Precise Puppy 5.7.1

Please post any bugs you have found
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#16 Post by rcrsn51 »

BarryK wrote:Fixes for optical media!
I can confirm that the fix works.

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One problem found

#17 Post by peebee »

Precise Puppy 5.7 k3.9.11 pae - pristine frugal install to HP550 laptop

One problem found - wifi is soft blocked on boot:
# rfkill list wlan
0: hp-wifi: wlan
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
and has to be enabled with

Code: Select all

rfkill unblock wlan
This problem is also seen in 01micko's slacko 5.5.71 with k3.10.1pae

On the plus side:
-Broadcom wl driver working
-Chromium 28 working
-LxPup by SFS working

Cheers
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Precise Puppy 5.7

#18 Post by Billtoo »

I did a manual frugal install of 5.7 retro to a 16gb SDHC card which
is running on a Compaq Presario S6700NX desktop.
I just put my 5.6.11 savefile in the 5.7 directory and it updated on
first bootup.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Mon 29 Jul 2013 on Precise Puppy 5.7 Linux 3.2.48 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV280
[Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
oem: ATI RADEON 9200
X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5961) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 8.0.4
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Core 0: @2800 1: @2800 MHz

I started ppm and was offered the service pack, I installed that.
This pc has a usb optical drive which worked fine when a dvd was
loaded into it.
Ogle works fine too, wouldn't work for me on the PAE 5.7 but is
working fine on the 5.7 retro version.
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retro high memory use

#19 Post by broomdodger »

retro high memory use

Precise 5.7 retro
manual frugal

Boot, savefile, and restart
Precise 5.7.00 memory usage 554 MB
Precise 5.6.11 memory usage 184 MB

When Precise 5.7 starts it displays something I have never seen when a savefile is present: (the 'copying to ram' part)

Loading the 'puppy_precise_5.7.sfs' main file... copying to ram

Is it loading the sfs twice?

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#20 Post by OscarTalks »

This is a bit strange, happens on 2 different computers, PAE version (will try the retro version later).

When I boot up and (for example) open Geany the keyboard layout is wrong, I get wrong characters. BUT if I close and re-open Geany the keyboard layout works correctly.

If I reboot the layout is wrong again... unless I open, close and open Geany for a second time again.
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#21 Post by broomdodger »

EeePC display 800x480x24, 1GB RAM
Precise 5.7
some dialogs are too long

- First Shutdown: ask fido
the buttons do not show, I can move the dialog with the alt key, but can not resize. Installed on another machine so I could see the dialog and mimicked the savefile process. The 'return' key worked, for the 2 too long dialogs.

- First Shutdown: encryption
same as above, dilog is too long

Neither of these were a problem with Precise 5.6.11

- Opera several dialogs too long, able to move and resize, both 5.7 and 5.6.11

- gparted too tall

On all machines tested:
+ Used PPM to install Mercurial 2.0.2 works fine
- download and compile Vim 74b from mercurial works great
+ compiled Sylpheed 340b4 works great
+ QtWeb installed and works, I like it better than Opera
+ gnumeric with a 43192 row sheet works great
+ Pure-ftpd server no longer reminds to set passwd

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#22 Post by watchdog »

BarryK wrote: Gnome-mplayer will not play DVD videos!
I got gnome-mplayer working: I played my marriage Dvd. Go to gnome-mplayer preferences and activate in Interface Tab the "Start with playlist visible" checkbox.

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#23 Post by backi »

Hello Oscar Talks !
To your keyboard problems .
Got a strange effect when typing in Chromiumbrowser Z and Y where reversed . .... not in firefox ..not in geany ......after installing german langpack this was working right .

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#24 Post by Ray MK »

Precise Puppy version 5.7, released Jul 2013

Don’t know what to say - Stunning - All seems to work as expected OTB.

Manual frugal to an old ext2 SDcard and booting with grub4dos. E732 laptop.

# uname -a
Linux puppypc25640 3.9.11 #1 SMP Sat Jul 27 19:40:54 GMT-8 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# uptime
17:32:17 up 6:46, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.04
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1804736 597128 1207608 0 66840
-/+ buffers: 530288 1274448
Swap: 0 0 0
# top
Mem: 598344K used, 1206392K free, 0K shrd, 66840K buff, 444576K cached
CPU: 0% usr 0% sys 0% nic 98% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.00 0.03 0.05 2/93 25954

Simply Superb puppy.
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#25 Post by backi »

Hi
Regarding Gnome-mplayer not working
Go to gnome-mplayer preferences and activate in Interface Tab " Player---
Video (in my case i had to choose -- gl --.) made Video DVD playing .

