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npierce · Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 787

broomdodger,

What version of jwm do you have?

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 725 Location: UK

Precise Puppy version 5.5.94

# uname -a
Linux puppypc3484 3.2.44 #1 SMP Sun May 5 11:42:44 GMT-8 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1805224 709760 1095464 0 67352
-/+ buffers: 642408 1162816
Swap: 0 0 0
#

Manual frugal install to an ntfs partition on my E732 laptop (cracked screen) so using an old external LCD monitor. Works well.

Booting via an SDcard (ext2) with grub4dos.

All the basic user stuff seems extremely good and works as expected. Very fast - luvly Puppy.

Info report and menu zip FYI.

sszindian · Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Posts: 534 Location: Pennsylvania U.S.

Precise-5.5.93 upgrade to Precise-5.5.94

Upgrade wet well for the most part however... Leafpad did NOT survive the upgrade! Even with a re-install of leafpad, it just doesn't work. It appears the files are all intact, even the menu entry but... no leafpad?

So far, everything tested seems to work well!

WiFi appears to be holding, even survived several reboots... we'll see?

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backi · Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 419 Location: GERMANY

Hi !

Hi !

Desktop icons and fonts disappear after PPM installs program .

There is something wrong for me when i trying to download from Ppacketmanager . (not in every case ) .... but on a lot of occasions when process of downloading continues suddenly all my fonts become Squares and the whole rox pictures and fonts are just a red triangle and completely unreadable .Then i must shut down.

Cant use Ppacketmanager .
Same with UPUP RARING 5.8.7
Could it maybe have something to do with the fact i have in Puppy Eventmanager"never save to ram Pupmode=0 " never save to ram " configured ?

Who can help ..similar problem ?
Here someone with same problem.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy//viewtopic.php?t=82546&sid=995d993d91390ea3f993de1ae2ce2210

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5103 Location: Kentucky

Precise 5.5.94 live pfix=ram on an old P4 test box.Display and sound working and correct on initial boot.Decided to try dialup for this test.... at least this dialup modem is working.Took 3 tries to connect but it is working.

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1402 Location: Maine, USA

Here are the slmodem driver modules and the slmodemd daemon that also supports the ALSA modems. Only the SmartLink PCI modems are supported, because (apparently) the USB driver violated a licensing constraint but, more significantly, beginning with Wary at least, slusb behaves erratically -- currently it kills X and locks up the PC if the device is even plugged into the PC! It definitely does not belong in a puppy release.

I have tested all of the (now 7) driver packages with the appropriate PCI hardware. The remaining package, hcfpcimodem, I cannot test because I have no such hardware. But I have not included it because of its limited usefulness: a maximum speed of 14.4kb unless a license key is supplied to it ($15 or $20 US). That seems adequate for faxing, but little else. Considering the obsolescence of the device, it seems unlikely that anyone would pay that price. Note, too, that it does not support "riptide" sound cards that include an HCF modem.

Having said that, I am willing to provide the package if anyone, at all, wants it.

As before, the 'splitpetjoin' script package is included, to recombine the firmware package parts. See instructions on previous page.

Although I assume these are too late for the 5.6 release, they can be added to the pet package library for installation by the user.
Richard

rodin.s · Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 333 Location: Ukraine

Small bugfix for Hardinfo is here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=704170#704170
And default font in Geany is unusually big.

paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 875 Location: ST862228

I have upgraded my frugal 5.5 to 5.5.94 and the problem I describe in this post http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85960 still occurs.

peebee · Posted: Mon 20 May 2013, 14:50 Post subject: nvidia sfs problems

scabz · Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 229 Location: Tallahassee FL US

Peebee you need the 304.xx driver , the driver you used does not work for your vid card.

fronkonstin · Joined: 20 May 2013 Posts: 10

LiveCD boot of Precise 5.5.94 on an Athlon64 with nvidia video card. Video and sound detected and working out of the box.

fronkonstin · Joined: 20 May 2013 Posts: 10

LiveCD boot of Precise 5.5.94 on an AMD Duron with ati video card. Video and sound detected and working out of the box.

fronkonstin · Joined: 20 May 2013 Posts: 10

LiveCD boot of Precise 5.5.94 on an old laptop Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook S4510. Boot requires "pmedia=usbflash" parameter. Video and sound detected and working out of the box (although some buttons in some applications are outside the screen in 800x600 mode).

fronkonstin · Joined: 20 May 2013 Posts: 10

LiveCD boot of Precise 5.5.94 on an old laptop Dell Latitude LS. Video and sound detected and working out of the box

NOTE: Desktop Icons and wallpaper missing at first! (but see below). Menu bar OK

fronkonstin · Joined: 20 May 2013 Posts: 10

This last test doesn't work.

LiveCD boot of Precise 5.5.94 on an old laptop HP Omnibook XE2. It is a Pentium II @ 333Mhz, video is "Silicon Motion, Inc. SM810 LynxE" (according to test done long ago with Ubuntu 6.06)

Behaviour is as follows: on first boot, a text mode dialog appears for selecting keyboard language & timezone. Then, the xorgwizard only allows to select "vesa" video driver. Then selected resolution 800x600 -> black screen.

Behaviour is the same after reboot (power button hold for 4 seconds).

Any ideas?