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[pemasu]

Smokey01. Yep, the nvidia driver...as the pet name says: http://smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-exprimo/nvidia-295.59-k3.4.2...is for kernel 3.4.2 version.
My dpups have tendency to have different kernels...

So...just use getnvidia pet and compile almost automatically nvidia pet by yourself.
Install from the repo getnvidia, load devx sfs and kernel source sfs and let the getnvidia do the job.

[smokey01]

It's all good. The only reason I mentioned it was maybe there is a way we can make the PPM only download the appropriate packages for the distro, kernel specific.

BTW, CatDude and I have modified puppyluvr Multipup. It now works with FatDog, Slacko and Saluki providing Rox is installed.

I will try it on Exprimo, I would expect it to work now.
http://www.smokey01.com/software/Fatdog64-600/Multipup-3.3-Hacked.pet


Cheers

[pemasu]

Smokey01. I think there is mechanism in PPM not to show inappropriate packages. I think all goes how you create pet.specs file. I should dig Barry Kaulers blog. I remember there was post how to do it. I have been just lazy.

Or...not lazy...just hands full with other thing. Posting this from debian wheezy packages based dpup. But this is just very pre-alpha construct. Dont ask me to post this for a long time. But it works now. A lot of missing packages, I am sure when I start to debug applications.

[Puppyt]

Cheers pemasu,
I second iguleder's recent sentiment about Exprimo's future potential - please don't feel too lonely that you seem to be the only Dpup developer and therefore demand for this main derivative is in decline . It is my go-to pupplet on my Lenovo T60 - and I have about 6 others to choose from - because I find it the most stable and pleasurable to use, so my compliments to you!
I missed the notice that you'd upgraded to 5.X.15, so will overhaul my 5.X.14 setup presently. In the meantime, I was casting an eye over your pet repository and wonder if I might post a few requests for pets please? These may well work just as fine as the native linux (deb, tar.gz) formats that I have cobbled together, but perhaps a proper pet packaging might smooth out the odd glitch when running in Puppy/dpup:
1) Docear http://www.docear.org/software/download/. Research tool: mindmapping, pdf file management and bibliography creation, with planner features included. Just gone to beta v.5 and nearly ready for the Big Release. I haven't the nous to package it into a pet myself, but would love to see someone compile it for dpup. However, it really needs a pdf reader with annotation support. I've gone straight to Foxit Reader (a habit from my daze in XP) but the linux version doesn't support annotations. Searching on the forums I found that muggins (I think) recommended XPDF+Xournal as a great open-source alternative. You already have created a pet of the latest Xournal 0.4.5 I see, so could I also request:
2) XPDF 3.0.3. ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/ [abushcrafter created pets yonks ago, but I can't find any live links to his efforts]

Thanks in advance to anyone who can compile and post pets for the dpup (and wider) collective,
Cheers

UPDATE: XPDF was a relatively simple exercise of copying the relevant files from the tar.gz to their locations outlined in the 'READ ME' - works fine in 5.X.14 and just some cosmetics required to nominate it as the default PDF reader. Docear is similarly working very sweetly straight from the tar.gz extracted into the root directory - just menu entries, desktop icons etc lacking, but I bet I can whip up a hotkey combo to have it running immediately on command. Xournal I see has recently been updated to 0.4.7, but your 0.4.5 version works fine, pemasu.

[smokey01]

[pemasu]

http://www.docear.org/

I have created pet and sfs of docear-1.0.5b.

http://smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-exprimo/docear-1.0.5b.pet

http://smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-exprimo/docear-1.0.5b.sfs

About xpdf-3.0.3. I dont have experience of compiling pdf apps. They seem to demand libs I dont have a glue about. Freetype2 lib headers. For example. What it is. There is only freetype6 which we use. I dont bother to find out. The install file in xpdf was not very helpful. Sorry.

checking where to find the freetype2 header files...
checking ft2build.h usability... no
checking ft2build.h presence... no
checking for ft2build.h... no
not using freetype2 library

But...there is xpdf-3.0.2 in debian squeeze repo. If there is special need for xpdf...I recommed to test it.

[charlie6]

Hi Pemasu

[pemasu]

It looks like nvidia kernel module is not loaded, for some reason...or it is not even compiled. Or your graphics is not supported.
You should check xorg.0.log and dmesg and xerrs.log also.

Check in console: find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko
if it does exist.
And I suppose you need to reboot before you can use it.

[Puppyt]

[charlie6]

Hi Pemasu,

[pemasu]

Charlie6. I suppose you can check the supported graphics from nvidia pages.
Sorry. I didnt notice you had showed the presence of nvidia.ko.
About find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko
It should show the nvidia.ko location. I wonder what went wrong.

[charlie6]

Hi Pemasu ... good morning!

[shinobar]

@charlie6

[charlie6]

double post ==> deleted

[charlie6]

Hi shinobar,
Goog news ==> SOLVED !
thanks for your reply ... now I understand why i got no success.