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5.3.1.2

#41 Post by sszindian »

Yes Sir... 5.3.1.2 fixed the 'eth0 problem!'

One slight thing... PupTelly in Multimedia seems to be missing, no biggie but I have my computer as 'My full-time TV Also' and, that sure was handy.

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#42 Post by DaveS »

I know we are supposed to be testing but could'nt resist :)

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#43 Post by 01micko »

Jim,
numlock was my oversight, if you install it it will show up in Personalize Settings:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 2-i486.pet
As for nouveau, I may have to put in a cheat boot code like TaZOC has. I do have an nvidia but it works fine, I'll try my other nvidia which usually plays up with nouveau, and if it does I'll try to compile the latest source. Surely they (the devs) must be getting there, since nv is now unsupported.

Dave,
I have seen that odd behaviour, I thought it was jwm, but I see you are using openbox, maybe try that xcompmgr we had troubles with:
http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackw ... i486-2.txz
If you get flicker try commenting in /etc/profile @line 92: #export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1.
EDIT: Shoot! It is jwm! Fooled me! maybe try the older jwm out of 5.3.1, if that's ok I'll report to Joe.

Indian,
I left out pupradio because zigbert now has radio functions in Pmusic, but I guess the telly part is not covered, back in, for now just install it:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 420#371420

peeBee,
Thanks for report on b43. I did have an idea to put it in /etc/rc.d/MODULESCONFIG, still may do so if I can't find the real problem (maybe you can try that). I may PM rerwin, he is somewhat of a module expert.
EDIT: the same kernel log from 5.3.1.2 for comparison may be useful. :wink:

Billtoo,
Thanks for letting me know the kernel source works 8)

James,
Good nouveau worked for you for a change :lol:

pemasu,
scanpci is deprecated. I should remove that code from netsetup.sh. I have had no issue with SNS and Network Wizard in 5.3.1.2

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I have found 2 bugs. gmtk was broken so gnome-mplayer fails, install fixed version:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 5-i486.pet
If it fails install the DEV file too: (please let me know if you needed to do this)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 5-i486.pet

Oversight: I left sfs_load at 1.2... sfs_load-1.3 fixes it:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 942#490716

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Thanks for reports.. bit better than A1 eh? :roll: :lol:

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My thoughts


On release i will bump the version to 5.3.3. This is way more than a bugfix release, even more than a 2 point release, but 2 points will do, version numbers, so long as they exist and are in correct order are of little importance.

Ffmpeg will not be updated to keep compatibility with mlt, a dependency of openshot-1.4. I may offer a 0.9x version in PPM.

Seamonkey will be updated, likely 2.7. I will experiment with jemimah's adrive concept (see saluki thread). Also will include a browser installer. Links will likley be the defaulthtmlviewer, it can handle cups!

I seriously dislike pupdialog. No offence Barry, but gtkdialog is already a wrapper. Pupdialog is seriously slow on my lappy. Pupdialog is a wrapper of a wrapper.

We also need a new splash prog for puppy since yaf-splashes demise (with good reason).. I am going to attempt to write one against gtk/gdk using svg images, since techno came up with a neat text2svg script. This will likely not happen soon enough!

If this kernel is ok I will compile a PAE version. All nvidia/ati drivers will be available eventually.

if you have any feature requests NOW is the time! Next will be beta and feature freeze.
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#44 Post by peebee »

Hi Mick

Haven't managed to pin down exactly how it happens but the menu structure does change on me unexpectedly - from a 2 level structure to a 1 level structure.....

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#45 Post by 01micko »

peebee,

It's to do with jwm_tools. Default is 2 level. If fixmenus is ever run it will bork things. Could be a bug in my PPM patch. What pets did you install?
An X restart will bring back 2 level, or better, run this:

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jwm_menu_create && jwm -reload
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#46 Post by DaveS »

Fresh install and screen driver issue is gone :)
Yes, its all JWM.
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#47 Post by James C »

01micko wrote: James,
Good nouveau worked for you for a change :lol:
Worked well on the newish quad, working well on my main Athlon XP box with the old Nvidia card.Live pfix=ram at the moment,frugal install to follow in a minute.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1.2

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1440x900" Depth: Depth 24

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

Actually using nouveau.....but "nv" generally works on the older cards as well.

