Precise Puppy 5.5, released March 9, 2013

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#16 Post by pemasu »

I have waited that aufs3.8 has been published. Now it has. I have compiled 3.8.2 kernel with f2fs support and I am now checking the firmwares for drivers and testing sns - frisbee interusability. The woof downloaded for this first test build the peebee version from common repo and I have changed now the woof to use noarch repo version. The second test build is now under work.

I have updated wpa_supplicant to version 1.0 and I have used rerwins newer dropwait patched dhcpcd. I have also gone through Barrys SPECS in woof for Precise Puppy and fixed my used SPECS.

The 3.8.2 nonPAE kernel is in use in this post. 01micko has been busy, he has created PHATslacko using about samely configured 3.8.2 kernel build...so it looks to be fine for Puppy.

Now that aufs and woof situation seems to be settled after flurry activity I am going to soon publish nonPAE Precise Puppy version.

Why new kernel and not retro. The reason is simple. The hardware needed drivers will support also newer comps and the older ones should not have much problems with newer kernel. My several tests and experimental builds has shown that older comps and laptops work fine with newer nonPAE kernel. There has been a lot problems with wireless with previous kernels. I hope that most of those problems have been fixed by patches in newer kernel.
There is though the need for checking that the firmware base is up to date but that can be done since the nonPAE kernel Upup Precise has been uploaded.....soon.

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Precise Puppy 5.5, released March 9, 2013

#17 Post by Billtoo »

Running from a remaster of Precise 5.5 on an 8gb SDHC card,using
grub4dos as the bootloader,running on an HP desktop pc.

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Mon 11 Mar 2013 on Precise Puppy 5.5 Linux 3.2.29 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 02)
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: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 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 8.0.4
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
Core 0: @1200 1: @1200 MHz
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
306 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.163 FPS
304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.732 FPS
304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.731 FPS
Memory 4139MB (116MB used)
Precise 5.5 is working well on this pc.
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#18 Post by Sage »

Thanks Bt, will look into the boot-up time a little more. Yes, pfix=ram, without adjuncts in the first instance.
Later: Aha! 1min22s from a DVD-RW. I usually use/recycle my vast collection of CD-RW.
But this one is slower than the alphas, betas, rc-s measured on the same kit.
Even later: Confirmed 2min12s from CD-RW. Odd!

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#19 Post by Kerry Blue »

About that sound problem I mentioned above with the Radeon HD 6250/6310, I read on different forums that users with similar hardware and the same problem solved this by blacklisting the snd-hda-codec-hdmi module or by creating a asound.conf file .

I'm not knowledgeable enough to oversee this, but maybe this is the direction towards a solution?

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Fujitsu server freezes in a few minutes of use

#20 Post by Ted Dog »

My largest box is a Fujitsu server and PP5.5 froze the machine within minutes, unable to work-around after many attempts. PP5.5=DOA :cry:

galen

bug

#21 Post by galen »

same bug with nouveau as in precise 5.4.3
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84002

the menu text is not showing as well as some icons and their text.
I switched themes, still no good

under racy 5.5 which I think uses nouveau everything looks fine,
racy will also easily switch to nvidia driver version 173 in my case

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PPM and Precise 5.5

#22 Post by watchdog »

All working in my install. I have to signal freezes of PPM in some situations: but it's written in releases notes that PPM is not perfect.

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Re: PPM and Precise 5.5

#23 Post by ASRI éducation »

watchdog wrote:All working in my install. I have to signal freezes of PPM in some situations: but it's written in releases notes that PPM is not perfect.
For PPM, I use the interface "ziggy", it prevents freezes.

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#24 Post by Kerry Blue »

I SOLVED THE SOUND ISSUE WITH THE Radeon HD 6250/6310 CHIP (I'm happy)

.http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 452#691452

The volume control on the taskbar still doesn't work though : it is always set to maximum and can't be lowered.

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#25 Post by backi »

Hi !

Precise 5.5 has the nasty habit to freeze my mouse from time to time .
Had that with Macpup 5.2.8 too .
Anybody else ?

Schön Tag .!

