Puppy 4.2.1 Final

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ecomoney · #46 Post by **ecomoney** » Tue 26 May 2009, 12:39

P.S.....thanks for adding "just works" .mp4 support by clicking on the file....shame .avi support in this area has been dropped though

mrd · #47 Post by **mrd** » Thu 28 May 2009, 15:25

I just want to say thanks to everyone who helps on this project! I don't mind bugs once in a while so don't beat yourselves up over them.

If everything just worked perfectly out of the box, I would never learn anything.

James C · #48 Post by **James C** » Fri 29 May 2009, 17:54

I'm still waiting to see any new Linux release that has no bugs. Check out the reviews on Distrowatch or go to any Linux forum sometime.

" Bugs" are a pain and a reality.......one can only hope that any individual release won't contain too many.

cthisbear · #49 Post by **cthisbear** » Fri 29 May 2009, 23:58

" shame .avi support in this area has been dropped "

I hadn't tested that, so I tried yesterday.
I agree that this also should have been attended to.
Though of course when you drag the Gxine icon into
the run action...then it also works.....annoying though.

I did the same for DVD ISO movies as well.
Minisys Muppy used to open ISO movies by default.

Strangely Seamonkey crashed a couple of times.
I've heard reports of this before.

I actually tried out Firepup as a replacement.
Good work...no crashes.

Chris.

ecomoney · #50 Post by **ecomoney** » Sat 30 May 2009, 11:25

Well, the good new is Ttuuxxx has agreed to make incremental updates to bugs like this in 4.2.1 until woof is "stable".

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 5&start=75

Ive entered it in the bugs section so he knows what issues to resolve

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=39

#51 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 30 May 2009, 13:11

ecomoney wrote:Well, the good new is Ttuuxxx has agreed to make incremental updates to bugs like this in 4.2.1 until woof is "stable".

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 5&start=75

Ive entered it in the bugs section so he knows what issues to resolve

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=39

Yes I did say that and will do that as once as Warren has told me that he has stopped with updates and will no longer be producing bug fix releases. I will not step on his toes, but I will keep the series moving forward if need be.
ttuuxxx

aarf · #52 Post by **aarf** » Sun 31 May 2009, 02:55

FriedelBumm wrote:
In my eeePC 701, 4.2.x has been looking crisp and responding quickly (with the added extras by tempestuous), so nothing to complain, really.
My EEE 701G runs quickly and stable (sometimes firefox crashes, but it's probably a flash problem) in 4.2.0, but the upgrade to 4.2.1 doesn't find the ath0 wifi device. I didn't tested with the devx-sfs, but any eee-extras take effect. - I'm happy that the downgrade with my pup_save was no problem.

to get wifi working try this.
get madwifi pet from this page:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34159
click install it.
then use the search function to search for ath_pci.ko and then delete (backup or move it to my_documents) the ath_pci.ko that is not in the madwifi folder ( it is the smaller ath_pci.ko at 115K that has to be removed). then restart.

tempestuous · #53 Post by **tempestuous** » Sun 31 May 2009, 08:30

FriedelBumm wrote:but the upgrade to 4.2.1 doesn't find the ath0 wifi device.

Upgrades are commonly problematic, and of course, in your case the wifi driver was installed from a dotpet.
All you probably need to do is reinstall madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-k2.6.25.16.pet

aarf wrote:get madwifi pet from this page:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34159
click install it.
then use the search function to search for ath_pci.ko and then delete (backup or move it to my_documents) the ath_pci.ko that is not in the madwifi folder ( it is the smaller ath_pci.ko at 115K that has to be removed). then restart.

No no. madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-k2.6.25.16.pet definitely installs the updated ath_pci.ko module into
/lib/modules/2.6.25.16/madwifi
and overwrites the original version. I just checked again now.
If you have ath_pci.ko anywhere else, it's not from my dotpet.

aarf · #54 Post by **aarf** » Sun 31 May 2009, 12:13

tempestuous wrote: No no. madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-k2.6.25.16.pet definitely installs the updated ath_pci.ko module into
/lib/modules/2.6.25.16/madwifi
and overwrites the original version. I just checked again now.
If you have ath_pci.ko anywhere else, it's not from my dotpet.

I'm currently on the moon (actually I'm back on earth, but I wrote this post while still on the moon)

the ath_pci.ko I removed was in this folder:
/lib/modules/2.6.21.7/net/
it was 116Kin size. wifi failed to work before I removed it and worked after I did.
I'll go searching for the pets/dotpups I used, as I was playing around for quite a while over a day or two before I could get this to work and I have some older pets/dotpups along with newly downloaded ones.

attached image of pets used first dpets.jpg that failed. then added to that also the second image dpetsmad.png after further playing. still failed, before deleting
/lib/modules/2.6.21.7/net/ath_pci.ko made it work. haven't actually added the aircrack yet.

tempestuous · #55 Post by **tempestuous** » Sun 31 May 2009, 12:56

aarf wrote:the ath_pci.ko I removed was in this folder:
/lib/modules/2.6.21.7/net/

You have installed an incompatible version of the Eee ath_pci driver.
madwifi-ng-r2756-eeepatch-k2.6.21.7.pet is ONLY for Puppy versions with the 2.6.21.7 kernel; Puppy 3.x and 4.0.
Note that my driver dotpets always include the kernel version in their names.
Be careful about where you obtain your dotpets. That driver was posted in the thread "Extras for Puppy 3.x and 4.0"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 643#153643
Clearly, it's not suitable for Puppy 4.1/4.2.

