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Pnethood, dotpup

#601 Post by shinobar »

Welcome back, sc0ttman. Hope you are fine now.
Akita-8 has pnethood, but it does not work because the smbclient is missing. :(
I could not find the samba_client in the PPM, so i downloaded the package http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 3.0.26.pet.
I clicked the PET it asks 'Install?', replied 'Install', but it seems aborted. :(
Used the 'Find a PET to install from hard drive' works.

Need to go down to the console and type 'exit', then 'xwin' so that the PATH environment to be refreshed.
Now it works. :)
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drive icons

#602 Post by shinobar »

Made the drive icons. They are all overlapping :(
Icon manager does not rewrites the drive icons :(
Hacked 3 files, clean_desk_icons, pup_event_frontend_d, and .xinitrc.
It works :)
Attached the 3 hacked files.
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driveicon-fix-akita8.pet
Install, then restart X.
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Re: drive icons

#603 Post by sc0ttman »

Hi shinobar, thanks for testing :)
It's nice to have an expert take a look!
shinobar wrote:I could not find the samba_client in the PPM, so i downloaded the package http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 3.0.26.pet.
I clicked the PET it asks 'Install?', replied 'Install', but it seems aborted.
The pup4 repo is listed in the Akita PPM, at the top...
But the samba .pet in the pup4 repo has no petspecs file,
which I think explains the aborted install...

I repackaged it with a petspecs file, and it installs fine...
I will add the fixed pet to the akita repo..

The tooltip on the pnethood button (in "Network Shares" GUI) says the full samba package is needed...
I might update the "Network Shares" GUI to auto-install this new samba pkg,
to make things as easy as possible for users who want samba..
Made the drive icons. They are all overlapping :(
Icon manager does not rewrites the drive icons :(
Hacked 3 files, clean_desk_icons, pup_event_frontend_d, and .xinitrc.
It works :)
Attached the 3 hacked files.
Thanks for this shinobar, that's great! :)

I never have any problems with icons, only have 3 partitions!
Or a maximum of 5 partitions, if I got my 16GB USB plugged in.

...and as I have drive labels above drive locations (unlike a normal puppy),
I left out the Woof re-alignment stuff as I assumed it would not work quite right...

The pet you attached is very much appreciated, I will apply it,
but you left .xinitrc out, it's missing, so it's not complete...
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Re: drive icons

#604 Post by shinobar »

sc0ttman wrote:I never have any problems with icons
I guess it depends on the screen dimension.
Yeh, .xinitrc was missing. I have updated the attached with the previous post.
Only one line i have changed against the .xinitrc.

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# diff .xinitrc.org .xinitrc
11c11
< #/sbin/clean_desk_icons #v4.02 tidy up drive icons first.
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> /sbin/clean_desk_icons #v4.02 tidy up drive icons first.
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Re: drive icons

#605 Post by sc0ttman »

shinobar wrote:
sc0ttman wrote:I never have any problems with icons
I guess it depends on the screen dimension.
Yeh, .xinitrc was missing. I have updated the attached with the previous post.
Only one line i have changed against the .xinitrc.

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# diff .xinitrc.org .xinitrc
11c11
< #/sbin/clean_desk_icons #v4.02 tidy up drive icons first.
---
> /sbin/clean_desk_icons #v4.02 tidy up drive icons first.
Lovely, cheers...
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#606 Post by don570 »

I made a utility to rename files (version 1.2).
It works well in Akita.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76919

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I've had good success with Akita!!!

When I click on html files they open up properly :lol:

Also when I removed my USB stick the disk icon showed that it
wasn't mounted but it still remained ( a feature??)
Then when I put the USB stick back in, the disk mounted easily again.

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#607 Post by josejp2424 »

hola scootman, tienen pensado ponerle un kernel mas nuevo. donde puedo conseguir drivers para wi-fi. gracias y muy buen trabajo

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#608 Post by sc0ttman »

josejp2424 wrote:hola scootman, tienen pensado ponerle un kernel mas nuevo. donde puedo conseguir drivers para wi-fi. gracias y muy buen trabajo
I have now...

Download: akita-linux-beta8-k2.6.32.55.iso
size: 125mb, md5: cf224c040d7436e74b36efdc135ee9f2

- this one uses SFS4, not SFS3 - you might need to convert your SFS files
- just click on a SFS file, if it needs converting, you will be asked...

