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#91 Post by Billtoo »

pemasu wrote: I have removed that upload now....
VIDEO REPORT: Upup Precise, version 3.8.3.1

I did a manual frugal install and it works okay, vlc too.
Universal installer a nogo.

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status update?

#92 Post by anikin »

A question has been bugging me for a couple days. I've always thought of myself as a Linux noob. Not the most honorable, but a well deserved rank. So I thought until very recently. Now I have some serious doubts as to the correctness of my status. The reason? I have successfully compiled not one, but the whole two items for upup precise383!
1) eee.ko module
2) JWM (iconless).
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With this much of compiling experience under the belt, what am I - a noob, compiler, dev?

Just kidding. As a matter of fact, I should thank rcrsn51 for giving me a kick start howto for my first attempt and scsijon for his howto on compiling JWM.
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#93 Post by pemasu »

Anikin. That is great. It wont take long when you start to ask questions about whole kernel compiling. :D

By the way. In the next build is recompiled 3.8.3 kernel due to ISA involvement. But I have included your needed eee.ko in that build straight. I didnt do that because I want to diminish your achievement but because your post reminded your need for that module and there might be others who would like to have fan control in their comp. I dont remember exact specs or your comp which benefits from that module. I just remember it needed some other extra work also.

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#94 Post by pemasu »

Upup Precise 3.8.3.1 has been uploaded. It has 3.8.3 kernel with ISA bus and ISA sound card support. Driver support is as large as I have figured it should be...which means that still something useful might be missing.

I have used latest woof atm....which had some problems with duplicate generic names.. At the last moment e2fsprogs vs. util-linux clash was found and it has been fixed in this build.

PupControl, PupSysinfo and PupClock has been added. Otherwise this build is kernel update. Previous kernel sources does not work. You need to update to the latest kernel-sources-3.8.3 version uploaded today.

Ati modern and legacy pets has been updated and the Quickpet has been updated accordingly to use them.

Some other small changes. Rox focus square added for keyboard select.
Fonts this time like they have been in dpup exprimo builds. Request by several users. Yeah I know, someone protest the change soon, lol.

Download link: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/UpupPrec ... ecise3831/

Kernel sources: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/Kernel_s ... .8.3-upup/

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#95 Post by ally »

anikin

sweet - well done, me still noob.... :(

can you upload your files?

:)

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#96 Post by Billtoo »

Manual frugal install to a SDHC card.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Tue19Mar2013on Upup Precise 3.8.3.1 Linux 3.8.3-upup i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV530
[Radeon X1600]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RV530 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Core 0: @1800 MHz

The ati legacy pet doesn't support the ati x1600 pro in this pc but
the opensource driver works well, google earth works well.
Vlc works, 3831 is working well on this pc.
Thanks
EDIT:I've given 3.8.3.1 a good workout this morning and it's a keeper :)
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#97 Post by Ray MK »

Upup Precise version 3.8.3, released Mar 2013

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1804720 760932 1043788 0 47512
-/+ buffers: 713420 1091300
Swap: 0 0 0
#

Mem: 761128K used, 1043592K free, 0K shrd, 47512K buff, 561320K cached
CPU: 2% usr 0% sys 0% nic 97% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.20 0.53 0.39 2/126 11409

# uname -a
Linux puppypc7681 3.8.3-upup #1 SMP Sat Mar 16 22:25:36 GMT-8 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

JFYI - Uptime = 3 days and all seems very good. (d/l 3831 now)
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#98 Post by oldyeller »

Hi pemasu,

Running Upup with 3.8.3.1 kernel all looks good. Did a remaster and installed on usb stick. Next will have to try the f2f's for flash drives.

My wife asked if I was looking at a new os up up precise having fun with words :lol:
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looking forward to gtk-3.0

#99 Post by charlie6 »

Hi Pemasu,
later gnumeric 1.12 seems now requiring gtk-3.0. I do not know if feasable to compile iti with gtk-2.0.
gnumeric 1.12 has new functionnalities like export features (not present on 1.10.17).
So gtk-2.0 would not allow to get better than gnumeric version 1.10.17.

