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mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

Update Aug 20, 2011: XOpup-2.2 has been Released

(Jun 10, 2012: For other more recent puppy builds modified for the XO laptops, look here
Nov 30, 2012: For Puppy Precise 5.4.2 for the XO, look here

(Mar 14, 2013: For Racy, Precise and Slacko 5.5 for the XO, look here)

XOpup was developed by mavrothal and 01micko
Mitch Bradley (OLPC) was instrumental in booting puppy on the XO
Paul J Fox (OLPC) was critical in debugging and modifying power management and keyboard function in XOpup.
Anna and Eddie Owens helped with the sound at the initial steps of the project, and ttuuxxx had many helpful comments and encouragement during the difficult start.

XOpup-2.2 has a number of improvements and updates over XOpup-2.1. Among them:

Please do read the build announcement and the change log for the numerous new features and functions.

To install XOpup-2.2 download the XOpup-2.2.tar.gz file (md5sum: a05a34ba7ddac575cba785eedcad5479), expand it at the root of an ext2/ext3/vfat formatted USB or SDcard and boot your unlocked XO-1 or XO-1.5.

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Update Mar 9, 2011: XOpup-2.1 is out

XOpup-2.1 is a slimmed down (to 88MB!) version of XOpup-1.0 and now supports equally well the XO-1 and the XO-1.5
The main changes compared to XOpup-1.0 are:

change log

To install XOpup-2.1 download the XOpup-2.1.tar.gz file (md5sum:800b9351753fe792a5e14c5c39e0fe16), expand it at the root of an ext2/ext3/vfat formatted USB or SDcard and boot your XO-1 or XO-1.5.

Do see the Build Announcement for more info requirements issues etc.

Note: Some SDcards may have troubles with the XO. In this case try this solution

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Oct 18, 2010: This is it folks XOpup-1.0 is out[/size]. Very Happy

More informative battery monitor, new airplane mode, pupdial that works with 3G modems, fixed UI in pupradio, hardware/setup-aware first-run screen, improvements in the package manager, etc.
Major stability improvements in running from a lupusave file with new kernel, aufs-utils, and power management. See here for more details.
The links below have been updated accordingly.

XOpup-1 is based on Puppylinux 5.1.1 with several customizations to fit the hardware.
In addition to the custom kernels and under the hood optimizations, it includes custom desktop, quickpet, first-run screen, battery monitor, touchpad widget for XO-1, swap-file maker and power management.
It also includes other goodies like the free-memory deamon, the lupu-511 "light" version of the Midori browser as default, and all the standard Puppylinux 5.1.1 applications and programs.

To install, download XOpup-1.0.tar.gz
(md5sum: e01bced2c4d24677119291ec3a3ef501 )
expand it at the root of a VFAT or etx2/3 formatted USB stick or SDcard, load the stick/card on the XO-1 or XO-1.5 and boot!
Please see the full build announcement for requirements, info and known issues

The same file should be used for both the Geode LX800 XO-1 and the VIA C7-M XO-1.5 models as well as USB sticks or SDcards, without further modifications.

See also:
- If you rather use ext2/3 formatted media find here some (newbe-style) formatting and installation instructions
- A fairly detailed changelog (XOpup-building labyrinth really Very Happy

) that could be used to build XOpup, but mostly to identify pitfalls and how you shouldn't be doing things Very Happy

Please test (specially if you have an XO-1.5), fix ( Wink

) and report problems here.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Let's have fun testing Wink

Any updates to anything I have contributed will appear here.

Cheers

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Edit: Monday, 18th October, 2010

I just went through the rigmarole of updating the firmware to q2e45. My xo-1 wouldn't work with an SD card, but was booting fine with usb sticks.

For those unsure, in the build announcement there is a link to the q2e45 firmware update instructions..

I kept getting this error

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Um.. double post.. maybe it was meant to be? Laughing

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

Unrelated to the thread but...
a fellow puppian send me a PM that I deleted by mistake before I had the chance to reply or even see, and I do not remember the username. Embarassed

Pls send again if you want.

rrolsbe · Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 178

I untarred the tarball to a blank ext2 formatted usb stick. It boots into the RC of Puppy for the OLPC but doesn't enable the created swap file; likewise, the pupsave file dialog is not presented so the pupsave file is NOT created. Of course, when I reboot nothing is saved from the previous boot session.

When I issued the free command on my XO-1 (256MB) very little RAM was available immediately after the initial boot session.

Regards, Ron

BTW, the previous V3/V4 Puppy installs on this XO-1 worked better than anything I had used prior.

