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Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a manual frugal install to the hard drive.

Report Video 1.3 - Mon 10 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.93 - Linux 3.2.28 i686

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 1 Cool

oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

I gave ppm a try and downloaded VLC, it didn't take long and is
working great.
Just beginning to test but looking good so far.

tiangeng · Joined: 23 Jul 2009 Posts: 60 Location: 河南 China

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 10 Sep 2012, 21:13 Post subject:

tiangeng · Joined: 23 Jul 2009 Posts: 60 Location: 河南 China

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

Beta 6 is out everyone!

Barry's a bit crook and probably forgot to announce here.

Anyway, I did a cheat frugal using Lilo on my slackware box which has a SiS card. Getting a bit long in the tooth now and res is not correct on first boot with widescreen monitor, native res of 1360x768, it boots to 1280x800 which shits it left and the taskbar is out of view. I tested the thing in quicksetup but I knew it would fail with the 1280x720@75Hz because older flat panels usually only handle 60Hz. So I tested with xrandr and 1280x720 works, so I adjusted the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it's now all good.

Report Video 1.3 - Tue 11 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.93 - Linux 3.2.28 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
oem: SiS
product:

X Server: Xorg Driver used: sis

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1280x720 pixels (342x191 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

# glxgears
679 frames in 5.0 seconds = 135.726 FPS
759 frames in 5.0 seconds = 151.743 FPS
745 frames in 5.0 seconds = 148.989 FPS
# export vblank_mode=0
# glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
714 frames in 5.0 seconds = 142.695 FPS
735 frames in 5.0 seconds = 146.940 FPS
766 frames in 5.0 seconds = 153.081 FPS

Summary
-------

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz
Memory : 1001MB (192MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Tue Sep 11 12:39:03 2012
-Display-
Resolution : 0x0 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - SiS SI7012
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA WDC WD800JB-00JJ
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H44N
Seagate STT8000A

Operating System
----------------

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.2.28 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 10:19:45 GMT-8 2012
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.15 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution
-Current Session-
Computer Name : puppypc11327
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown
-Misc-
Uptime : 9 minutes
Load Average : 1.04, 1.19, 0.68

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Just a note

The graphics in this thing are problematic with wary/racy and vesa always gets chosen, often resulting in "out of range" messages on the monitor. Since KMS seems to be working right now, there is much better performance and it at least boots to a usable desktop. Perhaps if I were using an old CRT ,which may be a better match for the card, I'd get even better performance. So don't take the above as a complaint, I am happy I get a semi-usable desktop Smile

Thanks

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

attempt to blindly add btrfs to guess_fstype (no btrfs drives here to test on)... also reduced binary size from 18k to 11k by replacing printf with write (its still faster than blkid) ... also fixed? some bad errors in the adfs code
... so if this works I got it from xfsprogs/libdisk/fstype.{c,h} and there were some more available (gfs was one)

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a manual frugal install to the hard drive.

Report Video 1.3 - Tue 11 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.93 - Linux 3.2.28 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT]
(rev a1) oem: NVIDIA
product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8310MB (297MB used)
Display
Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.75
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
50502 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10100.332 FPS
50493 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10098.571 FPS
50541 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10108.093 FPS
Multimedia video controller Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416)
Video Decoder (rev 01)

I installed VLC-2.0.3 and XBMC-11.0 from ppm with no problems, VLC
works with my Hauppauge pvr card.

This new beta is amazing, thanks for making it that way.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Quick manual frugal install of 5.3.93 on my trusty Athlon XP box. Looking really solid.

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Tue 11 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.93 - Linux 3.2.28 i686

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

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
1442 frames in 5.0 seconds = 288.320 FPS
2227 frames in 5.0 seconds = 445.371 FPS
2091 frames in 5.0 seconds = 418.099 FPS
2204 frames in 5.0 seconds = 440.796 FPS
2251 frames in 5.0 seconds = 449.951 FPS
2182 frames in 5.0 seconds = 436.246 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (188MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Tue 11 Sep 2012 02:25:11 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

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2682 Location: Kiel,Germany

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

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

IBM ThinkPad x30 1200 MHz 768 MB

wary5300 and racy5300 both work great

precise 5393 manual frugal
+ boot and work great with NO save file
- will NOT boot with save file = black screen
! all versions same black screen with save file

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

Excellent, there is a gzipped patch in the tarball (though the sources are already patched) to upload to bkhome/sources. The extended spread block devices doesn't seem worth the efforts considering the targets. However the ARM systems may ship with additional default file systems that we could try to support (specifically various flash file systems)

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

Beta6 is working great on my Dell D430. frugal install

The ppm does work much faster and I like the notice of the dependences will searching for them.

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

B6 is generally working OK, but not on an AMD1600 with 512Mb - first failure at 'loading....' observed with any release direct from BK. Machine checks out with most other distros including previous betae (presuming that's the correct plural of the Latin spelling for a Greek word?!).

LateAdopter · Joined: 27 May 2011 Posts: 120 Location: Reading UK

Hello BarryK

I have installed the AMD fglrx video driver using the amd-driver-installer-12.6-legacy-x86.x86_64.run

Report Video 1.3 - Tue 11 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.93 - Linux 3.2.28 i686

Chip description:
5.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS880 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver used: fglrx

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1600x1200 pixels (423x317 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

At some point, when I was fiddling about trying to make the installer work, I had an error from: dpkg on --print-architecture.

It seems that dpkg is provided by BusyBox.

I installed the real dpkg from the Ubuntu repo and the error went away.

Once I got the installer to run without error, I did not need to do anything special to get the driver to work.

EDIT: I have since done a fglrx install with a new savefile and there were no errors from dpkg and fglrx istalled correctly.