Dpup Exprimo 5.X.3.1.10.3 SMP multicore optimized version

[pemasu]

Shinobar. Console fonts is as broken in Precise Pangolin. When I do exit to console state or at shutdown the console fonts are strange there also. Just like recent woof Dpups. So...it is Puppy pecualirity atm with all these internationalization changes.

[Eathray]

Earthray. I dont have Blender in my exprimo repo. But I used Ppack manager from menu > setup > setup puppy and I did choose the newer Blender version from Lucid repo and let the installer install it. And then launched it in console. Got error which showed that I will need xorg-high. I installed xorg-high-0.0.1.sfs and then I did run xorgwizard and I did chose my graphics driver again. Then I booted back to X and Lucid Blender launched. I had devx sfs loaded which has Python. But I dont know if Blender needs it. I havent ever used it.

Xorg-high pet can be found from exprimo repo or you Sfs Apps Loader icon to install sfs version.

Thanks Pemasu.

I'll give it a whirl tonight or tomorrow... for my kiddo, he likes Blender. I guess I meant the Exprimo page on the Smokey site is where I got it.

Eathray

[pemasu]

Earthray. I apologize. I do have Blender-2.6.1.sfs in exprimo repo. I checked the pet only. I believe I have tested the workability of that sfs. So just install xorg-high and rerun xorgwizard and if it needs more install that also. As I posted....I had devx sfs installed when I did test it.

[eztuxer]

Testing eXprimo on Esprimo Fujitsu Siemens @ 3 GHz with 4 GB ram.

Nice pup pemasu, as usual.
K 3.2.13 handles my wifi hardware well with RT 2800 usb driver.
Love the package manager.
Appreciate the latest firefox 11 and transmission.
I'll keep you posted as I install more pets.

[turbo]

pemasu it works ok now, I just didn't have the disk mounted, no auto-mount with exprimo for dvds, which is a good idea. Once I hit the Pmount thing and selected Optical, the movie disk played fine.
One other minor thing, and I admit I haven't read all 63 pages of this thread yet-clock doesn't synchronize in 10.2 , nor did it in the previous version for me. I have set the clock and set it again, but every time I boot it comes up with something different. Nothing seems to register when I click on the 'autostart' button to have it synch automatically.
Nice wallpaper in the new version also, didn't think I would like it but tis pleasing to the eyes.

[jakfish]

Hi, pemasu,

I’m trying out some acpi and acpid modifications and wonder if you had advice about:


1) Volume control buttons on the Lenovo S10-3t, which are on the lower right-hand of the keyboard. It’s a package of 6 keys, activated by the fn key. Up and Down Brightness work, Home and End work, but Up and Down Volume do not. I disabled xbindkeys, but no joy.

I went back to a working Fluppy and found that the Volume keys do work there, with the fn key. In fact, when used, they bring up a green volume scale across the screen.

Any advice to replicate their use here? /etc/acpi/keys is the same in fluppy and dpup

EDIT: SOLVED: in this dpup, in /usr/local/bin, what's missing are files volup, voldown. volmute. Xbindkeys is actually programed/key-ed for those files, but can't bring them up b/c they're not there. When I borrowed them from Fluppy 013, and put them in the directory, volume keys work fine.


2) Suspend problem. It’ll suspend fine, but often won’t return. The wifi comes back, the fan works, but the screen remains dark, the keyboard unresponsive (after the first key touch tries to resume the machine) and you have to crash dpup and reboot. I have the same problem with Fluppy, so it’s not a dpup issue.

Even in console, using “acpitool –s

[eztuxer]

Lost mouse control after installing vlc.

[pemasu]

eztuxer. It would help to know which vlc did you install. Name of the vlc package pet or sfs...from pet_packages-exprimo or...

[pemasu]

jakfish. Thank of those missing volume files. I will add them.

About suspend hanging when waking up. Tough problem. I have had that with certain kernels. But after 2.6.35.7 I have been lucky. I dont know what might cure it.
Have you tried the suspend with: "echo -n mem > /sys/power/state"

[jakfish]

A follow-up on a line of code in the vol scripts:

osd_cat -d 2 -l 2 -p top -c green -f 'DejaVu Sans 30' -T "Volume " -b percentage -P $percent -O 3 &

Running this in console gave me a "font not found" error. Once I deleted the -f 'DejaVu Sans 30' section, it runs. But the default font is quite small.

Is there another default font in dpup-exprimo?

Thanks for the "echo -n mem > /sys/power/state" It suspends, but like the other commands, after coming back successfully once, the machine will crash on a second suspend

This acpid stuff is always so tricky.

Jake

[eztuxer]

I installed the vlc full pet from the package manager.
I did install and ran musescore first from PM it worked fine.
When vlc refused to work after install, I thought it might need rebooting, then the mouse pointer was frozen.

[pemasu]

I think I should remove those qt4 libs included standalone vlc versions from the repo.

