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Re: ASUS 1015BX Soundcard does't work

#286 Post by RetroTechGuy »

rendysatrya wrote:I've tried the latest precise 5.7.1 on my ASUS 1015BX AMD Fusion c60 netbook, all work fine except the sound card. It detects sound card but it doesn't work. What should i do then?
I think that when I installed 5.28 on my old laptop, that the sound didn't work initially. Then I ran the sound wizard, which identified the correct driver and it worked fine (Menu => Setup).
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#287 Post by gerry »

I use Slacko 5.3.3 on my Acer Aspire One, the label says "Model Number ZG5". It is an early one, about four years old now, and does not get much use. I take it on holiday, and mainly use it to:
Browse, check news, weather forecast, webmail.
Show slideshows of grandchildren to friends/relations.
Store and get a larger view of photos downloaded from camera.

I find that I have to take a mouse, as the I find the left and right pad buttons too awkward to use.

I don't attempt things like games or photo editing, or other things better done on a desktop when I get home.

Within that requirement envelope I've never had any trouble with Slacko.

Gerry

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Pups which Work with the Acer Aspire One D270

#288 Post by mikeslr »

Hi All,
The problem with the Acer Aspire One D270 is its employment of the Cedarview graphics chip, variously identified in the subheading of this post in the hope that doing so will help others find this post. Other computers have used Cedarview chips, including the gma500_gfx and the gma650_gfx. The information here may also apply to those computers.
As of September 2013, at least three versions of Puppy Linux work almost "out of the box" with respect to graphics, wireless and sound on the D270: that is, setting the Pups up is something anyone can do with only a little more effort than setting up any Pup on any other computer. These Pups will boot directly to desktop and automatically initiate the First Run settings wizard. To obtain proper graphics during “First Run
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#289 Post by npierce »

mikeslr wrote:For controlling the mouse, the D270 has a simple touchpad, not even adorned by the two buttons below the touchpad to which I've been accustomed by Thinkpads.
It seems like you may have a "ClickPad". When you press down on the lower edge of the touchpad do you get a mechanical click? If so, does that cause the results you would normally get from a left-click? (I'm talking about actually pressing on the pad as you would on a button, not just a light tap.)

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The Acer Aspire One D270 -- further info

#290 Post by mikeslr »

Thanks npierce,

I'll try that. I'll also retry Slacko 5.6 Final and Phatslacko, having just re-installed them to a USB-key. Will post what such trials uncover.

For those interested in why I acquired the D270 in the first place, and which netbooks are currently recommended, see my post @http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 005#725005

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Slackos which work the Acer Aspire One D270

#291 Post by mikeslr »

Hi All,

Thanks to npierces' suggestion, I re-examined the D270's touchpad and thus discovered how to work with Slacko Pups.
Although pressing the edges of the touchpad did nothing, it occurred to me while doing so that perhaps the solid black plastic strip just below the touchpad might be more than a design element for aesthetic purposes. Pressing the black strip with the light pressure which would send an alpha-numeric key value to a target also accomplished nothing. But by exerting considerable pressure to the ends of the black strip I discovered that it concealed both left and right mouse buttons. Using a mouse is still considerably easier. But it's nice to know that right-and-left click mouse routines are available from a naked D270.

With that discovery I was encouraged to try running the D270 under Phatslacko and Slacko 5.6 Final again.

PHATslacko, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 563#691017 ,
Slacko 5.6 Final, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87210

Unlike upup raring and the precises I discussed in the post above, the Slackos do not initially boot to desktop. Rather, during the initial boot you are required to type “xorgwizard

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Asus Eeepc 1001PX

#292 Post by efiabruni »

Saluki, Slacko5.6, Precise5.7.1, Lucid5.2.8 Frugal install

Saluki is my day to day OS and I have been using it the last 2 years on this laptop. Internet-connection(Wifi), audio(speakers, headphones and mic), video, suspending, mounting (internal hdd, usb, SD card), touchpad everything is working well. The only issue, which I have is that I cannot mount my android phone via USB in v023, but could in 017.

