Precise Puppy RC2, October 20, 2012

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#321 Post by Lobster »

tried beta3
could not get to desktop . . .
ISO checksum OK
tried many xorgwizard options . . .
No probe options working, Vesa option not working
It was also complaining about an old directory for my mouse
during bootup - so I changed from PS2 to USB mouse
Tried editing the graphics config details (sometimes bringing down the res from 80mhz to 72mhz helps)
Nothing. Nada. Rien.
Stuck on command line [it was horrible] :wink:
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RAM memory : nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller
ISA bridge : nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge
SMBus : nVidia Corporation MCP67 SMBus
USB Controller : nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
USB Controller : nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
USB Controller : nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
USB Controller : nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
IDE interface : nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller
Audio device : nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio
PCI bridge : nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Bridge
IDE interface : nVidia Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller
Ethernet controller : nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet
PCI bridge : nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge
PCI bridge : nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge
PCI bridge : nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge
PCI bridge : nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge
PCI bridge : nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge
PCI bridge : nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge
PCI bridge : nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge
Host bridge : Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Host bridge : Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Host bridge : Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Host bridge : Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Multimedia audio controller : C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738
VGA compatible controller : ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]
Audio device : ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
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#322 Post by Jejy69 »

Hello !

I tried beta 3 too.
I had only one issue, Sometimes I can not use my mouse plugged into USB. I must restart the PC and after changing the USB port. This is not really a handicap, just a simple reboot is needed.

Nice wallpaper :lol:
The PAE is really usefull.

I wanted to know if the taking of a recent kernel no risk for older PC?
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite Linux distrbution on the Citadel.

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#323 Post by peebee »

The delta and mutli-kernel pets to install the Broadcom-STA wl wifi driver onto Precise 5.2.69 k3.2.28 are now available from:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 5&start=10
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#324 Post by Ray MK »

Sadly - no go here too - hung - jibberish on screen -nothing I recognised - and had to pull plug.
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#325 Post by James C »

Fresh manual frugal install of Beta 3 on my main Athlon XP box. Booted to the correct 1440x900 resolution with working sound and internet.

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# report-video
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.69 on Sun 26 Aug 2012

Chip description:
 0.0 VGA compatible controller
 NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)  
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2
 
X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.3
  dimensions:    1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
  depth of root window:    16 planes 

   ...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#
-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (173MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 26 Aug 2012 09:54:13 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI nv18 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235
Ethernet controller : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
VGA compatible controller : NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

In regard to your blog post, looking forward to an additional non-pae build for those Puppy users who might use older hardware.

Looks pretty solid so far. :)

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Precise Puppy beta3, August 26, 2012

#326 Post by Billtoo »

continued from previous post:

I deleted my save file from my 8gb flash drive and started fresh on
another pc.
It booted to the desktop this time and report-video said it was using
the radeon driver,glxgears worked too.
I installed the devx+kernelsourcesfs.rebooted,downloaded and
compiled the amd-driver-installer-8.982-x86.x86_64.run proprietary
driver, did aticonfig --initial and rebooted again.

# report-video
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.69 on Sun 26 Aug 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5500 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: REDWOOD 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: fglrx

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
33992 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6798.272 FPS
34393 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6878.519 FPS
34342 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6868.369 FPS
#
Computer
Processor 2x Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz
Memory 4147MB (178MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Sun 26 Aug 2012 10:59:45 AM EDT
OpenGL
Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer ATI Radeon HD 5570
Version 4.2.11762 Compatibility Profile Context
Direct Rendering Yes

I installed geany pets that I made for beta 2 and they work fine too.
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Ati-Radeon

#327 Post by mories »

For my "Mobility Radeon HD 5430 Series" all is OK and kms ON with

xserver-xorg-video-ati and
xserver-xorg-video-radeon
packages from ubuntu main repository.

And, of course, the CEDAR firmware.

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testing 5.2.69

#328 Post by sszindian »

Precise 5.2.69 (Bata 3) - 'initial test'

(1) Everything went fine to desktop! eth0 self-configured and had Internet with no problem.

Unpluged eth0 and went for wlan0 setup... everything seemed to config OK but... same problem I had with 5.2.60 originally... no WiFi connection even though connect wizard said 'I did.' Tried the same little trick installing peebee's expirment-3 in 5.2.60 (which did the trick and still using to this day... WiFi on 5.2.60 auto-configs on startup without any problems and runs like a champ.) but this trick did not work for 5.2.69... Even tried installing peebee's broadcom_wl_delta-k3.2.28.pet, no dice with that either?

Possibly some firmware from the 5.2.60 build is missing for the rt2800usb package or the new kernel 3.2.28 is missing something??? just a guess of course.

