Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes

[James C]

Just a quick run live pfix=ram in the main Linux box. As usual, everything works on initial boot.

Sat 28 May 2011 Operating System: Snow Puppy-019 Linux 2.6.35.7
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg Driver: unknown
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Core 0: 1998 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.

sh-4.1# glxgears
477 frames in 5.0 seconds
523 frames in 5.0 seconds
515 frames in 5.0 seconds
515 frames in 5.0 seconds
507 frames in 5.0 seconds

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (187MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 28 May 2011 10:26:29 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

Was intending to try Snow in my backup Windows box but the optical drive decided to go on vacation.....

[James C]

Snow 019 on the quad, live pfix=ram.Everything working on boot.

Sat 28 May 2011 Operating System: Snow Puppy-019 Linux 2.6.35.7
d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: unknown
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (413x232 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1

AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Core 0: 2611 1: 2611 2: 2611 3: 2611 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.

sh-4.1# glxgears
2183 frames in 5.0 seconds
2186 frames in 5.0 seconds
2189 frames in 5.0 seconds
2183 frames in 5.0 seconds
2175 frames in 5.0 seconds
2145 frames in 5.0 seconds


-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 2854MB (190MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 28 May 2011 10:46:46 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

[James C]

Was intending to try Snow in my backup Windows box but the optical drive decided to go on vacation.....

A new dvd burner and I'm back in business. Snow Puppy 019 live pfix=ram.
Everything working out of the box on initial boot.

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
Memory : 2593MB (181MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 29 May 2011 12:58:49 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5
VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Multimedia audio controller : Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Ethernet controller : Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)


2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)865G Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS product: Intel(r)865G Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: unknown
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.7.1

[pemasu]

Jim1911. I havent done more that ATI driver pet. It is in the ftp site under Drivers I think.
666Philb made Nvidia package for experimental 2.6.38.2 kernel Snow Puppy. Sickgut posted the howto do it yourself in Snow Puppy thread for Nvidia drivers and there is also good guidance to do it easily yourself in Ice Puppy thread and now also in Spup alpha thread by Wuwei.
So you need just devx.sfs, kernel source sfs and nvidia package and 30 minutes of time. (And maybe blacklisting of nouveau driver and nv if needed.)

[mitsuzero]

Hello ... with a personal workaround i have a sucess install this in my lap...
i need to edit the installer to avoid select the superfloppy instalation, and i have one question... i need to install "chromium" but the install fail.. says "no left space for instalation" any help...
note: i dont save the session... is a full install
the partview says "45 gb Free"

[puppyiso]

Hello, pemasu

You like snow and ice very much, don't you?

I am happy with snowpup 18th version. Thank you.

It works well(net setup, scim,) But one little problem is that wine doesn't work better than version 16th.

It ran wined Nendo demo version in the 16th but not so well in 18th.

It starts but freezes when I try to use it. Maybe it's the wine thing. Which wine version(pet or sfs) would you recommend?

John

[Béèm]

I use wine 1.3.7 in snow 018

[puppyiso]

Béèm, do you happen to know where I can get it?

Pet or sfs?

I checked that I am using 1,21 and sfs

[l2ulinux]

Thank you for this new release. Each and everyone gets better and better. I have been downloading many different Linux releases to study lately to just see if I was missing anything by using PUPPY. I found out that I was not missing anything whats so ever. Thank you for the great work.

Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 2.6.35.7 (i686)
Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 15 19:05:14 EET 2011
C Library GNU C Library version 2.11.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler Unknown
Distribution Unknown distribution
Current Session
Computer Name puppypc
User Name root (root)
Home Directory /root
Desktop Environment Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)
Misc
Uptime 2 hours, 41 minutes
Load Average 0.89, 0.93, 0.84

By the way, this is that bad system that did not like ICEPUPPY.

[don570]

I had in woof Pclock 0.3.4 and your posted link has 0.3.1. ?

I gave a wrong link to pclock, but fortunately you knew that it
was posted in Zigbert's thread.

__________________________________________________

Pmusic-1.8 which is brand new and has gone big changes inside. Bugs are possible

You are right that it has bugs in it. Zigbert is working hard on fixing it.

__________________________________________

[pemasu]

Sorry. I have been bit busy with compiling Qt4-4.8.0. I hope I have it now right. Smplayer and latest Handbrake compiled fine with it. Still the Qt4 is somewhat big but I just cant compete with Barry Kaulers T2 compiling platform. It just produces unbeliavable size. Well, I used the latest Qt4.
I will upload my Qt4 as sfs and pet, same with DEV stuff.
Smplayer and Handbrake are first with my Qt4 app series. And they are compiled in Qt4 compiled in Snow Puppy. At least spesific OS environment.

Code: Select all

./configure -prefix /opt/qt4  -release -no-dbus -no-qt3support -gtkstyle -no-phonon -no-largefile -optimized-qmake -qt-sql-sqlite -system-sqlite -no-opengl -no-3dnow -no-sse -no-sse2 -no-sse3 -no-ssse3 -nomake examples -nomake demos -multimedia -audio-backend

Qtconfig is nice tool to adjust Qt4 application outcome and font size. Makes Qt4 app outlook much better. I have compiled gtkstyle in my Qt4 libraries.

