Blue Pup V6 Released 11th Oct 2014 32-bit

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v6 testing

#286 Post by charbaby66 »

Well, the most important things I learned so far are:

- Blue6 (re)installs fine under linux (yay - no Win needed) using gparted to erase both partitions and recreate lone fat32 partition (remember do not
set boot or any flag)

- Code: xz --decompress --stdout blue_pup_v6.img.xz > /dev/sdX
(remember /dev/sdX does NOT mean /dev/sdb1 just /dev/sdb [for my usb])

- if watching htop is not thrilling then as soon as you see another "#" in
your terminal type - Code: sync

- learned that you must overtype in the boxes when changing tile settings
like weather locations, as it is not clearly defined to do that

however, without checking PPM I installed peasywifi-3.1.1.pet http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 60&t=94501
(now that I know how to use it, I prefer it to solve ongoing disconnect issues, with much thanks to rcrsn51) but maybe I ought not fix if not broken, eh?

now I have no sound and cannot get it to turn up even after mucking in the retrovol settings.. possible bug in 6 as 5 was fine OR I broke something with peasywifi :( I can't remember if I had sound b4 it was installed... then tried alsawizard and it restarted x, and lost the purty wallpaper and corrupted
the file... and lost conky, (can we resize him (fonts) a bit?)

I have attached my dmesg hoping it will show what's amiss, but this is an
old Dell D610, and it seems these Pentium M's have a few issues that a snip of code added or removed fix besides the wifi as above

(on precise 5.x non PAEs anyway :) but not all my bugs on slacko 5.x non PAEs) eg: to avoid shutdown hang/no savefile on 1st reboot I need to comment out "modprobe -rv `echo $line | cut -d ' ' -f 1' " in /etc/init.d/10alsa but I still lose my pinboard on reboot in slacko and wifi drivers not detected
not sure if any hacks needed in Blue

so I will reinstall Blue6 (and time it this time cuz it seemed faster than 20 mins :) Sorry Google broke for you, what about the beta? 38 was supposed to be pretty stable, and the only browser so I hear, that will play with Netflix
natively using HTML5. Be back soon, will let you know if it was peasy that broke my sound :)

▶—— Video ——◀

Display:
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 10.0.1
Screen Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
Screen Depth: 24 bits (planes)
X.Org version: 1.15.0

Video Chip:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
vendor: Intel Corporation
product: Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

▶—— Audio Devices ——◀

Multimedia audio controller : Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] (rev 03)

▶—— Network Devices ——◀

Ethernet controller : Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
--
Network controller : Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11abg Wireless Network Controller [14e4:4324] (rev 03)

▶—— COMPUTER MEMORY ——◀

Memory Allocation:
Total RAM: 2017 MB
Used RAM: 474 MB
Free RAM: 1543 MB
Buffers: 1 MB
Total Swap: 2047 MB
Free Swap: 2047 MB
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RE: V6 testing

#287 Post by ETP »

Hi charbaby66,

Thanks for testing V6 and your detailed report. With regard to the wireless I suspect that it would have worked with SNS and that installing peasywifi was premature.
Then again the Broadcom chip is a bit of a swine. I will await your feedback on that.

Sound/Alsa:
Don’t run alsawizard. In my experience you stand no chance once you have done so.
If you have no sound icon on the taskbar, launch Skype (ALT+S) then click on the X to close the window. On the taskbar you will have the white Skype icon as you did not quit it. More importantly to the right of it, you may have a gap before the next icon.
That gap is your invisible retrovol icon! It becomes invisible when either the master volume or pcm have defaulted to off or zero.
Right click the invisible icon then set pcm to 100% and set the master, if one appears to 75%.
If the above does not apply it is possible that your audio chip/card has not been detected. A quick test for that is to open a terminal and type “alsamixer
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#288 Post by gcmartin »

Hello @Charbaby66.

I still have an use a PentiumM, but, my version does not have the same problems as other have. My system has the PAE flag enabled. But, on a test earlier with a friend's laptop, I tried @Shinobar's FIX for PentiumM and indeed, his solution enable his PentiumM to the point where there seem to be a similar performance increase associated (although this was NOT mesured, only using user's response).

You "may" want to consider this. My experience is as follows:
  1. Boot the distro, Pristine
  2. Add @Shinobar's fix for exposing Intel hidden flags
  3. Boot
  4. Monitor your LAN/WLAN behavior
  5. Sound presence
  6. After confirmation, add any/everything you would want and need.
Enjoy...Cheers!

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v6 testing will continue..

#289 Post by charbaby66 »

Thank you to both ETP and gcmartin for your input

Will be back to testing Blue after testing shinobar's modified tahr for Pentium M patch (now an iso) ..so far SNS seems ok, will try frisbee as i can see the disconnects easier.. no shutdown hang, 1st boot create save folder ok (and so cool!) EDIT: some issues ..I best go to that forum for fixes....

not sure how to tell if PAE is forced successfully or showing a difference other than my mentioned bugs seem possibly better (more detail later)

EDT I can test if you want to try the same kernel mod/patch in Blue for
other Pentium M users, but I was not needing to use the fixes I had
to for Precise 5.7.1 and Slacko 5.7/5.9.x. In Blue, The issues here are due to my clumsiness more than anything I think!!

