Precise Puppy 5.5, released March 9, 2013

Please post any bugs you have found
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#76 Post by don570 »

Audacity Audio Editor Version 1.3.9
works very well on desktop machines ---> recognizing the sound card
automatically. Retrovol or alsamixer isn't needed!!

Try it here

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#77 Post by backi »

Hi rcrsn51 !
Problem with sound-loudness only with precise 5.5 on my desktop-machine.
(no problem with my Toshiba-notebook )

Upup 3.7.2 and 3.8.3 working fine with sound ... but i cant use them on mydesktop-machine due problems with xorg ...they crash sooner or later working with them .

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#78 Post by zygo »

LateAdopter

I have corrected 3 typos in my post - the main one being that I connect through VGA not RGB.

Thanks for your thoughts. I didn't realise that there was more than one widescreen ratio.

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#79 Post by zygo »

Racy 5.5 works with the HDTV with vesa at 1440x900. the xorg-server is version 1.11.0 .

precise 5.5 doesn't work with the HDTV at 1440x900 even if vesa is chosen. (The graphics card is an Intel.) The error in the xorg log is

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vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver.

The xorg-server version is 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.11 . Is this the correct one for Precise?

I searched the web expecting to find an instruction to allow a driver to be set in advance. But found sites advising to upgrade instead.

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#81 Post by technosaurus »

omg it takes forever to package a pet now (I've been on older pups)

/usr/bin/new2dir has a function called fixfilelistfunc

always called as
fixfilelistfunc "$ONEFILE"

it can be sped up significantly by replacing those with something along the lines of:

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sed -i "/$ONEFILE/d" /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files
or changing that function to do the same rather than doing 2 consecutive reads and writes (really slow for large file lists in packages with a lot of resources)
Note: You may need to quote it differently, I haven't tested it yet (dia package is still going through files after an hour), but wanted to post it before I forget.

Edit: it should also remove any occurance of
/usr/share/icons/*/icon-theme
and add a line to the pinstall script along the lines of
echo gtk-update-icon-cache `dirname "$ONEFILE"` >> /pathto/pinstall
(but I think? pinstall needs the leading "/" removed for woof?)
this saves ~500kb for each pet that has icons in /usr/share/icons
... alternatively petget could automagically run it if a package contains any files in /usr/share/icons since this would fix other packages that may have been packaged with an icon cache that overwrites the existing one which may have additional icons or be missing some that are in the icon.cache file (may cause a fault if gtk thinks there is an icon that is missing but was on the packagers machine)
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].

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RE new2dir

#82 Post by Karl Godt »

Disagree a little bit because I think that the main delay comes from the .moved.files ..

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for ONEMOVED in `cat /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.moved.files`
 do
  ONEORIG="`echo -n "$ONEMOVED" | cut -f 1 -d '&'`"
  ONENEW="`echo -n "$ONEMOVED" | cut -f 2 -d '&'`"
  grep -v "$ONEORIG" ${RELPATH}/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files > /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files
  echo "$ONENEW" >> /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files
  sync
  mv -f /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files ${RELPATH}/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files
 done
could be like

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 for ONEMOVED in `cat /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.moved.files`
 do
  ONEORIG="$ONEORIG
`echo -n "$ONEMOVED" | cut -f 1 -d '&'`"
  ONENEW="$ONENEW
`echo -n "$ONEMOVED" | cut -f 2 -d '&'`"
 done
#fi
echo "$ONEORIG" |sed '/^$/d' > /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.orig.files
echo "$ONENEW" |sed '/^$/d' > /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.new.files
grep -v -f /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.orig.files ${RELPATH}/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files >/tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files
cat /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.new.files >> /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files
cp -a --remove-destination /tmp/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files ${RELPATH}/${EXE_PKGNAME}.files
fi
EDIT : put the code inside the if/fi function in case "$ONEORIG" is empty, grep -v -f "$empty_file" could grep nothing .
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Re: RE new2dir

#83 Post by technosaurus »

Karl Godt wrote:Disagree a little bit because I think that the main delay comes from the .moved.files ...
you are right I just grabbed on to the first obvious one.... Turns out the whole thing needs refactored on 2nd look. Installwatch's -e parameter would help and it would be better to use a single awk script to fiddle with the list than the crazy # of iteration with multiple unneeded read/writes.
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].