Tested and working out of the box in Slacko5.6:
Internet-connection(wifi), mounting,(hdd), audio (speakers, headphones and mic) and video

Tested and working out of the box in Precise5.7.1
Internet-connection(wifi), mounting,(hdd), audio(speakers, headphones and mic) and video

Tested and working out of the box in Lucid5.2.8
Internet-connection(wifi), mounting,(hdd) and video

--not working in Lucid: audio(speakers, headphones and mic) , but I haven't tried to configure anything, will run the sound setup wizard next time I have a look at it

After running the sound set up wizard speakers are working, but not headphone/mic. I think it is this problem.

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#293 Post by rokytnji »

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System:    Host: puppypc15741 Kernel: 2.6.39 i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.4.5) 
           Desktop: Openbox 3.5.0 Distro: Guy Dog Linux Linux 2.6.39 [ arch]
Machine:   System: Acer (portable) product: Aspire 5534 version: V1.10
           Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5534 version: V1.10 Bios: Acer version: V1.10 date: 08/26/2009
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon X2 L310 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 4788.62 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1197.159 MHz 2: 1197.159 MHz
Graphics:  Card: ATI RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] bus-ID: 01:05.0 
           X.org: 1.7.7 driver: radeon tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: HDA Intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1: Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller 
           driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 08:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.2GB (20.3% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MK2555GS size: 250.1GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdb model: Multi size: 0.1GB 
Partition: 
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 79 Uptime: 24 min Memory: 265.5/3546.9MB Runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A Client: Shell (sh) inxi: 1.9.16 

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          15      120456    b  W95 FAT32
Translation. Guydog 5.01 running on 128MB SD Flash card on a Acer Aspire 5534. Sound, Flash, anything else I install in this 90MB Puppy
version with Debian compatibility works just fine on this Acer. Saving changes on 2 gig personal save file on 250gig NTFS drive.
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Toshiba C855

#294 Post by klva47 »

Toshiba Satellite C855-S5206
4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2370M CPU @ 2.40GHz
2757MB Memory (333MB used)
Puppy Linux LUPU-528.005 dual boot with Grub
Windows 7

This install is working fine, but that is nothing new for me. I've had great results with Puppy from the first try with an old IBM 770 something like 8 years ago. Puppy also worked on an IBM T42, T23, A31, R51, and a HP tower. I would just installed the current version of Puppy that was available at the time, to a Linux partition, and use grub to dual-boot if there was a working Windows install. They all just worked. The only problem I recall was sound did not work on the 770. In that case, I did not need sound, so it was essentially a non-issue for me.

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Dell Latitude E6400 -- nice machine

#295 Post by mikeslr »

Hi All,

I had to replace my Thinkpad T42 which ran all 32-bit Puppies very well. Having acquired the light-weight Acer Aspire mentioned above for traveling, the Thinkpad had been relegated to providing quick access to the internet while I watched TV in the den. It was kept next to my chair on a small table by a window. Newton's Third Law and my cat conspired to alter its location. Sturdy bugger that she was, she survived the change, but became mute. Testing revealed a motherboard problem: more costly to fix than replace.
Thought I might as well upgrade. Looked for a Thinkpad T61 on ebay and Amazon Marketplace, but didn't want to spend that much. Figured I'd settle for a Dell Latitude D630, almost as highly rated, but a little cheaper. Then, as I was about to "Buy Now" via ebay I glanced down to "what others are looking at" and saw a listing for a seller refurbished Dell Latitude E6400, Ibm Core 2 Duo, 3 Gb RAM, 160 Gb Sata, Good Battery from a Top Rated Seller for $149, free shipping. Searching suggested it to be superior to the D630 and that it played well with Linux.
It came with XP Professional installed, which I'll keep primarily so that I can use Dragon Naturally Speaking. I plan to resize the hard-drive to create Linux partitions for Puppies and, perhaps, Zorin. As of now, I've successfully run from a USB-key Raring, Upup precise, and FatDog64. All were fast. Overall, it seems like a rather nice machine.

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#296 Post by starhawk »

What happened to the muted Aspire?

BTW -- both my parents are from Bergen County NJ, about a half hour from you by Google Maps. Small world :D

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#297 Post by nooby »

I could resist if I really wanted it but I got curious
so I bought the cheepest laptop I could find today

2800SEK which is a Close to 530USD we are paying
a bit more than in US?

