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Lobster · Posted: Fri 27 May 2011, 06:48 Post subject:

Scottman compiled this system info util in (lshw) but works OK in Spup
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=527848#527848

Been to Plymouth a few times.
Not sure what Igu is creating but I want it anyway Embarassed

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 27 May 2011, 07:00 Post subject:

You have two fallbacks:
- You can use a framebuffer console, even the generic VESA one (!!!)
- Plymouth in a wonderful ASCII-art progress bar

It's a win-win case, Plymouth will *always* work, no matter what.

withoutpity · Joined: 17 Jan 2010 Posts: 25

Great work mick !
Everything is fine on my DELL 160L PC.
Even xfwm4's composite is ok in this version.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

wuwei · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 739 Location: de

Got 121.02 frugally installed. Even got it to upgrade the previous spupsave from 120.50.

Then, as Billtoo wrote

JonT · Posted: Fri 27 May 2011, 10:05 Post subject:

As a tip to Inspiron 1100 users, my flavor of Intel 82845 graphics combined with newer kernels requires vesa. To prevent a non-recoverable black screen, don't restart X before creating a save file. Boot the first time with pfix=nox, select vesa with xorgwizard, and reboot to make the save file.

This laptop may not be one you wish to include in your target audience; it would be understandable. Wary and 214X me serve well but I like to keep up with new versions. Many thanks for your efforts, 01micko, with various puppy issues.

Anyway, with spup 121.02, flsynclient works on boot, just have to increase min speed and max speed. Unlike with 120.50, the changes do not survive rebooting.

No F11 problem in Seamonkey with either spup. Vesa?

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Latest Deadbeef-0.5.1
Compiled in spup.
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/about.html

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1496 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a frugal install of alpha3 with the newest kernel.
It booted straight to the desktop but when I went to reboot to create a
save file it went to a black screen.
I rebooted into another pup and edited my grub4dos menu.lst file and
changed the alpha3 listing to pfix=nox,ram
Rebooted, ran xorgwizard and chose the vesa driver, edited the grub4dos menu.lst to
pfix=fsck and rebooted creating save file in the process.
Next boot I installed the devx and kernel sources file, also
downloaded the mesa driver from the slackware repo.
Another reboot to increase the size of the save file.
I installed the proprietary ati driver, ati-driver-installer-11-5-x86.x86_64.run
in the same method as mentioned above from the prompt except when it
finished compiling I entered aticonfig --initial and then xwin.

Fri 27 May 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-121.01 Linux 2.6.37.6
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: RS780 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
OpenGL version string: 3.3.10750 Compatibility Profile Context

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Core 0: 2592 1: 2592 2: 2592 3: 2592 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.
# glxgears
19731 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3946.068 FPS
19757 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3951.255 FPS
19766 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3953.130 FPS

Nexuiz plays great, haven't installed kdegames yet but will Smile

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 27 May 2011, 11:28 Post subject:

Gave up on Plymouth. It has dependencies outside of the initramfs, so it cannot be started once Puppy was called by the boot loader. Instead, you can start it only after the kernel modules are loaded and that's kinda stupid - it's there only for about half of the whole init.

I'm trying to get fbsplash to work now - I want to find a way to convert the wallpaper to a framebuffer background so you get a consistent background. The console has your wallpaper, so the transition is more smooth.

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Gparted-0.8.1 compiled against static *mm libs.
I am sure someone can get it smaller but... well here it is.
gtkmm-2.24.0.tar.gz source was 18 mb.

Gparted configure:

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Spup with 2.6.35 kernel findings. I booted first time with pfix=ram,nox. Fresh frugal install.
Xorgwizard, selected intel as always. Xwin > hungs. Selected vesa > got x and desktop. Exit to prompt, xorgwizard again, this time I selected radeon (i have dual graphich in my laptop)

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5243 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Mick
I have been looking at how to shrink Spup / Wary
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=528054#528054
Since Spup is still alpha, you'll might find some useful ideas.

Sigmund

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5243 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Just for the fun of it, I did another compile of static gparted using Barry Kaulers specs, well my first used were about the same from technosaurus gparted thread, ttuuuxxx had quoted them there.

Barrys notes and my used packages and fixed the documentation disabling. Also atkmm package was needed.
And libsigc++-2.2.9-i486-1sl.txz

atkmm-2.22.5
#./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-documentation --enable-static --disable-shared

cairomm-1.10.0
# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-documentation --enable-static --disable-shared

glibmm-2.28.1
# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-documentation --enable-static --disable-shared

pangomm-2.28.2
# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-documentation --enable-static --disable-shared

gtkkmm-2.24.0
# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-documentation --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-demos

gparted-0.8.1
# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu --disable-doc --disable-scrollkeeper --disable-libtool-lock --enable-libparted-dmraid

Stripping, splitting and pet creation. Gparted size was exactly the same.