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Re: One problem found

#26 Post by bigpup »

peebee wrote:Precise Puppy 5.7 k3.9.11 pae - pristine frugal install to HP550 laptop

One problem found - wifi is soft blocked on boot:
# rfkill list wlan
0: hp-wifi: wlan
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
and has to be enabled with

Code: Select all

rfkill unblock wlan
This problem is also seen in 01micko's slacko 5.5.71 with k3.10.1pae

Cheers
peebee
I have the same problem, but when I enter rfkill list wlan I get this:

Code: Select all

# rfkill list wlan
rfkill: /dev/rfkill: No such file or directory
# 
If I enter rfkill unblock wlan I get this:

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# rfkill unblock wlan
rfkill: /dev/rfkill: No such file or directory
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#27 Post by OscarTalks »

Retro version displays the same strange keyboard layout behaviour.

If you have booted or rebooted you have to open something, eg PSIP Puppy Phone set-up GUI, try to type something with an @ in it and you get the wrong character, but if you close PSIP and open it a second time the characters type correctly in anything until the next reboot.
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#28 Post by backi »

Hi !
I am a bit confused ..... is Precise 5.7 the successor to 5.6.1 ??

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#29 Post by backi »

Barry !
Tested Gnomeplayer playing Video-DVD
One have to set in Tab " Preferences -Player-Videooutput... "
gl or xv or whatever works for you .
In my case ticking gl did work .

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#30 Post by anikin »

Precise-5.7 runs fine on a fresh boot in pupmode-5, but once it's remastered, I can't bring it to the desktop. I'm stuck at the "type xorgwizard" prompt.

edit: Forgot to mention - it's the PAE version.
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#31 Post by James C »

Precise 5.7 PAE version (until I change the kernel :lol: ) manual frugal install. Needed to use nouveau.noaccel=1 kernel parameter to prevent computer freezeup.
Sound and display working on initial boot.....needed to use SNS for internet. Service pack popup appeared on 2nd occasion of launching PPM....... service pack installed.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.7

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768x16
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): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 exa extmod fb glx kbd mouse record shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
1461 frames in 5.0 seconds = 292.103 FPS
1608 frames in 5.0 seconds = 321.439 FPS
1598 frames in 5.0 seconds = 319.543 FPS
1579 frames in 5.0 seconds = 315.636 FPS
1585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 316.927 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory : 3888MB (218MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Precise Puppy - 5.7
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 29 Jul 2013 06:03:27 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

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#32 Post by Ray MK »

Precise Puppy version 5.7- retro, released Jul 2013

Manual frugal to ext3 partition and booting with grub4dos. Acer 243LC laptop.
Can’t believe how well it runs on this 10yr old, ram challenged beastie.
All seems to work exceptionally well OTB - very responsive.

# uname -a
Linux puppypc29804 3.2.48 #1 SMP Thu Jul 11 12:20:55 GMT-8 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# uptime
00:04:16 up 2:47, load average: 0.10, 0.23, 0.17
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 366904 268760 98144 0 40256
-/+ buffers: 228504 138400
Swap: 658660 1036 657624
# top
Mem: 269504K used, 97400K free, 0K shrd, 40396K buff, 176552K cached
CPU: 2% usr 3% sys 0% nic 93% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.06 0.21 0.17 1/56 21131

This is a truly exceptional all rounder puppy - and looks so good too.
So pleased to have a BK built OS with Opera. Luvly puppy - many thanks.
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Precise Puppy 5.7

#33 Post by Billtoo »

I copied the 5.7 PAE directory and several other files (devx etc.)
from my flash drive install on my Gateway desktop to a 16gb SDHC card which has
Upup Raring 3.9.9.1 on it.
I booted up Upup Raring on a hp desktop pc and ran grub4dos, then rebooted
into Precise 5.7 PAE.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Mon 29 Jul 2013 on Precise Puppy 5.7 Linux 3.9.11 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller:NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForceGT430](rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF108 Board - 1071v0p1 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (513x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 319.32
sh-4.1# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.410 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.003 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.006 FPS
sh-4.1#
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Core 0: @800 1: @800 2: @800 3: @800 4: @800 5: @800 MHz
Memory 8309MB (451MB used)
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E
PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
Each pc has a Nvidia Geforce GT 430 graphics card in it.

I saved an hour or so over doing a fresh install with all the setup
etc.
It's working well here too.
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#34 Post by futwerk »

a couple of backgrounds.
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#35 Post by BarryK »

I have taken Ogle out of the Service Pack, and re-uploaded the PET, see my blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00341

I am frustrated by this, as Ogle works fine for me, in both flavours.

Anyway, with some tweaking, Gnome-mplayer can be made to play DVDs. It has always been a crappy DVD player though, as it doesn't handle the menus on nearly all DVDs very nicely. But, it inherits the limitations of mplayer.
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