tahrpup 6.0.5 CE

[prehistoric]

Now posting from the latest 6.0.6, and even using the nvidia 304.134 driver.

Compared to the previous struggle this installation was easy and fun. I didn't even need to run xorgwizard.

Having a reliable network made matters easier, but I can't blame phil for my previous problems.

Added: because I was concerned about versions going backwards from the version I was using, I've downloaded source for Sylpheed 3.5.1 and compiled it for both 32-bit and 64-bit tahrpup606. I'm new at this game, and haven't tested the result carefully because I'm cautious about what it might do to my collected email of 10 years or so. I think the only significant change is to the new executable binary, which was installed in /usr/local/bin. Replacing the original binary with this seems to give me the latest sylpheed, but I can't promise success for others. If you want to try it without compiling, I've uploaded the resulting file to the tahr32 and tahr64 directories in my directory on smokey01's site.

[sheldonisaac]

i've uploaded a new 6.0.6 iso, can you boot live and test to see if your ethernet automatically works with this one.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/te ... 6-uefi.iso
cheers

Thank you, I'm almost sure it did, will check tomorrow and update this.

[Sailor Enceladus]

hi Barkingmad & sheldonisaac,

i've uploaded a new 6.0.6 iso, can you boot live and test to see if your ethernet automatically works with this one.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/te ... 6-uefi.iso
cheers

Thank you 666philb. The Pale Moon 27.1.0 update alone was well worth the update.

[tlchost]

created a bootable usb of the 32 bit tahr 6.0.6 using unetbootin.
Thar boots, but there is no save icon on the desktop. Activated event manager, rebooted, still no save icon and unable to specify any time value for save in event manager.

Tried several known good usb drives...same result
Tried creating bootable usb with LinuxLive...same result

Also tried latest 6.0.6 with same results as above.

Any work arounds?

[bigpup]

It is making a save on first shutdown or reboot?

using unetbootin

Try this:

Look on the flash drive for the file syslinux.cfg. If it contains the clause "pmedia=cd" or something else, change it to "pmedia=usbflash".

Example:
syslinux.cfg

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default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50

F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg
F3 help2.msg

label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd

Any help?

[tlchost]

Look on the flash drive for the file syslinux.cfg. If it contains the clause "pmedia=cd" or something else, change it to "pmedia=usbflash".

Any help?

Yes....interesting,,,,,LinuxLive Creator made the syslinux file with "pmedia=usb"
changing it to "pmedia-usbflash" solved the problem.
Thanks very much!

[sheldonisaac]

i've uploaded a new 6.0.6 iso, can you boot live and test to see if your ethernet automatically works with this one.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/te ... 6-uefi.iso
cheers

Thank you, I'm almost sure it did, will check tomorrow and update this.

Yes, booting with the below line did make an ethernet connection.

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Kernel command line: psubdir=t215 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck,ram

Thanks again,
Sheldon

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05)

e1000e 154883 0

[Barkingmad]

Hello Phil

you asked a few posts ago

hi Barkingmad & sheldonisaac,

i've uploaded a new 6.0.6 iso, can you boot live and test to see if your ethernet automatically works with this one.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/te ... 6-uefi.iso
cheers

I've just tried your new ISO ad network just works straight off as Puppies always have before on this computer.

BTW. Thanks for the update of Palemoon to the latest release as well. I was wandering whether it is "safe" to use Palemoon's own updater?

Thanks again
Will

[tlchost]

Tahr 6.0.6 32 bit running as bootabable USB.

Pwidgets does not install/run ... Is this a known problem, or have I done something to offend the Linux Ghods?

Any help appreciated.

[backi]

Cups not running .........as in Tahrpup 6.0.5......

[watchdog]

Cups not running .........as in Tahrpup 6.0.5......

Cups works for me. Do you install something which breaks cups? Try in a live without any program.

[backi]

Hi watchdog !

You are right .........booted with pfix=ram .......does help ....
Before i used my old savefile .....i think have to start a new one .

