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Posted: Sat 22 May 2010, 23:06
by rjbrewer
2lss wrote:dejan555,
Good job! I did a frugal install on my usb stick and gave it a try. I am very impressed with kde (I never used kde much) and how well puppy package manager works with the debian repos. I can't wait to do some customizing!
One problem though, I tried doing a frugal install on my girlfriends Dell xps m140 (which is running puppy 4.3.1 at the moment) but when booting I get:
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kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(8,18)
The message comes immediately after booting from grub, before any of the normal startup messages ("loading drivers", "copying to ram", etc)
I'm not sure what the problem is. The sfs, initrd, and vmlinuz are in /kdepup on partition 3. the puppy 4.3.1 files are in / on partition 3. Do you think 4.3.1 is conflicting with kdpup? Here is a section from menu.list
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title Puppy Linux 4.3
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4
initrd /initrd.gz pmedia=idehd
title KDEPUP
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kdepup/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4
append initrd=/kdepup/initrd.gz pmedia=idehd
Anyone see anything that would cause a problem? All of the md5sums check out ok.
Grub, (hd0,2) would have to go with /dev/sda3, if that is where the
partition is.
I don't understand having the 2 puppys on the same partition, or why
the KDEPUP syntax is so different than 4.3.
Posted: Sat 22 May 2010, 23:12
by Keef
Try:
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title KDEPUP
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kdepup/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=kdepup
initrd /kdepup/initrd.gz
Posted: Sat 22 May 2010, 23:16
by ElderSnake
I can't wait to try this one, I've been wondering if there was a puppy with KDE and what do you know, there's one on the first page of the Puppy Derivatives section
I like the fact its KDE 3.5 too..I've generally only used 4x lately and while its fairly cool.. lots of bugs and instability from what I've found. I've heard a lot of people prefer the older and faster 3.5 and it still looks pretty nice from what I can tell.
Posted: Sat 22 May 2010, 23:45
by 2lss
rjbrewer wrote:
I don't understand having the 2 puppys on the same partition, or why
the KDEPUP syntax is so different than 4.3.
Yea I did it in a hurry, just copied the dir from my flash drive into the existing partition. I may go back and make a separate partition if things work out.
keef wrote:
Try:
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title KDEPUP
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kdepup/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=kdepup
initrd /kdepup/initrd.gz
That did the trick, thanks.
Now I'm having a new problem, trying to load xorg or xvesa results in a black screen. The laptop has a 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML chipset which works with 4.3.1. I'm not sure if there are missing drivers or something, I will do some searching.
Posted: Mon 24 May 2010, 15:36
by kayan
@tubeguy wrote
You could drag one of the scripts in usr/bin to the desktop (symlink it):
wmexit
wmpoweroff
wmreboot
or drag shutdown to the desktop, that's the dpup shutdown window.
Problem solved
dragged shutdown to (linked ) to desktop now i get the DPup shutdown Window Thanks again for the help
KDPUP = KDE 3.5.10 + dpup 484 beta 4
Posted: Wed 26 May 2010, 15:23
by Billtoo
Dejan:
I installed tunapie in your kdpup484, first I updated the repositories in puppy package manager (that took quite a while) the exited ppm and restarted it.It installed tunapie with all the dependencies,then I exited ppm.I tried to run tunapie but it wouldn't start so I installed the dpup-devx-484.sfs and it worked.
The default video player in tunapie is set to vlc and the video played but no sound so I changed the default video player to mplayer and it works perfect.
I'm attaching a screenshot.
KDPUP = KDE 3.5.10 + dpup 484 beta 4
Posted: Wed 26 May 2010, 20:39
by Billtoo
Dejan:
Here is that dragon wallpaper that I found
KDPup logout
Posted: Thu 27 May 2010, 23:13
by shark1
KDPup is great - a fast KDE desktop and with the addition of OpenOffice it has everything I need.
