Lucid Puppy 5.1 Bug Reports and Fixes

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sinc · #21 Post by **sinc** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:45

rjbrewer wrote:I lost my wireless connection after about an hours use of 5.1.
Had this happen with 507 and 508 too.
Both sns and regular wizard have the problem.
Never happens with any other Puppy installs.

I have this happen on my dell 5100 on all the new pups past 431. I get connected with no problem but lose my connection and have to reboot or rerun connection wizard to connect to the internet again. Somehow pwireless2 doesn't do this. I stay connected with it (or it reconnects automatically for me, I can't tell). I have to use pwireless2 or I can't stand using the internet with it disconnecting all the time.

edoc · #22 Post by **edoc** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 12:15

In spup 040 when I moused-over the Network Connection icon in the taskbar it would show Rx & Tx, which told me if I had a live connection or not. Is that possible to add in Lucid 5.1?

Someone had Conky configured parallel with the taskbar on the desktop (it had lots of data in it) -- that would be a much more robust alternative -- in addition to the icon info.

WDYT?

ICPUG · #23 Post by **ICPUG** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 12:16

Re JonT's response to rjbrewer.

This looks very interesting. I wonder if flsynclient uses the touchpad section in xorg.conf as its detection method for the synaptics driver! Not very good with the new Xorg when working in automatic mode. Might try removing the touchpad section in xorg.conf to see if flsynclient stops working again!

DaveS · #24 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 12:30

ICPUG wrote:Re JonT's response to rjbrewer.

This looks very interesting. I wonder if flsynclient uses the touchpad section in xorg.conf as its detection method for the synaptics driver! Not very good with the new Xorg when working in automatic mode. Might try removing the touchpad section in xorg.conf to see if flsynclient stops working again!

I have found configuring the touchpad via flsynclient ONLY works after running the Xorg wizard in the old way.

#25 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 12:30

It started several releases ago but pretty intermittent. So I didn't report.
Now I have it permanently for the moment.

At each connection to the puppy forum I get 'address not found' try again.
I push try again and I get the next post or whatever I did.
Sometimes this permanent and when I look in /etc/resolv.conf the nameserver line has disappeared.
In some cases addidng this line by hand restores the connection and other cases I have to redo a dhcdcp for a lease or even redo the connection through the connection wizard.
I use Simple Network Setup.

This starts to be annoying.

rjbrewer · #26 Post by **rjbrewer** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 13:35

DaveS wrote:
ICPUG wrote:Re JonT's response to rjbrewer.

This looks very interesting. I wonder if flsynclient uses the touchpad section in xorg.conf as its detection method for the synaptics driver! Not very good with the new Xorg when working in automatic mode. Might try removing the touchpad section in xorg.conf to see if flsynclient stops working again!
I have found configuring the touchpad via flsynclient ONLY works after running the Xorg wizard in the old way.

It works if I drop out to X and use xorgwizard, choosing i810 a couple
times, and then choosing intel; but only working with live cd or usb
without save files.

Not working with a full or frugal install so far.

Minnesota · #27 Post by **Minnesota** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 15:00

Any hints or suggestions as to why I and a friend get this when trying to set up a pop transfer for email? Anyone have emial working? Anyone with a pop3 transfer? One window back you can see it is trying to save two emails.

rcrsn51 · #28 Post by **rcrsn51** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 15:20

Minnesota wrote: Anyone have emial working?

Did you see my reply to your original message here on Page 124?

gjuhasz · #29 Post by **gjuhasz** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 15:28

For enthusiasts and for those who want to use icons for more apps, tons of them can be found here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31059

And especially for those who need to extend the iconset in Lupu 5.1:

GANT icons

http://mattahan.deviantart.com/art/G-A-N-T-3035321

Tok-tok icons

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop- ... 4057.shtml

You may still feel the lack of some icons, such as for Skype etc. I think licensing issues prevent them to appear here.

playdayz · #30 Post by **playdayz** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 15:46

Minnesota wrote:

Anyone have emial working?

Did you see my reply to your original message here on Page 124?

rcrsn51

I believe we can fix that with the next Instant Update. And until then rcrsn51's fix works, right? Plus there are Eudora, Mutt email, and Thunderbird in the Puppy Package Manager. Plus Seamonkey has email (edoc).

edoc · #31 Post by **edoc** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:15

Seamonkey 2.0.6 E-mail is working fine here.

Minnesota · #32 Post by **Minnesota** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 17:19

Has nobody else tested Sylpheed in Lupu?

