(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm looking forward to trying it out.

Jake

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.

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

I have a 701 and the camera works. What software are you trying to use?

skype
what is the name of needed module for webcam?
maybe i need to load it?

uvcvideo

modprobe uvcvideo
Fatal no module found

Are you using the small kernel? Maybe it's not included?

i thought of that .....
will try with big iso
or maybe it's possible to just take this module out

I think you should be able to just copy the module and run depmod.

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

Thanks Tempestuous!

I did have a lot of problems with the eee module crashing the kernel on my 1005HA. Puppeee4.31 will have the asus_eee module which does the same thing as the eee module, but has more error checking. I don't think I will include any fan control software in Pupeee by default since it's relatively easy to cook your processor if you don't know what you are doing with it.

I've posted Puppeee 4.31 Beta-1. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=355502

I've updated the acpid pet I posted earlier. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 150#352150

IMHO I'm excited to see what you do with Fluppy. I hope there's an LXlauncher UI option. I havn't downloaded one "netbook" targeted OS that hasn't been completely annoying e.g.(easypeasy, UNR, Moblin, GOS, etc.) I won't be needing pupeee but still, I'm following the threads out of interest and you seem to do great work. Thanks

Yeah, it's weird most of the netbook distos think a netbook should be more like a smartphone than a laptop.

I'm working right now on making a pet for the window manager. Hopefully it should be done by the end of the week.

Incidentally, I've gotten a report that Puppeee kind of works on the Acer Aspire One. If that's what you have, it might be worth a try just for kicks.