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jemimah · #241 Post by **jemimah** » Sun 18 Jul 2010, 17:32

rjbrewer wrote:Another Fluppy surprise:

In order for us "full install" users to remaster it was necessary to
use "Dougals remaster script" on 4.xx and earlier Puppies.

This doesn't work with the new versions.

I tried it using Fluppys' Remaster Puppy and it worked perfectly!
I have a 168mb clone of my modified Fluppy on bootable cd......
the ultimate backup.

Edit; more surprises.

The remaster cd has this laptop intel wireless configured;
when I booted into a different laptop and pc the different
wireless cards configured automatically. Ready to browse.

It is Dougal's remaster script, which I did modify a little so the wireless would work.

ecube · #242 Post by **ecube** » Tue 20 Jul 2010, 17:03

Compaq Mini CQ10-101SO

Vattery shows Battery percentage = 0% when I disconnect the AC-adapter. Being too lazy for trying to debug Vattery, I have replaced it with.

Code: Select all

#!/bin/bash
# bat-0.1 Battery status
# 2010-07-20 OlovE Initial version
fstat="/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state"
finfo="/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info"
#
if [ -e $fstat ]; then
  REM=`cat $fstat|grep remaining`; echo $REM;
  REM=${REM##remaining capacity:      }; REM=${REM%% *};
  STATE=`cat $fstat|grep charging`; echo $STATE;
  STATE=${STATE##charging state:      }; 
else
  echo "ERROR! file $fstat not found"; exit 1
fi

if [ -e $finfo ]; then
  FULL=`cat $finfo|grep full`; echo $FULL;
  FULL=${FULL##last full capacity:      }; FULL=${FULL%% *}; 
else
  echo "ERROR! file $finfo not found"; exit 1
fi
REM=100*$REM/$FULL; REM=`echo "scale=1; ${REM}" | bc`
yaf-splash  -timeout 3 -font "9x15B" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg cyan -placement bottom -text "Battery: $REM% $STATE"

ecube

rjbrewer · #243 Post by **rjbrewer** » Wed 21 Jul 2010, 04:37

Trying to use Xorg on the new kernel versions usually didn't
work for us with Intel 855gm graphics chips.

Here is a fix for that problem that works on Luci 213 and also
works on my Fluppy 003 install.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 855#435855

It worked a few times, then started having shutdown and reboot
problems. Only with the full install.

Edit:
2 short pushes of power button drops to X, where reboot,
poweroff or xwin can be typed.

Lobster · #244 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 24 Jul 2010, 14:45

In case your Fluppy notebook gets liberated
http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/

Traces your laptop - might be nice for Fluppy

ecube · #245 Post by **ecube** » Sun 25 Jul 2010, 17:33

I have encountered some weird booting behavior when trying to install quirky120 and luci210 on my Compaq Mini CQ10-101SO. What happens is that in most cases the booting hangs at "Loading drivers needed to access disk drivers....." and a hard reset has to be performed. Fluppy-003 and puppeee-502 boot normally every time. Occasionally quirky and luci will boot as expected and install the puppies correctly (see encl).
I haven't found any correlation between the boot procedure and the unsuccessful boot. grub1 and grub2 behave the same.

Any comments would be most welcome.

ecube

Edit: Modification of initrd.gz/init seems to solve the problem

Code: Select all

echo  "-DEBUG" > /dev/console 
for ONEMODALIAS in $MODALIASES
do
  sleep 1
  modprobe -q $ONEMODALIAS #-q means quiet
  [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo -n "." > /dev/console
  echo  "$? - ONEMODALIAS=$ONEMODALIAS" > /dev/console
done

rjbrewer · #246 Post by **rjbrewer** » Tue 27 Jul 2010, 15:59

A few times since I installed Fluppy, I've lost power (connection)
to the usb mouse.
This didn't affect touchpad operation and a reboot reconnected
the Belkin mini-mouse.

Billtoo · #247 Post by **Billtoo** » Thu 29 Jul 2010, 13:23

I installed fluppy on my emachines D620 yesterday and it's working great so far.

Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2650e
Memory 1813MB (217MB used)
Operating System Puppy Linux 0.43
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu 29 Jul 2010 09:11:05 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI R300 (RS690 791F) 20090101 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 NO-TCL
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB

thanks.

nooby · #248 Post by **nooby** » Thu 29 Jul 2010, 16:15

I have encountered some weird booting behavior when trying to install quirky120 and luci210 on my Compaq Mini CQ10-101SO. What happens is that in most cases the booting hangs at "Loading drivers needed to access disk drivers....." and a hard reset has to be performed. Fluppy-003 and puppeee-502 boot normally every time. Occasionally quirky and luci will boot as expected and install the puppies correctly (see encl).
I haven't found any correlation between the boot procedure and the unsuccessful boot. grub1 and grub2 behave the same.

