Precise Puppy RC2, October 20, 2012

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#166 Post by Billtoo »

While surfing the web I happened upon a couple of delta files at the
nluug ibiblio mirror.

Precise Puppy, version 5.2.58 on Sat 2 Jun 2012

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.282 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.019 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.019 FPS

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Memory 6087MB (228MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Sat 02 Jun 2012 07:07:25 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Version
Kernel Linux 3.2.18 (i686)
Compiled #1 SMP Wed May 30 22:40:54 GMT-8 2012
C Library GNU C Library version 2.15 (stable)
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
Distribution Unknown distribution
OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2
Direct Rendering Yes

The new2dir script is working now.
No problems so far.
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#167 Post by BarryK »

Precise Puppy 5.2.58 (beta1) is released.

Looking good! See blog announcement and download link:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02856
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#168 Post by James C »

Downloading as well.Trying to decide what kernel to use to replace that pae version.Probably just go with 3.3.7. :)

EDIT;
Ibiblio is really slow tonight.

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#169 Post by Jim1911 »

James C wrote:Downloading as well.Trying to decide what kernel to use to replace that pae version.Probably just go with 3.3.7. :)

EDIT;
Ibiblio is really slow tonight.
Try nluug

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Precise Puppy beta1, June 3, 2012

#170 Post by Billtoo »

I made a couple of pets in Precise, wbar is an application launcher
which has imlib2 as a dependency.
If you copy /usr/bin/wbar to /root/Startup folder then wbar will start
everytime the computer is rebooted or x is restarted.
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Re: Precise Puppy beta1, June 3, 2012

#171 Post by Jim1911 »

Billtoo wrote:I made a couple of pets in Precise, wbar is an application launcher
which has imlib2 as a dependency.
If you copy /usr/bin/wbar to /root/Startup folder then wbar will start
everytime the computer is rebooted or x is restarted.
Billtoo, thanks, it works, however users need to be aware that none of the applications that show up at default are installed in Precise and new items have to be added. Also, there is no default font installed so the application title doesn't show up.

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#172 Post by James C »

Quick test run live pfix=ram.Sound and internet working on initial boot...incorrect resolution @ 1280x1024. Exited to prompt and used xorgwizard to get desired 1366x768x24.

# report-video
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.58 on Sat 2 Jun 2012

Chip description:
d.0 VGA compatible controller
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#
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Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3884MB (187MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 02 Jun 2012 09:11:27 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV4C
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 3884252 551124 3333128 0 61712
-/+ buffers: 489412 3394840
Swap: 0 0 0
#

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Re: Precise Puppy beta1, June 3, 2012

#173 Post by Billtoo »

Jim1911 wrote:
Billtoo wrote:I made a couple of pets in Precise, wbar is an application launcher
which has imlib2 as a dependency.
If you copy /usr/bin/wbar to /root/Startup folder then wbar will start
everytime the computer is rebooted or x is restarted.
Billtoo, thanks, it works, however users need to be aware that none of the applications that show up at default are installed in Precise and new items have to be added. Also, there is no default font installed so the application title doesn't show up.
Hi Jim, I found the fonts in fatdog, I don't have precise running atm but will look in that tomorrow.
The application title shows up when the mouse is over it, once a default font has been selected.
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precise 5.2.58 full install

#174 Post by eps »

not see sda16-sda21 (precise 5333 see all disks)
in puppy installer see all sda2-sda21
thanks
eps
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#175 Post by DaveS »

Is dbus included?
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#176 Post by James C »

James C wrote:Downloading as well.Trying to decide what kernel to use to replace that pae version.Probably just go with 3.3.7. :)

EDIT;
Ibiblio is really slow tonight.
Was having problems with aufs on 3.3.7 so reverted back to k-3.3.5.

# report-video
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.58 on Sun 3 Jun 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
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# uname -r
3.3.5
# 

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Broadcom WL wifi driver for Precise 5.2.58

#177 Post by peebee »

Hi Barry

I've compiled the proprietary Broadcom wl wifi driver for Precise Puppy 5.2.58 k3.2.18 and incorporated it into my single multi-kernel pet

This version contains the latest rerwin logic for all the Broadcom drivers as well as the wl driver.

Background is here.

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#178 Post by BarryK »

Please be sure to read the comments at my blog announcement for beta1:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02856

There are already lots of fixes. PETs to fix the plugins for SeaMonkey for example.

