Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a usb-3.0 SSD.

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Celeron(R) 2957U @ 1.40GHz
Memory 1973MB (137MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System xenial - 7.0.1
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu 05 May 2016 08:16:45 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
Audio Adapter PC-Speaker - pcsp

Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

The wireless adapter is not seen by the network wizard so using wired.

No problems apart from that so far.

[rcrsn51]

is this the gtk theme or the jwm theme?

I'm guessing that it's the gtk Numix theme. In Xdialog and gtkdialog windows, there is little contrast between text and background.

Has the gtk theme changer app stopped working?

[James C]

Quick manual frugal install to internal hdd. Good so far.

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root# inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: puppypc10059 Kernel: 4.5.2 i686 (32 bit gcc: 5.3.1)
           Desktop: JWM 2.3.5 dm: N/A Distro: xenial 7.0.1
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial: 150545593600028
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42141
           clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1400 MHz
           2: 2000 MHz 3: 2000 MHz 4: 2000 MHz 5: 1400 MHz
           6: 1400 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
           Display Server: X.org 1.18.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: vesa)
           tty size: 70x23 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.5.2
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (3.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: N/A
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: N/A
           ID-1: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
RAID:      System: supported: linear raid0 raid1 raid10 raid6 raid5 raid4
           No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
           Unused Devices: none
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 174 Uptime: 10 min Memory: 291.1/16112.2MB
           Init: SysVinit v: N/A runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.291 running in urxvt) inxi: 2.2.35 

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root# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:      16498904      1277008     15221896       267972       119008
-/+ buffers:            1158000     15340904
Swap:      8396796            0      8396796

[watchdog]

The losetup in initrd.gz is the right one. I have copied it in the main sfs (rebuilding it) in /bin and in /sbin as losetup-FULL and I did a symlink to /bin/busybox in /sbin dir named losetup. Now encryption is working and I can mount encrypted savefiles by filemnt.

i did include /sbin/losetup-FULL ...what else is needed for encryption to work?

In xenial-7.0.0 I extracted losetup from initrd.gz. Is losetup-FULL in the main sfs a different one? What I did was to rebuild the main sfs with losetup from initrd.gz. It should be after copying the main sfs' content in puppy_xenial dir:

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cp /path-to/losetup ./puppy_xenial/bin/
cp /path-to/losetup ./puppy_xenial/sbin/losetup-FULL
cd ./puppy_xenial/sbin
ln -s ../bin/busybox losetup
cd ../..
dir2sfs puppy_xenial

Now downloading xenial-7.0.1.iso.

EDIT: All working here. Great job!

[peebee]

ddcprobe now ok in the new iso
hwclock still segfaults when booting but runs fine once booted

Hi Phil

7.0.1 with k4.5.2

hwclock still segfaults for me after reboot - I can cure it by installing util-linux-2.27.1-i586-1.txz from slackware-current

ddcprobe no longer segfaults - but doesn't produce the info it's meant to either - seems to be a common problem with newer kernels.....

Cheers
peebee

[LazY Puppy]

Hi.

Downloaded Xenial 701 to make some testings with T.O.P.L.E.S.S.

First try didn't work as /bin/mount-FULL and /bin/umount-FULL are missing.

Taken from Vivid beta2 and put into /bin of the initrd.gz.

Just made a small modification of a T.O.P.L.E.S.S. script to copy /bin/mount-FULL and /bin/umount-FULL from /initrd/bin into /pup_new/bin/mount-FULL and /pup_new/bin/umount-FULL at boot up.

Rebooted and it boots as T.O.P.L.E.S.S. LazY Puppy 5.

Though I can't connect to the web.

- still no pgprs scripts in Xenial 701 (like in tahr, unicorn and vivid)
- installed my private pgprs package (works in tahr, unicorn and vivid)
- though, gprs modem not recognized
- no connection possible

Pgprs currently isn't a problem for real, since I can download packages from ubuntu repo using tahr, unicorn or vivid. I'm using my PDebThing-GUI RoxApp for this, which loads automatically a cpan_switch_xxx_xxx.sfs. From within this GUI I can choose which repo to use and what programs to search for - completely easy and simple.

Though, missing /bin/mount-FULL and /bin/umount-FULL would be good to have them back.

