Lucid Puppy 5.0.1 - 24 May 2010

[Snail]

I downloaded 501 yesterday. Could someone please list the mirrors, on page 1? I tried the link on Page 1 numerous times until I eventually found the Australian mirror. It's not hugely fast but it's quite literally 10x as fast as ibiblio, which dropped out completely every time. Ibiblio is consistently marginal to completely unusable from here.

I checked the md5sum and frugal installed to USB. First boot went well, xorg ok, woof woof ok, wifi using BK method ok. Saved with ext3 savefile. Rebooted ok.

I selected the Puppy browser for fun. When using the well-minded search, text which I had highlighted in urxvt started appearing in the search box

Starting Gxine via desktop icon or by clicking on a file in a rox window leads to a black-screen lockup. Even the power button is dead and I have to remove the battery to recover.

Compaq C793VU labtop
CPU Intel Celeron 560 @ 2.13GHz

[mave]

Hi,

wondering why Lucid Puppy gets a kernel panic on one of my machines. It seems to be a bug of the vt6655-module in the kernel. Problems also reported in the Ubuntu forums... Puppy 4.x with no trouble on booting, running this WLAN easy with ndiswrapper.

So, how to boot Lucid avoiding this kernel panic?
(taken brokenmodules=vt6655 forces rebooting, rebooting, rebooting...)

Thanks!

[Nooblet0218]

anyone else having trouble using quickpet to upgrade from lupu 500 to 501? i've tried it on 2 different comps and on both machines puppy locked up and a hard restart was required.

[_MegadetH_]

yes, changing pmedia=cd to pmedia=usbflash makes booting with usb alittle faster. I'm still researching how best to connect wireless - will let you know what I discover. It seems 4.3.1 works better than 5.0.x with some peoples wireless - however it doesn't detect my usb wireless stick easily.

Hi darkcity, thanks, I tried and I notice a faster boot
With previous version 4.x versions I never had any problem with wireless, I think maybe there's something wrong in the new one.

I checked the md5sum and frugal installed to USB. First boot went well, xorg ok, woof woof ok, wifi using BK method ok. Saved with ext3 savefile. Rebooted ok.

Starting Gxine via desktop icon or by clicking on a file in a rox window leads to a black-screen lockup. Even the power button is dead and I have to remove the battery to recover.

Hi Snail, what is Bk method?
I have the same problem with Gxine, (see previous page).

[TJK]

I'm relatively new to Puppy... downloaded it a few weeks ago and have been mostly using it since then. The biggest problem is that I can't get my printer to work. (So I have to then reboot into Kubuntu to print) It appears from what I've read that CUPS may not be working yet... I'm trying to setup a HP PSC 1401. Can anyone help?

[Béèm]

I'm relatively new to Puppy... downloaded it a few weeks ago and have been mostly using it since then. The biggest problem is that I can't get my printer to work. (So I have to then reboot into Kubuntu to print) It appears from what I've read that CUPS may not be working yet... I'm trying to setup a HP PSC 1401. Can anyone help?

Did you look/report in the special bugs thread?

[Béèm]

I'm relatively new to Puppy... downloaded it a few weeks ago and have been mostly using it since then. The biggest problem is that I can't get my printer to work. (So I have to then reboot into Kubuntu to print) It appears from what I've read that CUPS may not be working yet... I'm trying to setup a HP PSC 1401. Can anyone help?

Yes, delete/edit this double post.

[mave]

Hi devx-folks,

trying several compilings, different packages, mostly I get when starting

'new2dir make install' after some output lines this error:

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make[1]: Leaving directory `/initrd/mnt/dev_save/xxx....'
make: invalid option -- 'a'
Usage: make [options] [target] ...
Options:

Invalid option 'a', Don't know why. Anybody an expert?

mave

[edoc]

Is it my local Puppy setup or is there something seriously wrong with this site?

http://www.exploregeorgia.org/

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.exploregeorgia.org/
Line Number 185, Column 59:<a href="/Search?SelectedSearchType=Attractions&RegionName=&SortOption=&Keywords=theme+parks&City=&Dates=&SpecialSearch=&Page=1&SortOptionDropDown=QualityScore&SortOptionDropDown=QualityScore" ><img alt="Theme parks and amusement park" src="/Content/UploadedFiles/ImageCache/OriginalPhoto/421730.jpg" title="Theme parks and amusement park" /></a>
----------------------------------------------------------^

[rcrsn51]

I'm relatively new to Puppy... downloaded it a few weeks ago and have been mostly using it since then. The biggest problem is that I can't get my printer to work. (So I have to then reboot into Kubuntu to print) It appears from what I've read that CUPS may not be working yet... I'm trying to setup a HP PSC 1401. Can anyone help?

