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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 13129 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 10:47 Post subject:
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BarryK wrote: | Fixes for optical media! |
I can confirm that the fix works.
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peebee

Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 4391 Location: Worcestershire, UK
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 11:26 Post subject:
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Precise Puppy 5.7 k3.9.11 pae - pristine frugal install to HP550 laptop
One problem found - wifi is soft blocked on boot:
Quote: | # rfkill list wlan
0: hp-wifi: wlan
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no | and has to be enabled with Code: | rfkill unblock wlan |
This problem is also seen in 01micko's slacko 5.5.71 with k3.10.1pae
On the plus side:
-Broadcom wl driver working
-Chromium 28 working
-LxPup by SFS working
Cheers
peebee
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LxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
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Billtoo

Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3721 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 11:26 Post subject:
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I did a manual frugal install of 5.7 retro to a 16gb SDHC card which
is running on a Compaq Presario S6700NX desktop.
I just put my 5.6.11 savefile in the 5.7 directory and it updated on
first bootup.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Mon 29 Jul 2013 on Precise Puppy 5.7 Linux 3.2.48 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV280
[Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
oem: ATI RADEON 9200
X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5961) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 8.0.4
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Core 0: @2800 1: @2800 MHz
I started ppm and was offered the service pack, I installed that.
This pc has a usb optical drive which worked fine when a dvd was
loaded into it.
Ogle works fine too, wouldn't work for me on the PAE 5.7 but is
working fine on the 5.7 retro version.
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broomdodger

Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 279 Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 11:31 Post subject:
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retro high memory use
Precise 5.7 retro
manual frugal
Boot, savefile, and restart
Precise 5.7.00 memory usage 554 MB
Precise 5.6.11 memory usage 184 MB
When Precise 5.7 starts it displays something I have never seen when a savefile is present: (the 'copying to ram' part)
Loading the 'puppy_precise_5.7.sfs' main file... copying to ram
Is it loading the sfs twice?
Bill
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OscarTalks

Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 2202 Location: London, England
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 11:34 Post subject:
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This is a bit strange, happens on 2 different computers, PAE version (will try the retro version later).
When I boot up and (for example) open Geany the keyboard layout is wrong, I get wrong characters. BUT if I close and re-open Geany the keyboard layout works correctly.
If I reboot the layout is wrong again... unless I open, close and open Geany for a second time again.
_________________ Oscar in England

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broomdodger

Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 279 Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 11:51 Post subject:
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EeePC display 800x480x24, 1GB RAM
Precise 5.7
some dialogs are too long
- First Shutdown: ask fido
the buttons do not show, I can move the dialog with the alt key, but can not resize. Installed on another machine so I could see the dialog and mimicked the savefile process. The 'return' key worked, for the 2 too long dialogs.
- First Shutdown: encryption
same as above, dilog is too long
Neither of these were a problem with Precise 5.6.11
- Opera several dialogs too long, able to move and resize, both 5.7 and 5.6.11
- gparted too tall
On all machines tested:
+ Used PPM to install Mercurial 2.0.2 works fine
- download and compile Vim 74b from mercurial works great
+ compiled Sylpheed 340b4 works great
+ QtWeb installed and works, I like it better than Opera
+ gnumeric with a 43192 row sheet works great
+ Pure-ftpd server no longer reminds to set passwd
Bill
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 2022 Location: Italy
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:12 Post subject:
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BarryK wrote: |
Gnome-mplayer will not play DVD videos!
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I got gnome-mplayer working: I played my marriage Dvd. Go to gnome-mplayer preferences and activate in Interface Tab the "Start with playlist visible" checkbox.
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backi
Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 2007 Location: GERMANY
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:47 Post subject:
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Hello Oscar Talks !
To your keyboard problems .
Got a strange effect when typing in Chromiumbrowser Z and Y where reversed . .... not in firefox ..not in geany ......after installing german langpack this was working right .
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Ray MK

Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 778 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:50 Post subject:
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Precise Puppy version 5.7, released Jul 2013
Don’t know what to say - Stunning - All seems to work as expected OTB.
Manual frugal to an old ext2 SDcard and booting with grub4dos. E732 laptop.
# uname -a
Linux puppypc25640 3.9.11 #1 SMP Sat Jul 27 19:40:54 GMT-8 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# uptime
17:32:17 up 6:46, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.04
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1804736 597128 1207608 0 66840
-/+ buffers: 530288 1274448
Swap: 0 0 0
# top
Mem: 598344K used, 1206392K free, 0K shrd, 66840K buff, 444576K cached
CPU: 0% usr 0% sys 0% nic 98% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.00 0.03 0.05 2/93 25954
Simply Superb puppy.
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backi
Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 2007 Location: GERMANY
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:00 Post subject:
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Hi
Regarding Gnome-mplayer not working
Go to gnome-mplayer preferences and activate in Interface Tab " Player---
Video (in my case i had to choose -- gl --.) made Video DVD playing .
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bigpup

Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:15 Post subject:
Re: One problem found |
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peebee wrote: | Precise Puppy 5.7 k3.9.11 pae - pristine frugal install to HP550 laptop
One problem found - wifi is soft blocked on boot:
Quote: | # rfkill list wlan
0: hp-wifi: wlan
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no | and has to be enabled with Code: | rfkill unblock wlan |
This problem is also seen in 01micko's slacko 5.5.71 with k3.10.1pae
Cheers
peebee |
I have the same problem, but when I enter rfkill list wlan I get this:
Code: | # rfkill list wlan
rfkill: /dev/rfkill: No such file or directory
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If I enter rfkill unblock wlan I get this:
Code: | # rfkill unblock wlan
rfkill: /dev/rfkill: No such file or directory |
_________________ The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
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OscarTalks

Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 2202 Location: London, England
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:25 Post subject:
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Retro version displays the same strange keyboard layout behaviour.
If you have booted or rebooted you have to open something, eg PSIP Puppy Phone set-up GUI, try to type something with an @ in it and you get the wrong character, but if you close PSIP and open it a second time the characters type correctly in anything until the next reboot.
_________________ Oscar in England

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backi
Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 2007 Location: GERMANY
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:47 Post subject:
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Hi !
I am a bit confused ..... is Precise 5.7 the successor to 5.6.1 ??
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backi
Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 2007 Location: GERMANY
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:00 Post subject:
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Barry !
Tested Gnomeplayer playing Video-DVD
One have to set in Tab " Preferences -Player-Videooutput... "
gl or xv or whatever works for you .
In my case ticking gl did work .
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anikin
Joined: 10 May 2012 Posts: 1020
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 17:08 Post subject:
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Precise-5.7 runs fine on a fresh boot in pupmode-5, but once it's remastered, I can't bring it to the desktop. I'm stuck at the "type xorgwizard" prompt.
edit: Forgot to mention - it's the PAE version.
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