Precise Puppy 5.6.1-final, May 29, 2013
puppyinstaller has trouble reading GPT partition map
Barry,
New forum member souliaq had trouble installing Puppy on a GPT drive, as reported here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 303#701303
Karl asked for output from the appropriate commands, and based on souliaq's response I suggested a fix here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 919#704919
souliaq has now verified that the suggestion worked: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 357#705357
New forum member souliaq had trouble installing Puppy on a GPT drive, as reported here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 303#701303
Karl asked for output from the appropriate commands, and based on souliaq's response I suggested a fix here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 919#704919
souliaq has now verified that the suggestion worked: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 357#705357
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Re: /usr/sbin/loginmanager
But I don't want a user to be able to change back to root without knowing the password.L18L wrote:robwoj44 has not been able to let fido change back to login as root, see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 4&start=45
I have found thatdoes not work at all. fido stays fido.Code: Select all
# echo "$ADMINPASSWORD" | su root
So I tried our (good old ) sudo -A ${0} ${@} ...
... and it works.
Code: Select all
#!/bin/sh #note, root2user called via shutdownconfig, changes root to fido. #110507 TaZOC bug fix. #120201 rodin.s: internationalized. #120323 replace 'xmessage' with 'pupmessage'. #120409 if using minit instead of busybox init. #130523 L18L: HOMEUSER, sudo, without ADMINPASSWORD export TEXTDOMAIN=loginmanager export TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale export OUTPUT_CHARSET=UTF-8 #HOMEUSER="`whoami`" [ "`whoami`" != "root" ] && exec sudo -A ${0} ${@} #130523 HOMEUSER="`grep autologin /etc/inittab | cut -d ' ' -f3`" #130523 [ $HOMEUSER ] || HOMEUSER=$USER #130523 CHANGE2ROOT="" if [ "$HOMEUSER" != "root" ];then # without ADMINPASSWORD CHANGE2ROOT="<text><label>$(gettext 'However, if you wish, you can change to the administrator (root) permanently on the next boot. Just tick this box and it will be so:')</label></text> <checkbox> <label>$(gettext 'Tick box to become administrator permanently')</label> <default>false</default> <variable>CHECKADMIN</variable> </checkbox> <text><label>$(gettext 'This will take affect after reboot.')</label></text> " fi export MAIN_DIALOG=" <window title="LoginManager" icon-name="gtk-execute"> <vbox> <text use-markup="true"><label>"<b>$(gettext 'Currently you are logged in as') '${HOMEUSER}'</b>"</label></text> ${CHANGE2ROOT} <hbox> <button ok></button> <button cancel></button> </hbox> </vbox> </window> " RETSTRING="`gtkdialog3 --program=MAIN_DIALOG --center`" [ $? -ne 0 ] && exit #echo "$RETSTRING" eval "$RETSTRING" [ "$EXIT" != "OK" ] && exit #if [ "$CHANGE2ROOT" != "" ];then if [ "$CHECKADMIN" = "true" ];then # echo "$ADMINPASSWORD" | su root #130523 #if [ $? -ne 0 ];then # pupmessage -bg red -title "$(gettext 'LoginManager: error')" -center "$(gettext 'Sorry, admin password is wrong')" # exit #fi #130523 rootEXPR="s%^tty1.*%tty1::respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin root tty1%" sed -i -e "$rootEXPR" /etc/inittab #110507 TaZOC bug fix. #120409 if using minit instead of busybox init... if [ -f /etc/minit/getty/1/params ];then #see my minit pet pkg. EXPR2='s%^fido$%root%' sed -i -e "$EXPR2" /etc/minit/getty/1/params fi pupmessage -bg green -center -title "$(gettext 'Login Manager: OK')" "$(gettext 'Ok, you will be administrator at next boot')" fi #fi
It may be that you have set things up to run Puppy as fido as you may be letting a less-trusted person use your pup.
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Re: /usr/sbin/loginmanager
The less-trusted person will not know (root's and fido's) password.BarryK wrote:...But I don't want a user to be able to change back to root without knowing the password.
It may be that you have set things up to run Puppy as fido as you may be letting a less-trusted person use your pup.
I hope the following can convince you ...
... that without password it cannot be changed back to autologin as root.console wrote:# whoami
fido
# loginmanager
Sorry, try again.
Sorry, try again.
Sorry, try again.
