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Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 12:46**

pa_mcclamrock wrote:
WhoDo wrote:I still have no idea how big RemaX is going to be [ . . . ]
About 26 KB compressed. Is it going to appear in at least one RC, so somebody besides you and me can see if it has any bugs?

At least one.

26kb? I can find room for that, no problems!

pa_mcclamrock wrote:
Any ideas for further cuts in size?
Did you dump pplog and hiawatha yet?

Yep. If we can't make them work by now then they're not going to be in the mix for Final. Sad, too, because we don't gain that much by losing them.

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 12:47**

ttuuxxx

Code: Select all

alsaconf

that might do it

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 12:49**

01micko wrote:If you haven't uploaded yet, IMO dump original. 3 icon themes is enough and if you must dump one, that is it.

Way ahead of ya, mate! It's already gone.

We may end up with Lobster Thermidore as a result, but them's the breaks.

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 12:52**

WhoDo wrote: We may end up with Lobster Thermidore as a result, but them's the breaks.

I prefer mud crab!

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 12:57**

Béèm wrote:
Whodo wrote:Are you sure you really looked at RC1?
Is there some variable/file which can be looked upon to know which 'version' is booted from?

Nope. Only the numbers on the original ISO, or the content of boot.msg inside the iso (it will say only "4.2" with no beta after). PuppyVersion only says "420" for all of the Alpha's, Beta's and RC's. That's why I asked if ttuuxxx was "sure" he was looking at RC1 and not one of the Beta's.

Of course he may be right and I may be wrong. I may have forgotten to make the change in RC1, but it certainly is made in RC2 which is uploading to the mirrors at the moment. I was pretty sure that RC1 already carried the change, however.

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 12:59**

01micko wrote:
WhoDo wrote: We may end up with Lobster Thermidore as a result, but them's the breaks.
I prefer mud crab!

Spoken like a true banana-bender!

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 13:12**

Yes I'm sure I'm using 4.2 rc1, but hey if 4.2rc2 is missing the shortcut thats all that matters

Man I'm tired must of been the 2 hours of ice-skating, nice arena next to HillSong Church about 10 mins from my house, handy location, only fell once trying to chase my wife while holding my daughters hand, we both landed on our butts, lol it was fun.
ttuuxxx
Ps hey WhoDo if you can think of anything I forgot for this release just let me know

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 13:26**

ttuuxxx wrote:Man I'm tired must of been the 2 hours of ice-skating, nice arena next to HillSong Church about 10 mins from my house

Ah, the delightful Hill's district (Castle Hill, Baulkham Hills, etc for those not in the know). I have a close friend who frequently attends functions at Hillsong after travelling down from Newcastle. Man that's a big church!

My mother and father are resting not very far from there, too!

I'm uploading now, ttuuxxx, so get some sleep and prepare for the onslaught tomorrow as new downloaders work out what we've both forgotten!

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 13:36**

Canterbury was a good rink in it's day.. does it still exist? One thing though, my CB radio was stolen out of my car from there!

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 18:37**

When I killed the instances of conky (calendar etc) the cpu fell from 8-10% to 2-4 % in htop...is this normal? (1.2 ghz notepad)
At least the clock moves lol

mike

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 19:16**

01micko wrote:

Joined: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 921
Location: Southport, Queensland, Australia

PostPosted: Today, at 02:38 Post subject:
After much banging of my head I finally figured out what is wrong with wireless for the rtl8187 driver.

Now, the r8187 driver loads by default with my netgear WG111V2 in puppy4.2. This is not compiled into the kernel in 4.1.2 but later added as a pet. It shows up in the Network wizard as RTL8187. Confused? I was. Did an lsmod and it shows up as r8187. Tried ndiswrapper, no go, but I try to avoid using it anyway.

I blacklisted the r8187 and went through the driver list and lo and behold there is the old rtl8187 driver. Now that one works! Just didn't think to look. Just don't know why the newer driver gets loaded for my hardware.

Anyway, that is another issue off the list WhoDo!

Cheers

Taking this information I went into /lib/modules/2.6.25.16/kernel/drivers/net/wireless and renamed the
r8180 folder--!!!r8180, saved and rebooted and my wireless now works. I am typing this in your RC1 that I previously couldn't. When the computer booted back up, I went into Pwireless, saw my network, connected, and it works fine now. Thanks 01micko!

Hope this helps everybody else.

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 19:20**

By the way, I had problems with my ipw2200 driver. The above answer fixed that problem.

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 19:36**

MikeB,

Each widget has a small overhead when loaded, added together they are about 10% in worst case.
It depends what is loaded in, it's the 'timings' that add overhead.

Weather, Mail access internet for information at regular intervals. Some others use 'timing cycles' , they vary in load.
Instant update, real time widgets are 'on' all the time, cpu, anything with 'bars' etc.

Rob.

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 20:05**

Well the conky ones were definately taking the lions share...just thought it was a bit strange for a static display to use so much...more than the clock, hard ware daemons/cups/udev/window manager etc put together

mike

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 20:11**

Just what I need. Hope it will work from my Samba mounted LAN disk (gxine works for me in 4.1.2 in the senario). Mike

ttuuxxx wrote:updated packages for
- Updated alsa player with 3 mimes now it can play playlist just by clicking on them
ttuuxxx

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 21:41**

My printer is usually connected to a windows machine. so I tried to set it up today. Failure.

Cups gives me an error message to the effect that there is something wrong with the smb.conf file- run Parmtest to find out what.

Can we do that in Puppy?

Once again, it all works ok with earlier Puppies- is it cups 1.4 again?

The smb.conf file is the same one that's in all Puppies- properties shows it was last changed 4 or 5 years ago.

Gerry

Posted: **Sat 07 Mar 2009, 22:58**

gerry wrote:My printer is usually connected to a windows machine. so I tried to set it up today. Failure.

Cups gives me an error message to the effect that there is something wrong with the smb.conf file

Gerry, please repost your problem in the RC2 Bugs & Fixes thread where you are more likely to get one of the devs to follow up on your problem. They MAY see it here, but they probably WILL see it there first.

Cheers

Posted: **Sun 08 Mar 2009, 00:19**

Sorry, mis-post. Please see Puppy 4.2 RC2 Deep Thought - Bugs & Fixes
(this post may be deleted)

Posted: **Sun 08 Mar 2009, 02:25**

wireless ipw 2200 recognition problem reported by several (minnesota, brymway etc):
omicko1 has now given a solution
I went into /lib/modules/2.6.25.16/kernel/drivers/net/wireless and renamed the r8180 folder--!!!r8180, saved and rebooted and my wireless now works.

Apparently this works - being confirmed by one other so far
But for new or old users it is not a full fix yet.

can we please fix it for rc2 so that no file hacking is required?

Many thanks in anticipation of wirelessly testing rc2

PS Nice to hear all the young 'uns life stories - haven't needed the TV all week.

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