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Re: LxPupSc-15.11.05-pae

#21 Post by peebee »

mavrothal wrote:
peebee wrote:LxPupSc-15.11.05-pae.iso is now available
md5 = cc3b4b6885d0db065c4bd329431103af
Nice.

As discussed elsewhere PPM fails in this puppy because it can not find any dependencies.
The way Slackware packages are build, provide dependencies only with the official version database (13.37, 14.1 etc). The other databases like "patches" and "current" do not have dependencies because presumably the packages are installed on the top of a running system where all the dependencies are installed.
PPM has code to give priority to patches over stable and this could be adapted for current too.
But you need slackware-14.1-official for the dependencies to be found and make sure you have this in COMPAT_REPOS too.
I think that the DISTRO_ SPECS should also say 14.1 but you have to check after the above changes are made.
I have successfuly installed Thunderbird, Palemoon and VLC via ppm with no problems - have sent you a pm re a small problem with ppm2

VLC in particular found the Qt dependency correctly.

I am not using anything from slackware-14.1 - only from puppy-14.1
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Re: LxPupSc-15.11.05-pae

#22 Post by peebee »

peebee wrote:Known problems - CUPS printing still does not work.
Please apply the correction in post #2 and test CUPS - thanks
Last edited by peebee on Tue 24 Nov 2015, 07:09, edited 1 time in total.
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#23 Post by darry1966 »

peebee wrote:
6502coder wrote:Could not get Mplayer to work on either MP3 or MP4 files:

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# ldd /usr/bin/mplayer | grep found 
    libcdio_cdda.so.1 => not found
    libcdio_paranoia.so.1 => not found
    libopenal.so.1 => not found
@6502coder Many thanks for the test and report. Also @gcmartin

Looks like mplayer is the next candidate for a rebuild under slackocurrent.....see next post

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Yes tested Slacko 630 found Gnome-mplayer failed to play mp4 which will play thanks for ammeded mplayer.

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#24 Post by Terry H »

New frugal install to HDD on Dell D630 laptop. All went well connected to wifi with b43 card. So far working very nicely. Thank you.

With the discussion regarding PPM, I successfully installed packages using PPM, however after each install PPM is greyed out and requires restarting PPM to do further installations. To test this I also logged into LXPupSc-15.11.3 and the behaviour was the same. I also checked using slacko 6.3 and PPM functioned correctly, I could do additional installs without needing to restart PPM.

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Re: LxPupSc-15.11.05-pae

#25 Post by Marv »

peebee wrote:
peebee wrote:Known problems - CUPS printing still does not work.
Please apply the correction in post #1 and test CUPS - thanks
Frugal install of 15.11.05 to the Fujitsu S6520 core 2 duo all Intel laptop. Update of 15.11.03 savefile. Correction applied, then HPLIP 3.14.10 installed. HP4500 installed correctly using CUPS, exact same routine as always. Seems fine, shows up in print options... But, will not print test page or simple file from Geany. Screenshot attached. Haven't looked beyond that.

Everything else seems fine, wireless connection, sound, video all good, glxgears at 1068 FPS with browser running.
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Re: LxPupSc-15.11.05-pae

#26 Post by mavrothal »

peebee wrote:
mavrothal wrote:
peebee wrote:LxPupSc-15.11.05-pae.iso is now available
md5 = cc3b4b6885d0db065c4bd329431103af
Nice.

As discussed elsewhere PPM fails in this puppy because it can not find any dependencies.
The way Slackware packages are build, provide dependencies only with the official version database (13.37, 14.1 etc). The other databases like "patches" and "current" do not have dependencies because presumably the packages are installed on the top of a running system where all the dependencies are installed.
PPM has code to give priority to patches over stable and this could be adapted for current too.
But you need slackware-14.1-official for the dependencies to be found and make sure you have this in COMPAT_REPOS too.
I think that the DISTRO_ SPECS should also say 14.1 but you have to check after the above changes are made.
I have successfuly installed Thunderbird, Palemoon and VLC via ppm with no problems - have sent you a pm re a small problem with ppm2

VLC in particular found the Qt dependency correctly.

I am not using anything from slackware-14.1 - only from puppy-14.1
Try kalgebra.
See PM for the rest.
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#27 Post by unicorn316386 »

Trying LxPupSc 15.11.05 on Dell Latitude D410 on HDD folder with grub4dos.

