Puppy Squeeze 009 Development

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tubeguy · #801 Post by **tubeguy** » Mon 01 Nov 2010, 20:39

Jim1911 wrote:
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

I don't have any other ones in there, I think Igu said it was a woof thing that the devx isn't recognized.

upnorth · #802 Post by **upnorth** » Tue 02 Nov 2010, 00:59

http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/test ... util50.php
libavutil50_0.6~svn20100726-0.1_i386.deb
i think that package was needed for libavcodec.so.52.84.0 to function

qvlc now plays wmv and 3gp fine.

Then for ffmpeg:
added these 2 from multimedia repo
libavfilter1_0.6~svn20100726-0.1_i386.deb
libavcore0_0.6~svn20100726-0.1_i386.deb
and these two from regular sqeeze repo
libdc1394-22_2.1.2-3_i386.deb
libraw1394-11_2.0.5-2_i386.deb
and it works
This was on zpup006

Iguleder · #803 Post by **Iguleder** » Tue 02 Nov 2010, 08:40

upnorth, so names are different between the multimedia repo and the regular one? Maybe that's why our mplayer package is partially broken. We use mplayer from one repo and lib<something>49 instead of 50, which is the one from the multimedia repo.

upnorth · #804 Post by **upnorth** » Tue 02 Nov 2010, 14:24

Looks like both libavutil49 and libavutil50 would need to stay on the system when using mplayer from squeeze or sid repo and the ffmpeg from multimedia.
I notice the mplayer from experimental switches to libavutil50 and the mplayer from multimedia repo doesn't list libavutil directly as dep.

Cur Dog · #805 Post by **Cur Dog** » Tue 02 Nov 2010, 20:52

I have a frugal install of Squeeze 009. Internet browsing is very slow and I keep getting network timeout error. I took a quick look through the thread but did not see anyone else with this complaint. I loaded opera just to see if that would act any different but still had same issue. I have never experienced this problem with any other puppy before so I guess it could be something in my setup?

#806 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Tue 02 Nov 2010, 22:05

Altho I created a save file at the end of the first session, on next boot it isn't loaded.

Fishy · #807 Post by **Fishy** » Tue 02 Nov 2010, 23:48

will not connect. Tried the atheros driver but no luck, Wary 094 had same issue. 010 connected fine. Luci 234 has no connection issues either.

Cheers

DSL wired connection

Iguleder · #808 Post by **Iguleder** » Wed 03 Nov 2010, 08:32

Cur Dog: I have the same problem with 2.6.32.x with my Atheros 9285, it uses the ath9k module. Keeps disconnecting but browsing speed is good.

When it disconnects it says something with "timeout" and "500ms" in dmesg.

Karl Godt · #809 Post by **Karl Godt** » Wed 03 Nov 2010, 15:25

Hi Iglu !

I've the problem with kernel panic at a laptop ( acer ( I think I've made the pupsave too small ) )
and the laptop doesn't want to start anymore.
It was a luci live-CD and not a dpup one !
But because you're confident with compiling and kernel compiling
I would have a request to get the panic=0 default to something like panic=5 so the system would reboot again.

I looked at the 2.6.36 source with pfind and 'panic' gave 102 results.

# CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC is not set
CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE=0

It took awfully long to open these 102 files with geany from the pfind-menu and this
*_PANIC_VALUE=0 is found at
/linux-2.6.36/arch/xtensa/configs/s6105_defconfig
for example.

I guess you're compiling the x86 tree but maybe there is the possibility to 'replace all _PANIC_VALUE=0 with _PANIC_VALUE=9' (9 seconds before rebooting )

Don't stress yourself and this is what the HOWTO is saying :

Introduction
------------

So, you want to learn how to become a Linux kernel developer? Or you
have been told by your manager, "Go write a Linux driver for this
device." This document's goal is to teach you everything you need to
know to achieve this by describing the process you need to go through,
and hints on how to work with the community. It will also try to
explain some of the reasons why the community works like it does.

Karl Godt · #810 Post by **Karl Godt** » Thu 04 Nov 2010, 16:26

Now it launches seamonkey mail from menu. And the warnings dissappeared. It seems openbox was sensitive to the "&" symbol

This had also been with .jmwrc : page 15

Now I figured out how it would be able to set the &-sign into the menu at .jwmrc :

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<Program label="Seamonkey mail "\&" news" icon="/usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/email48.png">seamonkey -mail</Program>

The acer lappy finally started again while bumping a lot on the power-key ( it really turned out that 256 MB pupsave was (of course) too small installing firefox after chrome because of rendering-graphics-display problems with the google browser ) and I am installing now dpup-005,007,008,009 on it and so far everthing works well.

nooby · #811 Post by **nooby** » Thu 04 Nov 2010, 16:43

Karl, you know about this one too? Debian sort of if not classic Dpup.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 432#450432

Puppy Squeeze 009 and Zen Puppy 005 Development

Maybe they still have much to do though?

