4.1 Alpha 7

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Re: mostly works, except audio - sigh

#81 Post by HairyWill »

prehistoric wrote:There are some hidden problems caused by launching absvolume without a working mixer. This results in an occupied space in the tray with no icon, which can confuse people who don't look for such things. I used Pprocess to kill absvolume, then ran alsa setup. This succeeds and barks, but does not give me a volume icon. Restarting X brings up the mixer and icon.

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Running alsa setup again brings sound back, for that session.

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My personal prejudice is that we have too damn many processes dealing with something as fundamentally sequential as sound.
By default absvolume only accesses /dev/mixer at startup and when you move the slider. It does have a -u switch where you can specify an update time in milliseconds for it to poll the mixer. I would be interested to see what happened if you tried to run the alsa setup without killing absvolume, it should work. But I do not understand why the tray icon doesn't show, it should default to volume 0.

I wonder if launching zmixer without running alsa setup is enough to bring back the sound on subsequent boots.

When I boot using a pupsave absvolume always comes up with the muted icon even though sound can be heard. It works if a remove the startup code from .xinitrc and just put a symlink to absvolume in /root/Startup instead. The fact that it works when started later in the boot makes me wonder if the sound setup has been backgrounded.

My understanding is the absvolume,zmixer and alsa mixer have no effect on the sound setup unless they are running and having their controls tweaked by a user.
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#82 Post by HairyWill »

the version of puppybasic installed is 2.5 the latest is now 2.6
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#83 Post by HairyWill »

Digging slightly on the intel xorg driver problem.
After trying the intel driver I find the following in xerrs.log

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(EE) intel: Failed to load module "sil164" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) intel: Failed to load module "ch7xxx" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) intel: Failed to load module "ivch" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) intel: Failed to load module "tfp410" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) intel(0): No valid modes.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
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Modem detection user action inconsistent after 'erase'

#84 Post by rerwin »

Barry,
As I reported earlier, I feel the user actions associated with fresh modem detection should be consistent between the first detection and any following an "erase" and reboot. The probing of the new modem is necessary to activate it in either case, and the user is walked through that process only on first detection (no wvdial.conf present).

I attach here my resolution to that inconsistency, including two fixes for minor bugs I discovered in testing. The diff files are to assist in integration; the dotpet is for anyone wishing to try/utilize the capability. The fix is built on the 4.07 versions of pupdial and modemtest.

I hope it can go into the beta, or final. Thanks.
Richard
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#85 Post by paulh177 »

Lin'n'Win frugal on vfat ptn, Acer 5610 laptop.

Using a common NetGear WAG511v2 (Atheros chipset) wireless PCMCIA card net-setup reports

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Note: The interface you have selected uses the module ath5k_pci which does not support WPA encryption
which surprised me.
While perhaps not exactly a bug I thought it worth noting in this thread.

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#86 Post by tempestuous »

paulh177 wrote:

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Note: The interface you have selected uses the module ath5k_pci which does not support WPA encryption
That's not possible. There is no such module as "ath5k_pci". Puppy 4.1a7 contains "ath_pci" and "ath5k". Which one was it?

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#87 Post by tempestuous »

Edit: double post

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Change to SMP?

#88 Post by Fishy »

Do I just edit the menu.lst and remove no in front of nosmp or remove it all? How do I check to ensure that both processors are functioning properly?

I realize this might be more properly posted in "Users" but this is where all the expertise in the new kernel is located. I am using Alpha7 withe the No in front of smp edited out.

Everything seems to be fucntioning normally. Alpha1 through Alpha 5 wouldn't boot past booting kernel.

Pentium Dual Core
Alpha 7 full install :)

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#89 Post by paulh177 »

@tempestuous:

Here are links to screen shots from my Puppy407 network wizard which show the informational messages I am getting:
Linky 1
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btw i had to revert to XP to post this as seamoonkey crashed every time I tried to upload a file to photobucket ...

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#90 Post by tempestuous »

OK, it seems that the ath5k module reports itself as "ath5k_pci".
I will report this to Dougal.

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#91 Post by zigbert »

Suggestion:

/root/puppy-reference/fonts could be nice

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#92 Post by zigbert »

Also...It seems that ffmpeg is not compiled with the --enable-mp3lame setting. This is needed to allow ffmpeg to encode to mp3.

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#93 Post by paulh177 »

@tempestuous

I have just booted the 4.1beta Retro and the network wizard reports the wag511v2 as ath_pci and doesn't warn about not supporting WPA

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#94 Post by tempestuous »

Yes, the ath5k module is only available in newer kernels. This driver has been reported as unreliable, so I suggest you first check whether it works with WEP encryption, and/or no encryption.
If it works OK, now you can go ahead and fix the Network Wizard so it will recognise the new driver as compatible with WPA this way:
Open /usr/sbin/wag-profiles.sh in Geany and at around line 147 you will see a long list of wifi drivers starting with "bcm43xx". Insert "|ath5k_pci" into that line and save. Now you can configure for WPA.

If the ath5k driver fails to make a connection, you should configure your system to load the "ath_pci" module instead of the "ath5k"
Menu > System > BootManager configure bootup > Give preference to one module over another

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Re: 4.1 Alpha 7

#95 Post by danibyte27 »

Hi!!
Please, is there another link for download?
This
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 4.1alpha7/
is extremely slow and goes in timeout after 8-10 mb downloading...
Is there a mirror or another link? I'd like to try this distro in my msi-wind u100!!

Many thanks!!
Daniela

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#96 Post by Caneri »

[color=darkred][i]Be not afraid to grow slowly, only be afraid of standing still.[/i]
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#97 Post by danibyte27 »

Caneri wrote:Try this link for Alpha 7

http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/pupp ... 4.1alpha7/

The new beta is here http://puppylinux.igsobe.com/puppylinux ... etro-beta/
Best,
Eric
Thank a lot!!!! I downloaded it in 10 minutes! :-))
This distro is perfect for my msi wind netbook.. it recognizes all hardware and is very quick also from usb flash!
Wonderful!!

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#98 Post by Lobster »

Just tried the 'Standard' release.
Deleted the sfs as suggested, had a problem at the choose keyboard stage (MRI or NRI but it said it would try and continue)
Which it did
Usual thing got to desktop - few seconds of mouse and keyboard and then it froze

back to the retro for me . . .
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#99 Post by PaulBx1 »

I had two of my hard drive partitions mounted, and then mounted a flash drive and did a "Universal Installer" on it, and then copied a few files to it. I then unmounted the flash drive, and then attempted to unmount the hard drive partitions. This failed with the message: "FAILURE! In the case of removable media, the most common reason is the media is not currently inserted. If so, please remedy." This message is little help because the hard drive is not removable. If I try a umount in a console window, I get the message "Device or resource busy"

Shutdown worked, though.

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