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gulk · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 86

Arriving late on the dpup testing part...

Well, my first impression of dpup 482 beta5 is wow. That's actually an understatement. That thing is über fast, extremely stable and correct all of the quirks I had with 4.2.1.

You guys are good. Another understatement.

Best wishes for 2010! And thousands thanks for such commitment.

musher0 · Posted: Sun 20 Dec 2009, 01:03 Post subject:

I can't speak for the other devs, but as for me: many thanks, gulk! Your comment is very encouraging! We're certainly doing our best!

mikeslr

Dear gposil and 01micko:

Just a note to call your attention to the discussion by sunburnt & jrb on the ChoicePup thread regarding the problems with linker and their solutions.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47465&start=90

mikesLr

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 986 Location: England

I tried dpup482b5 on my old machine, which normally needs a retro kernel, because some modern kernels are patched to still work on old m/c.
Well, it worked beautifully- I really like the clean desktop option. BUT when I clicked on reboot, intending to create the pupsave etc, the computer crashed, with a multicoloured line about 20mm wide across the screen.
Oh dear! I do need the retro after all.

Still, it works fine on the Acer Aspire One.... (not tried camera and other netbook gadgets that I don't know about).

If you can cast your mind back to the dpup that does have a retro kernel (477b1), and which won't boot up a second time (it gets a kernel panic) was there a quick fix that I could put in?

gerry

gposil · Posted: Sun 20 Dec 2009, 23:01 Post subject:

gerry,

If you can stand waiting a week or so, the 484beta will be coming with a retro kernel as well as std kernel...I am just finalizing it now...

Cheers
Guy

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 986 Location: England

@Guy- good on yer, mate! (Do they still say that in Australia? I worked there for a couple of months thirty years ago- when they bought me a tube of Touhy's (?) they said "If you're feeling homesick, stick it under yer armpit for a while".) A good mob to work with.

gerry

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6734 Location: Kentucky

I've been using my Mandriva / Ubuntu box this weekend and since I just happened to have an empty partition I installed Beta 5.

Synaptic is working pretty well, except for still needing to fix the menus; installed 4 or 5 apps with no real problems but a few missing libs.

Installed Google Chrome with the pet from dpup.org, working fine as well. And Dpup flies on this AMD Duron 1.4 ghz/ 384 mb ram/ 1 gb swap old computer. Smile

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

Hi guys,

A couple of reports of what look like bugs that I wanted to put up for consideration:

1. My bug regarding no saves in /etc is continuing, on every save file I use. It seems unrelated to what is installed and what is not, to the sfs files that are loaded, etc. (perhaps I could be wrong on this, but have tested almost every conceivable configuration) and just seems to start happening after a certain number of boots. The save files are fsck'ed on every reboot and dosfsck reports no problems with the underlying vfat file system excepting differences between the boot sector and its backup. It does not seem to be a bad block related problem because it happens in all save files. I have finally given up on trying to trace this and have started using workarounds instead (setup scripts in /root/Startup to copy over all the fiels that are lost, etc.) but things are still not working properly. Sad

2. My screen goes blank when using intel video driver problem has started reoccuring in beta5. When we discussed it at that post, gposil, it had seemed to be a fluxbox thing. But now the identical problem has occurred when running icewm, jwm and Enlightenment DR17. Will post an xerrs.log as soon as I remmber to save it properly Smile

. It happens fairly frequently.

3. The wifi drivers for the Eee PC 701SD - something weird is going on with mine. The standard one (ath5k) in dpup was running ok at first and then suddenly developed severe problems, not connecting at all most of the time (would connect perhaps once out of ten times) and then, once connected, the connection would be very erratic and slow. So I switched to this driver compiled by tempestuous for this kernel and there was a great improvement. But then later this driver as well started showing similar problems, though not as bad as the ath5k one, and now I'm reduced to wired internet (which works fine Smile

). The adapter is identiifed as an Atheros AR5001.

Should note that I have not had the latter two problems ever in 4.1.2 or 4.3.1, though as mentioned earlier the first problem did start occurring in 4.3.1.

Possibly these problems could be fixed with more up-to-date intel and atheros drivers? Just a shot in the dark...

Incidentally have finally managed to compile Enlightenment DR17 in dpup, will post shortly.

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 986 Location: England

Wow! Thanks shankar, it's not just me! I'm having exactly the same problem with wifi connection, in dpup and in the old iscraig acerpup, based on 4.1 I think.
I been trying over and over to get both working. The acerpup has been working for some time on my Acer Aspire One, but won't work now, and in dpup I have one savefile that does work, and another that won't. It's always the "association" stage that fails, whatever that means.
EDIT: dpup also on AA1.

gerry

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

Gerry, what adapter do you have in the Aspire One? Would be good to check if Atheros chipsets are the problem.

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

Ok, finally managed to compile Enlightenment DR17 for dpup beta 5. You will also need Lua, so that dotpet is also attached. This is compiled from the December 2nd snapshots (svn code refused to compile). These will not work in normal Puppy. You can find both at:

NB:Turns out you will also need to have the devx sfs loaded, or otherwise install libiconv - get it from the repository here.

http://stashbox.org/743400/enlightenment-0.16.999.063-i486.pet
http://stashbox.org/743407/lua-5.1.4-i486.pet

Before you run E17 you will need to make the following change in your /root/.xinitrc. Change this line:

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 986 Location: England

@shankar- lscpi gives AR5001 (01)

gerry

gposil · Posted: Tue 22 Dec 2009, 04:36 Post subject:

shankargopal,

Your xorg.conf is loading the vesa driver, not the intel driver....

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8699 Location: qld

Hello gposil,

Just out of interest, which kernel do you propose for the retro version?

Cheers