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James C
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#41 Post by James C »

tronkel wrote:The above problem seems to have been caused by the Mozilla-Thunderbird/Enigmail Mageia package that I had installed via the PPM. No idea why.

I uninstalled these package and this seemed to do the trick. Everything seems to be back to normal now - including the boot-up sequence and video performance.

Goes to show that installing "foreign" packages can have serious consequences. This was a system-level problem I think.

Never seen this before with any of the Lupu or Slackpup or Dpup versions.

The reason that I installed Thunderbird in the first place is that the mail module in IceApe seems to be broken - it's not possible to create a new account.

I wonder if Mageia itself has a problem with these mail clients or is it really a compatibility problem that only shows up when installed in Drake.

Does anyone have a Mageia system set up and has found Thunderbird/IceApe to be problematical?
It's probably not so simple, but did you also install the Iceape mail package?
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#42 Post by gjuhasz »

sszindian wrote:... anyone else have this happen ???
In Drake, I installed the sfs made by playdayz, I did not try the pet version. After reboot, I moved the starter desktop file from /usr/share/applications to the desktop. For performance test and comparison with some HTML5 compatible browsers, I used FishIE Tank. See my results below. Note that these are average numbers - test values vary around them:

Chromium ~35 fps
Firefox Nightly ~28 fps, Firefox 4 ~15 fps
SM 2.2beta3 ~25 fps (much faster than its predecessors that produced <10 fps, however)
Opera 10.10... 10.50 ~ 32 fps (but the movement is annoyingly jerky. Do Opera guys cheat us?)

See a few screenshots attached.
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#43 Post by tronkel »

jamesc wrote:
It's probably not so simple, but did you also install the Iceape mail package?
This was the order I installed/uninstalled the extras.
Install Iceape
Install the Iceape Mail addon
This seemed to be broken, so installed Thunderbird
Installed Enigmail.
At this point the system wouldn't boot to a full X Desktop.

I then deleted the above in reverse order. This fixed the boot problem.

Then re-installed the Thunderbird client and also the Enigmail extension. System still boots OK.

I'm starting to wonder if this problem is to do with overstepping the boundaries of the available pup-save file area.

After installing the stuff that caused the crash as above, there was still a "reported" 65MB available space left in the pupsave. (obtained by hovering the mouse over the Partview panel tray icon). This may have been misquoted maybe. I have a feeling that this is the real source of the problem.

Anyone else had problems with establishing how much remaining space exists in the pupsave?

Next experiment is to re-install the Iceape Mail addon - but first ensuring that there remains enough available space in the pupsave. It this add-on then seems to be behaving itself, then the pupsave available space problem will have been the cause of the problem.

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#44 Post by tronkel »

Yep, just as I had hoped - by ensuring that there is a generous amount of spare pupsave space everything works fine. After reinstalling the Icecape mail addon, I can create an email account normally System also now boots OK.

The latest Mozilla apps seem to gobble up space though.

So in the end, it seems to be the case that the crash was engendered by an over-full pupsave and not the installed apps themselves.

Some anecdotal feedback may reveal that there is a problem with incorrectly reporting remaining pupsave space as it approaches its size limit. Given the above-mentioned observation that the Mozilla apps seem to quickly eat up space, this situation could easily and unintentionally occur when installing these newish Mozilla apps.
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#45 Post by scsijon »

frugal install with rpm-fix not service pack. (Box3, an old asi box with onboard intel video)

Install went well, no problems.

inbuilt apps seem ok from a quick start and superficial runthrough.

?wonder how I run glxgears though as this box is not on the internet and it doesn't seem to be inbuilt? I'd like to compare puppy versions! ?where do I grap drake specific pets from please?

The only request would be to be able to set screen size as part of install, not later, a 12" screen set to 1600x1200 is a "little hard to read" (lost the other 20" to a power spike some month ago and awaiting insurance payout to replace). I use 1024x768x24bits as standard across all my monitors as it makes it easy on the eyes when looking across/between them and i'd rreally like to be able to set it that way from the start.

will download and install servicepack and see where we go from that.

