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[tazoc]

Lighthouse Pup 5.02 base ISO and 5.02 Mariner ISO
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*** Please see a newer release, 5.03 at this link ***
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=499956#499956
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Highlights include

* PupControl, a full-featured control panel specifically designed for Puppy-based derivatives like Lighthouse.

* SFS copy2ram at first or any boot, with a brief prompt for full selection and configuration early in the boot process, prior to mounting the layered file system.

* If sufficient free RAM is detected, all core files and SFS add-ons can be copied to RAM. This means the Mariner ISO is now a true LiveCD with the add-ons Xfce, Mariner & LibreOffice SFS running in RAM at first boot.

* If any .sfs add-ons are found, before they are loaded, a brief prompt is offered to select and configure them. The SFS configuration allows you to choose which add-ons you'd like to use this session, and whether or not to copy them to RAM. Skip the prompt and use all SFS selected in prior configuration / BootManager / pre-selections from LiveCD.

* Available free RAM is recalculated after each copy2ram. If RAM is low, only SFS files that will safely fit in RAM will be copied and the rest will mount in place. This way all selected add-ons will be loaded, making maximum use of available RAM.

Release notes are at http://www.lhpup.org/release-lhp.htm

==Bugs==

Booting an encrypted save file gives erroneous error 'failed to mount' (actually does work, after the 60 sec pause.)
Fixed ISOs here. Or copy these files to your GRUB installation.

Download Lighthouse Pup 5.02 G

Graphics configuration

KMS*: automatic i915.modeset=1 for Intel graphics. video=800x600 when booting from CD.

*** If using GRUB bootloader ***

If boot and command line fonts are very small, add video=800x600 to the kernel line in your menu.lst. Sample menu.lst entry

If LHP boots to a blank screen when booting from a GRUB bootloader, please add xforcevesa nomodeset to the kernel line in your menu.lst.
(Booting from the CD does this by default, and using grubconfig in LHP to install GRUB also does.)

* How to configure KMS - Kernel ModeSetting

[nooby]

the download never starts. Are there any mirrors for it?

[tazoc]

[Jim1911]

Hi TazOC, thanks for the new update.

Downloaded fine, does it work with KDE 4.4.4-G?

Cheers,
Jim

[tazoc]

Hi Jim,
You're welcome. Yes, 4-KDE-4.4.4-G.sfs works great here, even copied to RAM.
-TazOC

[Jim1911]

Hi TazOC,

I'm having problems with startup. The installation is on an ext4 partition. I get "Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format".

My menu.lst entry is unchanged from what worked with 5.00 G: I get the same error using the commented out code which worked with 5.0.0 G:

[tazoc]

Hmm, what is the o/p of:

[Jim1911]

Hi TazOC,

Output requested: This is done using Lucid 5.2 on sdb7 with the iso mounted on sdb1. Lighthouse directory is on sdb2.

# cd /mnt/sdb2/lighthouse
# ls -Al
total 188832
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 96 2011-01-17 07:32 autorun.inf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1592 2011-01-17 07:32 click-to-verify-lhp
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-01-17 07:32 html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2881557 2011-01-17 07:32 initrd.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-01-17 07:32 isolinux
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 169549824 2011-01-17 07:32 LHP-502.sfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25840 2011-01-17 07:32 logo.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2248032 2011-01-17 07:32 vmlinuz
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 18636800 2011-01-17 07:32 zWine-1.3.11_502.sfs
#
I see that there are size difference between my output and yours. Maybe I need to try a new download.
Thanks,
JIm

[tazoc]

I don't know, what is o/p of

[Jim1911]

bash: click-to-verify-lhp: command not found
# cd /mnt/sdb2/lighthouse
# ls -Al
total 188832
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 96 2011-01-17 07:32 autorun.inf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1592 2011-01-17 07:32 click-to-verify-lhp
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-01-17 07:32 html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2881557 2011-01-17 07:32 initrd.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-01-17 07:32 isolinux
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 169549824 2011-01-17 07:32 LHP-502.sfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25840 2011-01-17 07:32 logo.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2248032 2011-01-17 07:32 vmlinuz
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 18636800 2011-01-17 07:32 zWine-1.3.11_502.sfs
# click-to-verify-lhp
bash: click-to-verify-lhp: command not found
#

EDIT:bash: ./click-to-verify-lhp: cannot execute binary file
#

[tazoc]

I forgot to ask you to type './' immediately before click-to-verify-lhp

[Jim1911]

Hi Tazoc,

I'll try a new download.

Thanks,
Jim
EDIT: Problem was the download which I suspected considering the difference sizes between our files. Mariner download was also bad. I/m posting from LHP now and it looks good so far including KDE4.
Thanks,
Jim

[Billtoo]

I installed the new lhp and loaded the devx,kernel source sfs, then installed
the ati-driver-installer-10-12-x86.x86_64.run driver.

bash-4.1# glxgears
19091 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3818.033 FPS
19415 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3882.822 FPS
19423 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3884.449 FPS
19418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3883.524 FPS
19428 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3885.551 FPS
<root> ~

There is a lot to try out but it's looking good so far,amazing in fact

Edit:

I installed lhp 502 to a pc with an nvidia graphics card and installed
the devx,kernel source sfs, and NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.29.run driver.
I had to go into the sbin directory and rename depmod to depmodold and
depmod-FULL to depmod before exiting to the prompt and running the
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.29.run driver.
I had problems getting the correct resolution but I messed around
until I got it
6840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1367.876 FPS
7194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1438.715 FPS
7238 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1447.441 FPS
10134 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2026.748 FPS
10622 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2124.340 FPS
<root> ~
bash-4.1#
bash-4.1# report-video
Lighthouse Pup, version 5.02-G on Tue 18 Jan 2011

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP77 Board - mcp78pvo Chip Rev


X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nvidia
Video mode used by Xorg: 1440x900 Depth: 24
current xrandr mode: 1440x900 50.0

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
<root> ~
bash-4.1#

[Jim1911]

Hi Tazoc,

Rick's done it to you again, your installer is off. His version is now setup982.exe. I didn't even know that it had gotten to 981, his updates are more frequent than they used to be.

Cheers,
Jim

[tazoc]

Hi Jim,
Yes, you're right, try it now. 9.7.2 still works in LHP 5.00 G. 9.8.2 for 5.02 should d/l OK now, though I had to install twice before it worked; I will do some more testing tomorrow to see if the free space check needs to be adjusted up. There's a new e-Sword feature now to d/l and track add-ons within e-Sword, but I haven't been able to get it working in Wine.
Thanks,
TazOC