Bringing the Woof-CE template for Dpup Wheezy up to date
Posted: Mon 18 Jan 2016, 15:58
We now have a public alpha!
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Hello all. (But for people in the know only. Thanks.)
After having mumbled so much against it, I finally tried the Woof-CE process in
the hope of creating an upgrade to pemasu's series of Dpup Wheezies.
My goal for now is to have a base for the echinus wm and various supporting
scripts I've written, and see how to integrate echinus with the ROX environment
within a stable Puppy.
In the longer term, I might be looking at woofing a DPup Jessie, but I'm not
promising anything. I'm trying to stick to this immediate goal of making Puppy work
with a tiling/dynamic window manager.
Now to my problem:
It's really fabulous to have all the recent additions to ppm, pfind, etc., in a Puppy
build, and it looks great. Edit: Pupsaves get created without a hassle, and this
pup jumps right into X without having to issue "xwin" at the initial black console.
However the ethernet card and the sound card are not recognized. The retrovol
panel and alsamixer are kaput. And there is nothing for any network set-up script
to set up: no eth0, nothing. Both windows come up literally blank.
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I do not wish to go public with this draft. If you need a copy of the iso to answer
me, ask me through PM, please. If I send you the URL's, when commenting,
please always keep in mind that this is a "mongrel", a draft in need of
improvements, on the way to perhaps becoming a Puppy distro, but not there yet.
I appreciate the interest, but PLEASE DO NOT REVIEW IT AS A FINISHED
PRODUCT. In particular, I like to work with certain apps configured a certain way.
Please realize that those will not be the final settings: they are there temporarily to
speed up my work (hopefully). Many thanks for your understanding.
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I asked that the "huge" kernel 3.14.56-tahr-noPAE be incorporated instead of the
default Debian one. Can that be the source of the problem?
Is there a way to incorporate sound and network drivers after the construction, or
maybe it's simply a "juncture" script or program that's missing? I'm saying this
because I've seen lots of drivers in the zdrv.sfs. (Sort of a tree list is attached.)
In any case, any and all suggestions towards a solution will be appreciated.
I'll be back later with some screen captures of the woof construct. In the
meantime, you can get an idea of the work already done on the echinus
environment here. Mutatis
mutandis! The newly woofed Dpup-Wheezy is nicer! (Paragraph edited.)
Thanks in advance. BFN.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~;
Hello all. (But for people in the know only. Thanks.)
After having mumbled so much against it, I finally tried the Woof-CE process in
the hope of creating an upgrade to pemasu's series of Dpup Wheezies.
My goal for now is to have a base for the echinus wm and various supporting
scripts I've written, and see how to integrate echinus with the ROX environment
within a stable Puppy.
In the longer term, I might be looking at woofing a DPup Jessie, but I'm not
promising anything. I'm trying to stick to this immediate goal of making Puppy work
with a tiling/dynamic window manager.
Now to my problem:
It's really fabulous to have all the recent additions to ppm, pfind, etc., in a Puppy
build, and it looks great. Edit: Pupsaves get created without a hassle, and this
pup jumps right into X without having to issue "xwin" at the initial black console.
However the ethernet card and the sound card are not recognized. The retrovol
panel and alsamixer are kaput. And there is nothing for any network set-up script
to set up: no eth0, nothing. Both windows come up literally blank.
~~~~~~~~~~~ (Edited)
I do not wish to go public with this draft. If you need a copy of the iso to answer
me, ask me through PM, please. If I send you the URL's, when commenting,
please always keep in mind that this is a "mongrel", a draft in need of
improvements, on the way to perhaps becoming a Puppy distro, but not there yet.
I appreciate the interest, but PLEASE DO NOT REVIEW IT AS A FINISHED
PRODUCT. In particular, I like to work with certain apps configured a certain way.
Please realize that those will not be the final settings: they are there temporarily to
speed up my work (hopefully). Many thanks for your understanding.
~~~~~~~~~~~
I asked that the "huge" kernel 3.14.56-tahr-noPAE be incorporated instead of the
default Debian one. Can that be the source of the problem?
Is there a way to incorporate sound and network drivers after the construction, or
maybe it's simply a "juncture" script or program that's missing? I'm saying this
because I've seen lots of drivers in the zdrv.sfs. (Sort of a tree list is attached.)
In any case, any and all suggestions towards a solution will be appreciated.
I'll be back later with some screen captures of the woof construct. In the
meantime, you can get an idea of the work already done on the echinus
environment here. Mutatis
mutandis! The newly woofed Dpup-Wheezy is nicer! (Paragraph edited.)
Thanks in advance. BFN.