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dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

Barry,
I downloaded and tested the Jan 17th Alfa 5 (2.6.24-rc8 kernel) on the eeepc. I just copied the needed files to the internal SSD drive and used the current Grub install to boot it. It booted up and shutdown fine. Durring shutdown I saved the pup file to a SD card in the internal SD card reader slot. On reboot it found the correct file and loaded it. As a side note, one thing I noticed was that the default kernel that comes with the eeepc is 2.6.21.4

BarryK · Posted: Thu 17 Jan 2008, 19:15 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Thu 17 Jan 2008, 19:20 Post subject:

BarryK

JustGreg · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 785 Location: Connecticut USA

I did a fresh install to a 1 gigabyte USB flash device. I used an external USB CDROM with the iso to boot the Eee PC and do the installation to the USB flash device. Everything when well expect for the dreaded Syslinux unsafe /tmp permissions error. Saved a pup_save.2fs to the device. Rebooted and used Xandros to complete the syslinux process. Booted the USB device and it worked. The Dingo gold screen looks better on the small screen for some reason. The proper screen resolution (800x480) was available in both Xvesa and Xorg. I tried both video servers with no problems. The only thing missing was the network modules for the ETHERNET and WIFI cards. I could not try the networking.
The sound work fine at the start. I got the two "woofs". This version should work nicely once the card modules for networking are available.

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1488 Location: florida

Sorry Barry,

The pure-ftpd package has a small problem. I didn't set the permissions or owner correctly on /root/ftpd. Embarassed

I've posted a corrected pet package along with a file sharing rox app that uses curlftpfs to setup Samba like file sharing here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=167716#167716

I did run into a problem with Curl. The version in Dingo won't work with Curlftpfs. The latest version of curl works fine.

Also, the Xorg pet packages for DRI I posted here:

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/edf6fef129_20.04MB

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/50d0e37588_1.28MB

work for alpha5. So if anyone wants 3D acceleration and you have a kernel supported video card. Just install the package and restart X. You don't need the include pet package unless you want to compile something.

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

ok, here is the rest of the update for the theme wizard.

1. /root/.xinitrc line 130, change to this:

Lobster · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2008, 05:52 Post subject:

Is the devx with the Glade IDE available for download yet?
Where?

Using the latest Jan 17 Alpha - the temp one
I got a woof woof on start up. That is an improvement Smile

Not being able to open a CD by the button on the CD player
is something that used to infuriate me with Knoppix and
other Linux. On the laptop (currently being converted into a Shrine) Smile

the CD did not open - on my main machine it worked OK

I must also congratulate the SVG icon creator. They continue to improve
and are minimal AND obvious.

woof woof

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5079 Location: GB

Just for the record, tried 2.6.24-rc8 - temp, as BK didn't indicate whether he'd applied recent HD/install changes.
The news is not good.
Cfdisk (with or without full path specified, using sda or hda), Pmount nor the internal GPartEd can see these small (4Gb) IDE drives. PUI cannot operate on them either (as expected!).
Neither P3.01 nor SystemRescue/ GPartEd had any problems at all. Pre-installing P3.01 and trying to overwrite it doesn't work either - the IDE drive remains invisible.
Seems that the alpha5fix to make the IDE drive at least visible has been removed.
Pmount is now opening the tray, but only if opticals ar mounted and unmounted - this isn't acceptable.
But the network modules are functioning 100%???? Has the wrong 'temp' been inadvertently uploaded???
This exptl version is slower to boot, again.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2946 Location: Southampton, UK

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4829 Location: Manila

Tested alpha5 k2.6.24-rc8 on the eee, and Dingo does well saving and using the save file from SD card (dvw86 above said this already).

It's the microphone that gives me the trouble here - snd-hda-intel seems a little difficult to work with, even in other Puppies. And of course the ath_pci driver is not there, so I was unable to use wireless Internet access.

BarryK · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2008, 20:58 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2008, 21:48 Post subject:

Caneri · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1569 Location: Canada

@ kirk,

did you lose your ftp access for puppylinux.ca?

Eric

dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

Barry,
About the Citrus theme. On my Eeepc I like it. I really like the included castle background with it. On my 17 inch monitor it is just too much. I could get used to it though.