Precise Puppy 5.7.1

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#526 Post by starhawk »

Did not work initially... however, I've done so much wireless testing on that thing that I've kind of become my own enemy. There's a half dozen wireless utilities on there, at least...

I'm going to do a reinstall and see what happens.

EDIT: After no fewer than four of my CD drives refused to work (!) and the hard drive in the CPi decided to die (at least according to BIOS) -- I'm calling it quits for the evening... if I don't I'm going to have to learn to alcoholic and that's not something I want.

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#527 Post by starhawk »

I think I may have a workaround for the CardBus problem... esbelugas, I'll still try your script ;)

Turns out I have a USB 1.1 hub that takes external power (it has a switch that takes it from self-powered to wall-powered). The CPi has only one USB port -- which is why I didn't want to use a USB WiFi card -- but with a hub, things are a little different...

Doesn't much matter, though, with the hard drive busted. (I hope it's the drive and not the controller... I should probably test that, though.)

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#528 Post by starhawk »

Weeeeeeeeell... I installed Precise 571 non-Retro this time.

More things work, but the sound demon has returned. The driver doesn't exist at all in Precise 571 Regular.

Anyone want to compile it for me? :lol: I need the applicable one for a Crystal 4237B sound chip. IIRC the driver is called cs4236... please no SSE anything in the compile target, I'm rocking a Pentium II here.

I'd do it myself, but I really don't fancy the idea of compiling even that on a 300MHz P2 with a quarter gig of RAM. I'd be there all afternoon.

EDIT: Never mind... even *USB* WiFi cards refuse to work here. Screw it, I'm installing ClassicPup. It's deathly slow but it will probably actually work...

EDIT2: no, I'm just setting it aside. I had to hard power-off it after the CD drive in it refused to work (WTH?!) and once again it won't boot right.

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#529 Post by Mike Walsh »

Hey, starhawk.

Sounds like your hardware is throwing not just one 'wobbly', but a whole series of them... :lol:


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#530 Post by starhawk »

It's a rebellious 17 year old, what do you expect? :lol:

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#531 Post by Mike Walsh »

starhawk wrote:It's a rebellious 17 year old, what do you expect? :lol:
^^^ 'Nuff said..! I remember what I was like at that age... :lol: You've definitely got your work cut out, old son... :roll:


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#532 Post by starhawk »

Actually, this one's probably got me fired up once too many. I can't really do with it what I wanted -- so it's probably headed to the local tech shop for recycling, come Thursday. Of course I'll strip it of anything meaningfully useful first...

...which of course won't be much. The RAM is actually valuable because it's very very weird (look up "EDO memory" some time... they didn't make it for long, and they haven't made it in forever), and I just put a 1.8" SSD in the drive tray, with an adapter, and that assembly is staying with me. That's about it, TBH.

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#533 Post by esbelugas »

> this one's probably got me fired up once too many
Sometimes it's worth one more go. Sometimes it isn't. Maybe sleep on it and then decide. :)

> look up "EDO memory" some time
Definitely worth keeping hold of this, I think. I bought some used EDO memory a short while ago - difficult to find and 8Mb cost me as much as 4Gb of SDRAM!

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#534 Post by starhawk »

8mb? That sounds like 30pin SIMMs. You got a 386 or sumptin?

That Dell takes a max of 256mb, and that's what it's got -- 2x 128mb sticks. They were a Christmas present last year ;)

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#535 Post by esbelugas »

My mistake - it was 32Mb EDO, 72 pin. I bought it for an old system board (think it was Socket A based), but sadly the board went belly-up shortly after I took it out of storage.

I did buy a 72-pin 8Mb module at the same time, but it was regular FPM to add to a late model 486 (16Mb total). No chance of running Puppy on this box, so I'm planning to install FreeSCO and see what it can do as a network appliance.

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#536 Post by starhawk »

FPM is not regular :wink: it's just as weird as EDO. Both were briefly common around the time the dinosaurs went extinct...

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#537 Post by TIW »

Hi. I have deleted Seamonkey from precise.5.7.1 but find those Seamonkey icons coming back in /.confg/rox.sourceforge.net/OpenWith
Why are they coming back ? How to stop them from doing so ?
Thanks for your help.

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#538 Post by bigpup »

Did you delete it by using "Remove Builtin Packages"?
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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#539 Post by Semme »

*On second thought, I'll pass..

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#540 Post by snayak »

Dear All,

I am using Precise puppy on my AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (512MB RAM) machine.
I downloaded precise-5.7.1-retro.iso and devx_precise_5.7.1.sfs from http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... ise-5.7.1/.

Where should I look for the following pakages?
1. Java
2. Python
3. Virtual Box
4. Kernel sources for 3.2.48

Didn't find them at sfs folder http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/sfs/. :-(

Kindly guide.

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak
[Precise 571 on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB RAM]
[Fatdog 720 on Intel Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM]

[url]http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.com/[/url]

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#541 Post by watchdog »

snayak wrote: Where should I look for the following pakages?

4. Kernel sources for 3.2.48

Didn't find them at sfs folder http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/sfs/. :-(
https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linu ... atched.sfs

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#542 Post by Mike Walsh »

Hi, snayak.

We'll try and get your Chrome sorted out a bit later on (I haven't forgotten!), but for now, I'll try and answer these:-

1) Java: Use rerwin's Get-Java package, here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=101592

2) Python: Use the PPM.

3) Virtualbox: Should be in the PPM, but I'm really not certain whether the Precise repositories are still working, since 12.04 Precise Pangolin went EOL in April. If not, give this thread a look:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=63332

4) Kernel sources: Ally (our unofficial 'archivist') has mirrored every single Puppy kernel, dev_x and kernel_sources package here:-

http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Kernels

The one you want is there; I've checked. Just scroll down till you find it. Be warned; it's a huge list! It's well worth bookmarking, too.

[Shortcut:-] http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux ... atched.sfs

Hope those help.


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#543 Post by snayak »

Dear watchdog and Mike,

Many many thanks.
I am indebted for your time and support.

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak
[Precise 571 on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB RAM]
[Fatdog 720 on Intel Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM]

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#544 Post by snayak »

Dear All,

I went to:
Right Click->Desktop->pupX set properties of X
I set:
Screen saver Enable
Delay 5
Cycle 2
Blank screen rather than displaying a pattern

But I saw screen saver not working!
I changed time, yet no difference.

Is this screen saver setting working?
What is "Allow exposures"?


Sincerely,
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[Precise 571 on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB RAM]
[Fatdog 720 on Intel Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM]

[url]http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.com/[/url]

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#545 Post by perdido »

Hello snayak,

Delay = how long before screen saver starts with no mouse / keyboard activity (mine is set to 5 seconds)

Cycle= how many seconds before screen saver changes to new pattern, (mine is set to 600 seconds)

Allow Exposures = Have that ticked (I don't know what it does but screensaver does not run if not ticked)

Click Apply button

Screen saver should now have blank screen after 5 seconds of no activity.

.This I verified in Precise 5.7.1 just now :)

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