For what it is worth, the only newer derivative other than Blue (and tahr) not to give such grief is the tried and true Lucid 5.2.8 series & permasu's precise-3.8.3.1.SCSI dpup (my thanks to him too!) I have been trial &
erroring what runs or not on here, Thanks for all the help :)

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Barry's snapshot, it works, but not immediately.

#290 Post by Volhout »

Hi ETP,

I installed Blue V6, and a quick checkup, it seems okay.

How can I prevent that the right windows key (menu key) brings up that popup on the JWM desktop ? "Blue Pup Version 6 ... click an icon... The big Blue button shuts down your PC". Almost always I hae to close it without using it.

I used Barry's snapshot utility to make a snapshot before I tried following.
I installed LxPup_per_SFS version for Quirky Tahr, from PeeBee, since I prefer LxDE over JWM. But there where many things that didn't work correctly. So I decided to revert back.

Used the snapshot utility to revert back, and choose for "after reboot".

After reboot the machine crunched for a few minutes, and brought up a mix between LxDE and JWM (it still had the LxDE menu entries, but the JWM desktop.

It was only after another reboot that things where back in order, and I had a pristine BlueV6.

So far my observation.

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RE: Snapshot/WM/Panel

#291 Post by ETP »

Hi Volhout,

In Blue JWM is heavily customised. Changing to another windows manager will cripple it.

To close the Browser/Metro interface and just return to the desktop without the panel being launched or raised use ALT+F4.

EDIT: ALT+F6 if you just want to minimise it. :)
Press the left hand Windows key to raise it again. :)


BarryK’s snapshot facility has worked fine in all my tests.
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Volume and Keyboard

#292 Post by Volhout »

Hi ETP,

Running the Blue V6 non-PAE version on my old DV2000 laptop. Works fine, posting from it now. The only anomaly I see is the volume control via the icon in the tray. It is set to 62568% (full bar) and I cannot change it. Rightclick, full config shows the retrovol sliders for headphone, speaker, PCM etc. And I can change all of them, also the MASTER volume slider, and they all function. Closing the window however does not adapt the main slider that is visible. It remains at 62568%.

Any idea how to fix this ?

I will continue testing, and will add to this post while I progress,
The problem with the volume slider does not appear running Blue V6 (same USB stick) on my EeePC 1001HA netbook. There the volume slider is the same as the "master slider" in the full window. So this is laptop related.

But now we are at it .....
I started posting from the DV2000 laptop, and all was okay...I typed text. On the EeePC1001HA however the keyboard is not correctly working. When I type VOLHOUT, I get V63H45 or something. Some character keys are replaced by numeric keys. Tried to look into the keyboard setup, but there the UK keyboard was selected. When I choose another keyboard (US) the same still applied.

Just to make sure, I rebooted the 1001HA into LxPup, and now the keyboard works Okay.

There is something strange happening in Blue V6.

So up to now:
DV2000: volume slider is not copy of master slider in full window
1001HA: keyboard does not work.

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RE: Volume and Keyboard

#293 Post by ETP »

Hi Volhout,

The keyboard issue (“When I type VOLHOUT, I get V63H45
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Optional Service Pack for Blue Pup V5 and V6

#294 Post by ETP »

Optional Service Pack for Blue Pup V5 & V6

Skype 4.3 was first introduced in V5 but currently the splash screen and notification icons are in glorious monochrome. This dotpet restores the colour.

To install:

1. Quit Skype completely.

2. Install the pet.

3. Select “Chtheme GTK/Qt theme changer
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Will Blue version PAE?

#295 Post by Kris55555 »

Blue v.6 (not PAE) installed on the pen 8GB and C2D E8400 and a rocket, fast and hassle free. Thank you.
Will Blue version PAE?

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Will Blue version PAE?

#296 Post by ETP »

Hi Kris55555,

Blue is based on the non PAE Quirky Tahr version 6.0.5 k3-12-6 which was superseded by Quirky Unicorn 6.2 released by BarryK on 25th October. That also is non PAE.
If you definitely require a PAE Pup I suggest that you take a look at tahrpup 6.0 CE released on 26th October which comes in both flavours.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=96178
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Optional Dotpet for Blue Pup V6

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Optional Dotpet for Blue PupV6

Attached is a dotpet to provide a permanent Conky display of the eth0/wlan0 IP in the top right hand corner of the screen. It is independent of the main Conky display which can still be toggled on or off.
Restart X having installed the dotpet.

N/B – Pet alert has been turned on & will remain so for 48 hours.
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Service Pack for Blue Pup

#298 Post by ETP »

Service Pack

On Friday 13th March Google changed their security mechanisms on Google Drive.
As a result, false alerts of new pets/service packs have since been generated at boot time and upon restarting X.

