Upup Precise 5.3.3.3 with kernel 3.3.2

[pemasu]

/usr/lib/dri -----> check the contents

yes|xorg_base|cut....libgl1-mesa-dri...cut

xorg-high has been already installed.

[vtpup]

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# glxgears
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
# glxinfo
name of display: :0
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

[pemasu]

Have you run xorgwizard in console state and choosed the appropriate driver which handles acceleration.
I had probably vesa driver as preselected and I did need to run xorgwizard and choose intel driver.

[James C]

Decided to delete the save file and start again with a fresh frugal install.Everything working on boot and persistent through a couple of reboots.Now to start tweaking.........

[musher0]

This is for musher0:
http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_pack ... s-8.16.pet

Quite an honour, pemasu, thanks!

Have you tailored them so they do not interfere with BK's scripts? I noticed you do not have the "truncate" utility in the package, which is good because petget uses its own "truncate".

Thanks in advance for your reply.

[musher0]

I have created repository for extra pets:
pet_packages-upup

http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-upup/

...)

Ha-ha. Yyyeeesss.

[don570]

I was able to convert pmirror so that it
can mirror 5 folders now.

I call the application 'Puppy backup 1.4'

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77685


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[don570]

Some observations while using precise to develop 'puppy backup'

1) The Canadian provinces need to be on the list of time zones
when setting up Precise initially.

2) Some stock gtk icons were missing. For 'puppy backup'
the folder open icons were missing.

3) pmusic tray icon didn't work.
I clicked on the tray icon to make pmusic disappear and it didn't work.

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[vtpup]

Have you run xorgwizard in console state and choosed the appropriate driver which handles acceleration.
I had probably vesa driver as preselected and I did need to run xorgwizard and choose intel driver.

Nope, hadn't done that, I assumed that some kind of automatic driver selection had taken place to replace the need for xorgwizard.

I dropped to terminal, and ran xorgwizard, and selected intel as the driver.

glxinfo now works.

glxgears doesn't work as follows:

accepts glxgears command,
opens animation window,
but window remains black.
No gears appear.
The main terminal window doesn't show a frame rate.

Test of Google Sketchup 7.1 in Wine 1.4
runs, but work area remains black.

(Both glxgears and Sketchup run well in Racy, Sulu, and Lupu 5.28 v5)

[pemasu]

coreutils have been configured as follow:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-acl --disable-assert --disable-xattr --disable-libcap --without-selinux --without-gmp

[jim3630]

system froze up, mouse not working, no key strokes working had to do hard shut down.

[vtpup]

Query to get range for brightness, and to set monitor to half brightness.

I used these with xbindkeys-config to get at least two brightness levels.

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# cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness
976
# echo 500 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
# 

[mikeslr]

Hi pemasu & all,

Frugal install. Updated by unpacking precise 5.3.3.2 ISO and copying its essential files to folder after deleting 5.3.3.1's comparables, but leaving "old" SaveFile. All programs work, including Launcher Panel. As expected, default icons reappeared on desktop. Desktop also was now using default Background.
Decided to try PWallpaper Background Image Chooser to regain my custom wallpaper. Only a trucated listing appeared, and it wouldn't load. By right-clicking a desktop icon, and selecting "Backdrop", then dragging & dropping my the desired wallpaper into it permitted its use. PWallpaper...Chooser had the same problem with a couple others I had copied into /usr/share/background. So I've attached one of the "problem" wallpapers if someone with tech-savy would like to figure out why PWallpaper...Chooser isn't working as well as it should.
While attaching the jpg, I noticed that its name contains a space. I think all the problem jpges had a space in their names.

I second vtpup's suggestion that Time Zones be selected thru the use of dialogues. I'd add the following argument in its favor. Currently, for those of us in the "New World" setting our time zone requires dragging the wizard (which opens in the middle of the desktop) to the top of the screen and then scrolling down to almost the bottom of the list. Answering a question or three would be much less time consuming.