(ignore the 'zdrv_420.sfs' file in this ISO, you don't need it!)

- Purely for testing, playing and bug finding, if anyone wants
- It uses the same old initrd.gz file, but with a custom DISTRO_SPECS file inside..
- no framebuffer or zdrv this time

Known problems:

- cannot get Nvidia drivers working for this kernel (tested shinobars & Barry Ks w5 pkgs)
- no ext4: init script, rc.init, libparted, gparted, other places
- wi-fi (wireless) not tested,
- only tested in PUPMODE 5
- otf_sfs_loader doesn't support aufs.. still got shinobars 'sfs_load' anyway..
- no unmountable drive mounted at /initrd/pup_ro2, or $PDEV1...?

Includes some new updates, added after original beta 8:

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April 11
	- fixed: pup_event_frontend_d calling snapmergepuppy during 'make', 'cmake', etc (thx Karl Godt)
	- fixed: ROX pinboard icon alignment and refreshing (thx shinobar):
			- in /sbin/clean_desk_icons, /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d, ~/.xinitrc
	- added to Akita repo: samba_client-3.0.26-akita.pet, 1.4mb
	- updated pnethood: auto download and install 'samba_client-3.0.26-akita', if no samba found
	- added to Akita repo and PPM:
			- gens-2.15.5-akita.pet, 540k
			- gens_gs_r7-i486-akita.pet, 733k
			- gens_gs_r7_DOC-i486-akita.pet, 1.5mb
			- snes9x-1.53-akita-i486.pet, 538k
			- snes9x_NLS-1.53-akita-i486.pet, 35k

April 12
	- updated: /usr/local/sfsconvert/sfsconvert: use SFS dir as default workdir, if SFS was given
	- fixes in xfce_minimal-4.2.3.2-akita.pet, in Akita repo
	
April 13
	- updated to Woofy 0.9: uses wmswitcher, check deps, better GUIs, fixes
	- updated wmswitcher to 0.19, supports e17, 'chroot' style feature
	- updated to yad .17.1.1

April 15
	- fixed startup script: /etc/init.d/rc.pup_event_frontend_d
	- fixes in /usr/sbin/drive_mounter.sh, dont offer to unmount $PUPDRIVE
	- fixed display and removal of LABEL in ROX, /media and JWM drive icons:
			- fixed /usr/sbin/blkid-name-generator
			- fixed /usr/sbin/create_jwmrc_drives.sh
			- fixed /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d
			- fixed ~/Startup/gtk-mnt-links
	- fixed SFS-Edit:
			- unsquash any SFS version
			- other related fixes
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#609 Post by josejp2424 »

gracias scootman

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Akita Linux with newer kernel

#610 Post by oligin10 »

Hi Scott, been very busy lately, but I have been trying out the new Beta 8 with new kernel. Only problems I am having seems to be with flash not working with Opera or QtWeb browsers and several .pets I have tried to load do not install properly. Opera and QtWeb both complain about flash plugin missing, unless I install Mozilla based browser also. All in all, very nice! Right now I am running the new Legacy OS4, and I am liking it a lot. Akita seems to be pretty well sorted out. I will continue to try it out also and if I find any other problems, I will post here. Thanks, Rob

P.S. Not sure why Akita is not getting any more responses that what it is, as I can definitely tell that you are putting a lot of work into this. I wish more people would look at it.

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Re: Akita Linux with newer kernel

#611 Post by sc0ttman »

Only problems I am having seems to be with flash not working with Opera or QtWeb browsers and several .pets I have tried to load do not install properly. Opera and QtWeb both complain about flash plugin missing
I noticed this is starting to happen as well.. not sure what's going on there...
I manually copy the libflashplayer.so file out to somewhere, and put it back again, seems to fix it most times...

Maybe I should update the Opera package.
All in all, very nice! Right now I am running the new Legacy OS4, and I am liking it a lot. Akita seems to be pretty well sorted out. I will continue to try it out also and if I find any other problems, I will post here. Thanks, Rob
Thanks for the feedback once again! I know I should try other pups for ideas and stuff,
but I haven't booted anything other than Akita in about a year now... :oops:
P.S. Not sure why Akita is not getting any more responses that what it is, as I can definitely tell that you are putting a lot of work into this. I wish more people would look at it.
Up to them... I'm guessing most who try it have new hardware, and it fails miserably..

