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tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

I got a successful build with Woof Alpha 3 dPUP I'm writing this forum message from dPUP 014

As with Alpha 2, this has been the only Puppy to date that recognises the ATI Radeon 3450 video card out of the box. No need for the proprietary fglrx driver. This system is fast.

No joy with CUPS. I tried to install HPLIP, but the there were so many dependencies listed (most of them nothing to do with HPLIP) that the system seemed to give up.

Downloading the packages was fast from the Debian server and was only missing 2 packages. I started the 2createpackages script which halted at the places corresponding to the 2 missing packages, libdevmapper and xserver-common. I googled around and found something that seemed to be equivalent to them, renamed them to the expected names, whereupon the script ran to termination and exited.

The ISO seemed to build OK. Booted straight into X with full 1400 X 900 screen resolution

I then installed Iceweasel and Icedove. That was also straight-forward.

So only remaining issue for me is CUPS printing.

Great job Barry

dinky · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 699

Hi tronkel, you can probably replace cups with the puppy version; to my understanding pet packages should work fine. I think there will be numerous issues with various packages from each distro that won't work, but the base development is there.

I'm experimenting with the upup iso, and loving the new package manager. Very slick. Will post more soon.

~dinky

Lobster · Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 06:19 Post subject:

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

Package management in dPup is looking good.

Just installed claws-mail 3.50 complete with all the plugins. All seems to be working OK. This is something Ttuuxxx has been compiling for 4.20. It works very well as a binary package install in Woof Alpha3.

I'll make this build my working distro now. Will also try it on the Classmate PC and the Asus 901 eeepc

@dinky:

Had a go with installing a recent CUPS pet from the forum. With hpijs ppd driver I get the dreaded foomatic-rip failed message. Will keep trying though

BarryK · Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 07:57 Post subject: Re: Woof Alpha 3

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

@tronkel:
As far as cups and hplip, have you tried the recent Patriot's pets?
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=286823&search_id=970283434#286823

smil99 · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 148

Sorry I posted this earlier in Barry's blog. I guess this is the right place to post.

I tried running Intrepid Puppy alpha3 on my Sharp PC-AL60GB laptop but the system freezes upon clicking any of the icons on the desktop. I booted also with acpi=off option and got the same result. I have had no such behaviour on the said laptop when running any of the Puppy 4.2 and earlier ones. Is there any fix for this anomaly?
Interestingly, it runs perfectly on my Fujitsu FMV DeskPower C4/80L desktop.

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 944 Location: England

Ive tried upup Intrepid 015 iso:
Live cd on my old 600MHz 256MB machine, no problems so far.
Live usb on my Acer Aspire One, and wireless connection worked with no problem.

What glorious bling-free desktop- it won't last though, will it?

Gerry

Terryphi

There is a slight problem with the Package Manager. The last entry in the installed packages is hidden - although if I arrow down it comes into view. I don't know if this is only a problem at some resolutions - mine is set at 800x600.

dogone · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 202 Location: Arizona, USA

As happened with the upup provided with alpha 2, the alpha 3 upup fails to start X on my hardware (see attached). xorg.conf looks reasonable - have not examined .xinitrc. I've had no such problem before with Puppy on this hardware.

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

Lobster wrote:

dogone · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 202 Location: Arizona, USA

It appears alpha 3.1 is still having difficulty with some Arch package names. My apup DOWNLOAD-FAILS-tar-gz contains two entries:

libldap-2.3.43-3
-i686.pkg.tar.gz

The first is listed in Arch repositories. The second appears a package name parsing error. I suppose both could result from Arch's inconsistancies, but therein lies Woof's challenge.

dogone · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 202 Location: Arizona, USA

Alpha 3.1 3builddistro is flagging many execute flag errors in /lib and /usr/lib. An example:

.ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libcap.so.1.10'

If I correct the flagged files and re-run 3buliddistro, the script re-creates those files with execute flag turned off and the errors appear again.

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

Iluamco wrote:

dogone · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 202 Location: Arizona, USA

Alpha 3 and 3.1 3builddistro reports the following AND those in the attached.

/usr/bin/sylpheed: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/sylpheed)
/usr/bin/sylpheed: /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/sylpheed)