Why did I bought it? To find out if the UEFI would alllow me
to bypass UEFI in BIOS so I need to go the the thread
describing succeses. So if you know the best way to
install on Pachard Bell EASY NOTE maybe it has a modell number

But I am too tired just now. Local time now is 23.20 time to sleep. :)
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#298 Post by stray_dog »

Slacko 5.6 & 5.7 have worked for me pretty well on:
hp dv1227us
hp probook 4530s, and
hp elitebook 8530p
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#299 Post by dk60902 »

I have a Compaq Presario 2195us laptop that is 10 years old. I bought it refurbished off the HP website at that time. I had been using XP Pro on it, but as there is no more XP support, I decided to run Puppy 5.2.8.005 off a CD. It runs reasonably well for websurfing with Firefox. Everything worked out without any tweaking (sound, headphones, (haven't checked mic)) except wireless. This came with a Broadcom BCM1506 card. I didn't try Frisbee wireless manager. I know that there is probably some pet, ndiswrapper or something I can do to get the Broadcom card working, as supposedly, they don't do too well with Linux. I even tried installing an Intel WM2200ABG card, but didn't have much sucess. I just said F it, and am using a USB wireless dongle that works out of the box with Lucid. The only small niggle is that after booting to the home page, it takes a couple minutes for the wireless to connect.

When I was using another Windows box with Slacko, Lucid 5.2.8 frugally installed with the same wireless dongle, I got a very quick connection within seconds.
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HP Pavilion Mini Pentium 1.7 GHz Dual Core 12 GB RAM 120 GB SSD Linux Lite 3.8 64-bit w/ Kensington Slimblade Trackball
Bionic8.0 Xenial64 Tahr64 USB frugal install
Samsung Chromebook Plus
LG V20 LG Xpression Plus Huawei Ascend XT2

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#300 Post by Al1000 »

PB EasyNote E6307 - approximately 10 years old.

768MB RAM

AMD 1.8GHz Sempron 3000+ CPU

40 GB HD

Graphics:
VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)

I have Precise 5.7.1 frugal install, dual boot with Kubunutu 12,04, and also use Lucid 5.2.8.6 in ''live'' mode with a savefile on USB (which I have set so that there is no automatic save). This laptop doesn't boot from USB, so to use Lucid I boot from CD.

I had some trouble finding a ''large'' up-to-date(ish) Linux OS that this laptop would boot from, as most of them had issues with the graphics; then I eventually discovered Kubuntu 12.04 just yesterday, and I am delighted with it so far.

On the contrary with Puppy which I've now been using for a few months, it took me a while to find one that didn't work on this laptop, and that one (Tahr) is still in its developmental stage.

Precise, Lucid and Slacko 5.7 all work fine, although the latter runs the CPU slightly hotter, and I gather it's primarily designed for more modern hardware. Lucid is the one I have been using the most up until now, and I just installed Precise on the hard drive for fun after deleting Windows, and plan to install more Pups on the same partition.

I was slightly apprehensive at first about formatting the hard drive because of the infamous ''tattoo,'' but found installing Kubuntu (and Puppy) just as straightforward as installing an OS on my desktop pc.

Using GParted on my Lucid 5.2.8.6 installation on USB, I deleted the former sole partition on the HD and created a small primary partition just for boot files, then created an extended partition on the remainder of the HD and divided it into four logical partitions for Puppy, swap, Kubuntu, and files such as photos and videos etc. It's much more fun that way! :)

Even though this was an XP machine, getting rid of Windows completely was the best thing that ever happened to it. Kubuntu is faster and smoother than XP, and of course Puppy is faster still.

