(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[zygo]

Sage,

In pp5.6 I used http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-quirky/sylpheed-3.1.0-q1.pet to receive email over IMAP4
There are newer and older version in http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/

[OscarTalks]

I made a .PET of the nVidia legacy 173.14.37 driver with kernel 3.2.44 for Precise Puppy 5.6 here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=86424

[rerwin]

peebee, and other testers,
I think I found why peebee had such trouble with the new driver. I corrected the cause in the firmware package, as well as making other bug fixes there. Please replace the previous version with the corrected version at the original place:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=705629#705629

I go into more detail, there.
Richard

[Crash]

Booting 5.6 results in a blank screen with the monitor complaining "Input Not Supported". Adding "pfix=nox" to boot menu doesn't help. All recent versions, including 5.5, work OK.

Video card: Nvidia GeForce GT 520
Processor: Intel Dual-Core E6500

MENU.LST excerpt (Grub4DOS):

title Precise Puppy Linux 56 frugal install at sda1/p56
find --set-root /menu.lst
kernel /p56/vmlinuz psubdir=p56 pmedia=atahd pfix=nox
initrd /p56/initrd.gz

/// Edited a few minutes later:

P.S.: It works fine on my laptop, which is an MSI A4000, using an Intel T4300 CPU, GeForce 8200M Video.

[Sage]

zygo: many thanks for your comments. With Sky, they cloak their verbiage so that it becomes incomprehensible - I cannot even ascertain whether my friend is defaulted to IMAPI or POP. Their 'instructions' point to non-existent menus and options. Vince Cable got it right - this devil is in league with the Devil as well as the devil. No chance the proletariat will stop pouring their shekels into his coffers and avoid using his systems. Sadly, not all good things emanate from the antipodes...

[peebee]

[zygo]

Sage, Surely you don't mean MAPI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAPI in relation to mail. You haven't been using some other OS have you?

[L18L]

See screenshot

Note,
I did not really want to "run as root"

Unticked "run as root" I did not see any output of that command.

Ticking "run in terminal" makes no difference.

If I am running in terminal I do not need gexec at all.

So I am voting for "remove gexec from puppy" unless someone enlightened me how to use gexec

[Sage]

[rerwin]

As you can see above, peebee reports that the HDA variant (agrsm-11c11040) of the driver crashes puppy. From the screen shot he sent me, I suspect the problem lies with the interface to the ALSA HDA driver or codec. I have not gone much beyond that, as I have not found clues, yet, on google.

The screen line of interest contains "findHDACodec+0x10/0x38 [agrmodem]"; 5 lines above it is "do_page_fault...". (I can use any help, at all, with this.)

But that probably affects only the HDA agrmodem driver. The two PCI variants should not have that problem, so need to be tested by someone who has one of the PCI Agere modems that use the drivers agrsm06pci or agrsm048pci.

Remember: they all require the new firmware_linux_module_agrmodem package.
Richard

[BarryK]

[Sylvander]

1. Booting Precise-5.6 from CD-RW, with precisesave.3fs.
All looking good, and working well so far.
Looks like I'll be switching from Slacko to this as my number-1 Puppy.

2. Tweaks made so far:
a. Changes made so as to be able to choose if/when to save session changes back to the precisesave file.
b. Installed "Firefox-16.0.1-i686-up.
c. Installed PupsaveHotbackup-1.3.
d. Installed wine-1.4.
e. Updated PPM.
f. Installed thunderbird_17.0.6+build1.
g. Installed FoxitReader-1.1.0.
h. CUPS used to install "HP Desjet 840c".
i. Installed PupClockset-1.6.
j. /root/.jwmrc-tray edit to change xload display.
k. Installed pupsnap-2.1_scrot-0.8_32bit.
l. Installed smm-1.0.pup.
m. Thunderbird_17.0.6+build1 set up to use common profile held in /mnt/home/Mail.
n. Fixed Xfe "Open with..." problem [workaround].

[BarryK]

Precise Puppy 5.6.1 has been released, see announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00275

Have fun!

[ASRI éducation]

[cthisbear]

" Have fun! "

Working nicely on the >>> dreaded Dell Studio XPS

Sound..Video...Wireless

Can't beat that Frisbee

""""""

Thanks BK and all of the helpful Lurkalots here.

Chris.