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DaveS wrote: No Peter, you have this all wrong. The green band moves DOWN the column as the save file fills, then near the bottom turns first orange, then red when it gets critical. The version showing a full set of green bands was compiled for Lucid by Mick0 I think, and only appears in Lucid.

Oh - OK - many thanks for the clarification - really confusing having the 2 versions looking the same but behaving differently.....I think that intuitively I prefer the Lucid model though.

Cheers
Peter

Jim1911 wrote:Only problem that I've noticed is that zpup_devx_005.sfs does not show up in the left pane of the Bootmanager, although it is located in /mnt/home.

Same here.

I have built an sfs for seamonkey 2.0.10 which installs without borking the built-in install. It adds another menu entry for itself and does NOT become the default browser. Testing now.....

peebee wrote:really confusing having the 2 versions looking the same but behaving differently.....I think that intuitively I prefer the Lucid model though.

Cheers
Peter

Yeah, how about that... even the save file indicator got forked

DaveS wrote:I have built an sfs for seamonkey 2.0.10 which installs without borking the built-in install. It adds another menu entry for itself and does NOT become the default browser. Testing now.....

I just tested the "real" zen005 on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 and as others have observed it flies!

I was about to ask why Seamonkey 2.0.8 was used instead of the current 2.0.10

I will now test zen005 on my Samsung NB30 since Fluppy 006 failed ... though Fluppy 005 has been working well.

DaveS wrote:I have built an sfs for seamonkey 2.0.10 which installs without borking the built-in install. It adds another menu entry for itself and does NOT become the default browser. Testing now.....

OK, seems fine. If you want to try it, it is here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/

username puppy
password linux

delta z001->z002 works .. still no devx loadable
delta d009->z004 works ... is booting the luci-218 full installation like
wary-094 had been booting Macpup full install

I hope no-one asks why the hell did this guy install buggy luci-218 and not lupu-511

DaveS wrote:

DaveS wrote:I have built an sfs for seamonkey 2.0.10 which installs without borking the built-in install. It adds another menu entry for itself and does NOT become the default browser. Testing now.....

OK, seems fine. If you want to try it, it is here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/

username puppy
password linux

Just downloaded, will test shortly.

QUESTION: Is it stable enough to replace the default 2.0.8 install? Why have both?

zen 5, tried playing avi file, missing libdirectfb-1.2.so.0

zpup_005 works on my Samsung NB30 Netbook ...

Observations of Searmonkey 2.0.10:

1. It picked up the existing settings from 2.0.8 automatically.

2. Clicking on "Help" then "About" or "About Plugins" created a new tab but it is not automatically opened, the user has to click on the tab. (This is not consistent with prior behavior.)

3. Text overlaps when scrolling down the output of the "Installed Plugins"

4. Text overlap occurs when scrolling down Web pages, e.g. http://www.foxnews.com

Note: I have seen this before in Seamonkey with Linux but don't recall what was the fix. If no one pops up here with the fix I will look through my E-mail archives from the Seamonkey support list.

Well, I also have the issue with SFSs, that's Woof-related. Regarding libdirectfb, I'm 100% certain that we have it, since GTK depends on it.

edoc: I changed Seamonkey's default settings to make it more like Firefox - it doesn't switch to newly opened tabs. New users are used to Firefox and don't know what Seamonkey is, I guess.

I want to do some testing with the multimedia stack with various formats, see what unneeded libraries can be removed and recompile the kernel (again, hopefully for the last time) and upload a testing build with the artwork from 009. I already have a good use for the artwork from the testing builds

Maybe I'll try to compile the latest Seamonkey. I just noticed we have some multimedia problem - both Debian Multimedia and the official Debian repos contain ffmpeg. While most of our multimedia stack is from the former, ffmpeg is from the latter for some reason. This needs investigation ... I might try to make Debian Multimedia the first Debian repo in Woof, maybe that will help. This requires me to build another dpup from scratch .... arghhhhh

EDIT: forgot to mention, I switched to Barry's tray applets to be more upstream.

Iguleder wrote:Regarding libdirectfb, I'm 100% certain that we have it, since GTK depends on it.

Not sure if this means anything but I did go looking for libdirectfb, I found 1.0 for i386 but not 1.2, the only 1.2 I found was this one http://packages.debian.org/sid/libdirectfb-1.2-0.

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libdirectfb-1.2-9

I know we have this one. Take a look in /root/.packages/woof-installed-packages.

Add this to the bottom of /root/jwm/jwmrc-personal to make the printscreen key work (PrtScr) 'setting up layerd file system' generally causes a re-start fail (005) for me, dropping out to terminal and instructing me to run xorgwizard, which dont work. Just re-booting fixes it. Same if I add an sfs file.

Maybe we should use the pre-Wary 0.9 Woof. We had it in 009 and I think the Lucis after 5.1.1 had it too.

I just need to find a way to force Bones to skip the Woof updates that came after it ...

Hi Iguleder
That's easier than expected:
Start the 'Bones GUI' and click on the 'diff' button. You will be asked for comparison which start and end date you want to use. Please select the first dated woof-20091202081304 and the one you want to export e.g. 20100822073416. Bones generates your desired Woof-version in the folder woof-bones/Archive.
Good luck.

Maybe we should use the pre-Wary 0.9 Woof. We had it in 009 and I think the Lucis after 5.1.1 had it too.

I had a short look for woof these days just for curiousity and there also is the full initrd(.gz) in it.

It wrote an /initrd directory on the top level of the full install ( on the HD )and not into Ram as I think it should do .
It also overwrote 3 files with wary094 or zen-004 specific details at /etc/*(/rc.d/*) and created some files at /lib/modules/*KERNELVERSION*/* and seems to have changed the link target at /mnt/home from / to this new created /inird directory . Moving this /inird directory elsewhere and deleting this /mnt/home link finally made the full installs boot 'ro' again.

As long as the partition is empty or just occupied by frugals it might work that way .
Windows doesn't have an initrd folder anywhere I think.

tubeguy wrote:

Jim1911 wrote:Only problem that I've noticed is that zpup_devx_005.sfs does not show up in the left pane of the Bootmanager, although it is located in /mnt/home.

Same here.

Your problem is a little different. I have these sfs files in /mnt/home and they load properly in Bootmanager. Only zpup_devx_005.sfs does not show up in the left pane of the Bootmanager

=== /initrd/tmp/EXTRASFSS ===
amarok-1.4-lucid.sfs
Bibletime_lucid-2.7.2a.sfs
devx_java1.6.0.20-i586-sfs4.sfs
LibreOffice_3.3.0_beta2_sfs4.sfs
wine-1.2-i486-sfs4.sfs

Not sure if this means anything but I did go looking for libdirectfb, I found 1.0 for i386 but not 1.2, the only 1.2 I found was this one http://packages.debian.org/sid/libdirectfb-1.2-0.

I had to yahoo for m68k :
#
The Linux/m68k Home Pages
Everything you'd ever want to know about Linux/m68k, the Linux port for Motorola 680x0-based systems. Supported systems include the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, Atari 32-bit ...
www.linux-m68k.org - Cached

on that depian page is also a link for
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywo ... ctfb-1.2-9
which is leading (also) to http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libdirectfb-1.2-9


Tubeguy : Your Background Wallpapers are great !!!

the devx for zen/zpup 005 does not show up as available for Bootmanager (left column) here either.