Classic Pup 2.14X -- Updated 2 series

[Minnesota]

Timing is everything.

First tired boot from CD, no USB wireless installed. Of course did not see any. Loaded new PET.
OK plug in USB wireless... did not detect it. Ran wizard to detect and load module.. found the zd1211rw in the list and loaded it. Ran the rest of the wizard, and yes it works.

2) Booted with USB wireless plugged in, detected on boot, zd1211.
LOADED the pet.

HUNG the machine. Attempting to run wizard, not the pet install.

3) Boot, load Pet, plug in USB wireless... detected old module. Load new, does not detect. As old module is still active.

CONCLUSION:
It is necessary to make the zd1211rw the DEFAULT. THANKS, sorry for the delay in testing... just did not realize you wanted it tested. New week will do better .

Is it possible for you to find a USB module in AU that uses the zd1211rw? I have two, they are old, happy to reimburse you....cost should be under twenty dollars US. I might be able to send you one. If you can detect a network in your area?

[MinHundHettePerro]

hi guys been waiting for feedback on the wireless fix, its been downloaded 14 times now with no feedback. Could I please have some so I would know if it gets included in the next release or should I do something else? etc...
ttuuxxx

Sorry, can't help you with that, I'm wired only.
Thanks for all you do /
MHHP

[yorkiesnorkie]

Hi,

I gave the top 7 a whirl on Sunday morning on my old 96 mb laptop. I didn't have much luck. It booted perfectly from the CD, and I was able to make a frugal install to the same ext2 partion where I currently have a 431 folder, so I've got a 214 folder there as well. I modified the menu.lst file in grub, gave it a boot and all was well until it freezes during the init process, all I get is a flashing underscore after 4 or five lines after init. Weird? I tried it a couple of times, same result. I did make a save file via the CD so I might do my compile with the live CD. I'm going to try Top 7 on another PC with more ram.

Yorkie

[JonT]

Hi Yorkie,

Did you include the root=/dev/ram0 phrase in menu.lst?

From wdm's post http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... start=4007

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   title Puppy 2.14X top5
   rootnoverify (hd0,2)
   kernel (hd0,2)/pup214x_top5/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=hda3 acpi=force psubdir=pup214x_top5
   initrd (hd0,2)/pup214x_top5/initrd.gz 

HTH,
Jon

[Keef]

Currently on 214X wirelessly. But....
Had to do it via command line.
Installed the fix, but it still gets stuck in a loop. Click on the 'wireless' button and it goes back to the first screen. Wizard does not stop when exited either.
I'll try and get more info later.

[Peter444]

Hi ttuuxxx, is there a vlc pet which has the extended settings feature which will work in 214XTOP7 ?

[yorkiesnorkie]

Hi Yorkie,

Did you include the root=/dev/ram0 phrase in menu.lst?

From wdm's post http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... start=4007

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   title Puppy 2.14X top5
   rootnoverify (hd0,2)
   kernel (hd0,2)/pup214x_top5/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=hda3 acpi=force psubdir=pup214x_top5
   initrd (hd0,2)/pup214x_top5/initrd.gz 

HTH,
Jon

Hi Jon,

I used the content for grub from file the installer writes to the tmp directory. I just cut and pasted that into the menu.lst. I'll double check it and see what it says. Thanks!

Yorkie

[Rickkk]

The card in the 600E is actually a CS4236, not a CS4232

Incorrect I'm afraid. There's a lot of confusion over the Cirrus Logic audio chips. The audio chipset in the 600E is CS4239 which is on the ISA bus, and is supported by the snd-cs4236 (ALSA) sound driver. The snd-cs4236 driver supports a range of different Cirrus Logic audio chips.

The fix for your ThinkPad 600X audio is almost certainly here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 5272#85272
It involves manually loading the correct sound driver (snd-cs4236) from /etc/rc.d/rc.local at each boot up.

You are absolutely right ... I think I am seeing double (at least ...) with respect to Crystal Semiconductor card numbers since troubleshooting this issue. Even worse that I have 2 different models of ThinkPad 600.

