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majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 420 Location: Wish I knew

Full Install of 5.4.0.90 PAE to ext4 partition

Confirming that black screen no longer appears on bootup

Have installed about dozen pets from storage partition and everything works.

Peter.M · Joined: 08 Nov 2012 Posts: 4 Location: NSW in AUS

Somehow (new to forum) I think this has also gone somewhere else as well - appologies

Notifying BUG here as it concerns my test of 5.4.1 beta

Have just downloaded beta, tried on my Dell Vostro V360 all in one desktop. It boots to a totally black screen (nothing visible) which blinks the desktop on for about 0.5 seconds every 10-15 seconds. I also understand it affects some laptops as well of both Dell and other brands that use the nvidia optimus gt525 video chipset

This is a known bug with ubuntu 12.04 precise and I believe affects all kernels in all distros kernel 2.6 thru 3.5 that use a video driver unless it uses vesa. I understand the bug has been fixed in later 3.5 and up kernels

see this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/918769

and this which is too technical for me !! : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=62301

Has anyone else had this problem?

Hope this helps make Puppy better and more versatile Very Happy

otropogo · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2012, 03:05 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2012, 06:00 Post subject:

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1227 Location: wales

menu entries still not working 100% http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00021

BarryK · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2012, 06:09 Post subject:

Precise Puppy 5.4.1 coming soon.

That's enough, I reckon that we have got this pup in good shape. I am going to do a build of 5.4.1-final right now, then do some sanity testing, then upload it.

The sanity-testing is required, as it is always possible that the recent fixes, such as the menu-category fix when installing packages, and the glib/gio module-loading fix, may themselves introduce some other bug -- even though they may seem like straight-forward fixes, I know from experience to be very cautious.

Well, it is even possible that my sanity test might miss some new subtle bug, but it is a question of the odds being in favour of everything being ok.

After 5.4.1 is released, the "Puppy community" is invited to take over and work toward 5.4.2+. If there is a consensus of developers, for a group or particular individual to coordinate, then go for it!

BarryK · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2012, 06:32 Post subject:

Um, here is an example of a potential last-minute bug...

I have put in the glib PET from akash_rawal, but I just looked at his compile configure:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-debug=yes

...there is no "--build" parameter, so although the name of the PET specified that it is for "i686", there is no guarantee that this is so. The compile could be optimised for whatever CPU that akash_rawal has.

Therefore, I won't take the risk. I will build 5.4.1-final without akash_rawal's glib PET.

PANZERKOPF · Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 250 Location: Earth

otropogo · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2012, 13:05 Post subject:

akash_rawal · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2012, 14:42 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2012, 14:46 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2012, 14:48 Post subject:

Precise 5.4.1 has been released, and I have started a new Forum thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=82092

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