(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Precise Puppy 5.6.1
Beta and RC releases, and 5.6-final, are discussed in this thread, with discussion of 5.6.1 starting on page 11:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 016#706016

See my blog announcement of 5.6.1, with download links and release notes:
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00275

Precise Puppy 5.6
Beta and RC releases are at the start of this thread, and 5.6-final feedback starts on page 5:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 724#704724

Announcement and download links:
http://www.bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00253

Precise 5.5.94 (5.6RC)
Starts on page 3:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 171#704171

Precise 5.5.93 (5.6beta2)
Blog announcement and download:

http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00236

Feedback welcome!

Thank you for including Legacy GRUB Config 2013.

There is a newer version of PeasyPrint (2.3) here.

Please read the discussion here about the phantom mounting of sda1. This was quite disconcerting.

Please refer to my post in the Precise 5.5 topic.

Some (most?) packages in the Ubuntu repos have something like this in their *.desktop files: They aren't appearing in the JWM menu, after neither installation nor running fixmenus and restarting JWM. In the /etc/xdg/menus/puppy-*.menu files, the X-(category)-Sub categories aren't listed, only X-(category), so the -Sub category should be added (preferably right after the X-(category)) in each puppy-*.menu file.

Known affected packages are fceux, trimage and tvtime.

This is a minor bug, but it could be very confusing for newcomers.

mchabez wrote:Please refer to my post in the Precise 5.5 topic.

Some (most?) packages in the Ubuntu repos have something like this in their *.desktop files:

Code: Select all

...
Categories=X-(category)-Sub
...

They aren't appearing in the JWM menu, after neither installation nor running fixmenus and restarting JWM. In the /etc/xdg/menus/puppy-*.menu files, the X-(category)-Sub categories aren't listed, only X-(category), so the -Sub category should be added (preferably right after the X-(category)) in each puppy-*.menu file.

Known affected packages are fceux, trimage and tvtime.

This is a minor bug, but it could be very confusing for newcomers.

I too ran into this with Filezilla X-Internet-Sub; But I also downloaded bibletime and vlc witch both went into the menu and worked.

everything else is working on a Dell D430

Cheers

D/l finally arrived from ibiblio. There were some issues with video on a 754 nV board with Radeon 7000 onboard chip. Initial res. was incorrect and couldn't be reset from CLI. Rebooted with nox and got correct settings via manual input, but results were less than expected. 'Expected' was based on XP2800+ fitted with discrete Radeon 7000 card. This machine selected correct res., was brighter and faster without any intervention. Both machines shared the same monitor - odd.
Otherwise, another great release with sound, connection and FlashPlayer OOTB. This project definitely proving more successful that Rarin'. Thanks.

rcrsn51 wrote:Thank you for including Legacy GRUB Config 2013.

There is a newer version of PeasyPrint (2.3) here.

Please read the discussion here about the phantom mounting of sda1. This was quite disconcerting.

Re the "phantom mounting", I have responded to that in my blog:

http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00226

I am going to rewrite the code so that pupdesk.flg gets created and removed in the initrd, so user's won't see any "phantom mounting".

mchabez wrote:Please refer to my post in the Precise 5.5 topic.

Some (most?) packages in the Ubuntu repos have something like this in their *.desktop files:

Code: Select all

...
Categories=X-(category)-Sub
...

They aren't appearing in the JWM menu, after neither installation nor running fixmenus and restarting JWM. In the /etc/xdg/menus/puppy-*.menu files, the X-(category)-Sub categories aren't listed, only X-(category), so the -Sub category should be added (preferably right after the X-(category)) in each puppy-*.menu file.

Known affected packages are fceux, trimage and tvtime.

This is a minor bug, but it could be very confusing for newcomers.

It's not really a bug. In all cases where "-Sub" is shown, you leave it off.

Precise-5.5.93

Did an upgrade to 5.5.92... it went well but it took two reboots for Frisbee to finally kick in from the 5.5.92 original setup. That appears to be working very well so far (about 8-hours now) plus several reboots with 100% survival rate.

So far everything else that came with 5.5.93 plus all my installs are doing great!

Your effort on 5.5.93 really shows!

sfs's installed that work nice:
Google Earth-6.0.3.2197-luki.sfs
gimp-2.8.2-1precise.sfs

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

Still temporarily enjoying dialup internet for a few more days until my replacement equipment arrives so I actually used the delta file for a change.Generally just go ahead and download the new full iso but since my high-speed is down I appreciated the smaller download.

Frugal install on the Athlon XP box.....everything looking good except for the dreaded file being placed on sda1.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.5.93

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1440x900
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 exa extmod fb glx kbd mouse record shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...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.
2185 frames in 5.0 seconds = 436.837 FPS
2232 frames in 5.0 seconds = 446.399 FPS
2216 frames in 5.0 seconds = 443.096 FPS
2179 frames in 5.0 seconds = 435.692 FPS

Mirrored:
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/precise/

Some optional SFS'es available:
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/precise/opt/

A long term woof issue:
The bootManager says 'top entry will be on top Unionfs layer', but it is not true.

