Upup Precise 3.8.3.1 created by using up-to-date Woof

[artsown]

Ok, I edited my "how to" on the wireless power management bug,
altering the procedure to say that a reboot should be done
after placing the script in /root/startup

Art

[musher0]

Oops, meant for the wheezy thread. Sorry.

[James C]

Fresh manual frugal install on the old P4 test box. No problems....everything working well ootb.

For whatever reason every release with a 3.8.X kernel has a problem detecting and/or mounting flash drives on my older hardware (in particular my main Athlon XP box) but no such trouble on newer boxes.Or maybe it's a problem with AMD. Anyway...no problems on this box.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Upup Precise, version 3.8.2

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 extmod fb glx kbd mouse record

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 2592MB (242MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 14 Mar 2013 06:41:50 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5

[Billtoo]

video-info-glx 1.5.2 Thu14Mar 2013 on Upup Precise 3.8.2 Linux 3.8.2-upup i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices
[AMD] nee ATI RV530 [Radeon X1600]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RV530 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Core 0: @2411 MHz
Memory 1553MB (106MB used)
Multimedia
Audio Adapter CX2341[56] - IVTV-0
Audio Adapter USB-Audio - Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro

There is no volume control in the tray but sound levels can be adjusted
in applications and with alsamixer.
382 is working well on this 7 or 8 (forget) year old desktop pc.

[Ted Dog]

This is a problem with the current crop of precise puppy and its WOLF spins, does not occur in Ubuntu Precise.

[James C]

Possibly related to some of these problems....... some broken drivers in the 3.8.x kernels was reported in the Slackware changelog of March 12...
ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slac ... ngeLog.txt

For this kernel update I decided to go with 3.7.10. Yeah, the 3.7 series
is EOL, but I've heard about some broken drivers in 3.8.x that make me
hesitate to push forward.

[Rangan Masti]

Hey !
Good work !!!

[pemasu]

Radky. My first attempt:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg228552.html

[radky]

Radky. My first attempt:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg228552.html

# cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/rx_bytes
3430539
# cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/tx_bytes
345355

Excellent!

Thanks pemasu

[ETP]

Fresh manual frugal install to vfat/f2fs USB2 stick.Syslinux 4.04 boot with kernel held on 16Meg 1st partition and savefile (ext4) & sfs files on 2nd f2fs partition.
Initial boot to desktop with working sound,wired ethernet and Nouveau driver at correct res.
The following pets & sfs were installed and tested. (DVB-T works fine)

• PETS
  PupControl-2.3|PupControl panel
  PupClockset-1.9.2|PupClockset manager
  tempiconsvg-0.17-i486|no description provided
  pupsaveconfig-2.2.5|PupSave personal storage setup
  smplayer-0.8.3-precise|Add file(s) to the SMPlayer playlist
  smtube-1.5-precise|Search and download videos from YouTube
  lxtask-0.1.4|LXTask task manager
  chromium-25.0.1323.1-i686-1sl|Browse the Web
  flashplayer11-11.2.202.275|Adobe Flash Player 11 browser plugin and Preferences. Note, this may not work on older PCs, use instead an earlier 11.x or even 10.x
  tickr-0.6.0-i686|RSS Feed Reader
  thunderbird-16.0.1|Thunderbird mail reader
  faenza_lrx_new|
  vlc-2.0.5_two_flower|Open with VLC media player
  xdotool-2.20110530.1-3|no description provided
  Roxterm-1.17.1-Lucid|Use the command line with copy & paste
  video-info-glx-1.5.1-noarch|OpenGL Graphics/CPU Report
  PupSnap-1.8_Scrot-0.8_32Bit|PupSnap screen capture
  SFS
  qt-4.8.2.sfs

Many thanks for this fine Pup. No issues so far.

[recobayu]

i checked the md5 is right, but when i run in virtualbox, i got this message.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WNnVIdz3eZo/U ... /error.png
do the iso file corrupt?

