Precise Puppy 5.4 and 5.4.2

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Re: Puppy-Universal-Installer crashes

#241 Post by BarryK »

julakali wrote:This is an answer to a bug posted on Page 4 of this Thread...
boon wrote:Hi, I already posted this in the beginners section.

I got following problem. Trying to do a full install of Precise on my hard drive, Puppy-Universal-Installer crashes after selecting the partition to install to. When I start puppyinstaller from console, I get:
** (gtkdialog4:4524): ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 5, near token '</label>': syntax error

Any idea what is going on?
Thank you for the great work, boon
There seems to be an error, which is actually in line ~750 of /usr/sbin/puppyinstaller.
The error is in the line that contains the label "You have choosen to install Puppy to partition [...]".
I just removed that label from the script to continue...


edit: happens with german language pack
You will need to contact Forum member L18L about this, he is the 'de' langpack maintainer -- there is also a thread in this Forum.
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regular expression evaluation and learning tool

#242 Post by L18L »

file:///usr/share/doc/HOWTO-regexps.htm wrote:[Note: Puppy has a regular expression evaluation and learning tool in the Utilities menu]
Once upon a time (version 1.04) I have used it much.
But now it seems to have disappeared :cry:


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I am going to have a look on puppy installer now

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fixed, thank you
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Re: adding wallpapers - how

#243 Post by otropogo »

666philb wrote:
otropogo wrote:
Meanwhile, I can't find any means of adding a new wallpaper to the selection provided. I've never had this issue before either.
put your new background in /usr/share/backgrounds

or you could use don570's pet, which gives you an option to send a picture to the backgrounds folder by right clicking http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67013
Thanks, I'm in lupuplus right now, but will try your suggestion next time I boot with Puppy 5.4

Ok, /usr/share/backgrounds works for me. Thanks. The right choice of background makes the wrong resolution more palatable.
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#244 Post by bigpup »

Barry,

A lot of the programs:

Help selections do nothing when clicked on.
You get a help menu, but none of the selections do anything if they point to a web site or URL

Also the about screen web links will do nothing when clicked on.

This got fixed in Lucid Puppy.
Works also in Slacko.

Not sure what needs to be done, but 01micko should be able to provide info to you.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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#245 Post by otropogo »

James C wrote:Another quick test of Precise 5.40 with a different Nvidia card. Sound,internet and display all correct on boot.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.4

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: nv44 Board - p382h1 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

Interesting. In my installation of 5.4 all report-video displays is the name of the video chip : ATI ATOM RV515 1:00,

and the colour depth (24),


I haven't found a way to copy and paste the display from urxvt.


In lupuplus 528, the same command provides the full name of the card (Radeon X1300/X1550 Series), and the resolution of the display (1280x768), as well as the depth.

There's also a Lighthouse 0.6 popup with the same information and NO mention of "vesa" in either the terminal (ROX) or Lighthouse:
sh-4.1# report-video
Lucid , version 528 on Mon 5 Nov 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc RV515 PRO [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RV515 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 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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Re: Preparation for integration of Frisbee

#246 Post by peebee »

rerwin wrote:Barry and testers, The 3.0 version needs testing by wireless users, because I have no wireless setup.
Hi Richard
Have tested your pets - have sent you a PM with the results as I had problems.
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#247 Post by pemasu »

some missing firmwares:
# ls /lib/modules/3.2.29/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi
rtl8192c rtl8192ce rtl8192cu rtl8192de rtl8192se rtlwifi.ko

# ls /lib/modules/all-firmware/rtlwifi/lib/firmware/rtlwifi
rtl8192cfw.bin rtl8192cufw.bin rtl8192sefw.bin rtl8712u.bin

Firmware for rtl8192de is missing:
# modinfo rtl8192de
firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin

and.....

# modinfo rtl8192ce
firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin

firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin

Those 2 bolded ones are missing. I created a pet which installs them to the right location. It could help for those toshiba laptop users which have lockup problems. Not sure. I read that kernel 3.7 will address them better, but you can try.

