Unnamed puplet 1.1 (puppy411 kernel-2.6.28.5 Xorg-7.4 LXDE)
I currently run Ultrapup 1.1 in Virtualbox in Windows XP.
It is booted from an iso-image, that was assigned as CD drive.
The harddisk image was partitioned with gparted:
sda1: ext3
sda2: swap
At startup (from the "CD"), the swap is recognized and used.
I can switch it off/on with:
swapoff /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
This becomes visible in conky 2 seconds later.
Just pmount does not list it.
I would be curious, if your swap is located on a USB-drive?
Maybe the required module like ehci_hcd was not loaded in initrd.gz or rc.sysinit?
Mark
It is booted from an iso-image, that was assigned as CD drive.
The harddisk image was partitioned with gparted:
sda1: ext3
sda2: swap
At startup (from the "CD"), the swap is recognized and used.
I can switch it off/on with:
swapoff /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
This becomes visible in conky 2 seconds later.
Just pmount does not list it.
I would be curious, if your swap is located on a USB-drive?
Maybe the required module like ehci_hcd was not loaded in initrd.gz or rc.sysinit?
Mark
I don't know how far this concerns Ultrapup.
In NYP I use in .xinitrc:
setxkbmap -layout `cat /etc/keymap | cut -f1 -d.`
Not:
XkbApplyNow
This does not work with british keyboards, as etc/keymap contains "uk.map".
But in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ you just have "gb".
Solution: create a symlink:
cd /etc/X11/xkb/symbols
ln -s gb uk
Mark
In NYP I use in .xinitrc:
setxkbmap -layout `cat /etc/keymap | cut -f1 -d.`
Not:
XkbApplyNow
This does not work with british keyboards, as etc/keymap contains "uk.map".
But in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ you just have "gb".
Solution: create a symlink:
cd /etc/X11/xkb/symbols
ln -s gb uk
Mark
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More info about the "swap file" bug.
@Mark: it also happens in newyearspup-MU-02-rc7 (kernel 2.6.28.5)
@techtype: I can't find your bug report, can you post a link to it?
It only happen when you try to load a "swap file" (not a linux swap partition) stored in a FAT partition. There is no problem with swap partitions and swap files in Ext partitions.
Examples:
1. The 'swapon' command get stuck trying to load the swap file
2. It even works if the swap file is inside an Ext2 file which is in a FAT partition.
@Mark: it also happens in newyearspup-MU-02-rc7 (kernel 2.6.28.5)
@techtype: I can't find your bug report, can you post a link to it?
It only happen when you try to load a "swap file" (not a linux swap partition) stored in a FAT partition. There is no problem with swap partitions and swap files in Ext partitions.
Examples:
1. The 'swapon' command get stuck trying to load the swap file
2. It even works if the swap file is inside an Ext2 file which is in a FAT partition.
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Bug: .conkyrc file is reset every time you start lxde.
Severity: Low
Description: /usr/bin/startlxde will create a fresh copy from /etc/conky/conky.conf to /root/.conkyrc every time you start X.
To solve it, open '/usr/bin/startlxde' with a text editor and replace:
Severity: Low
Description: /usr/bin/startlxde will create a fresh copy from /etc/conky/conky.conf to /root/.conkyrc every time you start X.
To solve it, open '/usr/bin/startlxde' with a text editor and replace:
- with:
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# Ensure the existance of conky config file cp /etc/conky/conky.conf "$HOME/.conkyrc"
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# Ensure the existance of conky config file if [ ! -f "$HOME/.conkyrc" ]; then cp /etc/conky/conky.conf "$HOME/.conkyrc" fi
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Bug: Keyboard layouts are not readed from the xorg.conf file.
Severity: Low
Description: I forgot to change a line in '/root/.xinitrc', to run the XkbApplyNow (XkbConfigManager) command every time X is started to read and apply keyboard settings from the xorg.conf file. Without this change you wont be able to use the "Keyboard layout switcher"(LXPanel plugin) properly.
