Bionicpup64 8.0 CE

[Billtoo]

I installed to a 32gb usb-3.0 flash drive:

System: Host: puppypc23503 Kernel: 4.14.71 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 Distro: bionicpup64 7.9.5
Machine: Device: desktop System: HP-Pavilion product: GN559AA-ABA a6220n serial: MXF7470DNX
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Berkeley v: 1.04 serial: X312345678
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 5.13 date: 10/24/2007
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (-MCP-) speed/max: 1740/2200 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM]
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: radeon Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 128 bits) version: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5
Network: Card: Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
Drives: HDD Total Size: 431.6GB (0.8% used)
Weather: Conditions: 51 F (11 C) Time: October 2, 5:10 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 114 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 258.0/3945.1MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

Updated PPM and installed favorite applications.
Connected to a 32" TV via hdmi cable, sound also via hdmi.

CPU usage is high when streaming video in Kodi or VLC, much higher than
Quirky Beaver 8.7.1

Works well apart from that.
Thanks.
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EDIT: screenshot2 shows kodi streaming video on the same computer
running Quirky 8.7.1 beaver64.

Machine: Device: desktop System: HP-Pavilion product: GN559AA-ABA a6220n serial: MXF7470DNX
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Berkeley v: 1.04 serial: X312345678
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 5.13 date: 10/24/2007
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (-MCP-) speed/max: 1845/2200 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM]
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD OLAND (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.18.9, LLVM 6.0.0) version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5
Network: Card: Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
Drives: HDD Total Size: 430.8GB (1.1% used)
Weather: Conditions: 51 F (11 C) Time: October 3, 12:43 AM EDT
Info: Processes: 127 Uptime: 2:35 Memory: 532.9/3947.0MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

There were 5 applications running when I ran inxi so memory usage is
532.9mb

[mikeslr]

Hi 666philb & All,

I had been using 7.9.3 with a SaveFile. Replaced with 7.9.5. On bootup was asked if I wanted to use the old SaveFile. Answered yes. Most of the desktop customization's didn't survive the upgrade, but most were easily restored. However, JWM's 2nd panel no longer appeared and nothing I did restored it to its old position --left-center-- or enabled me to view a 2nd panel in any position.

The GUI worked. Launchers could be added. But nothing appeared.

As I don't like desktop launchers, and make use of the second panel for quick access to applications, I had been rather pleased with JWM's second panel. Rather than rebuilding the SaveFile from scratch, I installed FbBox, which functions.

[mavrothal]

Regarding CPU/MEM in an "all intel" machine, I see lower CPU in Bionic and higher MEM when playing video but this may be due to VLC vs MPV (pic)

For those with broadcom wifi troubles, here is the wl driver (md5sum:2c030de248e7172aa702b0d3a8117cb)

[Billtoo]

I installed to a usb-3.0 ssd, pc is an HP:

System: Host: puppypc3086 Kernel: 4.14.71 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 Distro: bionicpup64 7.9.5
Machine: Device: desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HPE-410f serial: MXX0370KF3
Mobo: FOXCONN model: 2AB1 v: 1.00 serial: N/A BIOS: American Megatrends v: 6.02 date: 07/21/2010
Battery hidpp__0: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
hidpp__1: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
CPU: 6 core AMD Phenom II X6 1045T (-MCP-) speed/max: 1115/2700 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5550/5570/5630/6510/6610/7570]
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD REDWOOD (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.14.71, LLVM 6.0.0) version: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5
Network: Card-1: Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci
Card-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1126.5GB (0.9% used)
Weather: Conditions: 58 F (15 C) Time: October 4, 5:01 AM EDT
Info: Processes: 138 Uptime: 33 min Memory: 312.9/7977.2MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

I updated PPM and installed favorite applications.

