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[darwinev0lved]

Hi again, well I'm posting this from Luci212 running Xorg.
Tried to boot as normal - but hit the blackscreen.
Booted with pfix=nox and this time choosing the i810 driver worked. Will start testing / trying to break other things.

Regards, Jon

[darwinev0lved]

Well, that's weird. Tried the java quickpet. It worked absolutely fine for 501 this time, it simply fails to copy the files to ~/home
It does copy other files, so in ~/.packages there is a jre-1.6.0.20.files and all the files in /usr/bin and /usr/lib are copied.
So, odd.

Edit: was able to get round this by copying the jre-1.6.0.20.tar.gz whilst the pet was extracting (this seems like a really stupid way of doing things - but XArchive won't open pet files - which is also stupid, is there a more sensible way of looking into / extracting specific files from .pets ?)
So java is working, but not as smoothly as it should.
Could there be something odd about my /mnt/home? Can't think what it would be though.

[pemasu]

luci-212 works fine so far.

VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 212

Chip description:
Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

Streamtuner and shoutcast has stopped working for me with streamtuner pet.

So I installed streamtuner2 deb from their homepage. I installed python lucid pet. First pygtk module was missing, but I was able to enable it. Update-python-modules and from python console import pygtk did the trick.

But glade module was something I wasnt able to install. From python console: import gtk.glade was unsuccessful. I tried installing many kind of glade and libglade and python-glade packages from ubuntu repository without luck.

[Billtoo]

Running Live

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 212

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
bash: glxgears: command not found
#
Download and install Xorg High -GLX from quickpet

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 212

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
4350 frames in 5.0 seconds
4811 frames in 5.0 seconds
4811 frames in 5.0 seconds
4817 frames in 5.0 seconds
#
OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) G33 GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
Version 1.4 Mesa 7.7.1
Direct Rendering Yes

[stu90]

frugal install of 212 with xorg-high:

Gtk-record-my-desktop.pet appears not to be working correctly. Doesn't encode after making a recording, switching to encoding on the fly produced a recording but it is unwatchable just a bunch of fuzzy colors.

[smokey01]

[ICPUG]

Here is my report of 211 with Intel 855 graphics.

I run my test on a laptop frugal install dual boot with Windows (Lin'N'Win).

As reported by others with other Intel boards you get the black screen of death.

The solution is not pfix=nox, running with VESA or running with i810 like previously.

In order to get the solution you have to understand what the problem is.

Thanks to Tazoc of Lighthouse Puppy fame the problem was isolated to Kernel Mode Setting.

THE SOLUTION IS:
Boot up the kernel with the following boot code:
i915.modeset=1

i.e in your menu.lst if booting from grub:
kernel (hd0,0)/luci211/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=luci211 i915.modeset=1 (this is not a separate line - its a continuation)
initrd (hd0,0)/luci211/initrd.gz

Now, I know you guys are busy but I wish you would read Barry's blog at least. I identified this to Barry a little while ago and he is running with it.

There is one side issue when you do the above. The framebuffer used when you go to a terminal or when you close down Luci is scrunched up - it does not use the standard VGA terminal. Some say you cannot use a standard VGA terminal but Lighthouse Puppy 5.00C seems to look better.

Another issue: When I booted up letting Xorg configure automatically I then decided to change the keyboard settings etc. cos I thought it would be set to US if I didn't. I was a little surprised to have to configure Xorg as well but even worse I did not have an option to let Xorg automagically configure again

The only options were Probe Choose (and VESA?). Probe will crash - even with the kernel parameter set so I would have to select Choose and then pick Intel. While this works the touchpad does not behave so the automatic option is nice to have.

Sorry I only tested with 211. I tested last night and come back to report today and find there is a 212! Anyways i810 is not the solution.

[Lobster]

[pemasu]

ICPUG and others using i915.modeset=1 with intel driver.

You can get better console resolution using video=640x480 as bootparameter

title Luci210
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /Luci210/initrd.gz
kernel /Luci210/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=Luci210 i915.modeset=1 video=640x480 pfix=fsck
initrd /Luci210/initrd.gz

My luci-212 bootparameters from menu.lst. I havent renamed it yet to luci212.

[01micko]

Hi Everybody

I have fixed the kernel source for lucid puppy. It is now a more respectable 84MB

Here it is:

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/lupu_kernel/kernel_src_L4-2.6.33.2-patched.sfs 84M

78a989b17552d10bd2d7ba2f2c3c1217 kernel_src_L4-2.6.33.2-patched.sfs

Text file >- http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/lupu_kernel/kernel_src_L4-2.6.33.2-patched.txt

I would appreciate if anyone can mirror this mainly as it is an open source requirement to post source code, and we wouldn't want it to go awol in a server disaster. Thank you.

Playdayz, can you post a prominent link to this and perhaps in the release note. Thank you.

As instructed by BarryK I ran

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