Any comments would be most welcome.
Confused
ecube

Edit: Modification of initrd.gz/init seems to solve the problem
Code:
echo "-DEBUG" > /dev/console
for ONEMODALIAS in $MODALIASES
do
sleep 1
modprobe -q $ONEMODALIAS #-q means quiet
[ $? -eq 0 ] && echo -n "." > /dev/console
echo "$? - ONEMODALIAS=$ONEMODALIAS" > /dev/console

I think Jemimah got aware of it in the Puppeee rc8 thread too.

I have same problem. Sometimes I can try to boot 7 times in a row and still fail at same place as you describe too. 5 dots in the first line so two of them is still needed.

Could it be USB responding too late. I have both USB mouse keyboard so it could be them not giving feedback that works for the iso?

I am not savvy enough to try out your solution.

I experimented to add nosmp due to me having an Atom cpu in my Acer.

jemimah · #249 Post by **jemimah** » Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:36

You probably should tell Barry about it. My init script is a slightly older version than what's in woof.

nooby · #250 Post by **nooby** » Thu 29 Jul 2010, 20:27

Thanks Jemimah but I do think it fails to boot puppeee rc7 too.

But it could be me doing something wrong in the menu.lst

No big deal.

rjbrewer · #251 Post by **rjbrewer** » Fri 30 Jul 2010, 04:10

Wonder if this is an ancestor of Fluppy?

The Floppy Show was a Des Moines, Iowa TV show that was broadcast
on WHO-TV from 1957 to 1987.

Floppy was a beagle dog puppet that had a high voice provided by
self-taught ventriloquist Duane Ellett.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17140830660

ecube · #252 Post by **ecube** » Fri 30 Jul 2010, 07:52

I enclose a modified version of initrd.gz for qrky-120. This is an ad hoc solution. I hope someone familiar with puppy's inner life will create a more elegant solution.

nooby · #253 Post by **nooby** » Fri 30 Jul 2010, 10:02

Thanks ecube

Edit: Modification of initrd.gz/init seems to solve the problem
Code:
echo "-DEBUG" > /dev/console
for ONEMODALIAS in $MODALIASES
do
sleep 1
modprobe -q $ONEMODALIAS #-q means quiet
[ $? -eq 0 ] && echo -n "." > /dev/console
echo "$? - ONEMODALIAS=$ONEMODALIAS" > /dev/console
done

What does such modification do? Has it do do something with the relatively new Atom Netbooks or "mini" computers with Intel circuits while the iso works on Desktops with other cpu?

RJARRRPCGP · #254 Post by **RJARRRPCGP** » Sun 01 Aug 2010, 02:17

Problem with X on a test rig, X fails with the GeForce 7600 GS and looked at one of the X logs and it looks like the Nvidia support may have been built with mismatched files!

And I tried to load the "nv" driver and it looks like I can't! So, no desktop. So I can't get the proper .pet!

GaRailroader · #255 Post by **GaRailroader** » Sat 07 Aug 2010, 18:34

I've been a satisfied user of Puppeee on my 2g surf for about a month and decided to try to create a jump drive version of Fluppy 3.0 for use on my work Lenova S10e netbook.

Based on the instructions listed on the puppeee site I'd assume that the installer script is failing. I'm using bootinst.sh since I'm doing it from a puppeee machine. The shell script has the following message prior to closing:

./boot/syslinux/syslinux: possibly unsafe /tmp/ permissions
Disk /dev/sdb1 should be bootable now. Installation finished.

I've tried booting it from both the 2g Surf and the Lenova Atom and I get the error that 'Drive is not Bootable' I've also tried using ext2, ext3 and FAT32 on this jump drive to no avail. Any suggestions?

PatrickJ

jemimah · #256 Post by **jemimah** » Sat 07 Aug 2010, 19:29

Weird. Try one of these methods:

http://puppeee.com/web/blog/alternative ... r-sd-card/

James C · #257 Post by **James C** » Sun 08 Aug 2010, 03:49

Congrats on releasing Puppeee.

I've been running Fluppy 003 on my desktop for a while now with no real problems,just one small aggravation.I have a wired ethernet connection and on every boot I get an Xdialog message about not detecting my wireless card.I don't use a wireless card so I'd like to get rid of the message.

Thanks in advance.

jackbetz · #258 Post by **jackbetz** » Mon 09 Aug 2010, 00:53

Maybe remove pwireless2 script from autostart folder?

James C · #259 Post by **James C** » Mon 09 Aug 2010, 01:25

jackbetz wrote:Maybe remove pwireless2 script from autostart folder?

Sometimes the most obvious solution is the best.

Totally solved it, thanks.

jemimah · #260 Post by **jemimah** » Tue 17 Aug 2010, 01:59

I'm working on the Fluppy kernel right now. Any driver requests?

I'm going to try the proprietary wl and RTL8192E. Anything else I should build?

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