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[   107.679] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[   107.680] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (159MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 16 Jan 2012 04:55:29 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235
Ethernet controller : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]

All good so far.

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#48 Post by 01micko »

Try this hacked report-video pet. If it works I'll bung it in.

It's a known bug that report-video fails when boot to desktop is enabled. Should still work if you use xorgwizard, gets the results from /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1.2

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G98 Board - 5610002u Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nouveau

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1280x1024"  Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
Note that report-video-glx has the same bug.

Also note that if you have nouveau you can install mesa and get accelerated graphics.
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#49 Post by James C »

Works.

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# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1.2

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
nouveau

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1440x900"  Depth: Depth 24

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

I ran the quad through xorgwizard before posting earlier just in case.... :lol:

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#50 Post by James C »

Testing on a fresh manual frugal now.Good so far.
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#51 Post by 01micko »

ALL b43 users, I need kernel logs from a pfix=ram before you load up b43!

I have PMed rerwin and if he decides to help he will likely need those. (maybe other logs too, TBA)

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#52 Post by Jim1911 »

01micko wrote:if you have any feature requests NOW is the time! Next will be beta and feature freeze.
Please consider replacing Barry's shutdownconfig with shinobar's pupsaveconfigwhich is faster and has more features ie: It makes ext4 internal file system of the savefile as the default if the kernel supports ext4.

Thanks,
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#53 Post by 01micko »

Jim1911 wrote:
01micko wrote:if you have any feature requests NOW is the time! Next will be beta and feature freeze.
Please consider replacing Barry's shutdownconfig with shinobar's pupsaveconfigwhich is faster and has more features ie: It makes ext4 internal file system of the savefile as the default if the kernel supports ext4.

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#54 Post by Karl Godt »

please note :

/sbin/pup-event_backend_modprobe

load the module

IF

IF

IF

the modalias is supplied in the relevant files in /lib/modules/KERNELVERSION/modules.[alias]

CREATED by depmod || busybox depmod .

I had encountered problems that the code in the kernel source changes .

what had been
alias xzy0123 module.ko

became
alias pci:xzy0123 module.ko

and no module loading anymore .

mostly ALL of my temperature modules i had to load manually OR by bootmanager

[ i still don't understand people using /etc/rc.d/rc.local for this , not bootmanager :evil: ]

Today it was 'option' module again not autoloaded .
modinfo b43 shows

alias: pcmcia:m02D0c0476f*fn*pfn*pa*pb*pc*pd*
alias: pcmcia:m02D0c0448f*fn*pfn*pa*pb*pc*pd*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev10*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev0F*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev0D*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev0C*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev0B*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev0A*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev09*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev07*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev06*
alias: ssb:v4243id0812rev05*

*
This i had added to /sbin/pup_event_backend_modprobe
to reduce "pbb:xzy0321" to "xzy0312" for loading these too

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#find a matching module... (/etc/pup_event_modprobe.conf created in rc.sysinit)
MODULES="`/sbin/modprobe --config /tmp/pup_event_skiplist.conf --show-depends $MODALIAS 2>/dev/null | rev | cut -f 1 -d '/' | rev | cut -f 1 -d '.' | tr '\-' '_'`" #v424
MODULE="`echo "$MODULES" | tail -n 1`" #v424
#[ "$MODULE" = "usb_storage" ] && [ "`echo "$MODULES" | grep '^usbserial$'`" != "" ] && MODULE="`echo "$MODULES" | grep -v -E '^usb_storage$|^usbcore$' | tail -n 1`" #v424
echo $$ 03.0 `$TIME` 'MODULE='"$MODULE" >> $LocalLOG

[ "$MODULE" = "" ] && [ "$RULEMODULE" != "" ] && MODULE="$RULEMODULE" #w463 Use module from argument

echo $$ 03.0 `$TIME` 'MODULE='"$MODULE" >> $LocalLOG

if [ -z "$MODULE" ] ; then
grepPAT=${MODALIAS#*:} ## ${MODALIAS/*:/}
MODULES="`/sbin/modprobe --config /tmp/pup_event_skiplist.conf --show-depends $grepPAT 2>/dev/null | rev | cut -f 1 -d '/' | rev | sed 's/\.ko//g' | tr '-' '_'`"
MODULE="`echo "$MODULES" | tail -n 1 | sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*// ; s/[[:blank:]]*$//'`"
echo $$ 03.5 `$TIME` 'MODULE='"$MODULE" >> $LocalLOG
fi
BUT i have NOT updated the modules.alias files by depmod !!

