Wary Puppy 0.9.6 (096) feedback

[James C]

Just a sneaky report, I got the barks ok, normally my sound icon in tray (retrovol) is muted. (the unannounced version )

Cheers

Same here,sound working fine on initial boot....as well as everything else.

[rerwin]

Barry, nap44, 01micko,
I have updated pupdial and modemdisconnect to add contributions from nap44 and 01micko.

Nap44 suggested renaming the "Phone number" label to apply also to the wireless "authentication/access" number, to avoid new-user confusion. Good idea! The attachment now labels that field as "Phone/Access number".

01micko created a tray icon for display during a dialup/wireless call. Clicking it starts pupdial so the user can "Disconnect from Internet". It seems best to keep that a two-step process, to protect from inadvertent clicks on the icon (instead of disconnecting immediately upon the click).

I have requested a revised version of it containing only the tray part, since pupdial/modemdisconnect now includes his changes to them. Either he will post it or I will do it, if he can walk me through genie/vala compilation. But this attachment need not wait for the tray package.
Richard

[Karl Godt]

compiling /alsa-utils-1.0.23 :

/alsamixer/widget.c :

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121 : return (void*)panel_userptr(active_panel);
137 : widget = (void*)panel_userptr(panel);

2 (void*) casts to prevent compiler warnings

because /usr/include/panel.h :
67 : extern NCURSES_EXPORT(NCURSES_CONST void*) panel_userptr (const PANEL *);

The path to the deprecated /etc/modprobe.conf file is found in

/root/Downloads/alsa-utils-1.0.23/alsaconf/alsaconf
303 :

if [ "$distribution" = "gentoo" ]; then
cfgfile="/etc/modules.d/alsa"
elif [ "$kernel" = "new" ]; then
cfgfile="/etc/modprobe.conf"
if [ -d /etc/modprobe.d ]; then
cfgout="/etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf"
cfgoldout="/etc/modprobe.d/sound"

and
/root/Downloads/alsa-utils-1.0.23/alsaconf/alsaconf.in

here at dpup-009 I have only

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

I don't use alsa much and after starting the alsa wizard because of couriousity it really changed some lines of /etc/modprobe.conf and seemed to have killed retrovol out of the tray.

The

xmlto man alsactl_init.xml
xmlto: /root/Downloads/alsa-utils-1.0.23/alsactl/alsactl_init.xml does not validate (status 3)
xmlto: Fix document syntax or use --skip-validation option
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd

error I could not yet overwhelm ; only by make -i

[BarryK]

another sneaky report
Pidgin (2.7.1-lucid-i486) doesn't work. Problems with dbus I think.

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# pidgin
process 23521: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted
# 

As pidgin complained about libdbus-glib I installed it.
Then there was a complaint about libgtkspell and installed it also.
Maybe those aren't the correct ones for Wary.

Also as glibc is still at 2.10.1, trinity-KDE will not work as reported before.
Trinity needs glib 2.12.1

Ttuuxxx compiled Pidgin for Wary, announced earlier in this forum thread.

In Wary 097 it is also available in the PPM.

[BarryK]

Barry, nap44, 01micko,
I have updated pupdial and modemdisconnect to add contributions from nap44 and 01micko.

Nap44 suggested renaming the "Phone number" label to apply also to the wireless "authentication/access" number, to avoid new-user confusion. Good idea! The attachment now labels that field as "Phone/Access number".

01micko created a tray icon for display during a dialup/wireless call. Clicking it starts pupdial so the user can "Disconnect from Internet". It seems best to keep that a two-step process, to protect from inadvertent clicks on the icon (instead of disconnecting immediately upon the click).

I have requested a revised version of it containing only the tray part, since pupdial/modemdisconnect now includes his changes to them. Either he will post it or I will do it, if he can walk me through genie/vala compilation. But this attachment need not wait for the tray package.
Richard

I won't apply this PET, as pupdial_tray needs to be sorted out some more.

I am standardising on all tray applets to be located in /root/Startup, for a planned future tray-applet-manager -- in which applets can be enabled or disabled simply by setting/unsetting their execute flags. Having them all in the same place simplifies management.

