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gposil · #661 Post by **gposil** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 03:57

Ok...guys, finally back. 477beta1 will be up tonight and I should have PetStore sorted out by tomorrow...

Cheers
Guy

Jim1911 · #662 Post by **Jim1911** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 04:07

gposil,

Welcome back, you have been missed. Looking forward to your new beta.

Jim

01micko · #663 Post by **01micko** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 04:54

Woohoo!

Good to have you back gposil.

I'm having a crack at compiling drivers. Successfully compiled a wireless driver for my eeepc with 4.3 and the new kernel. If you are going to continue with the 481 series then it would be appropriate to switch to k2.6.30.5 for that because tempestuous is getting busy compiling drivers for that kernel.

If you need drivers for the current kernel (assuming 477 keeps the 2.6.27 kernel) I can try that too, so long as I can get the kernel source .sfs. It's only a stock woof kernel yeah? Barry has all the sources for them at puppylinux.com.

Keep those wombats running on that treadmill, we wouldn't want that power to black out, especially after those blokes wattle and daubed your upsidedown brolly back together. (er, how things are done here in the bush)

Cheers

gposil · #664 Post by **gposil** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 04:59

hi Mick...glad to be back and yes 482 will be out in a few days with 2.6.30.5 kernel. 477beta1 should be up tonight, and PetStore should be back up to date by tomorrow, I have made you a moderator on PetStore forum, you can add anyone else you see fit, and I have removed all the spam and made registration compulsory before posts are accepted.

shankargopal · #665 Post by **shankargopal** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 07:37

Just had a look at the directory at www.dpup.org and can only find the md5 checksum files for the iso and the sfs... or am I just being impatient, are they uploading now?

gposil · #666 Post by **gposil** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 07:48

Just impatient...they are set for uploading in about 30 minutes...

shankargopal · #667 Post by **shankargopal** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 07:50

Wonderful! You are wonderful, dpup is wonderful, debian is wonderful, er, anyway, you get my drift...

James C · #668 Post by **James C** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 07:55

gposil, glad to see you back.

It's almost 3 am here so I'll grab 477 Beta after I get some sleep.

Noticed the Synaptic pet too, better grab it too.

Thanks for all of your hard work on Dpup.

gposil · #669 Post by **gposil** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 08:54

Ok...477beta1 is uploading now...

Feature List:

* Firefox 3.5 with Flash Player 10
* First Boot Wizard
* Visual Control Panel (Desktop Icon)
* Mplayer media player
* Custom music player (based on xmms)
* Screensaver with quickstart tray button
* Gparted and file system support for ext4 (ext4dev)
* Wallpaper setting with preview
* Webcam Viewer
* Parcellite clipboard utility
* Quick Screenshot utility with tray button
* Load/Eject CD/DVD by tray button
* GtkLP Printer Management
* Native installer for Debian/Ubuntu deb files
* LX Task Manager
* Graphical Shutdown Wizard

Please report any problems....

Cheers

shankargopal · #670 Post by **shankargopal** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 08:59

gposil wrote:Ok...477beta1 is uploading now...

* Native installer for Debian/Ubuntu deb files

Thanks for this, gposil. Does the above mean apt? If so, is the full apt utility set (e.g. apt-get, apt-cache, etc.) available? Would be thrilled if apt works now... I know this may be a dumb question since Synaptic is available, but have never been very sure if Synaptic is purely a front end for apt or not.

Also, would you still recommend doing a full install before installing from the testing and unstable repositories? And do you think that that would have a high chance of breakage? I anticipate using unstable quite a lot, so just wanted to check.

gposil · #671 Post by **gposil** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 09:14

shankargopal,

You will need to install Synaptic from the additions directory to get full apt support, I have tested it with quite a few repositories, and does not seem to have a problem, and yes I would recommend that Synaptic be installed only with a full install of dpup, (Unless you have plenty of resources and reasonably high end PC). Synaptic is a front end to apt/aptitude/deb-pkg...plus more.

dejan555 · #672 Post by **dejan555** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 09:25

Feature list looks amazing

BTW, I grabed flock tbz from their download section and ran on dpup yesterday, works great!!! <3

01micko · #673 Post by **01micko** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 12:57

gposil wrote:(sic).. I have made you a moderator on PetStore forum, you can add anyone else you see fit, and I have removed all the spam and made registration compulsory before posts are accepted.

