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gposil · Posted: Thu 16 Jul 2009, 23:23 Post subject:

The md5sum was wrong Sit Heel Speak...shows you why it should be there...should be right now

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 580 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day,
Not being able to create a save file for the frugal dpup because of what seems like a universal installer problem (see earlier postings), I've copied into the dpup476 sub-directory a save file from the upup476 subdirectory, re-named it to dpup476save, and on re-booting to dpup, it sort of works. Need to go through the Xorg wizard but the keyboard and Guam setting are not recurring.
Copying the other save file brought some of the settings from the upup476 frugal. The boot-loadable sfs4 modules don't seem to have loaded in dpup**, but the network settings (wire and wireless) are up - I'm posting this from the dpup476 frugal.
Dual cores running OK.
Early days.
David S.

**because dpup uses sfs type 3.1!!! Now I'll have to re-install this frugal into my other frugal partition where they share 3.1 sfs files.

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

I did a manual frugal install which asked me to save session, also for loading sfs's you need to rename them to *_476.sfs that worked too, after first session save on reboot it fired up xorg wizard again though but not again after that.

gposil · Posted: Fri 17 Jul 2009, 09:19 Post subject:

Ok...dpup-476b will also move to sfs type 4 as well as other fixes...yes it's early days...but it'll be worth it. Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 17 Jul 2009, 09:29 Post subject:

By all means please ditch Pmusic and pcd, The latest Pburn has a Much improved GUI, and maybe use Bmp, Some might want aqualung with the trimmings, But I just like a simple good sounding player that most users won't have to read a manual to run Smile

Bmp would be my main choice, If you could find the first dpup release by tronkel, I had packaged/compiled gnome-Mplayer, and a few others. The Gnome-Mplayer played nice fullscreen etc in JWM.
ttuuxxx

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 580 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day gposil,

A little bit more from Lenny Woof land,

I've readily switched my frugal dpup476 with its upup476-derived save-file, into my frugal-filled sfs3.1-friendly partition.

My various 3.1 version sfs files loaded happily in during booting dpup (eg OO3, wine with Office97 and some other XP programs in the sfs, games, media players).

Still have to set up Xorg each time I start dpup and it still requires button-holding to shut off the computer on closing down.

Struggling with some media players (xine is missing a lib file that had not worried any previous frugal pup - libssh2.so.1?) but I got immediately good sound with my sfs mplayer in dpup.

Anyway, when you get around to uploading your next dpup, could you identify which version of sfs files will be required for frugal users?

<idle thought> Is there a need for a script or change in the boot manager to differentiate 3 and 4 type sfs files and appropriately mount both types or exclude the wrong type?

David S.

tubby · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 317

@davids45
Look in /tmp before shutting down and if you have a videomode file delete it and you should be able to shutdown through menu.

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 580 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day tubby,
Looking now in dpup's /tmp, I can't see a videomode.anything file.
A few xorg... files, pup_event..... files, and a few others.
David S.

tubby · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 317

If there is no video file, delete the whole of the tmp folder and then try shutting down via the menu.

Sit Heel Speak · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind

gposil · Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009, 23:51 Post subject: dpup-476b

dpup-476b is up here...http://www.gposil.com/test/woof-alpha9/dpup/dpup476b/dpup-476b-2.6.29.4.iso

Changes:

1.) Uses sfs 4 now
2.) kernel now 2.6.29.4
3.) Remaster script now works
4.) Shutdown and save now to seems to work(at least in my machines)
5.) Pmusic replaced by Bmp...works well
6.) New default wallpaper...still got to change default icons
7.) Pet Package Manager seems to work fine even with lenny repos, but still doesn't pick up all depends...but getting there...
8.) A few other small things I can't remember...

devx for 476b will be up in an hour or so...just check directory...http://www.gposil.com/test/woof-alpha9/dpup/dpup476b/

md5's are there too...

Happy testing...

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Tried a frugal installation of your latest dpup476b, however it hangs up loading kernel modules. I'll try a new download and report back.
EDIT: New download had same problem.

Looking forward to your gnome version.
Jim

gposil · Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009, 21:51 Post subject: Sorry All

The checksum on dpup-476b-2.6.29.4 was wrong...so re-uploading now.... Embarassed

Also uploading dpup-476b-2.6.27.4, as the earlier kernel works better on the full variety of pc's i've tested..

http://www.gposil.com/test/woof-alpha9/dpup/

Cheers

gposil · Posted: Tue 21 Jul 2009, 06:16 Post subject:

After a days work on dpup-476b-2.6.27.4, i've decided to concentrate on it as the base for future work...it seems to be far more stable and I have included the following:

1.) Uses sfs3
2.) Working gxine
3.) Pmusic replaced by Bmp (with extra skins)
4.) ffmpeg included
5.) Remaster now works
6.) Saves and closes down correctly now.
7.) Abiword and Gnumeric work now.
8.) Timezone setting fixed.

Much more to come and that gnome desktop and synaptic....

dpup-476b-2.6.27.4 will be up in a few hours, all versions at http://www.gposil.com/test/woof-alpha9/dpup/

Cheers

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 21 Jul 2009, 07:00 Post subject:

I'm glad you switch to sfs3, I've hated that sfs4 from day one, its a pain to use older sfs, you have to convert them, or make pets out of them, really it was stupid of the sfs developers not to make it compatible with previous versions, I hope they don't do that with sfs5 Wink

ttuuxxx