Regards, Ron

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

Hmmm... it looks like that depending on the USB kind/brand you can have this problem of not saving in the first session.
I tried 6 sticks
My usual 2 Sandisk micro ext2(2GB) and ext3(4GB) formetted had no problem
A generic 1GB vfat also had no problem
A second generic 2GB vfat did not boot at all
A third 8GB vfat booted but did not save the session
Finally the third ext3 (actually a 4GB kingstone SDcard mounted either at the SDslot or at the USBport with an adapter) gave the "not saved session" problem.

Could you please verify that the same stick was ok with v3-v4 and no reformatting or anything else changed in between?

Apparently there is a number of changes in rc.shutdown, function4puppy(4), snapmergepuppy (other?) in lupu510 vs lupu-511 that could account for this issue.

We need to look at it, but for now all I can say is try another stick card.

rrolsbe · Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 178

The stick that worked with V3 was a Kingston 4G Datatraveler model DTI/4G ext3 partition. The stick I loaded the RC on was a Kingston 8G Datatraveler model DTI/8G ext2 partition.

Update: Loaded V4 on the 8G stick (the one that did not work with RC) and the pupsave file and swap WERE created.

The two were purchased a few years ago within a few month of each other.
I loaded it on the 8G stick because I wanted to make sure everything worked and if it didn't I would revert back to the 4G stick with V3.

I have an external USB hub attached to one of the XO-1 USB ports with an external mouse/keyboard/wired ethernet attached. I must unplug the USB hub when booting from the 4G Kingston (using V3) until the boot process starts; however, using the 8G Kingston it boots with the USB hub attached. I did try booting the 8G Kingston (RC installed) with the USB hub NOT attached to verify that didn't have anything to do with the pupsave not being created on shutdown.

Maybe it is time to buy some new SDHC cards to experiment with. Wish I knew which ones worked good with the XO-1. I have read that the SDHC read/write speed is not very good on the XO-1, so paying a premium price for a class 10 might not be worth it. Could buy a few class 10's and use them on my ASUS 904HA and use the old ones for the XO-1.

I loaded V4 on a 16G Apacer SDHC card and it worked for awhile then became flaky. I had this same problem when I loaded Ubuntu on this Apacer stick over a year ago. The 16G Apacer is not recognized reliably on my other laptops either. The Apacer is a Class 6 P/N-AP16GSDHC6. Don't know much about the Apacer brand maybe not a good brand?

I know this is getting long. You mentioned loading Puppy onto a FAT16/32 stick works but the pupsave file save time at shutdown is VERY long. I have booted many USB sticks using the factory fat16/32 file system with Puppy loaded onto my ASUS and have never had long save times on shutdown. Any further information/pointers to further information regarding the slow save time would be appreciated.

Thanks Very Much for Your Cycles
Regards, Ron

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

So,
if you come across these misbehaved media that do not want to save the session after the first boot, because Puppy can not determine where they are mounted, just tell it! Cool

In traditional Puppy you have the boot options. In XOpup these options are passed by the command line arguments of the /boot/olpc.fth file.

To tame a misbehaved SDcard add "PDEV1=mmcblk0p1" in /boot olpc.fth so line 85 will look like that

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2942 Location: Sydney Australia

" Kingston 8G Datatraveler "

Horrible usb. I had issues 2 weeks ago.
Finally the Hirens formatter loaded it.

Chris.

rrolsbe · Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 178

" console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 fbcon=font:SUN12x22 PDEV1=sda1" expand$ to boot-file

RC worked great with the 8G Kingston stick using the above!!!
Thanks Much
Ron

rrolsbe · Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 178

Just read the release notes again for XOpup-1.0_RC and need a little clarification.

Power management
Updated to powerd v28 so the XO will turn-off wifi in suspend

Does this mean we now know how to turn off the WiFi or does it just work in suspend mode? I was going to take my XO on a plane trip in about a week but I need to know how to turn off the wireless.

I added an XO-1 overclock section Wink

that user can activate at will

Looks like overclocking is not being used by default on the RC as it was in versions v1-4, correct?

500Mhz CPU and 200Mhz bus speed is what was default on V1-4, correct?

Thanks Much
Regards, Ron

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

XOpup has been updated to RC2 Very Happy

Thanks to Mitch Bradley's new Forth boot script, puppy does not need to figure out where is booting from (and occasionally fail). Open firmware just tell it very reliably! So even bad USB/SDcards (eg with long response times) can be used for XOpup.
However, this kind of media may give you reliability problems...

There is also a new kernel for XO-1. To the casual user does not make a difference but if you want to compile kernel modules or drivers, is important.

There is also an "Airplane mode" (rrolsbe... Very Happy

). However, this is a software block of the wifi at the kernel level, which means that by mistake or some "strange" software combo/bug can be reactivated! Please see Note 9 of the build announcement. and more details about RC2, here

Download from the top post of this tread.