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Post subject: Lucid Puppy 5.1- A Full-Featured Compact Distro

Subject description: Released Tuesday 10 AUG 2010 Posted: Wed 19 May 2010, 12:30Post subject:Lucid Puppy 5.1- A Full-Featured Compact DistroSubject description: Released Tuesday 10 AUG 2010 full-featured compact distro .” It’s a Puppy, so it is fast, friendly, and fun , and it can also serve as one’s main Linux desktop. Quickpet and Puppy Package Manager allow easy installation of many of the best Linux programs, tested and configured for Lucid Puppy. It is just as easy to choose your favorite browser and your language . And it all looks as good as it is, because the core Lucid team now includes an Art Director. Lucid Puppy boots directly to an automatically configured graphical desktop , with the tools to personalize the desktop right at hand, and it even recommends which add-on video driver to use for high-performance graphics.



Lucid Puppy 5.1 Release Notes ->



This is the Official Release of Lucid Puppy 5.1. When you boot up Lucid Puppy, please check out Lupu News in Quickpet , for the latest Instant Update ->



Lupu-510 ->

http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/lupu-510.iso

88f7154ffcc46062394866e531310eba



Devx ->

http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/lupu_devx_510.sfs

66f20ca918b0091f9774caef9fbcff00



Lupu-510 has very few changes and those are minor. Good. Here they are so you can make sure to check them.



1. New icons for Quickpet in Smooth Color and Blue Moon (CatDude)

2. Quickpet 3.0.2 (01micko)

3. jwm tray background for blinky to match Dark Gradient colors (01micko)

4. cups-shell to avoid Chromium which crashes (01micko)

5. freememapplet_tray for Icewm (01micko)

6. New Start Menu icon in Icewm Ice Desert (Eyes-Only)

7. Pmusic 1.1.1 (Zigbert)

8. Catch Input Wizard Keyboard Layout if no XkbLayout (playdayz)

9. Remove jq8flat and Orange icon themes (playdayz)



If you can think of tips that would help newbies with potential problems please write that up in this forum and I will collect and place in Bug and Newbie forum for release. Please read the Bug forum and the Newbie forum after release--those of you who have helped with development are the best qualified to provide support. Many of the things we have covered in development will appear as questions. Thanks.



Behold Lupu-509 RC. This is the final look for Lucid Puppy 5.1, courtesy of WhoDo. And remember, when you are through oohing and ahhing over jwm, there is still IceWM to blow your mind



This is not the official release. When Lucid Puppy 5.1 is officially released that will be announced here and in Barry's Blog.



We plan to test for three days. Please look at

-> Installs: full, frugal, usb, ext4

-> Updating

-> Languages & Keyboards

-> Update video driver

-> Programs in Puppy Package Manager and Quickpet

-> things you had noticed previously

-> Switching JWM to IceWM

-> Anything else you can think of



There are a few changes from lupu-508--not too many thankfully--because now we measure progress by the fewness of necessary changes.

-> new jre in Quickpet (01micko)

-> Mutt email in PPM (tronkel)

-> Eudora dependencies (they were never broken--PPM just didn't look in the right place)

-> hplip_scan fixed in PPM (jim1911)

-> Gpredict satellite tracker in PPM (Stu90)

-> laptop Fn keys for sound, etc., keys (DaveS)



Announcing Lupu-508 Beta 3



The big news is what you can see. The default background is a knockout, but there more than 10 others waiting for you to discover them. It's like the Puppy Art Show. Desktop -> Desktop settings -> Nathan Wallpaper setter.



Another of the debuts is a new theme, Dark Gradient, in jwm. And then there is Icewm, with several new themes. WhoDo and 01micko have been collaborating to get Icewm tuned and looking good. Please check it out--there is an easy window manager switcher under Desktop.



Quickpet is at 2.9.9.7--just in case The translations are cool--I see a lot of them in testing the Language and Locale and keyboard layout functions. 01micko has also put some great screens even inside Quickpet. BTW, the language and locale and keyboard layout seem to be working as they ought to work. They are easy to change and the change is reliable and persistent.



So, test it up. Whatever you can think of, whatever is important to you, whatever you can remember from the forum. Thanks.



Here we have Lupu-507 Beta 2.



01micko found the problem with grubconfig and a full install and we reverted to the Woof of July 10 in order to solve the problem with the puppyinstaller. I have done full and frugal installs on both my old boxes, a P3 Thinkpad and an Athlon 64 3200, and both the Universal Installer and grubconfig did what they are supposed to do.



Please test everything you can think of.



Two anomalies.

1. I made a remaster and the CD booted fine but instead of booting to the desktop it stopped at xorgwizard--not the keyboard layout but the actual xorgwizard--so it was probably xwin that sent it there for some reason. OK, I see what happened--there is some sleight of hand on first boot with xorgwizard and xorg-setup--I would just have to set that up manually.

2. The full install put up a message about Puppy 2 dependencies when it booted . I clicked Close and that was that.



This is it! Lucid Puppy Lupu-506 is Beta.



