Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 10 Mar 2011, 19:44 Post subject:

wow that's great guys thanks, it really moves this retro into the present day puppy stream of things.
ttuuxxx

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 10 Mar 2011, 23:29 Post subject:

hi James which file worked on that link there are 3 files under download and after that a link to another thread with a 13mb download. Mu also mentioned that a internet connection would be needed for additional drivers.
do you have the driver locally? that I could add to the iso, if its a reasonable size.
ttuuxxx

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Not bad for 3 hours running live,with Firefox running......
No reason not to install 214x on the main Linux box now...... Laughing

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 11 Mar 2011, 01:09 Post subject:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Now there's a pet........

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 11 Mar 2011, 02:41 Post subject:

must be an easier method, 13MB is too large for the main distro, I even spent some time on it and managed to get it around 6 MB, but it still uses 4Mb compressed opengl, where as the new puppies didn't have opengl, must be another way, probably if I compile a newer NV driver.
ttuuxxx

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

JonT · Posted: Fri 11 Mar 2011, 11:04 Post subject:

Wired internet connected automagically here too on 214X-top6.1. Slick.

However, I normally use wireless and for me the wireless internet connection wizard got broken. (WPA on ath0) It works in 214X-top6. Clicking on the "Wireless" button on the second screen of the wizard merely closes that screen, no messages. Used pfix=ram, md5sum is OK, and the same wireless drivers are loaded as in 214X-top6. Manual WPA setup via tempestuous's instructions http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22469&start=10 does work on top6.1. That's the limit on my knowledge on what to check.

Belated thanks to you, ttuuxxx, and tempestuous for your many hours of contributions.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 13 Mar 2011, 01:06 Post subject:

Here's something I would like to share about Firefox
I'm working on the next release and have the latest Firefox 4.0 final Smile

installed
when I went to setup the layout, focusing on the Bookmarks toolbar, I had to remove the puppylinux.ca link since its dead anyways, and added Facebook since its so popular, why not there's still almost 50% of the area free.
Ok this is where it gets strange, usually I have to copy over the /lib/firefox/defaults/profile/places.sqlite file to the main /firefox directory, this time round it went from around 200kb to 10MB, OMG whats going here, I checked it a few times and yes it somehow displaces 10MB, even if I delete the root/.mozilla folder and make any changes it blows up in file size. how strange it must be a bug, then I had an idea to tar.gz the whole folder lib/firefox/defaults/profile and guess what?? the folder squashes down to 57kb and when I right click the folder its get the uncompressed size its 11MB, altering that sqlite file really doesn't add anything once its compressed but the whole Firefox folder grew 10MB and when its compressed its about the same size.
So Sqlite files must really compress by an astonishing amount. or that 10MB file is just wasted space.
I have another Idea I might try first Smile

ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 13 Mar 2011, 01:54 Post subject:

haaaaaaaa I did it, basically I loaded an older version of 2.14-top4, with an older version of firerox beta did the changes and saved the places.sqlite which was 188kb not 10MB.
It works fine and all is good once again
ttuuxxx

Oh ya I also reported the bug to mozilla Smile