Puppeee 4.3X

[jemimah]

I did just get it to work on my XP partition, but I don't have a Vista installation to mess with and I don't have Grub2 so I don't know exactly what's happening. Can you try installing Quirky the same way? That would tell me if it's the init script or the kernel differences that could be the culprit. Can anyone else with Vista try it and let me know how it goes? (Although I don't think you can buy an EeePc with Vista so we're not likely to get too much help here).

[jakfish]

Hi, Jemimah,

Because I have the eee 900 which doesn't play nice with elantech, I've been using your old non-elantech kernel. Is there a non-elantech version of the 2.6.31.5 eee kernel?

I just tried that kernel, but still find the lack of accurate response in the eee 900 touchpad.

Hope this finds you well,
Jake

[jemimah]

Darn, I was hoping the new kernel would fix your problem.

I'll build you a no-elachtech version tonight.

[jakfish]

I very much appreciate that--above and beyond the call of duty, but that's always been your approach.

Many thanks,
Jake

[nooby]

I tested with Quirky 5 and it found the sfs files but had trouble with the graphic card so seems to be something else going on.

I have to go to bed now. Linux Mint boot frugally here now but I fail to get it to save. Would be cool to get Puppeee going too. It is a Desktop. Maybe Puppeee only works on Laptops?

[jemimah]

Ah that explains it. Puppeee probably doesn't have drivers for your hard disk at all. Yes it only works on EeePcs and other computers with exactly the same hardware as an EeePc.

[jemimah]

Here's how you set a minimum font size in Chrome. http://emps.l-c-n.com/notebook/chrome-minimum-font-size

[davesurrey]

jemimah
FWIW I tested both puppeee beta3.4 and quirky005 doing frugal installs to an ntfs partition that also contained Windows XP.
I used grub4dos to boot.
This is very similar to what nooby is trying to do.

I can boot to quirky but not puppeee.
So it does seem to be an issue of lack of drivers rather than any quirky problem with ntfs.

HTH
Dave

[jemimah]

The no-elantech kernel is posted at http://drop.io/puppeee.

[nooby]

Ah that explains it. Puppeee probably doesn't have drivers for your hard disk at all. Yes it only works on EeePcs and other computers with exactly the same hardware as an EeePc.

Heheh then all is as it should be then. I keep it to use on my Acer D250 Netbook then.

but quirky 006 should work on desktops?

[jakfish]

Jemimah,

Thank you for such speedy work. But with this kernel, even without elantech, I'm still having the same mouse inaccuracies. I went back to your old kernel and the mouse was fine. Any idea why?

Jake

[Nevermore]

jemimah does it work overclock on ur system?
since on mine doesnt...

[dougeeebear]

Here's how you set a minimum font size in Chrome. http://emps.l-c-n.com/notebook/chrome-minimum-font-size

That would probably work ok if Puppeee wasn't lacking in the fonts department.
Any idea where a good set of fonts could be picked up?

[jemimah]

Dougeeebear, the DejaVu fonts are installed and they look nice to me. I was going to make them the default for the next version. Otherwise we could use the Liberation fonts that I'm currently testing.

Nevermore, the overclocking works on my 701. I've only ever crashed it that way once. Does yours crash? The only way to tell if it's overclocked or not is benchmarking.


Jakfish a few things to try:
Check /proc/bus/input/devices and verify there are no mentions of Elantech, or Synaptics in that file.
Make sure you are testing without a save file
Check and see if you have the same problem in Xvesa

On a 900, the old kernel should still work work with the newer Puppeee sfs files.

[jakfish]

Jemimah,

In /proc/bus/input/devices , I found this:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000e Version=0000
N: Name="ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event6
B: EV=f
B: KEY=6420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
B: ABS=f0003

Do I simply delete this section or replace it with something else? Perhaps the /proc/bus/input/devices file from old kernel?

Best,
Jake

[jemimah]

No that means either I posted the wrong kernel, or you downloaded the wrong version. I can't test it until I get home in a few hours.

[dougeeebear]

Here's how you set a minimum font size in Chrome. http://emps.l-c-n.com/notebook/chrome-minimum-font-size

That would probably work ok if Puppeee wasn't lacking in the fonts department.
Any idea where a good set of fonts could be picked up?

Dougeeebear, the DejaVu fonts are installed and they look nice to me. I was going to make them the default for the next version.

They look ok to me as well. I was just echoing a statement I believe you made sometime earlier (that I can't find right now).

[jemimah]

It seems it just picks bad defaults, the problem is not as complicated as I originally thought.

[Nevermore]

Nevermore, the overclocking works on my 701. I've only ever crashed it that way once. Does yours crash? The only way to tell if it's overclocked or not is benchmarking.

Hello
unfortunately on mine the screen gets garbled when i try to turn on overclock...
I tried many different options with no luck...

[jemimah]

There's an older script that uses the asus_eee module for overclocking instead of the eeepc-laptop module. It's might be a little gentler on the CPU. I'll have to go fish it out of an older version of Puppeee and update it. Even with the older script, it may not work, some Eees just can't take it.