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Starhawk, the 3.2 kernel seems not to support GMA 3000 chips .
Others had posted similar in the hardware section and switched to recent kernels by pemasu.

PaulR wrote:

ETP wrote:Hi PaulR,
It may be:

a) A bad download of the ISO – you need to confirm the checksum.
Or
b) A bad burn. I suggest if a) is o/k, that using something like BurnAware, you burn it again at the slowest possible speed and ensure you turn on the verify option.

Thanks ETP - I've double checked (a) and that's ok. Wouldn't think (b) would apply as the same thing happens when I boot from USB (although that was made with the same ISO. I'll start over, download and burn another disk, see if the same happens.

That didn't work. The MD5 is correct and I created a bootable USB using Puppy's BootFlash. While it boots and behaves normally it still hangs when trying first save and there's no option to save to hard disk instead of USB.

Paul

Karl Godt wrote:Starhawk, the 3.2 kernel seems not to support GMA 3000 chips .
Others had posted similar in the hardware section and switched to recent kernels by pemasu.

OK, no worries -- although you just taught me two things.
(1) that Precise 56 uses a 3.2.x kernel.
(2) that my GMA500 graphics core is part of the GMA3000 series. Doesn't make numerical sense but you know more than I do, so I trust you on that.

PaulR wrote:
That didn't work. The MD5 is correct and I created a bootable USB using Puppy's BootFlash. While it boots and behaves normally it still hangs when trying first save and there's no option to save to hard disk instead of USB.

Paul

It seems these problems are affecting older Intel machines.
I never use frugal installs, but did try some on my Inspiron and
experienced every sort of problem concerning hangups, save-
files, missing icons, and even kernel panics, that others have
mentioned in the last few pages.

With my full install; the temporary addition of "acpi=force" to
the grub kernel line solves the hang problem.

I'll try my netbook and see if it works with frugal.

Thanks rjbrewer, at least I'm not alone in having this issue so there's hope yet

Couldn't get either Claws or Sylpheed to run in 5.6. Might've had something to do with huge lists of dependencies? Didn't see .pets for either, either?
Also experiencing extreme difficulties downloading a friend's sky.com emails into SM emailer. The Sky instructions are as bizarre as incorrect - many of the steps they require don't exist. Somewhere, I saw that their default IMAPI needs to be changed to POP at some sky web location which proved equally unreachable. Any comments welcomed.
Unfortunately, with other folks one doesn't get rational choices of HW or SW ! Just takes ten times longer...

icake : please resize your picture to conform with Forum regulations.

"acpi=force" : see this Dougal fix has become necessary again. The need for this was fixed a couple of centuries back, or so it seems. The answer is known to many, but not me.

Sage wrote:Couldn't get either Claws or Sylpheed to run in 5.6. Might've had something to do with huge lists of dependencies? Didn't see .pets for either, either?

I download the source:
http://sourceforge.jp/projects/sylpheed ... 3.tar.bz2/
And compile, runs great Precise 5.6
Bill

Ta!

compile

is above my pay grade.

Sage,

Thanks for pointing out that the size of my image in my earlier message has not conformed with the forum regulations.

I did not know what are the requirements for the image size in the forum, and I searched briefly for the regulations without success. I have now resized my images to message board size of 640x480.

If this is also not an allowed size, please let me know asap.

PaulR wrote:Thanks rjbrewer, at least I'm not alone in having this issue so there's hope yet

Tried my netbook with usbflash:

No hangup or other problems; did save file to usbflash ok.
There is no option for hdsave as far as I can see.

Sage,

In pp5.6 I used http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... 1.0-q1.pet to receive email over IMAP4
There are newer and older version in http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/

I made a .PET of the nVidia legacy 173.14.37 driver with kernel 3.2.44 for Precise Puppy 5.6 here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=86424

peebee, and other testers,
I think I found why peebee had such trouble with the new driver. I corrected the cause in the firmware package, as well as making other bug fixes there. Please replace the previous version with the corrected version at the original place:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 629#705629

I go into more detail, there.
Richard

Booting 5.6 results in a blank screen with the monitor complaining "Input Not Supported". Adding "pfix=nox" to boot menu doesn't help. All recent versions, including 5.5, work OK.

Video card: Nvidia GeForce GT 520
Processor: Intel Dual-Core E6500

MENU.LST excerpt (Grub4DOS):

title Precise Puppy Linux 56 frugal install at sda1/p56
find --set-root /menu.lst
kernel /p56/vmlinuz psubdir=p56 pmedia=atahd pfix=nox
initrd /p56/initrd.gz

/// Edited a few minutes later:

P.S.: It works fine on my laptop, which is an MSI A4000, using an Intel T4300 CPU, GeForce 8200M Video.

zygo: many thanks for your comments. With Sky, they cloak their verbiage so that it becomes incomprehensible - I cannot even ascertain whether my friend is defaulted to IMAPI or POP. Their 'instructions' point to non-existent menus and options. Vince Cable got it right - this devil is in league with the Devil as well as the devil. No chance the proletariat will stop pouring their shekels into his coffers and avoid using his systems. Sadly, not all good things emanate from the antipodes...

rerwin wrote:peebee, and other testers,
I think I found why peebee had such trouble with the new driver. I corrected the cause in the firmware package, as well as making other bug fixes there. Please replace the previous version with the corrected version at the original place:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 629#705629

I go into more detail, there.
Richard

Hi Richard

Same testing - pristine frugal install of Precise 5.6 k3.2.44 - install your 2 pets: new firmware + agere hda 11c1:1040 driver - reboot

lsmod shows both agrmodem and agrserial loaded

dmesg shows ttyAGS3 has been created

connect wizard shows ttyAGS3 available

HOWEVER

modem-stats -c ATI3 /dev/ttyAGS3

and

clicking the Test button in PupDial

both kill Precise stone dead - power off button needed to recover.

Would taking a camera shot of the screen after the crash help?

Cheers
PeeBee

Sage, Surely you don't mean MAPI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAPI in relation to mail. You haven't been using some other OS have you?

See screenshot

Note,
I did not really want to "run as root"

Unticked "run as root" I did not see any output of that command.

Ticking "run in terminal" makes no difference.

If I am running in terminal I do not need gexec at all.

So I am voting for "remove gexec from puppy" unless someone enlightened me how to use gexec

haven't been

Oh no! Just trying to stop others from veering onto the dark side...

As you can see above, peebee reports that the HDA variant (agrsm-11c11040) of the driver crashes puppy. From the screen shot he sent me, I suspect the problem lies with the interface to the ALSA HDA driver or codec. I have not gone much beyond that, as I have not found clues, yet, on google.

The screen line of interest contains "findHDACodec+0x10/0x38 [agrmodem]"; 5 lines above it is "do_page_fault...". (I can use any help, at all, with this.)

But that probably affects only the HDA agrmodem driver. The two PCI variants should not have that problem, so need to be tested by someone who has one of the PCI Agere modems that use the drivers agrsm06pci or agrsm048pci.

Remember: they all require the new firmware_linux_module_agrmodem package.
Richard