Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017

[puppytahruser]

Is there any way to upgrade from previous xenialpup? Or just need to download the iso and install it again.

[watchdog]

Install it again. If you have a previous adrv.sfs then it may work simply renaming it depending on what packages are inside.

[puppytahruser]

Thank you WD for your reply. I will try it.

[James C]

Quick manual frugal.

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oot# inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: puppypc7337 Kernel: 4.9.13 i686 (32 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: JWM 2.3.5 dm: N/A Distro: xenialpup 7.0.8.1
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial: 150545593600028
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42143
           clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1400 MHz 2: 2000 MHz
           3: 1400 MHz 4: 3000 MHz 5: 1400 MHz 6: 1400 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
           Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           tty size: 83x29 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.13
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (6.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: N/A
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: N/A
Partition: ID-1: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
RAID:      System: supported: linear raid0 raid1 raid10 raid6 raid5 raid4
           No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
           Unused Devices: none
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 201 Uptime: 24 min Memory: 226.6/2946.3MB
           Init: SysVinit v: N/A runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.291 running in urxvt) inxi: 2.2.35 

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root# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3017036    1366176    1650860     318252     123080    1015348
-/+ buffers/cache:     227748    2789288
Swap:      8396796          0    8396796
root# 

[bigpup]

Very, Very new Asus G11CD Tower
Intel® Core™ i5 6400 Processor
NVIDIA® GeForce GTX970 4GB

Working OK using this:
Tahrpup64 6.0.5 with kernel 4.1.7
Pup-Sysinfo

VIDEO CARD:

VGA controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 13c2 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8664
Flags: bus master, fast device select, latency 0
Interrupt Request (IRQ): 135
Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at e000
Expansion ROM at df000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
--
Kernel Driver: nouveau
Memory Used: 1264.50 KB
Path: /lib/modules/4.1.7/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
Description: nVidia Riva/TNT/GeForce/Quadro/Tesla
Dependencies: drm, drm_kms_helper, ttm, mxm-wmi, hwmon, wmi, i2c-algo-bit
Used by: 2
--
Video Card OEM: NVIDIA
Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Product: GM204 Board Chip Rev
VESA BIOS Extensions: VESA 3.0 detected.
Memory: 16384kb

The problem
Boots to black screen.

Xenialpup 7.0.8.1
Xenialpup64 7.0.8.1
frugal on USB flash drive.

Both boot OK up until the point of starting X.
Display goes black and nothing else happens.

Tried to boot to noX
Would not do it.
Still the black screen.

[step]

xenialpup64-7.0.8.1-uefi.iso boots in qemu with UEFI option. A small issue: while the system is early loading, qemu displays a black screen with just this message "system hasn't inizialized video (yet)". Then after about 20 seconds, the normal boot console log starts showing until the system is fully booted to graphics.

[666philb]

Very, Very new Asus G11CD Tower
Intel® Core™ i5 6400 Processor
NVIDIA® GeForce GTX970 4GB

Working OK using this:
Tahrpup64 6.0.5 with kernel 4.1.7
Pup-Sysinfo

VIDEO CARD:

VGA controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 13c2 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8664
Flags: bus master, fast device select, latency 0
Interrupt Request (IRQ): 135
Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at e000
Expansion ROM at df000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
--
Kernel Driver: nouveau
Memory Used: 1264.50 KB
Path: /lib/modules/4.1.7/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
Description: nVidia Riva/TNT/GeForce/Quadro/Tesla
Dependencies: drm, drm_kms_helper, ttm, mxm-wmi, hwmon, wmi, i2c-algo-bit
Used by: 2
--
Video Card OEM: NVIDIA
Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Product: GM204 Board Chip Rev
VESA BIOS Extensions: VESA 3.0 detected.
Memory: 16384kb

The problem
Boots to black screen.

Xenialpup 7.0.8.1
Xenialpup64 7.0.8.1
frugal on USB flash drive.

Both boot OK up until the point of starting X.
Display goes black and nothing else happens.

Tried to boot to noX
Would not do it.
Still the black screen.

hi bigpup,

it's probably missing firmware.
you could try grabbing the firmware.sfs from here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=97276, renaming it to adrv_xenialpup_7.0.8.1.sfs and putting in the same place the main puppy.sfs & zdrv.sfs are.

[666philb]

xenialpup64-7.0.8.1-uefi.iso boots in qemu with UEFI option. A small issue: while the system is early loading, qemu displays a black screen with just this message "system hasn't inizialized video (yet)". Then after about 20 seconds, the normal boot console log starts showing until the system is fully booted to graphics.

hi step ,
have a look through /var/log/messages to see what happened during the boot process.

[bigpup]

hi bigpup,

it's probably missing firmware.
you could try grabbing the firmware.sfs from here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=97276, renaming it to adrv_xenialpup_7.0.8.1.sfs and putting in the same place the main puppy.sfs & zdrv.sfs are.

This had no affect.
Xenialpup 7.0.8.1 frugal on usb flash.
Xenialpup64 7.0.8.1 frugal on USB flash.

The screen seems to go black about the time it is switching to using the nouveau driver.

I am posting this from Tahrpup 6.0.6 running on the same computer.
It boots with no problem.
Note:
That added firmware did help on Tahrpup 6.0.6 to get the wifi working on it.
Needed the rtl8821ae driver.


Got Xenialpup64 7.0.8.1 to boot using the Vesa driver.

