Upup Raring 3.8.7 with non-PAE 3.8.7 kernel, created using

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OscarTalks · #221 Post by **OscarTalks** » Sun 28 Apr 2013, 19:29

Pemasu,
I think Shinobar's getnvidia only downloads and builds the latest drivers and not the 173.14.xx legacy drivers.

I used the GUI for unloading the nouveau driver which pops up and after reboot the nv_drv.so was in with all the other drivers (not in the drivers-alternate location) but xorgwizard was not offering it to me. Not really a problem if nouveau is better anyway and all the graphics are present and correct.

I don't suppose you have any ideas about my blackscreen with frozen cursor on my SiS machine, do you?

Ray MK · #222 Post by **Ray MK** » Sun 28 Apr 2013, 19:39

Upup Raring version 3.8.7, released Apr 2013 Using the E732 laptop with i3 proc and 2gig ram.

# uname -a
Linux puppypc26352 3.8.7-upup #1 SMP Sun Apr 14 01:03:29 EEST 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1804708 620460 1184248 0 78020
-/+ buffers: 542440 1262268
Swap: 0 0 0
#
Mem: 624164K used, 1180544K free, 0K shrd, 78020K buff, 469748K cached
CPU: 0% usr 0% sys 0% nic 99% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.59 0.27 0.16 2/103 14008

Brief encounter but so far all looking very good, almost zero resources, low temp and insanely fast. Luvly Puppy.

artsown · #223 Post by **artsown** » Sun 28 Apr 2013, 20:08

Pemasu, I ran tests on several pups of your rt2500pci-udev-rule-power-off-0.0.1.pet. The
following pups tested ok:
Raring 3.8.7
Wheezy 3.5.2.5
Precise 3.8.3.1
Lucid 5.28 on 3.18 kernel

The following pups did not test ok:
Slacko 5.5 4g
Racy 5.5

Slacko and Racy both started up with wlan0 power management ON, and they both failed a
download speed test I use. The pups that were ok started up witrh power management
OFF, and they passed my d/l speed tests.

All pups are installed frugal on a FAT32 hard drive partition using a mult-boot menu.

Art

pemasu · #224 Post by **pemasu** » Sun 28 Apr 2013, 20:23

I think Shinobar's getnvidia only downloads and builds the latest drivers and not the 173.14.xx legacy drivers.

Sorry. You are right of course. I just dont remember those nvidia numbers. I think legacy can be hard bit.

Artsown. Thank you of the feedback. Anyway. I can use that udev rule now on in my builds.
Thanks.

I don't suppose you have any ideas about my blackscreen with frozen cursor on my SiS machine, do you?

Not at the moment. Sorry.

OscarTalks · #225 Post by **OscarTalks** » Sun 28 Apr 2013, 21:40

I booted with puppy pfix=nox on the SiS machine and from there I can run xorgwizard but it does not offer me the sis_drv.so sis driver which I know is the correct one.

pemasu · #226 Post by **pemasu** » Sun 28 Apr 2013, 22:15

OscarTalks. That sounds like a bug. You could file a link to your report in Barry`s blog. He might have idea what could be wrong. Sis_drv.so has been included and it is in appropriate location. Just checked.

James C · #227 Post by **James C** » Sun 28 Apr 2013, 23:04

Just a quick note if anyone else has been unable to play flash videos.....the included Flash 11 in Raring doesn't work with some older cpus (including my trusty Athlon XP).Reverting back to Flash 10 solves it.

majorfoo · #228 Post by **majorfoo** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 02:08

Full install to ext3 partition
Everything works OTB

Added following

Sage · #229 Post by **Sage** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 05:46

Confirm that the SiS bug is back. But the FlashPlayer issue is a show-stopper for Brits (and possible overseas subscribers to BBC). Then there's the browser choice - good/bad to see rodin confirms SM reported crash.

linux28 · #230 Post by **linux28** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 08:31

(xfce4-terminal:9663): GLib-WARNING **: (/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.0/./glib/gerror.c:390):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain != 0)
Failed to connect to session manager:

sakura

** (sakura:9407): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files

ETP · #231 Post by **ETP** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 09:45

Hi Pemasu,

The above runs fine from a DVD-R with Ext2 savefile on a fat32 SD card. It is very quick and notably light on memory usage.

I installed your browser-support-fix-0.0.1.pet followed by Chromium and updated flash to the very latest. No problems playing
Swf files or BBC TV online.

