Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[CiaW]

Hi Joe, long story short, I wanted to watch a dvd video on my laptop and neither gxine or vlc worked on Fedora 11 lxde spin, nor on the new lupo (puppy v501) so I tried your original slaxer pup and it worked!

So I visted these forums and saw you had this cooking version which I downloaded and that works too as far as playing a video -- (and my broadcom 4318 wireless too!) but I did a frugal install to it's own (puppy412) folder and it didn't save any of my settings and I noticed the HDD light stayed on, even when the HDD wasn't being accessed. So there's something not 'quite right' about the newest version on my laptop. Here are some specs:
IBM Thinkpad 600x with 256mb ram Pentium PIII at 500mhz
Audio adapter is a Cirrus Logic Sound Fusion CS46xx (I ran hardinfo)
IDE disks
IC25N010ATCS04-0 (that must be the hard drive)
MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8171 (Obviously the dvd drive)

Thankfully I wrote the iso for the 'cooking' slaxer on an RW cd. If you need anything else, let me know.

[big_bass]

Hey CiaW

A great report

if you want a very nice media player select mplayer from the first page of this thread

that plays many formats

*about the hard drive light nothing I changed could have effected that
make sure you dont have any older pupsaves or 412 sfs getting loaded
maybe it is using swap ?

thanks for posting if you need anything else let me know
Joe

[Lobster]

created this promotional video for slaxer_pup . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4BqXF_ZXiY

[big_bass]

this is for anyone who boots from lilo instead of grub
and installs slaxer_pup

easy to modify for your different drives

since I have slackware 12.2 installed it uses lilo
to boot the system

if you want to install puppy on the same hardrive as your other lilo bootloader 2 distro in my case slackware was installed first


1.)install puppy using the installer the official way
frugal dont install grub

2.)edit /etc/lilo.conf {this gets added to lilo.conf its not complete}

[big_bass]

=========================================
upgrade browser firefox 3.64
firefox-3.6.4-i486-3_SLXR
---> download_now



dbus-glib *needed for firefox
dbus-glib-0.80-i486-4_SLXR
---> download_now




June 27 2010 flashplayer
flashplayer-10-06272010-i486-3_SLXR.txz
flashplayer-10-06272010-i486-3_SLXR
---> download_now

========================================

[tony]

Hi,

I got as far as installing nvidia 96.43.07 but it crashed out. Module usbhid could not be found, even in the extra kernel.

Regards Tony.

[big_bass]

tony

maybe the package nvidia 96.43.07 has to be re compiled


because HID is compiled in the kernel not a "module"
so thats a false error message



#

[duckrow]

I installed this in a Thinkpad 600 with 420mb ram and 300mhz cpu.
It is wonderful but the keys are typing as though numlock is on ie J=1 K=2 L=3 etc. and I can't turn it off. Any ideas?
I only have a shallow understanding of Linux, OK up to a point, then clueless.

[big_bass]

[tony]

Hi,

you were right. I downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.25-pkg1.run from

nvidia site. Exited to prompt and ran it.

now have direct rendering.

Another problem has arisen with ldd :-

# ldd
# bash: /usr/bin/ldd: bad interpreter: No such file or directory bash: bash:: command not found

Regards Tony.

[big_bass]

Hey Tony

lets do it the manual hard way first

[2lss]

hey big_bass

Nice job on slaxer pup! I gave it a spin on my eeepc 900 and was very impressed. There are a few slight problems though.

When I shut down, I never get a chance to make a pupsave. I just get the message "session not saved" and it shuts off. I checked and it is running in pupmode 5, so maybe there is an issue in the shutdown script.

About every 5 to 6 seconds the mouse cursor freezes for a split second. Also noticed the same thing when scrolling a document or entering text. Not sure if there is some kind of background process causing the problem or a driver issue.

Other than that good deal!

[pakt]

Hej Joe,

Nice update you got here on your solid and dependable Slaxer_Pup-4.12

Good idea putting a date on the versions. Makes it easier to keep track of them.

