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Posted: **Sun 19 Dec 2010, 07:40**

Big Bass
Thanks for this Distro,it is certainly the most interesting that I have tried in the Puppy Derivatives . I was particularly impressed with Cups,I downloaded the 5 packages and installed them(magical package handler) and it found my HP5550 printer and it is the fastest printer using Gutenprint that I have used ,Gutenprint has always been slow on previously used pups.
I have had one downer. This morning when I booted up it went to the Mouse popup normally only seen on initial bootup (It is a full install) then when it got to the desktop the mouse would not function.I repeated this a couple of times without success and eventually reinstalled it .Very odd.It is a USB/PS2 mouse which has previously hung on Ouirky when using the PS2 adapter and could be activated by connecting direct USB. Unfortunately in USB direct it is sticky on Quirky Wary and this distribution. It is possibly just an old worn out mouse.
Once again for me this is the most promising Puppy so far. I have never been able to get anything with Slackware in its past to work for me and now I can get an idea of why it has survived so long.
Regards Dennis
New mouse fixed problem. D

Posted: **Mon 20 Dec 2010, 02:41**

Hi Joe

Quite some time back...(Slaxer_4.12Solid)Pakt asked if you could compile a few drivers for the Edubook

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 548#392548

I've since borked my Edubook, and since I like the direction you've taken with Slaxer_pup 4.5....I thought, I wonder if you have time to see if you could get the video and wifi drivers going, so I can test it properly on my Edubook?

Even Barry had problems

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01395

It uses the Vortex86DX SOC chip

http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/vortex86dx/#os

I believe Barry had to use their Kernel for his 4.32 version....but gave up

Since you use the Slackware Kernel and package management with better dependency checks,, I thought it just might go....

Here's a link to Edubook d/l site

http://www.deviceonchip.com/index.php?o ... =7:drivers

Needed are the RTL8188U? and RDC Xorg driver, as the video uses LVDS/FPD link, I believe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPD-Link

Puppy 4.31 and 4.32 were supposed to work on Barry's Edubook versions....but I never got either Xorg or Xvesa to give me a visible screen and had to 3 finger salute out
4.12 almost ran in Xvesa, but was incredibly slow, unusually....?

It hasn't had the flash updated for the APM mod so I don't know if this may affect things
It had XP Fundamentals - a cutdown developerOEM XP, but withouit proper network support, even though the Edubook has this USB Wifi device inside it
I'd be happy to do testing, to add the Edubook to the stable of machines Slaxer_Pup 4.5 runs on.....if you'd be willing to try?

HTH, thanks

edit/update Lupu 5.11 works including a viewable video [rdc chipset]

, but recommends installing xorg_high.pet
wifi rt73usb
wired r6040pci rdc 6040 napi ethernet

If we get that going....there's always 7" Android-running 'Armed' epads....there's loads of them, all needing Puppyfying, as the updates seem to bork them too....

Aitch

Posted: **Tue 21 Dec 2010, 00:35**

Hey Aitch

thanks for posting the links
I will have to investigate that a bit

just wanted to let you know that I have seen your post

Joe

Posted: **Tue 21 Dec 2010, 18:11**

Thanks Joe....update

After fiddling awhile in the bios, [not sure what I changed] I got it to load to a desktop, using an external DVD player/writer...just

Video very slow

It won't let me set up a wifi network for a weird reason....the Keyboard, but I tried changing keyboard type/locale to no avail

I have no Shift/Capitalise Function, and using Caps Lock changes certain used characters to numbers, so I couldn't set the WPA key needed for my router

No wired ethernet found at all

Thanks

Aitch

Posted: **Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:28**

are there any plans of updating the whole kernel and packages?
It would be the solution for my laptop

Posted: **Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:48**

dinosoep
are there any plans of updating the whole kernel and packages?

of course but it has to be done by understanding how linux works from packages
not mystery packages floating in cyberspace
just a simple plain list of packages

that can be located in one place (this is linux)

not some automated thingy
that back boxes what is really happening

lets put it simply if someone was in school and copied someones work
and got a quick 100% but really never learned how to do it
using their brain
they only cheated themselves and others

we all learn something by copying at first
but we have to take that information to a new level
or we just stay stuck in a rut

cheating others is wrong cheating yourself is even worse

so this takes time to become prepared
learning and doing things right is slow
but everyday you enjoy the walk

I will have it like this run a live cd if you dont want to build anything
but if you want to reproduce the cd or modify it
just install this package list
then make a live cd of it

no smoke no mirrors
everything transparent
the learning part is part of the fun
as long as it is easy and well documented

Joe

Posted: **Sun 23 Jan 2011, 13:07**

Hi Joe
I'm unable to run XFCE4 in TXZ pup (every version I've tried). Help!
Thank you for your great work

