Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017

[vancheese]

Hi people

I'm a new puppy user (but loads of ubuntu experience). I've started using 7.0.1
and would like to upgrade to 7.0.3. I can't seem to find any generic documenation on how do to it

Do I just download the iso and copy the two new sfs files to usb (where I've a frugal install) and then update grub4dos?

Thanks

Andy

[backi]

Hi 666philp !

This is from Pup-Sysinfo :

▶—— Network Devices ——◀

Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
• Kernel Driver: 8139too
• Memory Used: 16.43 KB
• Path: /lib/modules/4.1.30/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139too.ko
• Driver Version: 0.9.28
• Description: RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet driver

[gyro]

Do I just download the iso and copy the two new sfs files to usb (where I've a frugal install) and then update grub4dos

I never do an upgrade, I always do a fresh frugal install.
But if you want to upgrade your frugal install, you need to copy more than 2 files.
You should replace all the ".sfs" files and "vmlinuz" and "initrd.gz".
Your grub4dos "menu.lst" would normally not need to be changed.

gyro

[vancheese]

And Can you use the old save file with new updated system?

[charlie6]

Hi 666philb

great work again ! ==> tons of thanks for Xenialpup-7.0.3.

again noticed the same behaviour as here (page 1 this thread)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... d1e#899908

runs (better...) OOTB (...as it ever does!) currently on my every-day-used-2005-single cored-PIV second hand bought featured with that tricky

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

HTH, Charlie

[ally]

any chance of an ath9k driver?

[bigpup]

After upgrade to 7.0.3 no wireless connection detected.
I need the ath9k_htc driver for my wireless hardware Netgear WNA1100.

Works fine in version 7.0.1

[bigpup]

And Can you use the old save file with new updated system?

Yes.
It will update the save on first boot-up.

I would hold off going to Xenial 7.0.3 until this problem with wireless networking gets resolved.

[bigpup]

If you update Xenial 7.0.1 to Xenial 7.0.3

You will probably have to rerun Grub4dos config or manually edit the menu.lst entry to say:

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title Puppy xenial 7.0.3

[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install to a 16gb flash drive, pc is a COMPAQ
Presario.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Mon 15 Aug 2016 on xenialpup 7.0.3 Linux 4.1.30 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV530 [Radeon X1600 PRO]

X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.18.3
dimensions: 3840x1080 pixels (1015x285 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 11.2.0

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Core 0: @2800 1: @2800 MHz

I installed kodi from PPM but it wouldn't run so I uninstalled it then
installed wine-1.9.15_v1.1.pet,wine_DEV-1.9.15_v1.1.pet and
wine_DOC-1.9.15.pet by version2013, now running xbmc-13.2-Gotham under
wine.

That's it so far.

[artsown]

Both 7.0.3 and 7.0.1 work well here on my 10 year old Dell towers.
Tahrpup also works quite well. I get the feeling of "mature" pups and
Linux itself, though it's disappointing that you (Phil) had to drop down
in kernel #.

I gauge maturity simplistically. I no longer run into snags getting
video and sound. Printer/scanners now have a good chance of working.
My old Linksys PCI wireless adapter no longer requires a work-around
for a bug somewhere (apparently in kernels since Ubuntu and others
also had the bug). My Microsoft LX300 usb headset works. So I'm a
happy camper nowdays, especially with Xenial and Tahrpup Like so
many have said, thanks so much for your efforts!

Art

[ally]

unable to connect to network shares using yassm (two machines)

[Pelo]

version 7.0.7 dowloading.. Linux 4.6.3
Dotmund i like.
Tahr in multiboot is tahrbang. I now include a Puppy Precise in my multiboots because FFmpeg included; Puppy 4 are for remember how light and fast were puppies of the past.
I changed my mind : version 7.0.3 is garbled, desktop frozen

Version 64 bits replaces 7.0.3 in my multiboot pendrive. Ah everything working first try. Unless further usage . But first start , nothing bad.
What is appreciated compared with some different puppy-builds
Ready for use for home usage, Palemoon does not need to be replaced. The ISO size is the size user will load in RAM. Wireless connection is easy. PPM has new applications, to renew the passenger menu. Desktop is nice.
Of course, screenshot is no longer valid, 7.0.7 is the version running.
PPM tested by dowloading Midori 0.5.11 (only for test, palemoon is enough). Package and dependencies installed without trouble. Midori 0.5.11 always has trollitos around the windows when sending a message, that is an information for Midori testers..

[Pelo]

FFconvert n'accepte pas le format audio faac ? FFconvert and faac

root# vlc
VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80)
[0000000000ae04c8] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[0000000000a09938] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[00007f2164c01758] avi demux error: no key frame set for track 1
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[radky]

Testing Xenialpup CE 7.0.3

The current script in /root/Startup/pmcputemprun seems broken (dangling fi).

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#!/bin/sh
killall pmcputemp
sleep 5
exec /usr/bin/pmcputemp
fi

Also, if the user switches to a panel other than JWM, the temperature utility still loads even when not requested by the alternate panel.

To load pmcputemp only in JWM, the script could look something like this:

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#!/bin/sh
if [ "`pidof jwm`" ]; then
 killall pmcputemp
 sleep 5
 exec /usr/bin/pmcputemp
fi

[melon688]

7.0.1, 7.0.3, 64_7.0.7 @ COMPAQ cq43 laptop can't adjust brightness .
7.0.1, 7.0.3 @ COMPAQ c500 very old laptop can adjust brightness .

