Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1067 Location: Vienna Austria

Been trying out Lupu-528 005. Very fine work from Micko and the others.

I always keep coming back to this puppy version - it's so pleasant on my system here.

As with other current-series Puppys, this version doesn't like my ATI Radeon 6450 video card (neither do the bigger Linuces).

There appears to be a problem with the open-source Radeon driver as used in conjunction with various kernel versions - in other words the open source ATI Radeon Driver is broken apparently. The propietary ATI FGLRX pet does not work either.

The workaround was to download the propriertary software from the ATI website, install the kernel source and compile it. This worked OK.

Compiz is working fine with XFCE4.

A minor wish is that I cannot seem to be able to configure the XFCE menu to reflect the normal JWM menu. This would make the menu system correspond more to the fashion to which I'm used. Any tricks I'm missing here?

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 244

@Bigpup,

Tried a lupulibre frugal install in a virgin system (cleaned the partition).
Installed only Xorg High 1.1 pet from ibiblio lucid packages.
Verified that OpenGL is active.

Used the Stellarium SFS PlayDayz listed 20 posts back. Behaves the same. Crashes X.

Question: I noticed the Xorg High 1.1 pet is from June 2010. That is 1 month after release of Ubuntu Lucid. 528 is not puppy 501 anymore. We are 2 years down the road. Is there a more recent build ?? Maybe this one is outdated becuase of all the changes since mid 2010.

Regards,

Volhout

P.S. after X crashes due to Stellarium, my system needs a reboot. Even poweroff does not work anymore. poweroff forces a reboot. It feels like this goes deep....

LateAdopter · Joined: 27 May 2011 Posts: 121 Location: Reading UK

If anyone else needs an up-to-date ATI catalyst driver, Speedyluck posted a Lupu 528 PET for catalyst 12.3 in this thread:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77354

Perhaps Playdayz could add it to the repo.

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

bigpup · Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2012, 12:29 Post_subject:

Downloaded vlc-1.1.7.-full-lucid52 from PPM.
It seems to work OK, but did get this message after the install check.
Problem?

bigpup · Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2012, 12:48 Post_subject:

Volhout,

What does Quickpet->file->report video say your video card is?

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 244

@bigpup: it is an intel 82845G grahics chip. The PC is 5+ years old compac evo desktop, so it should be supported by lucid drivers.

I'll try Stellarium on a different puppy (I have Slacko 3.2.7.3 and Racy 5.3). Both have newer kernels.

Thanks for your help... (PlayDayz, first I read your comment I started to realize it may be an enormous task, so forget about it....)

bigpup · Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2012, 13:03 Post_subject:

Someone want to try and get a good Intel video driver from this.
The glove is thrown down! Wink

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/

bigpup · Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2012, 13:48 Post_subject:

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 792 Location: Northern Nevada

did fresh frugal instal lupu plus to same hp laptop.

wl recognized eth1 by sns but not able to make the connection.

connection wizard easily made connection on this troublesome

Broadcom Corporation BCM4313.

This is the opposite of yesterdays install lupulibre where

connection wizard failed and sns made the connection.

seems odd and cannot remember how prior install of lupu plus

went so attached file.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5174 Location: Finland

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2690 Location: Earth

This is an FYI!

"And, I noticed a phenomenon that I find interesting, at best. Playdayz's PUP528R5's LibreOffice version is a performance Superstar as compared with taking his base version and adding LibreOffice SFS or PET to it. In fact, it rivals TaZoC implementaion.

Wish I could explain why the integration has leapfroged a performance increase."

Hope this helps

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Iguleder · Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2012, 16:55 Post_subject:

My advice to you, playdayz: make a x86_64 flavor of this kernel. Wink

This has five benefits:
- Access to 4 GB (or more) RAM, without the PAE issues (e.g instability under certain circumstances).
- The ability to run x86_64 binaries (e.g compile x86_64 stuff from a chroot environment).
- The performance boost of 64-bit computing - e.g some heavy computations (such as compression) implemented in kernel mode are now faster.
- Same userland - no need to recompile anything or create a separate package repository, as with i486/i686 switching.
- Dual-kernel ISOs with two identical kernels - one for 64-bit machines and another for 32-bit ones - it's quite cool.