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#84 Post by mchabez »

I don't know if this has been known before...

If I install a package that has a *.desktop file, it should have a menu entry. Well, most of them do.
But when the category is listed like this in the *.desktop file (example is from the fceux package in ubuntu precise)
Categories=X-Fun-Sub
It does not show up in JWM's menu at all.

Same with trimage:
Categories=X-Graphic-Sub
Changing them to X-Fun and X-Graphic works, though.

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#85 Post by technosaurus »

mchabez wrote:I don't know if this has been known before...

If I install a package that has a *.desktop file, it should have a menu entry. Well, most of them do.
But when the category is listed like this in the *.desktop file (example is from the fceux package in ubuntu precise)
Categories=X-Fun-Sub
It does not show up in JWM's menu at all.

Same with trimage:
Categories=X-Graphic-Sub
Changing them to X-Fun and X-Graphic works, though.
you could add them to /etc/xdg/menus/hierarchy
but I would suggest reporting to those packagers that they should use a registered category

Puppy (and linux in general) has enough work-arounds already, its better to fix the upstream package if possible
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].

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#86 Post by DM was on fire! »

Precise 5.5 runs flawlessly on my end, with KDE 4.9. Thank you to everyone for another great release! *-*

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#87 Post by mchabez »

technosaurus wrote:
mchabez wrote:I don't know if this has been known before...

If I install a package that has a *.desktop file, it should have a menu entry. Well, most of them do.
But when the category is listed like this in the *.desktop file (example is from the fceux package in ubuntu precise)
Categories=X-Fun-Sub
It does not show up in JWM's menu at all.

Same with trimage:
Categories=X-Graphic-Sub
Changing them to X-Fun and X-Graphic works, though.
you could add them to /etc/xdg/menus/hierarchy
but I would suggest reporting to those packagers that they should use a registered category

Puppy (and linux in general) has enough work-arounds already, its better to fix the upstream package if possible
I added them to /etc/xdg/menus/hierarchy, ran fixmenus, restarted X, still the same.

Edit: Adding the X-(category)-Sub category in their respective /etc/xdg/menus/puppy-*.menu files fixes the problem.

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frisbee-1.1 and network_tray-2.7

#88 Post by rerwin »

The newest version of frisbee and network_tray are available here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 497#698497
and are candidates for inclusion in Precise Pup 5.6. The major improvement is to the information provided by the network icon, to show all network types in use: ethernet, wifi, wireless modem and analog dialup.
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KDE

#89 Post by Barburo »

DM was on Fire! wrote:
Precise 5.5 runs flawlessly on my end, with KDE 4.9
I would love to try KDE with Precise 5.5 but I'm unsure how to set it up.

A quick look at the Ubuntu repositories via PPM shows dozens of KDE related packages, so I'm not sure where/how to begin.

Any hints getting KDE working appreciated!
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non root user

#90 Post by L18L »

# whoami
fido
# pmount
/usr/sbin/pmount: line 42: exec: sudo: not found
#

fido can mount.... and everything he is not allowed to do :shock:
[edited later]Cannot reproduce this ability for mount[/edit]


Thanks nooby who made me become fido again and find this bug :D

[edit]
# xskat
Can't write file /root/spot/.xskat.opt

fixed by:

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# chown spot /root/spot

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Re: non root user

#91 Post by nooby »

L18L wrote:# whoami
fido
# pmount
/usr/sbin/pmount: line 42: exec: sudo: not found
#

fido can mount.... and everything he is not allowed to do :shock:
[edited later]Cannot reproduce this ability for mount[/edit]


Thanks nooby who made me become fido again and find this bug :D

[edit]
# xskat
Can't write file /root/spot/.xskat.opt

fixed by:

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# chown spot /root/spot
I doubt that anybody else than you would take this further.
Maybe you are the exception. Up to now none have been able
to keep the motivation to test Fido and to explore what exactly
is possible and what is not possible using it and when it bark
at CLI codes that works as standard on other Linux distros.