/etc/modules/firmware.dep file need correction to this row:
rtlwifi:rtl8192ce.ko,rtl8192cu.ko,rtl8192de.ko,rtl8192se.ko,r8712u.ko

I just have to say that highlighting with default themes is bit difficult.Lol.
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#248 Post by technosaurus »

Everyone needs to realize that Ubuntu packages are built for 686 cpus with the CMOV instruction. This means that Precise will fail on all 486 and 586, the via c3, pentium, pentium mmx, amd geode and the vortex86 series of cpus and several others (see /proc/info to find out if you have the cmov flag)

This is a likely cause of the non-reproducible bug reports. @Barry, didn't you have a gecko edubook? That would be a good test box for this.

Edit: at 1 point choosing PAE in the kernel config also enabled some cmov instructions that prevented booting on these cpus, though IDK if it is still the case.
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cmov flag

#249 Post by FeodorF »

technosaurus wrote:Everyone needs to realize that Ubuntu packages are built for 686 cpus with the CMOV instruction. This means that Precise will fail on all 486 and 586, the via c3, pentium, pentium mmx, amd geode and the vortex86 series of cpus and several others (see /proc/info to find out if you have the cmov flag)

This is a likely cause of the non-reproducible bug reports. @Barry, didn't you have a gecko edubook? That would be a good test box for this.
Well, Pentium III 933 - they look good!
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Re: cmov flag

#250 Post by technosaurus »

FeodorF wrote:
technosaurus wrote:Everyone needs to realize that Ubuntu packages are built for 686 cpus with the CMOV instruction. This means that Precise will fail on all 486 and 586, the via c3, pentium, pentium mmx, amd geode and the vortex86 series of cpus and several others (see /proc/info to find out if you have the cmov flag)

This is a likely cause of the non-reproducible bug reports. @Barry, didn't you have a gecko edubook? That would be a good test box for this.
Well, Pentium III 933 - they look good!
Yes, PII should be fine too.
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Scanner woes

#251 Post by Wognath »

Hello,
I'm using Precise on a Lenovo netbook with VIA Nano processor. No issues yet apart from scanner. It's an HP C4480 Photosmart printer/scanner. Here is what I have tried:

Installed hplip_print-3.12.10a.pet and hplip_scan-3.12.10a.pet
from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=444080

Printer installs and works with no problems.

Peasyscan:
Failed to open device 'hpaio:/usb/Photosmart_C4400_series?serial=CN89BHF1D30557':Invalid argument

sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x6c11 [Photosmart C4400 series]) at libusb:001:006

scanimage -L
device `hpaio:/usb/Photosmart_C4400_series?serial=CN89BHF1D30557' is a Hewlett-Packard Photosmart_C4400_series all-in-one

xsane GUI (USB)
no devices available

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Edit] this works (i.e. scans and outputs file):

Code: Select all

#scanimage -d hpaio:/usb/Photosmart_C4400_series?serial=CN89BHF1D30557 --resolution 200 > /root/my-documents/scan.jpg
I still can't get the xsane gui to open...
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Precise Puppy 5.4 on Dell Inspiron 14R N4010

#252 Post by prehistoric »

I've been slow to read this topic and respond. Precise Puppy 5.4 works on most of my collection of antique machines with PII and later processors. (IIRC 686 started with the Pentium Pro, but I don't know anyone who still has one working.)

Naturally, when I went to show 5.4 to a friend I ran into the grub-config bug, then tried to install VLC from Ubuntu-precise-universe. (Not recommended.)

I was able to set up a multiboot system using Lupu 5.28.005 to configure grub.

Moral: never throw a good dog out.

VLC is sufficiently large and complicated that I would recommend making this an .sfs file instead of a .pet.

This group seems to be on top of all the problems I found.

Added: almost forgot my subject line. Just tried 5.4 on a Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 I was repairing for a friend. Works great.
I used the copy partition feature in gparted to move the diagnostic and recovery partitions to a new drive, despite a very slow disk making many retries. Replacing this hard drive is close to a nightmare. This is the first time I've had to pull a laptop motherboard to change a hard drive. Geeksquad didn't even realize the disk was on the point of failing. Dell and BestBuy seem to have decided the design life of this machine was the 3 years you can expect the disk to last in regular use. I'm replacing it with an SSD. (Yes, it is running W7, which knows about limiting writes, though not as well as Puppy.)

