Browserlinux with Firefox 3.6.6 (new version 366v2)

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hartiberlin · #46 Post by **hartiberlin** » Thu 06 May 2010, 06:16

A few questions:

How can we get it to boot as fast a xPud.org ?
Can it be made, so that is just runs from the harddrive and
not from Ramdisk, so it does not need to load so many
things first into the Ramdrive at bootup ?
Please see:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=416054

2. on my Athlon X2 3800- NVidia 6150 motherboard chipset
I can not enable the 1920x1200 screen size for my 26 inch monitor.

How can I load additional NVidia drivers ?
In Xorg setup, I can choose 1920x1200 x 24 Bit
or 16 Bits, but the highest screen resolution is then still 1280x1024,
which looks bad on my 16:9 monitor !

on my laptop with ATI M9000 it works in 1400x1050 mode
okay, so there seems to be a bug in the NVidia driver...

3. How can I include a better File manager than ROX ?
A one, more like Norton or total commander ?

Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

omskates · #47 Post by **omskates** » Thu 06 May 2010, 08:14

After I said YES to have programs sfs (like pup_421.sfs or pup-431.sfs) copied to the same place as my pup_save (flashdrive) I get a 10 sec boot from the boot splash screen.
Puppy Universal Installer can install to Hard Drive as a Full Install or you can do a frugal install & choose to not copy to RAM. Add "pfix=noram" w/o the quotes to the boot options at boot splash screen.

hartiberlin · #48 Post by **hartiberlin** » Thu 06 May 2010, 08:23

omskates wrote:After I said YES to have programs sfs (like pup_421.sfs or pup-431.sfs) copied to the same place as my pup_save (flashdrive) I get a 10 sec boot from the boot splash screen.
Puppy Universal Installer can install to Hard Drive as a Full Install or you can do a frugal install & choose to not copy to RAM. Add "pfix=noram" w/o the quotes to the boot options at boot splash screen.

Please post a more in detail report about how you do this including
links to this installer program , so I can try to do it too.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards, Stefan.

hartiberlin · #49 Post by **hartiberlin** » Thu 06 May 2010, 10:26

Hmm,
in my setup it always loads pup-431.sfs
into RAM and that takes time.
Also it searches a lot first for the sfs files on the harddisk,
until it seems to find pup-431.sfs.

Please post your grub lines
from the
menu.lst
file, so we can have a look at how you
load the pup-431.sfs file.

Here are my lines from the menu.lst file:

title Puppy Browserlinux

kernel (hd0,0)/browserlinux/vmlinuz pfix=noram PMEDIA=satahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=browserlinux

initrd (hd0,0)/browserlinux/initrd.gz

boot

but the pfix=noram does not help,
also if you copy it to the end of the line...

I have my browserlinux located in
c:\browserlinux

Maybe the browserlinux is configured this way internally,
that it always loads the
pup-431.sfs
file into RAM first ?

Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

omskates · #50 Post by **omskates** » Thu 06 May 2010, 13:43

hartiberlin wrote: Please post your grub lines
from the
menu.lst
file, so we can have a look at how you
load the pup-431.sfs file.

Here are my lines from the menu.lst file:

title Puppy Browserlinux

kernel (hd0,0)/browserlinux/vmlinuz pfix=noram PMEDIA=satahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=browserlinux

initrd (hd0,0)/browserlinux/initrd.gz

boot

Regards, Stefan.

Stefan I'll gladly post my menu.lst but it may be 12 to 16 hrs from this post

My experience is on a Pentium M 1.8GHz 1.5GB RAM running Browser Linux from CD while pup_save and other sfs files allowed to save to usb flash drive. My USB was formated to ext2 and I'm booting from CD-Rom, the HDD is not involved in this case though I certainly could have used a partition on the HDD rather than flash but not in this case.

Boot from CD
Save "pup_save" to USB on shutdown
Allow puppy to load additional sfs files to USB with pup_save file
Reboot
Reboot again
Should be a faster boot now.

There are many methods of running puppy, this is just one experience of mine.

hartiberlin · #51 Post by **hartiberlin** » Fri 07 May 2010, 06:43

Can you please try to boot from Harddisk
and see, if you also get 10 seconds on it or faster ?

Just copy your vmlinuz, initrd and pupxxx.sfs to
a subdirectory
c:/puppy
and then please post your
menu.lst
lines.

