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#101 Post by jakfish »

I found a moment to drop in that new synaptics ko and the touchpad remains unresponsive.

As for your kernel and 4.31, I think I'll wait until you get it up and running before testing further. I don't feel confident about putting in those modules myself.

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#102 Post by luther349 »

intel and ati drivers the eee hv has a ati in it.

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#103 Post by aragon »

@ jemimah

regarding you dmenu-ideas, you might want to have a look at expose-clone by mu: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2369

should be what you want to do. i don't know if it would work on 4.3 but have a look.

if you have problems with expose-clone, mu is a very helpful guy.

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#104 Post by jemimah »

Jakfish, I'm planning on posting an iso of the whole thing as soon as I can work out some hosting. That should make it easier.

Luther349 ,thanks for the heads up! They sure don't make this easy do they? Hey do you mind if I use the Puppeee name for releasing this kernel with an vanilla 4.31 install?

Aragon, I've actually already built an Expose clone that doesn't require EWMH. I did find a cool hack using yaf-splash to make Dmenu more user friendly and not require the user to remember a hot key. I will post about it soon.

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#105 Post by aragon »

i'm curious to see that one.

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#106 Post by jemimah »

I've finished my remaster of Puppy 4.31 with the EEE kernel. I'm planning on posting it as Puppeee 4.31 Beta since the name is well known and I don't think anyone else is working on a Puppeee for this release. I am waiting for TuxFamily to approve my hosting request and then I will post a link on the Announcements page. I'm also nearly ready to release a complete pet for the Fluppy window manger and extras including the Tiler and Expose' clone.

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#107 Post by magerlab »

is it possible to use your kernel in normal puppy? or existing pupsave2fs wich i use on eee pc?
anyway i want to try your puplet even i like openbox+fbpanel or stalonetray

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#108 Post by jemimah »

Magerlab, Puppeee 4.31 will be a regular Puppy with the Eee kernel. 99% of pets for 4.31 will work on it, only kernel-specific stuff will need to be modified. The only additions are the Eee acpi scripts, Wpa_gui, Powertop, and an upgraded Synaptics driver to hopefully work on the Elantech touchpads. Anything else you want in Puppeee?

When I release Fluppy it will have a more general netbook kernel based on the Moblin kernel configuration so it will work on a variety of netbooks.

I might also combine the two and call it Flupeee.

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#109 Post by jemimah »

Looks like my hosting just got approved! Unfortunately I am about to get on a plane to go home to Florida where I have no bandwidth so I won't be able to post Puppeee until Monday when I get back to my FIOS in Virginia. I'll do some extra testing this weekend so hopefully it will work well for most people.

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#110 Post by jakfish »

I'm looking forward to trying it out.

Jake

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#111 Post by luther349 »

no im not doing another pupeee atm. support is very good on stock puppy and being my pupeee was based off stock with extra drivers no need for another realse. i asked people to post if they had issues with 4.3 on there netbooks and i would make another none did. thanks to kernel 2.6.30 netbooks are just well supported.

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#112 Post by magerlab »

i use 4.3.1 on eee pc 701
and the only thing i can not set up is webcam
is there a driver for it
with 25 kernel it works out of the box

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#113 Post by jemimah »

I have a 701 and the camera works. What software are you trying to use?

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#114 Post by magerlab »

skype
what is the name of needed module for webcam?
maybe i need to load it?

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#115 Post by jemimah »

uvcvideo

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#116 Post by magerlab »

modprobe uvcvideo
Fatal no module found

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#117 Post by jemimah »

Are you using the small kernel? Maybe it's not included?

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#118 Post by magerlab »

i thought of that .....
will try with big iso
or maybe it's possible to just take this module out

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#119 Post by jemimah »

I think you should be able to just copy the module and run depmod.

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#120 Post by tempestuous »

jemimah, in your efforts to obtain kernel modules relevant for Eee models, here are the non-standard ones:

rtl8187se module - for the RTL8187SE wifi device
this is part of the standard kernel source from 2.6.30 onwards, but it's under the "staging" section.
In menuconfig, go to
Device Drivers > Staging drivers > RealTek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN NIC driver

You will also see a module for the Ralink 2860, but it's been reported that the proprietary rt2860sta variant from Ralink works better. Get it here
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
Don't forget to download the RT2860 firmware as well, and put it in /lib/firmware
Refer to the README about configuring the os/linux/config.mk file for correct WPA support via the "wext" interface.
Otherwise this wifi driver will not work with WPA encryption with Puppy's Network Wizard.

eee kernel module - for CPU speed and fan speed control, from
http://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/
it needs a patch for 2.6.30 kernel -
http://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/is ... tail?id=18

... but see my comment about the eee module not being necessary for Atom-based models -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 112#355112

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