Classic Pup 2.14X -- Updated 2 series

[01micko]

Um...yes raffy

And download accelerators - I've heard that this is the way to kill a server quickly.

Yep, I stand guilty.... but I thought there may have been a time out issue at gposil's server since my first attempt failed. I normally don't use Axel.

Cheers

[clarf]

Hi ttuuxxx, I made a welcome page in PDF format, if you remember in a previous post (page 9) I listed some directories where we could recover some space, like the doc folders that you recently deleted and the examples videos. There is also a Acrobat.pdf file in /usr/share/examples/ps-pdf (47 KB) that we could replace with this welcome file, then with the same weight we still have a test .pdf file and a welcome page.

What do you thing about it ttuuxxx?.

Edit: Uploaded PDF file. I should update the information too, any idea is welcome.

[ttuuxxx]

Hi ttuuxxx, I made a welcome page in PDF format, if you remember in a previous post (page 9) I listed some directories where we could recover some space, like the doc folders that you recently deleted and the examples videos. There is also a Acrobat.pdf file in /usr/share/examples/ps-pdf (47 KB) that we could replace with this welcome file, then with the same weight we still have a test .pdf file and a welcome page.

What do you thing about it ttuuxxx?.

Sounds good to me
lets have it, I think you might just have to tar.gz it up so you can post it on here
ttuuxx

Ps I did like the "Call 911" lol

[ttuuxxx]

I've been thinking, maybe we should remove the jwmconfig files completely, really I just tried the functions and none of it actually works, I then tried the packages from series 2,3,4,5 <--Dpup, and nothing. What does it actually provide extra?
we have a gtk2 theme selector that works
a background selector/setter that works
a keyboard and mouse wizard that I haven't tried because I don't want to mess my keyboard up, lol
The only thing really is virtual desktops that can be manually set.
well what does everyone think? Should I remove something that doesn't work, and we already have things that do work anyways to replace those functions. Well most of them.

ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Hi Clarf try this one, I changed it all to something that works, lol
I still have a couple of icons to match up, but the layout will give you a idea.
ttuuxxx

moved the image below to save on overall height for small screens.

[clarf]

Hi ttuuxxx, It works fine.

Some minor issues with the "locale not supported by C library" changing Keyboard layout and the Desktop Drive settings, it actually doesn´t change drive icons in Desktop, I had to use Menu - Desktop - Desktop Mountpoint Settings.

Although the Save Session options present in Desktop Drive is very important (at least for me), but I don´t remember if this feature was fixed in 2.14R.

Does Puppy Event Manager is present in 2 series, does it works?.

P.D: I´m glad that you get ride of that ugly example image used in the old GTK Theme selector.

[OlddogNewtricks]

I personally have never liked the dillo welcome popup. I would much rather see a 'Help' icon on the desktop pointing to a text/pdf/file/folder/whatever in my-documents. The icon is easily removed when experience is gained while the help file(s) remain handy for reference if needed.

[mawebb88]

Hi ttuuxx

I think we discussed this back in x1 but I still did not see it in x4. Any chance as I need it to connect to my LANdisk as LinNeighborhood does not work for me?

Rgds Mike

[mawebb88]

Now have a interface using rt2860 but next problem is that when I try to configure this it reported that is does not support WPA whereas on Pup412 with the built in module WPA works fine!

That's just a matter of the Network Wizard needing to keep pace with new drivers as they're added to Puppy.
Eventually I may create a Network Wizard update to add all newly available drivers for the 2-series, but for now the fix is to open /usr/sbin/wag-profiles.sh in Geany, and at around line 101 you will see this line -

Code: Select all

bcm43xx|ipw2100|ipw2200|ipw3945|ath_pci|r8180|r8187|ndiswrapper|zd1211|zd1211b) PROFILE_WPA_DRV="wext" ;;

We need to define your driver by adding this: "rt28[67]0*|" (don't forget the separator) so it will look like this -

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bcm43xx|ipw2100|ipw2200|ipw3945|ath_pci|r8180|r8187|rt28[67]0*|ndiswrapper|zd1211|zd1211b) PROFILE_WPA_DRV="wext" ;;

Save. Reboot.

Many thanks tempestuous. Did that (BTW could i not just copy the wag-profiles.sh over from 412?). So it solved the problem with the WPA but unfortunately when I scan for networks none are found. Still trying to figure out why by manually trying ?
Rgds Mike

[mawebb88]

Unfortunately I had to pull the plug on my testing of 214X4 on my EeePC901 as it started to fry my Atom CPU! Fortunately I noticed no fan before any damage was done.

