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zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6541 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Henry
Yes, I see that you are right about the preselected buttons in Pfind and Pbdict.. It does not work in 3.00 (it does in 2.17). Just a wild guess, but both gtk and gtkdialog has been upgraded.

Barry
- Plinej has upgraded Prename to 0.6
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?&t=16016
- stardust gtk-theme has been upgraded today
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16203
- if you really intend to continue using PuppyMirror, I've upgraded the main file for gtk-stock icons and using gtkdialog3

davec51 · Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 522 Location: Virginia

My Puppy3 (named 2.17 in the /etc directory, by the way) won't dismount. I can't use my CD player while running Puppy. A great feature of previous versions was that everything went into RAM and left the CD free.

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 865 Location: Oregon USA

Above I wrote:

"in the pristine test -
boot up message: "attached SCSI removable disk SDB" Think this may have misidentified a USB memory, which was previously correctly identified."

I have edited that out. The memory chip is still shown correctly in 3beta. What is different is that I normally have a 512MB chip there, but had temporarily inserted a small 16MB Canon camera chip. For whatevever reason it was not properly recognized in Pmount, but no difference between 3beta and 2.17.1.

Sorry for the red herring,

Henry

ArnaudN · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 71 Location: France

Hi everyone,

Tried 3.00beta on the laptop where I usually use puppy 2.16.

The 1280*800 resolution is OK for the first time (I mean without manually edit xorg.conf).
I could setup my wifi network even if I needed to reenter the setup three times, but let's say I did wrong manipulation Wink

BTW, I have a problem with the flash plugin.
It seems mouse commands are not recognized. For example, I can't change volume or pause a video on youtube.
I have even tried to play with local swf file and there is no way to go further than the first splash screens.

Hope it helps
ArnaudN

BarryK

BarryK · Posted: Mon 17 Sep 2007, 18:44 Post subject:

BlackAdder · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 382

Tried an upgrade from 2.17 to 3.0B ( alias 2.21) on USB flash drive. Puppy thinks it is an upgrade on every subsequent reboot, and goes through the upgrade motions each time.
EZPUP installed and working after the upgrade. However, on a pristine install installing EZPUP has not effect.

davec51 · Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 522 Location: Virginia

Flash · Posted: Mon 17 Sep 2007, 23:38 Post subject:

I can confirm that 3.0 beta (either kernel) will not save to a multisession DVD+RW. I tried it with two brands of DVD+RW which I have used for multisession Puppy before. To make sure it wasn't the disk or the drive, I burned 2.17 onto one of the disks that had failed with 3.0 beta, and it saved sessions just fine. It's the one I'm using right now.

Attached is a screenshot of what happens when 3.0 beta is told to save to CD (in my case a DVD) at shutdown. There is no obvious way to back out of this window. I know, ctrl-alt-backspace should get to the command line, but when you do that can't you lose some stuff that you might have meant to save?

Anyway, whatever option I choose, nothing will convince Puppy to save to the DVD.

WN2A · Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 50 Location: USA

Hello All,
Looks like two items for me:
1) The boot sequence failure message (others noted), but does not appear on every computer I have tried. Comes up on a Pentium 2, a P3 and a P4. Did not on two P4's.

Perform a 'switch root' to the new Unionfs filesystem... done
Making the filesystem usable... failed
Dumping last lines of /tmp/bootsysinit.log
Mounting devpts: Mounting /sys: Dumping last lines of kernel log...
Registering unionfs 2.1.2 (for 2.6.21.7)
fuse init (API version 7. Cool

ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Pausing for 60 Seconds...

2) Video Adaptors: on two Diamond videocards, no luck with 2.2 or either 3.0 beta. These cards did work with 2.16/ 2.16.1 2.17 /2.17.1 . An ATI Rage card did great with all versions, including 3.00 BETA with 2.6.18.1 kernel .

Item #1 may not have anything do do with item#2, I'm thinking.

Thanks All,
WN2A

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5370 Location: GB

Worse - the message at 1. , above, along with the 60s delay seems to appear randomly. First time I didn't see it on my test system, second time (using identical HW and no boot codes) it popped up. But didn't affect the ultimate outcome. Just makes the boot time much, much more protracted.

justauser · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 28

I am also seeing the crash using the 3.0 beta. I also tried the beta with the older kernel and saw crashes. It doesn't happen all the time. I copied the files to a USB stick that was booting 2.17.1 just fine and it crashed every time. Used the CD and it crashed 2 times and then booted. This is on a machine that ran 2.17.1. On a second machine it fails all the time.

zygo · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 233 Location: UK

Booting from cd entirely in ram with no accessible pup_save file.

During boot I get the 'Making filesystem useable ..... failed!' error.

If I use boot param layerfs=aufs then I get a 'Making filesystem useable...failed' but unionfs is still mentioned in the /tmp/bootsysinit.log

lines that are displayed.

I tried dialup with pupdial. I used the pupdial probe to set the init string. The call ends after a second with errors 'authentication failed',

'no carrier' and 'ppp daemon has died (exit code = 2)' or sometimes 'exit code = 1'. I succeeded in connecting with the same isp details using

2.17.1 before and after this failure.

Can I suggest that the pupdial gui stays open after the disconnect button is pressed so that errors can be read more easily. A report of

connection start and end time would be handy too.

I tried wvdial from the command line and this failed too - as expected. However, I could not stop it from retrying. It is listed in top but not

in the new kp. I told kp to kill something else and although the item disappeared from the list the gui remained open.

Anyway, I'll try dialup using v3 with the old kernel when I can get connected to Ibiblio. Or maybe I'll wait for 3 beta2!

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

First.
Dell 900mhz. 256 meg ram 40gig and 20 gig hard drives ATI Rage XL 8meg video. (not 3D?)
I have installed and played doom and duke3D with 2.71.1 but no go with 3.00alpha. I get a X color error in terminal when I try to run it as well as No port 17 port 20 ok.
Is this due to the kernal change or am I missing something here.
This is with a full hard drive install.
Also, CUPS crashes when I install the CUPS dotpup to get a more complete list of printers to install my WINXP networked printers.

RMP · Joined: 18 Sep 2007 Posts: 5

Hi

I am using a Zydas 1211b USB wireless dongle with WPA encryption. In version 2.17.1 this all worked perfectly, but in 3.00 beta the network wizard puts up a message saying WPA encryption is not possible with the Zydas adapter.

Thank you