Dingo 4 alpha3 Bugs/probs

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#21 Post by Leon »

zigbert wrote:Gqview would give us a working imagebrowser and a slideshow viewer.
I agree. I vote for Gqview too. It's really nice program. If I remember right, Barry already mentioned this on his blog.

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#22 Post by veronicathecow »

Hi, anyone else having firewall troubles? I ran the firewall wizard as usual and then rebooted. No Internet!
Heres what happens if i try the default set up.

Running './rc.firewall check'. Output will follow ...

-> Projectfiles.com Linux Firewall version 2.0rc9 running.
-> Performing sanity checks......iptables: Index of deletion too big
[ PASSED ]

Press any key to continue ...

Then I tried the AUTOMAGIC firewall install and got the following. I should say I removed the entry from rc.d local that runs the firewall and did re-boots etc.

-> Projectfiles.com Linux Firewall version 2.0rc9 running.
-> Performing sanity checks......iptables: Index of deletion too big
[ PASSED ]
-> Building firewall..iptables: Invalid argument
.iptables: Invalid argument
.iptables: Invalid argument
iptables: Invalid argument
[ DONE ]
-> Successfully secured the following addresses: 192.168.1.2.

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#23 Post by Béèm »

@HairyWill, you did hit the nail, good.
After loading the_crypt_wep a live network was found and an IP obtained.
At the next boot the network was up correctly.
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#24 Post by Béèm »

As I need another locale then available locally I tried to fetch the locales from the net via choose locale for your country.
As soon as the button is pushed nothing happens, no network activity.

Very annoying to test this alpha 3.
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Bug Report Dingo 4

#25 Post by ARAN »

Hello !

For some reason CUPS cant show other .ppd files that are saved in
"/usr/share/cups/model"

I have downloaded the following .ppd file
http://openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi ... 125&show=0
for my LexmarkX125 Printer to the path "/usr/share/cups/model".

After the restart of the CUPS Manager the new File can't be see for selection.

Can somebody tell me what is wrong ?
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#26 Post by ArnaudN »

nic2109 wrote:
ArnaudN wrote:The resolution found "out of the box" for my laptop (xorg) is 1024x748 instead of 1480x800 as it should be.
Do you have a seperate Graphics card (especially an ATi)? If so it probably needs a special driver to cater for "odd" resolutions. It happens to me every time until the (usually proprietory) driver has been compiled and a .pet assembled - usually by Kirk or one of the other specialists. Until then it's 1024 x 768 whatever xorg.conf says!
I do not think my graphic card is that odd.
It is a built-in AGP GeForce4 440 Go 64M.
A far as I remember Puppy recognize the right resolution only since 2.17, or 3.0. For previous releases, I needed to manually tweak xorg.conf.

About dingo alpha3, I have to say that after a start from a saved session, the network settings were lost and I needed to reselect the wifi settings and restart a dhcp request to have internet work.

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#27 Post by Billcnz »

Did some more testing of Dingo a3 on my old hardware (P2 400MHz):
I notice when I set the date and timezone correct in Dingo then reboot into P301 from the hard drive my P301 time has moved 12 hours ahead and if I reset it correct in P301 and reboot into Dingo (running from cd with pup_save) the time is 12 hours behind.

power management:
acpi works if I add the acpi=force boot parameter (I suspect if my bios was any older this wouldn't work). If I don't force acpi most things still work but the laptop doesn't power off on shutdown.

gxine:
I copied gxine 0.5.11 from my P301 install and that is working in Dingo. One annoying thing is gxine doesn't seem to save it's visualization setting. On a slow cpu you need to select "none" for playing mp3's but the next time it starts it's back on "goom".

Generally though it's running quite smooth for an alpha even on this old hardware.

OK, I found the setting in the config file for turning off visualization:
# Default audio visualisation plugin
# { None goom oscope fftscope fftgraph }, default: 1
gui.post_plugins.audio_visualisation:None

Not sure why it wasn't updating automatically before but since the default comment uses a number, I set it to "0" manually and after running gxine visualization was off and it automatically updated the config entry to "None".
Last edited by Billcnz on Sat 15 Dec 2007, 22:14, edited 1 time in total.

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#28 Post by ArnaudN »

Just some more information about the resolution detection:

(1) Puppy sees my card as Geforce4 420 32M (and not 440 64M).

(2) I have reported the modifications in xorg.conf that used to work to have the right resolution after restart, and it does not work for dingo alpha 3: the screen is always on 1024x768.

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#29 Post by Dougal »

BarryK wrote:Regarding it being "confusing" not having 'hda', that's the way it is. The major distros have gone over to this system and eventually all will, except for those stuck on the 2.4 kernel.
It actually has advantages, being the uniformity of naming the internal drives -- what is really confusing is mixed IDE and SATA drives and the different hd and sd names can cause problems, for example with GRUB.
While it's good that all internal drives are treated the same, what bothers me is that they are not separated from removable drives -- and we know that the "removable" flag is not very dependable... so now it's harder to know what is removable media (i.e. pendrives).
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#30 Post by raffy »

InkscapeLite works well. :)

Nothing new to report on Compaq Presario with Firewire - pmount, probepart and disktype can't handle the USB devices.

Re Gxine, MOV files play jerkily even in Xorg.
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#31 Post by ttuuxxx »

"gxine" ,Ok I still have no clue why this application even made it into the alpha 3, Please Just understand, Gxine and puppy just don't work! But xine does, very well. So why not just drop Gxine and replace it with Xine, I do it everytime I make a new Fire Hydrant and I always get a "thank you for doing that." from people. Other than that great stuff guys.
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Won't boot, Squashfs error.