This is the combination we have been looking for. It boots directly to the desktop, and enables changing Video Resolution and Language & Locale and many people will be able to use it just like that. If not, then there is the Complete Configuration Experience . Hey, Puppy is supposed to be fun isn't it?



Lucid Puppy 5.1 is chock full of good stuff and Lupu-506 is a big step towards an imminent release. We need to find out what's going on with Grub Bootloader config (grub config). bj had reported it and several people have confirmed it--sometimes it doesn't work period--rather, ti seems to install the grub bootloader but not the grub configuration file of menu.lst.



It is possible there are artifacts left over from the experimentation--please report them if you find them,



Icewm is happy again and the cool backgrounds are still there. Developers can please check the devx .



Lupu-505 is the culmination of the work on the Video/Language/Keyboard Changer, almost like the second half of 504, which is why it is so quick. The console fonts now take effect immediately. The console fonts also take effect on first boot so that exiting to a prompt to run xorgwizard or shutdown fits nicely on the screen. The problem with changing the keyboard layout after using PPM is fixed.



01micko and WhoDo have been fancifying Icewm .



==> Please test the Grub Bootloader config --it failed for me on two computers.



==> Please test Icewm Shutdown options . My computer froze when I chose Menu -> Shutdown -> Restart X server. Be careful. Save.



I am really hoping to be able to post a beta on Wednesday .



Lupu-504 has the best of both worlds . It boots directly to the desktop, and offers independent control of Video Resolution, Language and Locale, Keyboard layout, and Timezone. It also has the Classic Xorgwizard for when that is the best solution. The independent controls allow you boot directly to the desktop and if all you need to change is the Language and locale, then that is all you have to change. The Keyboard layout control sets both the Xorg and the Console fonts. If you want to change everything all at once, well, that is there too.



Icewm is installed by default and there are two new treats in the Puppy Package Manager. One is a the WhoDo Collection of beautiful backgrounds. And the other is the Ubuntu pack of icewm themes .



There are two interesting things about the independent controls for changes people might want to make to personalize their computer. One is that it should be seamless with respect to the incomplete xorg.conf file. It doesn't matter anymore. The second is that it is not perfect and it is possible to confuse it--however, it is "robust" in that it can correct any of the problems it runs into. Sometimes it may have to go all the way to rerunning the complete classic Xorgwizard from the Video, Language, and Keyboard Changer.



The "complete" Classic Xorgwizard is available by clicking a button in the Video/Language/Keyboard Changer, but if all you want to do is to add a video driver you don't need the complete Xorgwizard (with Keyboard, Locale, Timezone, etc.), all you need is the video setting. So, that is what you can get by exiting to a prompt and entering 'xorgwizard.' Therefore, installing the nvidia drivers is much easier (as it should be).



1. Install the pet

2. exit to a prompt

3. enter xorgwizard

4. Choose nvidia

5. select the video resolution

6. xwin



We will need to change the instructions that the three nvidia pets provide but that's a small price to pay imho for the convenience.



Let's regard Lupu-503 as an alpha. There are still some things to test, but we won't be adding anything more.



Please be careful that it doesn't accidentally update an installation of Lupu 500 or 501. Pfix=ram should prevent that.



The First Run dialog should be all set now. Some people will click OK and some will want to make changes. The ones who want to make changes see the Video, Language, and Keyboard Changer: one button will change video resolution alone, a second button will change the Language and Locale, and the third button will change the Keyboard layout, the video driver, and the video resolution. No one will need to click more than two buttons. And when the keyboard is changed it is changed in both the gui and the console, immediately (after restarting X) and permanently (until it is changed).



Quickpet and the Lupu Recommends advice about upgrading graphics is also in order. Micko really made it cool and I think it gives Lupu some distinction. The Update feature has been replaced by the Lucid Puppy News.



Icewm is now built-in. Under Desktop in the Menu there is a program to switch back and forth between icewm and jwm.



We need to test the Intel 855's still. This time the magic i915.modeset=1 is in /etc/modprobe.d/ where it will carry over to full and frugal installs (instead of as a boot parameter for the CD).



The Ubuntu Ayttm has been replaced by the Puppy pet--the icon in the tray works--does do any better with msn?



We can test how it updates now. Please remember that is a one way process and don't experiment on your one and only Lupu-501 installation.



Do the fonts look good to you also?



Luci-213.



1. It includes an attempt to solve the black screen problem with some Intel video chipsets, in particular the Intel 855 . This would be a good solution; it involves appending the kernel parameters i915.modeset=1 and video=640x480, recommended by ICPUG and others. If the parameters work and do not do any damage otherwise, then everyone could be using the newer intel_drv instead of the i810 driver. (If this doesn't work, then the next attempt is to intercept the offending chipsets and make sure they can only choose the i810_drv. We already have the code for that but let's test the one we would rather have first.)



