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tempestuous wrote: Would it be possible to boot from a Fusion MPT interface? Yes, but that would require either the drivers were built directly into the Puppy kernel image, or alternatively that the new kernel modules were included in Puppy's initial ramdisk.
This is extra work, for another day.

Barry has an option in Woof.. Boot scsi, I accepted this for k2.6.29.4 and in this release k2,6,37.6

Aitch has reported success on an old server box of his a few pages back.

Here is the list of /lib/modules/2.6.39.4/kernel/drivers/scsi in the initial ramdisk of k2.6.39.4 version of slacko-5.3.1 and here's the others found in modules.dep

kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.ko
kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.ko
kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.ko
kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptfc.ko
kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko

..which aren't in initial ramdisk

I tested to use the new 5.3.1 and did ofix=ram to not use the old
save file and put all the iso files in a new subdir and booted with
grub4dos on NTFS and rebooted 3 times and never lost sound.

So maybe it has to do with usb and ext3 something.

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I did a typical Nooby post over at Lupu528 that may be relevant for Slacko 531 too?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 713#588713

I have also lost sound but fail to remember if it was on Asus using ext3 or if it was on Acer with NTFS formatting.

I do remember that suddenly after some restart of xorg to get the resolution I wanted then suddenly I had no speaker icon in the tray.

So I got back to using Snow puppy 5 instead. And did forget all about it.

Hi 01micko,

Thank you for 5.3.1 Main; however I have two items to report:

(1) SeaMonkey remained as 2.4

so I tried to check other numbered updates, and

(2) Pfilesearch - did not seem to be included in the Menu
*** SEE ADDENDUM for update
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I installed the SeaMonkey 2.5 Slacko pet and all seems well.
Pfilesearch runs from the Console, but I did not quickly (or at all)
find its version number.
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My regards

I was using 5.3 Main full time and it remained stable, fast and totally trouble free. I expect to use 5.3.1 Main full time now and will advise if there is anything you may wish to know about.

PS Having used Firefox and Thunderbird for a year and more, I very quickly got used to SeaMonkey and its email program - and I'm well pleased.

ADDENDUM:

Pfind is under Menu>Filesystem and Pfilesearch can be obtained using the "Advanced" option of Pfind (as well as directly from the Console).

Aitch has reported success on an old server box of his a few pages back

Yes my server has a Supermicro X5DA8 mainboard, and may be a Viglen
It has an Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 Ultra160 SCSI, with a 2.5" 80gb SCSI hard drive

Hdd found at boot using liveCD/frugal, but peculiarly, not using noryb's win32.exe installer, where even using pmount fails to find it

Mick, can 5.3.1 be frugal installed using old 5.3 savefile, annd have all the bugs been squashed?

Aitch

01micko wrote:Barry has an option in Woof.. Boot scsi, I accepted this for k2.6.29.4 and in this release k2,6,37.6

I'm unfamiliar with Woof, but that's interesting. It appears that a basic set of SCSI drivers (as specified by Barry) is then included in the initrd.

Obviously the 3 new Fusion SCSI drivers are not included, so if desired these would need to be manually inserted (and modules.dep updated) ...
or maybe the Woof script could be modified to automatically include these new modules?
But anyway, no one has specifically asked for boot support from a Fusion SCSI interface at this stage.

01micko wrote:Aitch has reported success on an old server box of his a few pages back.

Yes, it appears that booting from SCSI works, that's great ...
but of course Aitch's SCSI hardware uses the aic7xxx SCSI driver, nothing to do with the 3 new drivers.

I burned the 531 main iso to a DVD+RW.
On first boot it went to the xorgwizard screen and I chose probe and
the proper screen resolution,probe used the vesa driver so I exited to
the prompt and reran xorgwizard and chose the intel driver.
I installed the mesa pets.

Mon 12 Dec 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3.1 Linux 2.6.37.6
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10)
oem: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS product: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) G33 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 7.10.2

Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200
Core 0: 1200 1: 1200 MHz
Computer
Processor 2x Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz
Memory 3364MB (159MB used)
# 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 = 60.479 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.016 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.018 FPS

The only problem so far is that pairs of white dots will appear
randomly on the screen, restarting x will remove them temporarily but
they show up again in other areas of the screen.
I see that minimizing a window causes them, they are coming from the
corners of a maximized window, moving the window to a different area
and minimizing it causes the dots to appear where the corners were.

Edit: I switched back to the vesa driver and the 2 dots problem is
gone.
# glxgears
1928 frames in 5.0 seconds = 385.491 FPS
1896 frames in 5.0 seconds = 379.076 FPS
1889 frames in 5.0 seconds = 377.794 FPS
That's faster too.

