Puppy Tardis Beta suggestions

What features/apps/bugfixes needed in a future Puppy
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Puppy Tardis Beta suggestions

#1 Post by Lobster »

It caught me again!
When using the new *excellent (and working for me) xorg chooser, I moved to the required res and pressed enter (forgot space)

Either - as you move the "x" selection should be auto selected (ideal) or the space pressing requirement should be emphasised

In the initial bootup ) yes I prefer the pic but this is MUCH clearer
ACPI should be explained (coz it just means press this [geek speak] option)

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Re: Puppy Tardis Beta suggestions

#2 Post by BarryK »

Lobster wrote:It caught me again!
When using the new *excellent (and working for me) xorg chooser, I moved to the required res and pressed enter (forgot space)

Either - as you move the "x" selection should be auto selected (ideal) or the space pressing requirement should be emphasised
I don't think the "dialog" program (which is what is used to create those text-mode doalog boxes) can work in the way you suggest.

"press SPACEBAR" is in capitals already.
I could make 1024x768 preselected, so people would see the "X" against it, and get the idea.

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:oops: Sorry Barry - however clear things are some idiot gets it wrong. I am that idiot :oops:

I also tried changing my mouse for a serial device in case my wacom board can be classed as a mouse. No.

I am wondering if Xorg should be the default on loadup? Will it work for our Xvesa friends? Another great feature in Puppy Tardis is OpenGL - be interesting to find new apps that support this. I think this is another standard component to add to our impressive list.
You get loads more selections (and on my system I have to put in a code 0x011A for xvesa which is a little geeky). Using Xorg (once working) I found it stable and one of the refresh rates is 79mz - my monitor only goes up to 75mz - seems OK . . .)

I gave some of my anti-linux family a copy of Sizzler and the message from one (he is getting a Mac soon) I gave him Grafpup, was sceptical . . . As the Xorg say "Resistence is futile" but some people think it reasonable to pay unto eternity for software. Get it in hardware I say.
Does the motherboard come with an OS?
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#4 Post by MU »

OpenGL works.
You need a X.org -Driver that supports it.
I installed Puppy 107alpha on a machine with an old ATI radeon 7000.
The correct driver was autodetected.
it enables opengl, but without hardware-accelleration.
I can run the /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears -demoprogram from Mandrake.

I also tried to install the hardware-accellerated closedsource-driver from ATI, but it does not support this old card. That one also would need a Kernelmodule for accelleration.
There is a older driver from ATI for this card, but for XFree 4.x.x only.

btw. Lobster, what for a grafic-tablet do you have?
There is a german print-article (not online), that might help to set it up.
I might look, if it talks about your model.


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MU wrote: btw. Lobster, what for a grafic-tablet do you have?
There is a german print-article (not online), that might help to set it up.
I might look, if it talks about your model.
Thanks for the OpenGL info - I am quite excited by what you say and did not realise all the implications and possibilities. I have to use intuition where others use intelligence and knowledge.
:)

It is a wacom artpad KT-0405-R
Basically the cheapest, most used artpad - Mark Tyler who does Mtpaint has one. He had it set up with Gimp in another distro but not in Puppy.
I would be very pleased if you got it going (think of it as a belated Christmas Present to Nathan for Grafpup and for me for having excellent whiskers) 8)
I am also wondering if Xorg means we have potential joystick control?
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#6 Post by MU »

there is a howto:
http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/main

This page lists the supported models:
http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/main

I can't see your model there :(

But I would try anyway.

It seems you have to download the driver, and compile it.
Then you must enable it in the kernel:
rmmod wacom
rmmod usbhid
modprobe usbhid
modprobe wacom

Then you must add an entry to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

But first try, if compilation and loading the kernel-module works without errors.
Use a new pup001 for your tests!

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#7 Post by Lobster »

OK Mark - gonna try your suggestions - many thanks :)

Where do I get a driver for one of these though (watch the movie)?
http://www.lleedd.com/afterglow/pictures.html

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#8 Post by MU »

Lobster wrote:Where do I get a driver for one of these though (watch the movie)?
http://www.lleedd.com/afterglow/pictures.html
The movie is a flash-movie, mozilla can play it.
Can you see the flash-movies at http://rhinoweb.us ?

If yes, but not the movie on the site you mentioned, then you must install the additional xine-codecs with pupget.
If even that fails, you will need KLHs Codec-pack, which also is in Mega-Puppy.
Here is a Dotpup of all the Mega-Puppy codecs, they should include everything posted in the Forum in the past (16 MB, 39 MB extracted):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/all_codecs.pup

As this space is taken from your pup001, it would be better to use the Mega-puppy -file instead of the dotpup, where that does not happen.

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#9 Post by Lobster »

eh - thanks Mark . . .

What I actually meant is where do I get a pointing device driver as in the link . . .
:oops: Only joking it is a cutting edge laser device . . . :oops:

Anyway here is a progress report on my wacom driver efforts:

* created new Tardis Beta pup001

* installed usr_devx.sfs in /mnt/home
(the Puppy "C" language compiler)
and rebooted

intend to use this info
for compiling (not really sure wha to compile)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Compiling


* downloaded the wacom drivers

used this console command:
# more /proc/bus/usb/devices

to get this:

Code: Select all

T:  Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d800
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d400
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=046d ProdID=0840 Rev= 1.00
S:  Product=Camera


* used
uname -a
(this tells you which version of the Linux kenrnel you have)
We have 2.4.29

*moved the precompiled files to
/user/lib

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Use X.Org 6.9?

#10 Post by J_Rey »

Recently X.Org has a new set of releases available. Both X11R6.9 & X11R7.0 are now released. Seems like trying 6.9 might be worth the extra testing, and wait on 7.0 for another release.

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