2. This is the debut of Lupu Recommends, an information window at the bottom of the first run dialog. 01micko did it and it looks like magic to me. The drivers that it recommends are not all into Quickpet yet though.



3. For everyone who boots successfully to the desktop, the First Run dialog is in order. Half the people will be able to just click OK and begin having fun with Puppy. The other half can choose to change the Video Resolution, the Language and Locale, or the Keyboard Layout and Video driver. Nobody will need to do more than 2 of those 3.



4. How do the fonts look?



5. Gnome-mplayer 0.9.6 will play .ogv files correctly plus the full screen button works correctly.



Huge Announcement



01micko and playdayz are happy to announce that the Lucid Puppy team has been joined by WhoDo as Art Director. WhoDo was the coordinator of Puppy 4.2 Community Edition, which was one of the best-looking Puppies ever. WhoDo's presence should indicate to everyone inside and outside of the Puppy community that we regard the aesthetics of our distro as a top priority. After all, when people use Lucid Puppy, the desktop is what they see most of. WhoDo has already been able to create a contest at Australian Photography to choose the upcoming Lucid Puppy 5.1 background.



WhoDo is also very experienced with Icewm and we are going to include that by default beginning in luci-213, not as the default desktop but in the iso and already tested and configured. This is a good thing we believe because 1) it gives Lucid users an alternate window manager at the cost of only about 1MB; and 2) there have been several things have to do with graphics that jwm is not doing correctly, but Icewm does.



Luci-212 - The Next Luci Before the Beta!



The Ubuntu gnome-mplayer 0.9.9.2 has been returned in luci-212. It had been exiled because the full screen icon did not work, but that is the fault of jwm. There was a report about non-English characters not displaying correctly so I thought this gnome-mplayer might be the best option we had to fix that.



The fbdev video driver is removed in luci-212, in hopes that the Intel cards that have a problem (the dreaded black screen problem) will boot with Vesa. If not we have a good idea of what to do in luci-213. Also, the i810 Intel driver is back in drivers-alternate, but I am pretty sure that Xorg now looks everywhere in modules so that the i810 is not really hidden. Well see about that I hope. darwinev0lved came back to luci just in time for his intel to give him a black screen--and we are very glad he did



There is a new Quickpet--with a new feature. Under Drivers there is a button that will read your video card and tell you which of the two drivers in Quickpet you should try in order to upgrade your graphics. There is also a new feature demoed in the first run dialog--a recommendation window that will also read your video card and tell you which of the 4 available nvidia drivers is exactly right for your computer. The message in the window is just a sample for now. We will reconcile the Quickpet and first run approaches.



I used the latest Ubuntu DeJavu Sans true-type fonts as suggested in the forum by don570. I also used ecube's enhanced pdict--which now suggests the word that you might have been after.



Please remember that as of now, if you go through xorgwizard (the Video, Language & Keyboard Changer) and change the Locale Language then you will have to Restart X server (or reboot) before the language change takes effect.



I was running in Spanish in order to test Language Support and I saw that Chromium had a nice feature--it offers to translate every page with just a click--it also picks up immediately on the Locale language. I typed a message in English and Chromium's spell checker marked every word wrong--because it was checking in Spanish. Just for reference, Chromium seems to have its own ffmpeg to play multimedia--it was definitely installed in Chromium 5 because I used the Ubuntu version, but Chromium 6 is the Chromium Project version so I am not sure--I think it still has it. I could test I guess



Speaking of ffmpeg, there are two additional versions in PPM. One is the i686 libraries from Ubuntu, which should use the capabilities of modern cpu's--I think everything since the P3 is a 686. The other ffmpeg is one 01micko made with the Webm capabilities enabled.



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Since we are going to take some more time on Nvidia I thought we might as well go ahead and do what we wanted to do anyway. Prepare to be Surprised and Amazed. I wanted to work out all the bugs but I wasn't able to: In order to make the change in Language *take* you need to go to Menu -> Shutdown -> Restart X server. All of the information seems to be in the right places, but after you change the language, please restart the X server. Hopefully someone will be able to tell me what I have missed. I think it is time we let the ubuntu xorg programs do what they were designed to do.



5 of our front line programs have Language Support: Our word processor Abiword , our spreadsheet Gnumeric , our media player gnome-mplayer , our test editor Geany , and our innovative package manager Quickpet . There is something new in the PPM--a package with the Documentation and Language Support for our image editing program mtpaint . So if you use mtpaint, you can know have it in your language with documentation. Just install the package and the language sup-port and docs are ready when you open the program. (The documentation is in English only unfortunately.)



The puppy-lucid repo of Puppy Package Manager needs to be tested. Every program should download without error and also run without error. The same with Quickpet. It took me 4 hours to go through them all yesterday.



I didn't make any real progress on nividia by the way other than making sure the nouveau driver was gone.