Looking forward to the 64bit version.

[rcrsn51]

GtkLP and GtkLPQ have little value. Their functionality is already available in other tools.

Xdiff-cut is useless. It should either be removed or replaced with PeasyDiff - now in the Utilities section.

PuppyPDF should be retired. There are better ways to put content in PDFs.

[augras]

Hi,
i try 7.0 and the new 7.1 and for the both everythings works fine... until i want to restart the x server : black screen and a little vertical line on the left side of the screen. Nothing tot do, just hard stop.
It's on a lenovo x201i.
Philippe

[augras]

The x server restart without problem with the langpack_en but not with the langpack_fr !
Philippe

[augras]

Again me,
Xorg, rox-filer and lxpanel are very hungry of ram ! They are half of that in tahrpup. I know it's just the beginning of the process and it's just to remember about that.
Is it possible to run on a non pae computer ? And how to do that if the answer is yes ? Most of my computers are non pae.
Thanks,
Philippe

[oui]

bahhhhhhhhhhhhh Rainer! gratulation!

your screen background? authentic? have you such as that at home?

where to download?

(pls compare with this:

edward carter kindly let me use his picture as the background. you can see more of his stuff here...
http://www.dotmund.co.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/dotmundart
happy testing

)

[oui]

Just made a small modification of a T.O.P.L.E.S.S. script to copy /bin/mount-FULL and /bin/umount-FULL from /initrd/bin into /pup_new/bin/mount-FULL and /pup_new/bin/umount-FULL at boot up.

Rebooted and it boots as T.O.P.L.E.S.S. LazY Puppy 5.

can also we test the modified script?

[Sailor Enceladus]

@rcrsn51: Have you ever considered asking to add your tools to rootfs-packages in Woof-CE? That way it would be easy to update them whenever you wanted and any build could easily add them all by hitting the checkmark box. This is what zigbert is doing now and it seems to be working for him, perhaps he or someone else on the team could explain how to get you started?

[futwerk]

a few backgrounds.

[LazY Puppy]

your screen background? authentic? have you such as that at home?

where to download?

can also we test the modified script?

Sent to you a PM.

[LazY Puppy]

The x server restart without problem with the langpack_en but not with the langpack_fr !
Philippe

Restart X Server by menu entry as well as exiting to Prompt and to restart X Server manually (by typing xwin) works fine in DE.

Since the JWM menu structure is XML this could be a problem of some special characters used in langpack_fr.

E.g.: for character & XML needs & to work properly.

Probably the your langpack developer just isn't aware of this?

[James C]

Discovered that the latest Chromium and Opera browsers work fine......

[watchdog]

I have randomly to click on /root/.xset.sh to get activating the screensaver after 300 secs. I use adrv.sfs.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a usb-3.0 SSD, computer is a lenovo desktop:

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Memory 4138MB (183MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System xenial - 7.0.1
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Mon 09 May 2016 07:13:31 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 3840x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio Adapter PC-Speaker - pcsp

SCSI Disks
ATA WDC WD3200AAJS-5
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH40N
Monster Overdrive 3.0

OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
Version 4.5.0 NVIDIA 364.19
Direct Rendering Yes

Works well so far.

[gcmartin]

I am not a distro builder. But, there are some very good one's in the community. @666PhilB is one of them.

So, I make the following comment as a post of an proven idea. It might help both user selection and user testing as well as possibly reducing developer time in building and supporting their distros. (Thus, it does NOT ask/look for replies.)

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@StemSee has shown this community (via EmSee) that a PUP distro, albeit ANY PUP, can be built so that the user can select whether he chooses to boot the PUP into a 32bit frame or the PC's 64bit. So far, he has provided PUPs with this user option for 2 years. Thus, it can be viewed as stable and mature. (Mature because Knoppix has provided this since 2005. Stable because no user has reported issues in their boot selection process.)

Thusly, would the upgrade to XenialPUP might provide a boot option for 32bit (PAE is all but standard in PUPs since @Shinobar's fix to the PentiumM hidden feature) or 64bit flavor?

Again, the intent is to look at the potential developer benefit by reducing overall workload in covering all x86 PCs in use in the community via a single ISO. The user benefit is obvious.