It's working well on this computer,
Thanks

EDIT: Seems to be safe too

root# sh VulnChecker
l1tf Not affected
meltdown Not affected
spec_store_bypass Not affected
spectre_v1 Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization
spectre_v2 Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline
root#

[ETP]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the above which I am just starting to test using a manual install from the mounted ISO
to a 3 partition 16GB USB-3 stick [ fat32/fat32/f2fs ]
An initial finding was that my 4GB swap partition on sdb18 was not being mounted.
That is due to the fact that fdisk is no longer in the Busybox suite and needs to be installed separately.
BK also ran into this issue with Quirky Beaver 8.7.1 and commented about it here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 84#1005484

Installing it via (updated) PPM resolved the issue but it needs to be included in the next version.
Items installed thus far:

• /root/.packages/user-installed-packages
  
  flashplayer-31.0.0.108-x86_64|Adobe Flash Player browser plugin and Preferences
  GetLatest64bitChromeVersion-MK11|Google Chrome web browser
  lockstate-1.5-x86_64_ETP|CapsLock, NumLock, ScrollLock tray indicator app
  google-chrome-stable_current_amd64|Access the Internet
  fdisk_2.31.1|collection of partitioning utilities

PaleMoon was updated to 28.1.0

[ETP]

Hi again Phil,

In the current woof-installed version of hardinfo:

( hardinfo-5.2-i18n-x86_64_bionic|hardinfo|5.2-i18n-x86_64_bionic||System|916||hardinfo-5.2-i18n-x86_64_bionic.pet|+gtk+2|System Profiler and Benchmark|ubuntu|bionic||)

sensors information is not populated. The fix if that feature is desired, is to use PPM to install the current bionic version over the top:

• /root/.packages/user-installed-packages
  
  flashplayer-31.0.0.108-x86_64|Adobe Flash Player browser plugin and Preferences
  GetLatest64bitChromeVersion-MK11|Google Chrome web browser
  lockstate-1.5-x86_64_ETP|CapsLock, NumLock, ScrollLock tray indicator app
  google-chrome-stable_current_amd64|Access the Internet
  fdisk_2.31.1|collection of partitioning utilities
  hardinfo_0.5.1+git20180227-1|Displays system information
  PupSnap-2.6_Scrot-0.8_64Bit|PupSnap screen capture (screenshot)

[sheldonisaac]

ETP, thanks! I will look into the hardinfo, etc.

I too have a manual install, on a 128GB SSD in this Dell E6410.

Looking forward to using it some more.

And of course, BIG thanks to 666philb!


Sheldon

[Terry H]

In the current woof-installed version of hardinfo:

( hardinfo-5.2-i18n-x86_64_bionic|hardinfo|5.2-i18n-x86_64_bionic||System|916||hardinfo-5.2-i18n-x86_64_bionic.pet|+gtk+2|System Profiler and Benchmark|ubuntu|bionic||)

Checking in PPM for hardinfo, there are 2 versions currently shown as included in the release. I would like to get the sensors displayed, however using PPM was unable to find the 0.6 version that you have displayed, which you installed.

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In /root/.packages/woof-installed-packages:
hardinfo-5.2-i18n-x86_64_bionic|hardinfo|5.2-i18n-x86_64_bionic||System|916||hardinfo-5.2-i18n-x86_64_bionic.pet|+gtk+2|System Profiler and Benchmark|ubuntu|bionic||

In /root/.packages/Packages-ubuntu-bionic-universe:
hardinfo_0.5.1+git20180227-1|hardinfo|0.5.1+git20180227-1||System|836K|pool/universe/h/hardinfo|hardinfo_0.5.1+git20180227-1_amd64.deb|+pciutils&ge2.1.11-10,+zlib1g-dev,+libc6&ge2.27,+libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0&ge2.22.0,+libglib2.0-0&ge2.43.2,+libgtk2.0-0&ge2.18.0,+libpango-1.0-0&ge1.14.0|Displays system information|ubuntu|bionic||

[Billtoo]

Installed to a 32gb flashdrive,pc is a Gateway:

System: Host: puppypc23598 Kernel: 4.14.71 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 Distro: bionicpup64 7.9.5
Machine: Device: desktop System: Gateway product: FX6860 serial: PTGCEP2002121069349200
Mobo: Gateway model: FX6860 serial: 109726660000629
BIOS: American Megatrends v: P01-A3 date: 04/19/2011
Battery hidpp__0: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
hidpp__1: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-2600 (-MT-MCP-) speed/max: 1605/3401 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM]
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1600x900@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.87
Network: Card-1: Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
Drives: HDD Total Size: 3031.4GB (0.1% used)
Weather: Conditions: 69 F (20 C) Time: October 4, 2:33 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 156 Uptime: 58 min Memory: 375.4/16023.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

Added "intel_pstate=disable" to the kernel line of the menu.lst file.
Updated PPM and installed favorite applications.
Installed proprietary Nvidia driver.

bionicpup64 7.9.5 is working well with AMD and Nvidia graphics, not
well with Intel (cpu usage is high)

Thanks.