Please Check Everything, Especially



1. Bugs that you reported previously that were fixed - make sure they are still fixed.



2. The upgrade path for your graphics card - can you get high performance (glx) graphics - they are needed for Google Earth and Stellarium, for example - and we think everyone should consider running glx graphics for reasons of stability and performance. The driver choice is in Quickpet under Drivers. Xorg_High for all cards other than Nvidia (Radeon, Intel, and Others) and Nvidia GLX for Nivida. There are alternate Nvidia drivers in Puppy Package Manager.



3. The programs in Quickpet and Puppy Package Manager. There are quite a few of them--a lot of really excellent programs. Linux and Puppy have nothing to apologize for in terms of software of the highest quality. Do they install without errors? Do they run correctly? Stellarium requires that you use IceWM. Some other programs require that you install Python. Both are in Puppy Package Manager.



4. It would also be good to test upgrading from Lupu 5.00 and 5.0.1.



What’s new (not so much, it is time to move on)

A new ffmpeg compiled by 01micko in luci-209

The full screen button works on gnome-mplayer, compiled by playdayz in luci-209

Gtkhash added by suggestion; also a suggested change to mplayer softvol; other bugfixes

New programs in PPM, including gtk-record MyDesktop (that’s how they spell it)

Google Earth will be in Quickpet next time - here it is for now

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet-packages-lucid/Google_Earth-5.1-Lucid.pet



Tips & tricks

the nouveau driver and nouveau firmware are in PPM for experimenters

there are i686 libraries for ffmpeg in PPM--might be faster on newer computers (P4+)

do you have any tricks--I can compile them for new users of 5.1





luci-207 has a couple of small tweaks (libjpeg, improved kmybanking-plugin). Good things include improvement in the pdf printer. I was able to print from Abiword and Opera to accurate pdf documents. As Shinobar suggested, Lucid Puppy now automatically connects to an ethernet connection. Luvcview is added for web cam. The Synaptic touch pad configurator should work. CPU Frequency scaling should work, but I am not sure that it got all 4 cores or only two; it was upgraded by Barry to 1.3.3. There are more new programs in Puppy Package Manager. Quickpet is at 2.9 and looks great and speaks all the languages of the world. Browser-default can now determine what browsers are available.



Luci-205 marks the beginning of public testing for Lucid Puppy 5.1. Much of the work since luci-204 has gone into filling the puppy-lucid repository in Puppy Package Manager. There is a message in the Users forum asking for program suggestions and a couple of people asked for Stellarium . What a cool program--it provides information on anything in the sky from any point on earth at any time--excuse me, you can even stand on the surface of Mars! It takes some resources though--you will need to use Icewm and the high performance graphics, for Radeon, Intel, and other, or for Nvidia. And ha-ha-ha, I tried it on my Windows 7 machine and it didn't work (hmm, maybe I should have used the Windows binaries).



IMO, the PPM is looking good, with a fair percentage of the best and most useful Linux programs. But we are still open for suggestions. The goal is that people will be able to use the program they want to use, no matter where it comes from, Gnome, GTK, Qt, KDE, Windows, or Java, and use them in the fast, friendly, and fun environment of Puppy. We have not totally cracked the KDE nut however, although micko has prepared an Amarok pet. There is a list of programs at the bottom of this message.



Here are some other things, in no particular order.



=> Quickpet 2.2

=> Netsurf upgraded from 1.2 Ubuntu to 2.5 compiled in luci-204 by 01micko

=> Ayttm and Sylpheed updated and switched to Ubuntu binaries--Sylpheed from 2.7.1 to 3.0.2

=> Pa_McClamrock's revised remaster script--the old one is also available as /usr/sbin/pupremaster2.old

=> binutils upgraded to 2.20.1 and shifted to Ubuntu binaries; coreutils also upgraded and shifted to Ubuntu

=> Abiword upgraded to 2.8.6 compiled in luci-204

=> Barry's new shutdown script from Woof



IMO we are in very much better shape than last time at this same point. The graphics seem pretty well set, as basic graphics with the high performance options. Cups is better understood and therefore less frustrating. We are able to track Woof and plan to do so right up to release, where last time we froze things at about this stage. We will release a Woof that can build Lucid Puppy 5.10 when we release Lucid Puppy 5.10. Very soon now we will not be the only Puppy 5.0. Fatdog64 is on rc3 and they are just waiting for the official Firefox 3.6.4. That's going to be good to have a littermate--but even though they are the Fatdog, we are still the Big Dog! (Sorry)



Here are some things from luci-204.



=> Pa_McClamrock's enhancement of the mtpaint screen shot script

=> Flashplayer 10.1. Opera may have trouble

=> 8-bit's enhancement to the cups config file

=> The enhanced Shutdown script has been there since 203. I see that Barry has now incorporated one into Woof--so we will get that as soon as a new Woof is posted.

=> Finally, WhoDo, I got the Open With dialog to behave and show the icons.

