Precise Puppy RC2, October 20, 2012

Under development: PCMCIA, wireless, etc.
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#581 Post by Sage »

Any chance some kind soul could add Netgear FA311revD2 NIC to the list, please?

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#582 Post by pemasu »

Sage. That NIC uses natsemi.ko module.
/lib/modules/3.2.28/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/natsemi.ko

So....the driver has been included but it seems to have reputation of only partial support to the devices it should support. I am afraid there isnt solution. Or....someone should create better driver...and since that card seems to be at least 10 years old...the support might be not so expected.
The scyld seems to be the organization behind that support.

Modinfo in my dpup, but the natsemi info is generic.
# modinfo natsemi
filename: /lib/modules/3.4.2-dpup/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/natsemi.ko
license: GPL
description: National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet driver
author: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
alias: pci:v0000100Bd00000020sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000100Bd00000020sv000012D9sd0000000Cbc*sc*i*
depends:
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.4.2-dpup SMP mod_unload modversions CORE2
parm: mtu:DP8381x MTU (all boards) (int)
parm: debug:DP8381x default debug level (int)
parm: rx_copybreak:DP8381x copy breakpoint for copy-only-tiny-frames (int)
parm: dspcfg_workaround:DP8381x: control DspCfg workaround (int)
parm: options:DP8381x: Bits 0-3: media type, bit 17: full duplex (array of int)
parm: full_duplex:DP8381x full duplex setting(s) (1) (array of int)

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#583 Post by feelsub »

Thanks Bary
beta 6 works nearly fine, but

audio bugs:
1/ http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=651953
2/ http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80580
3/ enhancement suggestion
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79829

Non US char errors in either copying or reading either on FAT or NTFS, no issues under WinXP or Win7
File name is not a vaild UTF-8. You should rename it
In Rox these files/directories appear in red colour.
Names includes for instance : é è à ç or &
For instance, GNOME Player can't access those files.

Suggestion for laptop: a pop-up window when battery reach 9% and 3%, because I experienced the case to have a black-out (you don't necessarly notice the red battery indicator flashing).

I'll try again on next release.

Thanks

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#584 Post by pemasu »

Names includes for instance : é è à ç or &
For instance, GNOME Player can't access those files.
I have a testfile called ææøøøääööÅÅååÄÄ.JPG in ntfs partition.

It shows right in Precise Puppy 5.3.93 and also opens with Viewnior.

It looks like that it is accented character problem, not non US character problem.

For laptop usage with verbose warnings at certain battery state, vattery-acpitool with acpitool is the way to go...for instance. I had it in Upup Precise.

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#585 Post by Sage »

pemasu : many thanks for that info. Dug it out of the depths of a rather old box!

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#586 Post by Sage »

Oh dear - no legacy drivers in ALSA for ISA cards any longer. Is this a kernel thing?

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#587 Post by 666philb »

I didn't see one posted so here's my attempt at the 'amd fglrx' driver for precise.
I think i got everything and it seems to work.
I used the slacko driver as a template for making the .pet(includes the slacko pinstall / punstall scripts).

you can download here http://www.mediafire.com/file/x5vqjnski ... 3.2.28.pet 54mb
MD5 bf40a19065f7f97626d1e1027ab2212d
Bionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331

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#588 Post by artsown »

Posting as a reply to Barry's Beta 6 ....

Beta 6 destroys the wireless capability I've enjoyed with previous versions.
I've tried both the simple connection and the complex setup. Neither result
consistent connects. If I do get a "successful connect" report I sometimes
can't browse ... it behaves like a DNS lookup failure.

My old Linksys router does not offer WPA2 ... only the WPA Personal that
it's been set at ok for many years.

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#589 Post by pemasu »

666philb. Thank you. Your ATI driver fglrx works great for me, with my difficult dual graphics. Usually I dont get stable graphichs and I need hard poweroff at sometime due to freezing. Now it seems to behave....and I get HDMI video outputted to my lcd TV and also....HDMI audio using ATI inbuild audio system !!! First time in my Puppy history I get HDMI audio...
Not bad....well...it means great.

