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Akita Linux, Beta 14 ISO
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Tman
 Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto |
Thanks, technosaurus. I am not in Akita at the moment, but menus, containing only a few items have their own submenu for example (if memory serves me correctly the section that contains the calculators doesn't really need a sub-menu for those items ... I am not sure if this is a bug, or if it was set that way in /etc/xdg/menus. There was a bug like this in older versions of lucid, and a solution for it as well... but it will take me some time to dig up that thread. I will analyze Akita some more when I have more time. Last edited by Tman on Wed 19 Sep 2012, 10:06; edited 1 time in total |
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 1799 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere... |
Tman, I tried running the Multiple Soundcard Wizard a couple times. It's in Akita. It doesn't find anything at all. ALSAwizard freezes partway through, while trying to initialize the driver -- even on a new install! ALSAmixer works as described. It needs to be pointed in the right direction to find anything, which is why I was thinking an alias was in order. _________________ siht daer nac uoy fi uoy od os dna skcor yppup  |
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LoboGrande
Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 38 |
Downgraded to Flash 10 and everything in FF13 is now working fine! Even Facebook Chat is working. FF13 still takes longer to load than Chrome 7 but at least I can go to my Yahoo Mail account. Chrome 7 seems to run YouTube better but that's to be expected. I'm quite impressed by the old P3S Tualatin performance so far. Not much slower than my P4/478 w4gb ram for web browsing and according the the Watt meter it's drawing about 20 watts at idle and 50 when streaming audio and web surfing. My old Gateway P4 single core CPU never run XP anywhere near as fast as this machine is running Akita. |
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sc0ttman
 Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK |
Akita Linux BETA 12 - a mongrel: sfs3, kernel 2.6.25.16, wary 5.1.x compatible - akita repo - http://akita.scottjarvis.com - uses jwm, but many other WMs in the repo - easily enable/disable rox icons, startups, etc - no office, no cups, all in repo - massive choice of web browsers in easy installer - uses vlc and vlc-gtk for media player - many apps i18n'd, lots of French, Spanish, Russian, German translations included - includes many good console apps: elinks, doc2txt, mocp, mc, - good for old clunkers, craptops, etc Download: http://akita.scottjarvis.com/akita-linux-beta12.iso, size: 89mb, md5: 4e5610e26df720a9411af2a05debc76c Devx, for compiling: http://akita.scottjarvis.com/akita_devx-b11.sfs md5: 68fe4a15228f9cc41ff8cd553e90f3a5, 111MB, sfs3 (Right-click and choose 'SFS Loader' to load/install it) Summary of updates - Live CD uses graphical grub boot menu - 3mb smaller, useless stuff, extra apps removed - VLC-GTK improved further - updated and improved keyboard settings and hotkeys - easily toggle sub menus in JWM menu - easily enable or disable JWM drive icons - updated gtkdialog, more stuff in repo Changelog
_________________ Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search |
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Tman
Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto |
Sorry, I have a bad habit of skimming through thread entries, and responding before properly digesting all of the information. I don't think you need an alias. If the soundcard works for you with those alsamixer settings, then: just edit alsamixer.desktop and change the exec option to rxvt -e alsamixer -c 0 You will also need to refresh the JWM menus for the settings to take effect. |
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 1799 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere... |
A notable side effect of not having the alias is that Pmusic won't play anything other than a little message in the status bar that says "source not found"  
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sc0ttman
Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK |
Hard to know, as I don't have the hardware to test, but if I were you I'd play around and put something like this into /etc/modprobe.conf:
And play with the puppy boot options, to disable PnP OS: pci=biosirq But I am basically guessing, as I did with Keefs audio problems!
It's Iguleders, I know next to nothing about compiling..
I think a good, big repo of build scripts would be great, to make compiling a little easier for users.. I still plan to create some build scripts of my own for Puppizard... I'd be happy to test your script - the best thing to do is post it as a pet so most users can easily test it, to get the most feedback... _________________ Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search |
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 1799 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere... |
Think I figured out part of the problem. This CPi doesn't have an option in BIOS to turn on/off the PnP OS feature. It's stuck in the "on" mode! ...the entry in menu.lst doesn't seem to do much, either. I may have to downgrade the BIOS to achieve this... _________________ siht daer nac uoy fi uoy od os dna skcor yppup |
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Tman
Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto |
Here you go.. buildpet and tarball of scripts Last edited by Tman on Sat 22 Sep 2012, 16:44; edited 1 time in total |
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bark_bark_bark
Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 480 Location: the never ending bootsplash |
After making the upgrade to Beta 12, I found my Dell Optiplex Gx1 died. I managed to salvage most parts, but not the motherboard. I will be building a new PC anyways. _________________ ... |
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sc0ttman
Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK |
That's a great advert for Akita! _________________ Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search |
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bark_bark_bark
Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 480 Location: the never ending bootsplash |
Well it didn't die from Akita, it died of age. I get to use this one guy's PC for now, but he won't let me even run puppy of a USB stick. I can make no modifications to it. But I am building a new PC from scratch anyways, but I would have to run Akita in a virtual machine, or replace the kernel with a new one. _________________ ... |
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sc0ttman
Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK |
I hate when people can't understand a live CD/USB won't hurt their PC (except kill it ).
If I were you, I wouldn't bother with Akita if I had something powerful enough to run something better!  I really should test out Slacko or latest Wary one day, see what I am missing..
I always like to try and find out what the support for Linux is like before buying any hardware.. not that I buy much... When my current PC dies, I'll probably cobble together a frankenstein PC with bits I got lying around... _________________ Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search |
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recobayu
 Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 85 Location: indonesia |
hi sc0ttman, i'm very like the picture in boot menu. i look at menu.lst and it use gfxfile. it's far better than splash.xpm. so colorfull 
how to make that gfxfile? thanks. |
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sc0ttman
Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK |
Put the gfxfile ('message file') from the Akita ISO in /root/Desktop/ It must be the only file in the directory! Open a terminal, run the following to unpack the file:
Then edit the files in /root/Desktop/ as needed. In the same terminal: create the new gfxfile in /root/:
More info here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=372167#372167 Here are more 'message files', rename them as "gfxfile" and replace the original: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50108 But I recommend using my gfxfile as a template to unpack, because I added more info to the help screen and fixed some other things. _________________ Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search |
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