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Python applications running on Drake

#46 Post by charlie6 »

Hi Barry,
again many thanks for this Puppy !
Have browsed across the Mageia repo's;
I have found there a lot of Python archives and modules; and of course could not resist to get a try ...:
- loaded Python 2.7 + proposed dependencies

So I tested some python dependent programs which seems running well.
(i.e. GanttPV /scheduling software; GNU Solfege /music education - needs timidity + pyalsa to get sound; PyCAD /light graphic application)

Just has to copy the requested modules from /usr/share/pyshared into /usr/lib/python2.X/site-packages to get the modules recognized through the command

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#python
...blablibla
>>import RequestedModule
>>
I am not that much experienced with programming, well it although seems to me easier to get Python applications running on Drake than on other Puppies ( maybe am I wrong by leak of knowledge ... ? ).

So this Drake seems to me an interessant startpoint for running Python apps.

Applications (i.e. for example LinuxCad ) require some python modules + OpenGl. As Drake runs Vesa till now, I could not test LinuxCad.

Hope there will be some video improvements in the future Drake versions.

Cheers from Belgium !
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#47 Post by James C »

Still running Drake Pup some every day.......... this is really solid for a very early release. Working great. :)

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#48 Post by rcrsn51 »

Drapu is missing a CUPS file. Without this filter, certain applications cannot print. It is contained in the attached PET.

Also, the file /etc/cups/snmp.conf needs to be world-readable in order to detect network printers.

Please provide some feedback as to whether or not this resolves any printing problems.

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#49 Post by jrb »

jrb wrote:Have found one problem:

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/usr/bin/mksquashfs 
seems to be broken. Produces SFS's but they fail to mount/unmount.
Turns out that the default for mksquashfs in Drake is xz compression, but /usr/sbin/filemnt doesn't want to mount and open xz compressed SFS's. I can set the gzip parameter for mksquashfs on command line and can modify dir2sfs to use gzip but some of my (and other's) other scripts also need reworking. I took the lazy way out and copied and renamed mksquashfs4 from Lucid 525. Works a treat!

With service_pack_drake-0.1-2.pet PPM works very nicely. A huge selection of stuff. I installed libmesaglu1-7.10.2-4.mga1.i586.rpm (191 Kb) and am able to run GoogleEarth-6.0.3.2197-i386 with no problems even with the vesa driver.

Printer, sound, video, autoconnect, everything is working great! :D

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VIDEO REPORT: Drake Puppy, version 0.1

Chip description:
oem: Intel(r)Grantsdale-G Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)Grantsdale-G Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution:  Depth 24  Depth: "Display"
Note: I also exited to prompt and ran Xorgwizard to setup the intel video driver, works equally well.

Thanks for this Barry, I think this may become my "default Puppy". 8)

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#50 Post by L18L »

Scripts internationalized by gettext do NOT display the gettext text.

After installation of gettext-base from mageia-1-core texts have been displayed.

Want to reproduce this?
yad GUI for zathura PDF viewer

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#51 Post by BarryK »

rcrsn51 wrote:Drapu is missing the CUPS file /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops. Without this filter, certain applications cannot print. It is contained in the attached PET.

Also, the file /etc/cups/snmp.conf needs to be world-readable in order to detect network printers.

Please provide some feedback as to whether or not this resolves any printing problems.

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#52 Post by BarryK »

jrb wrote:
jrb wrote:Have found one problem:

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/usr/bin/mksquashfs 
seems to be broken. Produces SFS's but they fail to mount/unmount.
Turns out that the default for mksquashfs in Drake is xz compression, but /usr/sbin/filemnt doesn't want to mount and open xz compressed SFS's. I can set the gzip parameter for mksquashfs on command line and can modify dir2sfs to use gzip but some of my (and other's) other scripts also need reworking. I took the lazy way out and copied and renamed mksquashfs4 from Lucid 525. Works a treat!
That was the mageia package. I am now using my own squashfs-tools4 pet package, which, if I recall rightly, I configured not to default to xz compression.
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#53 Post by BarryK »

L18L wrote:Scripts internationalized by gettext do NOT display the gettext text.