Edited: Ok Pemasu, I link it now. Thank you, I realize now that the problem is the virtualbox, after I copied 3 files: vmlinuz, initrd.gz, and the .sfs into a folder, and I modified menu.lst. and this puppy walk without problem.
Thank you for this great puppy!

[pemasu]

recobayu.
I know nothing about virtualboxes and virtual machines. For me...only way is that I get more reports of the succes or failure and also suggestions...if there is something wrong with kernel or base build.

These too wide pics give problems also...they screw the thread page.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WNnVIdz3eZo/U ... /error.png

I suggest placing url link instead of img link so that the page will not be screwed.

Cheers.

[Fabio T]

Hi Pemasu,
excuse me for this message but I can't compile rts5229 driver in Upup precise 3.8.2., that instead compiles it regularly in Upup 3.7.2 and 3.2.29.
I don't know why... perhaps I need something else?
I installed devx.sfs and kernel source.sfs, MAKE command works but...

I enclose source code for driver.

Can you tell me something about this?

P.S. thanks for upgrading wacom driver, my notebook thanks

[pemasu]

Fabio T. Supporting module is missing.
It needs this one in kernel config:
CONFIG_MFD_RTSX_PCI=m

I compile the missing supporting module and then rts5229 should compile...and it is already in kernel source. I can compile the kernel included one as module on same time.

I will be back soon.

[pemasu]

Fabio T. Your missing module or compile problem finding has revealed more serious problem with multifunction, memory stick and sdhc cards. it seems I have missed some vital modules.
Compiling them afterwards is not possible. The compiled modules are not compatible, there is symbol errors which means they are not accepted by this kernel.
Okay. The missing modules are crucial enough that I will recompile the kernel and then I will create new build.

Now comes the question. Should I update to the 3.8.3 kernel. It has a lot fixes. For example radkys needed somewhat broken tg3 has been fixed in it straight and I suppose there as some other important fixes also.
I think I do the decision tomorrow. If someone has opinion or knowledge, the arena is all yours.

[01micko]

pemasu

Here is a 3.8.3 DOTconfig that does add some missing stuff, but be aware I changed to older processor and other stuff, including ISA, it is needed for some older hw sensors even though there are no actual ISA slots, there is still an ISA bus.

It still maybe misses stuff but it's good to compare

[pemasu]

Thanks 01micko. However. I have already compiled the kernel and woofed test build. I am atm uploading it.

I will check your DOTconfig.

[Fabio T]

Thank you very much for your efforts.

Fabio T. Your missing module or compile problem finding has revealed more serious problem with multifunction, memory stick and sdhc cards. it seems I have missed some vital modules.
Compiling them afterwards is not possible. The compiled modules are not compatible, there is symbol errors which means they are not accepted by this kernel.
Okay. The missing modules are crucial enough that I will recompile the kernel and then I will create new build.

Now comes the question. Should I update to the 3.8.3 kernel. It has a lot fixes. For example radkys needed somewhat broken tg3 has been fixed in it straight and I suppose there as some other important fixes also.
I think I do the decision tomorrow. If someone has opinion or knowledge, the arena is all yours.

[pemasu]

Upup Precise 3.8.3 has been uploaded. The only update is that I switched to the latest 3.8 kernel version. Missing drivers were found in mfd ie multifunction devices section and memory stick section. Thank you Fabio T !
I went through other device drivers also and I did add some modules more.

There has been fixes in several drivers since 3.8.2 version, so I hope the update will benefit us.

If this bulid is reliable and usable, I will compile latest ati drivers again and I will create build using latest woof. Barry has announced fix to speed up repo database update, which is not included in this build. It would require new woof and fresh build.

Download link: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/UpupPrec ... recise383/

Kernel sources: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/Kernel_s ... .8.3-upup/

[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Sun17Mar 2013 on Upup Precise 3.8.3 Linux 3.8.3-upup i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
nee ATI RV530 [Radeon X1600]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RV530 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Core 0: @2411 MHz
Multimedia
Audio Adapter CX2341[56] - IVTV-0
Audio Adapter USB-Audio - Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro

It's working okay so far.