Classic Pup 2.14X -- Updated 2 series

[James C]

I'm running two full installs of 214 on my test box.....the original 2.14x rc5 and the newer 2.14x-top3. Here's my menu lst......


title Puppy Linux 431 full install in sda8
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 pmedia= idehd nosmp acpi=force

title Puppy Linux 214r full install in hda9
root (hd0,8 )
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 pmedia=idehd nosmp acpi=force

title Puppy Linux 214x full install in hda13
root (hd0,12)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda13 pmedia=idehd nosmp acpi=force

Notice that 2.14 uses hda instead of sda.......................

HTH.

[maxpro4u]

hda instead of sda-that was it! Now on to the touchpad. How do I get it to work? Edit the xorg.conf file!
Option "MaxTapTime" "220"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"

[nancy reagan]

Hi while other puppies see swapfile on usb stick, plugged into a hub, this dog does not ?

(Bought an older lap 128mb and ruined hd amongst other just the first week).

[clarf]

Hi while other puppies see swapfile on usb stick, plugged into a hub, this dog does not ?

(Bought an older lap 128mb and ruined hd amongst other just the first week).

Hi nancy,

The /etc/rc.d/sysinit.rc script is responsible to enables swap partitions, but it dependes from some conditions like the PUPMODE.

Could you give more info please: are you booting 214X from a Frugal or Full Install?. The USB stick is detected by Puppy?.

Greetings,
clarf

[nancy reagan]

Hi Clarf,

Thanks for the soon response.

Hi while other puppies see swapfile on usb stick, plugged into a hub, this dog does not ?

(Bought an older lap 128mb and ruined hd amongst other just the first week).

Hi nancy,

The /etc/rc.d/sysinit.rc script is responsible to enables swap partitions, but it dependes from some conditions like the PUPMODE.


I am no tweaker so do not know about etc/rcc .. things.

PUPMODE is the way you run frugal full or ? or the boot parameters you give ? Gave no bootoptions


Could you give more info please: are you booting 214X from a Frugal or Full Install?. The USB stick is detected by Puppy?.

- Live cd
- All sticks in the hub (have only 1 usb hole), and the copied sfs, are recognised.

- Besides, when trying on my bigger lap, it does not recognise the usb drives in the pcmcia card.

Thanks


Greetings,
clarf

[steven_e007]

Hi,

I'm a noob - so sorry if this is too trivial or in the wrong place or something.

I have been getting to grips with Puppy 5.1 but have found several problems with my hardware (gxine causes the screen to blank and lock up etc.)

I was recommended to try classic puppy - so here I am.

I downloaded the latest file (top 3).

I can boot off a live CD ok and I'm trying to install to usb. The universal installer gets all the way to the last step 'press enter of CTRL C to abort'

At this point, any key press gives a dialogue box - with F1 and F2 at the top and the name of the program (universal installer) and a + and - underneath, only whilst a button is held down... Can't get it to do anything else. Closing the window terminates the installer and ejects the CD

The usb stick is formated as linux ext2 and the has a bootable partition (flag set) and a small swap partition. Otherwise empty. It is mounted.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[clarf]

Hi nancy,

After a better look I found that init script is actually enabling the SWAP Partitions and the /etc/rc.d/sysinit.rc enables it only in a Full HD installation (PUPMODE=2, in this mode Puppy don´t read the init script).

It could take some time to solve the problem in the init script, and I don´t have a functional USB now. A small workaround to make Puppy mount your USB Swap PArtiiton is:

Open /etc/rc.d/sysinit.rc file with Geany and add the # character to beginning of the lines 137 and 193. It will disable the PUPMODE condition, It should be like:

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line 137 - #if [ "$PUPMODE" = "2" ]; then 
line 193 - #fi

Save your changes and restart Puppy.


clarf

[dealora]

Hello

¿alsa sound 1.22 and last wireless pet for puppy 2.14X?

