* Allow application rules to control window size with a new <size> tag.
* Allow application rules to pick a monitor for new windows without forcing
a position.
* Allow non-interactive focus cycling with a new <interactive> tag.
* New LeastOverlap window placement policy replaces the old default
behaviour. It finds a place on a given monitor that overlaps as few
windows as possible. Contributed by Ian Zimmerman.
* Improved Xinerama behaviour.
* Correctly interface with latest gnome-session for Gnome/Openbox X sessions.
* Allow third-party control of window opacity in compositing managers.
* Improved themeing options. Contributed by Dave Foster.
* Add <monitor>, <title type="regex">, <title type="exact"> and
<activedesktop> options to If action.
* Addresses bugs #4661, #5506, #5186, #5758, #5410, #5228, #5277, #5731,
#5746, #5737, #5419, #5721, #5711, #5385, #5500, #4992, #5443, #5518,
#5444, #4782, #5237, #5228, #5173, #5203, #5246, #5180, #5179, #5150,
#5132, #4937, #4889, #5253, #3769, #5819, #5811, #5081, #5426 among others.

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