Boots successfully with 4.3.0 kernel. Menu items (like Utility, Filesystem, etc.) not instant like JWM and take a second to show up after I move cursor over them. Default mouse speed seems slower so takes longer to move my mouse across the screen too (edit: ok, if I push hard it moves fast). My wireless works and shows up as ipw2200. Firewall_ng lets me run it through QuickSetup before being connected (which fails) and show up as two taskbar icons (old bugs, easy to outsmart). After 2nd reboot, my screen just froze once X loaded (with wallpaper and solid gray bar on bottom), I thought it corrupted my 64MB savefile.2fs but after hard shutdown with the power button and rebooting, the same savefile worked next reboot. Nice smooth look for the fonts and scrollbars. Default browser (Firefox 42) and Hexchat working. All videos I try on YouTube in Firefox say "An Error has Occurred. Please try again later" instead of using HTML5, and downloading files (mp3, mp4, images) all say "Failed". I think I selected run as Spot on QuickSetup, so I turned it off and loading video and saving started working again. Laptop fan seems to be running more than usual (about 50% of the time) using LXDE/FF42. Nice effort based on slackocurrent! :)

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LxPupSc 64 bit Version

#28 Post by Rangan Masti »

peebee wrote:
Rangan Masti wrote:Hi,
where can i get Devx?
Thank you.
Haven't uploaded it as yet - maybe with the next version.....

Hi, testing LxPupSc !!

Any intention of creating a LxPupSc 64 bit Version?
Thank you and have fun!

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Re: LxPupSc 64 bit Version

#29 Post by peebee »

Rangan Masti wrote:
peebee wrote:
Rangan Masti wrote:Hi,
where can i get Devx?
Thank you.
Haven't uploaded it as yet - maybe with the next version.....

Hi, testing LxPupSc !!

Any intention of creating a LxPupSc 64 bit Version?
Thank you and have fun!
Maybe - but not currently....
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#30 Post by unicorn316386 »

unicorn316386 wrote:Laptop fan seems to be running more than usual (about 50% of the time) using LXDE/FF42.
Well, fan is being quieter today, only surfing murga-linux in LxPupSc. My house feels colder today, maybe that is helping :lol:

edit: Nevermind. Opening 5 Facebook windows killed it - lol. I forgot to turn off Spot again though.

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#31 Post by Marv »

Got around to testing 15.11.03 on my Bay-Trail machine (Asrock Q1900M mobo with intel j1900 quad core processor, RTL8168g chipset ethernet, intel 4000 HD graphics, 4Gb RAM, 80Gb SATA HDD).

Frugal Grub4Dos install booted cleanly. Video, sound, mouse, USB all perfect. The RTL8168 would not connect until the patch in the attached pet was applied. Once that was done and the correction in post#2 applied and hplip 3.14.10 installed, the HP4500 set up but would not print (see my post above).

without patch:

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# dmesg | grep r8169                                                                               
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:04:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: RTL8168g/8111g at 0xf893c000, d0:50:99:20:e4:05, XID 0c000800 IRQ 91
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
r8169 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw failed with error -2
r8169 0000:04:00.0: Falling back to user helper
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw (-11)
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
with patch:

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# dmesg | grep r8169
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:04:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: RTL8168g/8111g at 0xf86f4000, d0:50:99:20:e4:05, XID 0c000800 IRQ 90
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link up

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Motherboard Vendor: ASRock
Product Name: Q1900M

Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz
Max Speed: 2416 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:2416 MHz, 1:2415 MHz, 2:2415 MHz, 3:2415 MHz
Core Count: 4
Thread Count: 4

Memory Allocation:
 Total RAM: 3494 MB
 Used RAM: 989 MB
 Free RAM: 2505 MB
 Buffers: 93 MB
 Total Swap: 0 MB
 Free Swap: 0 MB

Linux Kernel: 4.2.5-EmSee-32-pae (i686)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Mon Nov 2 10:21:44 GMT 2015
PAE Enabled: Yes

Distro: Slacko-C Puppy 15.11.3
Desktop Panel: lxpanel 0.6.0-r694
Window Manager: Openbox 3.6.1
Desktop Start: xwin startlxde

OpenGL 2D/3D Rendering:
• Direct Rendering: Yes
• Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center
• Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2
• Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.5

RTL8186g/8111g ethernet chip

Class
• Device
• VendorID=10ec  DeviceID=8168  Rev=11
• Kernel Driver=r8169
• Kernel Module=r816

PRINTERS

DefaultPrinter CUPS-PDF
Printer HP4500

I've tried fiddling around with firewall and firewall settings, also swapped in the slackocurrent kernel but still no printing. Jobs aren't spooled... Got the same behavior in slacko 6.3.0, printer set up fine, just won't print.