To get the Kmenu/Logout to work I have created a directory called /root/.kde/shutdown and then coped the jwmshutdown script into that directory.
When you logout there is a short delay but the shutdown/reboot script will then execute.
Brad
Posted: Fri 28 May 2010, 14:42
by dejan555
Thanks Brad, that's good idea for shutdown will try it.
Also welcome to the kennels
Did you use puppy before? And post your PC specs if you don't mind.
KDPUP = KDE 3.5.10 + dpup 484 beta 4
Posted: Sat 29 May 2010, 15:34
by Billtoo
Dejan:
Kdpup is working great for me, I didn't think I'd be able to play games like nexuiz and openarena in puppy but they both work in Kdpup.I installed them from the debian repos in ppm.They are older versions, nexuiz 4.2 and openarena 0.7.7 but still lots of fun to play.
My printer works too! I also downloaded openoffice from debian repos, version 2.4.1.
I have a full install of Kdpup on three computers.
pc 1 = Compac Presario S6700NX
1.5 GB ram, p4 2.8 with ht
radeon 9200 agp graphics card
pc 2 = Hp Pavilion a810n
1.5 GB ram, athlon 64 3300+
radeon 9250 agp graphics card
pc 3 = Hp Pavilion a6220n
4 GB ram, Core 2 Duo E4500
Intel GMA 3100
Ktorrent
Posted: Sat 29 May 2010, 21:49
by shark1
found that Ktorrent (the Rolls-Royce of bittorrents) would not work but that Transmission did work so there was not a firewall problem or similar.
The problem was with the permissions for /root/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/. Changed that and Ktorrent works.
Brad
Intel 4 CPU 2.80GHz ATA ST380011A 1 MB ram
Posted: Sat 29 May 2010, 22:08
by dejan555
Thanks shark1, I didn't have that problem with ktorrent though, anyone else?
Posted: Sun 30 May 2010, 00:44
by Fishy
Silly question, how do you install pets? I have a number of pets downloaded but when i click on them I get Ark. I guess I am spoiled with just clicking on a pet and having it installed in the appropriate location. This reminds me of the old days when the big question with Linux was how do I and where do I install a program.
This pup certainly runs quickly and has lots of things to amuse me.
Thanks for the hard work.
KDPUP devx?
Posted: Sun 30 May 2010, 02:47
by tubeguy
Dejan, can I use the dpup devx at
http://dpup.org/test/dpup484beta3-2.6.30.5/ or do you have your own?
Pets
Posted: Sun 30 May 2010, 02:55
by shark1
@ Fishy
Right click on the .pet file and then "Open With" petget.
Brad
Posted: Sun 30 May 2010, 06:22
by dejan555
@ fishy what shark1 said, you can also check "Remember association for this type" so it will be remembered next time you can just click on it
@tubeguy, yes use dpup's devx, since kdpup's base is dpup, I don't have my own.
kdpup is great
Posted: Sun 30 May 2010, 08:22
by gnz11
got kdpup up and running again today.
on p4302/ 1g ram and dsl is smooth.
on home rig, p4 2.4mzh/512 w/1g swap it runs nice but dailup slows some things.
I have been using dpup for 6 months. kdpup looks like a good addition to the community for those who want kde and since it fixes the IM problems for the moment.
very nice work dejan.
KDPUP = KDE 3.5.10 + dpup 484 beta 4
Posted: Sun 30 May 2010, 08:52
by Billtoo
Dejan: I'm running out of room for icons
Startmount
Posted: Thu 03 Jun 2010, 21:41
by shark1
Startmount doesn't seem to work - selected drives are not mounted on restart.
Any Suggestions?
Brad
Intel 4 CPU 2.80GHz ATA ST380011A 1 MB ram
Posted: Fri 04 Jun 2010, 06:04
by dejan555
Hmm, I haven't used that, I usually make script to mount drives and put it in startup folder, but I will check it out later.