TahrPup 5.8.4

[James C]

Meager options for "audio device" in VLC....

[666philb]

so that looks like it's automatically picked your inbuilt motherboard card.

on the 'retrovol configuration' window on the hardware tab ... can you change hw:0 to hw:1 press apply ... then post another picture like the last one with the slider window

thanks

[James C]

so that looks like it's automatically picked your inbuilt motherboard card.

on the 'retrovol configuration' window on the hardware tab ... can you change hw:0 to hw:1 press apply ... then post another picture like the last one with the slider window

thanks

[James C]

Tried this too....

[666philb]

have you tried ticking all of the iec958 boxes .... both on hw:0 and hw:1

also i'm wondering if installing the nvidia graphic driver might be the answer
as i remember pemasu getting hdmi working after installing the ati driver

[James C]

have you tried ticking all of the iec958 boxes .... both on hw:0 and hw:1

also i'm wondering if installing the nvidia graphic driver might be the answer
as i remember pemasu getting hdmi working after installing the ati driver

Seems like I've tried about every option,both individually and in different combinations...no luck.

I suspect the official Nvidia driver would probably solve the problem....kinda new with HDMI so I'm learning as I go.

[666philb]

Something puts a 'drives' icon to my desktop and cannot be disabled in desktop drive icon manager. (if I delete .pup_event/drive_drives, st rekreates it after X restart).

Any idea what script should I remove?

hi bohocmasni
have a look a the scripts in /usr/local/pup_event

[torgo]

I downloaded 5.8.4 (PAE) and am running it on a desktop system from CD with a fresh save file. Overall, working great.

The mention of improved graphic performance in the new kernel gave me the idea to test it out with some SFS files of various programs that I had made to use with Precise 5.7.1. Most of them work in Tahr 5.8.4:

Audacious (audio player) = works great
Audacity v2.0.0 (audio editor) = won't run
Aqualung (audio player, version from Oct 2012) = won't run
Google Chrome v37 = works
Opera 12.16 = works

a few games:
Wesnoth v1.8 (SFS I made for Lucid) = works
Konquest (SFS I made for Lucid) = works
Bit.Trip.Runner (commercial, purchased through Humble Bundle) = won't run
Gratuitous Space Battles (commercial) = works
Little Inferno (commercial) = won't run
Superhex (commercial) = works
Out Of The Park Baseball 14 = works

With Precise, the games Bit.Trip.Runner and Little Inferno will load on nearly any system, but the graphics scroll so slowly on many machines as to make them unplayable. That's what gave me the idea to test them in Tahr 5.8.4.

Having those games not load may be a graphics driver issue. I'll have to try them on other systems with other hardware.

I was a bit surprised that Aqualung and Audacity didn't run though. I'll have to test those on other systems and perhaps with other kernels.

[Billtoo]

Running from the live cd with a savefile.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Mon 13 Oct 2014 on tahrpup 5.8.4 Linux 3.14.20 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.15.1
dimensions: 3840x1080 pixels (1204x343 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 331.104

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Core 0: @1641 1: @1682 2: @1676 3: @1604 4: @1606 5: @1692 6: @1600 7: @1678 MHz

I switched to XFCE4,added some applications with PPM.
It's working well so far, thanks.

[mavrothal]

PuppyTahr-5.8.4 runs nice both fresh and after an update.

Palemoon however fails to display properly some pages, notably https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE (see sceeny)
Anybody else sees that?

[charbaby66]

666philb, I have one of those crazy Pentium M's that need a bit of help (or code) to make it work under Precise 5.7.1 & Slacko 5.7 or higher..
The new 5.8.4 non PAE works OOTB, all issues w/ muted sound, no wifi detected /disconnects, shutdown hang / savefile (dir) creation/corruption
are gone !!! I am so happy not to have to edit anything to avoid/solve issues thus far.. thank you so much for helping and making this purty little pup.

Quick question as I have not kept up with new developments for lack of being able to find anything newer than the updated Lucid 5.2.8.4 to play nice, I am not up on the modular kernel changing these days and would like to try the forced PAE on here (EDIT: on the PAE version) . I don't know if you applied shinobar's patch to the new build and I don't know if some of my issues with that iso were due to not understanding his instructions as to if to boot with pfix=ram and/or forcepae, Either way I had one or more of the issues mentioned above, now all solved with this (EDIT: NonPAE )build..