Please install the attached service pack pet to rectify this issue.
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older blue pup

#299 Post by 8-bit »

I recently acquired a Asus 900A EEEpc and restored the original software on it after getting a number of errors.
But it still had problems as the Check for Updates software did not work.
A update of that was available. But would error out in trying to download with the site not being found.

Anyway, I got tired of that quickly and figured I would try some OSes I had installed to USB flash drives.
And I found one that really supported the notebook..
So I can now report that Blue Pup works fine!
It supports all the hardware and the Chrome screen looks right at home on the Asus 900A eeepc!

As I play more, I will check back.
Also, I want to try a later version of BluePup installed on a 8 gig secure digital stick. I will have to create it on another pc though.

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Blue Pup V6

#300 Post by ETP »

Update 31st July

Flash:

Adobe have changed things and the utility "GetFlash" needs to be updated.
To do that:

1. Use PPM to uninstall the existing version. (1.5.1)

2. Install the attached version (1.5.6) by forum member ASRI éducation.

3. Use the new version to obtain the latest flash player:

Code: Select all

getflash-1.5-6|GetFlash: install Flashplayer
flashplayer11-11.2.202.491|Adobe Flash Player 11 browser plugin and Preferences.
Metro Tiles:

Two of the Metro tiles (500 & GrooveShark) are now defunct and should be removed.
To do that:

1. Right click each in turn and select delete on the pop up menu bar at the bottom of the screen.

2. In order to compensate for the loss of the two (large) tiles, increase the size of a few others.
In the example below the clock tile has been made large to display both time zones.
The Sky News & BBC News live RSS feed have also been increased in size.

Pet alert has been turned on & will remain so for 72 hours.
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flash updating

#301 Post by 8-bit »

Geoffey has made two versions of a flash updater that work for mozilla browsers. Not sure about chrome being done automatcally though,
They are available at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... =781766859

Hope that helps.

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Re: flash updating

#302 Post by ETP »

8-bit wrote:Geoffey has made two versions of a flash updater that work for mozilla browsers. Not sure about chrome being done automatcally though,
They are available at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... =781766859

Hope that helps.
Hi 8-bit,

Thanks for highlighting those alternative flash updaters.
They may come in handy should Adobe make more changes which result in the getflash-1.5-6.pet ceasing to function.

Explanatory note:

All versions of Blue Pup use Chromium (Version 32.0.1700.107) rather than Google Chrome hence the need to keep
Flash updated.

In Blue there is a preset bookmark within Chromium "Adobe - Flash Player" that allows you to check the currently installed version
and the latest available version. It targets this site:
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
The shots below shows 11.2.202.491 installed and 11.2.202.508 available.
Time to run "GetFlash". :)
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Blue Pup V6 Released 11th Oct 2014 32-bit

#303 Post by ETP »

revbish wrote:
Posted: Yesterday, at 00:53 Post subject: Weather Tile in Metro
Subject description: Can't change location
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but in the previous version of Blue Pup (v.5) I could change the default displayed location in the Weather tile in Metro, but try as I might, with v.6 I just installed on a 16GB USB stick, I can't make it "stay changed" at all. Any one have any clues as to what I'm doing wrong? I'm really tired, so maybe a good night's sleep may fix it!
Thanks to anyone having any hints on this.

Sincerely,
revbish
Hi revbish,

1. Access Chromium's Settings via its "hamburger" menu.

2. Navigate to Extensions/newmetroTab/options/Live Tiles/Weather.

3. Type Bethlehem in the Search Location Box, then select your particular Bethlehem from the list in the second Select Location box.

Return to the Metro interface and the live tile should change after 6 seconds.
Left click the tile for a full screen display of your weather.

Three screenshots follow showing the above:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... EZzTEYyc1E

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... mhzcFFGdFE

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... nhEc1pNRDA
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#304 Post by Max Headroom »

G'day there ETP, Followed your instructions & Copied All of the Contents from Both Partitions of Me 8GB USB Flash Dr onto the F2FS Formatted HDD & Edited the syslinux.cfg File sda1, But it doesn't boot, instead I just get...

wee 0> find --set-root /grldr
wee 15> /grldr
wee 17> _

What have I Done wRong? Please

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Blue Pup V6 Released 11th Oct 2014 32-bit

#305 Post by ETP »

Hi Max,

I assume that you created a working USB stick of Blue Pup V6.
The instuctions for transfer are detailed here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 231#763231

They gave 3 options of which I only descibed the easiest - option 2. You seem to have used option 1 and "done your own thing" by attempting to use grub/grub4dos which will not work with an f2fs partition as it does not support it.

To correct things:

1. Create a new partition table on the hard disc, then a single f2fs partition on the hard disc.

2. Copy ONLY the complete contents of the 2nd partition on the working stick to the hard disc.

3. Change /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg on the first partition of the working stick to read as follows:

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# Boot Blue Pup ETP March 2014 
# default /vmlinuz root=PARTUUID=82819859-02 rootwait rw # Original single active line
default /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 rw # New active line
4. Boot from the modified stick ensuring that the stick is at the top of your BIOS boot order.

(N/B The stick layout in this Pup is a full install in contrast to Chromebook Pup V2 which is a frugal install)
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