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[Sage]

[James C]

Fresh multi-session dvd of Fatdog 520 final.Everything working on initial boot and persistent through several saved sessions.

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3796MB (235MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.50
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 05 Sep 2011 01:12:26 AM GMT+5
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio Adapter : PC-Speaker - pcsp


-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.0.3 (x86_64)
Version : #1 SMP Thu Aug 18 22:58:50 GMT+5 2011
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.11.1 (stable)
Distribution : Puppy Linux 0.50

Still using the "nouveau" driver but working fairly well.

# glxgears
2532 frames in 5.0 seconds = 506.200 FPS
2588 frames in 5.0 seconds = 517.554 FPS
2581 frames in 5.0 seconds = 516.065 FPS
2590 frames in 5.0 seconds = 517.867 FPS
2591 frames in 5.0 seconds = 518.182 FPS
2558 frames in 5.0 seconds = 511.449 FPS

[James C]

Installed the Nvidia 280.13-for520 pet.

# glxgears
11035 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2206.800 FPS
11032 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2206.319 FPS
10852 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2170.272 FPS
10801 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2160.106 FPS
10709 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2141.773 FPS
10855 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2170.938 FPS
10798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2159.483 FPS
11040 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2207.889 FPS

[Sage]

Well-founded suspicions! 939 behaved very differently. Whether pfix=ram, or vesa, or ram,vesa the boot up black-screened after completing the routine. This was only retrievable with an hard reset. Wary HardInfo detects on-board nV15, GF2 GTS/Pro chipset. Think there's been nV issues already!
Yes, there is something badly amiss with the initial video setup. First priority is to get a picture on any HW thrown at an OS. Twiddling with drivers/resolution/w.h.y. has to come later? There must be a way of doing this without prejudicing final setup and without using boot codes?

Later:
- using the full complement of pfix=ram,vesa nomodeset gave me a picture but xorgwizard still isn't functioning to enable a change of resolution.
PS: the 'pupX' came too late to change the mouse settings. Had to change the mouse to get access to the ability to change the settings! All this has to come first!
And finally?!: managed to get 1024x768 (icons askew) by using the menu version of Xorg Video Wizard - it didn't work from the CLI after CTRL-ALT-BKSPCE. No email client (in main menu)?
Package Manager is empty? and this is the first Puppy that won't accept Opera(other Deb)??? Looks like you guys will have to postpone that world cruise for a couple of years!

[jamesbond]

Sage,
The email client is "Thunderbird" - it's on the desktop next to the Firefox icon. As for the PPM - yeah it's blank, you need to "configure" it first to download the latest package list. The graphics is the difficult one, I don't have any answer.

For others:
- I've just uploaded the latest skype.sfs and jre 1.6.
-An as announced earlier, there is openshot.sfs version 1.3 which includes blender too.

cheers!

[Sage]

Thanks, jb. I expected to find the email client in the menu as well as desktop. I don't use Thunderbird, anyway - Claws or EudoraOSE!
Yes, the video is a major bugaboo, but so could be the mouse one if there isn't a boxload of spares knocking around...

[Jim1911]

Congratulations,

Great final release. Fast, stable, and everything works on my two systems, including wireless.

Kudos,

Thanks,
Jim

[Minnesota]

I suspect it might be the drivers.. .however I have never seen this in any puppy, and not with the RC

Computer - Intel E8400 Duo 3GH. Nvidia GeForce 9400GT card.

Boot halts with tiny print on the screen. I suspect, wizard has adjusted the video. NOTHING till I hit enter then something flashes on the screen. I get a desktop...Icons seem large, yet hardware info shows 1040x.

STRANGE part is the screen flashes about every three or five seconds.

[raffy]

Thanks, folks, for the FD 520 final.

I hope I don't dampen your enthusiasm with bad news - X can't work in my AMD Fusion Laptop even with the kernel parameter tweaks of pfix=vesa,nox nomodeset (and any possible combination).

But FD 520 never hangs Xorg at once, only after about 2 minutes.

My emachines fusion laptop monitor must be the problematic part that makes Xorg fail in this machine (too sad, this is the much-promising AMD Fusion APU solution). (However, FD 511 has pristine Xorg setup doing direct rendering in this machine, so there lies the confusion.)

I wonder how Xorg setup can be tweaked without hanging the whole system? FD 520 and even other/newer Puppies can't get past xorgwizard's "Probing..." in this machine. Older Xorgwizard (in pup 431, for example) never hangs at that point.

EDIT: For diagnostics, am attaching the contents of /tmp and the result of lspci.

[WillM]

Thanks for this superb release of Fatdog64.
The Nvidia 280.13-for520-final pet made a huge difference in glxgears.

Before;
$ glxgears
5458 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1091.505 FPS
5443 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1088.464 FPS
5406 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1081.159 FPS
5451 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1090.188 FPS
5437 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1087.379 FPS
5460 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1091.853 FPS

After;
$ glxgears
59700 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11939.896 FPS
60600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12119.887 FPS
61053 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12210.467 FPS
60648 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12129.568 FPS
60998 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12199.422 FPS
60948 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12189.529 FPS
61149 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12229.744 FPS

[patelbhavesh]

I have edited the wikipedia page announcing this release @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy%20Linux
More users will look at it .

[gcmartin]

Has this been reported? PPM issues. Maybe I missed,but is documented to use a different method for system package management?

Might want to consider an update?

Hope this helps

[James C]

FWIW, configuring the PPM worked well here.

[jamesbond]

gcmartin, what exactly is the problem? I clicked "update now" and then it works, I can see the packages ... as James C also confirmed.

[timothyli]

Fatdog64-520 Final is sweet. Thumbs up. Thanks!