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tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1048 Location: Vienna Austria

Lobster wrote:

Caneri · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1565 Location: Canada

Hi Jack,

People can download from .asia with
user=puppy
password=linux

I am copying to .ca right now so when the md5.txt is there it's ready.

Good to see to you again,
Eric

Lobster · Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 16:33 Post subject:

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1048 Location: Vienna Austria

@lobster

You could try the uPup that you downloaded on a netbook (Asus or such like) and see if that starts X. I don't think Ubuntu includes the open source Nvidia drivers. In real Ubuntu (as against uPup) if the system sees an Nvidia card, it will offer to download and install the proprietary driver. That won't happen in Woof uPup.

dPup on the other hand, does include ATI and as far as I know - Nvidia open source drivers - so it should work on your normal computer.

Would be interested to know how this works out for you.

BarryK · Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 20:14 Post subject:

One "good" thing, Lenny has stayed with Xorg 7.3.

Tronkel, regarding those two packages that were missing:

libdevmapper
The actual missing package is 'libdevmapper-event', which is in Ubuntu Intrepid but does not exist in Debian Lenny. So, I have removed it from DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-debian.

xorg-common
This one also is in Ubuntu, but Lenny it seems needs 'x11-common' instead. So, I have made the substitution in DISTRO-PKGS-SPECS-debian.

I'm running 0setup for Lenny right now, it's doing the conversion to standard format ...which takes awhile.

Regarding repositories, are there any large Lenny repos out there apart from the official ones?

Lobster · Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 22:50 Post subject:

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1048 Location: Vienna Austria

Barry wrote:

[quote]Regarding repositories, are there any large Lenny repos out there apart from the official ones?[/quote]

PDF here:

[url]www.paolinoland.it/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=24 -
[/url]

Patriot has done wonders with getting CUPS and other Linux printing
stuff to work in Puppy. Could save a huge amount of time for you Barry.

Here:
[url]http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=286823&search_id=970283434#286823[/url]

BarryK · Posted: Tue 24 Mar 2009, 07:12 Post subject:

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1048 Location: Vienna Austria

Barry wrote:

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1048 Location: Vienna Austria

Since I've been running dPup for the last few days and having installed both Iceweasel and Icedove (Debianised versions of Firefox and Thunderbird respectively), I've noticed that both of these apps seem to run faster and are more stable than the original Mozilla packages. Also the original Mozilla versions seem to have longer start-up times - especially if a few extensions have been installed. I reckon that these Debian compiles are good. Iceweasel is at v3.06 and Icedove is at 2.0.0.19 (Mozilla equivalent versions).

Would it therefore not be a good idea to replace Seamonkey with an Iceweasel/Icedove combo in Woof?

Or maybe ttuuxxx could use his surgical instruments on them and reduce the fat even more?

A DEB and or pet package of this combo would be a good idea as well.

I

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 24 Mar 2009, 10:25 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 24 Mar 2009, 11:09 Post subject:

ok I downloaded about 10 debian packages for Iceweasel 3.0.6 and have it working on 4.2. It has the same issues on puppy 4.2 as firefox 3.0.6, if you goto https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox and try to move the scroll bar up and down it drags terribly, the mouse is at the top of the page and about 30sec later the scroll bar reaches, I did try last week replacing, glib,gtk2,cairo,pixman,pango and then compiled firefox and the same issue happened, I also updated flash to 10 and the same issue.
ttuuxxx

PS this is how IceWeasel was built

Build platform
target
i486-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler Version Compiler flags
gcc gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) -Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -W -Wno-long-long -g -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -pipe
c++ gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -g -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -pipe

Configure arguments
--enable-application=xulrunner --prefix=/usr --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9 --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 --enable-pango --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 --enable-system-cairo --with-system-png --with-system-jpeg --with-system-zlib --with-system-bz2 --with-gssapi=/usr --with-system-nspr --with-system-nss --enable-xinerama --enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing --enable-svg --enable-svg-renderer=cairo --enable-mathml --disable-pedantic --disable-long-long-warning --enable-gnomevfs --enable-gnomeui --disable-tests --disable-mochitest --disable-debug --enable-canvas --enable-js-binary --with-readline '--enable-extensions=default cookie permissions python/xpcom spellcheck' --disable-installer --disable-javaxpcom --disable-elf-dynstr-gc --enable-system-hunspell --disable-crashreporter --enable-system-sqlite --enable-system-lcms --disable-strip --disable-install-strip --enable-url-classifier --enable-startup-notification --host=i486-linux-gnu --build=i486-linux-gnu

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 24 Mar 2009, 13:22 Post subject:

Hey Tronkel The Iceweasel I downloaded from debian was based on 3 series, 3.0.6 if you want the debian package as a pet. Here it is.
8.8MB
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/programs/internet/iceweasel_3.0.6-1_i386.pet

name : puppy
password: linux
you'll probably have to type it twice Wink

ttuuxxx

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1048 Location: Vienna Austria

ttuuxxx wrote:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 24 Mar 2009, 15:10 Post subject:

OMG it does work, I'm using Dpup and Firefox/Iceweasel works fine Smile

First thing I did was change the icons, second thing I did was install Iceweasel pet and it works excellent. This is way cool Smile

I think I have a new toy to play with. Thanks Guys Smile

Where can I get the devx?
ttuuxxx

Ps I used the icons from 4.2RC 3 Smile