Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

gposil · Posted: Tue 22 Dec 2009, 07:43 Post subject:

I was thinking 2.6.21.7 or maybe the old faithful 2.6.25.16...not sure, I was going to throw it open for discussion...now's as good a time as any....

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

jeffy39 · Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 28

Howdy Dev. team, all,
Really like what I see in Dpup, thus far.
Problems:
Wine; no menu entry with 482 nor 4.30 using
both SFS and/or dpup pet.

ATI Radeon driver; tried to dl from Synaptic.
Get errors, 1 of which says 'need to have
'do_initrd' in kernel line?, something as such.

Virtual Box: would the best approach be a new pet,
or install thru Synaptic?

I am using default desktop, no Wbar. Have installed
patches.

Many thanks for your efforts. This should be the best Pup yet.
Sincerely, jw

musher0

Hello, jeffy39.

Welcome aboard ! And thanks for the compliments!
I'll try to answer two of your questions. (I've never used VBox.)

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 22 Dec 2009, 18:31 Post subject:

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

Just as an experiment in regard to the retro kernel, I dug out my slowest computer....a P3 433 mhz w/ 384 mb ram and no swap. (Presently has a Windows 98 install.)

Running live with 482 Beta 5 right now.......not the fastest but certainly usable. Only using about 40 mb ram at idle too. Smile

Full disclosure, its using about 80 mb right now as I post this in Firefox.....

Since Etch has 2.6.18 and Lenny is at 2.6.26.2 I guess somewhere in the middle could work.Depends on how retro you want to go....

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

shankargopal, e17 also needs libiconv on clean boot, wouldn't start otherwise. Haven't tested it much but it runs Smile

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

To confirm musher0's report... xorg has included the "radeon" driver for awhile. I think the "radeonhd" driver is also included. The "radeon" driver should support most older cards and the "radeonhd" driver newer cards. These drivers are free and open-source. There is also the proprietary driver FGLRX, provided for Linux by ATI/AMD. I'm pretty sure there are .debs in the debian repos fo ATI/AMD drivers (proprietary included) but they will not work with the dpup kernel. The only drivers you can use are drivers compiled for the Puppy 2.6.30.5 kernel. You can compile these yourself but you need the devx installed/loaded and the kernel source (available from puppylinux,com/sources).

More info can be found here http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon

Hope some of this info is helpful.

Cheers

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

My Radeon 9250 works fine with default xorg drivers and dri also works when libgl mesa installed. I also uncomment rage teathre option in xorg.conf and also force tvout so I can use tv-out with xorg. I can paste my xorg.conf if someone has similar card.

gposil · Posted: Wed 23 Dec 2009, 08:24 Post subject:

Dpup has the radeon and radeonhd kernel modules already built-in.

musher0 · Posted: Wed 23 Dec 2009, 11:11 Post subject:

Hi, guys.

musher0 · Posted: Wed 23 Dec 2009, 11:38 Post subject:

Maybe this post doesn't belong here, but concerning Puppy Angels... found a couple:

http://shop.thehungersite.com/store/product/image_200/35459.gif
http://www.crbeagles.com/images/design/angel_puppy.jpg

But tsk, tsk, they're copyrighted. Shouldn't the Puppy distro have its own Puppy Angel ? Smile

gposil · Posted: Thu 24 Dec 2009, 06:57 Post subject:

It's Christmas Eve night here in OZ, so i'd like to wish all Puppians and Dpup devs and testers a very Merry Christmas...stay safe and happy over the holiday period...

Best Wishes
Guy Pearson

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Thanks Guy

Same to you, and all the best to all Puppy users and families.

Cheers

Mick