Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[musher0]

And speaking of a Fat-Precise Upup (you can be fat and still be precise, can't you?) , these are my substitutions:

Seamonkey, out; opera, in
abiword 2.8.6, out; abiword 2.9 (ttuuxx's pet), in
amaya from Portable Linux Apps, in. (Loads like a charm).
lxp-icewm, in.

For the record more than anything, of course. However, the following may be worthy of note for the writers out there:

ttuuxx's abiword 2.9 has all 48 plugins... which means that you can throw most any text format at abiword (including docx and pdf) and it'll take it. And this version is supposedly more responsive on the screen than previous versions because it now has a double buffer.

BFN.

[linux28]

[musher0]

@linux28:

Yes good readers would be nice. And in the same line of thought, the real less, which is much more powerful than the busybox one, to read straight *.txt and *.sh files quickly and easily whithout fear of altering any code or content.

BFN.

[jakfish]

Hi, pemasu,

An odd question: which one of your fine puppies (that uses a 3.* kernel) has the lowest CPU temperature for general use?

General use would be: a word processor always running, email_light browsing, wifi/bluetooth turned off when internet not needed.

My Lenovo S10-3t works with all pemasu CPU Frequency_Scaling setups, but S10-3t can't manually control the fan. So even with Power Saving frequency, I have a hard time (with any puppy) keeping an idle temperature below 54 (idle = no wifi/bluetooth, word processing only).

Maybe all puppies burn at that temperature, but if you can suggest one cooler cpu pemasu puppy over another, that would be wonderful.

Many thanks,
Jake

[LateAdopter]

Hello pemasu

I have just tried upup 5332

Athlon II X2, 785g chipset (RS880G)

On the first boot, the setup screen said it was using the Radeon driver.

Looking at the video info after setup it was actually using VESA.

I used xorgconfig to setup the radeon driver. Then X would not start.

So I changed back to VESA which works.

The RS880G is well supported by Xorg and I have not had a problem with any other puppy.

If the xf86 drivers came from the ubuntu precise repo, would the kernel mismatch break them?

I understand that the ATI proprietary driver does not work with the 3.2.8/3.3+ 32bit kernel without a patch. Even maybe Catalyst 12.4 that was released today. (Kano posting on Phoronix)

[mrokosz]

Hi all,
If anybody is using slow outdated computer like P3 500 MHz with 256 MB RAM (max out) then will have problems with You tube video playback using Mozilla products or Chromium. There is a cure for it, installing Google Chrome browser (not Chromium) cause Chrome has flash player built in will work and You can view video on the You Tube. It apply to all so called lightweight OS-es, that usually people install on the outdated hardware to just to make a use of it. I am not sure if the limitation is processor speed or amount of RAM, but usually outdated hardware has a limitation of the RAM You can install. So I suggest if somebody is using old hardware switch to google chrome, but any hardware starting from netbooks will work fine.
mrokosz

[mrokosz]

Hi Pemasu,
I have request for You, thanks for creating repository by the way, could You compile, for Upup Precise of course, a few software packages that are very popular among linux users and add to Yours repo.
1. libreoffice sfs
2. skype pet
3. bleachbit
4. phyton

I installed lucid / lupu version they seems working OK, but compiled for Upup Precise will make me happy.

Michael Rokosz - mrokosz

[mrokosz]

I can not set autoconnect to WPA protected network, each time I have to pick up profile I created, second I loading libreoffice.sfs at boot, but I can not assign libreoffice apps as the default. Is there any fix for it.
mrokosz

[vtpup]

[peebee]

Hi pemasu

[EDIT] 040612 pet attachment deleted - new All-In-One pet now available [/EDIT]

Here is a new version of the Broadcom-STA WL wifi driver for Precise Puppy.

It is the same as the previous version with just 2 changes:

1. now creates wlan% unstead of eth%

2. it is now specific to k3.3.2-upup and puts files directly into the correct place in the file structure

The previous edit to /etc/rc.d/MODULESCONFIG is still required and is of course in the pinstall.sh of the pet:

[rerwin]

pemasu,
I understand that the new open-source Broadcom driver consists of at least 2 modules, brcmfmac and brcmsmac, plus at least one dependency (bcma). I see in 5.3.3.2 that only brcmfmac is present. Did you intentionally leave out brcmsmac?