#32 Post by Greatnessguru »

I tried booting
puppy-400alpha3-dingo393-seamonkey-k2.6.24-rc4-fullzdrv.iso
on my HP Vectra VE, 64 MB.
(It runs Puppy 3.01 just fine.)
I used "puppy pfix=ram".
Some errors went sailing by,
but now it is stuck repeating endlessly:
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block d8ee08, size 8da2
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x365e

I do not know which of the two error lines above comes first.

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Re: responsive printing

#33 Post by BarryK »

raffy wrote:Testing on AMD PC (Pentium 4 grade) with HP 1300N printer:

Minuses:

- pmount's mounting/unmounting USB drive can take ages - I tried 2 USB drives and in the second USB mounting, pmount virtually disappeared and the CPU usage steadily climbed, so I had to killall pmount. Later, I restarted pmount and was able to unmount one USB after the another; pmount disappeared for about 3 minutes, then reappeared.

- volume control box would not disappear when opened.
Is this the same PC that earlier exhibited the problem with recognising USB drives?

You will need to delve underneath Pmount and find out just where the slowness is occurring. Pmount uses 'probedisk' and 'probepart' to probe the drives, so run those directly.
To mount a partition, test the 'mount' program, for example:
# mount -t vfat /dev/sdg1 /mnt/data
...if that proves to be the cause of the slowness, try this:
# mount-FULL -t vfat /dev/sdg1 /mnt/data

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Re: Bug Report Dingo 4

#34 Post by BarryK »

ARAN wrote:Hello !

For some reason CUPS cant show other .ppd files that are saved in
"/usr/share/cups/model"

I have downloaded the following .ppd file
http://openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi ... 125&show=0
for my LexmarkX125 Printer to the path "/usr/share/cups/model".

After the restart of the CUPS Manager the new File can't be see for selection.

Can somebody tell me what is wrong ?
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cg ... xmark-X125
Is this a new bug, or have you had the ppd file working on older puppies?
If you restart 'cupsd' then it scans all ppd files in /usr/share/cups/model, I know, mine works.
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#35 Post by BarryK »

Béèm wrote:As I need another locale then available locally I tried to fetch the locales from the net via choose locale for your country.
As soon as the button is pushed nothing happens, no network activity.

Very annoying to test this alpha 3.
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#36 Post by BarryK »

ArnaudN wrote:
nic2109 wrote:
ArnaudN wrote:The resolution found "out of the box" for my laptop (xorg) is 1024x748 instead of 1480x800 as it should be.
Do you have a seperate Graphics card (especially an ATi)? If so it probably needs a special driver to cater for "odd" resolutions. It happens to me every time until the (usually proprietory) driver has been compiled and a .pet assembled - usually by Kirk or one of the other specialists. Until then it's 1024 x 768 whatever xorg.conf says!
I do not think my graphic card is that odd.
It is a built-in AGP GeForce4 440 Go 64M.
A far as I remember Puppy recognize the right resolution only since 2.17, or 3.0. For previous releases, I needed to manually tweak xorg.conf.

About dingo alpha3, I have to say that after a start from a saved session, the network settings were lost and I needed to reselect the wifi settings and restart a dhcp request to have internet work.
Do you know what Xorg server is required for your hardware? -- look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf in an earlier Puppy.
If you want to be adventurous, you can grab the correct Xorg server and put it into alpha3 -- see the announcement for alpha3 release on the blog for more details. You are probably currently running the 'vesa' server, which may account for the resolution problem.
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#37 Post by BarryK »

Billcnz wrote:gxine:
I copied gxine 0.5.11 from my P301 install and that is working in Dingo. One annoying thing is gxine doesn't seem to save it's visualization setting. On a slow cpu you need to select "none" for playing mp3's but the next time it starts it's back on "goom".
For the Gxine 0.5.11 from 301, does it crash when you choose File -> Preferences when running in alpha3?
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Dougal wrote:
BarryK wrote:Regarding it being "confusing" not having 'hda', that's the way it is. The major distros have gone over to this system and eventually all will, except for those stuck on the 2.4 kernel.
It actually has advantages, being the uniformity of naming the internal drives -- what is really confusing is mixed IDE and SATA drives and the different hd and sd names can cause problems, for example with GRUB.
While it's good that all internal drives are treated the same, what bothers me is that they are not separated from removable drives -- and we know that the "removable" flag is not very dependable... so now it's harder to know what is removable media (i.e. pendrives).
We can distinguish between USB and internal drives, as the init script sets the SATADRIVES variable before loading the USB modules. Now, SATADRIVES (or whatever name I will replace that with) now is a list of all non-USB hard drives.
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Re: Compaq Presario with Firewire

#39 Post by BarryK »

raffy wrote:Nothing new to report on Compaq Presario with Firewire - pmount, probepart and disktype can't handle the USB devices.
Oh, ok, so the other PC you reported that has a big delay with Pmount is a different computer. Hmm, strange that you are having so much USB trouble ...is it the same external drives that you are testing on both computers?
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Re: gxine

#40 Post by BarryK »

ttuuxxx wrote:"gxine" ,Ok I still have no clue why this application even made it into the alpha 3, Please Just understand, Gxine and puppy just don't work! But xine does, very well. So why not just drop Gxine and replace it with Xine, I do it everytime I make a new Fire Hydrant and I always get a "thank you for doing that." from people. Other than that great stuff guys.
ttuuxxx
You mean the Xine-UI? Does it handle full-screen ok?
I seem to recall, when I tested it awhile back, the GUI window had a crappy font -- have you been able to make that look nicer, with say the DejaVue font? -- I'm just going from memory, but I think that I didn't see any way to change the default font.
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