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 05:57**

I was asked in a pm to package an app, for this version that Joe made.
So I downloaded and giving it a test run

here's a few issues I've came across

- folder /root/Downloads is missing for firefox
- when clicking on a tar.gz and selecting "open with" there are 5 dead options, and no Xarchiver on the list and pupzip link doesn't work.
- Firefox fonts aren't set
when it first booted I had no jwm taskbar on the bottom and the rox open window had a red outline, after a couple of minutes the taskbr showed up and rox/jwm was fixed, its like it was on a extremely long delay, strange, never seen that before. But after that it worked fine

ttuuxxx
3.7MB of rox mimes, OMG joe that's just crazy, I know This a small distro to start with but, c'mon that's a lot space.
here's the latest mimes I've configured for puppy, some I made, some are gnome/gtk.
If you want to use them feel free

you might have to rename them to make them work, I haven't checked.
ttuuxxx

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 06:16**

if you open usr/local/bin/pupzip as text and delete everything then just add these 2 lines, when you select a tar.gz and select "Open With" Pupzip it will lauch in xarchiver.

#!/bin/sh
exec xarchiver "$1"

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 07:07**

When I installed qt-3.3.8b-i486-2-slxr.pet this was the output.
Would be nice to have a libGLU.so.1-i486-2-slxr.pet
in stead of trying to find the missing lib in a Xorg package somewhere.

These dependencies required by qt-3.3.8b-i486-2-slxr package are missing:
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/sqldrivers/libqsqlmysql.so has these missing library files:
libmysqlclient.so.15 libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/styles/libqwindowsstyle.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/styles/libqplatinumstyle.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/styles/libqcompactstyle.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/styles/libqcdestyle.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/styles/libqmotifplusstyle.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/styles/libqsgistyle.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/designer/libkdevdlgplugin.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/designer/libwizards.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/designer/libcppeditor.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/designer/librcplugin.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/designer/libgladeplugin.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/plugins/designer/libdlgplugin.so has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/lib/libqui.so.1.0.0 has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/bin/qtconfig has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/bin/lrelease has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/bin/uic has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/bin/designer has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1 libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/bin/assistant has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/bin/lupdate has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/bin/linguist has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1
File /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8b/bin/qm2ts has these missing library files:
libGLU.so.1

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 07:55**

I went to compile something and it said the Cmake was too old, min Cmake 2.6 and Txz has 2.4, So I compiled/packaged the latest 2.8.4 and works fine, might want to update the devx with it

http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/Txz-Pup ... x-i486.pet
ttuuxxx

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 09:44**

I was compiling the latest QT4, because The app I wanted to compile, needed Qt 4 and not Qt3, So it was compiling for a bit and had a sqlite error, so I compiled the latest SQlite, Nice how it just replaces the older one with same version number

ttuuxxx

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 14:00**

Ok I redid the Cmake so It can work with the latest QT4

http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/Txz-Pup ... x-i486.pet
the latest QT4 is
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/Txz-Pup ... 2-i486.pet
the Dev files for QT4
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/Txz-Pup ... 2-i486.pet
QComic book read <-- The requested file that took like 4+hrs to compileQt4 and figure out the Cmake issue with QT4, lol
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/Txz-Pup ... 2-i486.pet
enjoy and please test the qt package/dev files so I know its okay to delete the directory, the install/new2dir scripst wasn't copying everything, so I manually had to fix all the Qt4 parts.
ttuuxxx

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 16:15**

Downloaded.
Installed.
Wonderful!!!

Thank you ttuuxxx

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 19:25**

Thanks Jeff

I have many comments but I am busy with the family today will post later
with more details and info

thanks again for your help

P.S I updated a small error in the theme I posted in your thread in the gtkrc
Joe

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 20:43**

here's a small 1.5MB QT4 browser that needs the QT4 libs I posted above
Its a bit slow to start, but after that it runs pretty fast for browsing, youtube and gmail works with it, The first time I ran it on youtube I had to refresh the screen then it worked perfect after that.

http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/Txz-Pup ... 0-i486.pet
The nice thing about QT apps, you can actually just supply the libs it needs to run the app, this browser takes about 35MB of qt4 libs out of the 95MB installed files
ttuuxxx

Posted: **Sun 06 Mar 2011, 22:03**

Hey Jeff
I'll answer some of the questions and the rest later

when clicking on a tar.gz and selecting "open with" there are 5 dead options, and no Xarchiver on the list and pupzip link doesn't work.

