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Started 1 year ago by runtt21
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runtt21
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A few days ago Sneeky made a retro video of the old Macpup Foxy 1.5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMuYzwKvYBw

After watching sneeky's video for Fox 1.5 I decided to update my old megan theme. The theme started off as a icewm theme styled after Zazoo's e17 imago theme.CatDude built it for me. This was the default theme for fox1.5 an was updated for Fox 2.0 again as the default. After we switched to e17 CatDude and I built a e17 version that was the default for Fox e17. Yesterday I completely rebuilt it but I wanted a different wallpaper. CatDude suggested looking at a gallery on DeviantArt by Richard Mohler (relhom ) . I found the perfect wallpaper and email Mr. Mohler who gave me permission to use his "Blue Thang" wallpaper. He has done some of the most amazing work I have seen And I suggest everyone check out his stuff at:

http://relhom.deviantart.com/

The theme has it's own bootsplash. The MP511-megan-3.pet is now up on my macpup page.Enjoy.

Thank you very much Mr. Mohler !!!!!

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j106/runtt21/runtt/megan1a.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j106/runtt21/runtt/megan2a.jpg

Posted 1 year ago #
professor
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Just want to say "thanks" runtt21 for the great work on this release. I'm running Macpup on a (somewhat)old Dell Inspiron 2650 with 512M ram - frugal install. The system has never run this smoothly or quickly. Just curious - the network wizard seems to work much more smoothly with Macpup than it did with Lupu 511 or Lucid 52. Any idea why? I'm using a WPA2 hidden wireless network and I always had to manually reconnect with Puppy 511 and 52, but Macpup autoconnects without any problem at all - Great!

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
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I have no idea, It's the same as what lucid 5.1.1 has.

Posted 1 year ago #
mike99
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WHAT A GREAT THREAD WITH GREAT LINKS!! THANK YOU! The E17 here is just too boss! Well thought out & professional.

Posted 1 year ago #
legend
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Can I upgrade from Macpup foxy 3....with out doing a fresh install to hard drive? Macpup 511 looks great by the way

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
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No, They have very different bases. MP511 is based on lucid puppy a 5 series . Fox 3 is based on puppy 4.3.1 . And they both have different version of e17. Sorry.

Posted 1 year ago #
inceptorus
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I am currently running Puppy 5.1.1 and yet cannot install Macpup. I had the blank screen issue described in the first post. I followed the instructions. After entering the wizard I "Probe" for my hardware, find it (I've made several choices), get exited to a prompt that tells me to enter "xwin". Once I do that, I am back to the blank screen. I am running a Gateway 450sx4 with a Radeon ATI card (M6P). It has a 1024x768 15" monitor, but the choices for this hardware do not seem to work. What is odd to me is that I have been successfully and happily running Puppy on this for a while. Any suggestions?

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
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Try running it with vesa instead of xorg . And use xwin enlightenment_start

Posted 1 year ago #
inceptorus
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Thanks, runtt21, for your help, but still no luck. What confuses me is that puppy 5.1.1 and now 5.2 run fine on the box, but I cannot get past the install on macpup. I am a big fan of Enlightenment and it would be a joy to get this up and running. One thing I was considering is whether I couldn't just copy over my xorg.conf file from my puppy install and have the macpup install use that instead. I will try that today and see what happens.

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
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Will the live cd run on your box?

Posted 1 year ago #
inceptorus
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No, always when it gets to the point of starting up (i.e., after I run the xorgwizard, or even if I don't) it gets hung on a black screen, though I do have a mouse cursor showing and can move it.

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
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That is a bit strange. Do a md5sum on your doenload just to be sure.The isn't any difference between the xorg's in mp511 & puppy511. On your regular 511 did you install the extra ati-driver.pet?

Posted 1 year ago #
inceptorus
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I did the md5sum and it is a match. On my regular 511 I may have installed the extra ati driver (when I get hardware info, it lists ati-radeon in kernel modules, though "X.org Foundation" is listed as the vendor of my display!), but that was probably only after install. I got it running on a live cd fine right out of the box and then installed it to my hd. I have downloaded the .iso twice, just to be sure there were no errors. I will try a third time.

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
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I suggest holding off untill after the next release. Should be by next week.

Posted 1 year ago #
techkathy
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Great overall job on macpup 511. I only found a couple of bugs. When doing a frugal install my applications after installed got too close to the file size limit and lost all my enlightenment 17 settings before I could resize and reboot. Needs to be addressed as it could easily happen to anyone on a frugal install. Also, I switched to ice wm and now enlightenment 17 desktop won't boot. Any fix besides using a new fresh file and reinstalling all the software?

Posted 1 year ago #
runtt21
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Do a md5sum on your download. Just to be sure. The only way e could have got messed up like that is if you installed something and it over wrote something that e uses. Open a terminal while in icewm and run enlightenment_start and see what errors it gives.

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