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That is great movie. I dont know how many times I have seen it during the years but I still like it. It came again in Finnish TV this summer. That movie has place in my heart.

Quick run live pfix=ram on my main Linux box.Everything working (sound,internet and display) on boot.


VIDEO REPORT: Puppy Squeeze, version 5.0.0

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video


# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1033900 479236 554664 0 63812
Swap: 1228936 0 1228936
Total: 2262836 479236 1783600

I still like JWM but Enlightenment is a nice change-of-pace.There is a bit of a learning curve though.
Guess I'll do a quick frugal install......

Oh boy this is GREAT! Lovely theme, very fast screen re-draws. Last re-boot wireless config was lost. Broadcom wireless card not auto detected. Had to load module. Will try another re-boot.
Why no xcompmgr? Added it for lovely drop shadow effects.

James C. I know that learning curve. I am at the first steps in e17. I think that Iguleder will post new versions with e17 so dont be afraid.

Already requests. I just wanted to know if this is useful. There is possibility that dpup will be improved with wishes from users....
Dave S. It is great to get this kind feedback what works. In the future, I dont have this much time to play and test with dpup.

My vacation stops tonight. Back to the work and less time with Puppy.

Nope... wifi config not saved between boots............

Dave S. Do you use SNS or Frisbee ?

pemasu wrote:Already requests. I just wanted to know if this is useful. There is possibility that dpup will be improved with wishes from users....
Dave S. It is great to get this kind feedback what works. In the future, I dont have this much time to play and test with dpup.

My vacation stops tonight. Back to the work and less time with Puppy.

Pity as this looks like a REALLY interesting derivative

pemasu wrote:Dave S. Do you use SNS or Frisbee ?

SNS.... Is that wrong?

Dave S. You could try how well Frisbee works. I really dont know much how well SNS and Frisbee co-operate in dpup. Not much experience. For me Frisbee has worked fine. There is now 2 dhcpcd included as I explained in Iguleders thread when I posted laptop-tools-all. And dpup had wpa_supplicant with all its own scripts. I really dont know yet what interferes with what.

I need more feedback.

The problem is that the required module, broadcom picma wireless, does not load during boot. I load it manually via the network wizard and save, but it is not persistent. Had this problem in 4.3, but forget the fix now, it was so long ago.....

broadcom wl.ko driver here. too many times sns script times out as shows in the report. Frisbee never has timed out for me.

installed puppizard-007, puppizard_e17, puppizard_scripts pets. then choose from the list to download and install libreoffice 3.4.1linux_x86 rpm from stable release. 146M!

Back from my fresh frugal install.

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1033MB (149MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 31 Jul 2011 03:47:58 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.39 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Fri Jul 15 19:38:53 GMT-8 2011
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.11.2 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution
-Current Session-
Computer Name : puppypc
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)

Already installed Hardinfo and Htop from the Debian repo....no real problems,just a little tweak to the desktop file on Htop.And no internet "blinky" in the taskbar.

Looking pretty good.

Dave S. It can be the problem of my separate z...sfs which has those needed modules and firmwares. Some drivers work better when the kernel modules and firmwares are inside the main sfs.
I suspected that there might come problems with separate kernel module sfs, but that separation also speeds things and you dont load to the ram all modules and it saves ram also.

So....maybe you will need build with kernel modules and firmwares inside the main sfs.

[quote="pemasu"]James C. I know that learning curve. I am at the first steps in e17. I think that Iguleder will post new versions with e17 so dont be afraid.

Jim3630. Libre Office rpm ?
Where did you find that one. It isnt in puppy-drake repo, in fact that repo is quite empty and it is for Drake Puppy. I have left it with all the other repos.
But it is not meant to be used.

Oh, it is probably something with Puppizard.

pemasu wrote:Jim3630. It sounds like you are installing libre office from puppy-drake repo. I am not sure how good idea it is to use puppy-drake rpm for libre office.
But I am sure nobody else has tried it before !!!!

I left puppy-drake repo but I didnt mean it to show in the PPM. I just wanted to check what there is, I didnt mean to use it.

But experiments are allowed.

I didnt check the PPM repo files when I did the build. Well...next time.

One of the first things I did after the install was to hide the Drake repo. I personally am using the Squeeze main, Puppy Dpup and Puppy Common repos.
Experimenting is fun though.

Yep. I need to check the dpup unfree repo if there is something which could be useful and add it to the PPM repo selection. At least there are firmwares for wireless cards.

pemasu wrote:Jim3630. Libre Office rpm ?
Where did you find that one. It isnt in puppy-drake repo, in fact that repo is quite empty and it is for Drake Puppy. I have left it with all the other repos.
But it is not meant to be used.

Oh, it is probably something with Puppizard.

Yes Puppizard runs out to a debian repo. installed to menu, run get error
"/root/%U does not exist."

how do I correct this?

James C wrote:

pemasu wrote:Jim3630. It sounds like you are installing libre office from puppy-drake repo. I am not sure how good idea it is to use puppy-drake rpm for libre office.
But I am sure nobody else has tried it before !!!!

I left puppy-drake repo but I didnt mean it to show in the PPM. I just wanted to check what there is, I didnt mean to use it.

But experiments are allowed.

I didnt check the PPM repo files when I did the build. Well...next time.

One of the first things I did after the install was to hide the Drake repo. I personally am using the Squeeze main, Puppy Dpup and Puppy Common repos.
Experimenting is fun though.

Puppizard chooses where to go it does not ask you. it was preinstalled in alpha 1 and I used it to install some small program that did work.