Sorry for my English I need these packages for my pc Juan (Spain)

[ttuuxxx]

Here's a new spreadsheet editor, it comes with 4 programs and a help file I included in the same menu as Gnumeric

This is what the developer said about it.
Homepage/sources http://code.google.com/p/mtcelledit/

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mtCellEdit is a lightweight spreadsheet program that was created from scratch. It is a small, no frills program which is designed to handle simple day to day spreadsheet tasks. I have put the most important facilities I want into a small customized program which means I can avoid the problems of larger programs such as slow operating speeds and overcomplicated user interfaces.

The program has 100 undo steps, and allows a file to contain any number of sheets. All cell referencing is done via the R1C1 notation which I find more efficient and less error prone than the more commonly used A1 notation.

The core of the program is a shared C library which can be used by any C program to read, write and manipulate spreadsheets.

The default file format mtCellEdit uses is portable and transparent as it is a ZIP file containing TSV text files. I deliberately designed it this way so that data can be extracted and read by any modern spreadsheet program on any operating system without requiring mtCellEdit. Over the years I have been frustrated by binary and XML formats that make data only accessible via a single program (or by me wasting time manually converting each file, or by me writing a file format conversion program). This format ensures that my data never becomes stranded, and can be manipulated by whichever tool I choose for a particular job (i.e. spreadsheet programs, text editors, command line tools, etc).

In the source and binary packages I have included some example programs that use the core engine to demonstrate how useful spreadsheets can be to general purpose programs. These packages also contain a few library dependencies that are required.

mtCellEdit has currently only been tested on GNU/Linux systems, but it is pure C language so porting it to other systems should be fairly trivial.

Like all software, mtCellEdit is a tool, and in order to use it efficiently you will need to study what it does and how it works by reading the handbook.

Check out the size include the large help doc's, would make a nice lightweight editor to replace bloated Gnumeric/Goffice, remember guys the abiword in 2.14X doesn't use Goffice only gnumeric does. Hmmm too bad it doesn't do xml but it does have lots of other formats if you click save-as you'll see them.
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Here's a small gtk number game called Hitori,I had to hack the sources to make it work without extra libs
http://live.gnome.org/Hitori

Hitori is a small logic puzzle in a similar vein to the more popular Sudoku. In the game, the player starts with a square board of numbers, and has to paint out cells until there are no duplicate numbers in each row and column. The following rules apply
There must only be one of each number in the unpainted cells in each row and column.
No painted cell may be adjacent to another, vertically or horizontally.
All the unpainted cells must be joined together vertically and horizontally in one group.
These are the only three rules of the game, and so there may well be multiple solutions to a Hitori puzzle board

hitori-interface has only one window; the main window, which consists of the menubar and number board.

[ttuuxxx]

Here's a mid size calculator based on gnump/wcalc/mpfr-3 had to compile 4 apps for 1 calculator, why you might say??? well its also a converter of just about anything known to man, wow hundreds of options.

[01micko]

Here's a new spreadsheet editor, it comes with 4 programs and a help file I included in the same menu as Gnumeric
(snip)
ttuuxxx

Hey ttuuxxx.. did you notice something?...mtcelledit? Mark Tyler is the original developer of mtpaint.

Looks pretty cool, especially the bit about any spreadsheet prog should be able to open the files.

Nice find!

Cheers

[technosaurus]

Edit: duplicate of Micko's post - I type too slowly

[ttuuxxx]

he also forked mt paint twice once for the olpc project which was a small kids paint app called rgbpaint, which I made a package below, actually I like the gui better than mtpaint, but could use more functions, but the size is great !
the second one was a stripped down mtpaint, basically he removed the gui, and made libmtpixel, that way dev's can include mtpaint backend into other apps ore build a new gui for mtpaint, which I think everyone wants, like with a default colour wheel, and a proper layers menu like photoshop or gimp.
ttuuxxx
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/libmtpixel.html
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/rgbpaint.html

