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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...

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I expect it is the long standing problem with Fossapup64 that its base SFS and A-drive are compressed with a 512k block size. Low end processors seem to choke on this. The GPU may only be a victim. e.g. There have been various reports of problems running Palemoon from the A-drive. If that is the cas...

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A previous problem with compression was related to the fact that it only has 256k L2 cache per core and no L3 cache. Can you share the output of for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index*/size; do echo "$i:`cat $i`"; done ? I can disable zram on CPUs without L3 cache. /sys/devices...

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It has 4GB RAM of which the integrated GPU in my extremely feeble Braswell N3150 takes 1.5GB I normally use my Logitech K400+ proprietary wireless connection to its dongle. It's seen as a generic USB mouse and keyboard in the BIOS and until it's recognised as Logitech by linux. Then the I2C_HID and ...

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Dimkr's Woof-CE builds have zramswap configured in rc.sysinit. It causes mouse lag and GPU hangs on my Intel box. It's possible to remove it from a running system with: swapoff /dev/zram0 zramctl -r /dev/zram0 But it loads before Xorg so it could interfere with the initialisation of the display driv...

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I unzipped the initrd.gz from imppup first so that it was called initrd. Then, in fatdog, one click unpacks the cpio and then one click will repack it after I have done the editing. So fatdog saves me from learning about cpio. Since I was experimenting I left it unzipped so that it was trivial to fi...

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It probably mattered when you could boot from a floppy disk. I decompressed mine so that I could edit the init and mountpartition to add lazytime to the mount options for the partition with the savefile and the filesystem inside the savefile. I never bothered to re-compress it and didn't notice any ...

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Ubuntu Impish went EOL on 14th July.
https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2022/07/19/ub ... y-14-2022/

The packages have moved to old-releases.ubuntu.com

If a new build is released it would be Jammy.

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Forget my last question. I have done a quick search on the wider web and it appears that no version of windows earlier than 10 can see more than one partition on a USB stick. Not without a lot of stuffing around with some third-party software anyway. So the advice on this forum to create a second v...

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I set Vivaldi's disk cache to a directory under /tmp, so it disappears when I power off. Vivaldi doesn't complain about having to create it each time. I only did that because it wouldn't obey a size limit.

Type mount in a terminal to find out the current mount parameters.

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NO! and NO! 1 The idea with Puppy is that you make a copy of the savefile and try whatever you like. It doesn't matter if Puppy breaks. That's how you learn what works and what doesn't. 2 dimkr was talking about this package https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/libgl1-amber-dri because he thought it wa...

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Regarding your issue with Mesa - sadly, there's not much I can do. Once you start replacing Ubuntu packages with "foreign" packages from other distros or other Ubuntu versions, your Puppy becomes less and less compatible with Ubuntu. apt works so well because of the uncompromising design ...

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Hello dimkr I see you have been busy... It's easier to do it than argue about it! Amazing. I was happy with Vanilla Upup 22.04.39 where I could switch between Wayland and Xorg depending on whether the hardware worked or not. The other stuff is unimportant unionfs/AUFS/overlayfs - I don't care. ROX/p...

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I can try a known working 5.4 series kernel. The easiest way should be to force AUFS with the boot parameter. Then I only need to move /lib under /user in the zdrv SFS. I did that with an existing AUFS 5.4.89 kernel. In the zdrv I moved /lib and /sbin under /usr. I booted with punionfs=aufs and it ...

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I copied over the jwm binary from fossapup64. With that the K400 behaved the same as the generic usb ps/2 mouse. i.e. It would stick when approaching the left edge of the screen, it did not freeze when using Xorg but it gave too slow errors in Xorg.0.log. I commented out the zram swap stuff in rc.sy...

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I went back to 22.04.39 so that I could test with Xorg instead of Wayland. The good news is that the behaviour is exactly the same, but I can look in Xorg.0.log to see what the error was. [ 334.852] (EE) event3 - Logitech K400 Plus: client bug: event processing lagging behind by 31ms, your system is...

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Ha! Ha! I installed a proper Unix once before and I decided never to do it again. That's why I use Puppylinux. I have noticed that with Bionicpup64, when I move the mouse pointer near the left edge of the screen the desktop blinks. It only does it once per session. Fossapup64 doesn't do it. It may b...

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I tested Vanilla Upup 22.04.39 a while ago, but I couldn't get very far because the display kept freezing. I have just tried the Woof-CE Jammy64 210 build and that is the same, but I have found out how to avoid the freezes, so I got a bit further... It always freezes if the mouse pointer goes anywhe...

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Sorry, when I said puppy I was referring to the woof-ce releases for Slacko not your builds.

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But there are no files produced that can be downloaded.

dimkr's vanillapup builds have releases that you can download but the only releases for puppy are from 2021

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I wish a version would be produced that would use upstream Ubuntu kernel since my HP secure boot system, that boots via Ubuntu/Zorin grub2, will not boot the unsigned kernel and upstream ubuntu kernel would be perfect (also I prefer to use well-tested upstream kernels really - why not?). Ubuntu ker...

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The sites may have bitcoin mining malware. I haven't seen it though, but my PCs are too feeble to do that kind of work.

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You could try the trick used for OpenElec/LibreElec that requires a storage partition with Unix filesystem: You create a blank file, format it as extX and mount it as the storage partition. That way you can run LibreElec in a single FAT partition. It does work! It depends how much a challenge you wa...

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There is no requirement for authentication. What did change, is that GitHub now doesn't allow insecure git:// clones, only https:// clone, even without authentication. aufs is on GitHub, and old kernel-kit fails because it uses git://. The current kernel-kit in the woof-ce repo fails because it doe...

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I can understand that many attempts is very frustrating, i would have given up after three.
The kernel-kit is just an ad hoc script to automate the process. If the patches apply without error and the compile fails it's not likely to be the kernel-kit's fault.

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The authentication requirements introduced by github mean that kernel-kit behaviour will be different when run remotely compared with a github action. When I was finding a workaround for the authentication requirement, I did try the latest version of kernel-kit but it seemed to behave the same as my...

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With the https: URL it seems that git clone is allowed without authentication, but git pull -all requires authentication. To get the build to work it is necessary to delete aufs5_sources_git directory, then the script recreates it and does git clone, which works. If the directory exists the script d...

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I use Virtualbox in Fossapup64 with audio. Virtualbox seems very buggy and incomplete. I guess that it wasn't finished when Oracle took over Sun Microsystems and still isn't! Anyway, Fossapup is using ALSA but, if you set Virtualbox to use ALSA, you don't get any audio, although other applications w...

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I first ran into this problem when fossapup64 was released. MPV was taking about 5x the processing power to decode video and my N3150 couldn't even play SD videos. MPV 27.2 in bionicpup64 could play 1080i50 h.264 with YADIF 2x in software quite OK on the same hardware. I experimented quite a lot to ...

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Another point... When you get a new USB stick or SD card, it comes with a partition already on it. There is an unpartitioned space of 4, 8, 16 or 32 MB at the start of the device. I think you should assume that it is unsafe to include this space within a working partition that is written frequently....

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