The mention of youtube reminded me that Lupu's gtk-youtube-viewer didn't run in precise. Hope someday a precise version is developed.

mikesLr

[vtpup]

Hi pemasu & all,

I second vtpup's suggestion that Time Zones be selected thru the use of dialogues.

mikesLr

That would actually need to be a new application, and would be a change across likely a lot of puppies. I think it's do-able but would be a small project in itself.

I think the three questions I suggested would be able to pin down one of the 40 time zones for a specific user, but it's possible there could be one or two ambiguous regions.

Another problem might be that countries sharing a time zone, might have different dates for DST start and end -- though maybe not. Seems like that would make more than 40 zones. So if there are truly only 40, it should be do-able.

Anyway, it would be a project.

The present system is really clumsy if you don't know what listed city you are normally associated with. I happen to know that it's New York City (for Vermont) so I scrolled to America and then the "N" section to find New York.

But if I lived somewhere else, and didn't know what standard city to look for, I'd have to possibly read through all of the listed cities in the North Central and South American continents to find one close by. They are only listed alphabetically, not by country -- so it's a big jumble of names. Not knowing what timezone listed city you are looking for means you'd have to read and consider every one until you got to one you knew was likely.

EDIT:

Another method of selection might be a world map of timezones where you could click on your area with you cursor, and then the map would zoom in with enough detail for you to be able to click again to be specific about the zone you live in, if necessary.

[musher0]

Hello, all.

I decided to make a new iso of Precise 5332 with everything i fattened it up with, and I got this message while the sfs was being created. See the last lines: something about "not being able to stat udev". Is that of any significance? Is it Precise-related? (Please see attached.)

Thanks in advance. BFN.

[musher0]

And speaking of a Fat-Precise Upup (you can be fat and still be precise, can't you?) , these are my substitutions:

Seamonkey, out; opera, in
abiword 2.8.6, out; abiword 2.9 (ttuuxx's pet), in
amaya from Portable Linux Apps, in. (Loads like a charm).
lxp-icewm, in.

For the record more than anything, of course. However, the following may be worthy of note for the writers out there:

ttuuxx's abiword 2.9 has all 48 plugins... which means that you can throw most any text format at abiword (including docx and pdf) and it'll take it. And this version is supposedly more responsive on the screen than previous versions because it now has a double buffer.

BFN.

[linux28]

I have created repository for extra pets:
pet_packages-upup

http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-upup/

I havent tested many of them...I just want to test that compiling works.

Samba-3.6.4-upup I did test...it is full latest samba.

fbreader?
evince?

[musher0]

@linux28:

Yes good readers would be nice. And in the same line of thought, the real less, which is much more powerful than the busybox one, to read straight *.txt and *.sh files quickly and easily whithout fear of altering any code or content.

BFN.

[jakfish]

Hi, pemasu,

An odd question: which one of your fine puppies (that uses a 3.* kernel) has the lowest CPU temperature for general use?

General use would be: a word processor always running, email_light browsing, wifi/bluetooth turned off when internet not needed.

My Lenovo S10-3t works with all pemasu CPU Frequency_Scaling setups, but S10-3t can't manually control the fan. So even with Power Saving frequency, I have a hard time (with any puppy) keeping an idle temperature below 54 (idle = no wifi/bluetooth, word processing only).

Maybe all puppies burn at that temperature, but if you can suggest one cooler cpu pemasu puppy over another, that would be wonderful.

Many thanks,
Jake

[LateAdopter]

Hello pemasu

I have just tried upup 5332

Athlon II X2, 785g chipset (RS880G)

On the first boot, the setup screen said it was using the Radeon driver.

Looking at the video info after setup it was actually using VESA.

I used xorgconfig to setup the radeon driver. Then X would not start.

So I changed back to VESA which works.

The RS880G is well supported by Xorg and I have not had a problem with any other puppy.

If the xf86 drivers came from the ubuntu precise repo, would the kernel mismatch break them?

I understand that the ATI proprietary driver does not work with the 3.2.8/3.3+ 32bit kernel without a patch. Even maybe Catalyst 12.4 that was released today. (Kano posting on Phoronix)