Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[jamesbond]

No worries kirk. I have been wondering myself why sound is not working, and I thought it could be because of bad iso download. But the testers who reported that are experienced testers and I'm sure they have done md5sum check. Lupu-113 and beta3 uses the same version of kernel and ALSA, so it doesn't make sense that one works and the other doesn't. I myself didn't have the problem (it works in all my machines) - makes it even harder to troubleshoot. Don't worry about the nvidia pet - it's just one kernel module compile away

BTW - I just run beta3 in RAM, try to use the package manager to download nvidia pet - doesn't work again. It's shown there, the "repository update" is successful, but if I click the pet in the main menu, nothing happens (ps -aef shows no wget in progress).

Jim1911 - I just tried installing the nvidia.pet directly in my Intel hardware. The installation works. I didn't get any error message. I did this by downloading the pet first ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fatdog/pets/500/ and then clicking on it. (The pet obviously doesn't work - because I'm doing it on an Intel machine, but I just want to confirm that the installation part of it works). If there is anything you can capture (error message, screenshot, or gzip-ped copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log), that would help.

cheers!

[kirk]

[DC]

Hi
This version of numlockx works with Fatdog64 on my laptop.

I copy it to /usr/bin
usage:
numlockx on

On my 32bit desktop I used to put it in /root/.xinitrc (hidden file)
but a script in startup works fine.

included is a script for laptops and USB keyboards when connected at boot up.
copy numlockx to /usr/bin and put "laptop_numlock64" in /root/startup

DC

[kirk]

I think I have fixed the package manager, there was a file missing from /root/.packages. I'll attach it. I've also uploaded some pet packages. Right now I guess we're in a holding pattern waiting for 2.6.34.

[emil]

compiling R statistic package with Fatdog and its dev package was straigthforward (./configure, make, make install). great work.

however after some simple benchmarks I see no real performance gain compared to the 32 bit version.

This is from config log:

[kirk]

[emil]

I testet Polynomial Game demo - it seems to work basically, but graphics stuttered on my Laptop - may be a known issue with my nvidia graphic system.
Interesting: 32 bit Binaries don't work in Puppy 431, but 64 bit Binaries seem to work in Fatdog.

[Revolverve]

Look like Fatdog dont like 4 gig of ram , goes well with 2... could be related with the intel gm965 integrated graphic chips or soft , had the same problem with Vista!!!!/#&?32bit (ok with 2 gig also), they freeze on desktop with garble video,both. My el cheapo Gateway t-6815 laptop boosted with an intel ES t8300 cpu (cheap too...) fly with that 64bit beast. Could there be a boot argument to had ?? Funny because every other Puppy`s is fine with 4 gig,does not see it all , example:only 3151Mb in 431 ,but run fine .

Good work!! keep it up!

[jamesbond]

emil,

Puppy 4.3.1 libs are rather outdated, that may be the reason, while fatdog64 build is rather recent. You can try the 32-bit build on Quirky or Wary, I bet it should work as well. But thank you for pasting the link - I haven't tried it yet but from the site it looks rather interesting

Revolverve,
That's odd. The primary purpose of 64-bit OS is to be able to use more than 2 GB of RAM, it should not choke when your machine has 4GB of RAM or more - in fact it should be happier! I have 3 different machines with 4GB of RAM, and they all successfully run Fatdog w/o problem. Graphics could be the problem ... Fatdog uses the new KMS graphics, and unfortunately it doesn't work well with some cards, and it will disable the text console while it's booting. Wait for a new version soon which will give the text console back, and then we can trace your issue from there.

[Fishy]

I just unleashed my dual core AMD processor and now have a functioning 4 core cpu. Lucid puppy seems to run much faster so I thought that I would give Fatdog a try.

Loading proceeds normally (I think) but ends after vmlinux says ready with the cursor blinking on the line above. Nothing but a hard reboot works .

Downloaded twice, md5sum both checked okay.

Asus M4A78T-E motheboard, AMD Phenom II processor, ISO checked in both two and four core configuration.

[Furanshisuko]

Hello to all!

My friend and I use a computer to edit video for work. Now we have that computer running Windows XP Pro 32 bits and Adobe Premier CS4.

I Think that a 64 bits architecture may work faster to encode-decode video, and save time to improve our bussiness; but because I`ve been using puppy with my notebook since several months, I hate the idea of updating to a more bloated software.

So I decided to give it a try and right now, I`m writing from Fatdog64-500rc2.

Here are some issues I have:

- The Net-wizard fails to setup dhcp ip, and Pwireless too.
Casually I had a very basic script to conect from terminal and made possible for me to conect to internet.

- I Haven`t found a CPU Frequency Scaling Tool.

- Kino has been very alien for me and my friend, a tool with a time line and layers like OpenShot would be better (also it has different features), is it posible to get a PET Package of it for 64 bits?

- How do I make a DVD with chapters from different videos?

[kirk]

[Sit Heel Speak]

Hi kirk,

I have been using Fatdog64-500 beta3 for about a week now, on an AMD64 x2 6000+. What a treat!

Also tried it on a new Phenom II quad-core, also impressive. Hardinfo sees all 4 cores.

FPU Raytracing score on both is around 9. A little faster on the x2, probably because this machine has two sticks of DDR2 ram, the Phenom machine only 1.

It has no problem selecting the Radeon driver on an ATi 4550 card.

This bids fair to become my regular OS on my regular machine~

Cheers,
SHS

[jamesbond]

[Furanshisuko]

That gui for the frequency scaling tool gave me this error: