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Every Precise I've tried exhibits the same behavior. Either the kernel, Alsa or Retrovol do not work with my Intel audio chip

Processor : 8x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
snd_hda_intel : Intel HDA driver
snd_hda_codec : HDA codec core
snd_hwdep : Hardware dependent layer
snd_pcm_oss : PCM OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_mixer_oss : Mixer OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_pcm : Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
snd_seq_dummy : ALSA sequencer MIDI-through client
snd_seq_oss : OSS-compatible sequencer module
snd_seq_midi : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer MIDI synth.
snd_seq_midi_event : MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
snd_rawmidi : Midlevel RawMidi code for ALSA.
snd_seq : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
snd_seq_device : ALSA sequencer device management
snd_timer : ALSA timer interface
shpchp : Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
snd : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
soundcore : Core sound module

PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])

When precise first boots, it does not recognize the sound chip, when I finally tick the front box in retrovol, I get sound, but not speaker icon.

Upon reboot, the settings for retrovol are not saved.

I've tried every option that alsa and retrovol offer for configuration.

What's really interesting is that Raring and Upup recognize the sound ship, the speaker icon is not muted as it is in Precise.

It seems that the "stock" precise distributions have the problem, while non-stock ones do not.

I'd rslly appreciate some help with this.

thanks

Thom

I did a fresh manual frugal install of 561 to a 16gb SDHC card.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Wed 29 May 2013 on Precise Puppy 5.6.1 Linux 3.2.44 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller:
Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller (rev 09)
oem: Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product:
Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
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 Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Core 0: @1600 1: @1600 2: @1600 3: @1600 MHz
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.456 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.020 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.020 FPS
#
Network controller Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

I updated ppm and then installed firefox-21, I installed kdegames and
digikam-2.50 as well.
I used getflash to install the latest flashplayer plugin.
Once kdegames or digikam are installed you get an error if you try to
change the password for spot or root.
Digikam created a menu entry under graphics but clicking on it doesn't
launch digikam, in 5.6 I was using gexec to launch digikam but it's
not included in 5.6.1 so I made a pet of grun-0.93 and it works fine.
I fiddled with the digikam desktop file but couldn't get it to start
from the menu icon.
That's it so far.

Precise Puppy version 5.6.1

So far all looking good on my E732 laptop. Manual frugal to ntfs partition and booting with grub4dos from an ext2 SDcard.
# uname -a
Linux puppypc20485 3.2.44 #1 SMP Sun May 5 11:42:44 GMT-8 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1805224 675724 1129500 0 73256
-/+ buffers: 602468 1202756
Swap: 0 0 0
#
Will use for a few days and report - feels faster than 5.6. My imagination ?

Successfully upgraded 5.6 using a "Precise-5.6.1" CD-RW disk.

Had to restore my changed wallpaper, and re-do the edit of the /root/.jwmrc-tray to change the xload display.
I wonder if anything else has been reset to default?
Time will tell.

Billtoo wrote:... in 5.6 I was using gexec to launch digikam but it's
not included in 5.6.1 ...

Here are some alternatives to gexec
I like alienjeff's best

L18L wrote:

Billtoo wrote:... in 5.6 I was using gexec to launch digikam but it's
not included in 5.6.1 ...

Here are some alternatives to gexec
I like alienjeff's best

Thanks for the info, I like grun best

Where can I get a pet file to install Pwidgets in "Precise-5.6.1?

just like 5.6, 5.6.1's ppm refuses to update the ubuntu repos.

the connection stops here:

Torrent - please share

Precise 5.6

- booting FRUGAL from sda1 works, but not from sda5. It shows "puppy_precise_5.6.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console". Same happens with racy or wary 5.5.

- When booting up, modules are being loaded, need to press any keyboard key, to have it continuing (usb keyboard).

- /root/Choices/MIME-types should be instead by default /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-types ?

Full install to ext4 partition

Upgraded Seamonkey to 2.18 beta4

added
Xscreensaver-5.15
Shermans Aquarium
Firewall State 2.1
Pup control 2.3
Pup clockset 2.1
Roxterm 1.17
Wbar
Puppy Browser 1.1
Flashplayer 11.2.202.280
Bash 4.1
Bibletime 2.72
Audacious 3.23.2
Tcl 8.5.6
Tk 8.5.6

Everything working - no problems to report at this time

Precise 5.6 :
- dmesg sometimes shows with AMD Athlon 7750 dual-core : Don't ask me how to reproduce or where it comes from, I have no idea...

Precise 5.6 :
Missing libraries :

Now that Precise is almost stable, it will be nice to have a QuickPet available for Precise pointing to Precise Pets in ibiblio.org.

spandey wrote:Now that Precise is almost stable, it will be nice to have a QuickPet available for Precise pointing to Precise Pets in ibiblio.org.

See first post in this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 486#705486

Barry

some pics to show the vaio display when starting precise5610

+ wary5500 working great
+ precise5610 starting
+ precise5610 after 'Loading kernel modules
+ precise5610 fully started

Both of the vaio laptops are the same,
both exhibit the same problem.

Bill

G'day Sylvander,

I'm running pwidgets in a frugal precise-5.6.1 based on the 2.4.1 pet.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... =827712100

Check the final few pages of the pwidgets thread for fixes to some of the problems you are likely to come across with some widgets.

Success or not seems to depend on just which widgets you want displayed.

David S.

Pwidgets-2.4.1 installed and functioning.

Precise 5.6 :
- # ayttm
** (process:21467): WARNING **: Error loading plugin: libaspell.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

- # gadmin-rsync
** (gadmin-rsync:26051): WARNING **: Couldn't find pixmap file: gadmin-rsync.png

- Why are there 2 different gtkdialog links ? /usr/bin/gtkdialog and /usr/sbin/gtkdialog

- Still those 3 big bad files :
/usr/lib/libLLVM-3.0.so.1
/usr/lib/libicudata.so.48.1.1
/usr/lib/seamonkey-2.17.1/libxul.so
Is it possible to remove the first 2 ones, and replace seamonkey with lighter software.

After reading Barry's blog post about whether Precise could replace Wary, I've had a crack at running it on my trusty K6-2 500 machine and, as I suspected I might, I'm having problems.

I'm booting from the CD, effectively pfix=ram as I haven't set anything up yet. It's getting as far as setting up the layered file system, but is throwing a kernel panic at the switch root phase. I've attached a photo of the screen. At this point it is also flashing the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights on the keyboard.

There's a link to the HardInfo report from Wary 5.5 in my sig.