What I did find however, is a problem with f2fs support which was not an issue with UpupPrecise k3.8.3.1. Basically on a fat32/f2fs USB2 stick it does
not see and therefore find the main sfs when it is placed on the f2fs partition. On the same stick I am booting k3.8.3.1 with this code:

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LABEL p3831
MENU LABEL  UpupPre k3.8.3.1    28/04/13
KERNEL /p3831/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/p3831/initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash psavemark=2

If I use similar code as below the sfs is not found. If I force the issue with additional codes as shown, the sfs loads but then results in a kernel panic
only soluble by a hard power off.

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LABEL p387
MENU LABEL  UpupRar k3.8.7      28/04/13
KERNEL /p387/vmlinuz
# APPEND initrd=/p387/initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash psavemark=2
APPEND initrd=/p387/initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash pupsfs=sdb2:/p387/puppy_raring_3.8.7.sfs psavemark=2 pdev1=sdb2

It would seem that the f2fs drivers are not being loaded by the kernel at boot time. I am not clear whether this is a feature of the later kernel or a compile option.

pemasu · #232 Post by **pemasu** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 12:44

But the FlashPlayer issue is a show-stopper for Brits

There is latest flashplayer included in Upup Precise 3.8.7. I upgraded it because I got complaint about including older version.

So...with old comp which does not accept 11 version, downgrade to use 10 version. Oh....how I do that ?....Easy....just click: Menu > Internet > GetFlash Install Flashplayer and choose Flashplayer10. And download that older version which downgrades the installed Flashplayer11 and older comp can use flashplayer again.

ETP. Thank you of the feedback. My mistake. I had included f2fs as module...not built in...as it should have been.
It means kernel recompile. I will update to the latest kernel version at this situation. Lets see how it behaves. Lol.
And BIG thanks of your bug finding !

ETP · #233 Post by **ETP** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 15:10

Hi Pemasu,

k 3.9 with the much anticipated improvements to f2fs and much besides has just been released.

http://www.zdnet.com/linux-3-9-kernel-r ... 000014649/

Happy compiling.

pemasu · #234 Post by **pemasu** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 15:20

ETP. I have to wait aufs 3.9 version. It probably takes 2 weeks to one month before it is available. As much as I would like to compile it right away.

linux28 · #235 Post by **linux28** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 16:07

wait 3.9 version

Just installed 3.8.7, configuration, wait for 3.9, look forward to faster

Sage · #236 Post by **Sage** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 16:18

flashplayer

Tried several - no luck. I keep several on USB stick after previous issues!

pemasu · #237 Post by **pemasu** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 16:22

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... 183.23.pet

This is the older one which has been in my builds earlier. If it does not work, then the problem lies somewhere else.

pemasu · #238 Post by **pemasu** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 18:31

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671
scroll to the bottom.

it is related to this bug with glib 2.36, which Ubuntu Raring uses:

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GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed

We can only wait until Mozilla.org fixes the bug. It affects Thunderbird, Seamonkey and Firefox. For me it causes Thunderbird hanging after prolonged idle period.

Should I swap to the Chromium browser while waiting ?

James C · #239 Post by **James C** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 19:40

pemasu wrote:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671
scroll to the bottom.

it is related to this bug with glib 2.36, which Ubuntu Raring uses:
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GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed
We can only wait until Mozilla.org fixes the bug. It affects Thunderbird, Seamonkey and Firefox. For me it causes Thunderbird hanging after prolonged idle period.

Should I swap to the Chromium browser while waiting ?

FWIW, the error message doesn't bother me and I'll continue using SeaMonkey personally so feel free to use your choice of browser. The choice of web browsers in Puppy always leads to a bunch of divided opinions anyway.

I only reported it because that's the purpose of testing........

pemasu · #240 Post by **pemasu** » Mon 29 Apr 2013, 19:49

The choice of web browsers in Puppy always leads to a bunch of divided opinions anyway. Laughing

Yeah....seen those. I have kept myself out of them so far

Basically it is easy here. I dont offer official Puppy, so I can decide what I put to the build. But in this case I am somewhat willing to listen the opinions.
Now there is real reason for thinking. Seamonkey has crashed according to the feedback. Okay....keeping it at the update channel and when bug fixed version pops up....I believe people will update quickly.

Or...it can be also that glib 2.36 get ubuntu patch. Who knows....

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