Dpup Exprimo 5.X.3.1.10.3 SMP multicore optimized version

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#421 Post by pemasu »

James C. When you wake up and see this post. The right console command would have been: find /lib -name "tulip*" so that it would have picked tulip.ko and also possible ( but not expected) firmware called, for example, tulip.bin or tulipfw.bin or whatever.

But now I know what to search for and check if the tulip.ko has been included and if not, I check the ./config specs, where is the location and is it really left out. I can easily compile missing module, create a pet of it and include it to the kernel pet for next release.

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#422 Post by James C »

Knew I was tired....

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# find /lib -name "tulip*"
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#423 Post by pemasu »

Good pick James C. I found the right section. I had ticked the tulip, but I hadnt noticed that there was whole under section which I should have ticked as modules also. Done now...I am compiling the modules...now. I will try to load them before I post the pet.

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#424 Post by pemasu »

James C and other tulip fans around the world. Here is the test pet for tulip drivers. Install the pet. Modprobe appropriate driver ie modprobe tulip is reguired.
Depmod will be executed by the pinstall.sh script.
Drivers included are

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# ls /lib/modules/3.1.0/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/*
/lib/modules/3.1.0/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.ko
/lib/modules/3.1.0/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.ko
/lib/modules/3.1.0/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.ko
/lib/modules/3.1.0/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.ko
/lib/modules/3.1.0/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.ko
/lib/modules/3.1.0/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.ko
/lib/modules/3.1.0/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/xircom_cb.ko
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#425 Post by James C »

Success here. :)

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--Loaded Modules-
tulip		: Digital 21*4* Tulip ethernet driver

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#426 Post by James C »

Fresh frugal install ....actually used the installer this time ....on my Windows 7 Ultimate/PCLOS 2011/Lucid/Slacko box.Once the nic driver was sorted out, no problems.

# report-video
Dpup Exprimo SMP, version 5.X.10.3 on Fri 13 January 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: G98 Board - 5610002u Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nv

X.Org version: 1.7.7
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

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

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 1034MB (175MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 13 Jan 2012 04:51:17 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5
Audio Adapter : CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media CMI8738

--Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.1.0 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Wed Nov 30 22:26:30 EET 2011
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.11.2 (stable)
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#427 Post by jpeps »

I just gave this a run on my Dell Latitude D600 laptop. Everything ran well. I got gnumeric running with the addition of liboffice-0.8.so.8. Also needs libgsf, which is in the PPM. (I grabbed a copy of gnumeric compiled in Lucid, which worked fine).

edit: I just noticed there's a gnumeric package in the sfs repo that includes liboffice...works fine!
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#428 Post by pemasu »

Thanks Jim1911 and jpeps. I believe next project in the future with this thread would be 3.2 kernel, but not quite yet.

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#429 Post by jpeps »

libpng14 is the only package needed to install dillo browser compiled in Slacko. (The PPM has libpng12, which won't work).


Links browser works fine with addition of libgpm2 from the PPM
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#430 Post by jpeps »

Trying to load libreoffice from the repos using Sfs Apps Loader got me an error about needing squashfs3; same when trying openoffice, even after I repacked it.

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#431 Post by pemasu »

jpeps. I will look at it.

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#432 Post by pemasu »

jpeps. I just tested the sfs apps loader and libreoffices sfs which is in exprimo repo. It downloaded and loaded ok. I have seen same misinforming error message when I have got bad download or download with broken net connection between the download. And I have had them a lot recently.
I believe you dont get 155 Mb download intact.

md5sum of my downloaded version. I hope I had it right.
a7d467997188b8620f8e9db7e587a894 LibreOffice-3.4.2-en-US.sfs

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#433 Post by pemasu »

Another thing which is missing is..../usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache which causes that several gtkdialog apps launches slower than they should.

Here is the fixing pet for that problem. I suggest all to install it. You get snappier response for many applications starting.

It took long for me to find this fix. I have tracked the cause to Barry`s gconv template which has implicit NOEXCEPTIONS flag...which effectively rules out that file.
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#434 Post by jpeps »

pemasu wrote:jpeps. I just tested the sfs apps loader and libreoffices sfs which is in exprimo repo. It downloaded and loaded ok. I have seen same misinforming error message when I have got bad download or download with broken net connection between the download. And I have had them a lot recently.
I believe you dont get 155 Mb download intact.

md5sum of my downloaded version. I hope I had it right.
a7d467997188b8620f8e9db7e587a894 LibreOffice-3.4.2-en-US.sfs
It needed sfs-load 1.3. I had loaded 1.1, which doesn't work with the newer kernel. Thanks! Everything looking good!

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#435 Post by pemasu »

Hah. Good to know. I didnt even remember anymore that it was non-compliant with previous versions.
I should have sfs_load 1.3 preinstalled ?
Thanks.

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#436 Post by jpeps »

pemasu wrote:Hah. Good to know. I didnt even remember anymore that it was non-compliant with previous versions.
I should have sfs_load 1.3 preinstalled ?
Thanks.
1.3 works well, but the one you have does also. What didn't work is my installed version of 1.1 (I didn't think to look at the menu first :) )

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#437 Post by pemasu »

jpeps. You have rox right-click for sfs_load also, as you have many other rox right clicks. I have sfs_load 1.3 preinstalled. Checked that one.

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#438 Post by jpeps »

pemasu wrote:jpeps. You have rox right-click for sfs_load also, as you have many other rox right clicks. I have sfs_load 1.3 preinstalled. Checked that one.
Nice! I also like the gHasher. I don't know if its the gconf fix, but everything is really snapping....like on supercharge. I'm having fun with this.

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#439 Post by backi »

Hi folks !

Here is something which looks quite interesting .

Compressing RAM with zRam .

I am not a a Linux expert but maybe someone more skilled can use this idea to make use of it in Puppy or elsewhere .
http://weirdfellow.wordpress.com/2011/0 ... with-zram/

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#440 Post by mill0001 »

Hi Pemasu, I'm having a problem to make Nvidia driver work properly. I tried Shinbar's sfs and also downloaded the kernel stuff and sqeeze devx sfs and compiled the driver in my box. In both cases glx fails to work for me. I'm running an AMD quad core, with 2 gigs of ddr3 ram. Using a geforce gts-250 video card with 1 gig memory. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

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