=> Symlink to cups/backend/smb recommended by gerry, who will let me know if I got it right

=> Browser-default 0.8 from 01micko

=> Fix sns first time

=> Gnome-mplayer instead of SMPlayer because it is so much smaller. SMPlayer is in Puppy Package Manager. Gnome-mplayer plays full screen because of the changes in the basic graphics (libdri and libglx are loaded but the large hardware and software acceleration libraries are not.)

=> Abiword 2.8.5 compiled in luci-203 and then they released 2.8.6 last week.



When using the Puppy Package Manager it is safest to choose ibiblio.org for a day or two as I understand it.





Link to foomatic-db

http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/foomatic-db-20100216-lupu.pet



Link to HP printer pet ->

http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/hpijs-3.10.2-dynppd.pet



Link to HP Scanner pet ->

http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/hplip-3.9.12-scan.pet



How to Check the Graphics. Here is a set of video test samples that I used to check MPlayer ->

http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/streamingcodectest.zip



1. System -> Hardinfo -> Display and scroll down and see about the DRI. The High Performance options should all show hardware rendering.



2. Open a terminal and enter "glxgears." Move the gears out of the way and watch the numbers for frames per second in the terminal. Is it higher than you remember, by a factor of 10 or so? Lucid Puppy 5.1 is a “.” It’s a Puppy, so it is, and it can also serve as one’s main Linux desktop. Quickpet and Puppy Package Manager allow easy installation of many of the best Linux programs, tested and configured for Lucid Puppy. It is just as easy to. And it all looks as good as it is, because the core Lucid team now includes an Art Director. Lucid Puppy, with the tools to personalize the desktop right at hand, and it even recommends which add-on video driver to use for high-performance graphics.Lucid Puppy 5.1 Release Notes -> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.1/release-Lucid-510.htm This is the Official Release of Lucid Puppy 5.1. When you boot up Lucid Puppy, please check out, for the latest-> http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/LupuNews/ 88f7154ffcc46062394866e531310ebaDevx ->66f20ca918b0091f9774caef9fbcff00Lupu-510 has very few changes and those are minor. Good. Here they are so you can make sure to check them.1. New icons for Quickpet in Smooth Color and Blue Moon (CatDude)2. Quickpet 3.0.2 (01micko)3. jwm tray background for blinky to match Dark Gradient colors (01micko)4. cups-shell to avoid Chromium which crashes (01micko)5. freememapplet_tray for Icewm (01micko)6. New Start Menu icon in Icewm Ice Desert (Eyes-Only)7. Pmusic 1.1.1 (Zigbert)8. Catch Input Wizard Keyboard Layout if no XkbLayout (playdayz)9. Remove jq8flat and Orange icon themes (playdayz)If you can think of tips that would help newbies with potential problems please write that up in this forum and I will collect and place in Bug and Newbie forum for release. Please read the Bug forum and the Newbie forum after release--those of you who have helped with development are the best qualified to provide support. Many of the things we have covered in development will appear as questions. Thanks.This is the final look for Lucid Puppy 5.1, courtesy of WhoDo. And remember, when you are through oohing and ahhing over jwm, there is still IceWM to blow your mindThis is not the official release. When Lucid Puppy 5.1 is officially released that will be announced here and in Barry's Blog.We plan to test for three days. Please look at-> Installs: full, frugal, usb, ext4-> Updating-> Languages & Keyboards-> Update video driver-> Programs in Puppy Package Manager and Quickpet-> things you had noticed previously-> Switching JWM to IceWM-> Anything else you can think ofThere are a few changes from lupu-508--not too many thankfully--because now we measure progress by the fewness of necessary changes.-> new jre in Quickpet (01micko)-> Mutt email in PPM (tronkel)-> Eudora dependencies (they were never broken--PPM just didn't look in the right place)-> hplip_scan fixed in PPM (jim1911)-> Gpredict satellite tracker in PPM (Stu90)-> laptop Fn keys for sound, etc., keys (DaveS)The big news is what you can see. The default background is a knockout, but there more than 10 others waiting for you to discover them. It's like the Puppy Art Show. Desktop -> Desktop settings -> Nathan Wallpaper setter.Another of the debuts is a new theme, Dark Gradient, in jwm. And then there is Icewm, with several new themes. WhoDo and 01micko have been collaborating to get Icewm tuned and looking good. Please check it out--there is an easy window manager switcher under Desktop.Quickpet is at 2.9.9.7--just in caseThe translations are cool--I see a lot of them in testing the Language and Locale and keyboard layout functions. 01micko has also put some great screens even inside Quickpet. BTW, the language and locale and keyboard layout seem to be working as they ought to work. They are easy to change and the change is reliable and persistent.So, test it up. Whatever you can think of, whatever is important to you, whatever you can remember from the forum. Thanks.Here we have01micko found the problem with grubconfig and a full install and we reverted to the Woof of July 10 in order to solve the problem with the puppyinstaller. I have done full and frugal installs on both my old boxes, a P3 Thinkpad and an Athlon 64 3200, and both the Universal Installer and grubconfig did what they are supposed to do.Please test everything you can think of.Two anomalies.1. I made a remaster and the CD booted fine but instead of booting to the desktop it stopped at xorgwizard--not the keyboard layout but