Puppeee 4.3X

[jemimah]

That is, when you make a save file, make it as small as possible (I'm using 128MB myself). Put all your apps *outside* the save file (ie in the SD card itself, i.e in /mnt/home). Then use symbolic link (ln -s) into your save file. A smaller save file will drastically cutdown your shutdown time ... This method is not new and have been discussed a couple of times, just do a search.

One thing to note, if you have an SSD, you want to keep files that are written to frequently inside the save file, or you might was well just run without a RAM layer. Also, apps probably can't be installed this way to NTFS or FAT32 filesytems, due to the lack of support for symbolic links.

[jemimah]

Here is the clever version of rox-menu that only updates the Rox Menu file structure rather than recreating it every time you install or remove something. Both installing packages and shutdown saving should be faster because of this.

Just decompress it and replace the rox-menu in /usr/local/bin. This isn't thoroughly tested yet, and it does recursive deletes, so make a backup first.

[barriew]

Jemimah,

I tried the latest Beta (4.2) on my 900 but it doesn't load the wireless module. I did lsmod and it came back empty!

I don't see anyone else reporting this fault which is strange! I think it needs the Ath5k module.

Barrie

[jakfish]

barriew--

I have a 900 and don't have your problem. Are you sure you've downloaded and are using ze442331.sfs (that's where the modules live)?

Jake

[barriew]

Jake,

Yes that is the file - and I've downloaded it a couple of times.

Barrie

[jemimah]

Hmmm, you can check against the md5sums to make sure that you have both the celeron kernel and the celeron zdrive - mix and matching does not work. Also, we discovered that if you put your save file on a different drive than your eee-432.sfs file, the zdrive needs to be in the same place as the save file.

[barriew]

I realised it was picking up an earlier save file, have now stopped that, and now get the " Your wireless card was not detected. Please enable in the BIOS" ..which it is.

Barrie

[jemimah]

If you do lsmod and still have no modules, then there must be another problem as well.

[jakfish]

How very strange. Because all the original 900s use the ath5k, so I'm able to load but you're not... Are you using frugal or internal sd install?

Jake

[barriew]

I checked the MD5 sums - all Ok.

I have now tried with the Atom files - same result! At the moment I am trying to boot from a USB stick. I have tried a couple of different sticks.

Its not important - I have a frugal instal of Beta 3.5 (I thnk) and have just loaded a full install of Puppy 4.3.1 onto another drive.

Either of these will allow me to do what I want. Off to my other hobby now!!


Barrie

[barriew]

OK - I've now got 4.2 to recognise my Wireless adaptor. I completely removed the frugal install of 3.5 from the machine. Obviously it was picking something from that install, but I'm not sure what as I had renamed the save file and it didn't use that. I thought all the other files were version specific.

Barrie

[jakfish]

Ah, the joys of testing. We should all do what jemimah has done, and buy used machines for testing purposes only.

Jake

[jamesbond]

Here is the clever version of rox-menu that only updates the Rox Menu file structure rather than recreating it every time you install or remove something. Both installing packages and shutdown saving should be faster because of this.

Just decompress it and replace the rox-menu in /usr/local/bin. This isn't thoroughly tested yet, and it does recursive deletes, so make a backup first.

Wow, look at how that puppy runs! Seriously, this speeds up the shutdown saving by at least 50% ! Thanks Jemimah!

Does the script use specific knowledge of puppeee? Or is it generic enough for other puppies?

cheers!

[jemimah]

I think it's generic - I tried to make it generic.

I will probably release a new pet for Rox-Menu when I'm happy with it.
The original rox-applets thread is here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47280, though I've further modfied rox-menu so you can rebuild the menus automatically instead of having to refresh by right clicking.

[barriew]

Ah, the joys of testing. We should all do what jemimah has done, and buy used machines for testing purposes only.

Jake

Actually that's about all I use mine for! It was bought for an extended trip to Oz & NZ, and now mainly gets used for trying out versions of Puppy & Pupeee. Xandros self-destructed, so now I only use Puppy!

Barrie

[Nevermore]

Nevermore, Where are you getting thunderbird from? I just downloaded 3.1Beta from the thunderbird website, extracted the package, and it runs fine. The fonts are very small, but I think there's a fix for that on the forum somewhere.

Hello jemimah
I use thunderbird 2 since the 3 has given me too many problems on ubuntu.
I downloaded the tar.gz precompiled from thunderbird website.
here it is http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... .24.tar.gz

[jemimah]

That version worked for me too. I just extracted it, then clicked on the script named thunderbird.

[Nevermore]

very strange.
over here doesnt start at all.
I will make a fresh pupsave and try again.

[jemimah]

If it doesn't start, try it from the command line and report what the error is. Maybe it's a localization problem or something.

[jamesbond]

Hi Jemimah,

I'd like to report that fullscreen video (gxine) under FLWM flickers. I'm playing some mp4 videos I got from youtube.Non-fullscreen playback is fine. The same video under the same gxine under JWM works fine in fullscreen.

cheers!