Thanks.

Dejan, James,... are you up for it? I've seen you guys post there a bit.. and James, saw your comment about the spam

.

Cheers

Mick

dejan555 · #674 Post by **dejan555** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 13:25

Count me in.

Jim1911 · #675 Post by **Jim1911** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 15:58

Posting from dpup477b frugal installation. Also have a full hd installation on the same partition. Both installations have amazing speed and seem to work fine.

Problems discovered so far using full hd installation.
1. The boot code was not posted to /tmp/NEWGRUBTEXT as stated.
2. Ext4 partitions will not mount
3. When trying to update synaptic, get the error message "could not download all repository indexes", and "E: Lists directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is missing.
E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing."
Tried deselecting all resources and reselecting them one at a time, but still no success. The packages I've tried give errors such as List directory and archive directory missing, and unable to lock download directory. Will keep trying. It's great to have this.
4. Installed gnome-games with ppm, however, the following games did not work although they showed up in the menu and showed no missing dependencies: Aisle Root Solitaire, Five or More, Freecell Solitaire, Mahjongg, Mines, Same GNOME, Tali, and Tetravex.
5. Something unusual, Set Global font size works in the full hd installation, but not in the frugal installation.
6. First start wizard periodically restarts, also restarts on reboot.

Successfully installed amsn using ppm.

More fun, thanks,
Jim

dejan555 · #676 Post by **dejan555** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 17:23

I

it gposil!

The way it's configured and all these cool buttons on toolbar and screensaver, and you made terminal open b&w, runs very good for now.
I was testing that gimp pet you have there, you compiled that on dpup? At first after install it gave error message as if it hasn't install properly (see attached screen) but when I ran it second time it ran, and it seems rock solid, I did all kinda stuff to see if it will crash

Pic attached too xD

Now am downloading synaptic pet, it's a big pet, coulda make it also as sfs

DaveS · #677 Post by **DaveS** » Mon 05 Oct 2009, 17:40

So my wlan is not recognised and CUPS wants a username and password. Er...........................

gposil · #678 Post by **gposil** » Tue 06 Oct 2009, 01:22

Hi guys...482beta1-2.6.30.5 will be up tonight, it doesn't have the entire feature set of 477beta1, but if people are happy with it, the 477 features can go straight into 482beta2.

From my own testing, it seems very fast and have not had a hardware prob with it...but have only tested on 4 desktops and 2 laptops.

From my point of view, if 482 tests ok, then we should switch it to the main release, to keep inline with Barry's 430+ releases, and keep 477-2.6.27.4 as the retro kernel(so to speak). Please let me know what you think.

BTW..DaveS, does your wlan work in Barry's 430, if it does, then 482 will work also. If not, 01micko is going to compile new kernel modules for other hardware not currently catered for.

Cheers

#679 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 06 Oct 2009, 02:04

dejan555 wrote:I it gposil!

The way it's configured and all these cool buttons on toolbar and screensaver, and you made terminal open b&w, runs very good for now.
I was testing that gimp pet you have there, you compiled that on dpup? At first after install it gave error message as if it hasn't install properly (see attached screen) but when I ran it second time it ran, and it seems rock solid, I did all kinda stuff to see if it will crash
Pic attached too xD

Now am downloading synaptic pet, it's a big pet, coulda make it also as sfs

could you try this fix please, just delete the whole directory located /root/.gimp-2.4 <--- hidden directory
then install the pet and then try to run it.
ttuuxxx

James C · #680 Post by **James C** » Tue 06 Oct 2009, 02:17

Just finished a full install on my P3 test machine, replacing 476.

First problem was pretty apparent .......the installer only shows sda1,sda5 and sda6.....it does not show sda8, sda9 or sda10. sda7 is swap. the partitions show on the desktop.....just not in the installer.

While running live earlier everything appeared to work but will test more when I get this install configured.

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