the actual xorgwizard--so it was probably xwin that sent it there for some reason. OK, I see what happened--there is some sleight of hand on first boot with xorgwizard and xorg-setup--I would just have to set that up manually.2. The full install put up a message about Puppy 2 dependencies when it booted . I clicked Close and that was that.This is it!This is the combination we have been looking for. It boots directly to the desktop, and enables changing Video Resolution and Language & Locale and many people will be able to use it just like that. If not, then there is the. Hey, Puppy is supposed to be fun isn't it?Lucid Puppy 5.1 is chock full of good stuff and Lupu-506 is a big step towards an imminent release. We need to find out what's going on with(grub config). bj had reported it and several people have confirmed it--sometimes it doesn't work period--rather, ti seems to install the grub bootloader but not the grub configuration file of menu.lst.It is possible there are artifacts left over from the experimentation--please report them if you find them,is happy again and the cool backgrounds are still there. Developers canis the culmination of the work on thealmost like the second half of 504, which is why it is so quick. The console fonts now take effect immediately. The console fonts also take effect on first boot so that exiting to a prompt to run xorgwizard or shutdown fits nicely on the screen. The problem with changing the keyboard layout after using PPM is fixed.01micko and WhoDo have been==> Please test the--it failed for me on two computers.==> Please test. My computer froze when I chose Menu -> Shutdown -> Restart X server. Be careful. Save.I am really hoping to be able to post aLupu-504 has. It boots directly to the desktop, and offers independent control of Video Resolution, Language and Locale, Keyboard layout, and Timezone. It also has the Classic Xorgwizard for when that is the best solution. The independent controls allow you boot directly to the desktop and if all you need to change is the Language and locale, then that is all you have to change. The Keyboard layout control sets both the Xorg and the Console fonts. If you want to change everything all at once, well, that is there too.Icewm is installed by default and there are two new treats in the Puppy Package Manager. One is aof beautiful backgrounds. And the other is the Ubuntu pack ofThere are two interesting things about the independent controls for changes people might want to make to personalize their computer. One is that it should be seamless with respect to the incomplete xorg.conf file. It doesn't matter anymore. The second is that it is not perfect and it is possible to confuse it--however, it is "robust" in that it can correct any of the problems it runs into. Sometimes it may have to go all the way to rerunning the complete classic Xorgwizard from the Video, Language, and Keyboard Changer.The "complete" Classic Xorgwizard is available by clicking a button in the Video/Language/Keyboard Changer, but if all you want to do is to add a video driver you don't need the complete Xorgwizard (with Keyboard, Locale, Timezone, etc.), all you need is the video setting. So, that is what you can get by exiting to a prompt and entering 'xorgwizard.' Therefore, installing the nvidia drivers is much easier (as it should be).1. Install the pet2. exit to a prompt3. enter xorgwizard4. Choose nvidia5. select the video resolution6. xwinWe will need to change the instructions that the three nvidia pets provide but that's a small price to pay imho for the convenience.Let's regardas an alpha. There are still some things to test, but we won't be adding anything more.Please be careful that it doesn't accidentally update an installation of Lupu 500 or 501. Pfix=ram should prevent that.Theshould be all set now. Some people will click OK and some will want to make changes. The ones who want to make changes see the Video, Language, and Keyboard Changer: one button will change video resolution alone, a second button will change the Language and Locale, and the third button will change the Keyboard layout, the video driver, and the video resolution. No one will need to click more than two buttons. And when the keyboard is changed it is changed in both the gui and the console, immediately (after restarting X) and permanently (until it is changed).advice about upgrading graphics is also in order. Micko really made it cool and I think it gives Lupu some distinction. The Update feature has been replaced by the Lucid Puppy News.is now built-in. Under Desktop in the Menu there is a program to switch back and forth between icewm and jwm.We need to test thestill. This time the magic i915.modeset=1 is in /etc/modprobe.d/ where it will carry over to full and frugal installs (instead of as a boot parameter for the CD).The Ubuntu Ayttm has been replaced by the Puppy pet--the icon in the tray works--does do any better with msn?We can test how it updates now. Please remember that is a one way process and don't experiment on your one and only Lupu-501 installation.Do the fonts look good to you also?1. It includes an attempt to solve the black screen problem with some Intel video chipsets, in particular the. This would be a good solution; it involves appending the kernel parameters i915.modeset=1 and video=640x480, recommended by ICPUG and others. If the parameters work and do not do any damage otherwise, then everyone could be using the newer intel_drv instead of the i810 driver. (If this doesn't work, then the next attempt is to intercept the offending chipsets and make sure they can only choose the i810_drv. We already have the code for that but let's test the one we would rather have first.)2. This is the debut ofan information window at the bottom of the first run dialog. 