Dingo 4 alpha3 Bugs/probs

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#41 Post by Billcnz »

BarryK wrote: For the Gxine 0.5.11 from 301, does it crash when you choose File -> Preferences when running in alpha3?
Sorry Barry, you're right, still fatal segmentation

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#42 Post by raffy »

Barry:
strange that you are having so much USB trouble
OK, perhaps I will remember not to use two USB drives together, as incompatibility among certain USB drives is a fact. :)

So the AMD PC that I mentioned is my printer test setup (no problems there), while the Compaq Presario is my "USB all-trouble" machine. :wink: (Even 2.14R v 1.00 fails to mount USB drives there).
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No PPP Internet connect with external RS232 dialup modem

#43 Post by Raman »

Dingo 4.00alpha3 passes the MD5 sum check, and passes the burner bit check of the burned iso relative to downloaded image file.

This test was run on an tired, old desktop with 256 MB of RAM, a 333 MHz Intel, an external USB DVD/CDROM, an external IDE CDROM burner, and an internal CDROM.

Boot Dingo 4.00alpha3 "puppy pfix=ram" takes 119 seconds (including set up of external RS232 dial up modem) on this old, slow desktop.

Boot Puppy 3.01 "puppy pfix=ram" takes 208 seconds (including set up of external RS232 dial up modem) on this old, slow desktop.

Via PupDial, Dingo 4.00alpha3: With or without firewall, the external RS232 dial up modem _WILL NOT CONNECT TO INTERNET_, although everything appears normal in the WvDial connection log. When firewall is used, the log report is normal. No change of the PupDial graphical interface settings will allow Dingo 4.00alpha3 to connect to the Internet via PPP and this RS232 external dial up modem.

Ditto to all of the above-described problems when using GNOME PPP under Dingo 4.00alpha3. Which is to say, GNOME PPP seems to work just fine, seems to connect to the Internet, but no functional Internet connection is available under GNOME PPP, just as it is not available under PupDial.

Via PupDial, Puppy 3.01: With or without firewall, the external RS232 dial up modem successfully connects to the Internet each and every time. When firewall is used, the log report is normal With or without firewall, Puppy 3.01 Internet connect and transfer speed is _very fast indeed_ relative to the same external RS232 modem used under Windows 98SE or Windows XP SP1 or SP2.

Dingo 4.00alpha3: Pmount successfully mounts all USB drives of whatever sort, while Dingo 4.00alpha 2 did not mount any USB drives.

Dingo 4.00alpha3 Pmount has not been compared to Puppy 3.01 MUT relative to successfully recognizing and successfully mounting otherwise unmountable and unreadable "broken" hard drives, an area wherein MUT seems to excel remarkably, even magically. In fact, MUT excels when even the native OS's and the specially designed task-specific OS's / recovery programs will not work at all. Is it possible, even conceivable, that I am secretly pleading for the inclusion of MUT in the final release of Puppy 4.00?

Dingo 4.00alpha3 and Puppy 3.01 both report usable RAM on this desktop as 127 MB RAM ("puppy pfix=ram" boot).

CUPS printer setup does not seem to work in Dingo 4.00alpha3, regardless of the amount of time I wait for the printer setup screen to appear after the initial explanation screen that generally tells you what to do when you finally get to the CUPS setup. In Puppy 3.01, this takes some time, but in Dingo 4.00alpha 3, "some time" never ends..

As an aside, now that I have used SeaMonkey on Puppy, I like SeaMonkey enough to use it on Windows 98 and XP, especially since SeaMonkey has a Composer with an English _DICTIONARY_ out-of-the-box, whereas AbiWord does not have a dictionary out-of-the-box, although AbiWord is an otherwise excellent word processor. Perhaps in the final release of Puppy 4.00, AbiWord can be equipped with an English dictionary?

Overall, Dingo 4.00 appears to be a major step forward, which is saying quite a lot when you factor in an otherwise excellent Puppy 3.01. Especially since Puppy 3.01 is equipped with MUT.

