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BarryK · Last edited by BarryK on Fri 09 Jul 2010, 22:22; edited 1 time in total

The announcement for 0.3 on my blog:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01695

The forum discussion on Spup 0.2:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57110

A major feature of this pup is that Kenel Mode Setting is turned on for Intel 'i915', Nvidia 'nouvea' and ATI 'radeon' kernel modules -- see /etc/modprobe.d
-- if any other hardware needs to have KMS turned on, you can experiment with an appropriate config file in this directory.

Note, the kernel video drivers are at /lib/modules/2.6.34/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/

Find the bugs!

EDIT:
Spup 0.4 has arrived:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01715

You might also find this post on Samba printing to be useful:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=433211#433211

Discussion on 0.4 starts from the bottom of page 3...

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Slackpup 0.3 beta is working well. kudos Very Happy

Only problem so far is the new nouvea driver. It is found using probe to setup the driver. The display had problems though, small dashes of different colors were scattered over the screen and kept moving around. When exiting to prompt the screen resolution was changed so it was very difficult to see the print. Also, upon shutdown, it went to a black screen. This driver is useless for my hardware.

Choosing nv on reboot worked fine and hopefully a pet will be made of the nvidia 256.36 driver for this distribution.

Thanks,
Jim

System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One

BarryK · Posted: Sat 03 Jul 2010, 22:59 Post subject:

Yeah, I'm new to using 'fbcon' kernel module, the frame-buffer console driver, and I don't know how to specify the resolution.

Note, the intel kernel driver doesn't seem to need 'fbcon', seems to have its own console driver. That also has the problem of displaying in a very high resolution, or rather, very small text.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 03 Jul 2010, 23:06 Post subject:

Attached is the Slackware 13.1 ntfsprogs package. It supplies the missing libntfs* shared library.

The ntfsprogs package template in Woof had screened out the shared library, now fixed.

I had to gzip it, as this forum will not accept an .txz file as attachment.
So, download it, then run 'gunzip', then click on this package, then choose Yes button to install...

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1507 Location: Ontario Canada

Computer 1 - ati hd 3200 onboard - chose probe

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 030

Chip description:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04)

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
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Computer 2 - nvidia 8600GT - chose probe

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 030

Chip description:
07:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

Driver used by Xorg:
nouveau

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

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

Screen had strange lines here and there over entire screen so I exited to the prompt and ran xorgwizard and chose the nv driver.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 030

Chip description:
07:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

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

The screen is good with the nv driver.

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I installed a pet of wine 14.2rc5 that I made in quirky the other day and it worked well.
I installed safari 5.0 + install_flash_player.exe in wine and safari played flash videos at cnn and youtube perfectly.
Safari ran fast too.
I downloaded firefox from the slackware repo in puppy package manager and it worked perfectly,also downloaded amarok 2.30
from slackware repositories and it has a lot of dependencies.Amarok would come up when I clicked on the menu entry but it showed
a lot of error messages and wouldn't work.
EDIT:
I installed the devx and ran amarok again, only a couple of errors this time and I could load a file.Mp3's won't play but ogg files play fine.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4764 Location: Kentucky

Fresh frugal install on my old P3 test computer.

VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 030

Chip description:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (GMCH) Graphics Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

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

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4764 Location: Kentucky

Moved the testing to running live on my Quad-core with onboard Nvidia graphics.

VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 030

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nouveau

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

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

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1067 Location: Vienna Austria

Good video using ATI Radeon:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

hmmmm....

eek! (see screeny)

sasaqqdan · Posted: Sun 04 Jul 2010, 07:30 Post subject: report-video

http://puppy.cnbits.com/node/1487

stu90 · Posted: Sun 04 Jul 2010, 09:44 Post subject:

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

booted xorg with "probe". manual selected x24 .
posted from sns wifi. screen is normal.
gnomeplayer plays opera /tmp extracted video, ogg, mp4, mpeg.
ppm is still cut off at the bottom.

tubby · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 317

Frugal install on Toshiba Portege laptop.

VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 030

Chip description:
oem: Trident CYBER 8820

Driver used by Xorg:
trident

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

No problem with video probe, but the same problem and fix with wifi on this computer, i have noticed that there are two rc.pcmcia scripts?, one in etc/init.d and the other in etc/rc.d.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1507 Location: Ontario Canada

emachines d620 laptop

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 030

Chip description:
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS690 01.00

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

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

I spent the morning adding applications to spup 030, all pets and others that I compiled in spup 030.Then I did a remaster and burned a new cd, the custom spup iso is 293mb Smile

I did a full install on this laptop and so far it is working great, I think it will remain here for quite a while.I am using wine-1.2-rc6 and it is working well on this laptop.
This is good, thanks

richwa4sxz

VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 030

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

Attempting to run Xorg worked but Seamonkey just generated large black areas at the animated Google page. Vesa goes to black at the console mode causing me to do a blind reboot. Audio seems to work as expected.