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01micko · #106 Post by **01micko** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 11:26

kernel_sources-2.6.37.6-patched_spup2.sfs is the name of the file

1d29a36c731a19ce30333e0aa5e68349 kernel_sources-2.6.37.6-patched_spup2.sfs <--checksum

http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko ... _spup2.sfs

You can try the attached slickpet

01micko · #107 Post by **01micko** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 11:28

Iguleder wrote: Have you considered putting a Window Maker package in Slickpet? I wrote a really fast menu generator for it in Perl (and I don't even know how to code in Perl ) and I think it could be a nice, lighter alternative to JWM/ROX. Now it's also easier to build it.

Well, I don't want slickpet to be the focus.. so PPM would be ok.

Sounds interesting

01micko · #108 Post by **01micko** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 11:36

Ok wuwei (and panmar)

I have deduced by random logic that ppp could well be the culprit... we are using the slackware binary, working fine with wireless modems but I don't know where else to look, (not without that HW to test)

Try the Wary pet with original rp-ppoe..

ppp <-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... 4.4-w5.pet

(only replace if you used the slackware version I posted on the previous page)
rp-pppoe <-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... 2-2-p4.pet

Keeping the faith..

wuwei · #109 Post by **wuwei** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 12:23

SUCCESS! sort of....

Your fixes didn't work on the existing pupsave file.

Then with pfix=ram I tried ppp-2.4.4-w5.pet. Setup pppoe from scratch. No success.

Again pfix=ram, copied DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-slackware-13.37 to .packages and installed rp_pppoe_cli-3.8-patched2-2-p4.pet. Setup pppoe from scratch. No success.

Then I recalled a somewhat far fetched solution of earlier Puppies:
Using fixed DNS, rather than dynamic DNS.
So after a new pppoe setup with fixed primary and secondary DNS, boom the internet connected.

This detour hasn't been necessary for a lot of Puppies in a long time, but if it helps now, why not.

So far so good, although I don't know how much your fixes contributed and how much the fixed DNS.

Anyway, now with internet up and running, I can do some more testing.

Thanks 01micko!

aarf · #110 Post by **aarf** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 12:38

this java works in beta1 (below is beta1 but in the old folder so i didnt have to edit menu.lst)

01micko · #111 Post by **01micko** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 12:48

ok.. I just compiled ff-6.0.. it's still smoking..

The pet is 14M and I linked all the puppy internals to it in pinstall.sh..

so (do we use it as default? [bear in mind we lose an important function.. composer])... sylpheed is about 600-800k.. Seamonkey 17M.. we save about 2 meg.. that would put the iso under 120M and please many, many users at no end.. (I prefer SeaMonkey.. but what do I know?). I compiled FF with it's internal nss and nspr, so should be up to date with security. I'm yet to test pfix=ram because to compile I had to install, mesa, glew.. it should still at least run. More tomorrow...

mozconfig <--

Code: Select all

. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir-ff-release
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4"
ac_add_options --disable-libjpeg-turbo
ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
ac_add_options --localstatedir=/var
ac_add_options --sysconfdir=/etc
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --host=i486-pc-linux-gnu
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2

# make -f client.mk

# cd objdir-ff-release

# make package #...makes tarball in dist

#TODO, make dev package

fairly conservative

sszindian · #112 Post by **sszindian** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 12:52

Spup-312.37 let me probe and select my screen resolution of 1440x900 in xorg, beautiful desktop!

Slacko-4.99.1 Lets me probe and select 1440x900 from list but... when it loads, it auto puts me in 'versa' instead of xorg with a resolution of 1224x1224. I select the xorg feature it suggests after that, again, probe, select 1440x900, again gives me only 1224x1224 with no 1440x900 option.

This makes the screen way to large for monitor and desktop icons (top ones) are half hid 'off screen'.

>>>---Indian------>

01micko · #113 Post by **01micko** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 13:01

indian.. it's most likely xcb.. search PPM for it, install it restart X, It was an oversight when converting from last woof, sorry!..

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Firefox-Aurora-6 .. http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko ... 0-spup.pet

You may need xcb, tetsed pfix=ram, xcb installed, flash ok

xcb <-- http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/slackwa ... i486-1.txz

gcmartin · #114 Post by **gcmartin** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 13:56

Removed by GCMartin

wuwei · #115 Post by **wuwei** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 14:05

@01micko,

yet another puzzle.

Wanted to remove the package with the red arrow. Now PPM is sitting there for the last half hour with the white window and nothing moves.

