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sindi · Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 978 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA

Lupu starts to boot then when it loads X, the screen goes blank and I cannot Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or switch to terminal mode.

Lupu 525 works from CD, but not when installed frugally to HD. Same problem as Lupu 2016.

Video chip is 855GM. 72003 laptop. 1024x768.

Wary 5.5 (kernel 2.6.32) and Tahr 605 (kernel 3.14) have no such problems with X. Should I try lupu3 (2.6.33 kernel) or a Sulu with kernel 3?

Debiandog Wheezy (kernel 3.2) works.

Framebuffer mode for terminal (fbcon) works only with 8-bit color vga=773. Higher modes are not supported because of only 1MB video memory allocated to framebuffer. Tahr fbcon works. So does DebianDog Wheezy fbcon.

Full color 24-bit works in Xorg. (I did not try Xvesa). More video RAM is allocated to it than to framebuffer.

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1955 Location: Maine, USA

sindi,
Thanks for your report.

Try booting it with i915.modeset=0.

If it still fails, boot with nox and try xorgwizard to find something that works.
Richard

sindi · Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 978 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA

The automatic setup program chooses Intel driver. It crashes. i180 and fbdev do not work either, with or without i810.modeset=0 or i915.modeset=0. I removed fbcon, no help.

This is a cheap and buggy video chip with only 1MB RAM available for framebuffer. console framebuffer with vga=773 works with wary, but more than 8-bit color does not.

In someone's Toshiba laptop, the intel driver in worked Ubuntu 9, but not in Ubuntu 10 or 11.

Lupu I think uses the one from 10. Even if it works, the older driver is 'buggy and unstable'.

In Lupu 5.2.5 (older driver) it worked until I changed time zone or window manager, then crashed, consistently.

When running xorgwizard in lupu 2016, it kept crashing.

Wary Intel driver works - kernel 2.6.32.59.
Intel driver in lupu3hd - kernel 2.6.37.2 - also works

Hopefully fbcon will also work on the laptop. Sulu1 and Sulu2 fbcon did not work on a 2005 laptop and this is 2003. If not I will use wary.

Can I use the save files from regular lupu with lupu3hd?

sindi · Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 978 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA

Sulu1 intel driver seems stable and fbcon works with vga=773.

I had a similar problem with DELL B130 from 2005 also fixed with sulu1, but
fbcon was not working. 900 series intel not helped by modeset=0 either.

Both are considered low-end laptops but I like the non-glare screens and the keyboards are acceptable. Everything else works with linux including sound.
Heavy duty rubber feet and a chargeable main battery. I only had to replace the hard drive, add a wifi card and another 256MB RAM.

Fred has provided browser-free mpv-based youtube-viewer package (CDE) that works with wary and tahr, which I am eager to try with this slow CPU/GPU.

Youtube at 360p with palemoon is extremely jerky. 240p is okay.

On a slightly faster laptop I can play 480p with the viewer, and only 360p in a browser.[/quote][/code]

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1955 Location: Maine, USA

sindi · Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 978 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA

I did a cp -a ./lupusave/* to sulusave

Booted to sulu1.

This save-file was last used with version 528 of Puppy.
Hit the Enter key.... to upgrade this file....

(I think I got this same message the first time I booted sulu1 without any save file and it asked me to manually update
93 conflicting files, one at a time).

X failed to start. (Save files were from a different laptop with different graphics chip).

xorgwizard worked.

remaster_package_check. No packages to be uninstalled.

Checking for conflicting or duplicate files....

There are 16 files ... (that can be) removed.
Remove all of the duplicate files. Yes

Conflicts: radeon_drv.so (irrelevant here - this is intel graphics).
Removed the conflicting file.

None of my changes to lupu2016 were saved.

Next time I did NOT remove duplicate files.

I still do not have the changes from lupu2016.

Any suggestions other than starting over (adding lynx, fbi, various scripts, jwm, fbcon...)?
I can use Wary.

sindi · Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 978 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA

I was asked whether to remove 10 duplicate files and sulu1 works.

rc.local contains modprobe fbcon but there is no module fbcon.

I see framebuffer console while sulu1 is booting but not in a terminal after booting.
I don't understand how this works.

Sulu2 switches from framebuffer to regular (large character) console while booting.
Sulu3 has dpup wheezy kernel, but no fbcon after it boots.

I use console framebuffer most of the time.

Wary, Tahr, and DebianDog wheezy work here with fbcon.

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1955 Location: Maine, USA

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1955 Location: Maine, USA

The get_libreoffice script stopped working. I have placed the corrected version (0.43) here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=988460#988460

UPDATE 5/20/18:
The original (0.42) version broke 32-bit support, making it unusable in the lucid pups. The corrected version is now at that link.

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5639 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Richard:-

A wee question for you, as I'm really not familiar with the OpenBox/FBpanel combo (it's not at all like JWM)...

Whereabouts would I look to implement key-bindings? I have a tiny script I would like to implement by binding it to a specific key (in this case, 'Insert'.....which never, ever gets used). With JWM, it's /etc/xdg/templates/_root_jwmrc, and key bindings is part of that script. With Openbox...

...who knows? Any pointers, please?

TIA.

Mike. Wink

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1955 Location: Maine, USA

Mike,

The file is: ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml.

Here is more than you want to know about its bindings:
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings#Key_combination

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5639 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Hi, Richard.

Ah, thanks for that. Having looked carefully through it, I see I do have one key-bind set-up in there already, so.....using that as a template (and referring to that Openbox wiki page), I think I can sort something out.

Thanks very much indeed. Cheers!

Mike. Wink

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 5639 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Hi again, Richard.

Works nicely.

The relevant section of /root/.config/openbox/rc.xml now reads as follows:-

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1955 Location: Maine, USA

I have corrected get_libreoffice so that it works with the Lucids and have updated my announcement here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=988612#988612

Richard

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1955 Location: Maine, USA

ALERT! DO NOT USE LO 5.4.7 IN ANY LUCID PUP!

Libre Office 5.4.7 does not appear to work reliably with Lucid Pup. Avoid installing it!
When opening an existing .odt spreadsheet it shows as empty. If you save that, it will destroy the spreadsheet. It seems OK with .odt word processor documents but generates warnings for .doc and .xlsx documents

It does appear to work in Upupbb (bionic pup).

The JRE update might be OK -- I have not tested it.

I am leaving the links here for those willing to look for fixes, but recommend avoiding 5.4.7 for normal work in Lucid Pup.
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LibreOffice is updated to the final 5.4 and current 6.0, JRE to 8u172. The *libre ISO files are here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/sdaue4hpof0ci8m/lupulibre-5.2.8.7-5.4.7-20171125.iso/file

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1rbib5p6seurd08/lupusuper2libre-5.2.8.7-5.4.7-k3.2.48-20171125.iso/file

http://www.mediafire.com/file/gfnhp0ncabnfvp2/lupusuper4libre-5.2.8.7-5.4.7-k3.9.9-20171125.iso/file

To update the versions used in existing non-libre Lucid pups and other puppies, the SFS files are here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/p4ibsdaao5sqot4/LibreOffice-5.4.7_en-US_gz.sfs

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dyzg6bd5kuyts2d/LibreOffice-6.0.4_en-US_gz.sfs

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zmukn9hdihrc2vx/jre-8u172-i586_gz.sfs