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wow · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 951

I running Ubuntu kernel 2.6.28-8.21 (2.6.28 + ubuntu patches), is has squashfs, aufs, unionfs and more 3rd party drivers built in, all I need to do now is to increase "min loop devices" number, patch squashfs-lzma, apply the loglevel patch, remove utf8 warning for vfat filesystems, rebuild a new initrd.gz file, pack this kernel in puppy-unleashed format and share a new ISO.

wow · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 951

BUGFIX: dougal's xkbconfigmanager

Now works on Xorg-7.4, I replaced all calls to /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst with /etc/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst

Installation:
- Install xkbconfigmanager-evdev.pet
- Open /root/.xinitrd with a text editor and replace:

MU · Posted: Sun 15 Feb 2009, 19:35 Post subject:

great news, so I will try to add it to newyearspup next weekend, if it is ready then.
If not yet, I'll try to sort out more bugs (which I must do in any case. Rolling Eyes

)
Mark

wow · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 951

I haven't patched anything yet. I had a busy weekend(again).

I'm attaching my .config file, if you feel that it need some changes please do it.
Sources: linux-source-2.6.28 and patch 2.6.28-8.21.diff.gz
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/linux-source-2.6.28

wow · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 951

Unnamed puplet rev 1.1 coming soon...

Only for developers...

Linux kernel 2.6.28.5
2.6.28 + Ubuntu 8.21 patches, i646 kernel, SMP, Hyperthreading, more joystick drivers, ForceFeedback, 99 loop devices, vfat partitions use UTF-8 by default, SquashFS-LZMA 3.4

2.6.28.5_wow-i686.tar.bz2 for puppy-unleashed

Extract to puppy-unleashed/kernels
Add nls_utf8, nls_cp850 modules to initrd/lib/modules/kernel/fs/nls
Edit your initrd/init script to load nls_utf8, nls_cp850 ("modprobe nls_utf8" instead of "modprobe nls_iso8859-1", etc)

Patched kernel source:
[kernel-src-2.6.28.5patched.zip] sfs and md5sum inside, packed with SquashFS-LZMA-3.4

Test iso? friday/saturday I'm still adding MU's bugfixes, more apps and few new features. It's mostly a bugfix release.
Which apps and features?
Apps: video converter, newer ffmpeg, scrot (screenshots), tabble (launcher), latest murrine engine, more murrine themes, lxshortcut, latest pmusic, latest pfind, latest pburn, transset-df, and more
Features: Sound Theme support, customized openbox menu (clasic Puppy Menu, XDG Menu, quicklaunch, toggle compositing, added a menu to set effects level(xcompmgr), toggle/edit/reload conky, etc.) , mouse bindings to set window transparency, and more

left: gMeasures, Tabble and openbox menu
right: WinFF(audio/video converter), ffplay (from latest plinej's ffmpeg.pet)

wow · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 951

BUGFIX: Fix crashes when adding "Application Launch Bars" to lxpanel, segfault trying to save a file "Filesystem" in GIMP, etc.

Just install the pet package attached below and restart X. Tested also in NewyearspupMU-02rc3.

techtype · Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Posts: 181

MU · Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 11:32 Post subject:

removed, solved.

wow · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 951

I forgot to update Mesa, fuse and ntfs-3g, drivers for ATI and Intel gpus, xf86-video-nouveau (OpenSource nVidia driver). Also need to write an script to switch between "eye candy" and "performance" modes, every time that I boot my USB key on older pc's (not that old really: SIS chipset, 256MB RAM, Celeron 2 Ghz, without linux swap, etc.) I must disable xcompmgr, screenlets and use another gtk theme to speed up things.

techtype · Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Posts: 181

I dual boot frugal installs of unnamed pup and newyearspup. I have a 2 gig swap partiton (sda2) that Mark's pup will mount and use but unnamed pup will not use it. Unable to mount. I am open to suggestions.

MU · Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 17:54 Post subject:

I think I added no code to automount swap Shocked

I just added the automount of "normal" partitions, it is activated /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, line 361:

techtype · Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Posts: 181

MU · Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 18:33 Post subject:

no, /media is only used by muppyquickmount, if it is explicitly activated, and for CDROM/DVD drives.
But this just happens in Muppyquickmount itself.
It should not modify the standard configuration files, so it should have no effect on swap.

Is your swap located on a USB-drive?
I applied a change in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to force to load the usb-drivers (like ehci_hcd).
around line 216:

MU · Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 18:38 Post subject:

if you have a frugal installation, try to replace wows initrd.gz with mine.

If swap works then, there must be a slight change I made inside it.
This would help to find the difference.
Mark