Edit: The firmware files are in /lib/firmware of slacko 6.3.0 so also could be taken from there.
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#32 Post by Marv »

Another quirk on both of my machines:
In Puppy Setup, clicking on the Graphics/Screen button locks up the machine (or at least X). Lxrandr runs ok on both and xserverwizard doesn't if run from the terminal. First an error message.. can't find /proc/pci then on the core 2 duo laptop, gives a wild flickering display and on the Bay-Trail seems ok but no button response.
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#33 Post by Terry H »

Marv wrote:Another quirk on both of my machines:
In Puppy Setup, clicking on the Graphics/Screen button locks up the machine (or at least X).
Noticed this same issue the other day on my Dell D630 Core 2 Duo laptop.

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#34 Post by rcrsn51 »

@Marv: The CUPS v2.x in LxPupSc is missing some key components.

1. Go to page 1 and do the "lpadmin" fix.

2. Go here and get the packages cups-filters-1.0.76-i586-1.txz and qpdf-5.1.2-i486-1.txz.

3. Restart CUPS.

However, many print/scan driver packages built for older platforms will need some additional content. I am sending you something to test.

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#35 Post by Marv »

rcrsn51 wrote:@Marv: The CUPS v2.x in LxPupSc is missing some key components.

1. Go to page 1 and do the "lpadmin" fix.

2. Go here and get the packages cups-filters-1.0.76-i586-1.txz and qpdf-5.1.2-i486-1.txz.

3. Restart CUPS.

However, many print/scan driver packages built for older platforms will need some additional content. I am sending you something to test.
Working on the core 2 duo laptop:
1. "lpadmin" fix was applied, hplip 3.14.10 was installed.
2. Previous printer install deleted.
3. Both xxx.txz files above installed.
4. CUPS restarted (reboot).
5. Done both without and with lxpup_print_patch-1.0.pet installed:
a.Reboot.
b.Install HP4500 printer.
c.Print test page.

In both cases under 5, the attached is the result.
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#36 Post by rcrsn51 »

@Marv: I did a clean frugal install of LxPupSc. I did NOT touch the firewall setup. I performed the above steps and installed the hplip_print driver.

I installed a USB HP Deskjet F4280. It worked. I installed a networked Brother laser with socket:// and Gutenprint. It worked. I did a simulated install of your Officejet 4500. It worked.

[Edit] I installed an HP Envy 4500 by WiFi and socket://. It worked.

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#37 Post by Marv »

@rcrsn51: I redid the installation leaving hplip til after the patches with the same result. In case it was my savefile updated from 15.11.02, I then did the patches, hplip, printer install on a fresh frugal install of 15.11.03. The exact order outlined, checked that the files in the txzs were installed, stopped and restarted CUPS. Same result. Stopped on the way to the fresh install to print a test page in X-slacko 3.1n to check the printer. Printed fine. I'm stumped for now but LxPupSc isn't my daily so it is on the back burner. I'll attach a gz of the portion of the CUPS error log file pertaining to the final print attempt in the fresh install.

Edit: The patch you sent me by PM did get HP Officejet 4500 g-m printing going for me in Slacko 6.3.0. It had an hpcups filter error previously. Thanks.
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#38 Post by rcrsn51 »

Officejet_4500: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
That's definitely an error, but I have no idea where it is coming from. LxPupSc has libpoppler.so.56 and it works correctly in all my tests.

You could try fixing this with a symlink.

[Edit] Slackware has already bumped the cups-filters package up a version and it now needs libpoppler57.

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#39 Post by Marv »

rcrsn51 wrote:
Officejet_4500: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
That's definitely an error, but I have no idea where it is coming from. LxPupSc has libpoppler.so.56 and it works correctly in all my tests.

You could try fixing this with a symlink.

[Edit] Slackware has already bumped the cups-filters package up a version and it now needs libpoppler57.
I know it's bad form to symlink to an older lib, but a 57>56 symlink tried and it prints.
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#40 Post by peebee »

rcrsn51 wrote:
Officejet_4500: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
That's definitely an error, but I have no idea where it is coming from. LxPupSc has libpoppler.so.56 and it works correctly in all my tests.

You could try fixing this with a symlink.

[Edit] Slackware has already bumped the cups-filters package up a version and it now needs libpoppler57.
Thank you both rcrsn51 & Marv for your valuable experiments....much appreciated.

You've hit on a real problem with slackware current based systems - you can't rely on adding things from the slackware current repository to a built system as "things may have moved on".....

I'm going to add the 2 packages identified by rcrsn51 to my next build which will also have other updates, particularly the ppm problem which mavrothal is kindly helping with.

Cheers and thanks for your testing
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