The first time you run Sylpheed, it creates a mailbox folder called Mail in /root and a hidden .sylpheed-2.0 configuration folder. However, Lupu already contains an old configuration folder. So when you run Sylpheed the first time, it thinks that it is set up correctly. Since its Mail folder does not exist yet, you can't send or receive messages.

Deleting the configuration folder and running Sylpheed again solves the problem.

NO CLUE "Sylpheed" was the name of the email program in Puppy from the icon, never tried to use it before... sorry.......

Will give a try shortly.. thanks....

playdayz · #33 Post by **playdayz** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 17:24

So when you run Sylpheed the first time, it thinks that it is set up correctly. Since its Mail folder does not exist yet, you can't send or receive messages.

Deleting the configuration folder and running Sylpheed again solves the problem.

This is fixed in Instant Update 002 - now on Lupu News and linked in the first message in this thread. Thanks.
http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/LupuNews/

Minnesota · #34 Post by **Minnesota** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 17:32

playdayz:
THANK your sir:

A good man you are!

Congratulation on this version, it represents a LOT of work and effort. I especially thank all who helped and are helping in the clean up of menu's and all to make the this version easier and easier to use for novices. Please keep up the good work. It is the weekend....so how about taking a break and enjoy yourself..... can' send a brew, but have one for me!

GOOD JOB TO ALL.

EDIT:

Finally found the fix.. is there a way to have some sort of update button? on the desktop or as part of quickpet...or.. have I missed this???

Anyway... applied fix 002....solved Email download... THANK YOU again... it works... very slick. Plan is to use this more and more.... HAPPY PUPPY HERE

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playdayz · #35 Post by **playdayz** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 18:09

Finally found the fix.. is there a way to have some sort of update button? on the desktop or as part of quickpet...or.. have I missed this???

Yes, as part of Quickpet.

There is a new Instant Update (002) posted on Lupu News under the News tab in Quickpet. It provides libjpeg7, latest index of puppy-lucid repo, enables laptop function keys for volume, brightness, etc., sets Netsurf home page, removes buggy Icewm Xtreme-ReAnimated theme, configures Sylpheed email, fixes USB bootflash, links fsck, and adds Dusk IceWM theme.

Minnesota · #36 Post by **Minnesota** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 18:28

Yes, as part of Quickpet.

OPINION:
That should be on the desktop... kind of hidden tab.. now I know where to look. Also add the link to all the browsers if possible in the bookmarks

rjbrewer · #37 Post by **rjbrewer** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 18:59

playdayz wrote:
Finally found the fix.. is there a way to have some sort of update button? on the desktop or as part of quickpet...or.. have I missed this???
Yes, as part of Quickpet.

There is a new Instant Update (002) posted on Lupu News under the News tab in Quickpet. It provides libjpeg7, latest index of puppy-lucid repo, enables laptop function keys for volume, brightness, etc., sets Netsurf home page, removes buggy Icewm Xtreme-ReAnimated theme, configures Sylpheed email, fixes USB bootflash, links fsck, and adds Dusk IceWM theme.

Very cool;
Bootflash works fine from full install now.

I'm listed as a "contributor": I'm tickled pink!

playdayz · #38 Post by **playdayz** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 19:49

Also add the link to all the browsers if possible in the bookmarks

Good idea. I can do that with the next update.

DaveS · #39 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 20:04

OK, this is brilliant. Been using it full time since RC2 with zero problems except Full Screen in Firefox (F11) which borked my profile, actually in JWM this time! After using full screen mode, returning to normal left me with no window frame. I never could get it back, so had to re-create .mozilla. Might have been caused by the Chromifox theme, or maybe CompactMenu, dont know, but I will be damn glad when Linux gets the new FF4 interface

I installed the Fontwizard from iguleder, but modified the script a little to give 'hintslight' instead of 'hintfull' as IMHO that works best on LCD screens like mine. I get slight colour fringes to letters here and there but in general, font rendering is the best I get in anything other than Gnome.
For some strange reason, printing is the best from any Puppy so far....odd.
The update via Quickpet was flawless. Cool.....
The video performance is great even without Xorg-high (intel)

This is a really fine release... Thanks guys.....

edoc · #40 Post by **edoc** » Thu 12 Aug 2010, 20:11

Agree with DAVES, printing is the best so far AND Wifi is very reliable as well -- and it remembers settings from boot to boot.

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Lucid Puppy 5.1 Bug Reports and Fixes

flsynclient

Re: flsynclient

no or bad internet connection 5.1 Full-Featured

Re: flsynclient

any hints or suggestions

Re: any hints or suggestions

Icon stuff

Will try emial again

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