Severity: Low
Description: I forgot to change a line in '/root/.xinitrc', to run the XkbApplyNow (XkbConfigManager) command every time X is started to read and apply keyboard settings from the xorg.conf file. Without this change you wont be able to use the "Keyboard layout switcher"(LXPanel plugin) properly.
- Replace:
with:
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#wow: (custom 4.11 puplet)fix keyboard layout (Xorg 7.4) setxkbmap -layout `cat /etc/keymap | cut -f1 -d.`
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#wow: (custom 4.11 puplet)fix keyboard layout (Xorg 7.4) XkbApplyNow
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bug:
drm.ko does not work, but drm.bak does:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 939#282939
Mark
drm.ko does not work, but drm.bak does:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 939#282939
Mark
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Oh, I see -- my report was that I could not load a swap partition. I did not realize you were focusing on a swapfile.wow wrote:More info about the "swap file" bug.
@techtype: I can't find your bug report, can you post a link to it?
It only happen when you try to load a "swap file" (not a linux swap partition) stored in a FAT partition. There is no problem with swap partitions and swap files in Ext partitions.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 914#277914
intel xvesa works; xorg goes black
xvesa works out of the box with my laptop's intel 4500 chipset. I've tried at least 10 other 4.x puppies, and they all go into an infinite loop hunting for a valid mode.
xorg displays the "If you can see this, X is working." but goes black on exit. I think this is fixed in 2.6.2.
xorg displays the "If you can see this, X is working." but goes black on exit. I think this is fixed in 2.6.2.
Puppy: Because I want speed!
Bug: SDL-1.2.13 without OpenGL support
Severity: Medium
Description: Plinej's sdl-1.2.13,pet package was compiled without OpenGL support, so you wont be able to play certain games such as FretsOnFire, GridWars, Titanion, Torus Trooper, etc.
This is the error message:
To fix it please install the pet package attached below.
Severity: Medium
Description: Plinej's sdl-1.2.13,pet package was compiled without OpenGL support, so you wont be able to play certain games such as FretsOnFire, GridWars, Titanion, Torus Trooper, etc.
This is the error message:
To fix it please install the pet package attached below.
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oh my . . .
Seems that I'll need to make a service pack or something like that. Perhaps another ISO.
@MU: thanks, I will fix it soon.
@techtype: Have you tried to reformat that swap patition? (gparted, or mkswap /dev/<device node>)
@sue: It worked in Puppy-3? try to replace your current /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with a working copy. They run these commands to switch to Xorg:
@MU: thanks, I will fix it soon.
@techtype: Have you tried to reformat that swap patition? (gparted, or mkswap /dev/<device node>)
@sue: It worked in Puppy-3? try to replace your current /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with a working copy. They run these commands to switch to Xorg:
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cp /usr/X11R7/bin/
rm X
cp -s Xorg X
xwin
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Re: oh my . . .
I was using frugal installs of several pups selected thru grub.wow wrote:Seems that I'll need to make a service pack or something like that. Perhaps another ISO.
@techtype: Have you tried to reformat that swap patition? (gparted, or mkswap /dev/<device node>)
All were able to use the same swap partition except yours. Nevertheless, I remade the swap partition using different tools, locations and sizes with the same result.
xvesa works; xorg fails
From Puppy 3 xorgwizard-errors.log:
FATAL: Module evdev not found.
Intel chipset detected. However, 915resolution was unable to determine the chipset type.
Chipset Id: 2a408086
The generated xorg.conf uses vesa. Rebooting to test under 1.1 with Driver "intel".
FATAL: Module evdev not found.
Intel chipset detected. However, 915resolution was unable to determine the chipset type.
Chipset Id: 2a408086
The generated xorg.conf uses vesa. Rebooting to test under 1.1 with Driver "intel".
Puppy: Because I want speed!