Also, I have not yet looked at pupdial_tray and don't know what extra functionality it provides over the current network_tray.

[Béèm]

another sneaky report
Pidgin (2.7.1-lucid-i486) doesn't work. Problems with dbus I think.

Code: Select all

# pidgin
process 23521: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted
# 

As pidgin complained about libdbus-glib I installed it.
Then there was a complaint about libgtkspell and installed it also.
Maybe those aren't the correct ones for Wary.

Also as glibc is still at 2.10.1, trinity-KDE will not work as reported before.
Trinity needs glib 2.12.1

Ttuuxxx compiled Pidgin for Wary, announced earlier in this forum thread.

In Wary 097 it is also available in the PPM.

Ttuuxxx spoke about it on page one, but didn't make the pet available.
Using a minimal save file, I don't download pet's through the PPM.
I wish I could download them to some directory without installing, so I can convert them to sfs.
I looked in the pet_packages_wary directory of ibiblio, but this pidgin isn't in there.

I see the entry for pidgin in the packages-puppy-wary5-official file, but it doesn't give me a clue where physically it is.

[James C]

another sneaky report
Pidgin (2.7.1-lucid-i486) doesn't work. Problems with dbus I think.

Code: Select all

# pidgin
process 23521: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted
# 

As pidgin complained about libdbus-glib I installed it.
Then there was a complaint about libgtkspell and installed it also.
Maybe those aren't the correct ones for Wary.

Also as glibc is still at 2.10.1, trinity-KDE will not work as reported before.
Trinity needs glib 2.12.1

Ttuuxxx compiled Pidgin for Wary, announced earlier in this forum thread.

In Wary 097 it is also available in the PPM.

Ttuuxxx spoke about it on page one, but didn't make the pet available.
Using a minimal save file, I don't download pet's through the PPM.
I wish I could download them to some directory without installing, so I can convert them to sfs.
I looked in the pet_packages_wary directory of ibiblio, but this pidgin isn't in there.

I see the entry for pidgin in the packages-puppy-wary5-official file, but it doesn't give me a clue where physically it is.

In the Wary repo....
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 7.5-w5.pet

or
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 7.5-w5.pet

HTH.

[BarryK]

another sneaky report
Pidgin (2.7.1-lucid-i486) doesn't work. Problems with dbus I think.

Code: Select all

# pidgin
process 23521: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted
# 

As pidgin complained about libdbus-glib I installed it.
Then there was a complaint about libgtkspell and installed it also.
Maybe those aren't the correct ones for Wary.

Also as glibc is still at 2.10.1, trinity-KDE will not work as reported before.
Trinity needs glib 2.12.1

Ttuuxxx compiled Pidgin for Wary, announced earlier in this forum thread.

In Wary 097 it is also available in the PPM.

Ttuuxxx spoke about it on page one, but didn't make the pet available.
Using a minimal save file, I don't download pet's through the PPM.
I wish I could download them to some directory without installing, so I can convert them to sfs.
I looked in the pet_packages_wary directory of ibiblio, but this pidgin isn't in there.

I see the entry for pidgin in the packages-puppy-wary5-official file, but it doesn't give me a clue where physically it is.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 7.5-w5.pet
...there is also an NLS pkg on that site.

Oh yes, you also need to install gtkspell:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... .16-w5.pet

[BarryK]

...oh, James, I didn't see your post!

Yeah, I will need to delete the 'puppylinux/pet_packages-wary' directory as it is no longer used. Causes confusion.

[BarryK]

Wary 0.9.8 is out!

See here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61930

[Béèm]

In the Wary repo....
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 7.5-w5.pet

or
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 7.5-w5.pet

HTH.

Oh yes, thank you.

[Béèm]

...oh, James, I didn't see your post!

Yeah, I will need to delete the 'puppylinux/pet_packages-wary' directory as it is no longer used. Causes confusion.

Oh yes, please delete. It is confusing.
Saw your announcement for Wary 098 already.