After installation of gettext-base from mageia-1-core texts have been displayed.

Want to reproduce this?
yad GUI for zathura PDF viewer

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Thanks for the report. I needed to fix the 'gettext' template in Woof.

Also, the 'libintl8' package had to be installed. This is actually part of the original gettext package, but Mageia, along with Debian (etc.) have the habit of splitting packages up into lots of little ones.
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#54 Post by PANZERKOPF »

Cannot connect to wireless AP using NetworkWizard.
(Card: Broadcom BCM4318, WEP encription).
Network wizard's library (wag-profiles) has a function: useIwconfig. This
function uses iwconfig for configuring wireless card.
Iwconfig sets parameters of card (mode,key,ESSID,etc..)
The ESSID must be last parameter set by this function. When I changed this order, connection was made without any problem.
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#55 Post by BarryK »

PANZERKOPF wrote:Cannot connect to wireless AP using NetworkWizard.
(Card: Broadcom BCM4318, WEP encription).
Network wizard's library (wag-profiles) has a function: useIwconfig. This
function uses iwconfig for configuring wireless card.
Iwconfig sets parameters of card (mode,key,ESSID,etc..)
The ESSID must be last parameter set by this function. When I changed this order, connection was made without any problem.
I presume that you mean Dougal's Network Wizard, not Simple Network Setup?

(I call it Dougal's Wizard because he put a lot of effort into it, but actually many people contributed)

But, I don't know who is maintaining dougal's Wizard these days. anyone in the Lucid Puppy team?

I am maintaining SNS, after a fashion -- meaning occasionally.
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#56 Post by PANZERKOPF »

BarryK wrote: I presume that you mean Dougal's Network Wizard, not Simple Network Setup?
Yes, I mean Dougal's Network Wizard (net-setup.sh).
BarryK wrote: But, I don't know who is maintaining dougal's Wizard these days. anyone in the Lucid Puppy team?
Maybe. I never played with Lucid Puppy so don't know it's maintainers.
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#57 Post by Bruce B »

jrb wrote:Have found one problem:

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/usr/bin/mksquashfs 
seems to be broken. Produces SFS's but they fail to mount/unmount.
I think it would if the right squash version is not used.

file
will tell you the version of the sfs you are using, see example below

file lupu_devx_520.sfs


Here is your output

lupu_devx_520.sfs: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 4.0

Lupu 5.20 includes 3 mksquashfs tools. mksquashfs mksquashfs3 mksquashfs4

With Lupu 5.20, as an example of the Puppy I'm running, version 4 works. Therefore, when I make a squashfs, I use version 4 because it is known to work, and it does.



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#58 Post by BarryK »

Drake Puppy 0.3 uploaded, see my blog post:

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#59 Post by Billtoo »

I did a manual frugal install of drake03.
I installed devx + kernel source sfs + NVIDIA-Linux-x86-275.21.run
When the nvidia driver was compiling it gave an error message about a
gcc version mismatch but it compiled and is working well.
I installed vlc 1.1.9 from the ppm and it won't run as root but starting it
from gexec with "su -c vlc spot" works.
Sound and wired network working fine.
I tried a hd 1080p video at youtube.com and it played perfectly at full
screen.
Drake03 is working well so far on this pc.

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#60 Post by James C »

Drake Pup 0.3 live pfix=ram. Everything working on initial boot..... sound,internet and correct 1366x768 resolution.

VIDEO REPORT: Drake Puppy, version 0.3

Chip description:


Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3883MB (165MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 28 Jul 2011 11:07:55 AM UTC
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
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