Puppy 4.2 smp

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aragon · #61 Post by **aragon** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 09:25

@Dave

i'll update main post with your tip on cups.

Odd problem this one, menu>desktop, set global font size does not load. Can someone test this to see if it is my system or a bug please?

will test and report back.

aragon

#62 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 09:36

Aragon,
As you are 'playing' with the kernel, would it be feasible to use the 2.6.29.1 one?

This one, as far as I see, is the only one which supports my Medion MD8818 desktop with the two sata HDD's and I would like to use puppy on my desktop.

If not feasible, no hard feelings.
I'll still follow the project.

aragon · #63 Post by **aragon** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 10:21

Hi Béèm,

yes i wanted to, but the problem is the method of playing: atm it's simply trial and error

but i do want to learn, as compiling a kernel seems to be that 'great linux adventure'

i will keep you up-to-date.

aragon

aragon · #64 Post by **aragon** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 10:50

@ Dave

Odd problem this one, menu>desktop, set global font size does not load. Can someone test this to see if it is my system or a bug please?

Tested this on 4.2-smp, worked for me, see image below. settings also work after x-restart.

aragon

DaveS · #65 Post by **DaveS** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 11:07

Thanks. Ran 'refresh Menus' and it was fine again............

#66 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 11:34

aragon wrote:Hi Béèm,

yes i wanted to, but the problem is the method of playing: atm it's simply trial and error

but i do want to learn, as compiling a kernel seems to be that 'great linux adventure'

i will keep you up-to-date.

aragon

Fair enough.

DC · #67 Post by DC » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 19:56

Excellent aragon
The new kernel source sfs works for the vmware workstation install.
I also used the default devx_420.sfs.

Other software installed and working (not requiring the sfs's).
jwm-456-i386.pet - latest jwm fixes
flash-10.0.15.pet - gives browsers full screen youtube, bbc iplayer etc.
qt-3.3.8.pet - required for latest Opera
Opera-10.00-4268.gcc4shared-qt3.i386 - latest Opera alpha - stable
acpitool-0.5.pet - Needed for suspend mode on laptop

Tip for acpitool suspend
I monitor my lid switch with a script called from Conky. Saves worring about cron jobs as conky has time calls built in.

Tip for hard drive temperature monitoring try
hddtemp-0.3-beta15.tar
I also call this from conky to display the hdd temperature.

thanks again aragon and to all the pet people

DC

DaveS · #68 Post by **DaveS** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 20:00

thunderbird.sfs problem free

DC · #69 Post by DC » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 21:29

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aragon · #70 Post by **aragon** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 22:23

@ DC:

nice it works

@ Dave: You like the bigger packages, don't you?

aragon

DaveS · #71 Post by **DaveS** » Tue 21 Apr 2009, 06:55

aragon wrote:
@ Dave: You like the bigger packages, don't you?

aragon

LOL................ hell I HATE bloat. Truth is, at any given time I have three or more Puppies on my hard drive, usually a really interesting one, like SMP, one to experiment with, like 4.2, and a dead stable (in the solid sense) one for my actual work, currently 4.1.1 This makes things like email tricky because I have up to now been accessing via three different installations, so having email in three places, all different. Playing with the Thunderbird package showed me that I can move /root/.mozilla to mnt home, and symlink it back in each of the distros, thus leaving the core email data (and browser configs) in one place only. That way, it is accessible and updateable from all installed distros. This eliminates the need to continue with the Thunderbird .sfs, which also solved the problem nicely, except for one thing, browser updates. I need to figure that out next

Sadly, I am stuck with Open Office/Java as I needed to write an accounts package for my business, and only the power of Base can so far do that for me reasonably simply in Linux.
Bigger Packages? Stuff 'em!

aragon · #72 Post by **aragon** » Tue 21 Apr 2009, 09:29

@ Dave
Because of that, i formerly used imap (well yes, 3 x same mails on different installs/distros

), nowadays only webmail (but only private).

The workaround with /mnt/home is very nice!

Big Packages:
- ATM i'm only using Picasa on the 'shared' notebook, so my wife is using picasa in XP and me in Puppy. The 'dual-use' works very nice, as picasa saves the database central, but the picture-data with the pictures.
- Sometimes i'm using Google Maps or Marble as sfs, but i've to rebuild these ones.

aragon

aragon · #73 Post by **aragon** » Tue 21 Apr 2009, 09:41

@ DC

looks a little like Ken an Barbie in Space....

but the trailer on imdb looks like it was very well done for it's time.

aragon

davids45 · #74 Post by **davids45** » Wed 22 Apr 2009, 00:38

G'day Dave S,

The Thunderbird facility you mentioned to link to a common single mail directory from many Pups is also available in Seamonkey mail.
I have an XP installation as well as about twenty Pups (frugals and fulls) spread across two hard-drives. No matter which OS I boot up with, I access and store all my emails in the one directory via Seamonkey. Thunderbird can also use this same common directory when I have installed it in either Pup or Windows.

Your Address Book should also work this way via sym-links and modifying the about:config equivalent.

I do have to auto-mount in each Pup the partition that has the Mail directory otherwise I get a blank mail and address book windows (the sym-link fails, of course, if the directory is not mounted).

And 4.2 smp is a most excellent Pup, as full and frugal, by the way.

David S.
(no relation)

DaveS · #75 Post by **DaveS** » Wed 22 Apr 2009, 06:33

davids45 wrote:G'day Dave S,

The Thunderbird facility you mentioned to link to a common single mail directory from many Pups is also available in Seamonkey (the sym-link fails, of course, if the directory is not mounted).

And 4.2 smp is a most excellent Pup, as full and frugal, by the way.

David S.
(no relation)

For sure. I moved the entire .mozilla directory to sda3 and symlinked it back, which provides all email and browser configs/info to all distros. Now that I have dynamic PPD printing, CUPs 1.3.9, courtesy of rcrsn51 from here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 555#297555 smp is indeed a most excellent distro

aragon · #76 Post by **aragon** » Mon 27 Apr 2009, 06:31

Guys,

please have a look at
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 358#299358

for a new test-version, this time with 2.6.29.1-kernel.

aragon

DaveS · #77 Post by **DaveS** » Fri 01 May 2009, 23:33

Oh man, is Pmusic smoother on smp or what? No drop outs, and no discernible system impact. In 4.2 I have to disable the progress bar to get any kind of smooth delivery. Not so in smp. Terrific.

maggotspawn · #78 Post by **maggotspawn** » Sat 30 May 2009, 16:42

Using the first test version, looks good so far. Wouldn't boot off the CD, couldn't find pup_420.sfs, md5 checked out O.K. Ended up doing a frugal install and now it works.

DaveS · #79 Post by **DaveS** » Sat 30 May 2009, 16:52

maggotspawn wrote:Using the first test version, looks good so far. Wouldn't boot off the CD, couldn't find pup_420.sfs, md5 checked out O.K. Ended up doing a frugal install and now it works.

maggotspawn, whatever you do, make sure you disable the 'nosmp' command in your boot manager, or you will only end up with one core working.

maggotspawn · #80 Post by **maggotspawn** » Sat 30 May 2009, 17:45

DaveS wrote: maggotspawn, whatever you do, make sure you disable the 'nosmp' command in your boot manager, or you will only end up with one core working.

I installed manually and htop shows 4 cores, so I think all is well.

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