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#392 Post by backi »

Hi runtt21

Thanks for your quick reply .
Followed your advise. Mixer module now working fine .

One more time ....Macpup is a real fantastic distro .

Fast- sophisticated- elegant .

See you

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#393 Post by runtt21 »

And sometimes it even works on backi's computer. :lol:

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#394 Post by Barburo »

Hi
I'm new to Macpup. I haven't read all the way through the 25 pages on this thread so apologies if this query has already been answered. Installed the latest Macpup528 from your download mirror.
Firstly - wow it's fast. I had a vanilla install of Racy pup which was also quick but I guess running in memory really helps. My Acer Aspire laptop has twin Intel U4100 CPUs with 4 gigs memory so there's plenty of headroom.

I used Quickpet to download chrome browser which I have been using quite a lot - I love the sync feature so that I have essentially the same browser on all my desktops (about 10 or so if you count all the distros and derivatives and WinXP for my wife and compatibility sometimes!).

The sync feature in chrome just hangs - I can navigate to most pages I (only got "aw snap" for the chrome store) but no sync.
Any similar experiences or advice to offer?
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#395 Post by runtt21 »

I don't use chrome so I can't say for sure. But Firefox keeps all of it settings ,bookmarks and stuff in /root/.mozilla . If you can find where chrome keeps it stuff you can copy the file into macpup and have all of your "stuff".

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Chromium Browser

#396 Post by Barburo »

I decided to try and use puppy package manager to see if I could find a later version. Only the same version of the Chromium Browser that I already had installed came up so I decided to activate the puppy-lucid-main repository (Warning: it takes a looong time to download and update).
I then searched again with that repository checked, and there were several versions of the Chromium browser to choose from.
I picked the most recent and after a slooow download from ibiblio.com I now have the latest Chromium browser installed, synced and working great.
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#397 Post by Barburo »

I found a Geeqie pet that works for Macpup (much prefer it to Viewnior)

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... h&id=44049
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#399 Post by runtt21 »

Just finished a new build of e 71440 will start testing tomorrow if all goes well I should have another update for mp528 and mp528v2 soon.

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#400 Post by Barburo »

Using Macpup 528 v2
I have a partition on my laptop that is ext4 (it has Mint 12 loaded on it).
The version of Pmount in Macpup doesn't recognize an ext4 partition.
I get a red box with an error message "unable to load load sda7" but when I exit to other distros there is no problem with the partition.
I believe there is a version of pmount out there that is ext4 friendly.
Any plans to use a version of pmount that will recognize and mount ext4 partitions?
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#401 Post by Karl Godt »

runtt21 wrote:Just finished a new build of e 71440 will start testing tomorrow if all goes well I should have another update for mp528 and mp528v2 soon.

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Congrats !

Tried to built the core modules eina eet evas was ok but failed to build ecore and further .

Will stick with edje_[de]cc . I used to switch to b_a_w grill_light when i want to use the configuration panel to be able to read some lines .

Btw Macpup511 had no language modules installed . The lang .mo from Opera2 worked fine on Macpup5111 .

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#402 Post by runtt21 »

Barburo wrote:
I believe there is a version of pmount out there that is ext4 friendly.
Where did you see this?

@ Karl, "to be able to read some lines" try using older style themes like smoke or night bling.

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Barburo wrote:
I believe there is a version of pmount out there that is ext4 friendly.
Frugal install of Macpup 528 v2 ......... no problems mounting and accessing ext4 savefiles.. FWIW.
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I know that the Lighthouse Pup derivatives all recognize ext4 partitions so I assumed that it was pmount that did it.
So ... I copied the pmount exec from LHPup 503 (Tazoc's latest 32-bit LHPup which correctly identifies my /dev/sda7 partition as ext4), and executed it in Macpup528.

It ran perfectly but listed my ext4 partition as ext3!
So I'm wondering where and how does Macpup identify the partitions?

I looked in fstab (after booting into macpup 528) and all I see is:
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=2,mode=620 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw 0 0
which doesn't tell me much.

