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[ckteo172]

playdayz,

I'm having slow screen redraw / jerky video playback after using xrandr to rotate the screen by 90 degree on a Intel 945GM Platform. I'm using VLC 0.9.2 to do the video playback.

Any idea what can be done to improve the situation?

Attached is the xorg log file.

Thanks

[oui]

Hi

this seems to be a great Puppy but the screen become each new start dark. actually it is completely black : not possible to read ONE letter on the screen . my wife did say to me "you did found the best puppy for you, it is wunderfull... "

can you help me not to go to early to bed

bye

oui
ACER Laptop emachine with AMD64

[playdayz]

[Jim1911]

[James C]

Changed the optical drive and now have a frugal install of 453 on my test box, no real problems to speak of yet.

I really dislike those intermittent hardware problems though.....

[cinclus_cinclus]

(upup454)
I installed Sox first and then tried installing audacity.

But some libraries are missing:

File /usr/bin/jack_evmon has these missing library libjack.so.0 libiconv.so.2 libjack.so.O

Please, how can I get these?

[Jim1911]

Tried 454, works well, except for Cups. Installing cups-1.3.10-1-uj doesn't help. My nvidia card works OK with this.

I hope that you will return to your previous practice of trying Barry's latest since he has updated Xorg server, nv along with a few other fixes (some due to improvements that you've made and posted).

Thanks,
Jim

[playdayz]

hey jim1911, After about 20 hours this weekend, I have a version of Cups 1.4.1 that seems to be working, at least working for me. The details are in the first message in this thread. Did you try adding cups 1.3.10-uj with Puppy Package Manager and this latest 4.54? I thought that would do more than a blank page--but Cups 1.4.1 is the one I really want because that is the one that comes with ubuntu karmic.

Was the nouveau driver working for you? I can provide it as a pet. The problem appeared to be that xorgwizard was choosing nouveau for *all* nvidia cards and it wasn't working with all of them. I had thought that nv/nouveau was like radeon/radeonhd, for older/newer cards. I also thought that to get hardware accellerated 3d you had to use the proprietary driver; for ati that is the fglrx driver that I had to compile myself using SitHeelSpeak's gcc 4.4.1 devx enhancement (discussed in the first message). Radeon and Radeonhd are both open source xorg drivers, as with nv and nouveau I am pretty sure.)

Yes, I will keep up with Barry's releases of Woof, but I will not post a new one until it is a stable as 4.54. What happened is that Barry made some changes to Woof (for Quirky I think) that caused problems for uPup (for instance, not installing properly to a full hard disk install). However, 4.54 includes all the changes that we have discovered. I plan to make and post a list of the tests to put a new uPup through before I post it.

[playdayz]

Hello Friends of uPup.

The current version of uPup is 4.54. The big news is that Cups 1.4.1 is working, at least for me. Right now, you have to add cups as a pet and then do a little bit in the terminal window, but I was so happy when it printed a test page for me Details are in the first message of the thread.

4.54 also fixes the problem with a full install to a hard disk.

The nouveau driver is removed which should solve problems for some nvidia owners. If you need the nouveau driver I will post it in the first message in the thread. Please remember the Xvesa option in xorgwizard if you are getting a black screen!

Otherwise 4.54 has everything we have discovered. I believe the wireless is working OK, along with browsers, flash, and multimedia--now with Cups uPup is becoming truly usable. Thank you for your contributions.

[James C]

I just did a fresh full install of 454 on my test P3.Everything appears to be working pretty smoothly so far.

I've installed Midori (Ubuntu package), Firefox 3.5.6. Geany, Htop, and a couple of small card games. Everything installed and is working fine, with the exception of some missing menu icons (fixed) and changing Geany's menu category from Utility to Text Editor.Made Geany my default text editor too, since I prefer it over Nicoedit.

On to some further testing......

[Jim1911]

Neither Cups 1.4.1 or installing cups 1.3.10-uj with Puppy Package Manager works for me.

The removal of the nouveau driver helped since I no longer have to manually edit to get the nv driver.

Except for cups, it's working great and I've also been able to upgrade save files created by upup432.

Thanks,
Jim

[rhadon]

Hi,

I can say the same like Jim:

[playdayz]

hi rhadon and jim1911, Thank you much for the feedback. Cups is a monster. I *think* I have beaten the 500 Internal server error with the latest, but i wasn't clear probably. One needs this current uPup 4.54--the one that is posted now--I changed it without changing the version number--bad policy I know but I was worried about running out of numbers. With this Upup version and then installing the cups-lrs.pet *and* doing the two things at the command prompt, I *think* cups will work. That was not good policy on my part--I should put it all together in a nice package and call it uPup 4.55, which I will do over the next couple of days.

@james C

[mavrothal]

Hi playdayz,
I tried uPup454 as a (manual) full install on the OLPC's XO-1 laptop (with my kernel and initrd) and I failed to make the mouse to work. In uPup 451 all it needed was to change the option from "/dev/mouse" to "/dev/mouse0". No luck with uPup454. Any particular change between the two version regarding xorg and mouse?
Thx

[rhadon]

Hi playdayz,

now cups works fine for me
BTW: It is the first time that cups 1.4.1 works for me.

I downloaded 4.54 after you removed your message in the 1st post about not downloading now. Installing your cups.pet anyway was the missing puzzle.

Thank you

~ Rolf