666philb wrote:
i've uploaded a new 3.14.11 kernel which hopefully has the force PAE patch applied, and the cirrus qemu module inbuilt https://www.dropbox.com/s/3x121v1gt8ib9 ... .11.tar.gz

shinobar wrote:
I made .iso... <snip> ...which does not mean any TahrPup derivative, but just for making it easy to test 666philb's new kernel....<snip>...The boot menu is add 'forcepae' parameter. It runs both with non-PAE Pentium M CPU and with any other PAE capable CPU...<snip>...Run with 'puppy pfix=ram' boot option (no need 'forcepae') if you have TahrPup on your HDD. Otherwise, Puppy runs from the HDD.

I want to see if it makes a difference using PAE or not considering all the
back and forth..but this is very low priority since all seems good as it is.

And again thank you It is nice to be running a newer pup on this box.
I *love* the save folder.. you puppy capable programmers are fabulous!
Thanks for incorporating it, and to all who help puppy and folks like me!

Am I happy? Oh yeah

[linux28]

TahrPup 5.8.4
sound Not normal
palemoon flase no sound
vlc Sound is intermittent

[linux28]

TahrPup 5.8.4restart graphical server

Later can't use the keyboard

[peebee]

Hi 666philb

Testing 5.8.4 - initially pae version on my desktop with nvidia graphics.

All well so far - have been able to compile the Broadcom wl driver for the new kernel with no problems.

I do notice however that openssl version is reporting an old OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014

whereas the up to date version is 1.0.1i................

Cheers & congrats & thanks
peebee

[666philb]

PuppyTahr-5.8.4 runs nice both fresh and after an update.

Palemoon however fails to display properly some pages, notably https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE (see sceeny)
Anybody else sees that?

hi mavrothal,

yes i've noticed that and only on github ... it's to do with the browsers internal certificates and i think it fixes itself eventually.

you can make github display correctly straight away by ...
preferences>>>advanced>>>certificates>>>validation and untick the 'OSCP' box
then visit github and it will display correctly... after you can turn OSCP back on.

[666philb]

Hi 666philb
I do notice however that openssl version is reporting an old OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 whereas the up to date version is 1.0.1i...........

updating to the 1.0.1.i version causes lots of problems in tahrpup .... however the 1.0.1f versionin trusty tahr is patched against heartbleed i believe

[666philb]

and would like to try the forced PAE on here (EDIT: on the PAE version) . I don't know if you applied shinobar's patch to the new build

hi charbaby66,

i think i applied the patch on the PAE version of 5.8.4, can you test. if not the 3.14.13 kernel here definitely has the patch applied http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pu ... r/kernels/

[666philb]

TahrPup 5.8.4
sound Not normal
palemoon flase no sound
vlc Sound is intermittent

hi linux28,

did the keyboard fail after restart on 5.8.3 or only after you tried those sound drivers i posted?

i had a similar thing with flash not working, and it was because i had set the soundcard using the tray and not using multiple soundcard wizard first. run the wizard and make note of the card number and then check that it matches in retrovol settings/config

after sound is set properly .... in vlc prefernces >>audio choose
alsa sound output>>> then choose default audio device probably

[backi]

I get sound on players ..... but on retrovol mixer PCM slider is working but not possible to tick or untick it.

Therefor on audacity Pcm is not recognized.no sound for audacity from Pcm soundcard .

[mavrothal]

yes i've noticed that and only on github ... it's to do with the browsers internal certificates and i think it fixes itself eventually.

you can make github display correctly straight away by ...
preferences>>>advanced>>>certificates>>>validation and untick the 'OSCP' box
then visit github and it will display correctly... after you can turn OSCP back on.

OK Thx

BTW, if this is to be released as the next official woof-CE-derived puppy, would be a good idea to get a decent version number (5.9 or 6.0 instead of the current point release) and also a decent announcement, so Barry can put it in his blog (eventually).