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Posted: Mon 05 Apr 2010, 20:57
by Laie
Broadcom Wifi again
I use a
Lenovo S12 netbook with the Nvidia ION Chip. jrb's pup-431bcm4312v3 runs the built in broadcom wifi device but it doesn’t cope with the graphic processor. Dpup beta4 runs the netbook smoothly but does not recognize the Broadcom 43xx wireless device. Any help possible?
Posted: Mon 05 Apr 2010, 21:50
by tubeguy
dejan555 wrote:Here's the aqualung from squeeze repo with all dependencies and tap plugins and jack driver, it doesn't lock up for me but I haven't tested it that much though. Use at your own risk
Tested with pfix=ram
aqualng_0.9b11-i386-dpup.pet 4.53 MB
Thanks dejan for the effort!- however on my Athlon Presario test box it starts but then closes right away after a second, ran with frugal and pfix=ram.
I compiled from the SVN sources at sourceforge, I grabbed the whole thing with
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svn co https://aqualung.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/aqualung aqualung
It's really not a big deal, I just wanted to post my experiences with Aqualung, not looking for anyone to put any extra time into this (I won't be). Aqualung itself is a work in progress, not expecting perfection here. If it weren't for the LADSPA plugins and DSP settings I wouldn't even be interested in it, there are plenty of other players and BEEP works fine anyway.
Posted: Mon 05 Apr 2010, 22:10
by ttuuxxx
tubeguy wrote:dejan555 wrote:Here's the aqualung from squeeze repo with all dependencies and tap plugins and jack driver, it doesn't lock up for me but I haven't tested it that much though. Use at your own risk
Tested with pfix=ram
aqualng_0.9b11-i386-dpup.pet 4.53 MB
Thanks dejan for the effort!- however on my Athlon Presario test box it starts but then closes right away after a second, ran with frugal and pfix=ram.
I compiled from the SVN sources at sourceforge, I grabbed the whole thing with
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svn co https://aqualung.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/aqualung aqualung
It's really not a big deal, I just wanted to post my experiences with Aqualung, not looking for anyone to put any extra time into this (I won't be). Aqualung itself is a work in progress, not expecting perfection here. If it weren't for the LADSPA plugins and DSP settings I wouldn't even be interested in it, there are plenty of other players and BEEP works fine anyway.
aren't you using beep with ladspa included? from 4.3
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26013
mp4 addon
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26014
wma addon
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26015
ttuuxxx
Posted: Mon 05 Apr 2010, 22:23
by tubeguy
Aw, man- I bet all the cool kids have been hip to this for a while, too. Here's an anal-retentive, over-analytical question though: what interpolation does beep use, linear or sinc?
Posted: Tue 13 Apr 2010, 02:07
by OverDrive
This is my first test of Dpup. The UI is quite a nice step in the right direction. What all I tested was usually very intuitive.
One problem I found though...
The b43 driver has a bug ( the same as puppy 4.3.1 ) in that it's lan throughput is about 1/12 of what it should be. The wl driver in Stardust 13 or the b43 driver in quirky 018 do not have that problem though.
Keep up the good work...
OverDrive
484b4 testing
Posted: Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:40
by jeffy39
Howdy All,
Am I missing a codec or something?
Dont have any sound from .pps slide shows.
Am using OpenOffice-2.4.1.sfs and ch4-jre1.6.0_11.sfs.
Dpup-devx-484.sfs also loaded.
Thanx much for info to fix.
Posted: Wed 09 Jun 2010, 13:23
by Shep
I was using dpup477 but it seemed that firefox was developing one
problem after another (*) so when firefox wouldn't even start up after
I allowed an automatic security update install from mozilla, I
downloaded a firefox pet and installed that.
This left me with two
firefox entries in the MENU. Firefox would now work again , but it was
still not right. (*)
I upgraded to 484 hoping that this would fix things. Alas, I still have two
entries in the MENU and neither succeeds to bring up the browser.
From the command line, /usr/bin/firefox elicits this error message:
oops, I've had to resort to stardust CD so can't get hold of the error
Anyway, perhaps I can clean out all files relating to firefox and reinstall
it. So is it safe to delete every file whose pathname includes the
'firefox' or 'mozilla' string? Can I avoid losing my bookmarks and
stored passwords?
(*) that was weeks ago, I've forgotten exactly what was going wrong
Posted: Wed 09 Jun 2010, 18:13
by dejan555
dpup's firefox is installed in /lib/firefox by default not sure which pet you installed but it may have created another desktop entry.
Menu entries are built from desktop entries in /usr/share/applications/ you probably have two firefox desktop files there if you delete one and refresh menus it will be gone.
Installing firefox on dpup 484 - well I downloaded latest firefox 3.6.3 from their official site there's precompiled binary and extracted to /lib/firefox over the one that was there.
Posted: Mon 14 Jun 2010, 13:53
by sinc
is gposil gone? just curious, i think micko has had updates on him previously. if so, (i hope he is okay) is anyone else going to take over this project?
Posted: Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:29
by Shep
I'd like a lynx browser. I found a lynx .deb so I clicked and gave the go ahead to
install it. It said it was installed, but I can't find where it is stored, if indeed it is.
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# find / -name 'lynx*'
/root/.packages/lynx_2.8.7dev9.files
/usr/share/doc/lynx
/initrd/pup_rw/root/.packages/lynx_2.8.7dev9.files
/initrd/pup_rw/usr/share/doc/lynx
/mnt/sda6/lynx-cur_2.8.7dev9-2.1_i386.deb
/mnt/sda6/lynx_2.8.7dev9-2.1_all.deb
The puppy package manager does list it under Installed packages.
No joy here, so is there a lynx .pet specific for dpup?