I looked in LHpup /sbin and saw that Tazoc had another exec - pmount3 with a note that it was changed to recognize ext4 partitions. It ran properly on LHPup 503 but when I copied it to Macpup it only ran far enough to display the swap partition then it quit. I ran it in a terminal and it showed an error message .
sh-4.1# /pmount3
Killing old window
/pmount3: line 770: 20400 Terminated yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -text "Puppy Drive Mounter

Please wait, probing hardware..."
I'm not up to any more investigating than that so I pass this ext4 puzzle onto someone who's more tech capable than I am.
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#405 Post by runtt21 »

@Barburo , Macpup's pmount and the way it identifies partitions isthe same as lucid's.


I have almost finished my testing of the new updates and should have them uploaded in a few days. :D

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#406 Post by Karl Godt »

Barburo wrote:I know that the Lighthouse Pup derivatives all recognize ext4 partitions so I assumed that it was pmount that did it.
So ... I copied the pmount exec from LHPup 503 (Tazoc's latest 32-bit LHPup which correctly identifies my /dev/sda7 partition as ext4), and executed it in Macpup528.

It ran perfectly but listed my ext4 partition as ext3!
So I'm wondering where and how does Macpup identify the partitions?

I looked in fstab (after booting into macpup 528) and all I see is:
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=2,mode=620 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw 0 0
which doesn't tell me much.

I looked in LHpup /sbin and saw that Tazoc had another exec - pmount3 with a note that it was changed to recognize ext4 partitions. It ran properly on LHPup 503 but when I copied it to Macpup it only ran far enough to display the swap partition then it quit. I ran it in a terminal and it showed an error message .
sh-4.1# /pmount3
Killing old window
/pmount3: line 770: 20400 Terminated yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -text "Puppy Drive Mounter

Please wait, probing hardware..."
I'm not up to any more investigating than that so I pass this ext4 puzzle onto someone who's more tech capable than I am.
B
Just a short not : not at any Macpup atm :
pmount uses

grep 'ext[2-4]' /usr/sbin/pmount
#v420JPa1 4Jun09: fix mount iso9660, ext2/ext3
#VALIDPARTS="`echo "$PARTSINFO" | grep -E 'vfat|msdos|ntfs|minix|ext2|ext3|ext4|reiser|xfs|iso9660'`"
VALIDPARTS="`echo "$PARTSINFO" | grep -E 'vfat|msdos|ntfs|minix|ext2|ext3|ext4|reiser|xfs|iso9660|udf'`"

bash-3.00# grep 'PARTSINFO=' !$
grep 'PARTSINFO=' /usr/sbin/pmount
PARTSINFO="`$PROBEPART -k | grep -v 'none' | tr ' ' '_' | tr '\t' '_' | cut -f 1-3 -d '|'`" #v3.98 fix for mut2.
PARTSINFO="/dev/$i|vfat|1440
PARTSINFO="$FDDRIVE|vfat|1440
cutPARTSINFO="`echo "$PARTSINFO" | grep "$xDSKPATTERN" | tr '\n' ' '`"

bash-3.00# grep 'PROBEPART=' !$
grep 'PROBEPART=' /usr/sbin/pmount
PROBEPART="probepart"
PROBEPART='mut --noserv probepart' #v407

bash-3.00#

To get the partitions .
Puppy does not write much into /etc/fstab automatically, except the default four lines cited above and only used by /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown at last line busybox umount -ar

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#407 Post by Karl Godt »

runtt21 : about grill_light : /usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes already has two "readable" .edj's :
default.edj and illume.edj , which both have a grill_dark background .
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#408 Post by runtt21 »

Wow the .062 build of e .That's Fox 3 . I haven't boot that up in a long time. I misunderstood what you were telling me,Sorry.

BTW they changed the edj file format, mp511 has the new type and the converter for the old type. If you make .edj files in a macpup before 511 they wont work in any of the ones from 511 on.....

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#409 Post by runtt21 »

I have converted Karl's background so it will work in 528 and made a .pet for it. Enjoy.
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#410 Post by Barburo »

Thanks for the replies.
The ext4 thing was "Operator Error"!
If you have "use MUT" checked for pmount it won't recognize ext4 partitions.
Un-check it and it does see ext4.
Egg on my face.
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