Yes, the directory path for the ath_pci module was different with this earlier kernel. That was Barry's decision when he added third-party drivers at the time.

aarf wrote:haven't actually added the aircrack yet.

The aircrack variant of the Eee wifi driver is only necessary if you want to use the aircrack utility for wardriving/WEP-cracking.

aarf · #56 Post by **aarf** » Sun 31 May 2009, 13:22

Clearly, it's not suitable for Puppy 4.1/4.2.

thanks for the clarification tempestuous.
Clearly, what is clear to you was not clear to me

and possibly not clear to FriedelBumm. I shall be more careful in future. thanks again.

aarf · #57 Post by **aarf** » Wed 03 Jun 2009, 16:15

can you see something wrong with page or is it just me that it is annoying?
http://puppylinux.com/

Dingo · #58 Post by **Dingo** » Wed 03 Jun 2009, 18:45

In Puppy 4.2.1, on my not so new pc (Pentium III 1 Gh clock - 655 MB RAM), bling, causes some slowdown (e.g. in updating menu or when I kill x session and restart x)

Do you know any safe way to remove bling so my pc is speeder?

sideburns · #59 Post by **sideburns** » Wed 03 Jun 2009, 19:52

I'm running Puppy 4.0 on my laptop. It has a P II 255, 96Meg of RAM and a 3 Gig hard disk. It's a full install, not a frugal. Which version of Puppy should I upgrade to, and what's the best way? (I know Puppy checks for upgrade on boot, so I'm presuming there's a way to do it without a complete reinstall.)

Wolf Pup · #60 Post by **Wolf Pup** » Wed 03 Jun 2009, 20:05

puppy 4.2 and 4.2.1 for some reason is slower to start the desktop than 4.1.2

puppys getting slow

lefty · #61 Post by **lefty** » Thu 04 Jun 2009, 19:37

I recently downloaded Puppy 4.2.1. and made a CD
Then i booted with pfix=ram.
I choose swedish keyboard
( += I think Puppy 4.2 looks nice (just like 4.1) )

For me one of the best things with puppy is that i can use the same CD on many different computers. for example my laptop is more silent with Puppy (the CPU-fan runs for shorter periods than with windows).
in seaMonkey in puppy 4.1 i could not write e-mails in hotmail without using a pup-save.2fs-file , so I really wanted to try Puppy 4.2.1
BUT now i wasn't able to write @. i dont know how you write @ with English keyboard, With a swedish keyboard we push "Alt Gr" together with the key labeled @ (which also is the key for "2"). When i did this, Seamonkey was minimized and when i Maximized it again no @ had been written. i also tryed to write @ in Geany but it no "@" show up.
this "happend" on a desktop with a 2GHz pentium4 and i think the motherboard is from COMPAQ. I had no problems writing @ in Puppy 4.1 so i was surprised i cant do this in 4.2.1
does this only happend to me?, or Is there a solution?

(I'm sorry for my poor english),
/kind regards from a swedish puppy-user since puppy 2.14

janeee · #62 Post by **janeee** » Thu 04 Jun 2009, 20:14

12 April I reported the problem with Alt Gr and @, and to fix the problem, you can read on page 13 of the thread Puppy 4.2 "Deep Thougth" Bugs & Fixes. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=180

Jag hoppas att du kan läsa min dåliga engelska, jag tror din engelska är bättre.

lefty · #63 Post by **lefty** » Sat 13 Jun 2009, 21:28

Thanks janee!
This settings in "Advanced Xorg keyboard configuration" worked for me too, (it made it possible to type @).

I havent spent much time with Puppy for the last days, but i would probably have needed a couple of days to figure this out by myself.
I think its a little strange to place pure keyboard-settings under the group/headline including Xorg, ( does this mean you will not be able to reach @ if you use the Xvesa driver instead ? ).
I am now able to see, Just like Puppy 4.1 the same problem still remains in 4.2 when you like to create a mail in hotmail, so i think I hold on to Pup 4.1 for a while, it is a little easier to start 4.1 if you want to start from CD only and with swedish keyboard (when you want to use a computer for internet).

janeee · #64 Post by **janeee** » Sat 13 Jun 2009, 23:04

I have only used the Xorg and FRUGAL installation on USB memory so I need only change one time for it to work well for me.

I find it strange they have added the word (latin1) in Puppy 4.2.1 in the choice of Swedish keyboard when running Live CD, maybe someone has confused Sweden with Switzerland ?.

edoc · #65 Post by **edoc** » Mon 06 Jul 2009, 16:57

Where did y'all hide the devx.sfs for 4.2.1, please?

I need to compile a module to run xmblackberry

Also, I guess that I need the "kernel source sfs files" as well.

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Puppy 4.2.1 Final

Re: thanks

removing bling

Puppy 4.2.1 Final

impossible to write "@" in Seamonkey

Yes, The "Xorg-settings" made the @-key work on my computer

Re @ with AltGr