Precise Puppy RC2, October 20, 2012

Under development: PCMCIA, wireless, etc.
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#211 Post by BarryK »

LateAdopter wrote:To summarize, I think it's like this:

Radeon R600g Driver requires DRI2 KMS does not do userspace modesetting

Precise Kernel + Radeon Module does KMS DRI2, which is correct.

DRI can do KMS or userspace or no modesetting

DRI2 requires KMS

My RS880 will do DRI or DRI2 with R600

01micko's Evergreen only does DRI2 with R600

drm has decided that KMS is not supported, which is incorrect. WHY?

My RS880 ends up with DRI2 in the kernel and DRI in the R600 hence no display at all.

01micko's ends up with DRI2 in the kernel and no DRI/DRI2 in the R600 hence display but no acceleration.

With modeset=0 kernel falls back to DRI

My RS880 ends up with DRI in the kernel and R600, hence 2D acceleration but no 3D acceleration.

01micko's Evergreen can't do DRI with R600. So probably no change.


I hope that makes sense!
Hmmm! Oh well, beta2 will have yet another permutation to try!
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Re: WiFi problem

#212 Post by peebee »

sszindian wrote:# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13b1:002f Linksys AE1000 v1 802.11n [Ralink RT3572]
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Hi Indian

Well you defo don't have a Broadcom device so pets for Broadcom should have no effect!!

To try and help I've been doing a bit of Googling and investigating.

Your lsmod confirms that the driver for RT3572 is rt2800usb and this is present in Precise.

Also needed for the RT3572 is firmware rt2870.bin - this is stored in

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/lib/modules/all-firmware/rt2x00/lib/firmware
I've checked the dates for this firmware in Precise and in Slacko and they are different:
  • Precise - 2012-02-27 12:34 rt2870.bin
    Slacko - 2012-04-25 06:35 rt2870.bin
so what I would try is to copy the firmware directory from Slacko to Precise.

I'd also load and try Frisbee - have you tried Frisbee?

Another silly thought - given that this is a usb device - are you sure that the usb slot is working reliably and that the stick is firmly inserted into the slot??

That's the limit of my contribution I'm afraid.
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5.2.58 New Install

#213 Post by sszindian »

peebee...

Enough to make me want to pull out what little hair I have left!!!!!

I tried installing the firmware from Slacko in a fresh pfix=ram 5.2.58 and that didn't work!

So just out of frustation I did another fresh ram-install of 5.2.58 and tried the original Precise with everything it comes with... no changes... configured WiFi with original setup package and.... everything now appears to be working just fine, been online about an hour without a drop... shutdown, created a savefile, re-booted, WiFi came right online....

I guess it's possible somehow I may have had a corrupt original savefile???? also I haven't tried an 'eth0 config' yet to see what that does... one thing at a time!

I will run this for a few days and see how it goes!

I appreciate your help, and sorry to take up your time but maybe something good will come from this and help someone on down the line somewhere? 'If A Problem Occurs... Start All Over From Scratch' then go tweaking from there if problems persist, sometimes the simplest is the best route to go.

Now I will try adding stuff to 5.2.58 and see if maybe somewhere there something may cause Precise to go haywire?... if so, I'll post!

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5.2.58

#214 Post by sszindian »

When I access Precise 5.2.58 'savefile' from a different Puppy version and go to the 'usr' file this comes up.... 'Is something not working?'

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#215 Post by BHINTZ »

Has anyone been working on sleep/resume for laptops.

I tried to move acpi from upup, but that didn't work

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#216 Post by vtpup »

BHINTZ wrote:Has anyone been working on sleep/resume for laptops.

I tried to move acpi from upup, but that didn't work

bob
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#217 Post by BarryK »

Precise Puppy 5.2.60 (beta2) is out.

Download from here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/test/precise-5.2.60/

I haven't documented everything on my blog. For example, this pup has shinobar's getflash. Pemasu sent me a list of what packages he had installed in his Upup, and I adjusted my build to use most of them also.

My Raspberry Pi has arrived, so I will switch over to playing with that for awhile.
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#218 Post by shinobar »

BarryK wrote:Precise Puppy 5.2.60 (beta2) is out.
Download from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/test/precise-5.2.60/
mirrored.
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/precise/
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#219 Post by James C »

Precise Puppy 5.2.60...... live with a savefile on usb flash drive. Sound and internet working on initial boot. For a change, the screen resolution is the correct 1366x768 on initial boot....the first Precise build to do so.

# report-video
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.60 on Wed 6 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: # 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
#
Actually using the "nouveau" driver.

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3884MB (179MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 06 Jun 2012 12:45:29 AM 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 524612 3359640 0 56496
-/+ buffers: 468116 3416136
Swap: 0 0 0
#

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Precise Puppy beta2, June 6, 2012

#220 Post by Billtoo »

Manual frugal install to an 8gb flash drive.