01micko did it and it looks like magic to me. The drivers that it recommends are not all into Quickpet yet though.3. For everyone who boots successfully to the desktop, theis in order. Half the people will be able to just click OK and begin having fun with Puppy. The other half can choose to change the Video Resolution, the Language and Locale, or the Keyboard Layout and Video driver. Nobody will need to do more than 2 of those 3.4. How do the fonts look?5. Gnome-mplayer 0.9.6 will play .ogv files correctly plus the full screen button works correctly.01micko and playdayz are happy to announce that the Lucid Puppy team has been joined byWhoDo was the coordinator of Puppy 4.2 Community Edition, which was one of the best-looking Puppies ever. WhoDo's presence should indicate to everyone inside and outside of the Puppy community that we regard the aesthetics of our distro as a top priority. After all, when people use Lucid Puppy, the desktop is what they see most of. WhoDo has already been able to create a contest at Australian Photography to choose the upcoming Lucid Puppy 5.1 background. http://www.ausphotography.net.au/forum/showthread.php?t=61608 WhoDo is also veryand we are going to include that by default beginning in luci-213, not as the default desktop but in the iso and already tested and configured. This is a good thing we believe because 1) it gives Lucid users an alternate window manager at the cost of only about 1MB; and 2) there have been several things have to do with graphics that jwm is not doing correctly, but Icewm does.The0.9.9.2 has been returned in luci-212. It had been exiled because the full screen icon did not work, but that is the fault of jwm. There was a report about non-English characters not displaying correctly so I thought this gnome-mplayer might be the best option we had to fix that.The fbdev video driver is removed in luci-212, in hopes that the Intel cards that have a problem (the dreaded black screen problem) will boot with Vesa. If not we have a good idea of what to do in luci-213. Also, theis back in drivers-alternate, but I am pretty sure that Xorg now looks everywhere in modules so that the i810 is not really hidden. Well see about that I hope. darwinev0lved came back to luci just in time for his intel to give him a black screen--and we are very glad he didThere is a newUnder Drivers there is a button that will read your video card and tell you which of the two drivers in Quickpet you should try in order to upgrade your graphics. There is also a new feature demoed in the first run dialog--athat will also read your video card and tell you which of the 4 available nvidia drivers is exactly right for your computer. The message in the window is just a sample for now. We will reconcile the Quickpet and first run approaches.I used the latesttrue-type fonts as suggested in the forum by don570. I also used ecube's enhanced pdict--which now suggests the word that you might have been after.Please remember that as of now, if you go through xorgwizard (the Video, Language & Keyboard Changer) andLanguage then you will have to Restart X server (or reboot) before the language change takes effect.I was running in Spanish in order to test Language Support and I saw that Chromium had a nice feature--it offers to translate every page with just a click--it also picks up immediately on the Locale language. I typed a message in English and Chromium's spell checker marked every word wrong--because it was checking in Spanish. Just for reference, Chromium seems to have its own ffmpeg to play multimedia--it was definitely installed in Chromium 5 because I used the Ubuntu version, but Chromium 6 is the Chromium Project version so I am not sure--I think it still has it. I could test I guessSpeaking of ffmpeg, there are two additional versions in PPM. One is the i686 libraries from Ubuntu, which should use the capabilities of modern cpu's--I think everything since the P3 is a 686. The other ffmpeg is one 01micko made with the Webm capabilities enabled.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Since we are going to take some more time on Nvidia I thought we might as well go ahead and do what we wanted to do anyway. Prepare to be Surprised and Amazed. I wanted to work out all the bugs but I wasn't able to:All of the information seems to be in the right places, but after you change the language, please restart the X server. Hopefully someone will be able to tell me what I have missed. I think it is time we let the ubuntu xorg programs do what they were designed to do.5 of our front line programs haveOur word processor, our spreadsheet, our media player, our test editor, and our innovative package manager. There is something new in the PPM--a package with the Documentation and Language Support for our image editing program. So if you use mtpaint, you can know have it in your language with documentation. Just install the package and the language sup-port and docs are ready when you open the program. (The documentation is in English only unfortunately.)Every program should download without error and also run without error. The same with Quickpet. It took me 4 hours to go through them all yesterday.I didn't make any real progress on nividia by the way other than making sure the nouveau driver was gone.Please Check Everything, Especially1. Bugs that you reported previously that were fixed - make sure they are still fixed.2. The upgrade path for your graphics card - can you get high performance (glx) graphics - they are needed for Google Earth and Stellarium, for example - and we think everyone should consider running glx graphics for reasons of stability and performance. The driver choice is in Quickpet under Drivers. Xorg_High for all cards other than Nvidia (Radeon, Intel, and Others) and Nvidia GLX for Nivida. There are alternate Nvidia drivers in Puppy Package Manager.3. The programs in Quickpet and Puppy Package Manager. There are quite a few of them--a lot of really excellent programs. Linux and Puppy have nothing to apologize for in terms of software of the highest quality. Do they install without errors? Do they run correctly? Stellarium requires that you use IceWM. Some other programs require that you install Python. Both are in Puppy Package Manager.4. It would also be good to test upgrading from Lupu 5.00 and 5.0.1.