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[peebee]

Precise Puppy 5.7 k3.9.11 pae - pristine frugal install to HP550 laptop

One problem found - wifi is soft blocked on boot:

[Billtoo]

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.

[broomdodger]

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

[OscarTalks]

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.

[broomdodger]

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

[watchdog]

[backi]

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 .

[Ray MK]

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.

[backi]

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 .

[bigpup]

[OscarTalks]

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.

[backi]

Hi !
I am a bit confused ..... is Precise 5.7 the successor to 5.6.1 ??

[backi]

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 .

[anikin]

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.