To do it as working combination. Install first qt4 libs from http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/QT-4.8.0-dpup/libs/
and then from the /apps the vlc only version, there is 1.1.2 and 2.0 versions available. 2.0 version needs xorg-high also and running xorgwizard after installing xorg-high might be needed.

Now you have setup which accepts those other qt apps from http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/QT-4.8.0-dpup/apps also.

Those qt4 included vlc versions are before I created qt4-4.8.0 libs. There are several versions. I suppose the basic qt-4.8.0 is ok for vlc.

Edit. I have now removed those other vlc packages, they would have installed conflicting qt4 libs if you have installed the qt4-4.8.0-dpup some version.

I have uploaded the updated Packages-puppy-exprimo-official file.

wxHexeditor, Wireshark, all wacom tablet drivers for all kernel versions have been uploaded.

[jemimah]

A follow-up on a line of code in the vol scripts:

osd_cat -d 2 -l 2 -p top -c green -f 'DejaVu Sans 30' -T "Volume " -b percentage -P $percent -O 3 &

Running this in console gave me a "font not found" error. Once I deleted the -f 'DejaVu Sans 30' section, it runs. But the default font is quite small.

Is there another default font in dpup-exprimo?

Thanks for the "echo -n mem > /sys/power/state" It suspends, but like the other commands, after coming back successfully once, the machine will crash on a second suspend

This acpid stuff is always so tricky.

Jake

xosd is patched in fluppy to support xft fonts.

[jemimah]

[quote="jakfish"]Hi, pemasu,

I’m trying out some acpi and acpid modifications and wonder if you had advice about:


1) Volume control buttons on the Lenovo S10-3t, which are on the lower right-hand of the keyboard. It’s a package of 6 keys, activated by the fn key. Up and Down Brightness work, Home and End work, but Up and Down Volume do not. I disabled xbindkeys, but no joy.

I went back to a working Fluppy and found that the Volume keys do work there, with the fn key. In fact, when used, they bring up a green volume scale across the screen.

Any advice to replicate their use here? /etc/acpi/keys is the same in fluppy and dpup

EDIT: SOLVED: in this dpup, in /usr/local/bin, what's missing are files volup, voldown. volmute. Xbindkeys is actually programed/key-ed for those files, but can't bring them up b/c they're not there. When I borrowed them from Fluppy 013, and put them in the directory, volume keys work fine.


2) Suspend problem. It’ll suspend fine, but often won’t return. The wifi comes back, the fan works, but the screen remains dark, the keyboard unresponsive (after the first key touch tries to resume the machine) and you have to crash dpup and reboot. I have the same problem with Fluppy, so it’s not a dpup issue.

Even in console, using “acpitool –s

[pemasu]

Thank you million-billion and thousands roses .... for jemimah.

Here is the patched xosd as pet and the vbetool for playing with vbetool command.

[jakfish]

Many thanks to both of you for such fast help. I installed the pets and tested.

Good news first: the patched xosd works perfectly, generating a huge, brilliant screen of volume control

Bad news: re: the vbetool. I'm still getting a no return from suspend/then crash the second time around. Certainly the first return from suspend is different. It does through a brief menu (that seems to be in xvesa, or it comes up xvesa on my screen which is xorg), and wifi, etc comes back.

The second time, it suspends, but the screen stays black, and I didn't feel the machine went through the checkpoints of the first return.

Again, thank you for all assistance,
Jake

EDIT: my suspend problem is worse than I thought: it's crashing the first time because I started letting it sit longer in suspend before trying to return it. Clearly, the longer it's suspended, the more difficult the return, which is very weird.

I'm running this on a frugal install, no swap, single FAT32 partition on 8GB USB stick.

[pemasu]

I got thank not waking from prolonged suspend also with the above fix pet. So....it is the waking up problem. If it wakes up...it executes those vbetool stuff. But...it seem above vbetool rows give even for me hiccup. Or then it as was that I did suspend and wake up too many times. But....I might use same pfix=ram boot many days with suspendig many times without problem.

I think that I remove that updated sleep.sh from above pet and let it install the vbetool only for those who want to play with it and try to find out working commands for it. If there are....

[jemimah]

The vbetool stuff should not be run unless you have suspend/resume problems. It can mess stuff up.

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vbetool dpms on

after suspending might be enough to fix it, if all thats wrong is that the backlight doesn't turn on.

[jakfish]

pfix=ram

Does that have anything to do with effecting a proper suspend? Because I don't use that command.

Jake

[pemasu]

Here is for test the improved petget stuff. For pet installations...it warns if existing files will be overwritten...if there is already installed pet providing same files....and when using PPM it checks the missing dependencies and asks you if you want to install those dependencies. This happens when you choose the install only choice. And the pet has in pet.specs file those dependencies included.

This pet is Shinobar`s petget patched by Jemimah and I did include also the updated pkg_chooser.sh from latest woof with fixed first field database information. It adds the Ziggy UI functionality, but I am not sure if it brakes the fixed sda card boot installed pet found functionality.

It can be that I have to revert to Shinobar`s pkg_chooser.sh.

But if someone with sda card booting need could test that.