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Brown Mouse · Posted: Wed 22 Dec 2010, 06:48 Post subject:

Still no luck with Mesa.
I see this in a terminal when entering 'glxgears' # glxgears
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
#

It's odd because it works in 051.

Stripe · Posted: Wed 22 Dec 2010, 08:17 Post subject:

Hi all

just tried 052 on an old amd 800 mhz box (256mb sd ram) (full install) everything works great if a bit slow LOL, (apart from flash, but cant expect anything else with the chip)
Posting from it now.
cheers
Stripe

mikeslr

Thank you James C:

You were right. When you click "Resize Personal Save-File" the SAVE FILE OF WHICHEVER PUPPY YOU NEXT BOOT INTO WILL BE THE ONE RESIZED..

There is, in fact, a warning in the dialogue which appears when you click "Resize Personal Save-File", but the warning is in the middle of the text and doesn't explain why you should reboot into the intended Puppy. And it is partially negated by the first sentence which identifies the Puppy you are in as the one you intend to increase.

In short, the instructions in the dialogue could be clearer.

mikesLr

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 24 Dec 2010, 14:44 Post subject:

Hey 01micko, I'm home after two weeks and I found some time to work on Pslackthing, teh Slackware package downloader.

New stuff:
- Lots of bug fixes
- A package blacklist
- Automatic (and FAST) detection of the installed packages and the option not to download installed packages (i.e just the extra dependencies you need to make the packages work); it uses DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS (either the one in /root/.packages or DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-slackware-$DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION in the Pslackthing directory, as with other Woof files). Wink

- More comments in the code
- More modularity and reusability in various parts of Pslackthing
- Other goodies

How to use it? It's simple. Edit pslackthingrc with a text editor, create a list of packages to download and save it as packages.txt.

Then, decide what side of the force you are on - run Pslackthing on a spup to make life easier or get DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS, DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS-slackware-13.1 and DISTRO_PET_REPOS-slackware-13.1. If you mess with Woof, you know what these are; just put them in the Pslackthing directory, like packages.txt.

Now you're done configuring it - just run 0setup and 1download. It's all automatic Smile

If you want to restore Pslackthing to its vanilla form, delete Packages-slackware-*, packages.txt and the packages directory. That's it.

This thing is getting better and better ... I'm still curious about reverse-engineering Woof's 2createpackages. This requires some serious work I guess Cool

taca0 · Joined: 06 May 2009 Posts: 119

Iguleader:

Make a version with this combination Xorg 1.9.2 from current slackware and kernel 2.6.36 like the slax remix v9 has??

Iguleder · Posted: Sat 25 Dec 2010, 08:12 Post subject:

I have no intentions to harm spup's development, it's 01micko's baby Smile

At the moment I'm rebuilding 052 with micko's instructions, but with my own modifications - I replaced some applications and added goodies. PPM uses the spup repo but also has mine Cool

The most important feature is the automatic Opera installer (which replaces the Firefox installer I wrote). Also, there are many new packages in my repo: Seamonkey, a better Geany, Bluefish, nano_tiny, package_tools, advancecomp_cut, OptiPNG and much more. The Opera PET is just 9 MB and it's so goddamn fast! Very Happy

Here's what I did:

Lobster · Posted: Sat 25 Dec 2010, 10:36 Post subject:

Glad you are OK Igu
after your holiday, care of the local militia Wink

Wonderful that you are using your time to improve our favourite canine
before returning to your camp site . . .

Have fun Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 25 Dec 2010, 13:52 Post subject:

Iguleder Hope your fine and life is grand, Take care
ttuuxxx

Iguleder · Posted: Sat 25 Dec 2010, 14:04 Post subject:

Thanks, guys - I'm just fine. My body is all broken and physically I'm very tired, but mentally I'm very energetic as I'm building more stuff for spup Smile

I compiled 2.6.36.2 with BFS and more packages, including JWM 498 and htop, to make it more ... complete Smile

I also tried to compile WeeChat but it's still too big, weechat-curses is ~350 KB if I remember right and the gtk interface is just two text entries, not very friendly.

01micko: in Barry's zzz package, use "exe,dev,doc,nls", otherwise it produces errors - in my case I got an empty package. Also, Bones should be "exe>dev" to save a byte or two of RAM. Besides these problems 052 looks great so far.

taca0 · Joined: 06 May 2009 Posts: 119

Iguleader:

How I use the linux_kernel-2.6.36.2-spup.pet with spup or igulpup001 but Frugal ??

Iguleder · Posted: Sat 25 Dec 2010, 15:54 Post subject:

Just follow the wonderful instructions by 01micko and build your own spup, it's easy Smile

You can build it without having to modify Woof, that's what's so awesome about spup. I don't recommend you to use my kernel packages, since they're experimental and the next time I work on Puppy is next Friday probably Wink

I built a 052 with 2.6.36.2 and some of my modifications and it was kinda messed up, because I used "exe" instead of "exe,dev>null,doc>null,nls>null" for almost all the apps I packaged - they were missing but the Opera installer was there and worked. Now I'm re-processing them ... grrrrr.

EDIT: more problems! jwm 498's bidi didn't work for me and it has two annoying bugs - 4 workspaces instead of 2 and when you move a window to the top of the screen, it pops out of the bottom. I rolled back to the good 493.

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

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

Ok folks, the latest spup is now uploading, won't be very long!

There are numerous changes for you to test/check out.

-the latest ROX from git
-the latest jwm as at 26 December
-many package updates
-fixed nvidia drivers (if you have older ones delete them and start fresh)
-much more stuff

It is built from woof 22 December but I understand Barry has the latest 29 December woof ready, oh well! I leave this out for at least a week before I update again!

There are delta files for the main iso and the devx.

See main Post

Cheers and enjoy!

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Already burning a cd........................... Laughing