Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[tiangeng]

[rcrsn51]

Have you tested the "official" PPD? When I looked inside, it says "for Macintosh only". So I would like to know if it works for you.

If it doesn't, I have another one from openprinting.org that I would like to test.

[tiangeng]

[rerwin]

Barry,
I have revised the hsfmodem support components and updated source code to bring HSF modem functionality to puppies based on kernels 2.6.31 and newer, using instructions from an ubuntu forum. (I expect to add details soon.)

The driver itself is in its kernel-designated package. The puppy infrastructure and code-release related parts are in a package intended for inclusion in woof (at some point). I hope to automate the building of the driver itself, to simplify creation for the various kernels. That is, unless you feel that is not necessary because you already have your own way to do that.

Attached are the two dotpets and the updated hybrid-coded source tarball. Users can add HSF modem capability by installing the two dotpets.
Richard

Update: Re-uploaded the source package, with build residue removed, after download #5.
Update: Re-uploaded both pet packages (after download #6), to remove an extraneous file and simplify setup.

UPDATE 9/10/12: Removed the 'sync' commands that appear to have caused unreliable detection. Uploaded corrected package after download #12. Also, please uninstall the previously-suggested "delta-3c" fix, which turns out to be an incorrect solution.

UPDATE 9/11/12: Corrected generation of conflicting-module blacklist, uploaded after download #1. This should be the last of the updates, until someone reports a problem with this. Thanks for your patience.

[BarryK]

Precise Puppy "beta5" released:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02983

Looking good!

[MagicZaurus]

Booted straight to the desktop and network automatically connected. With Wary and Racy 5.3 it was a no go on this machine, due to the graphics card and network card.

Maybe 4 calculators are just one too much of a choice.

Really looking great!

[scabz]

testing beta5 now seems to be working great for me. thanks for Puppy Percise when the final is out this will be my main OS.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 64gb flash drive running on a hp pavilion
a810n desktop pc.
Report Video 1.3 - Tue 4 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.91 - Linux 3.2.28 i686

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
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Memory 1554MB (118MB used)
OpenGL
Vendor X.Org R300 Project
Renderer Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
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.
297 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.371 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.886 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.888 FPS

I'm having to load the network settings each bootup, I used the
network wizard to setup the network.
I setup the network again using SNS and rebooted, okay now.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive running on an acer revo
nettop pc.

Report Video 1.3 - Tue 4 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.91 - Linux 3.2.28 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation ION VGA (rev b1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP79 Board - hornet-0 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
Memory 1813MB (243MB used)
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer ION/integrated/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.43
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.406 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.000 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.000 FPS
Network controller Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

It's working well so far.

[don570]

A much faster download is possible by avoiding ibiblio site

Download precise distribution from Netherland's site

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/test/precise-5.3.91/

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[Ray MK]

Hi Barry

First impressions are really good - seems snappier than the previous beta’s, especially first setup, if that’s possible.

No obvious problems noticed so far - this looks and feels very good.

Thanks again for all you do - very best regards - Ray

[Lobster]

Beta 5 OK here
PPM faster - no Opera which I needed, downloaded the sfs from Terry here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=500488#500488

Good thing about the PPM is set firewall on
and then you restart x to run it.
So the firewall is up before connection.

Also got sound on first boot up, hopefully it will be persistent (I have a two sound card system)

[sszindian]

5.3.91

Sorry to say but the same problem about 'WiFi' not working persists as I posted on pages: 22 & 29 of this thread (at least with the rt2800usb)!

>>>---Indian------>

[oldyeller]

Beta 5 OK here, booted just fine on my IBM X60

There is still one problem with the puppy-precise-official repo will not let you download from ibiblio, it only gives you the chose of local folder.

[Ted Dog]

This BUG has existed for a while but it's now percise sub version .73 taking hours to get a working mouse. This really needs to be addressed. Tab reset only works once then disappears.