Computer:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4CPU 2.80GHz
766MB

WiFi:
Linksys AE1000

(2) Tried eth0 with a place I watch video's, way, way, way, to much 'buffering' taking place (I have noticed an increase in the 'buffering' problem over the last several versions (not just Precise) of Puppy, I would think it should be getting better?

That's it for now...

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cannot open hyperlinks in abiword documents

#329 Post by yr1945 »

please help... i can't open internet hyperlinks in my abiword documents... is there anything i can do to make this happen??

thank you...

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feedback only...

#330 Post by yr1945 »

info only...

this probably is not an issue... just an observation... but, why does it take so long to "update help page and menu" after loading a "pet" file?

saluki and others do it in a second or two... "precise" consistently takes 8 or 9 seconds ??

i have a toshiba laptop that is 6 years old... with intel dual core chip, 2 gigs of ram and a 500 gig hard drive...

info only...

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#331 Post by oldyeller »

Downloading know will test


cheers :D :D

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#332 Post by Jim1911 »

Fresh installation on an ext3 partition. So far everything is working great except that my HP 5280 Photosmart All-in-one scanner is not recognized. hplip_scan-3.12.4.pet is installed.

NVIDIA latest driver installed properly and is working great. Also, was able to install the Xiphos Bible program using PPM and ubuntu repositories. This is the first time I've been able to install it without having some missing dependencies.

Thanks for returning to work on Precise.
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#333 Post by oldyeller »

Frugal install. got internet with no problem. works with all my hardware :D :D

running mplayer video adjusting is notworking other than that everything seems to be working just fine

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2 "fixes" incomplete

#334 Post by rerwin »

Barry,
Booted into 5.2.69 to verify that all of my "fixes" went in correctly. Two appear to be incomplete.

/sbin/pup_event_backend_modprobe:
The "--use-blacklist" option is needed in 3 places, but got placed in only one of them.

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diff -r -u sbin/pup_event_backend_modprobe /sbin/pup_event_backend_modprobe
 . . .
+#120823 rerwin: --use-blacklist to apply the blacklist commands in the configuration files (if any) to module names as well.
 . . .
@@ -102,13 +102,12 @@
 
 #note, no longer using /tmp/pup_event_modprobe.conf (which was created in rc.sysinit)...
 #110508 -i to ignore "install" and "remove" commands in /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf...
-MODULE="`/sbin/modprobe -i -b --show-depends $MODALIAS 2>/dev/null | tail -n 1 | rev | cut -f 1 -d '/' | rev | cut -f 1 -d '.' | tr '\-' '_'`" #120809
+#120823 rerwin: --use-blacklist (or -b) to apply the blacklist commands in the configuration files (if any) to module names as well...
+MODULE="`/sbin/modprobe -i --use-blacklist --show-depends $MODALIAS 2>/dev/null | tail -n 1 | rev | cut -f 1 -d '/' | rev | cut -f 1 -d '.' | tr '\-' '_'`"
 if [ "$RULEMODULE" != "" ];then
  if [ "$MODULE" = "" -o "$MODULE" = "usb_storage" -o "$MODULE" = "snd_hda_intel" ];then
   #110508 do not allow argument-module if it is blacklisted (note blacklist.conf created in rc.sysinit)...

@@ -118,7 +117,7 @@
  if [ "`lsmod | grep '^usb_storage '`" != "" ];then
   if [ ! -f /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-usb_storage.conf ];then
    echo 'blacklist usb_storage' > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-usb_storage.conf
-   MODULE="`/sbin/modprobe -i -b --show-depends $MODALIAS 2>/dev/null | tail -n 1 | rev | cut -f 1 -d '/' | rev | cut -f 1 -d '.' | tr '\-' '_'`" #110508 120809
+   MODULE="`/sbin/modprobe -i --show-depends $MODALIAS 2>/dev/null | tail -n 1 | rev | cut -f 1 -d '/' | rev | cut -f 1 -d '.' | tr '\-' '_'`" #110508            <===========================
    [ "$MODULE" = "" ] && exit 1
   fi
  fi

@@ -154,7 +153,7 @@
  for PREFMOD in $PREFMODS #format can have multiple ':', ex: 8139cp:8139too:8139xx (last is most preferred).
  do
   echo "blacklist $MODULE" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-${MODULE}.conf
-  xMODULE="`/sbin/modprobe -i -b --show-depends $MODALIAS 2>/dev/null | tail -n 1 | rev | cut -f 1 -d '/' | rev | cut -f 1 -d '.' | tr '\-' '_'`" #110508 120809
+  xMODULE="`/sbin/modprobe -i --show-depends $MODALIAS 2>/dev/null | tail -n 1 | rev | cut -f 1 -d '/' | rev | cut -f 1 -d '.' | tr '\-' '_'`" #110508            <===========================
   [ "$xMODULE" = "$PREFMOD" ] && MODULE="$xMODULE"
   [ "$xMODULE" = "" ] && rm -f /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-${MODULE}.conf
  done
Without the complete mod, some hybrid-USB-device modules may not be found, and all preference processing will fail, in later kernels.