I'm wanting it to read news direct from the server, so it must
understand the news:// style of URL/
crippling bug in abiword
Posted: Sun 20 Jun 2010, 11:51
by Shep
There's a gotcha in abiword in dpup484 (I don't know about in other
puppies). Twice within the space of 15 mins I lost abiword all together.
Both times it happened as my left pinkie slipped off the shift key and
hit the ctrl key (well, those are the keys I believe were involved).
I meant to hold the shift key down but had it by the edge and my
finger slipped onto the ctrl key and the window with abiword disappeared.
I started another instance of abiword, then the identical thing
happened again.
So dangerous as to make abiword unusable for anything except
very short files that I can afford to lose.
EDIT: Just discovered that abiword disappeared when I hit the BS
key, so clearly there are major probs. Fortunately, I had started
abiword from the commandline, and the error message it leaves
after it crashes, is this:
** (abiword:5772): WARNING **: Error loading plugin: unknown dl-error
Means nothing to me, but I hope it does to someone.
I'm not one to give up.
So I tried again. After about 10 mins, I hit the backspace key to
erase a typo and abiword disappeared. This time the error message
on the commandline is:
(abiword:16819): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
Aborted
The window with abiword disappeared as I tapped the BS key.
AFAIK I'm using the bog-standard dpup484 beta 4.
Where is my dpup?
Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:34
by s0n1c800m
I had a hdd die on me, so now, 2 months later, I wanted to re-dl dpup. And I can't find it!
I went to dpup.org and waded down to 484b4, as usual, but all I get are the md5 numbers.
What's going on?
LuPu isn't running the one program I really need to run, and I don't know/care enough to spend any more time on figuring out why.
I like dpup and would have been happy to see it become the standard for future pups.
Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 18:00
by dejan555
Wow well isn't that weird! Indeed isos are removed, maybe hosters decided to delete the big files and gposil is still away - maybe they didn't even contact him. Anyway that's strange!
Here I've found a dpup 482 iso on Mike's puppy repo:
http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/mike/ ... 6.30.5.iso
Also if you want you can try my kdpup which is based on latest 484 beta, it's much bigger but there are several window managers inside and all the apps that were in dpup are still in, just look for link in my signature.
I will see if I can find latest beta somewhere on web or make someone upload it dammit!
Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 18:17
by dejan555
Here's the link for 484 beta 4 sickgut has it mirrored on his server!
http://www.thepussycatforest.info/linux/dpup.iso
Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 20:19
by s0n1c800m
Oh, you rock... Thanks!
I'll give your pup a try, but I suspect kde might be a bit much for this old box.
<3
Gah, followed the link and read up on it... :/
Might be ideal, actually, esp if I can use icewm or sommat on it.
s0n1c begins to scheme and plot.
Posted: Fri 27 Aug 2010, 13:48
by Shep
Anyone know of an archive that still has a copy of Dpup477?
The file's full name is, I believe, dpup-477beta1-2.6.27.4.iso
Thanks.
Posted: Wed 04 May 2011, 06:45
by dejan555
Hey people, bringing this thread back from the dead
I'm still using dpup484 b4 on my PC and was thinking of updating some backend stuff ( new glibc/gtk/gnutls ) so it's more compatible with newer apps and packages.
I compiled glibc 2.13 and gtk 2.24.4 plus new gnutls if anyone's interested I might upload an iso after some testing if I manage to get this right.
EDIT: I want to keep same Xorg version that was in dpup, and make build with same kernel just with these libs updated since I'm not kernel guru, but pemasu is willing to try to update kernel once I upload a working iso and devx.
Posted: Wed 04 May 2011, 07:00
by ttuuxxx
dejan555 wrote:Hey people, bringing this thread back from the dead
I'm still using dpup484 b4 on my PC and was thinking of updating some backend stuff ( new glibc/gtk/gnutls ) so it's more compatible with newer apps and packages.
I compiled glibc 2.13 and gtk 2.24.4 plus new gnutls if anyone's interested I might upload an iso after some testing if I manage to get this right.
EDIT: I want to keep same Xorg version that was in dpup, and make build with same kernel just with these libs updated since I'm not kernel guru, but pemasu is willing to try to update kernel once I upload a working iso and devx.
I understand updating the gtk and its deps, but why update a kernel? The kernel in it was good if I recall right, Xorg ran very quickly with firefox, I would update things like Seamonkey/Firefox whichever but use the mozilla versions because they autoupdate which is nice for users, sure you compile them they are a bit smaller but don't update, maybe compile the latest QT which is always nice and VLC, but the best is GTK, oh when you compiled GTK did you get libpangocairo to compile? its usually a pain.
ttuuxxx
Posted: Wed 04 May 2011, 07:37
by dejan555
Well, kernel works just fine for me, I just though maybe other users would like it for newer modules and stuff, I am surely doing a build with same kernel and keeping Xorg.
I compiled glibc, glib, pixman, cairo, pango in that order, since it needs cairo compiled first to build libpangocairo. gdk_pixbuf was also needed to build gtk, it compiled but I had problems with it later so when I build gtk I update all these packages but keep old gdk_pixbuf which doesn't seem to make problems so far.
EDIT: BTW ttuuxxx I still haven't striped/splited these packages, since these are some crucial system libs can I still split dev libs and put them in devx sfs and what about locales?
Oh yeah it wanted new atk package too.
Posted: Wed 04 May 2011, 09:28
by Lobster
Hey people, bringing this thread back from the dead
Good news.
In an ideal world we would have pups created using woof (new security features being added) from the majors such as dpup, spup and upup . . .
I was very happy to use dpup
whilst it was emerging.
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Dpup
Some of the features and innovations that Guy was adding
showed a real talent and very able Puplet.
Good luck with the resurrection.