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#44 Post by black »

Hey all,

My hardware:
Asus p4gpl-x mb
Intel P4 Prescott 3.0 gb processor
Radeon X800XT pci graphics
1 gb DDR2
MS trackball optical usb

Was really looking forward to the smp kernel. installed alpha 3 from an internal sata partition. On 1st boot and subsequent 1st boots on several more re-installs, bootup would only continuously "loop" @ xwin, never made it to desktop, never even offered up the the keyboard language/xorg/xvesa options. No, didn't burn to cd since it ran smartly from the directory. One other person in this thread was seeing a similar problem with looping.

After these failures, opened up the zdrv and swapped the whole of /lib out...still no joy. Finally swapped out /etc and /usr from the pre-install bootup and was then able to get to desktop, after tweaking the "PUPSTATE" file in /etc/rc.d. Able to narrow the problem down to /etc, so put the original /usr back in. Well, only a couple hours tossed.

When finally getting to desktop, had "no mouse"...RATS! Spent some time trying to access the keyboard/mouse wiz with only the keyboard, and even this was fun, as there was no indication of where one was in the menu gui, once you're in that particular gui. Anyway, got it down, and the mouse was up, and stayed up as long as one didn't "reboot". Mouse config was always lost on a reboot. Got quite good at getting the mouse cooking again though.

Chased around for a few more hours with the mouse issue 'til recalling that 390 had an issue with mouse also (none of the required modules were loaded) so decided to swap out the modules for those from 392, as the mouse was working on that install.

Of course, 392 has a 26217 kernel, but I figured ,prolly not much else could go as far south as has already, so, swapped the kernel and modules from 392, rebooted, Voilla!!! Destop with a working mouse...so much for the smp kernel. Minimal checks: alsa config'd nicely, gxine qui came up from icon/menu, pnethood works, and my favored cifs works. Not much else tried except I'm writing this from seamonkey.

The point...appears to be kernel or module issues with the 2.6.24-rc4. As far as modules, don't know for sure, but from previous observations, usb modules may be loading in the wrong order. Perhaps I'm in the wrong order, err...out-of-order...

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PS: Looping @ xwin=missing /etc/mtab file, not copied over with install. Dropped in mtab from another puppy install, reboot, and "country / xorg chooser led to desktop. Remaining issue: mouse still not functioning normally, have to revisit mouse/keyboard wiz via keyboard on every reboot.
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#45 Post by Béèm »

BarryK wrote:
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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Re: Bug Report Dingo 4

#46 Post by ARAN »

BarryK wrote: If you restart 'cupsd' then it scans all ppd files in /usr/share/cups/model, I know, mine works.
It looks like that this problem was related to a unionfs problem that i had in this moment.
Actually i can download and save every PPD file to the path and the
files are showed for selection in CUPS.
BarryK wrote: Is this a new bug, or have you had the ppd file working on older puppies?
The LexmarkX125 has worked with no problems till yet.
Recognisation and Configuration of the Printer in Cups is very easy.
Still at the Moment i cant print something with Dingo Puppy 4 A3 on LexmarkX125
Everything looks in Cups correct. All settings are right and all paths are also right.
If i try to print the "Testpage" from Cups nothing happens.
Not even a Print Job is showed ?

It would be great if somebody could tell me some Cups Terminal Commands to proove the status of the printer so i can easy find out where the problem is !

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#47 Post by GrumpyWolfe »

Hi All

I am running puppylinux 4a3 frugle install usb thumb drive. I always turn off DPMS with the thumb drive setting but for some reason it is not keeping the setting when I click on the apply button it just goes away no error messages but does not save the setting.
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Re: gxine

#48 Post by ttuuxxx »

BarryK wrote:
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.
Yes Barry last night I watch a movie with Xine-UI fullscreen and it ran perfectly, Not a flaw, It was a divx movie, also I used it to watch a dvd 2 days ago. I use puppy/FH tv-out on my video card to my tv all the time, I've also been able to use VLC and Mplayer full screen. But when I tried Puppy 3.01 with Gxine it didn't work full screen. Thats why I always change it to Xine-UI.
Tell you the truth I never really looked at the font size, but now that you mentioned it they are very small, I'll have to get back to you on it.
ttuuxxx

