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Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 00:11
by jakfish
I found a moment to drop in that new synaptics ko and the touchpad remains unresponsive.
As for your kernel and 4.31, I think I'll wait until you get it up and running before testing further. I don't feel confident about putting in those modules myself.
Jake
Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 06:04
by luther349
intel and ati drivers the eee hv has a ati in it.
Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:33
by aragon
@ jemimah
regarding you dmenu-ideas, you might want to have a look at expose-clone by mu:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2369
should be what you want to do. i don't know if it would work on 4.3 but have a look.
if you have problems with expose-clone, mu is a very helpful guy.
aragon
Posted: Wed 21 Oct 2009, 00:11
by jemimah
Jakfish, I'm planning on posting an iso of the whole thing as soon as I can work out some hosting. That should make it easier.
Luther349 ,thanks for the heads up! They sure don't make this easy do they? Hey do you mind if I use the Puppeee name for releasing this kernel with an vanilla 4.31 install?
Aragon, I've actually already built an Expose clone that doesn't require EWMH. I did find a cool hack using yaf-splash to make Dmenu more user friendly and not require the user to remember a hot key. I will post about it soon.
Posted: Wed 21 Oct 2009, 07:00
by aragon
i'm curious to see that one.
aragon
Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 14:12
by jemimah
I've finished my remaster of Puppy 4.31 with the EEE kernel. I'm planning on posting it as Puppeee 4.31 Beta since the name is well known and I don't think anyone else is working on a Puppeee for this release. I am waiting for TuxFamily to approve my hosting request and then I will post a link on the Announcements page. I'm also nearly ready to release a complete pet for the Fluppy window manger and extras including the Tiler and Expose' clone.
Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 15:19
by magerlab
is it possible to use your kernel in normal puppy? or existing pupsave2fs wich i use on eee pc?
anyway i want to try your puplet even i like openbox+fbpanel or stalonetray
Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 16:19
by jemimah
Magerlab, Puppeee 4.31 will be a regular Puppy with the Eee kernel. 99% of pets for 4.31 will work on it, only kernel-specific stuff will need to be modified. The only additions are the Eee acpi scripts, Wpa_gui, Powertop, and an upgraded Synaptics driver to hopefully work on the Elantech touchpads. Anything else you want in Puppeee?
When I release Fluppy it will have a more general netbook kernel based on the Moblin kernel configuration so it will work on a variety of netbooks.
I might also combine the two and call it Flupeee.
Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 18:01
by jemimah
Looks like my hosting just got approved! Unfortunately I am about to get on a plane to go home to Florida where I have no bandwidth so I won't be able to post Puppeee until Monday when I get back to my FIOS in Virginia. I'll do some extra testing this weekend so hopefully it will work well for most people.
Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 18:22
by jakfish
I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Jake
Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 22:02
by luther349
no im not doing another pupeee atm. support is very good on stock puppy and being my pupeee was based off stock with extra drivers no need for another realse. i asked people to post if they had issues with 4.3 on there netbooks and i would make another none did. thanks to kernel 2.6.30 netbooks are just well supported.
Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009, 15:32
by magerlab
i use 4.3.1 on eee pc 701
and the only thing i can not set up is webcam
is there a driver for it
with 25 kernel it works out of the box
Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009, 15:43
by jemimah
I have a 701 and the camera works. What software are you trying to use?
Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009, 15:52
by magerlab
skype
what is the name of needed module for webcam?
maybe i need to load it?
Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009, 16:05
by jemimah
uvcvideo
Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009, 16:42
by magerlab
modprobe uvcvideo
Fatal no module found
Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009, 17:36
by jemimah
Are you using the small kernel? Maybe it's not included?
Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009, 17:56
by magerlab
i thought of that .....
will try with big iso
or maybe it's possible to just take this module out
Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009, 18:01
by jemimah
I think you should be able to just copy the module and run depmod.
Posted: Tue 27 Oct 2009, 02:42
by tempestuous
jemimah, in your efforts to obtain kernel modules relevant for Eee models, here are the non-standard ones:
rtl8187se module - for the RTL8187SE wifi device
this is part of the standard kernel source from 2.6.30 onwards, but it's under the "staging" section.
In menuconfig, go to
Device Drivers > Staging drivers > RealTek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN NIC driver
You will also see a module for the Ralink 2860, but it's been reported that the proprietary
rt2860sta variant from Ralink works better. Get it here
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
Don't forget to download the RT2860 firmware as well, and put it in /lib/firmware
Refer to the README about configuring the os/linux/config.mk file for correct WPA support via the "wext" interface.
Otherwise this wifi driver will not work with WPA encryption with Puppy's Network Wizard.
eee kernel module - for CPU speed and fan speed control, from
http://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/
it needs a patch for 2.6.30 kernel -
http://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/is ... tail?id=18
... but see my comment about the eee module not being necessary for Atom-based models -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 112#355112