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oldyeller · Joined: 15 Nov 2011 Posts: 471 Location: Mishawaka IN

Downloading know will test

cheers Very Happy

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

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.

oldyeller · Joined: 15 Nov 2011 Posts: 471 Location: Mishawaka IN

Frugal install. got internet with no problem. works with all my hardware Very Happy

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

IBM x60 thinkpad

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1318 Location: Maine, USA

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.

rodin.s · Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 326 Location: Ukraine

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).

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 428 Location: Staffordshire

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.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: Japan

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

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

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!

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

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

Cheers
peebee

drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 118

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

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1318 Location: Maine, USA

drblock2,
Rather than require a user to modify the video-driver config file, I created an automated solution for a similar issue with the 82845G/GL Brookdale graphic card in Lucid Pup. In that case only a particular subvendor-subdevice was affected. The same sort of solution would probably work for the FX5200.

The fix is to create a udev-rule for the device, using the hardware IDs for vendor, device, subvendor and subdevice. You can get that info with "lspci -vn". If you know the vendor:device ID you can use "lspci -vnd vvvv:dddd", with the correct IDs, to get the sub-IDs, although they may not be needed.

The rule would set a /tmp/flagfile to indicate that mode 0 is needed. The option statement would be replaced with an "install" statement that tests for the flagfile and loads the module with the appropriate modeset value.

I am willing to set up such a package if you can give me the hardware IDs of the graphic (VGA) card. It would be helpful if anyone with such a card would report what mode it works with. Anyone else with a card that uses the nouveau driver and sees the same problem should report that here -- with the hardware IDs -- so I can include the card in the rules file.

Thanks for reporting the problem.
Richard

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

drblock2

The script I made is now in Puppy (all latest versions) by default, it's at /usr/sbin/nouveau_unload. Barry also accepted my diff to xorgwizard such that if the system detects that nouveau kernel module is loaded it offers to unload nouveau and reboot. It works very well in Slacko but I am yet to test in Precise as I have been testing radeon hardware. You can of course run the nouveau_unload script directly, also if X is not running it will offer to reboot and nouveau should be unloaded on reboot.

Another interesting thing, the Slackware crew have discovered that the nv xorg driver is back in development. The source for this could be compiled and used in Precise, I haven't checked if Precise has the current nv driver.

Strange that the nvidia-173 driver failed for you. It should have the mechanism to unload the nouveau driver built in.

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 333 Location: London, England

Would anyone like to test the Linphone 3.5.2 which I have attempted to compile in Precise Puppy?

Latest version, video enabled, some good audio codecs, seemed OK when I gave it a brief try but could do with some more people to put it through its paces and let me know if I have muffed up anywhere.

Precise version is in Post 3 of this thread:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79803

broomdodger · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 179 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Precise 5269 frugal
IBM ThinkPad x30

Wary5300 and Racy5300 both work fine.

Precise boots first time to desktop, video Intel driver.
Reboot, make savefile
Precise will not go to the desktop, black screen.
Tried to blindly reboot, nothing.

Power down, restart to Wary5300, delete save file, reboot to desktop.
Exit to prompt, change to xorg vesa driver.
Reboot, make new savefile, still only black desktop.
Can not blindly reboot using:
F12, uparrow, rightarrow, downarrow, enter

Bill

frozenorange · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 2

Thanks to all, Puppy worked fine, but at poweroff, the following occurs
puppypc3306 login:root (automatic login)
login[26037]: root login on 'tty1'
This also occured with an earlier puppy, is there a fix to this, as had to
shutdown with the power-off. Probably my fault, using Compaq laptop. Embarassed