IcePuppy-014 for newer and Ice Puppy-015 for older computers

[pemasu]

Thank you Ray MK of your kind words. I checked your report. It seems that kernel has recognized nicely your hardware. That was good to know.

[l2ulinux]

Thanks for all your work. May I ask one thing? Please change the startup page to read IcePuppy. I know it is a remake of SnowPuppy, but if someone that had not tried snowpuppy are read the forum they would not know. I sometime right away pet disk for free. I love PuppyLinux and try to get everyone to try it.
Please keep the great work up. And please don't let someone upset you and you leave us.

[l2ulinux]

I sometime right away pet disk for free.
Did not proof read, that was nutty.
I sometime give away PuppyLinux disk for free.

[gcmartin]

You have done the Puppy community a HUGE contribution!

I have now highmem and PAE compiled in. It means that 4 Gb ram is shown as that and Ice Puppy also supports ram more than 4 Gb. Side effects. It will use ram about 20 mb more than without it. ...

I have found that there is a performance increase in using this PUP versus the lupu-001 SnowPup which does NOT have these changes.

Here's what you've given us

1. a faster SnowPUP
2. a single SnowPUP that would run on small RAM and Large RAM alike

And, because of this, I don't think anyone is going to be that concerned about 20MBs when it accompanies a performance improvement.

I understand that there are some operational kinks that will get attention. but, for the most part, this is a major demonstration to the PUP community that will not go un-noticed.

If these early indications continue to be true, you need not continue to build 2 kernels. Very soon, no one will be using the other kernel.

Congratulations on this achievement: "One PUP that runs on anything 32bit. Wow!"

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
As the author of an IcePup myself, (IcePup 3.01 which will run on a win95 machine well. ) I was compelled to try your release..

Well.....WOW....
As I said, I have not really looked at what this Pup is all about...I just had to try it by name...Pupspeak is too cute.... Reminds me of the "paper clip guy" LOL
That said...IDK if it is the new kernel, the glibc, or what...
But this is the fastest Pup Ive ever run...Bear in mind that for the first time in my life, I have a higher spec machine...But, on this machine, side by side frugal installs, this is easily 20% faster than any other Pup I have, and I have 16 frugal installs, including all the latest cutting edge woof/wary/quirky builds...Best OOTB glxgears score yet...
I played with moo, and was able to get a cli Pup, but discovered a bad D/L and must try again..

As per the thread...My fan runs fine...my resolution is correct, audio is better than most OOTB..I was surprised by the "Network Security" warning...
FF4 works great as well, and after I D/L a few things, like the devx and a few SFS/Pet`s, I`ll have more to report...

OK so Im gonna go back and read this thread from the start, look at what all you have done here, and get back...

But...first impression....Awesome....

Compaq CQ-56
Intel Celeron 2.2 g
2 gb ram
on board Intel Video and Audio
RT2860/5390 wireless (recognized and reconnected at boot... )
Frugal installs of many Pup`s...

Only complaint is it dropped my monitor brightness by about 25%, but I
have not rebooted yet to see if it persists....
EDIT: DUH, its a frugal install...Ive rebooted it several times...
It is an acpi issue, I have seen B4...Will get back on that.....
Hardinfo report below...

[pemasu]

Puppyluvr. Thank you of your report. About Ice Puppy name. I didnt know there has been before my puppy time almost same named puppy. I am truly sorry.
Ice Puppy was natural choice for name because my main build has been Snow Puppy. And I come from the country of snow and ice almost half the year.
I needed to distinct the name from Snow Puppy because of the new kernel so that testers wont get confused.

About that brightness. Yes it do so automatically as battery saving mode if you are on battery and not using ac adapter..
But the brightness should respond back to your brightness buttons.
If it does not, then just remove from /root/Startup 0acpid script.
Then the save mode is not initialized.