Iguleder · #812 Post by **Iguleder** » Thu 04 Nov 2010, 16:50

As you can see I'm taking the time with more testing builds, haven't worked on Squeeze for two days. The Debian installer reached beta, let's hope more parts of Debian reach this quality so we can finally have a good final release

I'm trying to figure out which packages can be removed or replaced with Debian ones for better compatibility. So far I see some good opportunities to get the size down.

At the moment I'm working on Pdebthing, rewrote it from scratch with important parts in Perl. It's smarter and more percise, but way heavier. I'm also trying to figure out what makes Trinity show that error about the media manager - I think Trinity needs some package from Debian Lenny (libdbus-qt) and I want to do some testing.

I'm also thinking about starting a new distro that fits right between Puppy, Tiny Core and the dead SLAX, sounds fun to me

nooby · #813 Post by **nooby** » Thu 04 Nov 2010, 17:21

Thansk for dpup09, I prefer lup235 but for those who love Debian and the other differences I love that we have many choices.

Karl Godt · #814 Post by **Karl Godt** » Thu 04 Nov 2010, 17:47

And to run mrxvt on de_DE@Euro locale I found this :
http://dotfiles.org/~asommer/.mrxvtrc

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Mrxvt.xft: 1
#Mrxvt.xftFont: Bistream Vera Sans Mono
Mrxvt.xftFont: DejaVu Sans
Mrxvt.xftSize: 8
Mrxvt.xftAntialias: 1

There are many more suggestions for the Mrxvt-src ""Xdefaults.in"" here :
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dirtyepic/conf/mrxvtrc
http://www.tamps.cinvestav.mx/~gtoscano/files/mrxvtrc

I also edited the console icon from mrxvt-full to just mrxvt and finally got transparency !

edoc · #815 Post by **edoc** » Thu 04 Nov 2010, 18:06

Our Panasonic Toughbook CF-28 uses an Intel 82830 video chipset - is that a know problem that could cause zpup-005 to fail?

I just get no display at all - not even a xorgwizard error.

I have to do a reboot.

Iguleder · #816 Post by **Iguleder** » Thu 04 Nov 2010, 18:20

Try to boot with "nomodeset". I had a similar problem with my Intel 3150.

By the way, I fixed Trinity, now it handles removable media correctly, you can get it here. Start it with "xwin startkde", I removed the code that sets it as the default window manager. Works great for me - it seems Debian Squeeze lacks some old library needed by Trinity's kio slaves and for some reason Puppy lacks the /media directory and HAL is too stupid to create it when it has that library. Just added both to a new SFS I made using the rewritten, yet-to-be-released Pdebthing.

Anyway, now Trinity works well ... now it's time to do the first trinitypup experiment - build a dpup with Trinity from Woof

Karl Godt · #817 Post by **Karl Godt** » Thu 04 Nov 2010, 20:54

Added this to .mrxvtrc:
mrxvt-full*geometry: 40x30
mrxvt-full*transparent: true
mrxvt-full*Font: cursor Regular
mrxvt-full*foreground: #ECF502
Mrxvt.xftSize: 15

Jim1911 · #818 Post by **Jim1911** » Fri 05 Nov 2010, 01:20

Iguleder wrote: By the way, I fixed Trinity, now it handles removable media correctly, you can get it here. Start it with "xwin startkde", I removed the code that sets it as the default window manager. Works great for me - it seems Debian Squeeze lacks some old library needed by Trinity's kio slaves and for some reason Puppy lacks the /media directory and HAL is too stupid to create it when it has that library. Just added both to a new SFS I made using the rewritten, yet-to-be-released Pdebthing.

Anyway, now Trinity works well ... now it's time to do the first trinitypup experiment - build a dpup with Trinity from Woof

Hi Iguleder,
Installed your new SFS on luci-235. It's working great. However, still a problem with shutdown that's easily solved with radky's PupShutdown. Posting from it. Next, I'll try it on zen-006.
Thank you for trinity,
Jim

edoc · #819 Post by **edoc** » Fri 05 Nov 2010, 03:04

Is this line in GRUB what you had in mind?

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 kernel (hd0,1)/zpup-005/vmlinuz pfix=fsck PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda2 psubdir=zpup-005 acpi=noirq nosmp vga=normal video=640x480 nomodeset

Or this?

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 kernel (hd0,1)/zpup-005/vmlinuz pfix=fsck PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda2 psubdir=zpup-005 nomodeset

I tried both, no joy.

Jim1911 · #820 Post by **Jim1911** » Fri 05 Nov 2010, 04:23

Try placing (hd0,1) as follows: Also, change PMEDIA and PDEV1 to lower case. That's good that you check the partition.

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rootnoverify (hd0,1)
kernel   /zpup-005/vmlinuz pfix=fsck pmedia=idehd pdev1=sda2 psubdir=zpup-005 nomodeset

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