[ETP]

@Terry H,

In PPM you are looking for the Ubuntu ref which is what I highlighted in blue i.e. hardinfo_0.5.1+git20180227-1|Displays system information

Installing that will give you the 0.6-alpha version of hardinfo from 2017.

[Terry H]

@Terry H,

In PPM you are looking for the Ubuntu ref which is what I highlighted in blue i.e. hardinfo_0.5.1+git20180227-1|Displays system information

Installing that will give you the 0.6-alpha version of hardinfo from 2017.

The problem was that both versions had [ALREADY INSTALLED] against them when I first went into PPM. I have since installed the above version. Sensors now appears in hardinfo.

[Billtoo]

I installed to a usb-3.0 hard drive, computer is an HP:

System: Host: puppypc24902 Kernel: 4.9.131 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 Distro: bionicpup64 7.9.5
Machine: Device: desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: p7-1246s serial: MXX232077R
Mobo: Foxconn model: 2ADA v: 1.00 serial: N/A BIOS: AMI v: 7.12 date: 06/07/2012
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i5-3550 (-MCP-) speed/max: 1600/3301 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Desktop version: 4.2 Mesa 18.0.5
Network: Card-1: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
Drives: HDD Total Size: 3000.6GB (0.3% used)
Weather: Conditions: 61 F (16 C) - Clear Time: October 4, 7:13 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 189 Uptime: 24 min Memory: 223.7/11969.1MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

Changed kernel, added "intel_pstate=disable" to the kernel line of the
menu.lst file.
Updated PPM and installed favorite applications.

Changing the kernel resulted in less CPU usage, maybe Phil needs to
offer an alternative kernel for computers with intel graphics?

Thanks.

[melon688]

7.9.3,7.9.4,7.9.5

1.
plug in USB HDD,show partition icons on the desktop

2.
shut down

3.
unplug USB HDD

4.
boot

5.
you still see those icons on the desktop:

[Terry H]

This version of bionic64 7.9.5 uses woodenshoe-wi Version 10 of rox filer. I am currently having an issue when in detailed view. On initial view the columns are displayed smaller with text wrapped. Enlarging the window and manually expanding columns leaves the text still wrapped. Changes to options doesn't alter this behaviour.

[Terry H]

See previous post.

[woodenshoe-wi]

I only made a one line change between version 9 and version 10 to fix a segfault when running with old libraries.

But since Bionicpup64 does not use old libraries, going back to version 9 until I can figure out what is wrong should fix it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fyqk32xg11ti4 ... 4.pet?dl=1

[Terry H]

I only made a one line change between version 9 and version 10 to fix a segfault when running with old libraries.

But since Bionicpup64 does not use old libraries, going back to version 9 until I can figure out what is wrong should fix it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fyqk32xg11ti4 ... 4.pet?dl=1

Thanks for the quick response.

Edit: previous version columns formatted OK.

[sheldonisaac]

Thanks to you both, Terry H and woodenshoe-wi, for finding and fixing the ROXfiler column problem.

[ETP]

Hi Phil,

A minor issue is that the included mpv GUI does not launch centre screen.
That may be resolved by the inclusion of the attached conf file who's contents are reproduced below.
(It also ensures the correct selection of sub-title language when appopriate & sets the screenshot directory)

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# This file (mpv.conf) goes in ~/.config/mpv/
# Revised 27th June 2018 to include slang and screenshot-directory (Needed in some Pups when root is not automaticaly used) - ETP
# Additional notes:
#
# --no-border is used within launch scripts. eg /usr/bin/mpv --no-border  [url or path to file/script]
# To quit the TV press keyboard letter q
# To resume later at the same position when viewing a film or video, use instead keyboard letter Q (Upper case)
# To toggle between windowed & full-screen mode press keyboard letter f
# Use numbers 0 (up) and 9 (down) across the top of the keyboard to adjust volume.
# To take a screenshot press keyboard letter s
# Toggle visibility of subtitles (when available) with keyboard letter v
# To pause or resume play use keyboard letter p or the space bar.
#
geometry=50%:50%
slang=$LANG
screenshot-directory=/root/my-documents/images/

[norgo]

@woodenshoe-wi

unfortunately the same in Slacko700RC3