Polarpup-005 with Qt4-4.8.0 and Gstreamer libs inbuild

[marco07]

Just finished reading through all 7 pages in the thread. Man, i got exicited to try Polar puppy as well. Will download it later and try it this week end. it sounds like an exciting puppy!

[marco07]

Hello:
Had a manual frugal install of Polar Puppy 001 on an older desktop, Pentium III, 1 GHz, 1 GB ram with a legacy nvidia graphic card.
Installed Ndiswrapper pet file and set up my wireless connection with it without any problem.
Run qtconfig and selected desired font size.
Installed firefox through quick pet and updated it to FFX 5. Installed Thunderbird Mail client.
All working fine so far.
The only issue so far is that the CUPS Printer Wizard brings up the net set up page however, clicking on any tab generate 500 server error message and I could not set up my printer yet.
aside from this I am happy with this polar puppy 001.

[pemasu]

Marco07. Thank you of your report. About CUPS. I need to investigate the problem. I dont remember if I have used printer with Polarpup. Do you get the same problem before Firefox installation, if you boot with pfix=ram ?

[marco07]

Marco07. Thank you of your report. About CUPS. I need to investigate the problem. I dont remember if I have used printer with Polarpup. Do you get the same problem before Firefox installation, if you boot with pfix=ram ?

Hi pemasu:
I booted up with prefix=ram and after installation of ndiswrapper to be able to connect to my home network printer, it worked well and I could see my printer on QTWeb browser without producing any error. So it works in live boot-up.
I then went back and rebooted into my installation and removed Firefox, thinking that may work. Even lthough I removed all the remnants of Firefox, it did not work and I got the same "500 Internal server error" in QTweb when clicking on any tab. So, I suppose I need to reinstall Polar Puppy and set up my printer before installing any additional packages, in particular Firefox. Or perhaps it was because I installed Firefox from quick pet rather than using your posted .pet which I had noted after install of Firefox. Anyhow, I hope these info are helpfull to you.
Thanks!

[pemasu]

Marco07. I suspect or it is highly possible that Firefox changes some folder permissions so that even removing Firefox wont help. I am unfortunately now several weeks in our summer cottage and I use my mothers laptop to achieve net. No printer and no net in my working laptop. So I cant troubleshoot the Firefox now. But if it has that kind problem, I need to do something for it in the future. Maybe waiting that someone else compiles it or has Playdayz already done that ?

[pemasu]

Double post due to XP OS and slow 3g connection. Lol.

[Tman]

Marco07. I suspect or it is highly possible that Firefox changes some folder permissions so that even removing Firefox wont help. I am unfortunately now several weeks in our summer cottage and I use my mothers laptop to achieve net. No printer and no net in my working laptop. So I cant troubleshoot the Firefox now. But if it has that kind problem, I need to do something for it in the future. Maybe waiting that someone else compiles it or has Playdayz already done that ?

I have Firefox 5.0b7 as a pet and SFS availiable here: http://www.smokey01.com/Tman/apps/
It is the more stable non-Aurora version. I did not compile it..just extracted the tarball, added some modifications which I found in Barry's firefox-4.0.1-w5.pet and added my own tweaks. So I guess they are what you call static? Sorry, I am naive at this but would someone be able to tell me what major advatantage compiling firefox would have?

[pemasu]

Tman. Compiling yourself might brake cups and so you save in printing expenses, lol.
Seriously, I wanted to know how hard it was to compile it, but with Playdayz`s nice howto it was smooth and easy. Also I disabled dependencies to hal and dbus. I mtuned it for my intel i5 even though I would need latest gcc to fully get speed advantage. Mostly, compiling in your own environment and using tuning for your hardware should give some performance advantage.
For me, it was experience and testing suite.

Tman. I also downloaded your latest Slickpup. It was nice and really good themes for Icewm. I liked the feeling of Slickpup. Keep up the good work.

