NOTICE

I am not a PupEee user. Rather I did this as favor for someone else. If you are a PupEee developer/user, please review this page, edit accordingly, and then, cut this header off. If you are not a PupEee user, but interested in trying PupEee out, use at your own risk. The main links I used are

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25896
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=16234

Also go to the Puppy Linux forum, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy, and search for PupEee.

Sheng-Chieh

p.s. Editing the wiki is fairly easy. See http://wiki.eeeuser.com/getting_started

UPDATE 4/11/08: An interesting article http://www.linux.com/feature/131070 . Someone please edit this page.

Well here it is. The first release of … What do I call it? Pupeee? Whatever the name, this is an iso that I put together for the Asus Eeepc. It should work for the Intel Classmate as well, but I can not test that since I don't have one. It is a basic install of 301 with all the needed drivers installed.

• It should boot right up without asking for keyboard layout or screen resolution.
• Sound works right out of the box (the mic works as well).
• The wireless card will show up the first time you run the connect wizard.
• The built in Ethernet port drivers are installed but not loaded. It is listed in the “load module” screen though.
• ACPI drivers are installed for the numlock and scroll lock keys.
• Volume up, down, mute, and print screen keys work but you have to use the alt key instead of the function key.
• The screen brightness keys work with the function key.
• Webcam works! (Be sure to enable it in the bios; see more below)
• Skype Beta 2 with webcam support.
• Rox icons set to automatic size instead of large.
• It still has the little JWM bug where you have to re-choose the black Vista theme after your second boot (first boot from your pupsave file). This has some requested features and it's not that serious of a bug so I wanted to post it anyways.
• Trackpad scroll and tap enabled by default.
• Asapm battery monitor replaces Batmon.
• The wireless driver rt2570 is blacklisted since it causes problems on the Classmate.

• gtkpod
• xmms
• xine-ui
• xine extra codecs
• GQview
• English dictionary for Abiword.
• GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) - useful to move and resize partitions

• Batmon the battery monitor.
• A custom JWM-Tray file with auto hide on to help make use of the small screen.
• A few wallpapers that I liked. My wife took the picture of the default background from our back porch.
• A few other things that I may have forgotten.

Be sure to use a fresh pupsave and delete or rename the old pup_301-eee.sfs file. I did not have time to make a zip file or a merge file, but I will try to in the near future.

md5sum: 8642c0b6a62817ea3cf38812d398f380

Mirrors are welcome. Size is 131MB
http://waltonpond.com/eeepc/2008-2-21/puppy-eee.iso

main server location: http://epc.waltonpond.com
mirror: http://puppylinux.ca/members/Pupeee/

Desktop #1

Desktop #2



PupEee on Classmate PC (not Eee)
viewtopic.php

This post tells you how to test the Eee PC web camera using only PupEee version of Puppy 3.01. PupEee has a command line tool called ffmpeg that can be used to capture or convert video files. I am not linux expert and this was done based on posts in the Puppy forum. I need to acknowledge the references that I used to do this. The first is a post on the Puppy Forum: The above post was done by “tommckelips”. The other reference is the documentation page for ffmepg at: The documentation is good and you should read it before attempting to use ffmpeg.

First one needs to ensure the web camera is enabled in the Bios. At startup, you need to go into the BIOS setup and make sure the web camera is enabled. Pressing “F2” key will get you into the BIOS setup.

Second, one needs to make sure the needed drivers are present. To install the drivers in console the following commands are needed:
modprobe videodev
modprobe compat_ioctl32
modprobe uvcvideo

Next check with the ROX file manager (Home Icon) to make sure device video (/dev/video) is present. It should be a link to /dev/video0.

The following only captures the video stream without any audio. As they say in the text books, the audio is left as an exercise for the reader. In console, enter the below command:
ffmpeg -vd /dev/video -f video4linux -r 25 -s 640×480 -sameq -y test.mpeg

The above should start ffmpeg is capture mode using the web camera. The options are:
-vd specifies the video source,
-f specifies the video format (ffmpeg supports many formats, read the docs),
-r 25 specifies a frame rate of 25 per second,
-s 640×480 specifies the frame size in pixels
-sameq tells ffmpeg to has the same quality as the source
-y tells ffmpeg to overwrite the output file if it exists and test.mpeg is the output file in the /root directory.

You should see many lines of output in the console window. After a 10 or 20 seconds, hit the “q” key to stop ffmpeg encoding and close the file. Do not encode for too long. The resulting file is uncompressed video. On my first try, I go about 16 megabyte file for about 14 seconds. One can use GXine to view the resulting clip (test.mpeg).

See

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25896&start=101>
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=176607#176607>

(Sorry I didn't add this in yet - can someone else do it?)

http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/LatestNews >

Last updated 2/26/08