I tried also VLC-1.1.9. That app is monster to get all needed dependencies working and ubuntu lucid base is not good for it. I just couldnt get xcb dependencies met. Whatever I tried. Well, my VLC compile was miserable failure.

[pemasu]

Posting now from arora compiled with installed qt4. At least it browses and I can post with it. I have now uploaded my qt4 stuff to the pets and sfs folders.

Needed qt4 and applications handbrake, smplayer are as pets and sfs. Arora webbrowser as pet only. It was so small.

Download link to pet folder: http://smokey01.com/pemasu/Pets

Download link to sfs folder: http://smokey01.com/pemasu/Sfs

After installing the qt4 package, you need to restart your Puppy. Otherwise the qt4 libs are not found from the /opt location. Also using in console #qtconfig adjusts the fonts and you can have gtk style enabled.

[pemasu]

Qtftm-4.9 pet added to Pets folder. It is lightweight file manager.

[Béèm]

There have been some questions about using a whole partition to save the config info and to install packages.

I never did it, so I took the 019 to make that exercise.

After booting from the Lin'N'Win frugal and doing the 1st setup, I wanted to create the save. But I never got the option to select between saving t a whole partition or to create a save file.
In fact I only can create a save file.

Is this possibility to save to a partition suppressed?
Or is it due to the fact I don't boot from a CD?

[pemasu]

Beem. Saving to the partition is also for me the possibility I havent ever used. I dont have also possiblity to test it in my main laptop. But I can test it with usb stick but that is not the same.
So for me it needs also testing. I dont use CD`s normally but I can burn test CD.

[Béèm]

Beem. Saving to the partition is also for me the possibility I havent ever used. I dont have also possiblity to test it in my main laptop. But I can test it with usb stick but that is not the same.
So for me it needs also testing. I dont use CD`s normally but I can burn test CD.

Hi,
I don't burn to CD either, but I created one in multi-session.
Booted, did the config and rebooted.
At the screen to create a save, I only got the option to create a save file on a partition, to the multi-session, or no save.
Looks like the possibility to save to a whole partition isn't there anymore.
Maybe Barry did change this.

[James C]

Beem. Saving to the partition is also for me the possibility I havent ever used. I dont have also possiblity to test it in my main laptop. But I can test it with usb stick but that is not the same.
So for me it needs also testing. I dont use CD`s normally but I can burn test CD.

Hi,
I don't burn to CD either, but I created one in multi-session.
Booted, did the config and rebooted.
At the screen to create a save, I only got the option to create a save file on a partition, to the multi-session, or no save.
Looks like the possibility to save to a whole partition isn't there anymore.
Maybe Barry did change this.

Don't know if this is applicable to your situation but saving to a partition is only available if using a Linux filesystem.....ext2,3 or 4.
Read here......

http://www.bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01535

[pemasu]

You dont get option to save to the partition if you boot Puppy from the subfolder.

Frugal: saving session to entire partition
When Puppy is installed to hard drive in what we call "frugal" mode, we have the choice of saving the session to either a file or to the entire partition. The same thing holds for Puppy installed on a USB stick.

However, to save to the entire partition, it must be a Linux filesystem. It can't be done on a fat or ntfs partition.

Of course, saving session to a file has it's advantages, such as you can have lots of them and they are easy to backup. But, they do have a size limitation, I think of about 4GB although I have never tested that.

Saving to the entire partition is a kind of quasi-full-Linux-installation. You are using the entire partition to save your session, so you have available all the free space of that partition.

I have been testing this. Previously there was a problem with mounting SFS files when the session is saved to the entire partition, but recent puppies have a special patched Aufs that allows this. My test installation has various SFS files, including OpenOffice and it is working nicely.

See my earlier blog post on this patched Aufs:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01535

However, I have had to fix a couple of scripts. You cannot save the session to entire partition if Puppy is installed in a subdirectory. So, I have modified the Puppy Universal Installer to warn of this -- if it sees that you are installing to a Linux partition it warns not to install into a subdirectory if you intend or think you might want to save the session to the entire partition.

Also, when Puppy is booted for the first time and then shutdown, the rc.shutdown script checks to see if Puppy is installed in a subdirectory. If so, will not offer to save session to the entire partition (but does put up an explanation why not), only to a file.

Also it needs sfs-allow-as-branch.patch to be applied and I think that has been done. Well, I can always check that from patched source that it is really applied.

EDIT. Kernel source is patched with that needed patch.

[pemasu]

Linux Multimedia Studio 0.4.10 added to the Qt4 saga.
I noticed that after installing my compiled latest Qt4 (which installs qt libs to the /opt/qt4/lib) you need to remove existing qt4 libs also to get Lmms working.
in console: #rm /usr/lib/libQt*
My compiled set is anyway little larger.
Well, if you need them back, I can provide a pet for those older Qt libs.
I have uploaded Lmms-0.4.10 to the ftp site under Pets.
Maybe later I will make sfs of it, if it works.

You might need to install some audio libs from the ubuntu repos. I used audio lib devs from there and some audio libs was needed also when compiling.
If lmms does not start from the menu, launch it from the console and check the errors. I will reupload the lmms with needed libs. My compile distro is now quite packages up with different stuff so apps surely run in my environment.

[pemasu]

Oh, I added also that precompiled (no source available) QtWeb_browser-3.7.2.pet to the ftp site.