Precise Puppy, version 5.2.60 on Wed 6 Jun 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (382x302 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
# glxgears
50525 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10104.836 FPS
50584 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10116.737 FPS
50540 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10107.931 FPS

OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.53
Direct Rendering Yes

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8310MB (260MB used)

Gtkhash is still not working so I downloaded the source and made a pet of it.
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Re: bug

#221 Post by L18L »

BarryK wrote:
L18L wrote:# puppyhelp
/usr/local/bin/gtkmoz: line 29: exec: mozilla: not found
#

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ln -s /usr/lib/seamonkey/seamonkey-bin /usr/local/bin/mozilla
and

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puppyhelp
is showing translated index.html now :)
L18L,
I am running Precise 5.2.58, and /usr/bin/mozilla exists. Running 'puppyhelp' works.
Thank you, it has been my fault dealing with multiple langpack versions for seamonkey.
BTW: latest langpack_de always here

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Precise Puppy beta2, June 6, 2012

#222 Post by Billtoo »

After using beta 2 for a while and doing a bit of customizing I
haven't had any problems.
I haven't tested every application etc, but it's working well so far.
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PPM oddity on update

#223 Post by peebee »

I updated my 5.2.58 savefile which included installed pets.

When I ran the Package Manager in 5.2.60 only the description of the pets was displayed (no pet name) and if that was clicked to uninstall then a big red error box appeared (sorry didn't capture).

However easily fixed as if PPM is exited and then restarted both the name of the pet and an icon are displayed and an uninstall click works correctly.

Thought I'd mention....
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beta2

#224 Post by cowonjolt »

On toshiba tecra 1.66ghz core duo w/1.5gb ram beta2 will not boot. Had no trouble with 5.2.55 or with 5.2.58 except 5.2.58 takes 6 minutes to boot up with long wait time to load drivers etc. With 5.2.60 it just sits and never loads drivers or moves forward. Have burnt iso 2 times and verified the burn both times with same result. I am running a live multi session of 5.2.58 with no working hard drive.
PS: not to sound dumb but what do the deltas do and/or how do you apply it?; I assumed the delta was to update 5.2.58 to 5.2.60 without a full install but I am not finding info on it.
Also, thanks to runtt21 for the fix for 2 of my first post questions and to OscarTalks for the vlc pet link. I will give the vlc pet a try and post back if it works... thanks again.

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Re: Geany colors

#225 Post by mavrothal »

mavrothal wrote: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?
I do not have any idea :roll: but I compiled Geany from the latest git in Precise 5.2.60 using the defaults and works fine.
No green background color.
The exe, dev, doc,and nls pets are all together here, in case someone with this problem needs them (md5sum: 5a1f194888d1121dcaa6c0adb650bc32)
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#226 Post by linuxcbon »

Precise 5.2.60 :
- glxgears very slow 85 FPS instead of 480 for Racy or 1200 for Wary.
- # basichtmlviewer
(surfer:16876): GNet-CRITICAL **: gnet_conn_http_run_async: assertion `conn->uri != NULL' failed
- # cddetect
open: No such file or directory
- # inkscapelite
(inkscapelite:17182): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed
- # xcalc
Warning: Cannot convert string "calculator" to type Pixmap
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

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#227 Post by broomdodger »

Precise 5.2.60 frugal
Seems as smooth and fast as racy530.
Sylpheed 3.1.4 compiled in racy530 works great.
vim 7.3.543 compiled in racy430 works great
linuxcbon wrote:Precise 5.2.60
In addition to those listed by linuxcbon, I see:

- ycalc (when using the [X] close box, but not when "Off" is clicked twice)
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
after 143 requests (140 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

- glxgears
84 frames in 5.0 seconds = 16.760 FPS
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
after 959 requests (957 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

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Precise 5.2.60 frugal
IBM ThinkPad X30
Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - M 1200MHz

=== report-video ===
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.60 on Wed 6 Jun 2012

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
oem: Almador Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Almador Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: # vesa

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

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#228 Post by vtpup »

Downloading the new version now, but before I switch I thought I'd report on the last version (listed below) which is doing great with Intel integrated graphics on this laptop.

Google Sketchup under Wine (which is usually very tough for rendering) ran as fast and smooth as on Racy 53. That is the top speed I've found on 5 of the various late kernal Puplets. All of the others show more or less jerky 3D moves in Sketchup (a CAD app.) Racy and Precise are absolutely smooth and rotate and scale complex assemblies with perspective as fast as I can grab them and move the mouse.

GLx gears is tied to frame referesh rate so can only show 60 FPS -- which is normal and doesn't indicate actual rendering speed.

Precise seems extremely good on this notebook so far.

