Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[goingnuts]

[starhawk]

I can load just about any puppy with the Xorg driver.

Even ran Igu's Guy Dog on there once. It took about 10min to get to a desktop, but it DID get to a desktop! Only unusable because it's meant for systems with real graphics capability.

[greengeek]

[goingnuts]

greengeek: Nice! You can alter the fontsize in dillo - view here

[greengeek]

If I wanted to "remaster" a PupnGo to include some other feature (like some sort of startup script) or a pet (like a new browser or something) how would I do it since there is no remaster entry like full puppies? Easy? Hard?

(I'm wanting to stick with running from Live CD at this stage..)

[technosaurus]

You can "remaster" any squashfs by mounting it
mount pup.sfs /dir
The copying its contents
cp -arf /dir /newdir
Add files to /newdir and
dir2sfs newdir

Check out my manual remaster howto in the howto section.

[starhawk]

@greengeek: here's what I do.

Boot Puplite 5.0 (search the forum for it) and run Woofy. You will need a copy of the ISO and whatever packages you want to add. You can also specify files to delete (there are usually a lot more of these than what's in pUPnGO ) and you can edit the filesystem.

I've not gotten any Woofy to work newer than what's in Puplite 5 -- newer versions are really picky with USB drive sources for stuff, and tend to fail by virtue of not being able to find the ISO sitting on the USB stick. Weird. (Might just be a hardware thing tho. I've seen Puppy do some weird stuff with odd hardware.)

Of course you can just download Woofy from the Add-A-Pet section of this forum... IIRC it's in utilities, but it does show up in the forum search box.

[starhawk]

@goingnuts: the Xorg PET worked!!

...well, mostly. There's about a quarter-inch of screen on the right and the bottom that the cursor can go in even though there's no picture there and nothing clickable. Hmmm... might hafta figure out where the neomagic driver is held in p412 and lift it out, and drop it in.

But this IS progress!

"See picture for details" as they say on eBay

[goingnuts]

starhawk: Looks like pUPnGo-2012 running with Xorg using only 16Mb ram
Try to look into /etc/X11/xorg.conf under Section Device: Is the driver loaded not neomagic?
If so could it be that the quarter-inch of screen on the right and the bottom you see is a need for monitor-adjustment? When I change from Xvesa to Xorg I have to adjust the monitor to get the rigth position...

[greengeek]

[technosaurus]

I typically do my dev work in wary for broader compatibility, dir2sfs is squash version dependent though so for pupngo, I would use a 4.1.x derivative like akita.

On another note
printf is the biggest contributor to bloat in our small command line utilities (thus all the dietlibc compile warnings), so I just finished writing an alternative embeddable printf that you can use in your static builds (also fprintf, eprintf, d2s, f2s, d2x) It supports %s, %d, %x, %X, %f and %c for use in small static builds. It cuts ~7kb from diet and ~12kb from musl binaries. That includes an int_to_string(), float_to_string() and int_to_hex_string() 'a' or 'A'type function (if you don't need int, float or hex, you can comment out their corresponding case statements and reduce the size to ~300bytes otherwise it is almost 1kb) ... float formatting is currently absent so you may get extra decimal places, but at least they print

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80916

[greengeek]

Goingnuts -
1) I am having a problem copying data from one window to another. Example: if I try to copy some text from a Dillo window and copy it into a beaver textfile window, the source window disappears. Same if I try to copy from one beaver file to another beaver file.

2) I would like to find a browser similar to Dillo, but with https capability. Do you have any suggestions that would suit pUPnGO?

Starhawk -
does woofy use an automated version of what Technosaurus was suggesting, or is it something completely different? Also wondering if I could use the isomaster facility in some other puppy to modify the contents of the pUPnGO iso? Might that be an option? (I've had mixed success with isomaster, but haven't yet used it to modify an iso from a puppy of a different type from the host machine)

[goingnuts]

greengeek: I have observed the copy/paste issue but haven't found a solution. It seems that either the source or the target application just crash. In beaver you can open several documents and copy/paste between the documents works ok. Copy from terminal to beaver also works...
I think gtk uses a different clipboard than most pure X-applications. It seems to be a gtk-to-gtk copy/past problem. Would be nice to have a fix for that!

An alternative browser could be "links-2.3" - I have a static build
at the bottom of this page

[starhawk]

@goingnuts: I'll check my driver and see if I can adjust the screen if needed. (I hope I can figure that out!) I'm running from a CD with no savefile tho.

@greengeek: woofy is an automated remaster tool that takes a pristine iso and makes what changes to it that you want to see (within the bounds of what you can do in it of course).

Also -- for a properly functional links, go here --> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72044

[greengeek]

@goingnuts - thanks. Could I also get you to look at my edit in my post above re wpa connection? Although I can connect/surf ok I have not had any success with working out how to get the wireless manager script to ask me for my passkey etc (rather than hardcoding them into my wpa_supplicant.conf file). Is requesting passkey and ssid one of the intended features of the the wireless manager, or am I misunderstanding?

@starhawk - thanks for the links link. That also includes a good links tutorial link from Don570