Precise Puppy 5.4 and 5.4.2

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Ray MK
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#81 Post by Ray MK »

PDF problem seen and confirmed - will try fix and report back
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#82 Post by rcrsn51 »

vicmz wrote:BTW, copying and pasting from epdfview is still impossible
It works, sort of.

1. Choose Edit > Select text.

2. Drag your mouse over some text to hilight it. It will un-hilight when you release.

3. Use a middle-click to paste the text in elsewhere.

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#83 Post by vicmz »

rcrsn51 wrote:
vicmz wrote:BTW, copying and pasting from epdfview is still impossible
It works, sort of.

1. Choose Edit > Select text.

2. Drag your mouse over some text to hilight it. It will un-hilight when you release.

3. Use a middle-click to paste the text in elsewhere.
I suppose I'm a bit clumsy with less known software. :oops: Thank you rcrsn51. :D

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FAIL reboot precise5400retro

#84 Post by broomdodger »

IBM ThinkPad x30 (has PAE)
cpu 1200MHz, ram 768MB, harddrive 30GB
+ Precise5400retro
+ manual frugal
+ devx_retroprecise_5.4.sfs

Boots EVERY time after a SHUTDOWN.

FAILS to boot EVERY time after a RESTART,
black screen, need to hard powerdown.

ALL other wary and racy work either restart or shutdown.

compiled and working great,
precise5400retro, wary5300, racy5300:
+ sylpheed-3.3.0beta2
+ bbe-0.2.2
+ bvi-1.3.2
+ dstat-0.7.s
+ Gforth 0.7.0
+ hexdiff-0.5.5
+ iftop-10.pre2
+ md5deep-4.3
+ memtester-4.2.2
+ p7zip_9.20.1
+ smartmontools-5.43
+ SwiftForth i386-Linux 3.4.5
+ vim-7.3.712
+ cmus-2.4.2-w-20111002.pet

Most used apps:
vim, sylpheed, gnumeric, seamonkey, cmus

I write compilers for multi-core embedded processors,
design and maintain databases.

Hardinfo 'Generate Report' ONLY Devices/Processor checked,
an EMPTY report was generated, no data, only html template.

Grabbed this info using 'Copy to Clipboard'
" -------1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6----
Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - M 1200MHz
6, 11, 4 (Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron)

cmov Conditional Move instruction
cx8 CMPXCHG8 instruction
de Debug Extensions - I/O breakpoints
fpu Floating Point Unit
fxsr FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions
mca Machine Check Architecture
mce Machine Check Architeture
mmx MMX technology
msr Model Specific Registers
mtrr Memory Type Range Registers
pae Physical Address Extensions
pge Page Global Enable
pse Page Size Extensions (4MB pages)
pse36 36bit Page Size Extensions
sep Fast System Call (SYSENTER/SYSEXIT)
sse SSE instructions
tsc Time Stamp Counter and RDTSC instruction
up smp kernel running on up
vme Virtual 86 Mode Extension

" -------1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6----

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#85 Post by Keef »

I've promised myself not to mention that awful wallpaper.
Oops, what did I do there??
To be honest, the icon set does not look bad if the background is changed to the solid dark grey. Once you go into directories it starts looking a mess though.

Anyway...
Tried both PAE and no PAE versions.
Frugal install to HDD on a Compaq Armada M700
P3 850
576mb RAM
Sound detected on first boot.
Linksys PCMCIA wifi adapter up and running (b43 module)

There is a slight speed gain with the non-PAE, more so when booting.
My main concern though is that I have Opera-Next 12 running in its own directory on a partition (not in savefile). Been running this in several Pups for quite a while without problem.
On both these precise versions it is achingly slow, taking a minute to switch tabs for instance. It worked ok on the 5.3.95.1 release.
Posting from Opera right now, (but on Wary) so its definitely the OS. Seamonkey runs without problem.

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#86 Post by Ray MK »

Report Video 1.4 - Thu 26 Oct 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.4 - Linux 3.2.29 i686

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)852MG/852MGE/855MG/855MGE Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)852MG/852MGE/855MG/855MGE Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


Hi rcrsn51

Tried your fix for PDF viewer - and it works - many thanks.

Very best regards - Ray

JFYI - sys-info report if useful.
Attachments
report-video-full.gz
(6.75 KiB) Downloaded 468 times
sys-info-121026.gz
(12.16 KiB) Downloaded 520 times
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epdf problem

#87 Post by drblock2 »

I can confirm the problem with the epdf viewer. The test page appears in red rather than blue!