I don't mind at all if you continue this but the thread
that I created about a wild idea has very little to do with Fido.

Barry has told us that using Fido is on our own responsibility
and very few are motivated to help out if one get in trouble.

I will not test Fido I already have severe headache
trying to use FPM2 and I where not intelligent enough for that one
So I would have no chance doing Fido.

I will not follow this thread.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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resizing the screen

#92 Post by zygo »

I have started X at the unavoidable 1024x768, added a new mode (1920x1080 max for the HDTV) with cvt & xrandr then resized the screen with xrandrshell from the xorg wizard. I clicked the permanent button but a restart of X returns the familiar 1024x768 mode and my settings in xrandr are gone. /etc/xrandrindex does not exist. Is this a bug?

When the screen is at 1920x1080 the icons and task bar occupy a little more than a quarter of the screen (top left) and the background is repeated over the whole screen in 4 tiles. When I run pwallpaper I can make the one wallpaper image occupy the whole screen. When I restart the window manager the task bar expands and crosses the whole screen at the bottom. However the the icons remain in the original rectangle and the menu never appears outside that area. Is there a way to reisze that area (without restarting X)?

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#93 Post by LateAdopter »

Hello zygo

BarryK has rewritten the xorg wizard and produced a Precise 5.6 beta.

http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00225

It may provided a simple solution to your original problem.

I think which files or folders are read at startup vary with different distributions, so not all of the methods for making changes persistent will work.

The main way is to put the modeline etc. in the xorg.conf. Alternatively you can put the --newmode --addmode --output lines in a script and run it when X starts. I think it is /etc/xdg/startup in Fatdog64, but it may be different in Precise.

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Precise-5.5.92

#94 Post by sszindian »

Didn't see a specific thread for this build so am placing my finds here:

Precise-5.5.92

Every application tried seems to work without any problems.

Graphics are nice for sure.

Speed: Not quiet as quick to respond as some of the other more recent puppy distro's but... accepitable!

Only major issue I found so far... ' WiFi DROPS... without any recovery method except the Cold-Hard-Shutdown!... This has been an issue with puppy's I tested (Precise - Slacko - Upups - Dpups) with the exception of WHEEZY... never had a drop with ir ever! I don't believe this problem is specific to my setup- Linksys AE1000 using rt2800usb as others have reported this happening in various threads with different WiFi setups and different cards.

It would be nice to see WiFi try to recover itself (there are other distro's that do this) once it drops, that would be a temp work-around but not a fix for sure.

Other than that, looks like a good solid build, especially for first-timers to puppy.

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Cloud Computing For Every Puppy (a .pet)
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Precise Puppy 5.5, released March 9, 2013

#95 Post by Billtoo »

Precise 5.5.92 running on an intel imac.
The builtin sound doesn't work but a usb sound card is working,
Retrovol needed to be configured to use HW:1 but is working fine now.
Builtin webcam works fine with guvcview from ppm.
The legacy proprietary ati driver compiled with no problem.
This beta is working well here.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Thu 9 May 2013 on Precise Puppy 5.5.92 Linux 3.2.44 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
nee ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: M74 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (444x277 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 Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11653 Compatibility Profile Context

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8135 @ 2.40GHz
Core 0: @2400 1: @2400 MHz

# glxgears
24503 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4900.361 FPS
24832 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4966.368 FPS
24935 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4986.917 FPS
#
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Audio Adapter USB-Audio - Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro
Input Devices
Creative Technology Ltd Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro
Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:400a
Power Button
Sleep Button
Power Button
Video Bus
HDA Digital PCBeep
HDA Intel Headphone
PC Speaker
Built-in iSight
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