spup-121.02 pre-alpha3 based on 13.37

[01micko]

Hi all

A new slacko/spot is imminent .. about 10-12 hours away.

There has been much going on under the hood but you probably wont notice.

I think I have most kernel issues sorted out, we are going to go with 2.6.37.6.. however I did like 2.6.35, just a little too buggy on some gear. USB booting is still problematic on 1/3 of my machines however progress has been made. I think I have done enough kernel tweaking, the problem may lie in the initrd.gz (init script)

Xorgwizard has been a major pain. I was hoping to go with a xorg.con/d setup which suits newer xorg but xorgwizard is too entrenched in Puppy at the moment so I have gone with a minimal xorg.conf ala playdayz in Lupu, with some of Barry's mods and some of my original mods.

*I think* I have flsynclient worked out for lappy users. Keyboards and mice will need heavy testing too. There are many updated progs and still some bugs I can't figure out, that stupid rox ntfs bug for one, while it works fine the error still shows and I have completely changed rox, so it might be an incompatibility with rox and the new kernels, IDK.

Sound will be an issue for some as there is a big experiment going on there. It works 5/5 on my gear but some tweaking is necessary on some setups. This is a learning curve for me (and you) but if we can iron out the bugs the new sound features will be a real coup for any linux, it's real cutting edge stuff!

Stay tuned...

[Aitch]

I have behringer uca202/222 usb DAC sound cards I'd be interested in trying, I use them to connect my minidisk via optical cable....be nice to get that going
[8 drivers in XP!!]

Aitch

[Lobster]

if we can iron out the bugs the new sound features will be a real coup for any linux

I look forward to this. One of my tests when first deciding on a Linux distro is did sound recording work. Puppy was one that did. This facility was subsequently lost (mhwavedit has been with us for a long time) due to 'sound driver improvements' or some such, that did not seem to work.
Hopefully we can get it back.

Good luck with Spot Alpha 1 or Spup alpha 4.
Whilst you do all the work, remember to tell us what to focus on and test.
Our recordable CD's and RW-DVD's are on standby . . .

[tubeguy]

I have behringer uca202/222 usb DAC sound cards I'd be interested in trying, I use them to connect my minidisk via optical cable....be nice to get that going
[8 drivers in XP!!]

Aitch

Nice little box for the money! I have a Turtle Beach dongle, not bad but no volume control for the headphone jack or RCA in-out. I think you just found my next sound card.

[Aitch]

Also have a look at M Audio Transit, or Audiophile....though I believe the Audiophile only activates its RCA i/p & o/p when using music software, possibly keyed to supplied software, I don't know

There are some VERY expensive usb DACs about!

The Behringer is nice - only 48khz, but good phone output, and volume control and has ASIO support

Here's a link to *buntuStudio using Behringer UCA202....I haven't tried it with PuppyStudio yet

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubunt ... dioDevices

sorry for the minor aside

Aitch

[don570]

Don, is there any reason why dir2pet is not included as a right click option?

Tried some scripts to see how it would work
for instance I tried

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rxvt -geometry "100x100-0+0" -e  dir2pet  "$@"

I found that it would create a pet but when I opened it up,
it didn't have the right path structure.

So it's beyond my feeble abilities.

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[sc0ttman]

Don, is there any reason why dir2pet is not included as a right click option?

Tried some scripts to see how it would work
for instance I tried

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rxvt -geometry "100x100-0+0" -e  dir2pet  "$@"

I found that it would create a pet but when I opened it up,
it didn't have the right path structure.

So it's beyond my feeble abilities.

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possibly just needs a wrapper script to cd into the dir containing the folder which will be made into a pet file.. (rather than just a symlink to the script itself)