Precise Puppy RC2, October 20, 2012

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Billtoo · #641 Post by **Billtoo** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 14:23

I swiped the flash drive out of the eeepc 701 and plugged it into my
compac p4.
I booted to ram, it went to the desktop at the correct resolution etc,
then rebooted creating a 2nd save file on the flash drive.
I was given a choice of save files to load on rebooting.

Report Video 1.3 - Sat 22 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.95 - Linux 3.2.29 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
oem: ATI RADEON 9200

X Server: Xorg Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.298 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.888 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.886 FPS

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 1554MB (112MB used)
OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
Renderer Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5961) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
Version 1.3 Mesa 8.0.2
Direct Rendering Yes

It's working well here too.

majorfoo · #642 Post by **majorfoo** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 16:39

D/l beta7 and did full install to ext4 partition on hard drive

Booted to desktop with sound and internet connection

Upgraded Seamonkey to 2.13 Beta 3
Upgraded Abiword to 2.90

added following:
xorghigh-0.0.1
xscreensaver 5.15
shermans aquarium 3.01
firewallstate 2.1
pupcontrol 2.2
pupclockset 1.9
roxterm 1.17.1
wbar with setup
evince 2.30
pupppybrowser 1.1
flashplayer 11.2.202.228
bibletime 2.72
audacious 3.23.2
xchat 2.88
tcl 8.56
tk 8.56

everything I have upgraded and or/added is working great.
No problems to report

peebee · #643 Post by **peebee** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 17:02

For anybody who wants to add the Broadcom wl wifi driver to Precise Beta 7, the pets can be found at:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 5&start=17

[EDIT] Both pae k3.2.9 and non-pae k3.2.30-nopae versions are available [/EDIT]

There's a version of Frisbee that works on Precise at:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 2&start=85 Attachment #1

Cheers

peebee · #644 Post by **peebee** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 17:05

Has anybody else tried pnethood on Precise Beta 6 or 7??

It is very very slow to scan and connect compared with other recent puppies.

Cheers
peebee

oldyeller · #645 Post by **oldyeller** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 17:19

Where do you get beta7 at?

peebee · #646 Post by **peebee** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 17:25

oldyeller wrote:Where do you get beta7 at?

Barry has announced on his blog:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=03000

oldyeller · #647 Post by **oldyeller** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 17:32

peebee wrote:
oldyeller wrote:Where do you get beta7 at?
Barry has announced on his blog:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=03000

Barry just must have finished it not that long ago, When I was on his blog early today, he was just talking about doing beta7.

Cool that we are almost done

rcrsn51 · #648 Post by **rcrsn51** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 17:49

peebee wrote:Has anybody else tried pnethood on Precise Beta 6 or 7?? It is very very slow to scan and connect compared with other recent puppies.

I can confirm that. I don't know what has changed in Pnethood, but you might want to look at YASSM. It's much faster.

666philb · #649 Post by **666philb** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 18:01

here are the graphic drivers for the new beta 7

amd
http://www.mediafire.com/file/5ba4caq5c ... 3.2.29.pet 54mb
MD5 26aeec9674ec4736f2ca771dc815857a

nvidia
http://www.mediafire.com/file/21f8obfm7 ... 3.2.29.pet 27mb
MD5 393812e4ec4efa474bd2c5698ce810e2

let me know if they're ok

oldyeller · #650 Post by **oldyeller** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 18:56

Beta7 booted right into the desktop. Did a frugal install and it connected right to the Internet.

report video

Report Video 1.3 - Sat 22 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.95 - Linux 3.2.29 i686

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel

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

so far everything is doing just great

Cheers

technosaurus · #651 Post by **technosaurus** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 19:44

I already knew about:config and about:buildconfig in mozilla products, but found about:memory which gives an idea of where your resources are going (displaying this page is an extra ~1mb), but there is still room for improvement, since the largest load is "anonymous":

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343.76 MB (100.0%) -- vsize
├──291.57 MB (84.82%) -- anonymous
│  ├──291.47 MB (84.79%) -- anonymous, outside brk() [rwxp] [89]

It is supposedly better in the newer versions (this was from 2.6.x), but would make me consider 256Mb of RAM as insufficient unless swap was available.

