(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Would this help to fix the sys-info problem?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60462

regards - Ray

nvidia-glx-304.60-k3.2.29.sfs and pet are available.
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/precise/
Works on Puppy precise RC-1 and beta7, but doesn't work with nopae kernel.
Made by the getnvidia-0.8.1.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405

Usage:
1. Boot precise with boot parameter 'puppy pfix=nox'.
2. Run 'xorgwizard', choose 'vesa', 1024x768 may be safe.
3. 'xwin' to get graphical desktop.
4. Click the nvidia-glx-304.60-k3.2.29.sfs and choose 'Install'.
5. Skip the launcher 'Nvidia config'.
6. Run 'xorgwizard', choose 'probe'.

Been holding off on this hoping to find a configuration that would work before the new release, even tried installing two different frisbee configs with no luck.

rt2800usb
LinksysAE1000

WiFi (wlan0) has NOT worked since 5.2.60 version where it setup without any problem!

Everything appears to setup properly but it just doesn't make the final connection.

Latest... Exprimo, Slacko-using frisbee both setup wlan0 without a problem in a matter of minutes on the same system.

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

Precise Puppy RC2 is out, see blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=03057

I missed a couple of the things above, such as updated defaults-chooser -- that will go into the 5.4-final.

shinobar wrote:

bigpup wrote:after installing a second browser (I now have 2) the browser selection seems to have the same problem.

OK, updated defaults-chooser-0.8.6.pet
# v0.8.6 20Oct2012 shinobar: improve searching desktops (thanks to bigpup)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 475#659475

That fixed it for me.
Thanks for the quick response and fix.

BarryK wrote:Precise Puppy RC2 is out, see blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=03057

I missed a couple of the things above, such as updated defaults-chooser -- that will go into the 5.4-final.

Downloaded from your site - I have noticed recently that Ibibilo site is very slow - Your site was approx 2 and 1/2 times faster.

Booted live cd and looked it over - looks good - Next will do full install to ext4 partition and advise any problems.

Hope you can get a final soon and post to Distrowatch. Note that Puppy is number 12 - Need a boost to get us back in top ten

Thanks for all your hard work.

Personally, I don't care for the wallpaper nor icons, but things working a lot better now even on mid-aged kit.
Opera still not appearing as a .pet, in the PPM but the d/l fromhttp://www.opera.com using DEB(Other) works immediately with default FP - great innovation. Unfortunately, Opera appears in the Utility menu sub-division rather than Internet, but it also starts from the Console.
Interesting: previous RC ran a lot slower on better kit, but this one runs nicely on old technology.
Spoilt for choice now - Slackos & Carolinae as well as Luppies all seem to be at advanced stages of development.
Would be nice if efforts could now return to Racy, which seems to be in favour with everyone and the RPi , which has v.B available now with 512Mb.

Manual frugal install to a 1tb usb 3.0 external hard drive.

VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.3.97

Chip description:
Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

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

Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.11.3

OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
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.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.410 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.001 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.001 FPS


Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Memory 8198MB (205MB used)

Network controller Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
xHCI Host Controller
USB 3.0 Desktop HD

It's working okay so far, highlighting and copying text from one
document to another is a little difficult because the highlighted text
doesn't show as highlighted at first but is once you click on the
destination document.
I couldn't find the report-video file in /tmp/root, changed the
wallpaper to one a little easier on the eyes.
I still need to add applications from ppm.

EDIT:I added several applications in ppm with no problems,
kdegames,vlc,neverputt, and audacious.

Looking good

a note to packagers,

the directories '/lib/i386-linux-gnu' and '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' are actually symlinks to the '/lib/' and '/usr/lib' directories. This doesn't cause a problem with .pets but does with .sfs packages,. So when making an .sfs you will need to move the contents of eg: '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' to '/usr/lib'.. and the same for '/lib'

The boot manager isn't working properly the 'Choose which extra SFS files to load at bootup" option doesn't work

can someone confirm this

666philb wrote:The boot manager isn't working properly the 'Choose which extra SFS files to load at bootup" option doesn't work

can someone confirm this

The bootmanager is working okay here.