Some Puppies have now gtk-3.0 (i.e forum member ttuuxxx's latest Puppy 2.14; as also LxPup-Full ).

Are there plans to have gtk-3.0 in Precise (or even in wheezy?)?

i got a try installing debian-sid's gnumeric-1.12 on wheezy --> i began to try installing gtk-3.0 on wheezy; after installing the requested deps, i got a message telling about some incompatibilities --> i gave up --> maybe better to forget having gtk-3.0 on wheezy..??

Thanks for any comment
Charlie

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#100 Post by pemasu »

Charlie6. I do not have plan to include gtk-3. But if you install the needed libs and stuff, I think you get gtk-3 needed apps working atm.

I dont have plan to update gnumeric atm also. The reason. I do use LibreOffice and I am not very experienced gnumeric - goffice - abiword compiler. I did compile them for dpup wheezy, but that was my only one so far. In dpup exprimos I did even strip them off.

Never say never and so on....but atm...I dont have much ambition to update them.
Sorry.

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#101 Post by anikin »

Hi ally,
can you upload your files?
Pemasu has already built in "eee.ko" into this realease and it works perfectly.
Regarding JWM, I have made it machine specific, that is I used "march=native" for CFLAGS as opposed to "mtune=native" in the howto, so if your cpu is Atom, it should work on your board. Although, I'm not totally sure. I can upload it, no big deal. Before I do, though I strongly urge you to have a look at this excellent tutorial, that makes compiling JWM a piece of cake: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 046#692046

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#102 Post by artsown »

Pemasu, there is a PDF issue discussed here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 8&start=90
that led me to check other pups. I found your 3.8.3.1 and also your
Wheezy have problems as well. In fact, Wheezy only displays page 1
of 27. Your Precise doesn't display any of the many graphical
illustrations. You can use Slacko 5.5 as a reference since it works.

Art

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#103 Post by pemasu »

Artsown. Yeah. Libpoppler and libpoppler-glib is too old. It would need newer version. How I opened that pdf so that the illustrations also showed. I installed google-chrome and then I edited /root/Choices/MIME-types/application_pdf to open pdf in google-chrome.

It showed those illustrations just fine. Nothing hilarious. Experiments with living animals is not my favourite suspect.

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3.8.3.1

#104 Post by sszindian »

Upup Precise-3.8.3.1

For those of you who have stored some of your old laptops, notebooks and the like... go dig em out!

I decided to try this new Precise-3.8.3.1 on my old notebook...

IBM Thinkpad Model T22
513MB RAM (I just received new RAM chips I ordered from ebay... Japan I believe... advertised as 512MB... however after installing I get 513MB?)
20GB HDD.

I booted Precise-3.8.3.1 strictly from the CD and created a savefile to the HDD - I find this a good way to have multiple Puppy distro's for easy access and testing.

Well... the old T22 seemed to fall in love with Precise-3.8.3.1 as 'EVERYTHING' works OTB without a single issue and the speed is up to par as with other newer puppy builds!

Works really well and the 'no issues' really surprised me and believe me, I test a lot of puppy builds on this old box...

Good job Pemasu!

>>>---Indian------>
Cloud Computing For Every Puppy (a .pet)
[url]http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69192[/url]

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Upup Precise 3.8.3.1

#105 Post by ETP »

Hi pemasu,
Fresh manual frugal install to vfat/f2fs USB2 stick.Syslinux 4.04 boot with kernel held on 16Meg 1st partition and savefile (ext4) & sfs files on 2nd f2fs partition.
Initial boot to desktop with working sound,wired ethernet and Nouveau driver at correct res. (1920x1080)

