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Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 08:12
by pemasu
Quick post from work. Puppy installer is sensitive of right type of extlinux, syslinux etc.., disktype and probably gparted also. It will need profound testing to get it recognizing the partitions right.
I have faced that problem in Snow Puppy/Ice Puppy development.
At this stage. Dont use Puppy installer if you have ext4 partition. Use manual installing or other tools.
Getting PUI working is not my top priority. I would like to update gparted first.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 08:13
by Béèm
pemasu,
Thanks for the explanation.
I understand now better this thread's title.
And what's going on.
The annoying thing is, that I can't combine the radeon driver with the Belgian keyboard. Same issue as in 4.99.2
I don't know enough about graphics drivers to evaluate the differences between the radeon and the vesa one.
But I can work as it is with the vesa one.
And if this is a one shot, no need to look into it, unless it interests you.
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# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Puppy Squeeze, version 5.0.0
Chip description:
oem: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500
Driver used by Xorg:
vesa
Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"
...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 10:43
by Ray MK
Hi pemasu
Luvly Puppy - works well on my 9/10yr old Acer TravelMate 243LC.
Celeron 2.5Ghz proc. 256mb ram. 800ish mb swap partition.
Manual frugal to ext3.
booting via grub4dos. wifi via pcmcia Belkin card.
A small suggestion.
Adding grub4dos to the ISO would make it very easy for n00bs
to install to any media,
without having to re-size or create partitions on a first encounter with Puppy.
It seems to be reliable and a very easy way to setup booting from a
USB stick or an SDcard,
plus it eliminates the need for a n00b to worry about partitions and Gparted,
at least until a better understanding is acquired.
Alternatively, maybe a link to and a guide for grub4dos in the help page?
Anyway, a super Puppy - many thanks and much appreciation.
Very best regards - Ray
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 12:27
by peebee
Hi pemasu (& iguleder)
Frugal install on my HP 550 laptop.
Love having Frisbee as the network manager - works great on this laptop.
Also congrats on FlSynclient working ATB to configure my synaptics touchpad
Seem to have a problem with PNethood - doesn't find my samba shares - and setting the scan time does not seem to make the scan any longer??
No grub4dos installed??
Clicking on the loudspeaker just mutes sound - can't change sound levels without going into mixer? (Sound is working BTW).
Looking really good....
Thanks for all your hard work and outstanding innovations.
Cheers
peebee
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 12:29
by pemasu
Thank you all of the feedback.
Beem. I cant say anything wise atm. But I wont forget your problem. Sometimes the problems have habit to find solution.
About included applications. I have got requests of xcompmgr, grub4dos, sfs load on the fly. Dave S would probably benefit that drivers and firmware tarballs are inside the main sfs. I will collect other wishes also.
Above suggestions are good and I will gladly include them to next version.
So far I will stick with Iguleders choice of sound tray application. But I noticed that lack of volume slider also. Iguleder reads this thread also, I think. He will notice that volume slider missing problem. I believe it is the default outlook of this application. I mean that you have to open the application before you get settings in hand.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 13:56
by pemasu
Puppy Universal Installer, called now as PUI. I have struggled with it before.
I got it recognizing my ext3-ext4 partitions right by changing diskype binary.
Typically Puppies are built with woof using syslinux package from pet and disktype from the base distro.
Well. It does not always work with PUI.
First test. Change disktype binary to the one which has worked before with my builds. Done. I got better results.
Lets test does PUI work now better.
If not. Then next thing is to face syslinux package and that is tricky one.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 14:15
by pemasu
Beem. Interesting thing that you dont have whole xorg.conf section:
I have and I changed into be keyboard. Difficult to write with azerty keyboard.
Anyway. Try to manually add this section:
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "be" #xkeymap0
EndSection
And the whole xorg.conf. Remove phony .gz
How do I get finnish keyboard at first boot. I have
pkeys=fi boot parameter in every frugal puppy install.
I have it in kernel row in menu.lst.
So far fatdog64 has been the only puppy which refuses to boot with that parameter. Rasistic puppy. Lol.
How about
pkeys=be boot parameter.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 14:55
by pemasu
Iguleder et al.
Latest woof atm does not include this hack which calls pngoverlay from /usr/sbin/delayedrun after X is started.
I picked this lacking piece of script from drake-puppy.
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#110727 temporary hack (i hope)...
#/usr/sbin/icon_switcher_cli is called from /etc/rc.d/rc.update, uses 'pngoverlay' to create overlay desktop icons.
#however, pngoverlay requires X to be running. so, do that part here...
if [ -f /usr/sbin/pngoverlay -a -e /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/closebox_outline48.png ];then #overlay app created by vovchik (see source /usr/sbin/pngoverlay.bac)
rm -f /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/*_mntd*.png 2>/dev/null
cd /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps
cp -f /usr/sbin/pngoverlay /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/ #dumb, but needs to be in same folder.
for ONEDRV in card drive floppy optical usbdrv
do
./pngoverlay ${ONEDRV}48.png closebox_outline48.png ${ONEDRV}_mntd48.png #background foreground output.