The attached pet in rcrsn51's post solves the problem.

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Black screens issue pAE version

#88 Post by artsown »

For what it's worth in eventually fixing the 'mostly black screen at
bootup' problem, I happened to notice that if udev is disabled the
problem goes away.

To anyone interested, you find such system settings buried under
Menu - Setup - Wizard Wizard - Configure startup of Puppy -
Manage system services - Choose which to run at startup

Art

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#89 Post by Sage »

'mostly black screen at
bootup' problem
Unfortunately not fixed for these damn SiS chipsets!
The only way I can get a picture on them is booting with 'nox' then selecting VESA no greater than 800x600.
However, on other matters, retro is performing very well indeed, including running the dread Cohiba wifi dongle at first ask every time. FP loaded by default and finds discrete PCI sound card by default, too. DHCP on wired connection has to be loaded manually (SNS) on most HW. This version is certainly mature enough to allow BK to progress to his other tasks!

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#90 Post by algyzas »

Started 5.4 from USB, then while shutdowning it offered to save only into sdb1, USB stick, then I copied this save file from USB to HDD, now while starting precise cannot find this save file, precisesave.4fs, it is on D:\

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#91 Post by 666philb »

i made a .pet of exaile audio player for precise puppy http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81743
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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#92 Post by watchdog »

algyzas wrote:Started 5.4 from USB, then while shutdowning it offered to save only into sdb1, USB stick, then I copied this save file from USB to HDD, now while starting precise cannot find this save file, precisesave.4fs, it is on D:\
Try this: copy from the USB to D:/ also vmlinuz, initrd.gz and isolinux.cfg. Open with geany isolinux.cfg on D:/ and change pmedia=cd with pmedia=atahd. Then boot from USB with option:
boot: puppy pmedia=atahd

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#93 Post by 666philb »

the PPM lists 'libpq5_9.1.6' as installed when it actually isn't
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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#94 Post by rcrsn51 »

algyzas wrote:Started 5.4 from USB, then while shutdowning it offered to save only into sdb1, USB stick, then I copied this save file from USB to HDD, now while starting precise cannot find this save file, precisesave.4fs, it is on D:\
Here is another way. Look on your USB drive for the file syslinux.cfg. Delete "pmedia=usbflash" from the end of the "append" line.

This will make Puppy look everywhere for its files and it should find the savefile on the hard drive.

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#95 Post by oldyeller »

retroprecise-5.4 NON PAE

Can anyone download from the puppy-precise repo?

All I get is the option from a folder.

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No audio

#96 Post by tlchost »

No audio....went through all the steps, multi card, alsa settings

Slacko 533 and beta2 tells me I have a
Audio device: Intel Corporation Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller
VENDOR: 8086 DEVICE: 1e20

I get sound...Precise see the Panther Point, chip, but no sound. And hints on how to get sound output?

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Re: Precise Puppy 5.4

#97 Post by watchdog »

rcrsn51 wrote:
algyzas wrote:Started 5.4 from USB, then while shutdowning it offered to save only into sdb1, USB stick, then I copied this save file from USB to HDD, now while starting precise cannot find this save file, precisesave.4fs, it is on D:\
Here is another way. Look on your USB drive for the file syslinux.cfg. Delete "pmedia=usbflash" from the end of the "append" line.
I tried this way with an installation of other puppy on USB drive and a netbook. It fails if on netbook hd there is not initrd.gz and vmlinuz with savefile. Syslinux.cfg is used if the USB installation is obtained with universal installer. With unetbootin I think it remains isolinux.cfg. Best Regards.

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Re: Precise Puppy 5.4

#98 Post by rcrsn51 »

watchdog wrote:I tried this way with an installation of other puppy on USB drive and a netbook. It fails if on netbook hd there is not initrd.gz and vmlinuz with savefile.
You're right. I looked at this again and my tests worked because Puppy found the other core files somewhere on the HDD partition. When I deleted them, it couldn't find the savefile.

Puppy does have a SAVEMARK option that lets you declare that the savefile is in another partition, but it only works if the file is on the SAME drive. Which doesn't apply here.

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#99 Post by Brown Mouse »

I'm also seeing a black screen at boot but not every time.Once I restart x all is fine.

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#100 Post by majorfoo »

oldyeller wrote:retroprecise-5.4 NON PAE

Can anyone download from the puppy-precise repo?

All I get is the option from a folder.
I just downloaded and created live cd. Posting from it now.

I used this link
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/precise-5.4-retro/

Kinda slow, but it works

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