Anyhow, thought it would be an interesting metric to look at in new releases when considering hardware recommendations.

Edit: tried out the new version and hacked nobus to be a stub replacement for dbus and dbus-glib that works with official builds and is only a 5kb pet and available sources are here:
https://github.com/clbr/nobus

shinobar · #652 Post by **shinobar** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 20:06

nvidia-glx-304.43-k3.2.29.sfs is available.
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/precise/
Works on Puppy precise beta7.
Made by the getnvidia-0.7.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405

Usage:
1. Boot precise beta7 with boot parameter 'puppy pfix=nox'.
2. Run 'xorgwizard', choose 'vesa'.
3. 'xwin' to get graphical desktop.
4. Click the nvidia-glx-304.43-k3.2.29.sfs and choose 'Install'.
5. Skip the launcher 'Nvidia config'.
6. Run 'xorgwizard', choose 'probe'.

`f00 · #653 Post by **`f00** » Sat 22 Sep 2012, 20:18

So how would n00Bs like me set the modeset line if having issues with the display? I realize the boot options splash for F2 and F3 can only cover a somewhat limited scenario. Would it be something like "puppy xxxx.modeset=0" or is it much more involved? I really have no idea if it would be feasible to edit xorg.conf with mp on an initial boot, presuming the tools are available and I have a legible display for visual feedback to work with.

Perhaps it's as shinobar says at the top of p43 - "It is hard to type such a boot option at boot." especially if you're typing 'in the dark' and kind of guessing if you're doing it correctly, in proper sequence and so forth.

Coming from racy 5.3 (the first pup I had to do a modeline in since there were offsets I needed to tweak to see almost all of the screen at my preferred 1024x768), modeset is now not totally unfamiliar to me as a working concept. But how to do it on an initial boot may be yet another learning experience.

just as my dialup dl of xdelta for beta7-pae is finally finishing, I see BK will be uploading the nonpae beta7 "targeting older hardware, including older video hardware" (joy

) soon..

rerwin · #654 Post by **rerwin** » Sun 23 Sep 2012, 01:09

Attached are modem drivers for testing on beta7 and later.

HCFpcimodem needs testing by someone who has such a modem, because I have no way to verify it works.

Barry,
I have added difference listings for the transition to compatibility with kernels 3.x, to remove the mystery as to what was done. Note that one of the hsf files (framewrk.h) has changed from the dell version to the linuxant version, which is why many changed statements are not bracketed by an if-else-endif structure.
Richard

Billtoo · #655 Post by **Billtoo** » Sun 23 Sep 2012, 01:55

Manual frugal install to an 8gb flash drive.

Report Video 1.3 - Sat 22 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.95.1 - Linux 3.2.30-nopae i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
oem: ATI RADEON 9200

X Server: Xorg Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 1554MB (109MB used)
OpenGL
Vendor VMware, Inc.
Renderer Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
Version 3.0 Mesa 8.0.3
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
223 frames in 5.0 seconds = 44.495 FPS
229 frames in 5.0 seconds = 45.634 FPS
226 frames in 5.0 seconds = 45.196 FPS

I gave it a 256mb save file and I installed 3 sfs files,
MC-4.8.1.5,XFE-1.33,and Gogglesmm-0.12.6.

It's working well so far.

EDIT: precise 5.3.95 pae on this same pc has a higher fps than 5.3.95.1
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.303 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.887 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.889 FPS

Google-Earth runs well with 5.3.95 pae but is unusable under 5.3.95.1
non-pae.

James C · #656 Post by **James C** » Sun 23 Sep 2012, 04:28

Quick test live pfix=ram of the non-pae 5.3.95.1 version of Precise. Booted to a totally black desktop with the infamous "monitor out of range" message. Was able to use xorgwizard to get the desired 1366x768 resolution though.

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Sat 22 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.95.1 - Linux 3.2.30-nopae i686

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: nv

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1368x768 pixels (414x232 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
410 frames in 5.0 seconds = 81.822 FPS
408 frames in 5.0 seconds = 81.483 FPS
410 frames in 5.0 seconds = 81.919 FPS
410 frames in 5.0 seconds = 81.818 FPS
410 frames in 5.0 seconds = 81.884 FPS
412 frames in 5.0 seconds = 82.393 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 2854MB (199MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 22 Sep 2012 11:30:59 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1368x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

Otherwise,everything appears to be working normally.

