Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[tubeguy]

DPUP!
Got it on the lappie now.

[aarf]

BarryK is coming to Squeezy Pup

[tubeguy]

SqueezyPup

[chrismt]

[aarf]

[666philb]

Hi dejan555

Any luck at finding the kernel.sfs yet?

mrfricks

[dejan555]

Ah, no sorry 666philb Mick did give me a hint how to check if Barry's version is the one used for dpup but forgot to actually check it out, will do later.

aarf, so it is a problem in jwm afterall. Didn't have luck with frisbee but I think I did something wrong I will retry.

tubeguy, cool!

Sorry for delayed responses people didn't have much time these days to mess with dpup.

[nooby]

I'll test it within some 10 minutes. Have to reboot and so on.
What should I look out for?

[dejan555]

Uh, don't know, just do what you usually do with your system and see if it works for you.

[nooby]

Sad news. I feel bad having to report that it did not work well.

First it booted that is a good start.
But I was too trusty of the xorgwizard choice because it usually do work but it ended up with black screen. So I started all over but then it failed to boot. So I added nosmp to kernel line which help when lupu fail to boot.
Nope that was not enough. So I added nolapic and that made it boot but after getting deskptop I wanted to report so started up browser but no internet. So I went to connect and chose Atheros as LAN driver but it did see no network and the bad bad news is that when I booted into Snow pup again then that one failed to see the LAN network too so I had to shut down and take out battery and powerplug and let it reset.

So now I am in Snow for to report. Another thing that failed was that it is like dpup009 in that it only show 1024 x 600 when one have two screens. internal and external to the Netbook Acer D250.

So Dpup may be very good on some hardware but not on mine.

[dejan555]

Thanks for report nooby, so people with same specs as yours should avoid it.

[nooby]

Not easy to really know. I mean what if somebody really knowing how to set up BIOS would look at my BIOS set up and tell me change that thing to yes and that one to no and then it will work better?

I have no idea about if bios makes it behave like this.

Many puppies do work with my computer out of the box.
So maybe something like drivers is missing.

Jemimah when she did Fluppy added a lot of drivers. Pemasu when he made Snow added same drivers Jemimah had for puppu 430 while pemasu added them to lupu511 instead and he also used things from lupu525 so Snow is a very good general distro that workd on most gear.

Lupu failed to boot 1 out of 10 times until I put nosmp on the kernel line.
Snowpup needs none such never fails. Dpup failed to boot two times out of three try now today. So something seems missing for the version of Netbooks that I have.

[dejan555]

BIOS shouldn't affect lan card, but drivers - kernel modules yes so probably your Atheros model doesn't have compatible kernel module in dpup.
I don't know how to add one
Must gain some knowledge in kernel and modules compiling before I can resolve issues like this.
But many people already used and like dpup484 and this one should work well enough for them.

[nooby]

Yes as I sad I don't feel happy to give you this sad news.
The others are so happy and here I come with a disaster of report. Not a friendly guy that Nooby.

[dejan555]

Nah it's cool