v6 testing
Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2014, 10:29
Well, the most important things I learned so far are:
- Blue6 (re)installs fine under linux (yay - no Win needed) using gparted to erase both partitions and recreate lone fat32 partition (remember do not
set boot or any flag)
- Code: xz --decompress --stdout blue_pup_v6.img.xz > /dev/sdX
(remember /dev/sdX does NOT mean /dev/sdb1 just /dev/sdb [for my usb])
- if watching htop is not thrilling then as soon as you see another "#" in
your terminal type - Code: sync
- learned that you must overtype in the boxes when changing tile settings
like weather locations, as it is not clearly defined to do that
however, without checking PPM I installed peasywifi-3.1.1.pet http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 60&t=94501
(now that I know how to use it, I prefer it to solve ongoing disconnect issues, with much thanks to rcrsn51) but maybe I ought not fix if not broken, eh?
now I have no sound and cannot get it to turn up even after mucking in the retrovol settings.. possible bug in 6 as 5 was fine OR I broke something with peasywifi I can't remember if I had sound b4 it was installed... then tried alsawizard and it restarted x, and lost the purty wallpaper and corrupted
the file... and lost conky, (can we resize him (fonts) a bit?)
I have attached my dmesg hoping it will show what's amiss, but this is an
old Dell D610, and it seems these Pentium M's have a few issues that a snip of code added or removed fix besides the wifi as above
(on precise 5.x non PAEs anyway but not all my bugs on slacko 5.x non PAEs) eg: to avoid shutdown hang/no savefile on 1st reboot I need to comment out "modprobe -rv `echo $line | cut -d ' ' -f 1' " in /etc/init.d/10alsa but I still lose my pinboard on reboot in slacko and wifi drivers not detected
not sure if any hacks needed in Blue
so I will reinstall Blue6 (and time it this time cuz it seemed faster than 20 mins Sorry Google broke for you, what about the beta? 38 was supposed to be pretty stable, and the only browser so I hear, that will play with Netflix
natively using HTML5. Be back soon, will let you know if it was peasy that broke my sound
▶—— Video ——◀
Display:
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 10.0.1
Screen Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
Screen Depth: 24 bits (planes)
X.Org version: 1.15.0
Video Chip:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
vendor: Intel Corporation
product: Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
▶—— Audio Devices ——◀
Multimedia audio controller : Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] (rev 03)
▶—— Network Devices ——◀
Ethernet controller : Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
--
Network controller : Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11abg Wireless Network Controller [14e4:4324] (rev 03)
▶—— COMPUTER MEMORY ——◀
Memory Allocation:
Total RAM: 2017 MB
Used RAM: 474 MB
Free RAM: 1543 MB
Buffers: 1 MB
Total Swap: 2047 MB
Free Swap: 2047 MB
- Blue6 (re)installs fine under linux (yay - no Win needed) using gparted to erase both partitions and recreate lone fat32 partition (remember do not
set boot or any flag)
- Code: xz --decompress --stdout blue_pup_v6.img.xz > /dev/sdX
(remember /dev/sdX does NOT mean /dev/sdb1 just /dev/sdb [for my usb])
- if watching htop is not thrilling then as soon as you see another "#" in
your terminal type - Code: sync
- learned that you must overtype in the boxes when changing tile settings
like weather locations, as it is not clearly defined to do that
however, without checking PPM I installed peasywifi-3.1.1.pet http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 60&t=94501
(now that I know how to use it, I prefer it to solve ongoing disconnect issues, with much thanks to rcrsn51) but maybe I ought not fix if not broken, eh?
now I have no sound and cannot get it to turn up even after mucking in the retrovol settings.. possible bug in 6 as 5 was fine OR I broke something with peasywifi I can't remember if I had sound b4 it was installed... then tried alsawizard and it restarted x, and lost the purty wallpaper and corrupted
the file... and lost conky, (can we resize him (fonts) a bit?)
I have attached my dmesg hoping it will show what's amiss, but this is an
old Dell D610, and it seems these Pentium M's have a few issues that a snip of code added or removed fix besides the wifi as above
(on precise 5.x non PAEs anyway but not all my bugs on slacko 5.x non PAEs) eg: to avoid shutdown hang/no savefile on 1st reboot I need to comment out "modprobe -rv `echo $line | cut -d ' ' -f 1' " in /etc/init.d/10alsa but I still lose my pinboard on reboot in slacko and wifi drivers not detected
not sure if any hacks needed in Blue
so I will reinstall Blue6 (and time it this time cuz it seemed faster than 20 mins Sorry Google broke for you, what about the beta? 38 was supposed to be pretty stable, and the only browser so I hear, that will play with Netflix
natively using HTML5. Be back soon, will let you know if it was peasy that broke my sound
▶—— Video ——◀
Display:
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 10.0.1
Screen Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
Screen Depth: 24 bits (planes)
X.Org version: 1.15.0
Video Chip:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
vendor: Intel Corporation
product: Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
▶—— Audio Devices ——◀
Multimedia audio controller : Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] (rev 03)
▶—— Network Devices ——◀
Ethernet controller : Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
--
Network controller : Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11abg Wireless Network Controller [14e4:4324] (rev 03)
▶—— COMPUTER MEMORY ——◀
Memory Allocation:
Total RAM: 2017 MB
Used RAM: 474 MB
Free RAM: 1543 MB
Buffers: 1 MB
Total Swap: 2047 MB
Free Swap: 2047 MB