Do you then also get 10 seconds boot time from
the grub menu to your puppy screen ?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards, Stefan.

puppymartin · #52 Post by **puppymartin** » Thu 20 May 2010, 21:14

New ISO with Google Chrome (5.0.375.38)

glenco · #53 Post by **glenco** » Fri 21 May 2010, 10:21

Hi, puppymartin
I'm downloaded and installed 362 on a usb stick. Everything went fine setting up my winmodem (ttySM0) until I tried to dial and this popped up.

wvdial: error while loading shared libraries: libwvutils.so.3.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

puppymartin · #54 Post by **puppymartin** » Fri 21 May 2010, 20:30

glenco wrote:wvdial: error while loading shared libraries: libwvutils.so.3.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Hi Glenco,

Hmm, wvdial needs this:

hartiberlin · #55 Post by **hartiberlin** » Tue 25 May 2010, 21:50

Hi Martin,
both Firefox and Chrome
latest browserlinux versions
do only work with Nvidia driver up
to 1280x1024 in XORG ( also in VESA).

But I have a 1920x1200 Monitor.
XORG shows this also, but when it has finished,
it only shows the screen in
1280x1024 which is 4:3 and looks bad.

Can you please try to use newer NVidia drivers
that run okay ?

P.S: on my other PC a laptop the
ATI 1400x1050 mode works okay.

Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

Gurglin · #56 Post by **Gurglin** » Mon 07 Jun 2010, 15:25

Martin,

I just installed BrowserLinux 362. I wonder why this great intuition of yours did not get the right feedback and appreciation...

BTW, after having installed Mplayer, it does not appear on the menu, and had to put a .desktop icon on the desktop for using it... It starts, even if I get a strange error message.

Moreover, why do you not add Opera (and other browser) among the extra software list?

Artie · #57 Post by **Artie** » Tue 08 Jun 2010, 13:03

Would it be possible to have a version without Google Chrome or Firefox but with the latest Opera? Thanks!

Artie

Gurglin · #58 Post by **Gurglin** » Tue 08 Jun 2010, 13:35

I tried to install an Opera.pet. The installation went through smoothly (even if without the menu-link), but Opera does not work

puppymartin · #59 Post by **puppymartin** » Wed 09 Jun 2010, 19:11

Gurglin wrote:I tried to install an Opera.pet. The installation went through smoothly (even if without the menu-link), but Opera does not work

Hi Gurglin,

Open the terminal and type:

# ldd /usr/lib/opera

then add the "not found" libs (in /usr/lib - I think you need libaudiofile-0.0.2 )

(Libs, libs and libs are here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=24599)

Success

puppymartin · #60 Post by **puppymartin** » Wed 09 Jun 2010, 19:11

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puppymartin · #61 Post by **puppymartin** » Mon 28 Jun 2010, 09:36

New version 366:

Firefox 3.6.6
Flash 10.1

chrome307 · #62 Post by **chrome307** » Mon 28 Jun 2010, 09:46

Thanks for the update

badsaintz · #63 Post by **badsaintz** » Wed 14 Jul 2010, 00:51

hi there puppymartin,

i downloaded browserlinux366 its really fast and really really love it but can i install the following:

1. devx (for browserlinux)
2. LAMPP (hiawatha version)
3. JAVA
4. OpenOffice (version 2.x)

you see we use the above mentioned application (running puppy 4.21) in our school and just thinking with the speed of Browserlinux i think it would be to our advantage to capitalized on your Puppy Derivative!

chrome307 · #64 Post by **chrome307** » Wed 14 Jul 2010, 09:28

@badsaintz

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1. devx (for browserlinux)

I have tried this and all you need to do is use the Boot Manager at Start Up and add the above to the list to be included in your applications loaded.

You can also use try the JAVA.sfs file found here in the same way:

sfs4 version (for puppy 4.3.xx series using 2.6.30.xx kernel)

http://dokupuppylinux.co.cc/programs:java?s[]=java

charlie6 · #65 Post by **charlie6** » Thu 15 Jul 2010, 09:28

Hi PuppyMartin,
thnx a lot for this Puppy Browser !
on Puppy Browser FireFox 3.6.6 md5sum checked OK
just noticed:

- Network wizard fails to connect via eth0...with improper (for my hardware) nl_BE@euro setup.
I had to manually set the DNS to get connected ... went disconnected after a few seconds - autoconnect does not succeed.
No connection problem with other puppies on the same pc.

- locale setup is missing fr_BE@euro
[stripped out...? toch tenminste 50% van Belgïe spreekt frans ! dat toch al bekend was zelfs van een paar australiaans... ]
... fr_FR@euro do not work properly on belgian keyboads which slightly differs from frankrijk-keyboards ( !!! ). I risked to choose nl_BE@euro ...do not know if this causes connect wizard to fail...?
So would you please insert again fr_BE@euro.

Met vriendelijke groeten!
Charlie

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