Plus On another note I ripped apart the latest Slackware Distro last night and uploaded all the "Lib's" to http://www.puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/ Very slow upload about 8hrs for 900MB. I did this because when I try to make pet packages, A lot of the time I'm missing Libs and I spend hours trying to find them, So this way we'll all have a place to find the ones missing. It should save tons of time. I still have about another 3hrs left until the upload is finished. around 2000 files.

Hope This helps, ttuuxxx
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#49 Post by twointo1 »

I can't seem to find where lsusb is now. It's always been in the menu, but in puppy 4 it's gone and you can't get it through the terminal(that hasn't changed).

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#50 Post by alienjeff »

HP Pavilion 600 MHz Celeron - 256M RAM - mobo video i810 feeding a very vanilla Dell CRT monitor

xvesa - maximum resolution 800x600, only two other choices, both lower resolution. Screen flicker is painful: epileptics beware.

xorg - distorted pincushion video. Am able to adjust to reasonably acceptable (but not perfect) deflection with xvidtune, however xvidtune, besides being torturously unintuitive with its poorly designed GUI, doesn't save the changed settings.

The predominant color used and the default background image are going to problematic for aging baby-boomers with any history of serious experimentation with lysergic acid diethylamide. Dabblers should fare better ...
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#51 Post by JustGreg »

Nice to hear from the Nutmeg State Nabob of Negativity or is it Connecticut Cranky Curmudgeon, :D
alienjeff wrote:HP Pavilion 600 MHz Celeron - 256M RAM - mobo video i810 feeding a very vanilla Dell CRT monitor

The predominant color used and the default background image are going to problematic for aging baby-boomers with any history of serious experimentation with lysergic acid diethylamide. Dabblers should fare better ...
This can easily be fixed using the wallpaper setter, theme setter, and icon setter to a different visual display. This will leave some yellow in the jwm tray. I think a good forum search will turn up something to change this.
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#52 Post by ARAN »

Is it normal that in Cups the USB Printer is recognised verywell but in the "Puppy Hardware-Interface Information Wizard" nothing is showed about the connected Printer Device on USB?
http://s3.directupload.net/images/071216/23eg4ckv.png
My USB Mouse is also connected to USB but not showed as a device.
Is this related more to the Wizard or is this more a Puppy BUG ?
usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x006D
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /class/input/input2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:10.1 -1

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Re: gxine

#53 Post by floborg »

ttuuxxx wrote: Plus On another note I ripped apart the latest Slackware Distro last night and uploaded all the "Lib's" to http://www.puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/ Very slow upload about 8hrs for 900MB. I did this because when I try to make pet packages, A lot of the time I'm missing Libs and I spend hours trying to find them, So this way we'll all have a place to find the ones missing. It should save tons of time. I still have about another 3hrs left until the upload is finished. around 2000 files.

Hope This helps, ttuuxxx
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Gxine 0.4.xx

#54 Post by Tui »

I have just D/L'd the latest version I think, of Dingo 393 -- rc4-- full zdrv.
I have tried to use this prog (gxine) over a large number of versions of
Puppy, and they have all seem to have had something missing.
It just seems to be such a dud!

Can anyone offer something better or should I turn to MS for a solution?

This latest effort does produce a full screen but now has a new problem,
see my screenshot.

The rectangular block- What's that doing here ?
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#55 Post by kirk »

Just tried alpha3, seems quite fast. My dvd drive has DMA working without me having to boot with combined_mode=libata. Nice! Fonts look sharp.

The clock is wrong. To fix it I changed the symlink /etc/localtime to a link from /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-0 to /etc/localtime. That's probably how it should be set if most people have their BIOS clock set to local time.