./pngoverlay ${ONEDRV}48.png locked_outline48.png ${ONEDRV}_mntd_boot48.png
done
rm -f /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/pngoverlay
cd /root
fi
And the whole delayedrun script is here. Remove the phony .gz
I suppose this is the needed piece to get pngoverlay to show mounted drive icons after first boot without extra hassling with change drive icons switcher.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 15:22
by pemasu
Yep. I did quick edit sfs build of main sfs and that missing code fixed the mounted drive icon not pngoverlaid. It works now !!!
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 15:56
by pemasu
Uploading now the quickly rebuild of 5.0.0 beta version. I used edit sfs, not remastering since I dont trust to remasterpup or remasterpup2 enough.
New version is 5.0.0.2. I hope I dont step in Iguleders shoes. I need to think about renamings soon.
I upload it first to the same folder as 5.0.0. I fix the location later.
Anyway the rebuild has pngoverlay fix, disktype binary fix, sfs load on the fly, edit sfs, grub4dos and xcompmgr.
I will create proper woof build with kernel modules and firmware soon.
I will go now to roller skating. I leave this to upload and check permissions when I come back.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 16:41
by Jim1911
Frugal installation on ext4 partition looks great including installation of latest NVIDIA driver, however, I'll wait for new download before testing more.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 17:35
by pemasu
Allright. Upload finished. Permissions checked. This version only has fixes for those bugs so far found. Pngoverlay should work now straight.
Disktype binary for proper PUI handling changed, seamonkey default handling improved including symlink for moz-scripts. Nouveau and fbdev removed so Nvidia should install straight.
Sfs load on the fly, edit sfs, grub4dos and xcompmgr added. No gcompmgr included.
Still separate z....sfs. Sorry Dave S. For Beem only my above psychic support for be azerty, non real fixes.
Download link in the first page.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 19:28
by Béèm
Thank you pemasu.
I am preparing for a 5 day leave.
If I have time later, I'll look into the xorg.conf.
And yes, I forgot that there is a possibility to set the keyboard at boot.
Will adapt the kernel line.
Strange that it is only the 499.2 and 5.0.0 presenting this issue.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 19:50
by Ray MK
Hi pemasu
Just to let you know that all works extremely well on my new E732
Emachines laptop.
Fantastic stuff.
Now to try 5.0.0.2 - thanks again.
Very best regards - Ray
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 19:51
by Béèm
Béèm wrote:Thank you pemasu.
I am preparing for a 5 day leave.
If I have time later, I'll look into the xorg.conf.
And yes, I forgot that there is a possibility to set the keyboard at boot.
Will adapt the kernel line.
Strange that it is only the 499.2 and 5.0.0 presenting this issue.
OK I took some time.
Tried the radeon, radeonhd, ati ati and intel intel divers.
They all bring me to a qwerty keyboard.
The generated config is attached with a phony gz.
All sections of devices have disappeared.
So I am back in vesa.
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 20:19
by DaveS
BUM!
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 20:22
by pemasu
Dave S. Next build will have only main sfs without separate kernel modules and firmware z....sfs
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 20:35
by DaveS
pemasu wrote:Dave S. Next build will have only main sfs without separate kernel modules and firmware z....sfs
Cool........
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 21:12
by Jim1911
Hi pemasu,
Frugal installation is working great, and you have corrected some problems for Iguleder. Still a few concerns:
1. glx-gears is not present
2. Drive partitions are recognized and mounted properly, including ntfs, however gparted is the old version 0.7.0.
3. Uget 1.8.0 does not download files, it just stalls, see attached.
4. The latest NVIDIA-Linux-x86-280.13 driver which installed fine in your last version will not install in 5.0.0.2, and gives the same error that you corrected earlier by recompiling the kernel. Because of this error reintroduction, the Current Operating System: Linux puppypc 2.6.39 #1 SMP Fri Jul 15 19:38:53 GMT-8 2011 i686 may not be your latest kernel version.
Cheers,
Jim
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2011, 21:33
by pemasu
Jim1911. Install mesa-tools from the repo and you get glxgears and glxinfo. I think I posted about it earlier.
Uget. I havent used it before. It is Iguleders compile. Maybe I am missing some libs, I need to check. My lucid puppy uget needed libcurl-gnutls which is not included. I need to ldd uget to get more info. Good pick. Thanks.
About kernel. That is weird. The kernel is definitively the same. I dont know what caused the failure. You could try in /usr/src/linux folder run in console: make clean and make prepare .
Anyway. I will soon. Probably tomorrow make next woof build.