4.1 Alpha 4

[Sit Heel Speak]

While meanwhile downloading an .iso in Seamonkey/Download Manager...after using (remote)PureFTP+(local)gFTP to bring several GB of files over from another machine on my (wired) home network,...mouse action became jerky and slow. The local (4.1-a-4) machine is a dual P3, 1GB of RAM, frugal install with 233M showing in freememapplet (files are being downloaded onto disks, not inside the pup_save). Remote machine is dual-P4, similarly muscular, it runs 4.00-k2.6.25-smp.

[linuxcbon]

bug : gxine cannot open dvb device.
Can you add a prog to scan dvb channels ?

[linuxcbon]

# ./rc.local0
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules2: line 79: udevtrigger: command not found
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules2: line 80: udevsettle: command not found
cat: /etc/wvdial.conf: No such file or directory

# ./rc.modules
./rc.modules: line 35: udevtrigger: command not found
./rc.modules: line 38: udevsettle: command not found

/usr/bin/blinkydelayed: line 4: exec: blinky: not found

There a "mouse" link to /dev/mouse in folder /

[BarryK]

Can someone tell me, in the absence of glipper, how to paste the output of an rxvt command into a reply box in this forum,...if the browser has auto-scroll active, since the middle-mouse button simply produces a compass rose?

An error in PEM: if I insert a floppy disk, and mount it, then unmount it...it seems to unmount alright, at least it is not shown by df after being unmounted...but, the icon still shows it as mounted.

The Unix/Linux standard is, you highlight any text, and you can paste it somewhere else with the middle button. As long as it is still highlighted in the original window!

Thus, drag with left mouse button held down to highlight any text in the terminal, then middle button to paste it.

Probaly my FAQ needs to be updated to clarify this.

[Sit Heel Speak]

Can someone tell me, in the absence of glipper, how to paste the output of an rxvt command into a reply box in this forum,...if the browser has auto-scroll active, since the middle-mouse button simply produces a compass rose?

The Unix/Linux standard is, you highlight any text, and you can paste it somewhere else with the middle button. As long as it is still highlighted in the original window!

Aha.

I had been following the instructions posted here to enable auto-smooth-scroll in Seamonkey; however, this precluded middle-button-paste. But I have discovered that, by keeping to CatDude's instructions, except changeing middlemouse.paste back to true, I now have the best of both worlds: middle-mouse-button smooth-scrolling when not in a text entry field, and Linux-style middle-mouse pasteing when I am.

[lugligino]

Hey,
alpha4 doesn't work at all on my old laptop HP XE2 PentiumII 366MHz. I try to perform a full installation but the journey is short. When I install from CD without options the result is an empty screen (mouse disappears) with keyboard frozen.
When I install with pfix=ram the result is the request of the kind of keyboard but the screen and the keyboard are frozen. Only power button works and I can only do an hard shutoff.
Otherwise alpha3 is ok.
I also checked md5 sum of iso image and it's ok.
Any hint?

[Sit Heel Speak]

Formerly, this machine had a CD writer as slave on the primary IDE channel...substituting a hard drive for the CD writer, the former sdb becomes sdc and former sdc becomes sdd...however, Puppy Event Manager, now out of room on the bottom row, does not start displaying now-sdd's drive icons along a higher row...instead it overlaps the icons for sdd's three partitions...

Also, it is impossible to set new Preferences in PMount, if the "make disappear after mounting/unmounting" checkbox has been selected. Clicking on Preferences makes PMount simply disappear; the Preferences dialog does not come up. Well, you know it isn't "impossible" and I know it isn't "impossible" but I certainly couldn't've done it two years ago. Sorry if "make disappear after mounting/unmounting" isn't the exact button label, but I can't call it up to check!

[Sit Heel Speak]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh!!!

Former-sdb5 through 8 no longer exist. That disk's partitioning has not been changed, just a new sdb was inserted where the CD writer formerly was, as described above...the selfsame hard disk was thus bumped down one in the chain, i.e. now contains sdc5 through 8. Clicking the PMount "Mount" buttons for sdc 5 through 8 has no effect. Nor does clicking the icons for drive-sdc 5 through 8 in the rox window of ~/.pupevent. I guess the desktop drive icons for sdc 5 through 8 are eclipsed by the multiple overlapping sdd icons.

sdc5 through sdc8 are unreachable unless I open rxvt and issue

# mkdir /mnt/sdc5
# mount -t auto /dev/sdc5 /mnt/sdc5
# cd /mnt/sdc5
# rox

and similar.

This is definitely going to be a joykiller for any innocent worshipful refugees who transfer a Puppy-on-USB-stick from machine to machine. All three of us.

IMHO Puppy should follow the Gentoo convention of assigning sda to the first true-SCSI drive, then after the scsi drives are all assigned assign letters in order to the PATA/SATA drives, then to any removeable drive (e.g. USB stick), then sr0 and so on to the DVD/CD drives no matter whether on an scsi controller or ata.

[linuxcbon]

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... uppylinux/ is not clear
Why not having folders like this :
- PUPPY2 with inside following folders : ISOS, SFS, PETS
Same for PUPPY3 and PUPPY4
- TEST for all tests

[Sit Heel Speak]

On a positive note: I'm sending this from 4.1-alpha-4 on a Pentium-1 machine with 64 MB of RAM.

On the negative side: I cannot mount a squashfile.

I'm wondering if this might have something to do with the absence of a zdrv file. I've worked all day to get 41a4 to run on this machine, and am seeing flashes in front of exceedingly bleary eyes, so this may be an absurd question, but...

Where/what is the zdrv file for the 4.1-alpha's? (***edited: in 4.1 there is no longer a zdrv, all the drivers etc. are in the pup_40(n).sfs***)

(Still don't know why mounting a squashfile does not work)