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
#
Anyone have any info on this? Is it specific to my machine and works elsewhere? Can it be fixed, in either case?starhawk wrote:Poulsbo driver needs work, at least for me... "TEST_X_NOW" results in some sorta logfile that basically means it doesn't like me today. Consistently.
Axiomtek PICO820 motherboard
Atom Z530 CPU
US15W chipset (GMA500)
2gb RAM
SATA (in IDE mode because that's all the board can do) 16gb SSD
Output is VGA
Running from CD with a USB CD setup that the board can handle. I used it to install Upup Precise 3831 (kernel 382 in my version) and it worked fine... of course the glibc in that version of Upup isn't new enough for jejy69's GNOME2.32 SFS... hence the desire to upgrade a little...
Sorry if I sound ticked off, I'm not -- just frustrated and disappointed. I was really hoping this would be working now. Oh well
Firmware updates for analog modem drivers
1. Corrected the HSF firmware initialization script to exit if the driver is not loaded, inadvertently dropped during recent changes to that test.
2. Updated the Agere firmware pinstall script for changed subdirectory name for the HDA modem driver (from 11c11040 to 1040hda).
Richard
UPDATE 5/27/2013: Thanks to peebee's report and pdiag file, I dug into the Agere-modem firmware pinstall scripts and found some deficiencies, the main one being that the new firmware did not get used, now all fixed, I believe. I corrected another problem: the config file that blacklists the ALSA-modem drivers could not be erased by pupdial, due to an inconsistency in conf file naming. Also, I made the config file that controls loading of the two modules of the driver, so that a modprobe of either would cause them to be loaded in the correct order. Testers, please try the drivers again, with this updated agrmodem firmware package.
2. Updated the Agere firmware pinstall script for changed subdirectory name for the HDA modem driver (from 11c11040 to 1040hda).
Richard
UPDATE 5/27/2013: Thanks to peebee's report and pdiag file, I dug into the Agere-modem firmware pinstall scripts and found some deficiencies, the main one being that the new firmware did not get used, now all fixed, I believe. I corrected another problem: the config file that blacklists the ALSA-modem drivers could not be erased by pupdial, due to an inconsistency in conf file naming. Also, I made the config file that controls loading of the two modules of the driver, so that a modprobe of either would cause them to be loaded in the correct order. Testers, please try the drivers again, with this updated agrmodem firmware package.
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- firmware_linux_module_agrmodem-20130527.pet
- Corrected firmware for new Agere drivers
- (3.82 KiB) Downloaded 506 times
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- firmware_linux_module_hsfmodem-20130523.pet
- Corrected firmware for HSF modems
- (96.69 KiB) Downloaded 500 times
Last edited by rerwin on Tue 28 May 2013, 02:25, edited 2 times in total.
Agere HDA modem driver
To recombine the parts of the pet package if you do not already have it installed, download and install the splitpetjoin.pet package at this link:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=67464
In the download directory containing the parts, open a console and enter:
splitpetjoin (name of one of the "part" pets)
The driver is now installed into the 1040hda subdirectory under /lib/modules/3.2.44/agrmodem (instead of 11c11040). It requires the new version of the firmware_linux_module_agrmodem package attached to my previous message.
NOTE: I am unable to verify that these "agrsm" and HCF drivers actually work, so rely on users and testers to try whichever you have hardware for and report your results. TIA
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=67464
In the download directory containing the parts, open a console and enter:
splitpetjoin (name of one of the "part" pets)
The driver is now installed into the 1040hda subdirectory under /lib/modules/3.2.44/agrmodem (instead of 11c11040). It requires the new version of the firmware_linux_module_agrmodem package attached to my previous message.
NOTE: I am unable to verify that these "agrsm" and HCF drivers actually work, so rely on users and testers to try whichever you have hardware for and report your results. TIA
- Attachments
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- linux_module_agrsm1040hda-2.1.80-20110811-k3.2.44.pet---part3.pet
- Part 3
- (65.38 KiB) Downloaded 523 times
Last edited by rerwin on Sun 26 May 2013, 18:59, edited 2 times in total.
Agere PCI modem drivers
To recombine the parts of the pet package if you do not already have it installed, download and install the splitpetjoin.pet package at this link:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=67464
In the download directory containing the parts, open a console and enter:
splitpetjoin (name of one of the "part" pets)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=67464
In the download directory containing the parts, open a console and enter:
splitpetjoin (name of one of the "part" pets)
- Attachments
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- linux_module_agrsm048pci-2.1.60_20100108-k3.2.44.pet---part3.pet
- Part 3
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- linux_module_agrsm06pci-2.1.80~20100106-k3.2.44.pet---part3.pet
- Part 3
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Last edited by rerwin on Sun 26 May 2013, 18:54, edited 1 time in total.