Any idea, other than to restart the pupsave file from scratch?

++++++++++++++

Sorry, found the answer myself:

Renaming DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-slackware-13.37 in /root/.packages to DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS fixes it.

Sage · #116 Post by **Sage** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 14:18

so (do we use it as default? [bear in mind we lose an important function.. composer]

Probably not. FF is rapidly going out of favour, partly due to its bloat partly due to incompatibilities, etc.
Opera is 'better' in terms of speed, but doesn't save much space and some folks have trouble navigating its extensive options. There used to be Flash issues, too, and its internal mailer is rubbish. Still worth a punt though, especially with Claws mail or EudoraOSE, but the bytes count rises, of course. Increasing in favour is Midori, but I think that might be relatively bloated considering its modest capabilities? Didn't Jemimah settle on Midori? What was her reasoning? Any chance someone could port something (other than Chrome/Iron) from the world of tablets and mobiles?

playdayz · #117 Post by **playdayz** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 15:16

Google Chrome 13 for testing. One can turn off some of the "features" that some people regard as intrusive in Preferences.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 82.112.pet

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 82.112.pet

Iron 13 for testing. Iron is built from the same Chromium source code as Google Chrome by srware.net but with the intrusive aspects removed, so they say.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... .800.0.pet

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... .800.0.pet

do we use it (FF6) as default?

I vote for Seamonkey 2.3. It is faster than FF 5.0.1 and probably just as fast as FF 6.0. Slacko seems to me kind of a "purist" Puppy and that says Seamonkey to me. (Purist, you know, without being all tarted up like another version I could mention.)

Lobster · #118 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 15:59

Slacko seems to me kind of a "purist" Puppy and that says Seamonkey to me.

Seamonkey seems solid and stable to me.
Good place to stay and offer the same elsewhere, rather than creating new issues . . .

Iguleder · #119 Post by **Iguleder** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 16:06

+1 for Seamonkey, feels more solid than Firefox, especially now when its release cycle is so fast.

The only thing I have against Seamonkey is its heavy XUL-based interface. What about Dillo?

zigbert · #120 Post by **zigbert** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 16:18

The launch signal in the latest gtkdialog crashes the gui if there exist a menu widgets.This makes apps like pTiming useless.
More here

Sigmund

Sage · #121 Post by **Sage** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 16:38

Curious reasoning above? SM claims to BE equal to SM. Two surveys here voted for Opera. Jemimah is an über competent person at the sharp end of the field, so why the reluctance to assess her view? What about other options that really can save bytes and resources?

raffy · #122 Post by **raffy** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 17:46

Just dropping by to report that "nomodeset" did not help in the Fusion APU E-350.

Yes, I can get to Xvesa and if I close X quickly, I can do CLI and the laptop would not hang. The problem appears to be the GPU (graphics) driver.

drblock2 · #123 Post by **drblock2** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 19:07

Many thanks for the quick resolution of the kernel sources problem. I installed the slickpet pet and downloaded the kernel sources. The md5sum was correct and the installation worked perfectly.

I was able to compile the latest VirtualBox 4.1.2, but could not launch it. The error message said that libGL.so.1 was missing.

Since I am interested in getting VirtualBox up and running - Beta testing is reserved for Puppy, I rolled back to VirtualBox 4.0.0, which runs under Two-Headed Dog 5.28. Same problem - it did not run in slacko. The file, and perhaps the entire library, were missing. In Two-Headed Dog the file was listed under /usrlib and /usr/lib/mesa.

Would like to get VirtualBox running in slacko and would appreciate suggestions.

jim3630 · #124 Post by **jim3630** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 19:23

fluppy's included browser is Midori. from the other end of the field looks like the sharp end is a crowd from here.

I'd vote for what works, sm is in place, or what is least expensive and both with the option in slickpet or ppm to download other brands.

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DaveS · #125 Post by **DaveS** » Fri 19 Aug 2011, 20:04

BarryK wrote:
DaveS wrote:Confirming pngoverlay bugs. It works great with USB devices, but not as you can see with optical drive, and not with my dedicated SD card reader. USB card readers are no problem. Again, I suspect this is a woof implementation which may be incomplete. There were reports of similar issues with partitions, but as I only have a single partition on this machine, I cant test.
Is this after you rolled back netpbm? (as reported earlier in this thread)

-- roll back netpbm, then use the GUI app to change the desktop icons, see if that fixes it.

Confirming rolling back netpbm fixes pngoverlay. Great stuff

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