But Akita is my everyday (and only) OS, so I don't mind upgrading it, then sharing..
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#612 Post by greengeek »

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I, for one, appreciate Akita, and look forward to each release. I keep recommending it to other people with older hardware too. Maybe little feedback is sometimes good feedback - it means people are happy :-)

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#613 Post by technosaurus »

sc0ttman wrote: - this one uses SFS4, not SFS3
...
- no framebuffer or zdrv this time
still has the old zdrv in the iso though (sfs3 with the .25 kernel)
damn, I didn't even get to install it before finding a bug
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#614 Post by sc0ttman »

LOL, whoops... That explains why the ISO was bigger than expected... I thought i deleted the zdrv from it...
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#615 Post by starhawk »

...and I trust you are on the mend, then?

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#616 Post by technosaurus »

@Scottman - Thanks to your oops, I ended up looking into the size difference of using a full flat set of kernel modules (everything in /lib/modules/$KERNVER rather than subdirectories) ... I had previously played with it on the initrd, and knew it was much faster to run depmod and slightly smaller, but when I tested it on the full set of kernel modules, the difference was about 6Mb and depmod is still nearly instant.

The only gotchas I can think of are scripts and C programs with the subdirectories preprogrammed for insmod $mod or insmod(mod); ...probably stuff like /init or ndiswrapper.c? ... easy to fix though - not even cut and paste - just cut.
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#617 Post by sc0ttman »

starhawk wrote:...and I trust you are on the mend, then?
On the way thanks mate... Still eating carefully, and will be off work for a few weeks yet ...and still (supposed to be) house bound, not driving, etc... But feeling much better... Wanna start exercising soon... But it'll have to wait a month or so..
technosaurus wrote:@Scottman - Thanks to your oops, I ended up looking into the size difference of using a full flat set of kernel modules (everything in /lib/modules/$KERNVER rather than subdirectories) ... when I tested it on the full set of kernel modules, the difference was about 6Mb and depmod is still nearly instant.

The only gotchas I can think of are scripts and C programs with the subdirectories preprogrammed for insmod $mod or insmod(mod); ...probably stuff like /init or ndiswrapper.c? ... easy to fix though - not even cut and paste - just cut.
Hmmm... interesting... I'll have a look at making this work, next time I create an Akita with a Wary kernel...
If I can work out what I need to do to reliably locate the problems and fix them..

Anyone wanna suggest the best (ideally aufs) 2.6.x kernel to use next time??
don570 wrote:I made a utility to rename files (version 1.2).
It works well in Akita.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76919
Thanks Don... I'll add it to the repo, Akita already has the following installed: PRename, gFnRename and Renamcon..
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#618 Post by jemimah »

technosaurus wrote:@Scottman - Thanks to your oops, I ended up looking into the size difference of using a full flat set of kernel modules (everything in /lib/modules/$KERNVER rather than subdirectories) ... I had previously played with it on the initrd, and knew it was much faster to run depmod and slightly smaller, but when I tested it on the full set of kernel modules, the difference was about 6Mb and depmod is still nearly instant.

The only gotchas I can think of are scripts and C programs with the subdirectories preprogrammed for insmod $mod or insmod(mod); ...probably stuff like /init or ndiswrapper.c? ... easy to fix though - not even cut and paste - just cut.
It also breaks dougal's network setup.

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jemimah wrote:It also breaks dougal's network setup.
Thanks jemimah, it _should_ be an easy fix... but maybe not ... I'll take a look - It will be part of nanosaurOS/technosaurOS though, I don't mind breaking stuff temporarily on my own box to give it a better long term fix.
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technosaurus wrote:
jemimah wrote:It also breaks dougal's network setup.
Thanks jemimah, it _should_ be an easy fix... but maybe not ... I'll take a look - It will be part of nanosaurOS/technosaurOS though, I don't mind breaking stuff temporarily on my own box to give it a better long term fix.
It's not too easy, because it breaks the part where you can select which network modules to load or blacklist, etc.

I'm not sure how you will tell which modules relate to networking without the directory structure.

If there's a good way to fix it, let me know. Module loading is much faster with a flat structure - for some reason.

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