Ah, it is good that you guys are having success with the Xorg nouvea driver.

Anyone got an ATI/radeon video chip to test?
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#179 Post by BarryK »

DaveS wrote:Is dbus included?
Yes. This is Precise Puppy, built from Ubuntu Precise Pangolin DEBs, it has all the dependencies.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#180 Post by tronkel »

Just been playing with the latest Precise Beta 5.2.38 released earlier today. Another li'l beaut. Like its Upup predecessors nice and snappy!

Just as with Ubuntu Precise Pangolin itself the ATI video card causes grief - nothing new here. With ATI graphics under Linux you have two choices. Either install the open source Radeon driver or the proprietary FGLRX driver. The current Radeon open source driver has been broken in recent kernel versions - so that just leaves the proprietary option.

You need to have both the devx and the kernel sources activated on your system. The bad news is that it does build - but with errors that result in an extremely slow frame rate performance.

The better news is that there is a tiny hack available that seems to work around the problem - see here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77735

It has rescued me on more than one occasion. So thanks for the tip - well worth a try if you're experiencing this sort of problem with ATI.

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Precise Puppy beta1, June 3, 2012

#181 Post by Billtoo »

I moved my flash drive install over to a pc with a Nvidia graphics
card.
After installing kernel_src-3.2.18-patched.sfs I downloaded and installed the
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.53.run file.

Precise Puppy, version 5.2.58 on Sun 3 Jun 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF108 Board - 1071v0p1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
62930 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12585.816 FPS
63104 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12620.628 FPS
63119 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12623.742 FPS
#

The nvidia proprietary driver compiled without problems or warnings.
I have no idea how to make a pet of the Proprietary Nvidia driver,
sorry.

EDIT: I changed the 2 lines in the xorg.conf that 01micko suggests in the next message and it fixed a problem with taking screenshots of video.
Also, the vlc sfs from racy works in Precise, at least if does with the proprietary nvidia driver installed.
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#182 Post by 01micko »

Ok on my radeon... but there is a bug. GLX is disabled in the xorg.conf, and DRI, an oversight I suspect. Once I commented those lines acceleration works with the radeon driver.

# report-video
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.58 on Sun 3 Jun 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: CEDAR 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: # vesa

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz

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Computer
Processor 2x AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor
Memory 2073MB (130MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Sun 03 Jun 2012 21:40:13 EST
Display
Resolution 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio Adapter USB-Audio - USB Audio CODEC
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
Input Devices
Logitech USB Optical Mouse
Logitech USB Keyboard
Logitech USB Keyboard
Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
UVC Camera (046d:080f)
HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm 3=
Printers (CUPS)
CUPS-PDF Default
SCSI Disks
ATA ST3500418AS
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90
ATA WDC WD1600AAJB-0
Multi Flash Reader
Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 3.2.18 (i686)
Compiled #1 SMP Wed May 30 22:40:54 GMT-8 2012
C Library GNU C Library version 2.15 (stable)
Default C Compiler Unknown
Distribution Unknown distribution
Current Session
Computer Name puppypc23693
User Name root (root)
Home Directory /root
Desktop Environment Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)
Misc
Uptime 12 minutes
Load Average 0.73, 0.79, 0.46


As you can see there is a bug in report-video (for a long time) where vesa is reported, radeon is actually loaded.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log attached.

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Tested heavy encryption on doing a save, worked fine.
Ethernet was not persistant, due to that I have 2 ethernet cards I suspect. It was auto detected on first boot (onboard forcedeth) but on next boot I had nothing, but the forcedeth was assigned "eth1". The pci realtek was eth0. Don't know which was assigned which at initial boot (no save).
Played most video and audio formats I have, including 3gp.
Loaded Libreoffice-3.5.4 (prepared in slacko) and it worked fine.
Images- png, jpeg, svg seem fine.