Analog modem driver for HCF modems
This is in case some have already acquired the "key" to unlock full speed, or who can live with 14.4 kbs.
To recombine the parts of the pet package if you do not already have it installed, download and install the splitpetjoin.pet package at this link:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=67464
In the download directory containing the parts, open a console and enter:
splitpetjoin (name of one of the "part" pets)
To recombine the parts of the pet package if you do not already have it installed, download and install the splitpetjoin.pet package at this link:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=67464
In the download directory containing the parts, open a console and enter:
splitpetjoin (name of one of the "part" pets)
Re: Agere HDA modem driver
Hi Richardrerwin wrote:NOTE: I am unable to verify that these "agrsm" and HCF drivers actually work, so rely on users and testers to try whichever you have hardware for and report your results. TIA
Downloaded the Agere HDA driver for 11c1:1040
Loaded onto a pristine frugal install of Precise 5.6 and rebooted creating savefile
lsmod showed that agrmodem was loaded but agrserial was not and no sign of ttyAGS3
modprobe agrserial
then dmesg showed that ttyAGS3 had been created
however.....
modem-stats -c ATI3 /dev/ttyAGS3
killed Precise stone dead (it should make the modem display a short id string)
Difficult to send you diagnostics as the only way out of the crash was the poweroff button.
Looks like there are patches needed for this driver if it is to work on this kernel.....but not sure they exist....
Let me know if I can send any useful diagnostics - I'll pm you a pdiag after the initial reboot.
Cheers
peebee
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Pudd
/usr/sbin/Pudd in Precise 5.6 is broken.
Here is the fixed.
#130317 L18L: internationalisation (gettext and Pudd.htm in help/<language>/)
#130524 shinobar: fix NLS
Here is the fixed.
#130317 L18L: internationalisation (gettext and Pudd.htm in help/<language>/)
#130524 shinobar: fix NLS
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- Pudd.gz
- /usr/sbin/Pudd, the executable flag to be set
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Just a cheeky bump for my problem mentioned a couple of pages back - I can't create a savefile on hard disk regardless of boot media (usb or cd) and format chosen (ext2/3 etc), it just hangs on creating save message after exiting X.
No problems in this regard using any other Puppy I've tried.
Any suggestions most welcome
Paul
No problems in this regard using any other Puppy I've tried.
Any suggestions most welcome
Paul
Hi PaulR,
It may be:
a) A bad download of the ISO – you need to confirm the checksum.
Or
b) A bad burn. I suggest if a) is o/k, that using something like BurnAware, you burn it again at the slowest possible speed and ensure you turn on the verify option.
It may be:
a) A bad download of the ISO – you need to confirm the checksum.
Or
b) A bad burn. I suggest if a) is o/k, that using something like BurnAware, you burn it again at the slowest possible speed and ensure you turn on the verify option.
Regards ETP
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missing video
Barry
Sony VAIO PCG-R505DL
"...
precise 5.6.00
All I get is a mottled white screen.
Is the video driver missing?
"...
wary 5.4.90
Works well.
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 5.4.90
Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
Display controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Depth (bits, or planes): 16
Modules requested to be loaded: synaptics dbe type1 freetype xtrap glx dri
Drivers requested to be loaded: intel
Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: ch7xxx dbe ddc dri exa extmod fb freetype GLcore glx i2c int10 ivch kbd mouse pcidata ramdac sil164 synaptics type1 vbe vgahw xtrap
Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
Depth: 16 planes
Bill
Sony VAIO PCG-R505DL
"...
precise 5.6.00
All I get is a mottled white screen.
Is the video driver missing?
"...
wary 5.4.90
Works well.
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 5.4.90
Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
Display controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Depth (bits, or planes): 16
Modules requested to be loaded: synaptics dbe type1 freetype xtrap glx dri
Drivers requested to be loaded: intel
Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: ch7xxx dbe ddc dri exa extmod fb freetype GLcore glx i2c int10 ivch kbd mouse pcidata ramdac sil164 synaptics type1 vbe vgahw xtrap
Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
Depth: 16 planes
Bill
Thanks ETP - I've double checked (a) and that's ok. Wouldn't think (b) would apply as the same thing happens when I boot from USB (although that was made with the same ISO. I'll start over, download and burn another disk, see if the same happens.ETP wrote:Hi PaulR,
It may be:
a) A bad download of the ISO – you need to confirm the checksum.
