Dpup Exprimo 5.X.3.1.10.3 SMP multicore optimized version

[01micko]

I have compiled ffmpeg-0.8.4 in Exprimo. I hope to be able to add it with latest Pmusic to the next Exprimo.

It would pay you to compile alsaequal and there is a link on that page to the CAPS LADSPA plugin, very basic to compile just the 3 typical options to ./configure .. then get Pequalizer which has a comprehensive pinstall.sh designed for woof that does all the hard work to get alsa set up. Pequalizer and Pmusic handles the switching of the hidden ~/.asoundrc so that it doesn't bork alsa when it's not in use. The equalizer will work with anything piped through alsa. so you can set ao="alsa" for mplayer and it works . You got to get that "wings" thing fixed for Pmusic too.. it's the showcase

Cheers

[pemasu]

01micko. Yep...I start today. Now I have tested that ffmpeg converts mp3 to wav, ogg and fac ok. Pmusic Wings theme is already fixed. See Pmusic-2.1.4.
I will add woo-ff and FF-convert to the next build.
Lets see now how the equalizer stuff roll on...

[pemasu]

It wasnt that hard. Thanks 01micko.

[01micko]

It wasnt that hard. Thanks 01micko.

Would I lie to you?

[shinobar]

Update: sfs_load-1.2
26 Sep 2011 v1.2: fix was undesired mount (thanks to mories), fix was fleezed input in combobox, fix ramsize
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64354

[pemasu]

Thanks Shinobar. The update is already in my woof.

[pemasu]

Dpup Exprimo 5.X.8 SMP has been uploaded. It has my latest work, several additions and updates. It is probably not yet the complete one, which I will use with next woof, but I didnt have patience to wait that next woof.

So lets call this as tester. It has now ffmpeg-0.8.4 and latest Pmusic-2.1.4, Pequalizer with needed libs (test Wings window outlook from Preferences, it looks now nice and download some nice theme for it) , Ffconvert and woo-ff ffmpeg frontends for easy file conversion. Gtk-themes has some new candidates, well not new but new in Exprimo. Not rockstar, lol.

Some Puppy apps has got new home in Exprimo also. Radky`s great PupApplications has been updated. MtPaint is not yet updated to the latest. But it will be, info for don570
Sfs Load is version 1.2. Latest Busybox.
Kernel has now bluetooth modules and ath9k_htc firmware included. The new broadcom firmware also.

Sfs Apps Loader has got facelift, thanks to magnificent stu90.

Iso size grow up because of ffmpeg and other new apps. Iso size 144 Mb.

Download link: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupSque ... imo5X8SMP/

[Billtoo]

I'm running 5x8 from a DVD+RW and I used SFS-Load on-the-fly to load
the devx and kernel source sfs files.
# report-video
Dpup Exprimo SMP, version 5.X.8 on Mon 26 September 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation Device 1082 (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.7.7
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (513x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

When it first booted up I chose probe and X wouldn't start, then I
chose the nv driver and X still wouldn't start so I ended up choosing
vesa at a low resolution to get to the desktop and install the proper
video driver.

After trying a few applications and having no problems with them I
think I'll reboot and not save to the dvd but I'll do a manual frugal
install to the hard disk later on.

EDIT: I haven't rebooted yet, uptime
13:24:38 up 19:23, load average: 0.21, 0.10, 0.06
Apart from not getting to the desktop on first bootup it's working great.

[jim3630]

5x8 frugal install on ext4, updated 5x7 save file with prompts on start-up.
without the quick pet menu to choose to save downloads not sure how to do it here? usually save pet from browser downloads but found myself using ppm to get newer aria2-1.10.1. aria2-1.12.1 is out just not found a pet yet.

Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU P6100 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2519MB (260MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 26 Sep 2011 07:49:23 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

all works well during brief testing today.

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frisbee auto detected my broadcom driver on start-up and with wifi configuration in prior 5x7 savefile it made the connection without issue. very nice!

[pemasu]

Jim3630. Kernel stuff improvements were one of the main things. Firmwares takes space, but....I want to have support for some new devices Puppies mostly dont have. New broadcom and ath9k_htc are amongst those. Bluetooth modules are also now in place.
Adding all kind of firmwares is impossible task. Priority list is needed.

About quickpet. Well....to change the Lucid Puppy or Slacko code made by 01micko. Just check the code inside the quickpet scripts, and ask yourself, would you like to start changing it for Dpups. I am not yet willing to do it.

[jim3630]

Jim3630. Kernel stuff improvements were one of the main things. Firmwares takes space, but....I want to have support for some new devices Puppies mostly dont have. New broadcom and ath9k_htc are amongst those. Bluetooth modules are also now in place.
Adding all kind of firmwares is impossible task. Priority list is needed.

About quickpet. Well....to change the Lucid Puppy or Slacko code made by 01micko. Just check the code inside the quickpet scripts, and ask yourself, would you like to start changing it for Dpups. I am not yet willing to do it.

pemasu would not ask to have aria2 added it's 15M not including all of it's dependencies which is needed to get all available features like BitTorrent and Metalink capabilities. someone here made a gui for it but mainstream it's cli.

hope someone makes an up-to-date pet sometime.

understand your position with quickpet and you give some hope that time may come sometime in the future. have not looked at it's code as only do rudimentary scratching myself.