James C · #657 Post by **James C** » Sun 23 Sep 2012, 04:44

Fresh manual frugal install on the old Athlon XP box.......booted straight to the correct 1440x900 resolution with working sound and internet.

Report Video 1.3 - Sat 22 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.95.1 - Linux 3.2.30-nopae i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nv

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 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
98 frames in 5.0 seconds = 19.570 FPS
146 frames in 5.0 seconds = 29.140 FPS
140 frames in 5.0 seconds = 27.991 FPS
145 frames in 5.0 seconds = 28.850 FPS
133 frames in 5.0 seconds = 26.486 FPS
144 frames in 5.0 seconds = 28.718 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (193MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 22 Sep 2012 11:43:40 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
Version : 1.11.3
-Monitors-
Monitor 0 : 1440x900 pixels
-OpenGL-
Vendor : VMware, Inc.
Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
Version : 3.0 Mesa 8.0.3
Direct Rendering : Yes

James C · #658 Post by **James C** » Sun 23 Sep 2012, 04:48

Same old Nvidia card..... different drivers.....

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Sat 22 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.95.1 - Linux 3.2.30-nopae i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nv

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# glxgears
98 frames in 5.0 seconds = 19.570 FPS
146 frames in 5.0 seconds = 29.140 FPS
140 frames in 5.0 seconds = 27.991 FPS
145 frames in 5.0 seconds = 28.850 FPS
133 frames in 5.0 seconds = 26.486 FPS
144 frames in 5.0 seconds = 28.718 FPS

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Sat 22 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.95 - Linux 3.2.29 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nouveau

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# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
2231 frames in 5.0 seconds = 446.127 FPS
2347 frames in 5.0 seconds = 469.320 FPS
2219 frames in 5.0 seconds = 443.702 FPS
2194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 438.474 FPS
2268 frames in 5.0 seconds = 453.534 FPS
2186 frames in 5.0 seconds = 437.132 FPS

James C · #659 Post by **James C** » Sun 23 Sep 2012, 05:38

5.3.95.1 non-pae version live pfix=ram on another old box (2008) with Nvidia graphics.

Booted to a totally gibberish, multicolored screen....... ctrl,alt/bksp led to the same gibberish screen. Hard poweroff. Booted pfix=ram,nox..... chose "nv" in xorgwizard and got...... the same totally gibberish display. Third try, pfix=nox chose "vesa" and at least it's working.

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Sun 23 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.95.1 - Linux 3.2.30-nopae i686

Chip description:
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C68 [GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP67 - mcp68-01 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver used: vesa

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (271x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 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
210 frames in 5.0 seconds = 41.842 FPS
218 frames in 5.0 seconds = 43.579 FPS
222 frames in 5.0 seconds = 44.198 FPS
215 frames in 5.0 seconds = 42.858 FPS
219 frames in 5.0 seconds = 43.606 FPS
218 frames in 5.0 seconds = 43.502 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Memory : 903MB (188MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 23 Sep 2012 12:36:47 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
Version : 1.11.3
-Monitors-
Monitor 0 : 1024x768 pixels
-OpenGL-
Vendor : VMware, Inc.
Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
Version : 3.0 Mesa 8.0.3
Direct Rendering : Yes

Now to try out the version with "nouveau"......

James C · #660 Post by **James C** » Sun 23 Sep 2012, 05:47

5.3.95 live pfix=ram......naturally, booted straight to the correct resolution with working sound and internet.

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Sun 23 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.95 - Linux 3.2.29 i686

Chip description:
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C68 [GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP67 - mcp68-01 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 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
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 30
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 30
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 55
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 56
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 59
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 58
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 30
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
glxgears: nvfx_state_fb.c:124: nvfx_framebuffer_validate: Assertion `util_format_get_stride(fb->zsbuf->format, fb->width) <= nvfx->hw_zeta.pitch' failed.
Aborted
#
Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Memory : 903MB (196MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 23 Sep 2012 12:46:56 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV67
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
Version : 1.11.3
-Monitors-
Monitor 0 : 1024x768 pixels
-OpenGL-
Vendor : nouveau
Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV67
Version : 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2
Direct Rendering : Yes

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