Old kernel are better??
wow...
Maybe it will help you to know that I've replace your kernel with the retro kernel 2.6.21 from BK retro puppy 4.12, and EVERYTHING works ok and very fast, including loading the swap file, I'm able to suspend my laptop with just 'echo -n mem > /sys/power/state', etc, etc.
(of course I use 4.12 vmlinuz and initrd.gz, everything else is from your puppy)
But I have one question... I think that I don't need two file managers, I think right now ROX is a better choice, so what files do I need to delete to get rid of pcmanfm??
Thank you,
Jorge
Maybe it will help you to know that I've replace your kernel with the retro kernel 2.6.21 from BK retro puppy 4.12, and EVERYTHING works ok and very fast, including loading the swap file, I'm able to suspend my laptop with just 'echo -n mem > /sys/power/state', etc, etc.
(of course I use 4.12 vmlinuz and initrd.gz, everything else is from your puppy)
But I have one question... I think that I don't need two file managers, I think right now ROX is a better choice, so what files do I need to delete to get rid of pcmanfm??
Thank you,
Jorge
Old kernel are better??
wow...
Maybe it will help you to know that I've replace your kernel with the retro kernel 2.6.21 from BK retro puppy 4.12, and EVERYTHING works ok and very fast, including loading the swap file, I'm able to suspend my laptop with just 'echo -n mem > /sys/power/state', etc, etc.
(of course I use 4.12 vmlinuz and initrd.gz, everything else is from your puppy)
But I have one question... I think that I don't need two file managers, I think right now ROX is a better choice, so what files do I need to delete to get rid of pcmanfm??
Thank you,
Jorge
Maybe it will help you to know that I've replace your kernel with the retro kernel 2.6.21 from BK retro puppy 4.12, and EVERYTHING works ok and very fast, including loading the swap file, I'm able to suspend my laptop with just 'echo -n mem > /sys/power/state', etc, etc.
(of course I use 4.12 vmlinuz and initrd.gz, everything else is from your puppy)
But I have one question... I think that I don't need two file managers, I think right now ROX is a better choice, so what files do I need to delete to get rid of pcmanfm??
Thank you,
Jorge
Really impressive! I'd no idea you could do so much with lxde. It is starting to become a new favourite for a windows manager. I'm left feeling inspired and a bit awed... the amount of time you've taken to do this must be phenomenal... it makes my humble efforts at Ripple... well... humble...lol.
Anyway, will be playing around with it on my eeepc tonight. 2 thoughts that could make it more fantastic:
1. The link to My Documents on the desktop should go to /root/my-documents, not /root. It's slightly less confusing, as the ordinary user (talking non technical now) won't get all the other folders in root, and unless they're clear what they are for probably shouldn't be playing around with them anyway. Under /root/my-documents you could have other more usual folders to find... pictures, videos, etc.
2. Make it easier to find packages. This could be working towards an eventual build from Barry's woof, if you wanted to go that far, or simple easy places to find more packages, without having to search the forums. This could even be a link in the system to a site where you can download what's listed on the forums. Even better would be eventual compatibility with another distro that already has large software repositories, but this might take more thought. I think you're on the right track, with this pupplet already becoming a favourtie. Probably more a question of what you could be bothered changing to make it easy for others, and how much you will just use this yourself. Anyway, keep up the great work, it's inspiring.
~dinky
Anyway, will be playing around with it on my eeepc tonight. 2 thoughts that could make it more fantastic:
1. The link to My Documents on the desktop should go to /root/my-documents, not /root. It's slightly less confusing, as the ordinary user (talking non technical now) won't get all the other folders in root, and unless they're clear what they are for probably shouldn't be playing around with them anyway. Under /root/my-documents you could have other more usual folders to find... pictures, videos, etc.
