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Posted: Sat 14 Feb 2009, 00:00
by battleshooter
I can't compile the latest drm-intel modules (i830 compiled, loaded and untested. i915 refuses to compile) for 2.6.27.5. I ended with the whole 2.6.29rc2 source tree when downloading drm-intel
Hey Wow,
Oh well thanks for even trying. Like you say, you're just giving me a hand so I appreciate it very much! Thanks for all your effort. Thanks Mark as well for helping me too. Maybe one day something will work out and I'll be able to OpenGL and 3D acceleration on this laptop.
Thanks again guys!
Battleshooter
Posted: Sat 14 Feb 2009, 21:04
by wow
I running Ubuntu kernel 2.6.28-8.21 (2.6.28 + ubuntu patches), is has squashfs, aufs, unionfs and more 3rd party drivers built in, all I need to do now is to increase "min loop devices" number, patch squashfs-lzma, apply the loglevel patch, remove utf8 warning for vfat filesystems, rebuild a new initrd.gz file, pack this kernel in puppy-unleashed format and share a new ISO.
Posted: Sat 14 Feb 2009, 21:17
by wow
BUGFIX: dougal's xkbconfigmanager
Now works on Xorg-7.4, I replaced all calls to /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst with /etc/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst
Installation:
- Install xkbconfigmanager-evdev.pet
- Open /root/.xinitrd with a text editor and replace:
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#wow: (custom 4.11 puplet)fix keyboard layout (Xorg 7.4)
setxkbmap -layout `cat /etc/keymap | cut -f1 -d.`
with
Keyboard layouts(Xorg-7.4) are defined as HAL rules(US by default), thats why I use XkbApplyNow to read and apply keyboard layouts from xorg.conf file.
Posted: Sun 15 Feb 2009, 23:35
by MU
great news, so I will try to add it to newyearspup next weekend, if it is ready then.
If not yet, I'll try to sort out more bugs (which I must do in any case.
)
Mark
Posted: Mon 16 Feb 2009, 23:07
by wow
I haven't patched anything yet. I had a busy weekend(again).
I'm attaching my .config file, if you feel that it need some changes please do it.
Sources: linux-source-2.6.28 and patch 2.6.28-8.21.diff.gz
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/linux-source-2.6.28
I'll use this kernel in my next iso
Posted: Thu 19 Feb 2009, 01:52
by wow
Unnamed puplet rev 1.1 coming soon...
Only for developers...
Linux kernel 2.6.28.5
2.6.28 + Ubuntu 8.21 patches, i646 kernel, SMP, Hyperthreading, more joystick drivers, ForceFeedback, 99 loop devices, vfat partitions use UTF-8 by default, SquashFS-LZMA 3.4
2.6.28.5_wow-i686.tar.bz2 for puppy-unleashed
Extract to puppy-unleashed/kernels
Add nls_utf8, nls_cp850 modules to initrd/lib/modules/kernel/fs/nls
Edit your initrd/init script to load nls_utf8, nls_cp850 ("modprobe nls_utf8" instead of "modprobe nls_iso8859-1", etc)
Patched kernel source:
[kernel-src-2.6.28.5patched.zip] sfs and md5sum inside, packed with SquashFS-LZMA-3.4
Test iso? friday/saturday I'm still adding MU's bugfixes, more apps and few new features. It's mostly a bugfix release.
Which apps and features?
Apps: video converter, newer ffmpeg, scrot (screenshots), tabble (launcher), latest murrine engine, more murrine themes, lxshortcut, latest pmusic, latest pfind, latest pburn, transset-df, and more
Features: Sound Theme support, customized openbox menu (clasic Puppy Menu, XDG Menu, quicklaunch, toggle compositing, added a menu to set effects level(xcompmgr), toggle/edit/reload conky, etc.) , mouse bindings to set window transparency, and more
left: gMeasures, Tabble and openbox menu
right: WinFF(audio/video converter), ffplay (from latest plinej's ffmpeg.pet)
Posted: Fri 20 Feb 2009, 20:40
by wow
BUGFIX: Fix crashes when adding "Application Launch Bars" to lxpanel, segfault trying to save a file "Filesystem" in GIMP, etc.
Just install the pet package attached below and restart X. Tested also in NewyearspupMU-02rc3.
Re: I'll use this kernel in my next iso
Posted: Fri 20 Feb 2009, 21:42
by techtype
wow wrote:Unnamed puplet rev 1.1 coming soon...
Test iso? friday/saturday I'm still adding MU's bugfixes, more apps and few new features. It's mostly a bugfix release.
Which apps and features?