/etc/rc.d/functions4puppy4:
Although I see that you made minimal changes to the code (where I copied equivalent code from elsewhere), a history entry for the changes is omitted. More seriously, the correction to the setting of firmware.dep.inst is also missing.

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diff -r -u etc/rc.d/functions4puppy4 /etc/rc.d/functions4puppy4
 . . .
-#120729 Add firmware_tarball_func support for firmware directory & set tarball name in firmware.dep.inst regardless of pinstall script - copied from backend_modprobe.
 . . .
     #execute any post-install script...
     if [ -f /pinstall.${FIRMPKG}.sh ];then
-     BRKCNT=0 #120729
+     BRKCNT=0; SLEEPU=$((${$} * 10))
      while [ 1 ];do #serialise execution of pinstall scripts...
       PINSTALLCNT=`find / -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'pinstall.*.sh' | wc -l`
       [ $PINSTALLCNT -eq 1 ] && break
-      usleep ${SLEEPU}0 #120729
+      usleep $SLEEPU
       BRKCNT=$(($BRKCNT + 1))
       [ $BRKCNT -gt 5 ] && break
      done
+     echo "$MODULE" >> /etc/modules/firmware.dep.inst.${KERNVER}
      cd /
      /pinstall.${FIRMPKG}.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
      rm -f /pinstall.${FIRMPKG}.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
     fi
-    echo "$FIRMPKG" >> /etc/modules/firmware.dep.inst.${KERNVER} #120729
    fi
   fi
  fi
The end of the above code should be:

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      done
      cd /
      /pinstall.${FIRMPKG}.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
      rm -f /pinstall.${FIRMPKG}.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
     fi
     echo "$FIRMPKG" >> /etc/modules/firmware.dep.inst.${KERNVER}
    fi
   fi
  fi

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network_tray

#335 Post by rodin.s »

Beta 3 works normally on my Celleron 900MHz 512RAM. I noticed one thing: network_tray is not internationalized. The pet installed from http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02837 works (didn't test it on beta3 yet but it worked on beta2).

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#336 Post by Keef »

Manual frugal install to HD on a Compaq Armada M700.
Pentium 850 mhz, 576MB ram,
ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) Driver used: mach64
PCMCIA Wifi with b43 driver

All working fine, seems to run just as well as Wary 5.3.
Previous version would not boot when CF card was in other PCMCIA slot, but no problem this time.

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zoneinfo

#337 Post by shinobar »

The beta3 cannot set the timezone to Asia/Tokyo because of lacking some files under /usr/share/zoneinfo, they were in the beta2.
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#338 Post by Sage »

Fabulous! Best yet. Stunning graphics using defaults, even on old Trident Cyberblade. Everything working at first ask including wlan and Flash (nice to see correct driver already loaded!).
Bit slow to load. Still unable to understand the philosophy of using PAE in a compact distro? I know the go-faster kiddies are keen to demonstrate their street cred on their over-hyped, over-priced, multicored kit, but, surely, the power of these compact distros is their ability to turn putative landfill into powerful communications machinery? Mobile Samsung Galaxy/Android makes laptops obsolete, too. Games are irrelevant - far better ways of doing that. Would prefer Puppy focus on recycling HW. DW seems to be full of distros claiming use for old junk, but most of these fail to provide a fraction of the power of Puppy in 5x the .iso, whatever that converts into uncompressed code? Giant corporations have ended up in a massive pickle trying to be all things to all men!

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Samba slow?

#339 Post by peebee »

For some reason pnethood in Precise 5.2.69 is much much slower to scan and find shares than in Slacko 5.3.3

Lupu was also much slower - so is it ubuntu's fault??

Other than that - all good so far.

Some requests though:
1. Frisbee - see slacko for the best way to implement (pet in iso installed on demand from connection wizard) - much more reliable than sns
2. Desksetup templates to manage desktop icons

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nouveau - nvidia problems

#340 Post by drblock2 »

Beta 3 booted into a desktop with defective menus - mostly blank. This is a problem that is familiar from recent Slackos. The source is an incompatibility of the nouveau driver with certain nvidia cards like the FX 5200 in my machine. 01micko even wrote a script to get rid of nouveau (which I was unfortunately unable to track down).

After much experimentation, I found a simple solution. In

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/etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf
change options nouveau modeset=1 to options nouveau modeset=0.

Beta 3 will now boot into with vesa and the menus are just fine. The only problem is that glxgears runs at 36 fps, which is far too slow.

I successfully compiled the recommended NVIDIA 173.14.31 driver, choose it with the xorgwizard, but X would not start. Attempt to return to vesa failed as well.

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