Go here and get the hpijs-3.10.2-dynppd.pet. It contains a driver for the HP PSC 1400 Series that should work in Lupu.

[Ron]

Is it my local Puppy setup or is there something seriously wrong with this site?

http://www.exploregeorgia.org/

On my setup (Lupu5.00) on two computers, it fails on Seamonkey2 and loads okay but has some minor rendering problems on Firefox 3.6.3. It's just because of these kinds of inconsistencies that I continue to use both browsers. I pretty well know which browser works best on some of the sites I commonly use. I think it's rather of a challenge for website developers to write for all common browsers. It seems that most try to please IE first, FF second and Seamonkey last. In LInux, I seem to have the best luck overall with Seamonkey. It is pretty uncommon, however to see a complete failure to load like this. I'm sure they would like to know. Sorry for the purists here, but frankly, this is one of the issues I sometimes miss Windows for.

I'm not sure if this is even related to Lupu. Have you tried it on another version, or even another distro? (Ididn't)

Ron

[Geoffrey]

I've complied aMsn 0.98.3 and edited the " aMsn-0.89B-SVN-I686_412.sfs " created by " futurnet " here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=38622 which will give details of it's content.

all I have done is edit this sfs and replaced aMsn with a few minor skin and plugin changes, I'm not sure that all the libraries are up to date, though it seems to work well on Lucid, have had no problem to date, even the webcam works.

it can be downloaded here http://cid-9fb1af655daa9a9b.skydrive.li ... 0.98.3.sfs

[TJK]

I'm relatively new to Puppy... downloaded it a few weeks ago and have been mostly using it since then. The biggest problem is that I can't get my printer to work. (So I have to then reboot into Kubuntu to print) It appears from what I've read that CUPS may not be working yet... I'm trying to setup a HP PSC 1401. Can anyone help?

Go here and get the hpijs-3.10.2-dynppd.pet. It contains a driver for the HP PSC 1400 Series that should work in Lupu.

rcrsn51: That's exactly what I needed to get CUPS working. Thanks very much!

[rcrsn51]

Glad to help.

[01micko]

Hi devx-folks,

trying several compilings, different packages, mostly I get when starting

'new2dir make install' after some output lines this error:

Code: Select all

make[1]: Leaving directory `/initrd/mnt/dev_save/xxx....'
make: invalid option -- 'a'
Usage: make [options] [target] ...
Options:

Invalid option 'a', Don't know why. Anybody an expert?

mave

Hello mave,

Now I'm definitely no expert here but have compiled enough apps in Puppy to know that new2dir doesn't always work.

When I get that error I usually try something different.

New2dir would have created the directories for the package but they are empty. I then use this..

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make DESTDIR=/path/toempty/directory/from/new2dir

..which I hope is self explanatory .. the important part is that you are calling make to pack into a specified directory with the DESTDIR switch. There are other ways too, try "make --help".

I then will strip manually and sort out the DOC,DEV,NLS stuff manually.

HTH

Cheers

[playdayz]

TJK wrote:
I'm relatively new to Puppy... downloaded it a few weeks ago and have been mostly using it since then. The biggest problem is that I can't get my printer to work. (So I have to then reboot into Kubuntu to print) It appears from what I've read that CUPS may not be working yet... I'm trying to setup a HP PSC 1401. Can anyone help?

Go here and get the hpijs-3.10.2-dynppd.pet. It contains a driver for the HP PSC 1400 Series that should work in Lupu.


rcrsn51: That's exactly what I needed to get CUPS working. Thanks very much!

I have seen this mentioned several times. Does it contain many HP drivers, so that it should be included in lupu? Thanks.

[mave]

Hi 01micko,

found this DESTDIR=... meanwhile and had success. Thanks.

I had trouble on a netbook with Via openchrome graphics adapter (VX800). The openchrome driver includes in Lucis Puppy didn't work for me. Now it's running fine (800x480). (Should I send the pet-package to you?)

And (gggrrrrr, aganin): another Netbook ist not running with Lucid, always gets kernel panic (seems trouble with chip vt6655). Tried several boot options. Damn...

Cheers
mave

[magisterludi]

I post my question in the beginners section, I beg your pardon, I didn't see in origin that this thread is not for help requests though some messages in it have been misleading to me
Thanks

[rhadon]

Does it contain many HP drivers,...?

If I remember right, then yes.

... so that it should be included in lupu?

Perhaps another choice for Quickpet?

~ Rolf

[edoc]

InfoWorld just posted this:

10 useful Firefox-based apps
http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infow ... /292728/0/

Are all these available for Firefox and Seamonkey in Lucid 5.0.1?