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raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

When I tested again in the eee, poweroff and reboot don't work, even in console. Halt freezes it. Could it be an X issue?

Another trick to add could be the activation of battery monitor when it's a laptop (or one of the baby laptops).

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

BarryK · Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2008, 20:12 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2008, 20:17 Post subject:

[quote="kirk"]

BarryK · Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2008, 20:19 Post subject:

I'm thinking maybe it's time to move on from compiling for 'i486'. I thought that 'i686' is generic, for Pentium One also?

BarryK · Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2008, 20:24 Post subject: Re: poweroff in eee

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4944 Location: Australia

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

I though i686 was Pentium2, oh well. Of course there was never really a i586 or i686, they're all Pentium somethings. I wonder how many people are using Pentium 1s? I would think you could find something better in the trash. Laughing

I have.

Noticed Dingo doesn't have a FTP server. I was having problems with pure-ftpd in 3.01 on my network. Turns out it needed the -H switch. Anyway I compiled Pure-ftpd in Dingo and made a nice simple script to launch it. Dingo would need to have a user named "ftp" with no password. And a home directory /root/ftp or some other place if you want to edit the script.

Also, Brad_chuck made a real nice script to download RSS feeds (podcasts). I made a couple of small additions to it. It's quite small only 25k compressed. It's here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=164649#164649

capoverde · Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2008, 13:18 Post subject:

[quote"BarryK"]There's a problem with Rox, in all puppies. You have to click the 'refresh' button in Rox (the two arrows in a circle).[/quote]

Why, sure! Pity me, I had missed this one; I did "refresh"... but in Pmount's or MUT's window. Refreshing in Rox, SD cards get read OK -- in Dingo Alpha3 & 4 as well.

Seeing that, I tried calling Rox from the console with the -x option, and it worked -- that is, it refreshed the directory. Knowing my low skills in programming, I assume calling Rox that way from PMount or MUT is too obvious and trivial a solution to be good?

Other stuff:
- NetSurf seems slower in Dingo than in Puppy 3.01 - and quite a bit slower than Dillo in previous Puppies. Will try and take precise test times.

- About PostScript-related issues: I frequently use a tiny music notation program (abcm2ps, it's in Sourceforge) to convert a coded text file into a perfect musical score. Of course, in order to see the result one needs a PS viewer: in this respect Ghostview was better than EPdf or other PDF/PS viewers, as it has a "file-watching" option (though requiring manual activation in Puppy).

Lack of this feature requires closing and reopening the output file at every change -- quite annoying and time-consuming. No other file-watch-capable PS viewer around? Or maybe a quick-and-dirty shell script to get the same effect?

BarryK · Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2008, 05:40 Post subject:

capoverde · Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2008, 07:58 Post subject:

Wonderful, Rox won't have that problem in Puppy any more. Thanks for putting my two cents to good work!

(As for NetSurf's speed, it is actually normal on stored HTML pages; I must have hit a heavy-load moment on the remote server in my first test).

capoverde · Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2008, 09:52 Post subject:

Just downloaded & mastered Dingo Alpha4 SeaMonkey.

This time mhwaveedit hung on the very first attempt to load an mp3 file (Xine played it perfectly a moment before), with high CPU load; the window could be closed with the "kill" command from the window bar menu, but the load on the CPU wouldn't drop.

After rebooting, mhwaveedit decoded and played an OGG Vorbis file perfectly, but hung again on an mp3.

If it were a problem with the Lame decoder, Xine should also suffer from it, so it's probably a bug in mhwaveedit -- a pity, it's a nice and fast program.

Also, the bell offered by the GTK Xset can't be heard though the audio works OK -- it's the first time I try it and actually don't need it, but was just curious.

Dougal · Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2008, 10:09 Post subject:

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

Barry, I've tested the shutting down of alpha4 twice on the eee, always failing - no poweroff or reboot working.

Now, with the Jan 5 version, it can't find pup_394.sfs, either in the SD card or in partition 2 of the internal drive. I will test again using USB keydrive.

Note that eee's internal storage is seen in Puppy 2.13 as /dev/hdc and the SD card as /dev/sda.

capoverde · Posted: Mon 07 Jan 2008, 15:20 Post subject:

Alpha4 has no firewall problem anymore -- for me at least.

Also tested it on an old K6-II 400Mhz -- as Kirk says, better stuff can be easily found in the trash nowadays, but it gives an idea of how well Puppy does on old hardware -- running fine in general; boot time is impressively short even here.
Of course mhwaveedit has the usual problem opening mp3s; surfing with GTKMoz (wrongly referred to as NetSurf in my former posts, sorry) is surprisingly smooth and fast -- seemed even better than with Alpha3 on the Celeron 2800: obviously there were server problems at the test time.

Seems a really very performing Puppy.