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Precise Puppy 5.5, released March 9, 2013
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BarryK
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
PostPosted: Thu 23 May 2013, 06:01    Post subject:  
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
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PostPosted: Fri 24 May 2013, 00:18    Post subject:  My stubborn HD TV finally works in 1920x1080  
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!!! Smile I almost gave up and considered installing Windows on this machine Embarassed
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DPUP5520

Joined: 16 Feb 2011
Posts: 813
PostPosted: Fri 24 May 2013, 00:57    Post subject:  
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
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PostPosted: Thu 06 Jun 2013, 10:26    Post subject:  
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! Very Happy
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Sage

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PostPosted: Fri 07 Jun 2013, 06:12    Post subject:  
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

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PostPosted: Sat 08 Jun 2013, 22:56    Post subject:  
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.... Very Happy
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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