But when I tried Puppy 3.01 with Gxine it didn't work full screen.
For later versions of Gxine to get full screen you have to maximize the Gxine window and then hit ctrl-f. If you hit ctrl-f without having the window maximized it just flickers.


I haven't had problems with Gxine 0.5.11 in Puppy 3.01 so I tried compiling it in Alpha 4. It errors with:
gtkvideo.o: In function `gtk_video_get_fullscreen_geometry':
gtkvideo.c:(.text+0x100b): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
gtkvideo.c:(.text+0x1039): undefined reference to `XineramaQueryScreens'
noskin_window.o: In function `xevent_filter_cb':
noskin_window.c:(.text+0x1044): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [gxine] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/my-documents/gxine-0.5.11/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
#
I downloaded 0.4.9, it builds fine in alpha3. Maybe a problem with Gxine 0.5.11 and Xorg 7.3 ?

Also, the Desktop Icon switcher works nice. Used it to change to Stardust. The Stardust Icons look very sharp.

Looking forward to the T2-build-package for Dingo!

Thanks Barry.

EDIT: Installed the missing Xorg libs. But when Xorg would start radeon.ko and drm.ko wouldn't load. Tried modprobe radeon, but got module not found. So I copied the drm and radeon modules from the zdrv, restarted X and both modules loaded.

Still have problems with DRI. Logs look good. And games that need DRI run, but the video is scrambled. In alpha2 I installed the fglrx driver to fix it. (which includes it's own libGL) Maybe a problem with libGL or maybe my radeon X300 isn't supported anymore by the Xorg drivers? Anyone get DRI working in Dingo?

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#56 Post by BarryK »

kirk wrote:The clock is wrong. To fix it I changed the symlink /etc/localtime to a link from /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-0 to /etc/localtime. That's probably how it should be set if most people have their BIOS clock set to local time.
/etc/localtime should be a symlink to the appropriate file in /usr/share/zoneinfo, which is done by the "set timezone" entry in the "System" menu. The default is GMT+8 which is the timezone for Western Australia.
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Dingo 4 alpha 3 bugs/probs

#57 Post by pupmate »

Module ath-pci appears to be missing, so can't get wireless networking going. Otherwise looks good so far on my Acer 2423WXMI laptop.

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Re: gxine

#58 Post by ttuuxxx »

floborg wrote:
ttuuxxx wrote: Plus On another note I ripped apart the latest Slackware Distro last night and uploaded all the "Lib's" to http://www.puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/ Very slow upload about 8hrs for 900MB. I did this because when I try to make pet packages, A lot of the time I'm missing Libs and I spend hours trying to find them, So this way we'll all have a place to find the ones missing. It should save tons of time. I still have about another 3hrs left until the upload is finished. around 2000 files.

Hope This helps, ttuuxxx
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Well pretty much have all the latest slackware ones posted, I also installed every option when installing slackware on the hard drive then booted puppy up to rip'em out and peazip them, If you go to my page just right click then select "Save Link As" and then it downloads. http://www.puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/ <----Libs
Its already helped a few people out already:)
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#59 Post by Dougal »

kirk wrote: I haven't had problems with Gxine 0.5.11 in Puppy 3.01 so I tried compiling it in Alpha 4. It errors with:
gtkvideo.o: In function `gtk_video_get_fullscreen_geometry':
gtkvideo.c:(.text+0x100b): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
gtkvideo.c:(.text+0x1039): undefined reference to `XineramaQueryScreens'
noskin_window.o: In function `xevent_filter_cb':
noskin_window.c:(.text+0x1044): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [gxine] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/my-documents/gxine-0.5.11/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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You should link /usr/X11R7/lib/libXinerama.so into /usr/lib
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Re: Dingo 4 alpha 3 bugs/probs

#60 Post by Dougal »

pupmate wrote:Module ath-pci appears to be missing, so can't get wireless networking going. Otherwise looks good so far on my Acer 2423WXMI laptop.
From Barry's release notes:
no third party drivers compiled
Might explain it.
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