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MU · Posted: Sun 19 Apr 2009, 18:11 Post subject:

I fear you can't help, as the only thing that keeps me from building a new one, is the lack of time. Rolling Eyes

Thanks for your offer!

You could however try to use
mgamesa_083.sfs
from hurtmeplenty.
Just click on the iso to mount it.
Then copy mgames_083.sfs to /mnt/home in a frugal installation or running from CD.
Rename it to mgamesa_411.sfs, then add it in the bootmanager.
It contains older libraries, but that should not matter, as the layered filesystem will give it a lower priority than pup_411.sfs.

You will need at least NYP mini, as that has the free DRI drivers required for accelerated OpenGL.
Or midi/maxi for the faster Ati/Nvidia drivers.

I will try, if I can throw out all unneeded, outdated files from mgamesa_083.sfs this week, so that it would become a "proper", slightly smaller addon for NYP.

Mark
references:
hurtmeplenty:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28179

MU · Posted: Sun 19 Apr 2009, 19:16 Post subject:

yes, this method works.
Doomsday requires a small patch, as the libpng12 is different.
I attach it.

I just tested Quake2 and Doomsday.
The screenshots show them running with a Ati HD 4850 using Catalyst 9.4. Smile

By default they run fullscreen, I just ran them windowed for the screenshots.

Mark

belfasteddie · Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 113

Hi Mark, I have just DL RC.10 . Ran a totally clean off the Cd drive. Nvidia and Wireless as before perfect. But, alas only single core. Have read your fix and am trying to locate the file.
regards,
Eddie

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1534 Location: The Blue Marble

Mark,

Just got the chance to try up NYP. I just finished downloaded rc9 after I saw you message uploading rc10 Laughing

Anyway I download rc10 and tried it in my Toshiba with ATI card. I chose Catalyst 9.3 as the driver (the latest driver doesn't detect my card).

Booted well (with pfix=ram), but there is one problem - the panel at the bottom and at the top seems to crash shortly after starting. I see the starting up, showing up, and the suddenly they are both gone.
I managed to open a shell via Muppy-Filer, and if I typed "startlxde" inside this terminal, I get the panels again - until I close the terminal.

Wireless is flawless. Conky shows 2 CPU, which is correct. Google Earth works fine. Gimp launches ok.

tlchost · Posted: Mon 20 Apr 2009, 08:39 Post subject:

tlchost · Posted: Mon 20 Apr 2009, 10:55 Post subject:

belfasteddie · Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 113

Ctrl, alt and backspace. Then xwin 1.

Schism · Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Posts: 78

I have taken the mgamesa_083.sfs off of my "Hurt Me Plenty" CD. I changed it to mgamesa_411.sfs loaded it in the boot manager. No games show in the menu. Not a big deal but the file won't mount. I did notice the size of the file on my drive to be 317 MB, and the size of the file on the CD to be 578. So clicking on the CD mgamesa_083.sfs mounts it but the only game i can play are the Flash games.

Downloading the Hurt Me Plenty ISO again.

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Just wanted to say that I used RC10 as an update rather than a clean install which I usually do and so far everything looks A-OK.

There is some cool art on the screensaver; I have found it takes ESC to quit the screensaver, not just moving the mouse or hitting a key.

To get 4 cores to display in Conky I did this in /etc/conky/conky.conf

MU · Posted: Mon 20 Apr 2009, 16:15 Post subject:

I attach a utility.
It adds a menu entry "Webcam-viewer" in the multimedia menu.

It is for Mplayer, so you need mini/midi/maxi, not micro.
It will be included in rc11.

It allows to use Mplayer to see the picture from a webcam.
This is different from the old "Muppywebcam", that was for Video4Linux (v4l) 1.

Kernel 2.6.28.5 supports only v4l 2.

Mplayer has problems to detect v4l2 videostrams from webcams, so this pet installs a compatibility library.

This viewer does:
load a compatibility library, so that video4linux2 streams can be used by applications
supporting only video4linux(1) correctly.

Like this Mplayer can be used to display the streams from the webcam drivers for Kernel 2.6.28.5.

Details:
http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html

Works for me with a cheap "Genius Videocam Trek", that uses the Kernelmodule sn9c102. The required modules are loaded automaticaly to the kernel, when the cam is attached.

Mark

MU · Posted: Mon 20 Apr 2009, 16:29 Post subject:

playdays, thanks, I'll add your code in rc11 Smile

Schism, yes, mgamesa_411.sfs is much too small. It should be around 560 MB or more.

tlchost, I think you must start with the bootoption:
puppy pfix=copy

This forces, to load it to Ram, so that the CD can be unmounted.

Jamesbond, exit X (hit CTRL-Alt-Backspace).
Then type:
xwin 1
Now you see a menu to select other desktops.
The panel might crash, if there is a soundcard problem.
It has a mixer, that seems to be buggy.
Workaround:
Edit the configs in /root/.config/lxpanel.
Delete:

MU · config-2.6.29.1MU-based-on2.6.28.5.tar.gz

I started compiling Kernel 2.6.29.1, see:
http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00667

But I use wows config from 2.6.28.5.
I hope I can provide a test iso this weekend.

This might solve the slow network traffic issue reported somewhere?
I am not certain though, that the Ati/Nvidia drivers are ready for this kernel.
In the phoronics forums I have read of issues with Catalyst.
This will take some days to check it.

Mark

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Using new frugal installation of RC10 with RC10 bugfix. The features I've used are great and I really like it. I have noted a few problems.
Wbar won't load with a desktop that should have wbar. Executing wbar from a console results in "Using /root/.wbar config file. Image not found, Maybe using a relative path?" Not a problem for me since I prefer Cairo which works fine.
Also xsane fails to find my HP 5280 all in one.

Glad to see that you are experimenting with Kernel 2.6.29.1, hope that you'll consider ext4 which I find is fast and very stable in the new Ubuntu Jaunty. Of course, to date, puppy distributions cannot access the ext4 partition, for some reason ext2 is still preferred by puppy.

Jim

MU · Posted: Mon 20 Apr 2009, 17:48 Post subject:

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Bugfix RT10b worked. After exploring wbar a little, I may even prefer it to Cairo. I'll let you know if the xsane suggestion works. Really enjoying the variety of pictures used by the screen saver.

Thanks,
Jim