Just to be clear: I have almost no problem with the 600X - only issue is I have to restart ALSA after resuming from suspend. This works fine and sound is once again available. The 600X (PCI) sound card works with the snd-cs64xx module. My problem is with the 600E and its CS4239 ISA sound card. Sound works on startup (Puppy 214X is the only distro I've found to even make this happen ...), but does not survive resume from suspend. ALSA restart reports card not present. I have already tried the workaround mentioned in the link you posted: again, sound is OK until resume from suspend. Rerunning modprobe command at this point doesn't work either.

Thanks for catching the mistake in my previous post, tempestuous. If you have any further suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers !

Rick

[ttuuxxx]

ttuuxxx:

I could loan you a Netgear Wireless N DGN2000

for a couple of weeks.

I have 1 spare.

Chris.

Hi Chris thanks for the offer, I have wireless on my router, which I removed the antenna and disabled it in the router via the router built-in software. and never Installed the cards, I just don't trust wireless as far as I can see it, That's why I only use adsl2 wired net with a gigabit switch, I networked my 5 rooms in my house with Cat6. I sleep better at night But some people trust it and others don't.
But thanks once again for the offer, Offers like that are really nice to see
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Here's a game, its actually kind of fun, you basically click on a line to enable it, It takes 4 lines to make a box and your playing either with the computer or a second player,

I altered the sources, first it was installing the .desktop in /usr/share/games when it should be /usr/share/applications. So I fixed that.
Then the default icons for win/lose/tie were wayyyyyyy too big like 400x400 when they only show 128x128 on the screen itself. Plus I changed them anyways to better looking ones and then compressed them. a savings of 180kb.
I also fixed the contents of the .desktop file so now it properly finds the icon, because the icon name was wrong. etc
below is bow the game and the altered sources,
ttuuxxx

[yorkiesnorkie]

Hi Yorkie,

Did you include the root=/dev/ram0 phrase in menu.lst?

From wdm's post http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... start=4007

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   title Puppy 2.14X top5
   rootnoverify (hd0,2)
   kernel (hd0,2)/pup214x_top5/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=hda3 acpi=force psubdir=pup214x_top5
   initrd (hd0,2)/pup214x_top5/initrd.gz 

HTH,
Jon

Hi Jon,

That was it. The universal installer suggests this:

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#Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Puppy Linux 214 frugal
  rootnoverify (hd0,1)
  kernel /puppy214/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=puppy214
  initrd /puppy214/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends

But I modified it to this:

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#Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Puppy Linux 214 frugal
  rootnoverify (hd0,1)
  kernel /puppy214/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 pmedia=idehd pdev1=hda2 psubdir=puppy214
  initrd /puppy214/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends

Now it boots and all is well, woo-hoo! Thanks for the tip! Perhaps the part of the installer that generates the boilerplate grub text needs to be altered. I'll take a look at that wizard, no promises, I'm a programming noob!

Yorkie

[JonT]

Yorkie (and ttuuxxx)
Glad that helped.

I notice in /usr/sbin/puppyinstaller, lines 8, 991 and 1110 contain /dev/ram0.

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#aug 2007 updated for 2.20: 'root=/dev/ram0' removed as using initramfs.
#v2.20 root=/dev/ram0 removed...
#v2.20 root=/dev/ram0 removed...

Perhaps uncommenting the last two, with appropriate documentation, would fix the issue of the missing menu.lst phrase. However, I am not familiar enough with the puppy structure to know if that would do what is needed or break anything else and defer to you and ttuuxxx to figure out what to do. Fixing it would assist newcomers.