Fresh (no update) frugal of RC2 on hard drive.
Just want to comment on initial testing right now.

First, the live CD worked ok and I had little difficulty
connecting wireless using SNS.

Did 5 bootups after frugal install and all five
came up connected ok. Only one bootup came
up (mostly) black screen requiring Restarting X.

So the issues I've had in recent Betas and RC1
seem to be improved considerably.

Would it be disadvantageous in some way to
simply invoke a Restart X server right before
ending the startup process?

Art

RC2

Trying to connect WiFi from both 'SNS and Wizard-Wizard...

Both say I am connected after setup but... I am in fact 'NOT.' as the browser just sits there 'LOADING' but never connecting.

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

Sage wrote: Would be nice if efforts could now return to Racy, which seems to be in favour with everyone and the RPi , which has v.B available now with 512Mb.

I now have the Dell 700m and a Tosh. m35 that can't boot
Precise or Racy because of that freakin PAE kernel!

Both say I am connected after setup but... I am in fact 'NOT.' as the browser just sits there 'LOADING' but never connecting.

I am discovering what the cognoscenti probably already know that all wifi dongles are not born equal. I have the latest HAMA rt2800usb also. It's a twin aerial, twin channel 300Mps device and it doesn't work on my systems with my router, either. Those are used on much later systems, including tablets and smart TVs. You may need to swap the dongle for an older 150Mps device, but it's all a question of trial and error. Like everything else in this game, you need boxloads of kit to find winning combinations.

Humph.....

Shut down RC2 (after tearing my hair out... what little is left!) Rebooted another program.... shut that down and figured I'd give one more try at Precise WiFi to see what maybe I missed.

Well... I guess I didn't miss anything because on reboot I forgot to plug in my eth0 cable and Precise fired right up and low and behold WiFi was '''connected'' and seems to be working OK!!!!

Like I say, I don't have very much hair left after this one since 5.2.60

Other than the rt2800usb thingy... Precise runs like a champ in all other areas I tested so far...


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

ok ... the bootmanager definately isn't working on this computer.

a semi-frugal install onto an NTFS drive, using the cd to boot. puppy.sfs and savefile are on the harddrive.


boot manager works fine on my main comp, with a frugal on ext3, using grub4dos to boot.

Barry,
To continue support for ALSA modems, the slmodemd daemon is required. However, it is not present in 5.3.97. That is because the firmware package firmware_linux_module_slmodem-20121004 was not included in the woof-installed-packages list. Please add that to the list for the final release, to avoid a regression for ALSA-modem users. (It does not require the presence of the slamr or slusb drivers, which should be omitted.) Thanks.
Richard

sys-info-1.4-noarch.pet from:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60462

as far as I can tell - seems to work as expected.

manual frugal to sda1 - Acer 243 laptop.
Precise looks and feels good on this oldie.

HTH - best regards - Ray.

edit: just noticed (was also like this in 5.3.96)possibly racy 5.3.90 too)
would someone check abiword -
it works but is not opening properly.

I have created an alternate download link for precise RC2

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/precise/precise-5.3.97/

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Testing on my compaq laptop - presario-CQ60 (circa 2008)

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.3.97

Chip description:
Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller

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.
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.685 FPS
# export vblank_mode=0
# glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
3223 frames in 5.0 seconds = 644.473 FPS
3249 frames in 5.0 seconds = 649.745 FPS

report-video vesa bug is back. Clearly my card is using intel (see attached log)

There is a woof level "bug" where a stray puninstall.sh sneaks through, this happens in latest slacko beta too. See attached screeny.

Please fix the gtk theme as it's difficult to see any highlighting, and my eyes aren't too bad.



Working pretty well so far on this laptop.

EDIT:

@Ray MK, I see the abiword issue too, but that bug has been around for ages and doesn't affect the functionality. There hasn't been a stable abiword release in about 2 years and also they have moved to gtk+3 in development. It's possibly due to Puppy's skinny gtk+2 themes.