Midnight Sun Pup 002 with 2.6.35.7 and 003 with 2.6.38.4

[pemasu]

Nooby. I dont know. The innards should be the same. Right now I dont have clear answer for you about that resolution change. I think about it.

[Jim1911]

Jim1911. Did you compile the Nvidia proprietary package yourself or do you use some already made Nvidia pet ?
And have you made xorg.conf file with composite enabled ? Maybe playing with that xcompmgr and gcompmgr. Disabling that composite row have been suggested also in my searches.
Your faced problem seems to find certain older Nvidia cards when I searched the net.
Have you downloaded the latest Nvidia package for your card and compiled it yourself ?
Or it can be that this kernel just dont like your new comp.

I used Billtoo's technique here using the latest Nividia driver for my card, NVIDIA-Linux-x86.270.41.19, which worked fine with Polar Pup, Ice Puppy, and Snow Puppy. Incidentally, prior to installing the NVIDIA driver, glxgears did run, but gave an error message. I'll try to duplicate the message and post it here.

With pfix=ram, Glxgear ran without an error message. When a save file was created and the following items were loaded by bootmanager:
devx_lupu_001.sfs
kernel_src-2.6.35.7-patched-lupe5.sfs (Is this the correct kernel?)

This error message was then generated (No NVIDIA driver had been loaded):
sh-4.1# glxgears
2590 frames in 5.0 seconds
2690 frames in 5.0 seconds
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 13851 requests (8333 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Executing glxgears again resulted in no error message.
sh-4.1# glxgears
2527 frames in 5.0 seconds
3014 frames in 5.0 seconds
3031 frames in 5.0 seconds
3038 frames in 5.0 seconds
3031 frames in 5.0 seconds
3039 frames in 5.0 seconds

Thanks,
Jim

[playdayz]

Playdayz. I was just guessing and I thought that you have compiled that version also yourself.

I understand about yours. But does the Firefox 5.0 work? I am waiting to download--it looks like you are currently uploading.

[Béèm]

pemasu, thanks for the update on snow/midnight sun.

[pemasu]

Playdayz. Yes, uploading with this 3g connection seems to drop connection quite often. I am quite border with good connection area, it seems.But now Midnight Sun Pup has been reuploaded.

Firefox 5.0 works just fine for me. And for James C also.

[Jim1911]

Hi pemasu,

Midnight Pup 001, v3 did not have any glxgears errors prior to installing NVIDIA driver, however, it gives this message after installation of the driver:

sh-4.1# glxgears
Xlib: extension “GLX

[pemasu]

Jim1911. Ok. I suppose I need to upload the Midnight Sun Pup with better connection. I am afraid the uploads are not sane with this connection in the summer house.

[James C]

For what it's worth. I just did a fresh frugal install and I do get the little messages about the internet connection..........working on boot.

EDIT:
Just rebooted and the messages popped up again.All working here.

[pemasu]

James C. Good to hear. Anyway I made sanity check to my partition and I started the package creation to create Midnight Sun Pup again. I am going to upload it now as Midnight Sun Pup 002. And first I test that usual things works.
Isnt it fun to be in the vacation.

[playdayz]

Yes, I just tested and the Firefox 5.0 pet seems to work fine--but of course you already have FF 5 built in. Also the current Chromium 14 pet also works. Good deal. I was afraid there was something I was missing (ha-ha, something 'else" I was missing).

Beautiful Pup, btw. Thanks.

Oh, and I also fixed the Chromium 14 sfs for anyone who prefers that.

[pemasu]

Playdayz, good to hear browsers are working. Yep, I dowloaded the official FF 5 also. I have used it whole day without a glitch. Plays flash, browsing, downloading allright, and it has been stable whole day.

Thanks also about the lookout. I have changed quite a lot since latest Snow Puppy, so that it feels slightly different.

At least as much as you can do with JWM and Icewm. Those will be my chosen wm's still.

[jim3630]

got the lattest midnight pup(001 labled) and devx for frugal hdd install on ext4. Like the new look and feel. Wifi connected to internet with same old built in wl driver. Installed Tor 1.1.19-lucid52 with Firefox/3.6.3 and tried built in FF...no issue with either. Have new usb smcwusb-n2 with ar9170usb chipset will try latter.

I have 1024x768 resolution without any issues noted.

Tue 28 Jun 2011 Operating System: Midnight Sun Pup-001 Linux 2.6.35.7
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS product: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: unknown
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGDNG_M GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1

Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU P6100
Core 0: 1999 1: 1999 MHz

# glxgears
4257 frames in 5.0 seconds
4389 frames in 5.0 seconds
4585 frames in 5.0 seconds
4726 frames in 5.0 seconds
4733 frames in 5.0 seconds

Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU P6100 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2520MB (160MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Tue 28 Jun 2011 03:58:04 PM GMT-8
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGDNG_M GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation


pemasu, thanks for another good one.

[jim3630]

reboot with new usb modem recognized shows eth0 eth1 and wan0 available.
posting from opera 11.11 seems to work without issue.

anyone know if opera 11.5 is available as portable?

[jim3630]

unable to frugal install to ext2 usb via universal installer or manual copying of files. m5dsum checked ok.

[Billtoo]

Frugal install to hp desktop.
I installed the devx_lupu_001.sfs and
kernel_src-2.6.35.7-patched-lupe5.sfs files.
I downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-275.09.07.run and installed it:

Wed 29 Jun 2011 Operating System: Midnight Sun Pup-001 Linux 2.6.35.7
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (342x271 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 220/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 275.09.07

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500
Core 0: 2200 1: 2200 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.
sh-4.1# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
31315 frames in 5.0 seconds
31352 frames in 5.0 seconds
31325 frames in 5.0 seconds

I had to re-download the midnightsunpup-001.iso and start over because
the first attempt booted up okay but couldn't find any network
interfaces, it's working okay this time.

[smokey01]

pemasu I'm just having my first look at Midnight Sun, very nice.

I haven't been able to break so it's pretty solid. All the important things like the browser, wifi, graphics all work fine.

I did notice the Quit button in Partview does not work.

Puppy Help 101 seems to work well. I might have to make a special version for Midnight Sun to accommodate the additional software.

Very Impressive.

[pemasu]

Smokey01. Thank you of your report and that you tested Midnight Sun Pup. If you have energy and time, I will be very happy your extended help manual. But that is up to you.

About that quit button. It is problem which came with my compiled gtkdialog3. It seems not work right.
I will revert it to the original in Midnight Sun Pup 002.
Meanwhile, grab /usr/sbin/gtkdialog3 from some other Puppy.

I dont post pet for it, because I will upload today next version.
It has Radkys newest updates included. PupShutdown and PupSnap has been updated.

[Béèm]

pemasu,
I don't know if it is the same in all 'cold' puppy's.
In icepuppy dhcpcd isn't found because /usr/local/sbin is missing in the PATH.
You might check if it is OK in this summer puppy.

[pemasu]

Beem. I will check if it is needed to have it on the path. I need to boot Fluppy and check if Jemimah has that /usr/local/sbin on the path.

[Béèm]

I checked in the fluppy 013 sfs in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and find:

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PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin

This seems illogical to me that /usr/local/sbin is missing also, cause when dhcpcd is executed from a console, dhcpcd isn't found.
I don't know how Frisbee copes with that.