One point of note, I only have a browser open and there seem to be a lot of cpu cycles (xload). :? . Slacko and FatDog barely move xload unless I'm compiling. CPU temperature is up about 5 degrees.
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Geany colors

#183 Post by mavrothal »

Geany has "funny" colors in screens with 16 bit depth.
I remember having seen some comment on Pemasu's Precise but no solution.
Even if you get new color schemes for geany, the problem persists.
Googling for it, looks like an Ubuntu problem though I came across a likely bug in Fedora 17.
Anyone has any idea?
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Re: multisession cd & other

#184 Post by OscarTalks »

cowonjolt wrote:3. Is there a pet somewhere for VLC media player for Precise or do I have to wait till I get a new drive and can compile it myself?
Does it need to be a .pet? I am testing the latest Precise Puppy beta now and have loaded Billtoo's .sfs VLC and it seems to be working.
EDIT - Or maybe not, audio seems jittery but this is now on a different machine. Anyone else tried it?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76271
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#185 Post by LateAdopter »

Hello Barry
Anyone got an ATI/radeon video chip to test?
I have the integrated RS880G graphics. With Precise B1 it is still nearly as broken as it was previously.

On first boot, dri and glx are disabled by xorg.conf, which is just as well because, with KMS enabled, Xorg has a fatal error and aborts without loading the keyboard.

On selecting Radeon in xorgwizard, xorg won't start because there are no driver modules for it to load, in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. So it is necessary to copy them over from the driver backup folder.

With KMS disabled the Radeon R600 driver will load to the point where 2D acceleration is enabled, but AIGLX has various errors.

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[    13.900] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable
[    13.900] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[    13.900] drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
[    13.900] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:05.0
[    13.900] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[    13.900] drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
[    13.900] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 10
[    13.900] drmOpenByBusid: Interface 1.4 failed, trying 1.1
[    13.900] drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:05.0
[    14.583] (EE) AIGLX error: r600 does not export required DRI extension
[    14.584] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
[    14.657] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast
[    14.657] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
AIGLX falls back to using LLVM software rasteriser, which also has an error and falls back to using swrast.

Also there is no modesetting because KMS is disabled, and R600 does not support userspace modesetting.

So adding LLVM did allow the loading of xorg to complete, but nowhere near the right answer.

I'm not a linux expert but I have been investigating this by reference to Fatdog 600a2 where the Radeon R600 configures itself correctly on the same motherboard.

The fatal error with KMS enabled is:

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[    13.257] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version mismatch.
[dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0,
[dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.12.0.[dri] Make sure your module is loaded prior to starting X, and
[dri] that this driver was built with support for KMS.
[dri] Aborting.
I did find a bug report filed for Arch for this error, and the opinion was that it was related to the version of xf86-video-ati/radeon and they had fixed it by reverting to an earlier version. But I don't think it was conclusive.

Precise has 6.14.99 git 20111219
Fatdog has 6.14.4 which was released on 28th March 2012.

I can't find any sign of updates for Ubuntu, but there are from Debian. But they are compiled for xorg 1.12, so I couldn't try them.

The other difference that I noticed was the that output from

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dmesg | grep drm
reports a different radeon version: 1.33.0 for Precise and 2.13.0 for Fatdog.

From Precise Puppy:

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[   29.805966] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   29.822705] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[   29.822707] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[   29.822710] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0
[   30.092802] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[   30.093242] [drm] Loading RS780 CP Microcode
[   30.163970] [drm] Resetting GPU
[   30.164025] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
From Fatdog 600a2:

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[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RS880 0x1002:0x9710 0x1849:0x9710).
[drm] register mmio base: 0xFEAF0000
[drm] register mmio size: 65536
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=320M, BAR=256M
[drm] RAM width 32bits DDR
[drm] radeon: 320M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[drm] Loading RS780 Microcode
[drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000000C0040000).
[drm] fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0xa0000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff8800515afc00
[drm] ring test on 0 succeeded in 1 usecs
[drm] ib test on ring 0 succeeded in 0 usecs
[drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[drm] Connector 0:
[drm]   VGA
[drm]   DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
[drm] Connector 1:
[drm]   DVI-D
[drm]   HPD3
[drm]   DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58 0x7e5c 0x7e5c
[drm]   Encoders:
[drm]     DFP3: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_LVTMA
[drm] radeon: power management initialized
[drm] fb mappable at 0xD0142000
[drm] vram apper at 0xD0000000
[drm] size 7680000
[drm] fb depth is 24
[drm]    pitch is 6400
fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
drm: registered panic notifier
[drm] Initialized radeon 2.13.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0
continues...
I hope you understand this better than I do!

I also noticed that xorg on Precise B1 loads the modules twice and tries to load fglrx. A3 did not do this, but I don't think it makes any difference.

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