2. Make it easier to find packages. This could be working towards an eventual build from Barry's woof, if you wanted to go that far, or simple easy places to find more packages, without having to search the forums. This could even be a link in the system to a site where you can download what's listed on the forums. Even better would be eventual compatibility with another distro that already has large software repositories, but this might take more thought. I think you're on the right track, with this pupplet already becoming a favourtie. Probably more a question of what you could be bothered changing to make it easy for others, and how much you will just use this yourself. Anyway, keep up the great work, it's inspiring.
~dinky
Re: Old kernel are better??
@Jota
B.
I sometimes have trouble with the new kernels but retro works perfectly for me. Can you say exactly how you "replaced" the kernel. Is it as simple as just replacing the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files with those from retro puppy 4.12?Jota wrote:wow...
Maybe it will help you to know that I've replace your kernel with the retro kernel 2.6.21 from BK retro puppy 4.12, and EVERYTHING works ok and very fast, including loading the swap file, I'm able to suspend my laptop with just 'echo -n mem > /sys/power/state', etc, etc.
(of course I use 4.12 vmlinuz and initrd.gz, everything else is from your puppy)
B.
[i]Laptop[/i]: Acer Aspire 5810TZ
More feedback:
Haven't been able to get compiz-fusion working. Downloaded needed pet and sfs file... only manage to get a white screen. Tried various options... what needs to happen wow? I like the idea of the compiz icon appearing onto the desktop, but don't understand what else needs to happen. Your post on compiz-fusion says there are other dependencies needed, where do we get them from? Also seems like this recurring white screen is a bit of an issue... needs to be simple. Have you looked at tombh's script in ripple or wNOP? Something like that would make it easy for people. It's the compizwizard script in /usr/sbin (I think, there or thereabouts)
- mouse scroll doesn't work
- mouse pad tap doesn't work without hacking the xorg.conf. This has always irritated me in puppy... for Ripple I've been hacking the xorgwizard to set maxtaptime to 220 by default, not to 0.
- tested on the eeepc701, initial shutdown sometimes hangs before a save file is created. Needed to kill X, then type poweroff to get the prompt for the save file. Problem with this in Ripple to, needs a hack for the shutdown script, not sure what the problem is.
- conky doesn't show up on the eeepc701's screen, though I'm assuming it's running. I don't like conky much, so don't mind (much prefer Cairo Dock's hidden widgets, though that only will work with compositing. Surely that could be gotten going under the xcompmgr, though you may not like it)
Cheers.
~dinky
Haven't been able to get compiz-fusion working. Downloaded needed pet and sfs file... only manage to get a white screen. Tried various options... what needs to happen wow? I like the idea of the compiz icon appearing onto the desktop, but don't understand what else needs to happen. Your post on compiz-fusion says there are other dependencies needed, where do we get them from? Also seems like this recurring white screen is a bit of an issue... needs to be simple. Have you looked at tombh's script in ripple or wNOP? Something like that would make it easy for people. It's the compizwizard script in /usr/sbin (I think, there or thereabouts)
- mouse scroll doesn't work
- mouse pad tap doesn't work without hacking the xorg.conf. This has always irritated me in puppy... for Ripple I've been hacking the xorgwizard to set maxtaptime to 220 by default, not to 0.
- tested on the eeepc701, initial shutdown sometimes hangs before a save file is created. Needed to kill X, then type poweroff to get the prompt for the save file. Problem with this in Ripple to, needs a hack for the shutdown script, not sure what the problem is.
- conky doesn't show up on the eeepc701's screen, though I'm assuming it's running. I don't like conky much, so don't mind (much prefer Cairo Dock's hidden widgets, though that only will work with compositing. Surely that could be gotten going under the xcompmgr, though you may not like it)
Cheers.
