Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[01micko]

[LoboGrande]

Hello folks, I've tried several of the Precise Puppy Beta's and none seem to load the desktop. I get a black screen and an mouse arrow but no taskbar and it won't respond to keyboard rebooting from the Live CD.

P4 3.4 ghz/socket 478 with 4gb of DDR Ram
Asus P4S800DX mobo
NVidia GeForce 7350 PCIe Video card.

Works fine with Wary 5, Akita, Lucid Puppy 5.2.5, .8, .9

[01micko]

[LateAdopter]

Hello Billtoo

According to Xorg your RV530 is supported by the r300g driver which has gallium 3D built-in

But in this puppy /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so is missing, while r600_dri.so is there.

I expect you could get it from the Ubuntu repo. Then it should work.

There is some r300 firmware already but I don't know whether it is complete.

A search of the Ubuntu repo for r300 would show you.

I expect r100 and r200 stuff also needs to be added to this puppy for other cards.

[Lobster]

[01micko]

DISTRO_VERSION=5.2.71

-OpenGL-
Vendor : Nouveau
Renderer : Mesa DRI nv05 x86/MMX/SSE2
Version : 1.2 Mesa 8.0.3
Direct Rendering : Yes

# export vblank_mode=0
# glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
1063 frames in 5.0 seconds = 212.472 FPS
1068 frames in 5.0 seconds = 213.501 FPS
1090 frames in 5.0 seconds = 217.871 FPS
1088 frames in 5.0 seconds = 217.562 FPS
# report-video
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.71 on Thu 30 Aug 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
NVIDIA Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev 15)
oem: NVidia
product: Riva TNT Chip Rev B1

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1360x768 pixels (359x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz

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That's better performance than the nvidia-73 proprietary driver, although the card was in a different machine testing an old wary at that time.

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I have just compiled the nv driver and am about to test on this machine.

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Mixed success with nv
While it does work I couldn't get my desired resolution without manual intervention, however, mine is an obscure monitor with 1360x768 res, norm is 1366x768. Nouveau_unload worked as expected and rebooted to a vesa desktop. xorgwizard wouldn't select nv so I deleted xorg.conf and ran xorgwizard-automatic from the prompt.

# report-video
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.71 on Thu 30 Aug 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
NVIDIA Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev 15)
oem: NVidia
product: Riva TNT Chip Rev B1

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nv

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1360x768 pixels (342x191 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz


Here's nv compiled, --prefix=/usr --enable-xaa. Obviously no mesa counterpart so will use swrast.

[mories]

Same as 01micko, I find no difference between 5.2.73 and 5.2.72.
My report-video in both cases.
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Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5430 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: PARK 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
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As Barry, I prefer 5.2.73 because it's more "like" ubuntu-precise and only 2.4 M bigger.

[feelsub]

Precise beta3 on core5, 4gb ram

Seeems promising, but:

Bug: Gimp 2.8.x or LibreOffice installs correctly, but at run I get a :
Opening '/root/%U' failed: No such file or directory

Unfortunately, in PPM no simple image editor ( rotate, lossless crop, compress)
No : Picasa, gThumb, F-Spot, Gimp 2.8.2 (but 2.6.x and fails to run)
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7152/1

http://techcityinc.com/2009/03/23/10-best-image-viewers-for-linux/

I also regret the absence in PPM of Chrome 21.x
I didn't check about availabilty &run of photorec6.14, skype, openshot 1.4.x, mediatagger.

I would also head for ffmpeg 0.11 latest build ( has fixes for synch issues - some I reported - before official 0.11.2) as supports more codecs including wma lossless.

Thanks

In the meantime I revert to lupulibre528.005-2

[peebee]

Hi Barry
Do you have a version of kernel sources for the non-pae kernel?
I've looked on your kernel pages and there isn't one there....
I've tried to compile a driver and it won't load due to a symbol mismatch which suggests that different kernel sources are needed.
Thanks
peebee

[linux28]

Winetricks couldn't use

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive.

Precise Puppy, version 5.2.73 on Thu 30 Aug 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV530 [Radeon X1600]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RV530 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.436 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.883 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.890 FPS

Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Memory 1554MB (90MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu 30 Aug 2012 07:32:42 AM EDT
OpenGL
Vendor X.Org R300 Project
Renderer Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2
Direct Rendering Yes

Hardware acceleration is working now, google earth and nexuiz run
great.

Thanks, Precise Puppy is working well now.

[Billtoo]

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to an 8gb flash drive.

Precise Puppy, version 5.2.73 on Thu 30 Aug 2012

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 1
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Memory 6087MB (102MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu 30 Aug 2012 08:37:54 AM EDT

OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.317 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.999 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.000 FPS

Google Earth etc are working great.

[mavrothal]

[LateAdopter]

I failed the intelligence test on merging precise-updates in the Package Manager

When doing an update it asks whether you want to merge and says Enter to decline. But I couldn't work out what to do to accept.

I ended up with separate databases for the updates.

The trouble is that, if you want to install from the update, the package manager only offers local files and not the repo.

Any suggestion as to how I accept merging the databases?

Thanks