Japanese editions have different code for the additional SFS'es to be loaded in the order listed on the EXTRASFSLIST.
Here is the patch:

Manual frugal install to an 8gb SDHC card running on a Gateway desktop
pc.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Mon 13 May 2013 on Precise Puppy 5.5.93 Linux 3.2.44 i686
5.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
nee ATI RS780 [Radeon HD 3200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS780 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 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 3200 Graphics
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11672 Compatibility Profile Context

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Core 0: @800 1: @800 2: @800 3: @800 MHz

# glxgears
19623 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3924.525 FPS
19754 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3950.747 FPS
19793 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3958.438 FPS
#

I installed several applications with
ppm,kdegames,vlc,audacious,mc,xfe,htop,lxterminal,and more.
I downloaded and installed the proprietary driver: amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run
On first boot it went straight to the desktop with everything working,
no problems at all so far.

Precise Puppy version 5.5.93, released May 2013

# uname -a
Linux puppypc12331 3.2.44 #1 SMP Sun May 5 11:42:44 GMT-8 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1805224 564764 1240460 0 66356
-/+ buffers: 498408 1306816
Swap: 0 0 0
#

Manual frugal to ntfs partition, E732 laptop, booting via SDcard with grub4dos. All seems extremely good and everything seems to work as expected. Very nice.

Sorry, this response should be sent to the blog of BK, but I do not have an account to communicate.
So let me highlight a proposal jamesbond.

My suggestion is either:

a) use a boot menu instead of boot prompt, where one of the menu entry is "safeboot" or something like that which will start puppy with the appropriate boot parameters, or

b) if still using boot prompt, then have another label entry (say "safeboot") which will boot with the appropriate boot parameters, instead of asking the user to type "puppy pfix=blahblahblah".

I know that many users appreciate the ease and efficiency of boot menu.
In addition, for many novice users, it avoids errors beginners.
Example: if I write 'pupy pfix=ram' (instead of 'puppy pfix=ram'), the prompt is telling me no error and start detecting the backup.
The menu avoids these errors and allow many options.
It's simple to customize (if it is integrated into the iso).

An example => How to have a graphical GRUB (CatDude)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27471

Cordialement,

James C wrote:Still temporarily enjoying dialup internet for a few more days until my replacement equipment arrives so I actually used the delta file for a change.Generally just go ahead and download the new full iso but since my high-speed is down I appreciated the smaller download.

Yeah if only other people who develop would use the Delta files more and more.....

.

Every Precise I'v tried exhibits the same behavior. Either the kernel, Alsa or Retrovol do not recginize my Intel audio chip

Processor : 8x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
snd_hda_intel : Intel HDA driver
snd_hda_codec : HDA codec core
snd_hwdep : Hardware dependent layer
snd_pcm_oss : PCM OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_mixer_oss : Mixer OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_pcm : Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
snd_seq_dummy : ALSA sequencer MIDI-through client
snd_seq_oss : OSS-compatible sequencer module
snd_seq_midi : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer MIDI synth.
snd_seq_midi_event : MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
snd_rawmidi : Midlevel RawMidi code for ALSA.
snd_seq : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
snd_seq_device : ALSA sequencer device management
snd_timer : ALSA timer interface
shpchp : Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
snd : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
soundcore : Core sound module

PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])

I've tried every option that alsa anmd retrovol offer for configuration.

What's really interesting is that Raring and Upup recognize the sound ship, the speaker icon is not muted as it is in Precise.

It seems that the "stock" precise distributions have the problem, while non-stock ones do not.

I'd rslly appreciate some help with this.

thanks

Thom

Hello BarryK,

Please see my post here about the LaGaBluenight desktop icons:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=350

I hope you will give serious consideration to this as the appearance of the default desktops of Wary, Racy and Precise make up a very important part of the "shopfront" of Puppy.

Barry, Pemasu suggested that I call to your attention a video driver
selection issue that I first noticed on his Wheezy 3.5.2.6 and
3.5.2.7. After I select the ATI Radeon driver and it reboots, it
then enters X and exits requiring me to type xwin to get a GUI.

I tried your Precise 5.5.92 and it also balked and very strangely
offered a selection of video drivers that included wrong ones such as
Intel as well as the correct Radeon. However, after I chose
Radeon it subsequently started up normally.

A fresh frugal of your 5.5.93 went straight to the GUI with the
proper driver and 1280 X1024 screen ok (My only complaint
about 5593 so far is the old 1.03 version of gnome mplayer that
has audio-video sync problems.)

Art

Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
The nouveau sometimes success and sometime fails.
The vesa works.
Tried vesa with the xorgwizard-cli and it's OK. But it requires reboot.

After some tests, I found reboot actually does not need in my case.
I would like the reboot to be optional.

wifi starts only after: network-wizard =>establish wifi with wl (shows connection but no networking) => rebooting(making savefile) => reestablishing network through Frisbee;
the same thing on previous "precises"/AOA722/HP pavilion dv6/
hope will be helpful to someone( on AOA722 established wifi with b43).