~dinky
@Jota:
Ok, remove these files:Jota wrote:But I have one question... I think that I don't need two file managers, I think right now ROX is a better choice, so what files do I need to delete to get rid of pcmanfm??Or just disable "Manage Desktop" in PCManFM preferences, enable ROX's Pinboard in LXSessionEdit and restart X.Code: Select all
/usr/bin/pcmanfm /usr/share/applications/pcmanfm.desktop /usr/share/applications/pcmanfm-find.desktop /usr/share/applications/pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop /usr/share/pcmanfm/icons/file.png /usr/share/pcmanfm/icons/folder.png /usr/share/pcmanfm/mount.rules /usr/share/pixmaps/pcmanfm.png /usr/share/pcmanfm/ui/prefdlg.glade /usr/share/pcmanfm/ui/appchooserdlg.glade /usr/share/pcmanfm/ui/file_properties.glade /usr/share/pcmanfm/ui/about-dlg.glade /usr/share/pcmanfm/ui/find-files.glade
Run glxinfo to make sure that you have Hardware acceleration, type something like this in a terminal window:Haven't been able to get compiz-fusion workingI broke DRI in the ISO, please read this to fix it: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 939#282939Code: Select all
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
If you need more input drivers for X download this SFS:
[Xorg-7.4-video-input-apps-i686-wow-patched_411.sfs] (User: "puppy"; Password: "linux")
About mouse scroll, try to change mouse protocol in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
More info: http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.9.0/doc/html/mouse4.htmlOption "Protocol" "string"
Specify the mouse protocol. Valid protocol types include:
Auto, Microsoft, MouseSystems, MMSeries, Logitech, MouseMan, MMHitTab, GlidePoint, IntelliMouse, ThinkingMouse, ValuMouseScroll, AceCad, PS/2, ImPS/2, ExplorerPS/2, ThinkingMousePS/2, MouseManPlusPS/2, GlidePointPS/2, NetMousePS/2, NetScrollPS/2, BusMouse, SysMouse, WSMouse, USB, Xqueue.
MU has a workaround for this in his NYP, there's a dialog asking to create a pup_save file and reboot, before start X.initial shutdown sometimes hangs before a save file is created. Needed to kill X, then type poweroff to get the prompt for the save file
Yes, CairoDock works under xcompmgr. I like it, but I don't needed in the main sfs (pup_411.sfs) I prefer screenlets though...conky doesn't show up on the eeepc701's screen, though I'm assuming it's running. I don't like conky much, so don't mind (much prefer Cairo Dock's hidden widgets, though that only will work with compositing. Surely that could be gotten going under the xcompmgr, though you may not like it)
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Addon
SFS addon: The complete set of DRI drivers, MesaLib-7.3 and MesaGLUT-7.3
Download:
BUGFIX: enable DRI
delete:
/lib/modules/2.6.28.5/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
And rename
/lib/modules/2.6.28.5/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.bak
to
/lib/modules/2.6.28.5/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
Then restart X or better reboot.
Download:
- [Mesa-7.3-i686.sfs] [12.13 MB]
md5sum:Code: Select all
5b5943a20d23b745bc5b9ee028437676 Mesa-7.3-i686.sfs
BUGFIX: enable DRI
delete:
/lib/modules/2.6.28.5/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
And rename
/lib/modules/2.6.28.5/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.bak
to
/lib/modules/2.6.28.5/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
Then restart X or better reboot.
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VirtualBox kernel modules for linux-2.6.28.5
Install the .pet package attached below if you want to use my VirtuarBox SFS in this puplet.
Download VirtualBox-2.1.0.sfs [here] [browse]
ID: puppy
Password: linux
Install the .pet package attached below if you want to use my VirtuarBox SFS in this puplet.
Download VirtualBox-2.1.0.sfs [here] [browse]
ID: puppy
Password: linux
- Attachments
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- VirtualBox-2.1.0-k2.6.28.5.pet
- VirtualBox kernel modules for linux-2.6.28.5
- (79.63 KiB) Downloaded 702 times
Last edited by wow on Sun 24 Oct 2010, 17:06, edited 1 time in total.
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