Acer Aspire 5349-2635

Precise Puppy, version 5.2.58 on Wed 6 Jun 2012

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
oem: Intel(R)Sandybridge Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Sandybridge Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: intel

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

Display
Resolution 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
Input Devices
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
Logitech USB Receiver
Logitech USB Receiver
Power Button
Sleep Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
Acer WMI hotkeys
PC Speaker
1.3M WebCam
HDA Digital PCBeep
HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm 3=
HDA Intel PCH Mic
HDA Intel PCH Headphone
Video Bus
Printers (CUPS)
CUPS-PDF Default
SCSI Disks
ATA TOSHIBA MQ01ABD0
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT51N
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 puppypc1168
User Name root (root)
Home Directory /root
Desktop Environment Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)
Misc
Uptime 22 minutes
Load Average 0.21, 0.42, 0.33
Kernel Modules
Loaded Modules
cpufreq_ondemand 'cpufreq_ondemand' - A dynamic cpufreq governor for Low Latency Frequency Transition capable processors
acpi_cpufreq ACPI Processor P-States Driver
mperf
i915 Intel Graphics
drm_kms_helper DRM KMS helper
drm DRM shared core routines
i2c_algo_bit I2C-Bus bit-banging algorithm
snd_hda_codec_hdmi HDMI HD-audio codec
snd_hda_codec_realtek Realtek HD-audio codec
fan ACPI Fan Driver
uvcvideo USB Video Class driver
videodev Device registrar for Video4Linux drivers v2
arc4 ARC4 Cipher Algorithm
ath9k Support for Atheros 802.11n wireless LAN cards.
ath9k_common Shared library for Atheros wireless 802.11n LAN cards.
ath9k_hw Support for Atheros 802.11n wireless LAN cards.
mac80211 IEEE 802.11 subsystem
ath Shared library for Atheros wireless LAN cards.
cfg80211 wireless configuration support
snd_hda_intel Intel HDA driver
snd_hda_codec HDA codec core
snd_hwdep Hardware dependent layer
snd_pcm_oss PCM OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_mixer_oss Mixer OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_pcm Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
snd_seq_dummy ALSA sequencer MIDI-through client
pcspkr PC Speaker beeper driver
snd_seq_oss OSS-compatible sequencer module
snd_seq_midi Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer MIDI synth.
snd_seq_midi_event MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
snd_rawmidi Midlevel RawMidi code for ALSA.
snd_seq Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
sg SCSI generic (sg) driver
atl1c Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver
snd_seq_device ALSA sequencer device management
snd_timer ALSA timer interface
i2c_i801 I801 SMBus driver
i2c_core I2C-Bus main module
snd Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
shpchp Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
soundcore Core sound module
snd_page_alloc Memory allocator for ALSA system.
acer_wmi Acer Laptop WMI Extras Driver
sparse_keymap Generic support for sparse keymaps
rfkill RF switch support
intel_agp
intel_gtt
agpgart AGP GART driver
wmi ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver
battery ACPI Battery Driver
video ACPI Video Driver
thermal ACPI Thermal Zone Driver
evdev Input driver event char devices
button ACPI Button Driver
ac ACPI AC Adapter Driver
processor ACPI Processor Driver
thermal_sys Generic thermal management sysfs support
hwmon hardware monitoring sysfs/class support
fuse Filesystem in Userspace
aufs aufs -- Advanced multi layered unification filesystem
squashfs squashfs 4.0, a compressed read-only filesystem
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Re: PPM oddity on update

#229 Post by BarryK »

peebee wrote:I updated my 5.2.58 savefile which included installed pets.

When I ran the Package Manager in 5.2.60 only the description of the pets was displayed (no pet name) and if that was clicked to uninstall then a big red error box appeared (sorry didn't capture).

However easily fixed as if PPM is exited and then restarted both the name of the pet and an icon are displayed and an uninstall click works correctly.

Thought I'd mention....
Cheers
peebee
That must have been some problem with upgrading the savefile, as I did some bug fixing on the ppm after 5.2.58. If anyone else reports this bug on a pristine bootup then there is a more serious problem that will need fixing.
Of course, I would like to avoid your bug also.
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Re: beta2

#230 Post by BarryK »

cowonjolt wrote:On toshiba tecra 1.66ghz core duo w/1.5gb ram beta2 will not boot. Had no trouble with 5.2.55 or with 5.2.58 except 5.2.58 takes 6 minutes to boot up with long wait time to load drivers etc. With 5.2.60 it just sits and never loads drivers or moves forward. Have burnt iso 2 times and verified the burn both times with same result. I am running a live multi session of 5.2.58 with no working hard drive.
PS: not to sound dumb but what do the deltas do and/or how do you apply it?; I assumed the delta was to update 5.2.58 to 5.2.60 without a full install but I am not finding info on it.
Also, thanks to runtt21 for the fix for 2 of my first post questions and to OscarTalks for the vlc pet link. I will give the vlc pet a try and post back if it works... thanks again.
For the delta files, checkout 'Utility -> Xdelta file difference manager' in the menu.
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