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#55 Post by Lobster »

Ffmpeg will not be updated to keep compatibility with mlt, a dependency of openshot-1.4. I may offer a 0.9x version in PPM.
I am using Openshot 1.4 in Slacko 5.3.1 [note version number] using the SFS under JWM (which is quite something) There are issues (with Openshot which is still not perfect . . .) for example many processor threads are opened whilst using and after maybe 40 mins I have to save and restart x or ideally reboot. I want to get Openshot working with Blender (another major program) very soon in the new kernel alpha/beta . . . soon . . . I am using the non PAE version very successfully :)

Regarding updates +1 for Shinos work and an extension of Slickpet to full Quickpet status (so as similar to Lucids range)

To our intrepid testers, do be aware that our wiki page here is integrated into Slacko and always needs further work
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SlackoNews

I am also hoping the latest woof2 with gFTP enhancements (amongst others) is being used to build.
Guys have not abandoned testing. I am with you in spirit if not in software. :oops:
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#56 Post by mavrothal »

01micko wrote: if you have any feature requests NOW is the time! Next will be beta and feature freeze.
Let the full udev handle devices!
That's what the kernel expects and does a pretty good job too.
You may be surprised how many device/hardware detection issues may go away.
There is a provision for udev in sysinit so should not brake anything, though it needs a new kernel config
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#57 Post by James C »

Quick live pfix=ram hardware check on my PCLOS/Lucid/Slacko box. Everything working and correct on initial boot.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1.2

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G98 Board - 5610002u Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nouveau

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1440x900" Depth: Depth 24

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


-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 1033MB (178MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Tue 17 Jan 2012 02:27:41 AM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media CMI8738
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5

Multimedia audio controller : Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER
FireWire (IEEE 1394) : Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller
Ethernet controller : ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100
Multimedia audio controller : C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738
VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]

Everything basically appears to be working correctly.

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#58 Post by peebee »

01micko wrote:ALL b43 users, I need kernel logs from a pfix=ram before you load up b43!

I have PMed rerwin and if he decides to help he will likely need those. (maybe other logs too, TBA)

TIA
OOOOpps - meant 5312 of course....

Hi Mick

Here is the /var/log/messages with added .gz from a pristine manual frugal install of 5312 with no savefile - is this what you wanted?

Also /tmp/bootkernel.log and /tmp/bootsysinit.log (couldn't find pupsysinfo in 5312...)

My wifi is BCM4311 14e4:4312 btw.

From Karl's post I've also attached the modules.alias files from:
Slacko5.3.1
Slacko5.3.1.2
Lupu5.2.8-k3.1.8

(Karl - editing rc.local is quicker than using bootmanager and seems to work and explicitly shows whats missing that's all)

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#59 Post by maxerro »

Mick, may I ask who built the 2.6.37.6 for s530-main?

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Re: Slacko 5.3.2-alpha2 ..testing

#60 Post by wuxiandianzi »

01micko wrote:Slacko .. goes on..
ALL b43 (broadcom wireless)
Hi,01micko:
Thank you for this new release. I want to tell you that k3.1.9 is better than k3.1.8, and b43 modules should be loaded autoly. peebee have told me that k3.1.9 can not find b43 module.But k3.1.8 can, I think this is not have something with kernel configure. I find that B43 firmware has been compressed and when boot it will be decompressed. I think it is not good way to dio this,I ut B43 firmware into /lib/firmware/ directly not tarball. And this can be auto detected by udevd I think.
Kernel configure nearly the same. I think your config is better than mine

It may give you some help,Just my personal opinion.

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