Installed 531 to a desktop computer with p4 dual core 3ghz,processor,1gb ram,Nvidia en210 graphics card.
At Xorgwizard ,selected correct resolution and once booted (with working sound) changed region,language etc.
Created a new 512mb savefile,rebooted and installed recommended Nvidia-285.05.09 driver and rebooted once more.
Setup firewall and have so far installed the following .pets using PPM,Slickpet and Ibiblio repo:-

Jre-1.7.0-20
Flash player 11
Pidgin-2.7.11
Opera-11.52 also Opera 12 freestanding
Pwidgets-2.3.8
pupclockset-1.6.1
Gimp-2.7.2
Tor-browser-2.2.33-2-slacko(Configured with my own settings)
Wine-1.3.28
Vlc_standalone-1.1.11
Chromium-17.0.945
Thunderbird 8
Lupufy-slacko-004
Lupufy-slacko-openbox-002

Sfs’s
LibreOfc-3.3.1_en_USsfs4.sfs
Virtualbox-4.1.6-slacko.sfs

Everything working to perfection so far and been running all day so will now do a backup and increase the savefile by adding a further 512mb’s

Thanks 01micko

Mick
Congrats










....but most of all - Thank you
Sigmund

Hi Mick
what are the acpi changes introduced in 5.3.1?
The XOs are seriously misbehaving after wakeup from suspend, so before I go hunting would be good to have some idea about this.

Other than that 5.3.1 looks good on my VM.

mavrothal wrote:Hi Mick
what are the acpi changes introduced in 5.3.1?
The XOs are seriously misbehaving after wakeup from suspend, so before I go hunting would be good to have some idea about this.

Other than that 5.3.1 looks good on my VM.

Just the script /etc/acpi/actions/acpi_poweroff.sh, other than that nothing, so it's strange . Could be changes in woof too, check the fossil timeline for clues.

Actually, the "suspend" button should be hidden when on a usb install. Will fix that soon.

Working on a Dell Studio XPS.

Bitch of a laptop.

Goes straight to desktop.
Fails in Slacko.....PITA. >> Nvidia

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http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 7&tart=135

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Sydney smog is to blame for befuddlement.

Just realised this was up...so will try it.

And Dell are shits.

Read the Distrowatch review mate.

No root again???......tosssssssers.

Should have put Nooby on your case.

Bloody root.

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My post.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73746

Chris.

Burned S531 to cd and booted fine but it won't detect my network, no sound either. My computer works fine with both Racy522 and L528.

System

Asus P4V800D-X Mobo
P4-478 3.4ghz/800FSB
4gb DDR
3com ethernet card
Nvidia GT 7350 PCIe

Chipset

VIA PT880 Ultra
VIA VT8237R PLUS

Billtoo wrote:
Edit: I switched back to the vesa driver and the 2 dots problem is
gone.
# glxgears
1928 frames in 5.0 seconds = 385.491 FPS
1896 frames in 5.0 seconds = 379.076 FPS
1889 frames in 5.0 seconds = 377.794 FPS
That's faster too.

Next:

I plugged in an ati card and installed the proprietary ati driver.

Mon 12 Dec 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3.1 Linux 2.6.37.6
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood PRO
[Radeon HD 5500 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: REDWOOD 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 5570
OpenGL version string: 4.1.11251 Compatibility Profile Context

Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200
Core 0: 1200 1: 1200 MHz

# glxgears
30557 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6111.399 FPS
30553 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6110.504 FPS
30732 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6146.333 FPS

This is working well.

Very good review of Slacko Puppy 5.3 at DistroWatch.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue ... 12#feature

Dell Studio XPS a dud on Slacko 5.3.1 as well.

No desktop.

Of course when I didn't want it I saw a post yesterday about
problem booting to desktop ...and a Puppy command.

I do most testing from usb,
and I cannot turn on f2 etc for boot commands.

So my test today was from cd.

I gave up on Shinobar's installer,
because I could not get Hiren's or the Falcon to work.

Maybe someone can come up with a genius moment
so that I can boot from F2....likes zee olde days.

So here is my current Puppy and Falcon menu.
I just need one example and I can test on other Pups.

Regards.....Chris.

Chris

Can't you highlight your selection at grub and select "e" to edit (temporarily) the kernel line?

It may be a mode setting issue. Kernel modesetting (KMS) is set to "1" (on) for nvidias and intels, "0" (off) for radeons.

Working on a Dell Studio XPS.

Bitch of a laptop.

Goes straight to desktop.
Fails in Slacko.....PITA. >> Nvidia

You can add "nvidia.modeset=0" to your kernel line, see if it helps

01micko wrote

Please report anything good or bad.

it is good that it probably includes xdelta but it is bad that xdelta is not often used .
waste not want not. all these extra bandwidths are contributing to global warming. it will be the fall of civilization as currently envisioned, the undoing of mankind as we know him. the barbarians will bomb more unsuspecting innocents in order to steal their oil to generate more power to fuel the bandwidth explosion. need more? just ask.

Hi all

531 (main) loaded and ran out of the box, no hardware/sound/wireless issues at all on any of my machines and I have not killed it (yet)

well done mick

Don

Using Grub 4 Dos from Hiren's.

3rd last post.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 5&start=30

Never fails in usb booting.

I can edit the menu in Windows or Puppy....so no problem.

It's what to put in it.

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You can add "nvidia.modeset=0" to your kernel line, see if it helps

Can I boot with a similar command off cd

( puppy nvidia.modeset=0 )

Saluki 02 works.


Chris.

Hi Billtoo, I like you holiday background pix.

Can and would you post me the file of it?

I have a wide screen monitor, 16x9 format, would it fit that?


Thanks
Tui