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Compaq CQ57

#301 Post by rokytnji »

Compaq CQ57
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu ... c=en&lc=en

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# inxi -M
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: Presario CQ57 Notebook PC v: 068C110003204910000620100 serial: 5CB1335LC9 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3577 v: 24.48 serial: PCJQDA2GZ1CQX6
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.42 date: 11/07/2011
# inxi -S
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 3.10.32 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: JWM git-905 
           Distro: Slacko Puppy Linux Linux 3.10.32 [ arch] 
# inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 3.10.32 i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.7.1) 
           Desktop: JWM git-905 
           Distro: Slacko Puppy Linux Linux 3.10.32 [ arch] 
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: Presario CQ57 Notebook PC v: 068C110003204910000620100
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3577 v: 24.48
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.42 date: 11/07/2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD C-50 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 3993 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1000 MHz 2: 1000 MHz
Graphics:  Card: ATI Device 9804 bus-ID: 00:01.0
           Display Server: X.org 1.12.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: vesa)
           tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) 
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.10.32
Network:   Card-1: Ralink Device 5390
           driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 07:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (20.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500BEVT size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: swap-1 size: 5.07GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda8 
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 59.5C mobo: N/A gpu: 60.0 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 89 Uptime: 6 min Memory: 292.2/1623.5MB 
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.7.1 
           Client: Shell (bash 4.1.01) inxi: 2.1.28 
# 
Works fast. Works good. Slack0 5.7 .exe running inside of Windows 7

This is a triple booter with MX-14 grub 2 doing the boot loading for Windows 7 and Slack0 running inside of Windows 7. Nice and exotic.
Fast as Hell.

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Re: Fujitsu Lifebooks and ancient Compaq laptops

#302 Post by darry1966 »

Sorry double post
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darry1966

Re: Fujitsu Lifebooks and ancient Compaq laptops

#303 Post by darry1966 »

Quote from Jabu2 April 2011



Compaq Armada E500 256 RAM


Wary may be best in long run but
Classic 214X -top10 is reliable for solid use on these Compaq laptops from last century, even when only 128 RAM.

live-CD and frugal installs, with swap file
run with no problems on these 10 year old laptops
with various added RAM - see above (recommend get min 256 RAM)
and do keep it simple and basic if needing a workhorse
with no added bling, or swapping of window-managers etc
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[/quote]

I have just purchased an old Armadea E500 like above and find Pup 3 best on this. With Puppy 4.12 with regular kernel and retro 2.6.21.7 I had to manually set up the soundcard ES1978 and upon reboot settings were not saved. Pup 3 had it working straight away using the same kernel as 4.12 retro.

Very strange.http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 441#511441

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#304 Post by someSven »

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU U7600 @ 1.20GHz
Memory : 1025MB (391MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Precise Puppy - 5.7.1
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 09 Aug 2014 00:14:19 GMT-1
-Display-
Resolution : 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
PS/2 Generic Mouse
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
Sleep Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
HP WMI hotkeys
PC Speaker
Video Bus
HDA Digital PCBeep
MOON AND
-Printers-
No printers found
-SCSI Disks-
ATA TOSHIBA MK6008GA
MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-842S
HUAWEI Mass Storage
HUAWEI SD Storage


I had to install acpitool to get a sleep mode, sensor program to get temp info, and writing scripts* to get along with the OS. The bright side of that is, that I'm learning how to do such stuff. But sometimes I would prefer to have it easier.

*Like
- Script for automatic poweroff if battery is empty cause it does it not on it's own.
- same for to high temperatures
- updating flash automatically (AAHRG, security!)

EDIT: Oh, I have fancontrol issues. When my notebook (no laptop :D) comes back from sleep the fan runs all the time. On one side I like that cause it cools my system and the fan isn't stucking, normally it would get to warm cause my Puppy has no program to start it when it gets to warm. On the other side, having it running all the time is not always fun. Yeah, I know there's a program called fancontrol in repository.

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#305 Post by Packetteer »

HI All
Running Slacko 5.7 on a Acer Asprie
1.4g processor
11.6 lcd
2gig memory
250 gig hard drive
Wifi

Always wanted a small laptop. Love this laptop

Slacko is booted from flash drive.
Remove flash drive and Windows 7 boots instead.

Hardly ever boot Windows anymore.
Only when I need to write a Visual Basic program is Windows booted.
I write the same program using Bacon in Puppy.

Everything just works out of the box.
Glade, Bacon, google earth, Open office, and so on.

When I boot into Windows I cannot believe how slow the machine is
all of a sudden.

I love the fact that Puppy runs in memory and is so lighting fast.

Best Regards
John

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