There is also nodpms script which works with /usr/sbin/noblankscreen script to disable screen going black after inactivity. But I dont think so it should affect on brightness.

By the way. I am rebuilding Ice Puppy-004 to have first found bug fixes.
Ice Puppy will now have its own starting wallpaper as requested. It looks like Ice Puppy has come to live sometime......

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Actually, I inherited the name from Todd Richardson, the creator of the original Icepup, back in `08 for IcePup 3.01...The original reason for me was Icewm, and Icecat for the browser...But that is the past, and this is the future..LOL..
Yea, I knew what the brightness issue was, it has come up B4...
BTW, the "brightness" hotkeys on my lappy, bring up "find in page" option in Firefox...LOL...

It looks like Ice Puppy has come to live sometime......

Glad to hear that...

[pemasu]

Puppyluvr. You should be able to change the brightness also from console using echo command directed to the brightness file.
I dont remember the syntax but I know it exists. If you need it, I can search it. It will be good to have that command in pocket anyway.

[pemasu]

Puppyluvr. In console:

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# cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/actual_brightness

tells me the current one.

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# echo 9 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

changes it to the bright. But check where your brightness file is first and then direct that command there.

If it works, put that command in executable script in /root/Startup, maybe with sleep 2 before the command

It is also easy to bind with xbindkeys-config to your hotkeys instead of that Firefox thing.

[pemasu]

I am reuploading Ice Puppy-004 now. It consists of latest bugfixes and addons. PPM database files should be now ok, so Quickpet should work ootb. Hostname change bug has been fixed. Desktop starting wallpaper is now Ice Puppys own. Ok, it seems the editing didnt went quite all right there are small rubbish around the name. Well, Gimp will get work again.
Gatotray is added and Psensor removed. I also removed the leftover 2.6.35.7 modules, there was some hanging from the snow puppy woof build.
So mostly quite cosmetic fixing.

I will start making kernel source sfs tomorrow. Then I add ndiswrapper as first third party kernel module.

About old phone line modem support.
From the previous experience, i wont start to compile extra modules or trying to do that if I dont know the name of the module or needed package first. Just name Lucent or what ever is not enough. It has been frustrating trying to help when ppl dont give specific enough info even when asked. Also support is diminishing in these newer kernels.

Wireless is easier. Just do in console:

lspci -nn -v

as starter and post the wireless spesific rows.

[pemasu]

Ice Puppy-004 has been reuploaded.

[James C]

Ice Puppy-004 has been reuploaded.

Got it.

[pemasu]

Ice Puppy has foxlibs installed because of xfe file manager. There is also nice goggles music manager which uses fox libs but it needs xine libs also.
I searched and found that dxirc also is foxlibs app.
Just for fun of it I compiled it, tested and made pet of it.
It should autoconnect to the puppylinux forum.
There is really no need for third irc app, but if you feel boring, give it a spin

It is something like xchat. You get spelling working by installing libaspell from ubuntu repo by using ppm.

[marco07]

pemasu:
I can not boot ice puppy 004 from flash drive setup by unetboot. Although I edited the configuration files on the unetboot by changing pmedia=cd to pmedia=usbflash, it still searches for puppy files on the hard drive and drops me to terminal.

[myke]

Pemasu, finally got a chance to d/l and test out Ice-puppy 4. Got some problems. The worst is lost my USB mouse - don't know why - had it in Ice-Puppy 1. Noticed on boot-up that the ENE card reader not enabled. Did a lsmod command and noticed that keucr was not loaded - did a modprobe keucr and got an error message, text attached.

Good news, modprobe coretemp worked. I also installed xsensor - nice graphic - didn't work in other pup (Snow-Puppy 14, I believe).

Tried lupe11.pet for the new kernel - didn't work, was it supposed to?

I still like the speed of Ice-puppy but miss the mouse - hate the trackpad - am dyslexic, scientific way to say basically clumsy - and miss the card reader.

myke

[Billtoo]

I did a frugal install of icepup 04 aka snowpuppy-004.iso on my acer
revo nettop computer.

