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OscarTalks wrote:Jades,
Thanks for giving it a try. I have tested on 4 desktops and 2 laptops of different brands and ages with ps2 keyboards and usb keyboards and it happens in all of them.

Did you start with the keys that are definitely different between the layouts and do just them? I started from the top left and worked right and down (so !"£$%^&).

May not be significant but I have UTF-8 disabled and am using 5.7 Retro.

Hi Folks !

Had keyboardissues too .

After installing langpack from Puppy Packetmanager (in my case german ..de..) .
problems seem solved .

Just upgraded from 5.6.1 to 5.7 (copied the save file first) and it seems to have retained all the settings and apps - except for the desktop image (no problem to reinstate) and more importantly -

- my mouse scroll wheel no longer works. It's a Microsoft cordless mouse that has worked fully in various previous Puppies.

Any suggestions?

Running on a HP Pavilion dm1 4108au laptop.

Edit to add: How do I make the screen fonts a bit smaller? Text under icons in file windows is bigger than with 5.6.1 - jams up against each other.

For the mouse, compare input values between your old xorg.conf and the new one.

I have narrowed down the cause of the non-US keyboard problem, see my blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00340

...in short, it is due to a DEB, we don't know which one.

Regarding the problem with logging into Facebook and Gmail in Pidgin, see my blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00343

...please let me know if you get Pidgin working!

Heh, just realised why I couldn't reproduce the keyboard bug on a pfix=ram boot. After filling in Quicksetup and restarting X-server I set up the network in Frisbee first, copying and pasting the SSID and password and typing the IP addresses, then ran Geany and tried the keyboard thing. Frisbee would therefore be the first app and I didn't restart X-server after the first time.

If I had a brain I'd be dangerous.

Duplicate post, sorry.

There is a problem with the Canon PIXMA iP6000d printer using the Gutenprint v5.2.8-pre1 printer library provided in Precise:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s ... ion/198660
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=105493
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=1070851

Swapping out print-canon.so from Gutenprint v5.2.9 fixes the problem.

This distribution is one of the best yet , however I get the following error message when trying to mount an ntfs partition on which Windows 8 is installed. I have made certain that Windows is properly shut down and have run chkdsk on the partition. Precise pups or derivatives are the only distributions that have this problem so something is generating a false message that prevents the ntfs partition from being mounted read/write. Others such as slacko have no problem mounting it.

Executing this code results in:

@jim1911: Here is something to try.

Pick a Puppy where NTFS mounting works and copy its ntfs-3g components into Precise.

For example, I went into Wary 5.3 and got the files /bin/ntfs-3g, /lib/libntfs-3g.so.79 and /lib/libntfs-3g.so.79.0.0.

I dropped these into Precise and mounted an NTFS partition. It worked.

Do you have a way of restoring your Win8 setup if something bad happens? Do you really want to be writing into its partition in the first place?

grump wrote:Just upgraded from 5.6.1 to 5.7... my mouse scroll wheel no longer works.

This morning the scroll wheel is working - must have been gremlins.

rcrsn51 wrote:@jim1911: Here is something to try.

Pick a Puppy where NTFS mounting works and copy its ntfs-3g components into Precise.

For example, I went into Wary 5.3 and got the files /bin/ntfs-3g, /lib/libntfs-3g.so.79 and /lib/libntfs-3g.so.79.0.0.

I dropped these into Precise and mounted an NTFS partition. It worked.

Do you have a way of restoring your Win8 setup if something bad happens? Do you really want to be writing into its partition in the first place?

Hi rcrsn51,

Your suggestion worked. I deleted files ntfs-3g, libntfs-3g.so.831, and libntfs-3g.so831.0.0 and replaced them with slacko 5.5.70 files nfts-3g, libntfs-3g.so.83, and libntfs-3g.so.83.0.0 and it's working perfectly.

As for restoration of my Windows 8 partition, I have full backup, however I am frequently writing to the mbr since I use grub4dos and allow it to change the mbr and I make frequent edits to the menu.lst on that partition. Never a problem.

I do have another problem with precise that's right down your alley. Xsane cannot find my HP all-in-one. I have installed your hplip_scan-3.12.4.pet which has always been reliable.

Thanks,
Jim

rcrsn51 wrote:@jim1911: Here is something to try.

Pick a Puppy where NTFS mounting works and copy its ntfs-3g components into Precise.

For example, I went into Wary 5.3 and got the files /bin/ntfs-3g, /lib/libntfs-3g.so.79 and /lib/libntfs-3g.so.79.0.0.

I dropped these into Precise and mounted an NTFS partition. It worked.

@rcrsn51

I would like to do something similar...

I have 2 Sony VAIO PCG-505DL that work with Wary 5.5, but the video fails with Precise 5.6 - 5.7 black screen.

Could you suggest where and possibly what video drivers to transplant?

Bill

Sorry, I don't know where to ask.

I downloaded a program called "x-tile" (deb file). Installed it and it was listed under utility in the program menu.

When i click on it to launch the program, nothing happened. I launch the program to check the dependencies, but it says nothing is missing.

Really appreciate if anyone can help. This is a useful program that will help to make 2 - 4 windows tile nicely side by side.

http://helpdeskgeek.com/linux-tips/easi ... th-x-tile/

Thanks

philip

Are you using precise 5.7? just curious, have you tried to compile it from source? Or try to check the file permission of the executable.

pchan wrote:
I downloaded a program called "x-tile" (deb file). Installed it and it was listed under utility in the program menu.

When i click on it to launch the program, nothing happened. I launch the program to check the dependencies, but it says nothing is missing.

Presumably it is intended for use with the default Ubuntu desktop. Precise Puppy is not Ubuntu. I doubt that it will work.

Jim1911 wrote:Xsane cannot find my HP all-in-one. I have installed your hplip_scan-3.12.4.pet which has always been reliable.

I no longer have a copy of hplip_scan-3.12.4. But I tested the latest 3.13.7 in Precise and it worked fine, both with USB and wifi.