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#461 Post by pemasu »

First test build with core 2 and up - SMP - hyperthreading kernel 3.1.10 now in use. I havent done any 3.1.10 needed fixes yet. b43 firmware package needs to be updated and I will go through posts of Slacko with 3.1.10 kernel before I upload this version. But it seems to work ok for me.

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#462 Post by Jim1911 »

pemasu wrote:First test build with core 2 and up - SMP - hyperthreading kernel 3.1.10 now in use. I havent done any 3.1.10 needed fixes yet. b43 firmware package needs to be updated and I will go through posts of Slacko with 3.1.10 kernel before I upload this version. But it seems to work ok for me.
Great looking forward to it. My desktop and laptop both have Intel i7 8-core processors which really work better with the later SMP enabled kernels.

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Jim

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#463 Post by jpeps »

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#464 Post by pemasu »

Thanks jpeps. If you right click in tray that savefile icon: green - orange -red rings....you will find lxtask choice there...with some other choices.

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#465 Post by jpeps »

pemasu wrote:Thanks jpeps. If you right click in tray that savefile icon: green - orange -red rings....you will find lxtask choice there...with some other choices.
nice...and save about 400K :)

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#466 Post by pemasu »

Many tray icons have left and right click choises...except Pupclock which works with left and right click the same.

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#467 Post by Ray MK »

Very nice - I've just learnt something - running 5x10.3smp right now -

Emachines E732 laptop, 2gig ram, i3-370M proc, 1gig swap partition
(or no swap when booting from SDcard)

They seem made for each other - best regards - Ray

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#468 Post by pemasu »

My first (uploaded) test version of Dpup Exprimo 5.X.13.SMP has been uploaded.
Going to go to the bed now.
Kernel 3.1.10 SMP - hyperthreading - core 2 and up optimization. Non PAE.
It has my latest Mplayer2 compile from fresh svn. I did try to make it as compatible as I knew. Stu90 posted that it passed his used different video formats. It should also support usual audio formats. Gnome-mplayer uses it now.
It has all the stuff from 5.X.13 build otherwise, except kernel and vattery-acpitool. Kernel headers in devx sfs of course changed also. I will upload kernel sources sfs tomorrow after work.

Browser still 9.01, but I did update it to 10 and it seems to work with latest flash. More feedback needed before I upgrade it to the build.

For record...I do use aufs still with 3.X kernels.

Download link: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupSque ... mo5X13SMP/

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#469 Post by James C »

Fresh frugal install of the latest...... was looking good till I discovered there was no 8139too network driver.Bummer.
Otherwise,things appear to be working.

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#470 Post by pemasu »

James C. Thank you of feedback. I will check where it resides. It should not be problematic to compile and add single missing drivers.

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#471 Post by James C »

Doing some comparing... in this 5.X.13 SMP k-3.1.10 /lib/modules/3.1.10-dpup/kernel/drivers/net/ contains 73 items while in the previous 5.X.10.3 k-3.10 /lib/modules/3.10/kernel/drivers/net/ contains 137 items.

Just for the heck of it I'll try 8139too out of Micko's k-3.1.10 build. :lol:

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#472 Post by pemasu »

Hmm....it seems I really have missed whole section of net drivers. Well...that means new compile surely.

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#473 Post by James C »

pemasu wrote:Hmm....it seems I really have missed whole section of net drivers. Well...that means new compile surely.
This Realtek is one of the most common network cards, I knew something was up pretty quick when I couldn't connect. :lol:
Just for informational purposes, the same directory in Micko's build of k-3.1.10 has 135 items. Don't rush yourself, just thought you'd want to know.

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#474 Post by James C »

Decided to reinstall 5.X.10.3 k-3.10 ...... no problems. :)

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#475 Post by pemasu »

Yeah..things happen. I tried to go through carefully network section...but it seem I have missed something really fundamental. Well...the kernel is sane...I just need to enable the whole missed sections. I believe reason is that that some sections were under different group...so the ./config I used as template didnt take them in and I missed to tick whole section of drivers.
It has happened before.
But that`s the testing for....

Thanks James C. Now I know what I will do this evening, lol....

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#476 Post by pemasu »

Kernel-3.1.10 now recompiled. I had somehow forgotten to tick whole 10/100 Mb network drivers section. Small tick...big consequences...lol. Now all those (big whole bunch) has been included.
Otherwise the announcement is same.

Download link: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupSque ... mo5X13SMP/

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#477 Post by Eathray »

pemasu,

Just an update on my question on jre. I found the pet over at smokey and installed it. Works like a charm.

My brain was a little fried earlier when I asked about using the sfs from Fadog. I've been going back and forth between 4 puppies on two machines :oops: and got stuff momentarily turned around.

Again, great job on Exprimo. starting to learn my way around it. 8)

Eathray

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#478 Post by smokey01 »

pemasu, just having a play with http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupSque ... mo5X13SMP/ and it looks good so far. It set the correct resolution of my monitor at 1280x1024. Not many distro's can do this although the later kernels seem to be able to.

At 128M it's quite a bit smaller than previous at 146M.

The help file hasn't been updated.

Cheers

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#479 Post by James C »

smokey01 wrote: At 128M it's quite a bit smaller than previous at 146M.
The xz compression does make quite a difference....... good for some lower ram machines.

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#480 Post by James C »

Quick run live pfix=ram before I install.Internet works. :)
Everything looking good so far.

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