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rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1318 Location: Maine, USA

playdayz,
After holding off for addition of more fixes, I need to post my collection of fixes now to support the users reporting problems with sound and, particularly the intel HDA driver. The package includes the content of "patch-4', so replaces it (or can be installed on top of "-4" or after uninstalling "-4").

One of the fixes relates to the verification that a module is loaded. A module with a name that includes hyphens (-) may be erroneously deemed to be not present, which could disrupt the startup of sound cards, if there is a delay in the loading process. Anyone with a sound card problem should install this patch, to rule out this bug as a cause of failure of the sound function.

Another included fix is the adoption of Barry's fix to the rc.shutdown script, which he explains in his blog. Anyone experiencing hangs at shutdown with partitions mounted should install this package.

I will itemize the fixes later, but need to make this available to the users with sound issues.
Richard

Icyos · Joined: 28 Jun 2011 Posts: 92 Location: UK

Hi All

Fab and many thanks to all who have made 5.28 what it is......awesome Laughing

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

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Hotdog · Joined: 29 Sep 2011 Posts: 60 Location: Georgia USA

Puppy 5.2.8 is perfect for me. I did a full install and added all the extras that I wanted (Thanks to you guys and your .pet and .sfs files!). Now I'd like to make a new live CD from my machine both for show-and-tell and new installs. Even with lots of searches and reading many forums, there are only vague references to this topic. A hint of where to look for some info would be much appreciated.

To anyone here who contributed to Puppy 5.2.8, you did good!

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

Hotdog · Joined: 29 Sep 2011 Posts: 60 Location: Georgia USA

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1605 Location: South Australia

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 242

Playdays,

With update 001 and (as I read 2 posts back) minimal 5 patches from rerwin, would it be time to package the whole thing in a 529 or instant update 002 ?

I tend to get out of sync easily when I don't read the 528 threads daily....

BTW: running 528 at work and at home every day. It is a good and stable package. Only inconvenience I encounter is not in 528: double printing of Opera (10 series and 11 series). This is still not solved in 11.5 and shows in several linux distro's.

The only thing I am really missing in (all) puppy series is a presentation manager (!@#$%POWERPOINT$%^$%&^&*). Something that (at least) can show a PPT presentation, but preferably also can make one. An alternative to this could be a convertor. A tool to convert a ppt into html so the browser can show it. Not sure anything like that exists.

Thank you for the 52x series. My PC's haven't seen Microsoft since 520 except 1 (for the PPT's and some tools that don't exist for linux, like a Garmin driver for geocaching). I have tried other distro's, sometimes they loaded with apps, sometimes more eye appealing, but none of them work/install that easy on the variety of my HW (4 different PC's and 2 different laptops). It is amazing. Whatever I throw at it, it simply works. WIFI type N USB dongle ... simply works. Printer sharing via wireless network with windows ... simply works ... replace monitor (from 1024x768 to 1280x1024) simply works .... (try that with Ubuntu haha.....)

Thanks !!

Volhout

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