Some organization should warn consumers about virtually unrepairable and unsupportable products.
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#253 Post by BarryK »

Precise Puppy 5.4.1-beta1 is uploaded.

This is the first beta of the upcoming 5.4.1 bug-fix release for 5.4.

Blog announcement and download:

http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00015

This was built last night, so I missed some of the recent posts above.
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Re: Scanner woes

#254 Post by rcrsn51 »

Wognath wrote:scanimage -L
device `hpaio:/usb/Photosmart_C4400_series?serial=CN89BHF1D30557' is a Hewlett-Packard Photosmart_C4400_series all-in-one

xsane GUI (USB)
no devices available
It's unusual when scanimage detects the backend correctly but xsane doesn't.

Has this scanner worked with other Puppies or other versions of HPLIP?

I just tested my Photosmart C4680 in Precise with the hplip_scan-3.12.10a.pet and it worked fine.

Do you have a different machine to test it on?

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Precise Puppy 5.4

#255 Post by Billtoo »

I did a manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive, it has a 3gb
savefile.
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.4.0.90
Chip description:
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS690 01.00
Driver used by Xorg:
radeon
Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"
OpenGL
Vendor X.Org R300 Project
Renderer Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS690
Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
55 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10.908 FPS
65 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12.954 FPS
65 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12.954 FPS
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2650e
Memory 1812MB (112MB used)
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
Crystal Eye webcam

I installed vlc 2.0.3,kdegames,and guvcview from ppm and they all work
fine first go, no missing dependencies.
I was going to install cheese for the webcam but the download would
have been 192mb and guvcview does the same thing with a much smaller
download.
Highlighting text in the hardinfo report works fine.
That's it so far, it does what I want/need on this particular laptop, thanks.
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#256 Post by James C »

Quick manual frugal install of Precise 5.4.0.90 on my main Athlon XP box.No problems yet.... sound,internet and display all working and correct on initial boot.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.4.0.90

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
1387 frames in 5.0 seconds = 277.369 FPS
2039 frames in 5.0 seconds = 407.695 FPS
2110 frames in 5.0 seconds = 421.759 FPS
2020 frames in 5.0 seconds = 403.790 FPS
2069 frames in 5.0 seconds = 413.792 FPS
2019 frames in 5.0 seconds = 403.748 FPS
2120 frames in 5.0 seconds = 423.930 FPS
2092 frames in 5.0 seconds = 418.333 FPS
2039 frames in 5.0 seconds = 407.691 FPS
2098 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.596 FPS


Actually using nouveau.

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (200MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Tue 06 Nov 2012 12:36:27 AM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI nv18 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
Version : 1.11.3
-Monitors-
Monitor 0 : 1440x900 pixels

-OpenGL-
Vendor : Nouveau
Renderer : Mesa DRI nv18 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
Version : 1.2 Mesa 8.0.4
Direct Rendering : Yes

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Scanner

#257 Post by Wognath »

rcrsn51,
Thanks for the quick reply. Both scanner and printer work in Saluki using the printer-scanner-drivers.sfs. I think that contains hplip 3.11.10. I tried Precise on my daughter's computer (atom processor). Again, printer works, scanner does not.
I tried 5.4.0.90 also--same result.

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Re: Scanner

#258 Post by rcrsn51 »

Wognath wrote: Both scanner and printer work in Saluki using the printer-scanner-drivers.sfs. I think that contains hplip 3.11.10. I tried Precise on my daughter's computer (atom processor). Again, printer works, scanner does not.
I wonder if HP has accidentally broken support for this model in 3.12.10a.

I am sending you a PM about this.
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#259 Post by rcrsn51 »

In 5.4.0.90, the problem with ePDFview not rendering colours correctly is still present.

While I appreciate the inclusion of YASSM and Network, I expect that many users will miss Pnethood if it has been working for them.

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mpscan update needed

#260 Post by peebee »

The new Network rox app needs the updated mpscan from:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81808

to work satifactorily in some configurations
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