Jon

[ttuuxxx]

Here's the latest Xgalaga++ I have a feeling it will be in the next release
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

lol I wanted to find a few small games, so I went on a hunt.
I came across this game OFFENDER a game like galaga but its harder and doesn't keep high score.
But what the hay I compiled it, For med size sources 796kb, the bin file after stripping was 1309kb WOW massive, So I had a look at the sources, (Now I look back in time and figure this is where I should of hit the delete key, lol)
The guy who made the game must of been new to programming, because he hardcoded all the xpm's into the code, even the 3 background was a 600kb xpm each in the code!!! So I had to manually extract the code and build a xpm out of it, then I opened it in gimp, alter the background to a better looking and better commpression xpm background, convert it back to code and replace the original one with the newer one. and here's the results.
Original bin 1309kb
I changed 2 background images and made the bin 776kb
I changed 3 background images and made the bin 185kb
1 changed 4 background images and made the bin 208kb
now I then tar.gz'ed the original and the package was 407kb way to large for 2.14x
then I tried tar.gz'ed the 185kb and 208kb and they both made a 45kb package wow almost 10 times smaller and they look better
here all 4 in a tar.gz just extract anywhere and click the bin to test and see the difference Oh ya I changed the pause image also ctrl+P
below is a pet, the 4 examples tar.gz, and the new altered sources.
ttuuxxx

[James C]

Here's the latest Xgalaga++ I have a feeling it will be in the next release
ttuuxxx

More games are always nice.....

[yorkiesnorkie]

Hi ttuuxxx, everyone,

Good news! I had already I compiled clamav with puppy 431 and I thought I'd try and install it in 2.14x Top 7. The good news is it works! I don't have to recompile it. The pet installed fine. I opened up a terminal in a directory and ran...

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clamscan

...and it worked just fine. So it looks to be fully compatible.

It can be had via this post http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 731#433731

Note that this is the "full" version, which is 31 mb. It has clamd in it, which I have not pre-configured. I don't use a daemon myself but I thought someone here might. I did pre-configure freshclam.conf to make the database owner root so that it will update the defs when freshclam is run in a terminal.

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freshclam

I have some plans in the works to reduce the size of the pet, making a second smaller one just with clamscan and freshclam in it. In the meantime if anyone has any issues with the pet just let me know. I have not yet provided an md5sum, but I will.

Yorkie

[ttuuxxx]

There was this static qt browsers I came across about a month ago, I didn't get around to making package, but someone else mentioned it today in the software section, So I made a pet this time
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... f-i386.pet
and the homepage
http://www.qtweb.net/
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Here's an update for gifsicle/gifview/gifdiff
Gifview is a animated gif viewer that 2.14X has but doesn't use, lol Now it Does I added rox mimes for it, so that when you click on a animated gif it will open and play the gif extremely quickly, way way way faster than browsers do.
if you open a terminal and type
gifsicle -h <---- it will display all the editing options, lots of tweaks
gifview <---- it will display all the viewing options, lots of tweaks
ttuuxxx

[RetroTechGuy]

214x-Top7.0

Iso - md5 dd0ca5849f5a971b9c5acfe78f8c5627 214X-top7.iso
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/i ... X-top7.iso

Devx md5 8a23d55e665b6da6ae600464636734fe devx_214X-top7.0.pet
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/i ... top7.0.pet

Well This time around I compiled the same Gcc as Wary and used the same patches. So we are one step closer with Barry's latest Same Glibc & Gcc in Wary.
These are the updates, oh ya I was going to call it Top6.3 but the last minute I changed it to Top7.0 because of the new Gcc.

@@@Updates@@@
updated gcc to 4.3.4 in iso/devx and now also include gfortran in the devx

Excellent... (and here I thought I was nearly the only fortran guy left...)

BTW, with the devx as a .pet, does this install inside the pupsave? Or does it create a .sfs, and link tools appropriately?

(note: I'm running 5.20 on most of my machines, but have some really old critters to try a Linux system on...).

Request: your post is getting sufficiently long that it's hard to see what has changed. Could you put a date/time note on your most recent postings.

For example, something like:

214x-Top7.0, Ver: 07 April 2011

(just so we can say "Hey, I don't have that one yet!..." )

[ttuuxxx]

Hi RetroTechGuy
The devx.pet installs like a pet, once its installed it will save to your pupsave, I compile live without any pupsaves, just a lot of ram and a large swap partition.
Then reset the pc and start fresh again. Its the best way to make packages.
ttuuxxx