I wrote my own tools for decompressing files called unzipper_dragNdrop5
that even makes the folders for you with the names and is very fast
that replaced pupzip I removed the icon from the desktop
when you right click on a package you get an option

htmlfix so when you click on a html file it opens in firefox
and there were some dead links in open with that get corrected with this
it puts seamonkey and firefox in the open with link
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/htmlfix-1. ... 3_SLXR.txz

here are some bug fixes from the first page of the thread

package management is a script
looks like I will have to make a menu entry also

TXZ package management menu entry
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/TXZpackage ... 4_SLXR.txz

freememapplet wont fly off the tray reverted to older
version compiled on TXZ_pup opens pprocess from tray now

freememapplet
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/freememapp ... 3_SLXR.txz

load config
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/loadconfig ... 3_SLXR.txz

geany compiled on TXZ_pup
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/geany-0.18-i486-3_SLXR.txz

epdf lib fix
removed cups so epdfview needs one dependency from cups
I wanted a clean start if you dont want cups installed
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/libcups2-1-i486-3_SLXR.txz

Firefox fonts aren't set

I keep firefox stock but if you like the nice fonts here is an auto installer in Xdialog

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh

# call this fonts-fix and make it executable

# A handy little script to download MS fonts. Stolen from Browserlinux puplet.
# added xdialog boxes big_bass
 
Xdialog --wrap --title "fonts" \
        --yesno "Do you want to install new fonts $@" 0 0

case $? in
  0)
    echo "Yes chosen.";;
  1)
    echo "No chosen."
    exit;;
  255)
    echo "Box closed."
    exit;;

esac
             


fonts_url="http://avi.alkalay.net/software/webcore-fonts/webcore-fonts-3.0.tar.gz"


Xdialog --title "downloading" \
           --infobox "\nthis takes awhile \n" 0 0 3000
echo Please wait...
echo

wget $fonts_url

tar -xf webcore-fonts-3.0.tar.gz

Xdialog --title "downloaded" \
           --infobox "\ndownloaded fonts.\n" 0 0 3000
mkdir /root/.fonts
cp webcore-fonts/fonts/* /root/.fonts
rm -r webcore-fonts
rm webcore-fonts-3.0.tar.gz

echo
echo
echo Finished downloading and installing the fonts...
echo
echo
sleep 2



Xdialog --title "Complete" \
           --infobox "\nInstalling  fonts has finished.\n" 0 0 5000

when it first booted I had no jwm taskbar on the bottom and the rox open window had a red outline, after a couple of minutes the taskbr showed up and rox/jwm was fixed, its like it was on a extremely long delay, strange, never seen that before. But after that it worked fine Smile

yeah I need to fix that there is a hiccup because I changed the JWM theme
if you wait till it turns black then select it works

3.7MB of rox mimes, OMG joe that's just crazy, I know This a small distro to start with but, c'mon that's a lot space.

everyone has something they like and I like a very extensive mime theme for ROX
yes ,I agree thats just crazy but hey it was fun doing it I'll probally add even more

I have a lot more to say but this post is getting big so I'll do it in two parts

Thanks again .I downloaded all the packages you posted I still have to
convert them to slackware compatible packages
I have another dragNdrop script that fully automates pet to slackware
I'll post it so if you want to run any pet package you made on a slackware based distro its as easy as drag n drop no questions asked

Joe

Posted: **Mon 07 Mar 2011, 00:59**

Hey Jeff
second part of the answers

*if you notice my cut down devx 40MB it doesnt have qt or python installed so you can update them on the fly for that reason

ttuuxxx

When I installed qt-3.3.8b-i486-2-slxr.pet this was the output.
Would be nice to have a libGLU.so.1-i486-2-slxr.pet
in stead of trying to find the missing lib in a Xorg package somewhere.

qt-3.3.8b
yeah, its been a long time since I had qt installed
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/qt-3.3.8b-i486-3_SLXR.txz

xorg_extra_drivers * (if you need any drivers for xorg that arent installed)
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/xorg_extra ... 3_SLXR.txz

QT4 on slackware current uses
which should all be recompiled from source
slackware's qt4 is very patched 48mb man thats getting crazy

qt-<version>_<git revision> is actually KDE's version of Qt from git
that includes important patches not yet present in mainline Qt.

qt-4.6.2_2d3d3e5-i486-1.txz

for missing libpng14.so.14
libpng-1.4.2-i486-1.txz

for missing libEGL.so.1
mesa-7.8.1-i486-1.txz

Joe

Posted: **Mon 07 Mar 2011, 02:01**

double post delete

Posted: **Mon 07 Mar 2011, 09:01**

Hi Joe I posted a bit earlier that I already compiled the latest QT, its 40MB pet http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 67d#501495
It could be reduced by removing qtWebkit and adding it to another pet 19Mb extracted. Webkit is really only needed if your running a QT4 Browser.
ttuuxxx

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