[oldyeller]

Downloading 703 will test later

[Robin2]

TahrPup has a menu option Menu/Setup/quickpet tahr which includes the ability to upgrade video drivers. My HP15 laptop uses an AMD graphics system and works properly with the AMD driver.

Will there be a quickpet menu for Xenial?

...R

[alec78]

Hi all,

Thought I would give 7.0.3 a go, had lots of problems with 7.0.1.
After initial problems with set up boxes not being correctly displayed or titled I got 7.0.3 set up and installed on a USB dongle.
However I am unable to get my Huawei E1750 USB modem to work.
I tried both inserting the dongle after boot up and on boot up, both failed.
The indicator light on the dongle does flash bright blue indicating it has been recognised. But going through the normal set up routine, after pressing the Probe icon, no modem is found.
Looking in the messages log there are a load of ACPI warnings.
One quite interesting stating;" A4 warning fotg210_hcd should always be loaded before uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd, not after"
And more pertinent to 3G modems: " daemon_err_kernel:udev[23358] failed to execute '/etc/udev/mtp-probe' '/etc/udev/mtp-probe /sys/devices/pci1000:' "
There is no /etc/udev/mtp-probe file.

Hope this is of some use.

I am posting this from tahrpup, on my Lenovo U310 laptop.

[ETP]

Initial test - Xenialpup CE 7.0.3 32-bit K 4.1.30 on 64-bit i5 with 4GB Ram

Hi 666philb,

Manual frugal install to fat32/f2fs USB-3 stick with Syslinux 4.04 boot.
Initial boot to desktop with working ethernet & sound.
Additional firmware had to be installed to get Bluetooth & WiFi working (See screenshot)

I was unable to get sensors working in Hardinfo despite loading additional kernel modules
and lm-sensors.

This Pup is subjectively very fast and gave a blowfish score of 2.89 which is the best I have ever seen.
Pale Moon was updated to 26.4.0 and seems much improved. In particular the Firefox add-on
"Complete YouTube Saver 5.6.70" works well once it has been pointed at /usr/bin/ffmpeg


Pets/Packages Installed:

• FbBox-4.0_32Bit|FbBox desktop environment
  flashplayer-11.2.202.632-i386|Preferences for Adobe Flash Player
  libguess1_1.2-1.1|high-speed character set detection library
  librubberband2v5_1.8.1|audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library
  libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.4+dfsg1|Simple DirectMedia Layer
  libsndio6.1_1.1.0-2|Small audio and MIDI framework from OpenBSD runtime libraries
  libva-wayland1_1.7.0-1|Video Acceleration VA API for Linux -- Wayland runtime
  mpv_0.14.0|video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
  PupControl-3.0|Control panel
  uextract-3.25|Ultimate Extractor
  packit-1.15|Archiving/Compressing GUI
  pupsaveconfig-2.2.6|PupSave personal storage setup
  thunderbird_45.2.0+build1|Email RSS and newsgroup client with integrated spam filter
  init-system-helpers_1.29ubuntu2|helper tools for all init systems
  libsensors4_3.4.0-2|library to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
  lm-sensors_3.4.0-2|utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
  libbluetooth3_5.37|Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
  libglew1.13_1.13.0-2|OpenGL Extension Wrangler - runtime environment
  libjs-jquery_1.11.3+dfsg-4|JavaScript library for dynamic web applications
  libmysqlclient20_5.7.13|MySQL database client library
  libssh-4_0.6.3-4.3|tiny C SSH library OpenSSL flavor
  libtinyxml2.6.2v5_2.6.2-3|C++ XML parsing library
  libwebpmux1_0.4.4-1|Lossy compression of digital photographic images.
  mime-support_3.59ubuntu1|MIME files mime.types & mailcap and support programs
  mysql-common_5.7.13|MySQL database common files e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf
  python-pil_3.1.2|Python Imaging Library Pillow fork
  fonts-roboto_0|metapackage to pull in Roboto fonts
  fonts-roboto-hinted_0|Googles signature family of fonts hinted
  kodi-bin_15.2+dfsg1|Open Source Home Theatre architecture-dependent files
  kodi-data_15.2+dfsg1|Open Source Home Theatre arch-independent data package
  libjs-iscroll_5.1.3+dfsg1-1|High performance small footprint JavaScript scroller
  libmicrohttpd10_0.9.44+dfsg|library embedding HTTP server functionality
  python-imaging_3.1.2|Python Imaging Library compatibility layer
  kodi_15.2+dfsg1|Open Source Home Theatre executable binaries

Notes on Pets:

Billtoo reported that Kodi 15.2 failed to launch. I also saw that but it is due to a bug in the Ubuntu version
that was introduced on or around 3rd August. The fix is to create a file with the following content:

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# This is /etc/profile.d/kodi        ETP 21st August 2016
# Fix to launch Kodi
export KODI_HOME=/usr/share/kodi/

FbBox-4.0 works well but in common with WoofQ Pups needs some minor changes to dbus operation if correctly working
dbus is required by any apps. With the default JWM there are no issues with dbus.