unicornpup

[slavvo67]

OK. The Ethernet card that's not getting recognized is the Realtek RTL 8169.

Best,

Slavvo67

[ETP]

UCF2FS Pup - Released 28th Jan 2015

@slavvo67

The above Pup may solve your Ethernet problem. It uses as its base the alternate f2fs image of 666philb's Unicorn-6.0 building block puplet as detailed on the first page of this thread.
The changes to the base image are mainly cosmetic but the following have been added:
• Latest version of Chrome stable. (40.0.2214.91)
• Latest versions of Videostream, Google Cast & a locally held version of Sid’s cast.
• Latest Thunderbird. (31.4.0)
• Leafpad.
• FbBox-1.0.
• Netflix (Not tested as no account held).

The intended target is a 8GB or larger USB2 or USB3 stick.
The image ucf2fs_pup.img.xz 287MB, MD5sum, install procedure & slideshow showing the features can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing

Setup:

Ethernet.
On first boot there will be a red cross on the system tray network icon.
1. Click on the “Lan

[Billtoo]

New manual frugal install to a 128gb usb 3.0/2.0 external ssd.

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Memory 3517MB (117MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System unicornpup - 6.0
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Wed 28 Jan 2015 03:32:05 PM EST
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
SCSI Disks
Monster Overdrive 3.0

Working well so far.

[slavvo67]

ETP,

Sounds like a nice option. I'll give it a try. I'm guessing there are some drivers around to recognize this card, as well. Mostly all other puppies find it no prob.

Best,

Slavvo67

[Sylvander]

UCF2FS Pup

I installed this to my 8GB Flash Drive.
Looking good, and seems to be working well.
Tried playing Netflix movies by "Casting" [from the already installed Google Chrome browser using the already installed "Google Cast" extension] to my previously set up and functioning "Chromecast" dongle in the HDMI socket on my Sony Bravia Smart TV.
Works just fine.

I now have 2 Puppies that will do this.
The other is tahr-6.0-ce_pae on a 4GB Flash Drive.

Is it possible, when working within this Puppy, to:
a. Only have it save when I choose to MANUALLY save?
i.e. NO AUTOSAVE?

[ETP]

Hi Sylvander,

The fact that NF works is welcome news. Thanks for testing.

Is it possible, when working within this Puppy, to:
a. Only have it save when I choose to MANUALLY save?
i.e. NO AUTOSAVE?

OOTB that is exactly how it is set up with Pupsaveconfig set to "always ask" at
shutdown or reboot.
Unless you opt to save, the session will not be saved. If during a session you
wish something to be saved just click on the desktop "save" icon.

[Sylvander]

...If during a session you
wish something to be saved just click on the desktop "save" icon.

Hmmm, I failed to see any "Save..." icon on the desktop...
Will look more closely, and report back.
OK...found it.

[Sylvander]

1.

Netflix is now confirmed as working. (Thanks to Sylvander)

Well...
a. It WAS working at first...
But now it isn't.
Here's what's happening:
Everything looks good...
The "Google Cast" icon is there...
I begin playing a movie in Netflix...
Click on the "Google Cast" icon and choose to cast to "Livingroom" [the only Chromecast dongle set up for use]...
It says it's casting to "Livingroom"...
Down on the livingroom TV, there is a "Netflix" title displaying, and 3 dots below with a highlight cycling around them...
But nothing beyond that.
The movie never begins playing.
p.s. So far as I know, the Puppy firewall has never been activated, and I see no sign of it running.

b. I reboot to Tahrpup...
And do the business at the Netflix site...
And it works just fine.

Any ideas?

[ETP]

Hi Sylvander,

1. Can you check the Google Cast extension versions match in both Pups.
An update to 15.114.0.1 was issued in the last couple of days.

2. Please respond in the new UCF2FS thread.

[slavvo67]

An update to my post a few pages back:

"Unfortunately, Unicornpup is not identifying my eth0.
First distro in quite a while that didn't pick up on it. I'll let you know my card if you can help but on another computer at the moment. "

It appears that when I updated Barry's QU from 6.2 to 6.21, my eth0 connection gets broken (SNS is no longer identifying my card). I gather UnicornPup is using the same 6.21 code. I'm not sure what kind of fix can be done but I'm going to take a peek at that 6.21 upgrade pet and see what it changes.

