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It looks as though the system is working correctly and the kernel has found valid microcode and loaded it. It's just broken. It could be that they have implemented some severe vulnerability mitigation that is making the software choke. You could try turning mitigations off to see whether that has an...

Hello bigpup. The steps are quite simple. The cpio contains one or more binary blobs identified by cpuid. The boot loader has to load the cpio into RAM before the initrd When the kernel starts it checks whether there is a file that matches the cpuid of the running processor and whether it is newer t...

No, because it never did any swapping while I was testing. I checked the available RAM and it never changed. I guessed that it just introduced yet another compressor for the kernel to handle. I re-squashed some of the SFS so that they all used the same type of compression. I also rolled back to an o...

I had a lot of problems with temporary hangs and screen graphics corruption when testing various Ubuntu 22.04 based Puppy variants on my Intel Braswell N3150 system with 4GB RAM. Removing ZRAM swap was one of the things that was needed to fix it. I don't think ZRAM swap was directly responsible for ...

If you configure your boot according to the rules of the IBM-Intel-Microsoft Trinity: i.e from the partition boot sector, then wee is not needed. Grub4dosconfig could do it that way if you selected "show partitions". I do it manually though. cat mbr.bin > /dev/sdX (no number) ./bootlace.co...

I have needed to deal with the I2C_HID issue for a long time. In my system they are used for my Logitech K400+ wireless keyboard. The *initmodules.txt is put in the directory with the savefile. There are two variables: If you change to a kernel with the module(s) built-in, then init complains becaus...

Hello jrb It's working now in my copy of jammy64pup, but I don't know exactly what fixed it. After reading your original reply I tested manual setting of icon size on the /usr/share/applications folder, both set huge and set small with L & R mouse clicks and automatic size mode. They all worked....

With the standard settings Rox should change to small icons at a set number, but it doesn't. I'm not sure I understand this. Which set number are you referring to? Hello jrb Thanks for investigating. The number I was referring to is in Rox filer - Options... - Icon View - Automatic small icons The ...

Could someone tell me what is preventing Rox from using the correct icon size, please? I'm currently using D1 but the behaviour hasn't varied. With the standard settings Rox should change to small icons at a set number, but it doesn't. If I set small icons, nothing happens. If I set huge icons the s...

Hello Jasper I'm using celluloid 0.20 which is what the Ubuntu repository provides. I'll explain why I run Celluloid from a terminal opened in the sub-directory with the recording... My satellite receivers record Transport Stream to USB storage formatted FAT32. Because of the file size limit they sp...

Hello Marv and rockedge
Thanks for the suggestions. Editing PS1.sh fixed it.

I notice that fossapup64 doesn't have a PS1.sh. It has PS1="a long line of gibberish" in .bashrc that results in: root#

Hello, I'm setting up D3 to use with Celluloid for playing my TV recordings and I've run into a quirk. If I do "terminal here" or ` it opens urxvt with the prompt set to the full path to the directory. Unfortunately the satellite receiver puts the recordings in a directory that includes th...

I do use SFS files intermittently and therefore the SFSload option is important to me. From my understanding SFSes have to loaded at boot time to be accessible/operational. To have sfs-load load and unload immediately you have to use AUFS. dimkr has done an excellent job having support for both AUF...

Thanks everybody for your suggestions, I will test and see if it is an optical illusion. I can see now that the gatotray cyan memory part is vertical stripes, so the background does show through and affect it. The theme switcher does show a quirk of the Puppy tools like pfind, that I have noticed. T...

Could someone tell me why the colours of the icons on the task bar are so dim, please?

It particularly affects the cyan colour of the Connman network icon and xload/gatotray and makes them hard to see. 0000ffffffff in gatotray should be quite bright and it is in fossapup64.

Thanks.

The X11/GTK default compose key has been Shift+AltGr for a long time. It works in Bionicpup, Fossapup and Imppup, but Ubuntu have disabled it in Jammy and later. In case you don't know what you are missing, there is a detailed explanation of what you could do with AltGr before they broke it, here: h...

Hello jrb

There's something amiss with lxterminal: When I am entering text from the keyboard it wraps round about 2/3 of the way across the screen back to the beginning of the same line. If I then do "back" it goes to the right margin.
Text output from programs is displayed correctly.

Hello jrb A minor issue... XArchiver is associated with .deb packages but says : "Sorry format not supported" but in fossapup64 it's the other way round. It's not associated with .deb but will open them. I noticed it because I was using Xarchiver to check ad hock packages before installing...

or if I remember correctly mount your savefile, and move the /sbin folder into /usr . I confirm this works after mounting the savefile and moving /sbin out of the way. There was already a /usr/sbin in the savefile and I didn't know how to move the contents on a mounted savefile. I did it later afte...

Hello jrb and thank you for this. I've tried B1 on my Intel Braswell N3150 feeble system and everything is working as expected. The modesetting driver never works properly on Intel GPUs so I changed to the Intel driver and that is working fine. The WiFi is working and I'm using Palemoon to post this...

I have investigated why the audio is not working. It looks as though it has never worked, because vanilla-upup_22.04.39 is the same with Xorg. If I enter: wpctl status, it says: Could not connect to pipewire. The wireplumber, pipewire and pipewire-pulse services are running but there is an error in ...

dimkr and Jasper thanks for the info on where to find it. I also checked that the DEVX is present in peabee's releases. https://github.com/peabee/woof-CE/releases I have tried it, and the intel_drv.so does work correctly with glxgears in this version. The modesetting driver doesn't work properly wit...

Hello Jasper

I have tried dimkr's vanilla-upup_22.04s and I have tried the puppy-upup_22.04 CI builds with Rox. I don't know where jammypup64ce-10.0 would come from.

I have noticed an issue with recent kernels that load the mdio_devres kernel module that they downshift to 100Mb/s on my AMD system. It looks like a bug because the cable is short. Nov 2 18:52:19 puppypc14982 kern.warn kernel: Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-2500:00: Downshift occurred from negoti...

Hello rockedge, thanks for this. I have tested it on my Intel Braswell box and it works normally at a first look. I have tried with the Woof-CE Jammy 64 builds but I can't get my glxgears test to work properly on them and I can't locate the cause. This Fossapup64 version is OK though. For those who ...

I don't use the repos in the PPM so I wouldn't have noticed.

These are not released builds, they are just for validation of Woof-CE. If you think there is a bug in that context you would raise an issue on github.

I have tried the Woof-CE CI build of puppy_upup_22.04-215 and it works normally in most respects. It's necessary to tidy up the DISTRO_SPECS file in the initrd and copy it to the base SFS to use it as a normal system. There is a general problem with the intel drivers from freedesktop, that use glamo...

I only saw the commit that dropped aufs from Ubuntu versions after Focal. It was at the time kernel 5.8 was introduced and JRO was off the job for a while. Debian, Ubuntu and Puppy had their own patches for aufs for 5.8. The Ubuntu policy was to include aufs in the kernel source, but only build it f...

the other branches are still there and can be used as normal. Even if the patches in the "stale" branches still apply cleanly to the latest 4.19.x, 5.4.x, 5.10.x or 5.15.x, nothing guarantees that aufs is safe to use against a kernel it was never tested against. If nobody who knows the au...

Why are you trying to use 22 year old technology, grub4dos, to boot a modern Puppy from a computer employing UEFI? Grub4DOS and Grub4DOS-UEFI are not 22 year old technology. The last commits on both from yaya were two days ago. I boot using LABEL not UUID because I can make it much shorter and stil...