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esmourguit · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 02:27 Post subject:

Bonjour à tous,

Me to. I am in France, GMT+1 and it seven instead of 8.

I have changed in GMT+2 to have the good one, but my screen became black. I had to press space to come back on the desktop but gxine (playing James Brown) was became mute. I had to go to Puppy Volume Mixer to make changes.

Cordialement. Wink

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1334 Location: florida

The devx_217.sfs file does not have a /usr/src folder.

Was going to try compiling the rtl8180, guess I'll wait Smile

BarryK · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 09:59 Post subject:

kirk,
Yes, that's because we found it is best to have the entire source, rather than the very cutdown stuff that was in the previous devx.

Um, who did that for us last time? ...converted the kernel source package into an sfs file? ...anyway, that's what we need.

BarryK · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 10:08 Post subject:

I'm now working on country and keyboard-layout setup...

Lobster, you reported the time was out by one hour.

Check /etc/localtime -- it should be a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/London
-- right?

If that's right, what else could be wrong... what about the hardware clock on your PC? That is supposed to be set to the local time. This will read the hardware clock:
# hwclock -r

...does that agree with the time in the taskbar?

In London, you are on GMT+0, but are you on daylight saving?
If you are not, try relinking :
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT-0 /etc/localtime
#hwclock --localtime --hctosys
...because maybe /usr/share/zoneinfo/London is wrong.

BarryK · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 10:13 Post subject:

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1334 Location: florida

BarryK · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 20:16 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 20:19 Post subject:

No response from esmourguit and Lobster yet. Where are you guys? Anyone else who has that one-hour-off problem can also answer the post I addressed to Lobster.

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1334 Location: florida

I rebuilt the 217 kernel and using the /usr/src/ from the 2.16 devx file as a template, made a new kernel source sfs file. Tested it out by building some wifi drivers. I'll upload it somewhere. It's 52MB.

I'm assuming mksquashfs uses lzma by default now? But you know what assuming does.

PS: The rtl8180 driver source I had mentioned elsewhere, builds with the new kernel, but doesn't work. Crying or Very sad

I'll see if there are any updates for it in the past week or so.

PS2:

My clock is an hour slow. But we have daylight savings time. I'm in Florida, eastern time zone.

# hwclock -r
Sat Jul 14 00:12:41 2007 0.000000 seconds
#

Task bar clock is 11:13pm jul 13.

/etc/localtime is linked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Eastern.

Clock is correct when 2.16 or Windows is booted.

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4950 Location: Australia

kirk,
instead of the rtl8180-sa2400 driver, what about trying the proprietary Realtek wifi drivers -

RTL8185/8187/8187B
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=1&Level=6&Conn=5&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

RTL8180L
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=26&PFid=5&Level=6&Conn=5&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1334 Location: florida

esmourguit · Posted: Sat 14 Jul 2007, 01:19 Post subject:

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

Barry, on the time zones you have USA eastern, central and pacific, but there is no USA-mountain zone.

You do have USA-Arizona, which is a state in the mountain time zone. However it is the only state in the mountain zone that does NOT observe daylight savings time. It turns out the time you have for Arizona is now valid in Wyoming, that is, what you have for Arizona IS the same as mountain zone daylight savings time. So it's valid everywhere but Arizona. Smile

Just to make it interesting, the Navajo Nation in NE Arizona DOES observe daylight savings time. Very Happy

But I'm guessing there aren't too many Navajos using Puppy, so maybe it's not important.

hwclock -r yields the same time as I see displayed on the task bar (I'm using USA-Arizona).

Is your new time setup supposed to automatically switch between daylight savings time and standard time? Probably not, that would be awfully complex...

In 2.16.1 right-clicking or left-clicking on the taskbar clock launches the ical calendar. I haven't rebooted to check what it does in 2.17 but it might be a good idea for a right-click to go to a routine to set the time...

Lobster · Posted: Sat 14 Jul 2007, 10:46 Post subject:

sorry lost all track of time

From reading your blog and replies here, the situation seems to have resulted in new code . . .

I can confirm that it is not hardware (I am in Linux Tmxxine puplet on the same machine and the time is OK)

Do you still want me to follow your test instructions or await the next beta?

Leon · Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 217 Location: Slovenia