[Ledster]

Just been trying 6.0.6 32 bit on my toshiba L350 laptop (dual core pentium, 4 gigs memory) with great success. Nothing I have tried has failed yet. However, a check with hardinfo shows it is only seeing 3 gigs of memory, which I assume means this is a non PAE compile. In contrast 6.0.5 32 bit sees all 4 gigs. Is it possible to activate PAE without recompiling the kernel (which is way above my pay grade!)? If not, any chance of a PAE version being produced?

[666philb]

Just been trying 6.0.6 32 bit on my toshiba L350 laptop (dual core pentium, 4 gigs memory) with great success. Nothing I have tried has failed yet. However, a check with hardinfo shows it is only seeing 3 gigs of memory, which I assume means this is a non PAE compile. In contrast 6.0.5 32 bit sees all 4 gigs. Is it possible to activate PAE without recompiling the kernel (which is way above my pay grade!)? If not, any chance of a PAE version being produced?

hi Ledster,

the 32bit version is noPAE only and i won't be making a PAE version. if your computer is 64bit use the 64bit tahrpup as performance is much better than using 32bit PAE.

you could use one of tahrpups older kernels if you really want PAE.... click on changing kernels in quickpet

[bigpup]

666philb,

You need to make an announcement on Distrowatch about Tahrpup is now at version 6.0.6.
They show only Tahrpup 6.0 and it makes it look like Tahrpup is 2.5 years old.

Slacko looks like the latest version of Puppy and we know better.
Slacko just uses bigger numbers

[Sailor Enceladus]

Slacko looks like the latest version of Puppy and we know better.
Slacko just uses bigger numbers

Xenialpup is 7.04 and 7.0.7 though, and Slacko beta is only 6.9.6.4. Where did 7.0.6 and 7.0.5 go anyway?

[tlchost]

Running tahr 6.0.6 (Do we need a new thread?) as bootable USB (Moded 13).
When I click on the pupsave backup, tahr makes a save file then asks if I want a compressed backup. The Popup telling me it is creating a save file never disappears...so I have to look in /mnt/home to see if the backup file is there.

Fix please?

[Ledster]

Hi 666philb

Many thanks for your quick reply.
Tried the change kernel with my current save file - worked, but a bit messy. So tried again with no save file (ie a clean start) using your 3.14.11_PAE kernel. Worked great with 4 gigs showing. Installed my favourite programs - no problems.
Sometime in the near future I MUST try 6.0.6 64 bit.
Thanks for all your efforts.

One small point, the change kernels link in quickpet does not work

Quickpet link
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ibiblio/distributio ... r/kernels/

This one works:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... r/kernels/

Cheers

Ledster

[chillinfart]

Two questions.

- I have an Intel centrino, which doesn't support PAE. New 6.0.6 still support this CPU?
- Kernel Issues with Pupdial at 6.0.5. Doesn't connect due to lack of support of PPP filtering. Also, dialer doesn't let the authentication fields empty. My ISP doesn't use passwords to connect (Bitel/Viettel, 3G provider).

[prehistoric]

@666philb

I've now rebuilt the 32-bit version of the nvidia 304.134 driver from scratch in a new installation. I downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.134.run file myself directly from nvidia, and specified this on the command line. It verified archive integrity before compiling.

I've also extracted the contents of the resulting .pet. The files match the contents of a successfully running system.

This is a very old driver for a low-powered chip set, compared to anything on the market today. The .run file contains binary data coded in base64 as printable characters, and is 41,201,159 bytes large. This should result in a smaller binary driver, which weighs in at 30,723,572 bytes.

This is the version I have uploaded to my directory at smokey01, along with md5sums. I did not try to build the sfs.

So far, I have only done the driver for the 32-bit version, because I am actually using the 64-bit system for some work. I'll create another clean installation and compile on it. This will go in my tahr64 directory when it is finished.

I still have no idea where the tiny version of the pet came from. It should be roughly around the same size. This was not just lost in transfer, I have a file that size here.