VIDEO REPORT: xenialpup64, version 7.0.8.1

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe
Drivers requested to be loaded: vesa

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): vesa
Loaded modules: dbe ddc fb glx int10 kbd mouse shadow vbe

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (271x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

More testing:
added nouveau.modeset=0 to the boot options.

Xenialpup 7.0.8.1
Xenialpup64 7.0.8.1

Both boot to desktop and seem to be working with the Nouveau driver.
Do not understand why this should be needed.

[666philb]

hi bigpup,

can you try booting with

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nouveau.config=NvGrUseFW=1

and if that fails can you try this http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... .0.8.1.sfs

renaming to adrv.......sfs as before

[step]

xenialpup64-7.0.8.1-uefi.iso boots in qemu with UEFI option. A small issue: while the system is early loading, qemu displays a black screen with just this message "system hasn't inizialized video (yet)". Then after about 20 seconds, the normal boot console log starts showing until the system is fully booted to graphics.

hi step ,
have a look through /var/log/messages to see what happened during the boot process.

Hi Phil, I did, and I couldn't find anything terribly suspicious. No blatant error messages for sure.

[bigpup]

hi bigpup,

can you try booting with

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nouveau.config=NvGrUseFW=1

and if that fails can you try this http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... .0.8.1.sfs

renaming to adrv.......sfs as before

No affect.

Tried with just the boot option

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nouveau.config=NvGrUseFW=1

Tried with just the firmware adrv sfs.
Tried using both.

Only thing that works is booting with added boot option:

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nouveau.modeset=0

It boots OK in Tahrpup 6.0.5 or 6.0.6, with no added boot option.
Is Xenialpup using a different Nouveau driver?
Maybe could be that
Or different Xorg
Maybe a setting in the Kernel

Are we having fun yet?

[bigpup]

Also wondering why this is happening.
Changed the refresh rate in menu->Setup->Xorg Video Wizard->Screen Resolution (Xorg.conf) and it says it changed.

However I get this output in Pup-Sysinfo

VIDEO REPORT: xenialpup, version 7.0.8.1

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1366x768
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe ddc fb fbdevhw glx int10 kbd mouse shadow vbe vesa

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (271x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

[666philb]

Also wondering why this is happening.
Changed the refresh rate in menu->Setup->Xorg Video Wizard->Screen Resolution (Xorg.conf) and it says it changed.

However I get this output in Pup-Sysinfo

VIDEO REPORT: xenialpup, version 7.0.8.1

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1366x768
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe ddc fb fbdevhw glx int10 kbd mouse shadow vbe vesa

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (271x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

hi bigpup.... can you try the 4.9.15 kernel here
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/huge_kernels/

if you have a savefile/folder type into a terminal and follow the instructions

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change_kernels

else grab the kernel from ibiblio, unzip & rename accordingly vmlinux...blaah..blaahh > vmlinuz
& kernel-modules...blah..blah > xenialpup-or-whatever.zdrvsfs

[recobayu]

Thank you Phil. I install it by copying into my flashdisk. That's works.
But when I use YUMI, I can not boot it. How to make YUMI boot my Xenial 7.0.8.1?

[bigpup]

hi bigpup.... can you try the 4.9.15 kernel here

Downloaded the huge-4.9.15-xenialpup64.tar.bz2

Tried the 4.9.15 kernel in Xenialpup64 7.0.8.1

No help.

Still had to use nouveau.modeset=0 to get it to boot to desktop.

Pup_Sysinfo

▶—— Linux Kernel ——◀

Kernel Release: 4.9.15
Build Date: Fri Mar 17 15:54:36 GMT 2017
OS Support: GNU/Linux
Architecture: x86_64
SMP Enabled: Yes

I am having fun are you?


This had no affect on the resolution settings.
Still shows the same Pup-Sysinfo.

This could be the monitor telling something it can not use the 1366X768 resolution, but it is suppose to be able to.
Well, the native resolution is 1360x768.
It may be detecting that, so it will not let 1366x768 work.

Graphics hardware, resolution settings, seems to have turned into a black art.
What should work seems to never work.

[peebee]

I'm getting a network interface tunl0 that I've never seen before - only on the first screen on Internet Connection Wizard - does not show on sns or frisbee gui....

[bigpup]

xenialpup 7.0.8.1
Frugal on USB flash drive.
Save folder.

Desktop drive icons.

The unmount (added icon) that appears (upper right) on drive icons when mounted.

Clicking on this (added icon) does not unmount drive.

[valks]

Booting from a external hard drive. I get a black screen then X failed. Enter in text mode, the advice from the terminal was execute the Xorgwizard.
After executed it and trying to execute the X server, still fail.
The xorg log says:

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RADEON: failed to initialise surface manager
radeon_setup_kernel_mem failed

Pc Info

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Lenovo
AMD A6-6310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
6 GB of Ram

Sorry for my english
any advice?

Edit
The X server work now, just executing xorgwizard and select the 2nd option "modesetting" I think. Then just execute in terminal Xwin and the dekstop appear.

[bigpup]

Xenialpup 7.0.8.1
Xenialpup64 7.0.8.1

To boot to the desktop. I had to add nouveau.modeset=0 to the boot options.

Both boot to desktop and seem to be working with the Nouveau driver.
Do not understand why this should be needed.

This may explain what the problem could be caused by.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 723#696723

Some good info in this post and the one below it.