Rgds Mike

[raffy]

Huh, isn't the fan controlled by the BIOS? Unless, of course, some driver add-ons are made that try to control the fan.

@tempestuous:

Eventually I may create a Network Wizard update to add all newly available drivers for the 2-series

Yay to that.

[ttuuxxx]

Hi ttuuxxx, I made a welcome page in PDF format, if you remember in a previous post (page 9) I listed some directories where we could recover some space, like the doc folders that you recently deleted and the examples videos. There is also a Acrobat.pdf file in /usr/share/examples/ps-pdf (47 KB) that we could replace with this welcome file, then with the same weight we still have a test .pdf file and a welcome page.

What do you thing about it ttuuxxx?.

Edit: Uploaded PDF file. I should update the information too, any idea is welcome.

I tried it out and works fine for me, I'll include it for the next release
thanks for that I bit bigger than my "Call 911" but I guess its more helpful,
ttuuxxx

[sikpuppy]

Huh, isn't the fan controlled by the BIOS?

It is until the OS starts up (I presume anyway about the BIOS bit).

The Linux kernel has the drivers to control such things once it kicks in. It is usually contained in the ACPI module I believe.

Basically if the OS doesn't set up ACPI properly for your netbook, then the fan might work all the time, none of the time, some of the time

If the BIOS does indeed control the fan, then setting ACPI=OFF might work, but it also might stop any suspend or hibernate feature.

ACPI= Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_C ... _Interface

[tubby]

Morning all, i have now managed to get a full install running well enough to write this.
Firstly there is a problem with installing to hard drive, as reported in earlier releases grub writes a blank menu.lst to the boot partition if you have multiple partitions.
To boot from grub i had to make a boot folder in the partition i installed to and add vmlinux.
This saves editing the original grub, if you want to you can edit grub to point to the pup214r folder that is created by install.
As reported the errors are still showing in xerrs.log, as this is a live report and grows in length the longer you use the distro i am wondering if it is the reason other things are not functioning?, ie keymap/locale, in a loop maybe?.

[ttuuxxx]

hi the eeepc fan controls are located at the bottom of this page
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 232#316232
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Morning all, i have now managed to get a full install running well enough to write this.
Firstly there is a problem with installing to hard drive, as reported in earlier releases grub writes a blank menu.lst to the boot partition if you have multiple partitions.
To boot from grub i had to make a boot folder in the partition i installed to and add vmlinux.
This saves editing the original grub, if you want to you can edit grub to point to the pup214r folder that is created by install.
As reported the errors are still showing in xerrs.log, as this is a live report and grows in length the longer you use the distro i am wondering if it is the reason other things are not functioning?, ie keymap/locale, in a loop maybe?.

Hi tubby could it be possible for you to try this grub, its the one from 4 series and I added the config script, basically just install the pet, refresh the menus and then give it a try.
Thanks for your help
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

I don't use a mail client, never really ever did either, I just login to my gmail,yahoo,hotmail accounts and use them when I like. So I'm no expert by far on them, But a few years back Simple Mail came out as a FF extension, it was ok but it was lacking in some features, I just tried the latest version, which is really nice and small and its had a lot of improvements, I was wondering if there were any regular Seamonkey mail users out there who might want to compare it?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... rsion-2.74
I wasn't going to add a email client but being so small and if its any good, I'll add it
ttuuxxx

[tubby]

ttuuxxx, i have used the posted grub installer and it appears to have worked, it did not create a puppy214 folder just a pointer to Linux on hda2 where i have installed this distro.
Bearing in mind i had already created a boot folder and copied vmlinux over also copied pup_214r.sfs over.
After F1 has finished i will do a fresh install and then try it again.

[ttuuxxx]

Well I hope that works, sounds promising, and thanks once again for trying it, I don't have any spare hard drives to test it on and the ones I have a lot of files that I wouldn't want to mess up, well over 200GB worth.
Thanks
ttuuxxx

[tubby]

Ok i have now reinstalled and installed the grub pet, grub installed ok and distro booted ok.
As the universal installer makes you install or update an existing grub i had to go through the motions of installing grub to hda1 (my boot partition) and then delete it before installing the new grub pet.
Reinstalled grub and all was ok, the difference noticed was no puppy214r folder in the grub folder on hda1.

Here is the new working menu.lst as generated.

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Sun Jun 21 15:00:34 2009
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/hda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.5025'. You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.hda.5025 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
gfxmenu /boot/grub/deep_stage1
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/hda1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/hda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
root (hd0,0)
setup (fd0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/hda1)
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0,0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title - For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title - For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)