Summary
Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
Memory 1814MB (238MB used)
Operating System Puppy Linux 0.00
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Fri 22 Apr 2011 09:22:38 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio Adapter USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d
Input Devices
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
UVC Camera (046d:08c5)
Chicony 2.4G Multimedia Wireless Kit
Chicony 2.4G Multimedia Wireless Kit

sh-4.1# glxgears
560 frames in 5.0 seconds
645 frames in 5.0 seconds
652 frames in 5.0 seconds
648 frames in 5.0 seconds
sh-4.1# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Ice Puppy, version 004

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP79 Board - hornet-0 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
sh-4.1#

It has an nvidia ion graphics chip and I install the proprietary
driver later.

The screen resolution should be 1440x900 but other than that it's working okay.

[James C]

I just finished maxing out an old box with Kingston dual-channel ddr2 ram so here's Ice Puppy 004 live pfix=ram.Everything working correctly on initial boot......sound,internet and display.Sound volume seems a bit low but is working.

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Memory : 2066MB (195MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.00
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 22 Apr 2011 09:59:20 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel



VIDEO REPORT: Ice Puppy, version 004

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#


# glxgears
5466 frames in 5.0 seconds
5711 frames in 5.0 seconds
6623 frames in 5.0 seconds
6594 frames in 5.0 seconds
6615 frames in 5.0 seconds
6588 frames in 5.0 seconds
6137 frames in 5.0 seconds

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 2066184 677592 1388592 0 77484
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 2066184 677592 1388592
#

Looking really good on this box.

[James C]

Back again.

Ice Puppy 004 live pfix=ram on my main Linux box.Everything working and correct on initial boot..... sound, internet and display (1440x900).Looking good on this box too.

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (194MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.00
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 22 Apr 2011 11:06:02 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF
pdf_writer : <i>Default</i>



VIDEO REPORT: Ice Puppy, version 004

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:
...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

# glxgears
354 frames in 5.0 seconds
357 frames in 5.0 seconds
368 frames in 5.0 seconds
329 frames in 5.0 seconds
371 frames in 5.0 seconds

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1034492 617880 416612 0 69864
Swap: 1228936 0 1228936
Total: 2263428 617880 1645548
#

[James C]

Ice Puppy 004 live multi-session cd. Once again, everything working and correct on initial boot.

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3884MB (191MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.00
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 23 Apr 2011 01:49:47 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia



VIDEO REPORT: Ice Puppy, version 004

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

# glxgears
2212 frames in 5.0 seconds
2016 frames in 5.0 seconds
2205 frames in 5.0 seconds
2222 frames in 5.0 seconds
2216 frames in 5.0 seconds
2220 frames in 5.0 seconds
2195 frames in 5.0 seconds

VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 3884608 637164 3247444 0 70864
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 3884608 637164 3247444
#


I'm 4 out of 4........ everything working on initial boot on 4 different boxes, looking really good. ( I did a frugal install on the old P4 too, too late to post about it )

[l2ulinux]

This Summary was made on line watching SYFY Channel. No problem with
Video are Sound. Thanks for the great work.

Summary
Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
Memory 2063MB (320MB used)
Operating System Puppy Linux 0.00
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Sat 23 Apr 2011 01:56:35 AM GMT-8
Display
Resolution 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Input Devices
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
HID 1241:1166
Printers (CUPS)
CUPS-PDF
pdf_writer Default
Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 2.6.38.2 (i686)
Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 21 22:44:43 GMT-8 2011
C Library GNU C Library version 2.11.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler Unknown
Distribution Puppy Linux 0.00
Current Session
Computer Name puppypc
User Name root (root)
Home Directory /root
Desktop Environment Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)
Misc
Uptime 3 hours, 25 minutes
Load Average 0.00, 0.03, 0.06