*** Let me correct the above statement(s). It seems when I install Handbrake from the PPM HandBrake0.9.9 (the non-cli version), it breaks my internet connection upon reboot and also seems to ruin the sound from VLC Player. Does anyone know which dependency might be responsible for this?

Regarding my Unicorn Pup paragraph, above, I will now be revisiting based on my correction.

Best,

Slavvo67

[oui]

Is there perhaps some xombrero.sfs usable with Unicornpup?

[666philb]

Is there perhaps some xombrero.sfs usable with Unicornpup?

hi oui

this is the latest xombrero for unicornpups although some icons are missing https://copy.com/1dL9QmFU4S2Bog3w

or you can use the older xombrero binary with icons ...after downloading it right click on it and choose 'permissions' and make executable.. then copy to /usr/bin after installing the .sfs above https://copy.com/C4JnFoOBS7nHOOm9

[oui]

Hi Phil
Thank you very much. But NetSurf inform

concerning the 1. file: Page Doesnt Exist
concerning the 2. file: it have 288 Kb and no extension so it is probably not the *.sfs itself?

Kind regards

[666philb]

hi oui,

i've fixed the link and it should work now

[musher0]

Hi, Puppyists.

Logically, this is addressed to 666philb, but if you know, please help!

Long story short: I never got a full screen window in unicornpup, so I tried
changing X drivers with xorgwizard. Now the nouveau driver keeps me out
of unicornpup... I only get 600x800 resolution with no mouse and no
keyboard interaction... The wizard offers nv and nouveau drivers, and that's
it. I see modesetting and vesa drivers in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers, but
they are not displayed by xorgwizard.

How do I regain access to my unicornpup? Thanks in advance.

musher0

[musher0]

above post cont'd...

I removed the nvidia card and plugged the monitor in the default Via screen
plug. Also removed all xorg.conf files from my pupsave's /etc/X11 folder,
externally, from another Pup.

This time it booted in 1280x1024, but still mouse and keyboard are frozen.

Chucks, I had assembled a brand new OpenOffice-4.1.1. for this unicornpup
this afternoon, and that's how it thanks me. Ah, puppies...

BFN.

musher0

[musher0]

Hello, again.

Almost forgot: xorg-in-unicornpup had the same behavior in another
pupsave. That one was ok before... and I didn't mess with the xorgwizard
in that one.

So the suspicion level went up one level! I realize that unicornpup is bare-
bones and experimental, but that's pushing it, -- and me...

If you can't use xorgwizard properly in a Puppy, where is the world
heading to ?! Anyone else with this xorg problem? Thanks in advance.

In any case, it's no big deal, there are lots of other puppies around. BFN.

musher0

[yr1945]

Hyperlinks will not open... anything I can do to make them open when I click on them?

Great puppy! Thank you for all your hard work with this one, as well as tahrpup.

[sheldonisaac]

Sorry I have no help on those problems,

I don't recall whether my unicornpup was changed at all from the original.

It works fine, and has from the start.

Please let me know what tests to do in effort to diagnose the problems that have recently been reported.

xorgwizard works, eth0 works, keyboard and mouse work.
Hyperlinks open (Opera 12.16)

Dell Latitude E6410.

-Computer-
Processor : 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz
Memory : 3553MB (186MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : unicornpup - 6.0
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 25 Feb 2015 10:10:24 AM EST
-Display-
Resolution : 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
Audio Adapter : PC-Speaker - pcsp
-Input Devices-
Lid Switch
Power Button
Sleep Button
Power Button
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
USB Optical Mouse
Dell WMI hotkeys
PC Speaker
DualPoint Stick
AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad
Video Bus
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA ST320LT009-9WC14
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-U633J

[yr1945]

Clarification: Hyperlinks in documents will not open, e.g. , abiword & libreoffice... however, Thank You for your response.