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#26 Post by witekjeden »

Hi! Thanks for a new Puppies, it is a great job!
.
But i have still problem with PGPRS Connect in Precise. When i run modem with this application
Menu > Network > PGPRS
it is ok and modem connect. Problem when i want to disconnect, the keyboard short <ctrl>c not working. I press <ctrl>c again and again and modem still connected. It looks somethinks like this.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69 ... yshot.jpg/
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In another Puppies not problem. When i press <ctrl>c then modem disconnect. It looks something like this.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/ ... yshot.jpg/
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Why in Precise can not disconnect modem? In Slacko, Wary, Lucid, Puppy4.3.1, Puppy4.2.1 not problem.

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new version of mtpaint 3.44.13

#27 Post by don570 »

new version of mtpaint 3.44.13
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81136
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#28 Post by Karl Godt »

witekjeden , dunno exactly why, but this happened to me also in dpup-485 and squeeze-pup by iguleder. Seems that it is a feature patch built into whatever .

To kill pgprs-connect:

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kill -s HUP `pidof pppd`
in a separate terminal.

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Other topic:
BUG observed by others : Seems that mkswap is having problems with a library.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=693062#693062 and the post above.

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#29 Post by pemasu »

3builddistro file explains why the libblkid is not used from this util-linux pet, there is preference of other package for that lib and so...it has been dismissed.
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00133
#110701 possible lib clash between e2fsprogs and util-linux (i might use old util-linux pet). hack...
if [ -e ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/e2fsprogs/lib/libblkid.so.1 ];then
if [ -e ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/util-linux/lib/libblkid.so.1 ];then
#give e2fsprogs libs preference...
cp -a -f --remove-destination ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/e2fsprogs/lib/libblkid.so* rootfs-complete/lib/
cp -a -f --remove-destination ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/e2fsprogs/lib/libuuid.so* rootfs-complete/lib/
rm -f ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/util-linux_DEV/lib/lib*
fi
fi

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#30 Post by Deacon »

pemasu wrote:3builddistro file explains why the libblkid is not used from this util-linux pet, there is preference of other package for that lib and so...it has been dismissed.
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00133
#110701 possible lib clash between e2fsprogs and util-linux (i might use old util-linux pet). hack...
if [ -e ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/e2fsprogs/lib/libblkid.so.1 ];then
if [ -e ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/util-linux/lib/libblkid.so.1 ];then
#give e2fsprogs libs preference...
cp -a -f --remove-destination ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/e2fsprogs/lib/libblkid.so* rootfs-complete/lib/
cp -a -f --remove-destination ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/e2fsprogs/lib/libuuid.so* rootfs-complete/lib/
rm -f ../packages-${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}/util-linux_DEV/lib/lib*
fi
fi
How do we replace the lost functions then? It seems a few things require this library

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#31 Post by pemasu »

Install the pet from here. and if you are going to need development files for compiling, install the DEV pet also.

For i486 (compiled in Wary) (450K, 835K):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... 5-i486.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... 5-i486.pet

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Mkswap

#32 Post by Deacon »

the .pet download did it; works perfectly now. Thank you!

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precise hangs on boot

#33 Post by goolwa_pup »

Hi

just a bug report on Precise

I downloaded the iso and dragged the three required files into a directory to boot

I have an amd phenom 11 cpu 4 gb ram and no cdrom installed..it boots from an SSD drive...precise 5.5 hangs on boot at the line .....recognising optical devices...

menu 1st reads as follows

title PRECISE
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /precise/puppy_precise_5.5.sfs
kernel /precise/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd pfix=copy
initrd /precise/initrd.gz

have tried without "pmedia=atahd pfix=copy" but still hangs on same line

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#34 Post by witekjeden »

@Karl Godt
Your command in a separate console not working.
http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/2299 ... syshot.jpg

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Glade

#35 Post by seaside »

Found that Glade loaded but without the widget symbols and also had these errors.

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(glade:24388): GladeUI-CRITICAL **: Unable to load image (Failed to open file '/usr/share/glade/pixmaps/plus.png': No such file or directory)

(glade:24388): GladeUI-WARNING **: Failed to open catalog directory '/usr/share/glade/catalogs': Error opening directory '/usr/share/glade/catalogs': No such file or directory

(glade:24388): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_foreach: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
GladeUI-Message: No DevHelp installed on your system, devhelp feature will be disabled.
Loads but has no icons.

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