Update: New thread at Lighthouse 64 5.11 Alpha release
Welcome!
This topic, suggested by gcmartin, is for discussion related to future Lighthouse development. I would like to express my appreciation to kirk and jamesbond for bringing 64-bit Linux to the Puppy community. They have brightened my outlook for the future of Puppy and Lighthouse in a landscape where software utilizing the benefits of x86-64 is growing.
I've followed the Fatdog forum threads and web site, compiled some apps with the fd64-devx_511.sfs and assembled an experimental build of Lighthouse 64-511. It has updates to LXPanel 0.5.3 and ROX 2.10, jemimah's Frisbee Network Manager, PPM with slackware64 repos, wine-1.3.18-x86_64 and support for up to 40 SFS. I'm striving to follow the prudent Fatdog net-secure approach where Internet connected apps run as a non-privileged user by default.
theWord and Winamp 5.61 are working in Wine, however in Winamp the track info display in the main panel doesn't update properly and the Media Library fails to load. Had the same problems with Winamp in LHP 5.03.
[Edit: SOLVED rcrsn51 found by starting cupsd with 'start32 /usr/sbin/cupsd' in /etc/init.d/cups, 32-bit printer drivers can be used.] So far my printer, Canon MP560 is detected by CUPS but won't print. I couldn't find any 64-bit drivers for it, and compiling from Canon's source fails with missing libcnbpcmcm360. I'm going to try updating to cups-1.4.6-x86_64 from Slackware64 current. Or maybe there's a way to get 32-bit CUPS working with jamesbond's start32 wrapper and dependencies in /lib32?
Screen grabs are attached below. Here is some terminal output after booting the system:
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<root> ~
bash-4.1# cat /initrd/tmp/bootinit.log
Booting Lighthouse64 511.10
pmedia=atahd pdev1=sda8 psubdir=lhp511 loglevel=3 xforcevesa nomodeset
video=800x600 nmi_watchdog=0 resume=/dev/sda6 vga=788 pfix=fsck,fbcon
Frame buffer console modules (fbcon) loaded.
Loading drivers needed to access disk drives...
Waiting for usb partitions...
Locating main file and session files...
Performing filesystem check on /dev/sda8...
Finding L64-511.sfs and L64save files...
Loading main file and session file...
Loading savefile /lhp511/L64save-511.4fs (sda8)...
Performing filesystem check on savefile /dev/loop1...
Size=124.0MiB, 49% free
Found swap, loading main file L64-511.sfs (sda8) fast media
Min RAM to copy: 271M free: 3708M... copying main file to RAM
Loading /lhp511/zWine-1.3.18-x86-64_511.sfs at /pup_ro3...
Min RAM to copy: 77M free: 3514M... copying to RAM.
Setting up the layered filesystem...
Layering with aufs up to 40 SFS files...
1 Devx-L64_511.sfs min to copy: 756M free: 3458M... copying to RAM.
2 vlc-1.1.7-amd64.sfs min to copy: 100M free: 3098M... copying to RAM.
Checking for preconfig files in /mnt/dev_save/lhp511/precfg...
Preparing for a 'switch_root' to the layered filesystem...
<root> ~
bash-4.1# hardinfo -r
...
Memory : 3797MB (164MB used)
...
Operating System
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-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.35.7 (x86_64)
Compiled : #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 00:23:48 GMT+5 2010
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.11.1 (stable)
...
bash-4.1# report-video-glx -cl
Mon 25 Apr 2011 Operating System: Lighthouse64-511 Linux 2.6.35.7
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: RS780 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: radeonhd
X.Org version: 1.9.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RS780 9610) 20090101 TCL
OpenGL version string: 2.0 Mesa 7.8.2
AMD Athlon(tm) 7750 Dual-Core Processor
Core 0: 1350 1: 1350 MHz