Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[shinobar]

[Tasgarth]

Testing RC2 and RC2-SCSI-PAE:
TestI RC2 :
Good DD-Live -> azerty Fr-fr -> Nvidia nv -> pupsave -> shutdown
TestII RC2 (Nvidia driver):
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia > download : OK ... etc... -> but not installed
1) shutdown -> exit to prompt -> Xorgwizard : "command not found " ->
Test III :
reboot on the pupsave -> Menu -> Setup -> Xorg Video Wizard -> XorgWizard : OK... -> glxgears : OK
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Tests RC2-SCSI-PAE :
CD-Live : OK -> pupsave (sda3) : OK -> reboot ..
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia -> download : OK but the red "failed to install "
Is it possible to get a link in order to use wget and download Nvidia driver ?
It seems to me that "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" is not a good driver for my card.
I tried it directly without any sucess
But Nvidia driver (RC2 Test II and III) is good. Is it the same "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" ?

[01micko]

Haha!

ok, thanks 8-bit, mavrothal.. I get it .. Barry didn't .. ah well!

I never did like the wrapper for yaf-splash. I was kind of the instigator for gtkdialog-splash in an early version of quickpet, using calls to gtkdialog with a temporary gtkrc, a technique I learned of Sigmund. Mave (forum member) ran with it and created gtkdialog-splash, for which Barry made a wrapper for the original yaf-splash, mainly because yaf-splash can't handle utf-8.. my original reason for using a custom splash. Oh well.. what goes around comes around

Thanks guys.

[01micko]

[01micko]

[shinobar]

Confirmed nvidia-glx-sdl-285.05.09-slacko.sfs works both on Slacko-RC2 and on Slacko-RC2++.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405

[8-bit]

[Stripe]

hi all

just spent 3 hours downloading the devx, then it tells me it cant download to that location please try somewhere else, no sign of the devx in temp or anywhere else on the system, anybody any idea as where it could be hiding as I dont fancy waiting another 3 hours for it to tell me the same thing

cheers

Don

[666philb]

Hi 01micko

as posted in the rc1 thread, Alsawizard is not working! was fine in the beta's.



This has been confirmed by 4 people in puppy chat. Please check yourself.

Quite a biggy as some people need to run it to get sound.

cheers 666philb

[Lobster]

[Sage]

Despite the helpful little panel that springs up warning about SiS chipset issues, neither 'Yes' + dedicated drivers nor 'No' produces an XOrg picture. VESA works, though. This continues to be the only variant, or any other distro including Slackcentral, that refuses to detect/work with the SiS Mirage chipset. There must be a simple answer somewhere? Sadly not my department to understand these matters.

Retrovol settings are half-cock: please turn everything ON by default. Notwithstanding, Woofwoof still doesn't work when I turn up the wick. I noticed that this stopped working on new Wary and reported it. Must be a Woof issue?

Confirm that ALSAWizard not working, vide supra.

Third time of asking: please can the localisation panel be cast with consistency: presently, we have US peripherals with Perth time. Is it asking too much to settle on GMT, even for an American developer! That does not make things easy for Brits if that causes mental strife for Yankies because we are on BST right now.

[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive which had been
formatted ext4,boot flag set, and grub4dos installed.
I installed devx + kernel source sfs + NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.run

Sat 22 Oct 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.2.97 Linux 2.6.39.4
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: GF108 Board - 1071v0p1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Core 0: 2699 1: 2699 2: 2699 3: 2699 4: 2699 5: 2699 MHz


Computer
Processor 6x AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Memory 8310MB (283MB used)

I had to choose vesa at a low resolution on first bootup but sound and
wired network were good.
RC2++ is working good so far.

EDIT:
I've been playing for a few hours with rc2++ and it's working well, I added wbar to it which I like.

[un-named-one]

I must admit that I haven't been keeping up on things.

Is this supposed to be a stable release or some sort ov "beta"?

EDIT:Thanks, Lobster, for the quick reply.

Thanks,
*one

[Lobster]

it is the second release candidate before a final release

[Iguleder]

Bring it on!

The faster it is released, the better it is for the following releases, which will iron out all those small annoying bugs Puppy had in all its .0 versions.

I'm doing some porting work at the moment with the long-term goal of porting Puppy to any architecture, maybe I could test this on Slacko.

I'm writing build scripts for all the "common" packages and all the applications/window manager/etc' are ready - it is possible to build my latest puplet's desktop from source, on top of any wooflet that has a kernel X, GTK, CUPS, etc' - just the basics.

Now I'm improving it, so all the PET packages Puppy depends on can be built too. I have about half of all the build scripts ready, the rest are so old (they originate in Puppy 2.x) you can't build them on today's Puppy - that's something I'll have to find a way around.

This way, we can take x86_64 or ARM packages from Slackware, Debian, etc', as we did so far, but instead of relying on the x86 PET packages, all of them can be built on top of that base automatically, which means ... we'll be able to port 5.3 to ... anything.

So, it goes like this:
1) We take Slacko, the way it is.
2) We replace the string "i486" with "x86_64"
3) We build a 64-bit Slacko with 32-bit compatibility libraries
4) We build 64-bit versions of all the 32-bit packages in Slacko
5) We dump the 32-bit libraries
6) A 64-bit native Slacko64

We could also use a cross-compiler (or just build all those packages inside a 64-bit Slackware, then rebuild in Slacko).

Anyway, time for me to shut up.

Good job, 01micko - running Slacko on my NVIDIA machine and it works 100%.