As I recall, someone in the forum has a device that requires that module. Not sure whether it can use the proprietary wl module.

My interest is to ensure that I provide any preferences or workarounds for mediating conflicts among the various Broadcom wifi drivers (e.g., b43 & wl). There may not be any new issues to handle for the brcm*mac modules, But I cannot verify that until brcmsmac gets added. Thanks for any help with that.
Richard

[pemasu]

rerwin. If I remember right...there hasnt been before this bcma ie broadcom amba dependency for brcmsmac module. Now there is.

When I did enable bcma in some of kernel experiments....the ssb dependent b43 modules were non working.

I concluded that you cant have both ssb and bcma at the same time.

So....I didnt drop brcmsmac out intentionally....it wasnt selectable because I didnt have bcma enabled...as I have noticed earlier the problem with bcma enabling.

In previous 2.6.39.4 and all 3.1.x and 3.2.x kernels the bcma dependency has not been there....if i remember right.

this from kernel 3.2.14 kernel config:
CONFIG_BRCMUTIL=m
CONFIG_BRCMSMAC=m
CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=m
CONFIG_BCMA_POSSIBLE=y
#
# Broadcom specific AMBA
#
# CONFIG_BCMA is not set

and this from kernel 3.3.2 kernel config:
CONFIG_BRCMUTIL=m
CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=m
CONFIG_BCMA_POSSIBLE=y
#
# Broadcom specific AMBA
#
# CONFIG_BCMA is not set

As you can see the bcma not selected dropped the choice of brcmsmac out.

This has changed with this 3.3.2 kernel.

Now...I fear that if I select bcma....ssb dependent b43 modules wont work...as I have noticed with my dpup kernels before....

I think there are broadcom chips which works only with brcmsmac module...so it would be desired...I just would need new experimental kernel to test...but I am not sure if I have time build that puplet...see below.

I can compile the kernel easily and update it for others to test and build the puplet though.

[pemasu]

This is notice of my next 6 months.

Firstly I have had discussions with 2 of my supervisors. Yeah...I have 2 independent bosses..one would have been enough...well..in fact in paper I have 3 bosses...but luckily the third one does not want to lead from from the distance...My station resides in countryside.

I will have 5-6 projects where I am assigned to lead them. And...I will have one university - county general practice harmonization project. All these starts in May. They include also designing work of specialization of certain professionals. I just got home from the learning session from the university town near by...19.00...and these long days will continue...

Next...to disturb my timetable more...I will go to the major surgery in june...due to rotator cuff rupture or my right shoulder. It will be operated and my right upper extremity will be immobilized with angle pillow 4 weeks and then I start to slowly get permission to add movements during 6 weeks.
Also I will have my normal day work duties before and after operation. This period lasts at least 6 months.

My boss wasnt pleased of my operation and he told me I should be back to work after 6 weeks period. The operator told me I will need vacation 10 weeks...so lets see....

My eldest daughter will graduate 2.6.2012 and I have to start to do arrangements for her celebration.

I have had hard thinking when Barry Kauler asked about the futute of Precise Pangolin based Puppy and when people showed that there would be interest of having it and also...that I could be a candidate of coordinating it.

I have continued to work...test...improve...and experiment with it. But this week conversations with my supervisors and all those other things above mentioned....means....I just dont have time for my Puppy Linux development. I would like to continue...but I just cant.....I wont have even time to woof build and sync woofs with Barrys commits. My time will go to studying....coordinating...reading....writing....and creating reports...and I will also be at least 4 weeks crippled so that I am afraid I cant use computer for writing...except with one hand....also the pain after operation can be severe. I know that some people has gotten pain bump home...

This is long statement...I have given this long mental processing until I now realized that I cant do all I want...I have to concentrate to those things I have to do....and give up for awhile...what I would like to do. This has been hard for me...to give up.

I wil start to update the pet_packages-upup repo so that my build is able to be created with woof...and anyone who wants to build and update the build can do that. I will upload the needed woof specs also. And I will upload the updated build so that pet_packages-repo is available from the puplet.

I wont be out Puppy community...I just cant be as active....starting from the beginning of May....continuing over the summer to autumn...couple of months maybe...not sure...because my supervisors werent that spesific...I have seen just preliminary plans.

Pemasu out.....

[jim3630]

[peebee]