The following pets & sfs were installed and tested.
  • PETS
    lxtask-0.1.4|LXTask task manager
    tempiconsvg-0.17-i486|no description provided
    lxtask-0.1.4|LXTask task manager
    PupSnap-1.8_Scrot-0.8_32Bit|PupSnap screen capture
    pupsaveconfig-2.2.5|PupSave personal storage setup
    video-info-glx-1.5.1-noarch|OpenGL Graphics/CPU Report
    chromium-25.0.1323.1-i686-1sl|Browse the Web
    thunderbird-16.0.1|Thunderbird mail reader
    pupsaveconfig-2.2.5|PupSave personal storage setup
    faenza_lrx_new|
    flashplayer11-11.2.202.275|Adobe Flash Player 11 browser plugin and Preferences. Note, this may not work on older PCs, use instead an earlier 11.x or even 10.x
    Roxterm-1.17.1-Lucid|Use the command line with copy & paste
    smplayer-0.8.3-precise|Add file(s) to the SMPlayer playlist
    smtube-1.5-precise|Search and download videos from YouTube
    xdotool-2.20110530.1-3|no description provided
    tickr-0.6.0-i686|RSS Feed Reader

    SFS
    qt-4.8.2.sfs
This is the fastest booting Pup I have tested to date. I was almost tempted to create an f2fs partition on my SSD - "Honey I shrunk my NTFS partition" but will await the improvements to f2fs in the 3.9 kernel. :lol: :lol:
Very well done.
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#106 Post by pemasu »

I have compiled youtube fixed Umplayer and uploaded it to the repo.
Smplayer is the maintained mplayer frontend and Umplayer is fork which is not actively maintained. Smplayer provides nice subtitles downloader and that is why it is my main multimedia app when I need subtitles.
Anyway....Smplayer team has patched the Umplayer for youtube.

Umplayer provides youtube integration in main app. It still might be something people prefer.

There is also 666philb packaged gtk-youtube-viewer which is great app for viewing youtube videos and for downloading them.

Anyway....Umplayer-0.9.8.2 is in the repo.
http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-upup/
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#107 Post by pemasu »

ETP.
"Honey I shrunk my NTFS partition"
Reply: "Honey, If facebook, mail and youtube does not work in Windows, I will shrink you !"

Beware the consequences. Lol.

F2fs is the fastest filesystem for SSD drives. Phoronix tested several filesystems and f2fs beated them.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... 9_fs&num=4
Overall, F2FS was the fastest for the solid-state drive but not many production users may be ready to yet put their faith into this brand new Linux file-system. Meanwhile, EXT4 and XFS are proven and tested and generally running quite well. Btrfs didn't win as many tests as it once did, but it does continue to offer a plethora of advanced file-system features.

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#108 Post by artsown »

Pemasu, please bear with my nooby kind of question. I could find no
way to update seamonkey but I manged to do a clumsy workaround.
I "downdated" from 2.13 to 2,12 using a pet. I then got a update
option under the SM Help menu which I used to update to 2.16. What
is a better (or recommended) method?

BTW, your 3.8.3.1 is looking good here on my pentium 4 desktops.
My one "problem" machine doesn't freeze up during startup the way
Precise 5.5 and Slacko 5.5 often do on the initial startup. I dunno
if the improved behaviour is due to woof fixes or the kernel used, but
it's nice to see.

Art

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#109 Post by pemasu »

Artsown. I have used Barry Kauler`s self-compiled version. There seems to be now newer Barry`s compiled one, seamonkey-2.15.2.
I seem to have missed that one.

Anyway those compiled ones are not in the update channel, it seems.

How I would update them. I would download from Seamonkey site the latest one, uncompress it and then I would swap the contents of /usr/lib/seamonkey folder, in this case the folder /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.13.1. That way you would get the latest Seamonkey and you would be in update channel and no need to eat savefile more than needed.

I could provide official seamonkey in next releases so that they would be in the update channel straight.
I prefer Firefox but I would not like to steer too much away from Precise Puppy heritage.
My one "problem" machine doesn't freeze up during startup the way
Precise 5.5 and Slacko 5.5 often do on the initial startup
I believe it is due to non-PAE kernel choice. The impact of PAE or non-PAE probably has the most important difference.

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#110 Post by artsown »

Pemasu, thanks for your response. Considering use of pups by the
general public I think it would be great if you provided a "active
update channel" seamonkey.

Like you, my preferred browser has been Firefox but I've gotten used
to SM which is usually just as fast it seems if kept up to date.

Art

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