(not so much, it is time to move on)A new ffmpeg compiled by 01micko in luci-209The full screen button works on gnome-mplayer, compiled by playdayz in luci-209Gtkhash added by suggestion; also a suggested change to mplayer softvol; other bugfixesNew programs in PPM, including gtk-record MyDesktop (that’s how they spell it)Google Earth will be in Quickpet next time - here it is for nowthe nouveau driver and nouveau firmware are in PPM for experimentersthere are i686 libraries for ffmpeg in PPM--might be faster on newer computers (P4+)do you have any tricks--I can compile them for new users of 5.1luci-207 has a couple of small tweaks (libjpeg, improved kmybanking-plugin). Good things include improvement in the pdf printer. I was able to print from Abiword and Opera to accurate pdf documents. As Shinobar suggested, Lucid Puppy now automatically connects to an ethernet connection. Luvcview is added for web cam. The Synaptic touch pad configurator should work. CPU Frequency scaling should work, but I am not sure that it got all 4 cores or only two; it was upgraded by Barry to 1.3.3. There are more new programs in Puppy Package Manager. Quickpet is at 2.9 and looks great and speaks all the languages of the world. Browser-default can now determine what browsers are available.marks the beginning of public testing for Lucid Puppy 5.1. Much of the work since luci-204 has gone into filling the puppy-lucid repository in Puppy Package Manager. There is a message in the Users forum asking for program suggestions and a couple of people asked for. What a cool program--it provides information on anything in the sky from any point on earth at any time--excuse me, you can even stand on the surface of Mars! It takes some resources though--you will need to use Icewm and the high performance graphics, for Radeon, Intel, and other, or for Nvidia. And ha-ha-ha, I tried it on my Windows 7 machine and it didn't work (hmm, maybe I should have used the Windows binaries).IMO, the PPM is looking good, with a fair percentage of the best and most useful Linux programs. But we are still open for suggestions. The goal is that people will be able to use the program they want to use, no matter where it comes from, Gnome, GTK, Qt, KDE, Windows, or Java, and use them in the fast, friendly, and fun environment of Puppy. We have not totally cracked the KDE nut however, although micko has prepared an Amarok pet. There is a list of programs at the bottom of this message.Here are some other things, in no particular order.=> Quickpet 2.2=> Netsurf upgraded from 1.2 Ubuntu to 2.5 compiled in luci-204 by 01micko=> Ayttm and Sylpheed updated and switched to Ubuntu binaries--Sylpheed from 2.7.1 to 3.0.2=> Pa_McClamrock's revised remaster script--the old one is also available as /usr/sbin/pupremaster2.old=> binutils upgraded to 2.20.1 and shifted to Ubuntu binaries; coreutils also upgraded and shifted to Ubuntu=> Abiword upgraded to 2.8.6 compiled in luci-204=> Barry's new shutdown script from WoofIMO we are in very much better shape than last time at this same point. The graphics seem pretty well set, as basic graphics with the high performance options. Cups is better understood and therefore less frustrating. We are able to track Woof and plan to do so right up to release, where last time we froze things at about this stage. We will release a Woof that can build Lucid Puppy 5.10 when we release Lucid Puppy 5.10. Very soon now we will not be the only Puppy 5.0.is on rc3 and they are just waiting for the official Firefox 3.6.4. That's going to be good to have a littermate--but even though they are the Fatdog, we are still the Big Dog! (Sorry)Here are some things from luci-204.=> Pa_McClamrock's enhancement of the mtpaint screen shot script=> Flashplayer 10.1. Opera may have trouble=> 8-bit's enhancement to the cups config file=> The enhanced Shutdown script has been there since 203. I see that Barry has now incorporated one into Woof--so we will get that as soon as a new Woof is posted.=> Finally, WhoDo, I got the Open With dialog to behave and show the icons.=> Symlink to cups/backend/smb recommended by gerry, who will let me know if I got it right=> Browser-default 0.8 from 01micko=> Fix sns first time=> Gnome-mplayer instead of SMPlayer because it is so much smaller. SMPlayer is in Puppy Package Manager. Gnome-mplayer plays full screen because of the changes in the basic graphics (libdri and libglx are loaded but the large hardware and software acceleration libraries are not.)=> Abiword 2.8.5 compiled in luci-203 and then they released 2.8.6 last week.When using the Puppy Package Manager it is safest to choose ibiblio.org for a day or two as I understand it.Link to foomatic-dbLink to HP printer pet ->Link to HP Scanner pet ->How to Check the Graphics. Here is a set of video test samples that I used to check MPlayer ->1. System -> Hardinfo -> Display and scroll down and see about the DRI. The High Performance options should all show hardware rendering.2. Open a terminal and enter "glxgears." Move the gears out of the way and watch the numbers for frames per second in the terminal. Is it higher than you remember, by a factor of 10 or so?

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