[don570]

review Dpup Exprimo 5.X.8 SMP multicore optimized version

I had same problem as Billtoo. My first boot was a black screen
but subsequent boots have gone normally.

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It recognized that I have only one processor in my PentiumIV
That's good

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[    0.054673] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 04
[    0.056663] Performance Events: Netburst events, Netburst P4/Xeon PMU driver.
[    0.056663] ... version:                0
[    0.056663] ... bit width:              40
[    0.056663] ... generic registers:      18
[    0.056663] ... value mask:             000000ffffffffff
[    0.056663] ... max period:             0000007fffffffff
[    0.056663] ... fixed-purpose events:   0
[    0.056663] ... event mask:             000000000003ffff
[    0.056663] Brought up 1 CPUs
[    0.056663] Total of 1 processors activated (3988.47 BogoMIPS).

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Some problems...

Zathura GUI should be upgraded to 1.9
This corrects for white space in names.

Also I noticed that there is no right click
for archived files with the extension .bz2

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[pemasu]

don570. Thanks of the feedback here and in Pmusic thread. It was good idea to prerelease this while waiting next woof. Several fixable small bugs has been found and need for updates also. Couple of pinstall.sh scripts has been fixed, new updates will be loaded to the woof.
Also now we can really test latest Pmusic and give feedback.
About that black screen. I suspect e17 and hacked .xinitrc or something else to be suspect. I dont have that black screen problem after several pfix=ram boots.
/tmp/xerrs.log might give some explanation. Not sure of course.
Easy fix. I will make JWM as first wm when you boot to the next version.
Black screen is not nice, but if the real reason is not found, I am willing to circumvent. Usually the reason reveals after some time....

[pemasu]

Joe Wing is back
He has uploaded JWM-2.10 rev 502 version which has several fixes.
Best thing.....Full screen bug has been fixed !
In attached pet is the new jwm binary, it installs just the jwm binary to the /usr/bin.

20110925
Given that it's been over four years since the last version of JWM was created, I decided it was time to wrap up all the changes since then into a new version. JWM v2.1.0 is now available! Although development has been kind of slow over the last four years, there are a lot of changes since the previous version.

http://joewing.net/index.shtml
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jwm/

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# jwm --version
JWM v2.1.0 by Joe Wingbermuehle
compiled options: confirm fribidi icons png shape xft xinerama xpm xrender 
system configuration: /etc/system.jwmrc
usage: jwm [ options ]

[don570]

http://www.joewing.net/programs/jwm/history.shtml

JWM v2.1.0 <> 20110925
Revision 502
Fixed several window handling issues.
Fixed an issue with key bindings and modifiers.
Added some more key bindings.
Changed the way the "next" and "nextstacked" key bindings behave.
Merged some user-contributed patches.
Rounded window corners (Patriot).
Support for transparent menus, trays, and windows (Patriot).
New borders for buttons (Patriot).
User-replaceable window button masks (Patriot).
gxine fullscreen fix (Patriot).
Fix for windows loosing focus when switching desktops (Patriot).
More key bindings (Dougal).
Transparent group (Dougal).
Some code cleanups.
Added the ability to resize from the top of windows.
Added support for pager labels.

[Jim1911]

Hi pemasu,

Dpup Exprimo 5.X.8 SMP is working great. Setup was flawless.

Thanks,
Jim

[mikeslr]

Hi pemasu & all,

After I deleted Exprimo 5x7smp from its folder, I unpacked Exprimo 5x8 smp to that folder and rebooted. Everything worked great once I switched to jwm and restarted X, Restarting X was the easiest way to deal with the last of these problems: The first was that my system has 15 partitions, of which ibar showed only 8, and not even consecutive. I could not figure out how to close ibar. So when I switched with ibar still open about 6 dialogue boxes relating to ibar were on the desktop and in the tray.
I'm glad to hear that jwm has been updated, solving the firefox bug. But your mention that the pet just installs the "bin" is slightly confusing. Please correct me if I'm wrong: installing the pet will replace the current jwm in Exprimo, but not whatever addons are currently expected by users running jwm on older puppies --that is, that by itself it will not create the environment jwm fans have come to expect if it, alone, were added to a pupplet currently devoid of jwm, for example Next Puppy.

mikesLr

[davids45]

G'day pemasu,

Full and frugal Exprimo-5x8 run well on my desktop (has troublesome radeon graphics) once I install the ATI flgrx driver so that I can see the text to create a Save file during first shut-down.

Please accept my continued appreciation for your time and effort.

David S.

[pemasu]

mikeslr. Main thing is that JWM has been again updated. And....I wanted to compile jwm binary so that people can see that it really offers something useful compared to the previous one. My main purpose was not to produce immediately the full jwm-502.pet with all improvements added.
The information of JWM update was the news.
When you compile the jwm source, you get the jwm binary. There is nothing confusing.

[DaveS]

Not 100% sure about this. New JWM seems to cause a disturbing tremble in window frames as they update contents. Will test with older version to see if it is something else. CAN confirm F11 bug is fixed though.

EDIT: Nope, its not the new JWM, its something lower down, probably the screen driver.