Now I need to remaster this...which I usually dont do at all...so that I have this great HDMI friendly setup made permanent. I have already umplayer, smplayer, vlc, qt-4.8.2 installed.
Very promising.

Touchpad has the usual drunkenness as it has had with this Xorg version all the time. But wireless mouse should work ok.

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Frisbee on beta6 working well

#590 Post by mikeslr »

Frisbee on beta6 is working well.

Thanks peebee.

mikesLr

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Re: bold or normal

#591 Post by shinobar »

@tiangeng
Your 2 screen shots seem the same.

Your issue may be because of the GTK or JWM theme.
I tried fresh precise with wqy-microhei.ttf + my fontconf-local-1.0.pet, and found no problem.
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fonts_precise6.png
fresh precise with wqy-microhei.ttf + my fontconf-local-1.0.pet
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fonts_jpn.png
some of the folder name is in bold
(2.51 KiB) Downloaded 1029 times
fonts_wqy.png
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Re: bold or normal

#592 Post by tiangeng »

shinobar wrote:@tiangeng
Your 2 screen shots seem the same.

Your issue may be because of the GTK or JWM theme.
I tried fresh precise with wqy-microhei.ttf + my fontconf-local-1.0.pet, and found no problem.
I find the reason, in my ./jwm/jwmrc-theme,

<MenuStyle>
<Font>DejaVu Sans-12:bold:oblique</Font>
</MenuStyle>

I added "BOLD",I deleted "bold",it's ok.

Thank you very much.

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Re: bold or normal

#593 Post by shinobar »

tiangeng wrote:<MenuStyle>
<Font>DejaVu Sans-12:bold:oblique</Font>
</MenuStyle>

I added "BOLD",I deleted "bold",it's ok.
You also need to remove the dash(-) from 'Sans-12' so that the titlebar (of the windows) can show Chinese characters.
<Font>DejaVu Sans 12</Font>
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#594 Post by James C »

The new SeaMonkey 2.12.1 pet appears to work fine. Thanks for the updated browser.
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02990

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#595 Post by 01micko »

Barry

Did you find that seamonkey wouldn't compile against system cairo? Perhaps vpx too if yours isn't recent enough. Can you post the mozconfig please? It certainly has grown a few megabytes in the past couple of years and this version as against 2.11 grew over 1 M. (When I compiled in Slacko, the official mozilla version was smaller once I removed the modern theme).
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#596 Post by Pelo »

Bonjour, Precise please me a lot, c'est à dire beaucoup. Good and safe.

I would like to say ' I dont like more Ubuntu than Windows !"

Too big, too slow, too 'your papers please' and boring.

Puppies are fast, efficient, and when I write here, i have answers.

So, keep puppies themselves, stop clothing them in ubuntu version x, or Mint. I have them on my hard disk. And i never use them.

OK, Boys ?

Pelo

Sorry with my previous message, after reading your posts

#597 Post by Pelo »

But tell it to Puplettes makers.
I am using precise 5.2.60, all is ok. Wifi, sound, everything..
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien : french proverbe
i.e sometimes wishing better is worse than the present.

Please keep oldest versions available. Merci beaucoup.

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#598 Post by scabz »

01micko i personally found lots of apps that wouldnt compile against cairo. i just compiled cairo my self and everything that wouldnt compile does now.

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#599 Post by adi »

What does the artwork represent? A dream in Ubuntu colors or something more precise?

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rerwin-fixes-3e replaced by 3f

#600 Post by rerwin »

To those 5 of you who have downloaded my "fixes-3e" package, please replace it with my corrected version, "fixes-3f", available here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 870#651870

I had omitted a critical part of preference processing, breaking it. Thanks to peebee for pointing out the problem to me.
Richard

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