Or
b) A bad burn. I suggest if a) is o/k, that using something like BurnAware, you burn it again at the slowest possible speed and ensure you turn on the verify option.
Thanks for the suggestions,
Paul
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external monitor
Barry
It is morning here, I planned to do this test last night.
I connected an external monitor to the:
Sony VAIO PCG-R505DL
precise 5.6.00
--AND--
The external monitor works great at 1024x768, and even at 1280x1024 !
The internal laptop screen is still mottled grey.
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.6
Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
Display controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: synaptics dbe
Drivers requested to be loaded: intel
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 synaptics
Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes
Bill
It is morning here, I planned to do this test last night.
I connected an external monitor to the:
Sony VAIO PCG-R505DL
precise 5.6.00
--AND--
The external monitor works great at 1024x768, and even at 1280x1024 !
The internal laptop screen is still mottled grey.
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.6
Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
Display controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: synaptics dbe
Drivers requested to be loaded: intel
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 synaptics
Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes
Bill
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Re: Pudd
Thanks for fixingshinobar wrote:/usr/sbin/Pudd in Precise 5.6 is broken.
Here is the fixed.
#130317 L18L: internationalisation (gettext and Pudd.htm in help/<language>/)
#130524 shinobar: fix NLS
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monitor more
Sony VAIO PCG-R505DL
** laptop **
precise 5.6.00
More info:
Note: wary 5.4.90 works well.
precise 5.6.00
With the external monitor, I can see the laptop screen turns mottled grey just after 'loading kernal modules'.
Another problem:
Now that I can see the screen, I can save and restart, but precise 5.6.00 fails to shutdown, it hangs on shutdown. Then I force poweroff.
On restart, the wallpaper is blank and all desktop icons are triangles.
Tried several times, all the same.
Too bad, I was given two of these.
I was hoping to use them as servers.
Bill
** laptop **
precise 5.6.00
More info:
Note: wary 5.4.90 works well.
precise 5.6.00
With the external monitor, I can see the laptop screen turns mottled grey just after 'loading kernal modules'.
Another problem:
Now that I can see the screen, I can save and restart, but precise 5.6.00 fails to shutdown, it hangs on shutdown. Then I force poweroff.
On restart, the wallpaper is blank and all desktop icons are triangles.
Tried several times, all the same.
Too bad, I was given two of these.
I was hoping to use them as servers.
Bill
Still hoping for an answer on thisstarhawk wrote:Anyone have any info on this? Is it specific to my machine and works elsewhere? Can it be fixed, in either case?starhawk wrote:Poulsbo driver needs work, at least for me... "TEST_X_NOW" results in some sorta logfile that basically means it doesn't like me today. Consistently.
Axiomtek PICO820 motherboard
Atom Z530 CPU
US15W chipset (GMA500)
2gb RAM
SATA (in IDE mode because that's all the board can do) 16gb SSD
Output is VGA
Running from CD with a USB CD setup that the board can handle. I used it to install Upup Precise 3831 (kernel 382 in my version) and it worked fine... of course the glibc in that version of Upup isn't new enough for jejy69's GNOME2.32 SFS... hence the desire to upgrade a little...
Sorry if I sound ticked off, I'm not -- just frustrated and disappointed. I was really hoping this would be working now. Oh well
precise 5.6-final, May 21, 2013
I tried to create a Chinese Language pet for Precise 5.6 and have found the following issues:
1. menus and sub-menus Chinese words are shown as squares
2. system tray, lower right hand corner time icon, mouse pup up tool tips, Chinese words are shown as squares
I have checked that Chinese fonts are already successfully installed and available because Chinese input, web Chinese display are all normal.
Does anyone know what needs to be done to fix these?
×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××
I found the solution:
edit the file /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme
and replace all "DejaVu Sans-10" with "DejaVu Sans 10"
that is replace the "-" with a space for all the font names.
icake
May 29, 2013
1. menus and sub-menus Chinese words are shown as squares
2. system tray, lower right hand corner time icon, mouse pup up tool tips, Chinese words are shown as squares
I have checked that Chinese fonts are already successfully installed and available because Chinese input, web Chinese display are all normal.
Does anyone know what needs to be done to fix these?
×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××
I found the solution:
edit the file /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme
and replace all "DejaVu Sans-10" with "DejaVu Sans 10"
that is replace the "-" with a space for all the font names.
icake
May 29, 2013
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