Christmas wishes for Porteus-3.0

[fanthom]

@tome
dont want to change .dat to something else as it would require massive doc update. i have added it to freedesktop.org.xml and from now on .dat containers will have the same icon as modules and users can mount them with right mouse click.

@wread
will check tomorrow - apologize for delay

@cttan
bad news - p2p was removed from iwlwifi driver in recent kernels:
click here

[oranus]

Hi fanthom,
As you know vga_detect work very great but please add NVIDIA OPTIMUS to vga_detect cheatcode...

Thanks so much.....

[Blaze]

Better printer support.
Oh yeah. I can now print from Porteus.

+1

But my printer Canon IP1500 (10IG8I) does not work in Porteus 2.1 with the module 07-printing.xzm
I have done the module pstocanonbj_3.3.orig_x86_64.xzm from this source pstocanonbj_3.3.orig.tar.gz.

I tweak configure file of this source for x86_64 architecture

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ac_default_prefix=/usr/local

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ac_default_prefix=/usr

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libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'

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libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib64'

run ./configure and compiled it with make & make install
but it does not help me

When I print, I get this error:

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stopped 
"child process aborted" 

Screenshot http://oi43.tinypic.com/ev3l6x.jpg

Please, add support for my printer Canon IP1500. Thanks.

Support for .7z and others (.ace, zipx, etc) compress files.

+1

Cheers

[fanthom]

@wread
not sure what's wrong with your setup but all effects are working here. please update your system with PSC->updater then generate xpsinfo raport.
thanks

@oranus
will try but need brokenman's help as i do not own such hardware

@Blaze
p7zip is added.
btw: glad to see that you are still around

[francois]

@blaze:
Did you tried the ppd with system-config-printer? Here is the Canon-PIXMA-iP5000.ppd:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/g04jb ... iP5000.ppd

Put the ppd in etc/cups/ppd/

With printing module:
System > printing > + > provide ppd file (PostScript Printer Description (PPD) ...) > etc/cups/ppd/ > open > forward > apply

[Blaze]

fanthom, me too.
I report about my damn printer here.
Thanks for support 7zip.

Do you plan to update forum board on phpBB 3.1 codenamed Ascraeus (of course when will out the release of phpBB 3.1)?
More details https://www.phpbb.com/

Regards,
Blaze

[Axel]

Hi!


One more question, would it be possible add a Graphical User Interface (Gufw, Firestarter...), in the firewall, to next version of Porteus?

Thanks!


Cheers!

[francois]

And what about the cli mode search function: slocate.

Thanks

[ralcocer]

Better Nvidia support Legacy also.

[francois]

As you probably know Porteus-3.0 is approaching (Slackware-14.1 was released few days ago) and it's also Christmas time so if you have any special wish regarding new release please post it here.
It could be anything (ofc request like 'please change KDE4 maintainer' will be rejected) so please tell us what would you like to change/improve/add/remove in the the next release.

Thanks guys.

I just caught the joke right now. We do not want to change the kde4 maintainer, but we would appreciate if dracurella would accept to join the contributor team.

But more seriously, now that Christmas is at our door, what can we expect in the great lines for porteus 3.0? 8)

[brokenman]

If Santa carries Porteus on his back he will be lucky to fit down the chimney with all these requests! I very much like some of them though.

[Blaze]

Please to update cups (last version is 1.7)
http://www.cups.org/software.php

[jimwg]

Seasons Greetings!

Two non-critical BUT very newbie attracting requests:

1. Include or adapt Porteus for "wmctrl" to create multiple desktop-specific wallpapers and such with.

2. Might be a tall order but would definitely entice Puppy users (at least) to migrate to Porteus: I keep all my work and personal files in /mnt/home/Documents (even OpenOffice's backup cache) so they'd all be accessible even in Macs and Windows and CopyAgent and not be included in sfs memory which is constantly eaten away in Puppy. If one can "simply" copy their Puppy Documents folder into a clean Porteus install it'd by-pass re-creating a lot of configurations to tie-in docs and files with their apps (wish this was possible with SeaMonkey -- totally putting it in Documents than locking it up in the sfs file). Hope what I said makes sense!

Jim in NYC

[phhpro]

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[francois]

Please to update cups (last version is 1.7)
http://www.cups.org/software.php

This is a very good suggestion. From cups 1.6, printing is based on pdf only. It should make printing a very much simplified task. At least I hope so.