Apps: video converter, newer ffmpeg, scrot (screenshots), tabble (launcher), latest murrine engine, more murrine themes, lxshortcut, latest pmusic, latest pfind, latest pburn, transset-df, and more
Features: Sound Theme support, customized openbox menu (clasic Puppy Menu, XDG Menu, quicklaunch, toggle compositing, added a menu to set effects level(xcompmgr), toggle/edit/reload conky, etc.) , mouse bindings to set window transparency, and more
left: gMeasures, Tabble and openbox menu
right: WinFF(audio/video converter), ffplay (from latest plinej's ffmpeg.pet)
All I can say is wow!! You are the man!! Do you think this will allow using the old savefile?
Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 15:32
by MU
removed, solved.
maybe next monday
Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 19:53
by wow
I forgot to update Mesa, fuse and ntfs-3g, drivers for ATI and Intel gpus, xf86-video-nouveau (OpenSource nVidia driver). Also need to write an script to switch between "eye candy" and "performance" modes, every time that I boot my USB key on older pc's (not that old really: SIS chipset, 256MB RAM, Celeron 2 Ghz, without linux swap, etc.) I must disable xcompmgr, screenlets and use another gtk theme to speed up things.
Do you think this will allow using the old savefile?
Maybe, but things like proprietary drivers must be recompiled and reinstalled to be compatible with the new kernel.
Swap partition
Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 21:12
by techtype
I dual boot frugal installs of unnamed pup and newyearspup. I have a 2 gig swap partiton (sda2) that Mark's pup will mount and use but unnamed pup will not use it. Unable to mount. I am open to suggestions.
Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 21:54
by MU
I think I added no code to automount swap
I just added the automount of "normal" partitions, it is activated /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, line 361:
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/etc/init.d/muppyquickmountmountall forcestart
To check it, you could deactivate it in "preferences" - "Desktopoptions" - "widgets and shadows" - "automount".
Then partitions should not be monted at startup.
But it should have no effect concerning swap.
Can you confirm this?
Mark
Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 22:06
by techtype
MU wrote:I think I added no code to automount swap
I just added the automount of "normal" partitions, it is activated /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, line 361:
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/etc/init.d/muppyquickmountmountall forcestart
To check it, you could deactivate it in "preferences" - "Desktopoptions" - "widgets and shadows" - "automount".
Then partitions should not be monted at startup.
But it should have no effect concerning swap.
Can you confirm this?
Mark
No that has no effect. The swap file is mounted long before your automount -- you can see it activated shortly after the kernel loads the disk drivers. Would it have anything to do with the way you changed the drives to mount to "mnt" instead of "media"?
Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 22:33
by MU
no, /media is only used by muppyquickmount, if it is explicitly activated, and for CDROM/DVD drives.
But this just happens in Muppyquickmount itself.
It should not modify the standard configuration files, so it should have no effect on swap.
Is your swap located on a USB-drive?
I applied a change in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to force to load the usb-drivers (like ehci_hcd).
around line 216:
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#note, if initrd then usb-storage will have already loaded...
if [ "$PCIUSB" != "" ];then #this may be slow to respond.
echo -n " usb" >/dev/console
#MU
modprobe ohci_hcd
modprobe ehci_hcd
modprobe uhci_hcd
hmmm.. but this happens AFTER swap is activated, and only if you have a PCMCIA USB device.
So there must be another reason.
But it might have to do with USB, maybe I forgot about a change I added in initrd.gz.
I had made some changes before trying to speed up the startup, though I later rejected my changes again, as far as I see it.
Mark
Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 22:38
by MU
if you have a frugal installation, try to replace wows initrd.gz with mine.
If swap works then, there must be a slight change I made inside it.
This would help to find the difference.
Mark
Posted: Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:16
by techtype
MU wrote:if you have a frugal installation, try to replace wows initrd.gz with mine.
If swap works then, there must be a slight change I made inside it.
This would help to find the difference.
Mark
It's not on a usb drive and replacing the initrd.gz does not work either. Very strange!
Posted: Wed 25 Feb 2009, 01:18
by wow
I have a problem related to 3D acceleration, it is safe to update xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-intel and libdrm without updating drm kernel modules?
EDIT: Decided to use libdrm_2.4.4-0ubuntu6 and keep 2.6.28.5 drm modules.
Posted: Thu 26 Feb 2009, 01:04
by Leon
Another nice feature of this Puppy that I found when all attempts with other Puppys failed is support to my MANHATTAN USB Modem out of the box.
http://www.manhattan-products.com/en-US ... ations-tab
I also installed Jwm window manager and everything seems to work even faster.
My Douments
Posted: Thu 26 Feb 2009, 15:39
by techtype
wow
When you compile pcman this time, please leave out the "My Documents" icon on the desktop. Thanks!
In windows, I could use a "Resource Editor" to remove an icon from an executable file. Is there any such editor available for Linux? Maybe I could patch the current file.
Posted: Fri 31 Jul 2009, 15:43
by edoc
Would this be good to use with my Acer Aspire 5535 laptop?
It has an Atheros b/g/n/ wireless for which I believe I need the ath9k drivers.
Is there a home page for "unnamed" where I may view the features, please?
