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BarryK
Puppy Master

Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8526 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Thu 23 May 2013, 06:01 Post subject:
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Just in case anyone is reading this thread and not aware that Precise 5.6 is released, it is.
The forum thread for 5.6 is here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=704724#704724
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MalKontent
Joined: 24 May 2013 Posts: 1
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Posted: Fri 24 May 2013, 00:18 Post subject:
My stubborn HD TV finally works in 1920x1080 |
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Hi BarryK, All,
The rewritten Xorgwizard and (new?) ATI driver in Precise 5.6 finally accomplished, what no other version could - I was able to force our large-screen HD TV to show full HD resolution when driven from Linux.
It has a stupid (or is it "too inteligent"?) Realtek chip inside, which over the VGA connector suggests 1360x768 as the maximum resolution, and over HDMI (conncted to a DVI port) introduces itself in such a way, that 1024x768 is the "optimum" resolution, whereas the maximum attainable on any small Linux distro I tried was 1360x768.
This puppy finally did the trick, and we can enjoy the full HD resolution, which is what I expected in the first place, having bought a 55" TV meant as a messageboard.
Thank you guys!!! I almost gave up and considered installing Windows on this machine
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813
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Posted: Fri 24 May 2013, 00:57 Post subject:
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Hey Barry,
Loving the new Precise but just noticed one problem. Since Precise 5.5 been having a problem again where if I let my laptop sit for more than two minutes it disconnects from my wireless network and I have to reconnect it again.
Wireless interface
/0/100/1c.1/0
product: Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [8086:87]
vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 5f
serial: 00:23:15:69:38:d4
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities:
Power Management,
Message Signalled Interrupts,
PCI Express,
bus mastering,
PCI capabilities listing,
ethernet,
Physical interface,
Wireless-LAN
configuration:
broadcast: yes
driver: iwlwifi
driverversion: 3.2.44
firmware: 41.28.5.1 build 33926
latency: 0
link: yes
multicast: yes
wireless: IEEE 802.11abgn
resources:
irq: 44
memory: d5800000-d5801fff
(Same issue with 5.6)
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redandwhitestripes
Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 179
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Posted: Thu 06 Jun 2013, 10:26 Post subject:
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So if anyone had the same problem that I discussed earlier with broadcom wifi, here's my solution.
With help from peebee I checked my correct driver from the 3 choices
[url]
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=702630&sid=313d902d36d58b0ffd674fd15c3900e8#702630[/url]
I saw the one Precise chose for me was wrong (wl), so I went to menu>>system>>bootmanager and 'blacklisted' it. I rebooted and connected via frisbee, voila!
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5370 Location: GB
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Posted: Fri 07 Jun 2013, 06:12 Post subject:
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Quote: | menu>>system>>bootmanager |
Thanks for that reminder of how to do blacklisting. Couldn't find the earlier thread anywhere. This (and other) Forum needs an index, ie not just Search.
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redandwhitestripes
Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 179
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Posted: Sat 08 Jun 2013, 22:56 Post subject:
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Sage wrote: |
Thanks for that reminder of how to do blacklisting. Couldn't find the earlier thread anywhere. This (and other) Forum needs an index, ie not just Search. |
It was this....
redandwhitestripes wrote: | I posted this under the " Broadcom-STA "wl" wifi drivers - repository of latest" forum but as there's been no reply after 36 hours, I hope it's OK to copy it here, as I'm so keen to upgrade my Puppy.
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OK this seems as good a place as any to ask for help.
My broadcom driver is :
10:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01
2.6.33.2 SMP mod_unload modversions 486
I'm using lupu_525 on a full hard disk install.
Have been doing so for a while wtth no problems, when I set it up I installed the broadcom-5.10.27.14-k2.6.25.16.pet as I did with all previous puppies and all was fine.
Today I tried running precise 5.5 on a live CD and the weird thing is that it
sees my neighbours' wi-fi networks but not my own! No clue atall.
Some neighbours are using WPA2, just like me.
When I go back to my full install, everything is fine again.
Can anyone suggest why this might be and what I need to install/uninstall?
EDIT: I scanned this thread and installed the closest pet I could find (Precise 5.2 version) but I get an error message "incorrect kernel for this data". |
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