I've put away my ARM-based hardware for a while to concentrate on a couple of surplus HP t5525 Thin Clients I picked up. These have VIA Eden 800 MHz CPUs, 128 MB RAM and 256 MB Flash memory, perfect for running SlaxerPup in other words

What I have in mind is to make a special *server* version of SlaxerPup to run on hardware like this. I was inspired by bchafy's Xin server puplet (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55154) which I have been running on the HP t5525.

What I have decided so far is to have the 'SlxrPupServer' puplet work as a printer server and a simple NAS (Network-Attached Storage: the HP t5525 has 4 USB 2.0 ports) for storing and sharing files on a USB HD or Flash drive. I may also try to add some streaming server app and a torrent client (need to figure out how first )

I've already got the printer server part working. I downloaded the p910nd printer daemon source, installed amigo's src2pkg and it compiled easily. Works great with my *2* USB printers, an Epson inkjet and a Brother laser, attached at the same time. Just need to configure CUPS for each printer (using the JetDirect/socket raw printing protocol) on the client PCs and you're ready to print through the HP server

Thanks for sticking with SlaxerPup

Paul

PS Almost forgot to thank you for compiling the audio and wifi drivers for the eBox-2300. I'll test them soon and report back.

[pakt]

BTW, here are a couple of apps I compiled using src2pkg to add to your collection.

Note that the forum doesn't allow the .tgz suffix - just remove the .ace ending after downloading.

Afterwards, just click on the file to install in SlaxerPup-cooking

[pakt]

A brief howto for the p910nd printer server daemon

Short description from the p910nd man page

p910nd is a small printer daemon intended for diskless workstations that does not spool to disk but passes the job directly to the printer. Normally a lpr daemon on a spooling host connects to it with a TCP connection on port 910n (where n=0, 1, or 2 for lp0, 1 and 2 respectively). p910nd is particularly useful for diskless Linux workstations such as those set up with LTSP and embedded devices that have a printer hanging off them. Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) supports this protocol, it's called the AppSocket protocol and has the scheme socket://. LPRng also supports this protocol and the syntax is lp=remotehost%9100 in /etc/printcap.

Installing the daemon

Download p910nd-0.93-i486-1.tgz and install in SlaxerPup by clicking on the file name.

You can test it by simply executing p910nd in a terminal
# p910nd &

If you want the daemon to start at every bootup, just include the above line (without the #) in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Using the daemon

On your client PC, configure the printer in CUPS. When CUPS asks which URI to use, choose 'socket://' and add the IP address of the 'server', i.e. the PC running the printer daemon (choosing a static IP address for the printer server makes things easier ) followed by a colon and the port number).

Example URI: socket://192.168.0.15:9100

That's it!

Advanced - using two printers on the same server

Two printers on the same server is a little more complicated, but I did get it to work. Here's where the 'lsusb' utility came in handy. Two instances of the daemon need to run and the server must somehow determine which daemon controls which physical USB port.

Here's how I did it

1. Connect both printers to USB ports on the server.

2. Start up two printer daemons (in a terminal or in rc.local). The daemons will change name to reflect which port they use.

# p910nd -f /dev/usb/lp0 0 &
# p910nd -f /dev/usb/lp1 1 &

3. Run lsusb in a terminal and check the output. For example:
# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f9:0027 Brother Industries, Ltd HL-2030 Laser Printer
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:0005 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus D88+
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
#

Note that here the Epson printer is on Bus 001 and the Brother printer on Bus 002.

4. On your client PC, add the two printers in CUPS. For example if the printer server has the IP address 192.168.0.15:

Epson printer - Device URI: socket://192.168.0.15:9100
Brother printer - Device URI: socket://192.168.0.15:9101

Here's how the choice was made: The Epson printer has the lower bus number, so give it the first port number (9100). The Brother printer then gets the next higher port number (9101).

I found out the above by experimentation. There is probably a better way to determine which logical port (9100/9101) connects to which physical USB port. Perhaps someone can enlighten me

BTW, this printer daemon will also work with parallel port printers, but I haven't tested that.