(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Here is my summary of plus and minus points for the Gecko:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01394

I will be posting a comment to that blog report, as pakt has been able to get Linux to power-off. So negative point number 2 can likely be scratched soon.

pskin, the module you had loaded on your puplet for the Edubook is not available on BarryK's unofficial 432 release. Can you make it available here?

LoneRifle,
The source can be downloaded here (RT3070USB v.2.2.1.0)
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

Several forum members have installed this module from source for puppy kernel 2.6.30.5
and for other versions of kernel 2.6.30, by following the instructions here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1285828

Better still, I noticed that forum member Tempestuous has compiled the module
for puppy kernel 2.6.30.5 and uploaded it here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 09&t=47267
(I have not tested this, but this is the easiest way if it works for you.)

-pskin

Michael sent this latest video driver for the Edubook (April 19, 2010 version).

raffy wrote:Michael sent this latest video driver for the Edubook (April 19, 2010 version).

Good news Raffy!

I wonder what kernel it's compiled for. Any clues?

EDIT: I meant what version of Xorg is it compiled for

An update in the form of an xdelta3 patch for pup-431-edubook.iso
has been posted (thanks to ttuuxxx) at:

http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/NorhTec ... update.tgz

The update includes several improvements (rdc X driver, proper
shutdown, ...)

Details and discussion continued on the Surfboard thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 6&start=30

-pskin

I finally found time to try the updated 431 for the Gecko; sorry, I could not get it to boot into X at all. After hours of frustration I thought it couldn't hurt to try 5.2, and halleluiah! Sound! And of course X-windows. Sound, wi-fi, and shutdown have been the major headaches with this machine in Linux in general and specifically in Puppy. I believe pskin had to apply a kernel patch for audio in 431-edubook; in 5.2 it works out-of-the-box!

Still no native driver for the wi-fi dongle. This has been the case for every single distro I've tried on it. I finally scrapped it and replaced it with an Edimax nano. Still no native driver but it works fine with NDIS wrapper.

Still no auto shutdown. Anyone care to try applying Barry's patches to 5.2? I believe his fix involved a BIOS update.

Minor bugs: neither Abiword nor Geany will even open. OK, 5.2 already has nicoedit; I changed /usr/local/bin/defaulttexteditor to nicoedit. I need a full wordprocessor, so far I like Textmaker (in PPM) better than Abiword anyway. Also, gnome-mplayer crashes when trying to play mp3s (don't try to play videos of any sort on the Gecko). Deadbeef stutters if you so much as look at the mouse or touchpad. Lxmusic plays flawlessly, but when opening a file from Rox-filer it doesn't update its playlist. Not a big problem, it supports drag-&-drop.

Was it worth the trouble? Dunno yet. The latest Seamonkey works with Hotmail, but CatDude's useragent switcher had that problem licked anyway. I think the main advantage will be access to the huge software repositories for Ubuntu Lucid.

As always, good luck to anyone who's running one of these Edubooks, you'll need it!

--Kevin

Barry K, in his blog, was asking about mplayer and the edubook.
With the latest Wary everything works out of the box, i.e. sound, geany, seamonkey etc with the exception of mplayer.
Rather than messing around I installed VLC or Xine and had no more problems - can play all mutimedia.
Puppy is the best Linux for this rather poor-powered gadget.....