[Aitch]

Hey ttuuxxx

Have you seen DirectFB....its an accelerator for video, apparently activated in the linux kernel by a download...I think

http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main/Downloads

not sure what changes might be required to the Xlib system

it may derive from FBui....?

http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/

idea spawned by technosaurus

HTH

Aitch

[ttuuxxx]

214X-top4 & devx release is out, 44 fixes first page.
Tons of updates and now you can switch between Metacity and Jwm via the menu, Also added the boot-screen clarf worked on.
This release grew a few MB due to updating Firefox 4.0 and Flash, They grew about 3MB total. I couldn't help the increase, I added a few new metacity themes, don't worry about the folder size, when its compressed as sfs its a total of 244kb, the size of a large picture, I might reduce a few of them later on, but not really high on the list.
Anyways this is a nice update, the switch for jwm/metacity is in the shutdown section.
ttuuxxx

PS the paws and bones are back!!!!!! woooooof

[ttuuxxx]

also managed to get a few old friends to work and maybe a battery monitor or 2, Didn't test the battery monitors but I included 2 of them.
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

when I updated xarchiver it went to a different location, it still works but the extra rox right clicks can't find the new bin, so here's a system link that fixes that.
ttuuxxx

[Roy]

Just downloaded top4 for a quick test drive (LiveCD)....

Running from a desktop, so could not test battery monitor(s).

Added your xarchiver-link.pet.

Added your Skype.pet, downloaded earlier from Sullysat's website, and tried to add my downloaded scribus.pet (from same). Scribus.pet would not install in 3GB of RAM and I could not log in to Skype while using Metacity WM -- every time I typed a small-case "r" in Skype's username field, it opened a new "run command" window instead of entering an 'r' in the active field of the skype window.

EDIT: If Skype still requires the Scribus.pet to run, might Sullysat want to add a comment to that effect next to his Skype download? Sorry, but it's been a while and I don't recall....

The login portion of Skype DID appear to work okay in the JWM WM, though. (I say appeared because my sole RaLink rt2x00/rt61pci wireless desktop connection is not supported in this early 214-series kernel.)

Still, I really like what you have accomplished and will be giving a lot of CD's to friends once a final is reached!

-Roy

2ND EDIT: Can anyone confirm that the Skype .pet on Sullysat's website (http://www.wisdom-seekers.com/puppy214x.html) is still supported, i.e. currently usable on today's Internet? I see you have a link to Meebo with G-talk already included in 214X and, although I am already married to Skype, others may not be -- and VOIP is pretty much VOIP....

[sullysat]

Just downloaded top4 for a quick test drive (LiveCD)....

Running from a desktop, so could not test battery monitor(s).

Added your xarchiver-link.pet.

Added your Skype.pet from Sullysat's website and downloaded the scribus.pet from same. Scribus.pet would not install in 3GB of RAM and I could not log in to Skype while using Metacity WM -- every time I typed a small-case "r" in Skype's username field, it opened a new "run command" window instead of entering an 'r' in the active field of the skype window.

EDIT: If Skype still requires the Scribus.pet to run, might Sullysat want to add a comment to that effect next to his Skype download? Sorry, but it's been a while and I don't recall....

The login portion of Skype DID appear to work okay in the JWM WM, though. (I say appeared because my sole RaLink rt2x00/rt61pci wireless desktop connection is not supported in this early 214-series kernel.)

Still, I really like what you have accomplished and will be giving a lot of CD's to friends once a final is reached!

-Roy

I haven't tried Scribus by itself, just with the writer's pack, and I've never heard that Skype needs Scribus to run. However, I'll be happy to make whatever edits that I need to to the descriptions to help keep it clear and simple.

Thanks for the inputs Roy.

ttuuxxx, what's the story on these? I'm going to add the new distro and the last few apps you've done in the next couple of days, so I can also tweak any verbiage that needs it.

Just let me know,
Sully