[rcrsn51]

Even lthough I removed all the remnants of Firefox, it did not work and I got the same "500 Internal server error"

This problem is caused by packages that alter the Puppy ownership/permission system. Because CUPS runs as an unprivileged user, it will refuse to work if the permissions are wrong.

[Tman]

Thanks Pemasu,

Since you like the look and feel of Slickpup, I will prepare a little surprise for you and Snowpuppy users next week.

[marco07]

Even lthough I removed all the remnants of Firefox, it did not work and I got the same "500 Internal server error"

This problem is caused by packages that alter the Puppy ownership/permission system. Because CUPS runs as an unprivileged user, it will refuse to work if the permissions are wrong.

Thank you! I was not awarethat the issue was a permission related one. I have re-installed the Polar Puppy and fro the time being am using QTWeb browser. Have not reinstalled Firefox yet pending some improvements.

[jim3630]

tested a few browsers in Polar Pup using PeaceKeeper site as benchmark.

http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action


Mon 27 Jun 2011 Operating System: Polarpup-001 Linux 2.6.38
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS product: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: unknown
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGDNG_M GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1

Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU P6100
Core 0: 933 1: 1999 MHz

Namoroka (firefox 3.6.3) running Tor. 1822
Aora 0.11.0 WebKit version: 533.3. 3071
seamonkey 2.1 (small s version). 3369
Iron 8.0.555.0. 5781

Opera 11.11
Platform
Linux
System
i686, 2.6.38....5808[/url]

[Béèm]

As unfortunately the laptop doesn't support the PAE kernel I can't test for the moment being away from home.
Once back I can test on the Medion desktop.

Being back now, I installed (Lin'N'Win FRUGAL) on the Medion MD8818 desktop
It does run apart from the fact I have to run with nolapic on the kernel line and thus reducing the PC from a dual to a single processor.

[pemasu]

MindMap written in QT, aims to provide the features of Freemind.

https://gitorious.org/qtmindmap/pages/Home

[jim3630]

MindMap written in QT, aims to provide the features of Freemind.

https://gitorious.org/qtmindmap/pages/Home

pemasu, tried in MN 03 after loading qt4-4.8.0 and qt4-DEV-8.0 pets then got error

# qtmindmap
Unable to load library icui18n "Cannot load library icui18n: (libicui18n.so.42: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
No translation file for locale: en_US
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (sender name: 'actionNew')
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (sender name: 'actionOpen')
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (sender name: 'actionSave')
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (sender name: 'actionSaveAs')
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (sender name: 'actionClose')
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (sender name: 'actionExport')
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (sender name: 'actionQuit')
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (sender name: 'actionAbout_QtMindMap')
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
Object::connect: No such signal QAction::activated()
Object::connect: (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
#

Should both files DEV and other both be loaded?

[jim3630]

MindMap written in QT, aims to provide the features of Freemind.

https://gitorious.org/qtmindmap/pages/Home

In PP 01 code

# qtmindmap
No translation file for locale: en_US

have not used this program but the program keys seem to function and perform their various duties. it's all too earlier...maybe this thing will show a map to my mind or at least another cup of coffee.

[pemasu]

Jim3630. For MN, SP an IP you will need to install libicu. The problem is same than you announced in SP thread.

[jim3630]

Jim3630. For MN, SP an IP you will need to install libicu. The problem is same than you announced in SP thread.

Pemasu, never did sort out libicu. In PPM "libicu" returns nothing. If you have a source I'll try it. thanks jim

[pemasu]

I have it in the ubuntu repo, you should have it also.

[pemasu]

I got now Clementine-0.71 and Qmmp-0.60 working in Polarpup. They will need almost full gstreamer with plugins to work. Qmmp would need some nicer theme than original, I need to check what net offers.

So...I will create multimedia Polarpup with those included along gstreamer. Smplayer, Umplayer and Gnome-Mplayer will be the the other multimedia players.
The browsers included. Arora, Lightweight2 maybe. But maybe Firefox 5 also. Dont know yet.

So...Polarpup-002 multimedia edition will be the next project.