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#!/bin/bash

if [ -f /root/.acpid_on ] ; then 
	acpid
	which acpitool
	if [[ $? != 0 ]] ;then
		exit 
	fi
	
	acpitool -a |grep off-line
	if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
	       /etc/acpi/powersave.sh
	else
		/etc/acpi/turbo.sh
	fi
	exec ppower
fi

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In this way, if using a laptop and you boot while using battery power, it'll use powersave by default. In any other case, it'll use turbo at all times.
Once you finish building the new adrive and create a new ISO, you can create a frugal or a live CD/DVD with it, and as long as you boot with AC power, the default power setting mode will always be turbo.

Hmmm, that's the same as the original file except turbo instead of performance, but it still loads powersave on both of my desktops for some strange reason.

I am using a custom Saluki built with the custom builder, I'll have to try the original and see if it loads performance.

Edit:

Ok, even the original Saluki 023 defaults to powersave. It seems to think I'm on battery for some reason.

Well, if you want to live dangerously and ensure turbo is always started, you could edit 9acpid to be the following:

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In this way, even if you start with battery power, turbo mode will be used.

elroy wrote:Well, if you want to live dangerously and ensure turbo is always started, you could edit 9acpid to be the following:

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#!/bin/bash

/etc/acpi/turbo.sh
exec ppower

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In this way, even if you start with battery power, turbo mode will be used.

I use it only on my desktop so I might just do that. Turbo even sounds cool, I could call it SalukiTurbo!

Thanks for the help, but I still find it strange that ACPI thinks it's on battery. If I open power-tools, ACPID is enabled and is set to performance.

elroy wrote:Hi darkcity,

great news that you are continuing Saluki in the form of Carolina. Are there any plans to use a bug/feature tracker? This is something I think would move Puppy forward and help retain improvements from release to release?

BTW I've added your 'corner' to the PuppySite list

I mentioned this to Geoffrey this morning, that we should start some kind of bug-tracking list. I think that would be a great idea. Hopefully we can implement something on that front.

You might want to use googlecode and/or github or even sourceforge and keep track of the development process in association with bugs. Makes life easier both for developers and contributors.

elroy wrote:Hi r866,

Check this link out. It deals with precisely that subject
CPU scaling mod - Load previously used power mode at startup

cheers

Works great on my eeepc!
This tweak is a must have on any note/netbook and I think it deserves to be placed in the howto section of this forum.
Thank you, elroy!

I lost my icons off the desktop. The programs are still listed at:

/root/desktop.

I know there is a fix, but I can't seem to find it on the forum, and I can't remember how to do it.
Would someone steer me in the right direction, please?


Thanks,
Pete

PS
I am glad that Carolina is coming. I am really looking forward to it.

Hey Pete22, see if this helps.

open a terminal and enter the following:

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@Geoffrey

New final version of Sayonara 0.3 has been released.
Every known bug has been fixed. Thanks for patience

Cheers,

Lucio

LucioCarreras wrote:@Geoffrey

New final version of Sayonara 0.3 has been released.
Every known bug has been fixed. Thanks for patience

Cheers,

Lucio

Lucio,

I compiled and tested it, it works, but there are things that make it unusable as a default audio player, elroy ran a few test on it.

elroy wrote:*Sayonara lacks the ability to load media from the command-line; hence there is no way for it to play
media unless Sayonara is first opened and then manually loaded via the menu, or if a playlist has been
chosen to load from startup in the preferences. Without this ability, there is no way to handle the
audio mime-types.

If you could fix these issues, it could be used as the default player.

Geoffrey.

elroy wrote:As promised by Geoffrey, here are some of the details of the upcoming beta release of Carolina-001

I would be so grateful if the kernel driver for ENE card reader is included.
My original request is in the Saluki website http://saluki-linux.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=28.

Thanks in advance for Carolina.

Thanks for answering elroy.

I did what you suggested about the missing Icons. It did not work
I'll just wait and put Carolina on this computer when it comes out.

I really like the friendly looking puppy image on the Carolina desktop.
I mess up my savefiles on a regular basis. It would be great if Carolina
had a good backup system, to save me from myself.

Will Carolina help large programs auto symlink themselves outside the savefile?
Will the packages for Saluki work in Carolina?

Thanks for all the good work you guys are doing.

Pete

Pete22 wrote: I mess up my savefiles on a regular basis.

I know it's extra work...and not automated...but I copy my know good save file to another file name/lcoation befor I add any thing/ make any changes.

Run bootable usb and have three different save files on the usb....the base system, the last known working save file and one that use for tests. Makes life simple when I mess up(which I do a lot).

Thom

I compiled the latest mhwaveedit for saluki.
Saluki has no libsamplerate so a special compile is needed.

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don570 wrote:I compiled the latest mhwaveedit for saluki.
Saluki has no libsamplerate so a special compile is needed.

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Thanks don570,

That's what I use when editing audio files, I'll give a test, though there is a libsamplerate-0.1.7-i486.pet and the dev libsamplerate_DEV-0.1.7-i486.pet in the PPM

Pete22 wrote: Will the packages for Saluki work in Carolina?

Yes. Saluki packages will work on Carolina.

Pete22 wrote:Will Carolina help large programs auto symlink themselves outside the savefile?

This feature probably won't make it into the first beta-release, but it is something that we'll look into going forward.

I installed Audaciuos 3.2.3 from the Saluki repo and there is no mp3 support. Is there a way to enable this, or is there another Audacious pet that will play mp3's in Saluki 0.2.3?

That's what I use when editing audio files, I'll give a test, though
there is a libsamplerate-0.1.7-i486.pet and the dev libsamplerate_DEV-
0.1.7-i486.pet in the PPM

I've been using mhwaveedit without libsamplerate for the past few days
and I don't see any difference.

I have read THIS PAGE

and it appears that libsamplerate is used for high quality conversion
of the sample rate for instance from 11025 to 44100 khz

Professionals might need this feature but for the rest of us
the simple conversion algorithms work fine.

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The latest update on Carolina Linux is available for those that are interested.

rg66 wrote:I installed Audacious 3.2.3 from the Saluki repo and there is no mp3 support. Is there a way to enable this, or is there another Audacious pet that will play mp3's in Saluki 0.2.3?

Maybe try installing ffmpeg from the wary5 repo in Saluki PPM.

By the way, if you like your audio player to have playlists in tabs like Audacious, have you tried Deadbeef?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79351

Edit: Just did a quick test, Saluki 021, booted RAM only, installed Audacious and Audacious-plugins 3.2.3, tried an mp3 stream but says no decoder found, ffmpeg doesn't seem to help. Plays in Xnoise or Deadbeef.