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Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 12:50
by Jesse
Hi Barry,
I am having sound card issues with Dingo, the motherboard has a sound card that has no BIOS disable ability, this sound card gets detected ok, but its not vrey good sound so don't want to use it, instead I have some USB speakers that play sound quite nicely, and I am having trouble getting them working with Dingo.
Initially following through the wizard choosing usb, nothing happens, ALSA Wizard does modify the /etc/modprobe.conf, but changes no drivers.
But I discovered that if I kill the absvolume, before running the wizard, that it succeeds at setting the usb-speakers as the sound card, and I hear the music.
But then when I reboot, the boot scripts destroy my usb speakers setting, and I am back with motherboard sound card.
how do we go about fixing this one up?
Jesse
Finds my IDE drive as SATA drive
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 14:53
by earlytv
Alpha 6 finds all the hard drive partions as sda4, sda6 ect. I have no sata device only a IDE hard drive. So when I want to do a full install of alpha 6 on /dev/hda6 it says not there but /dev/sda6 is and it installs. Now if I use alpha 6 Grub alpha 6 boots but other 3 puppy do not. If I use Grub from one of other puppy they boot, alpha 6 does not?
error lines
kernel panic-not syncing: vfs: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
What did I do wrong?????
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 15:39
by GeoW
Hopefully, you just need to mosify menu.lst.
For the two lines between the title and the boot
for each Puppy:
The first part of the lines - before the / - is for grub,
so my entries all say (hd0,0).
The part after the / is for puppy, so:
for Puppy 3.01 I have PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=hda1
for Puppy 3.96 I have PMEDIA=idesd PDEV1=sda1
Hope this helps,
GeoW
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 20:42
by earlytv
Here is at bootup a edit of a grub line that alpha 6 puts down.
root (hd0,5)
kernal /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 ro vga=normal
only change other puppies do is sda6 becomes hda6 all the rest is
same.
If I let 2.17 run grub and all is HDAx and then try to edit just the alpha line to sda6 it says no such dev I cant do that????
Just another software chunk a hardware guy ???????????????????????
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 21:13
by GeoW
No, only the part after the / the first part is for grub.
GeoW
Fixed boot
Posted: Tue 26 Feb 2008, 01:47
by earlytv
I have 2 menu.lst files in GRUB dir, one that old puppy set up and another alpha 6 set up. I copied from the alpha 6 file from "title line thru kernel line" for drive alpha on and put it into old puppy file same spot. Saved out file and now all boot just fine.
All hda6 now became sda6 only 2 places? When you try on screen at boot to edit GRUB you change only one of the 2 so it dont work.
Thanks all.
EDIT
JUST FOUND SYSTEM INFO ON ALPHA 6 and it says CD and HARD drives are SCSI drives????????? THEY ARE IDE DRIVES. IS THIS WHY THEY COME UP AS sda6 INSTEAD OF hda6??????????????????
Posted: Tue 26 Feb 2008, 02:12
by PaulBx1
Everything is working fine but for some reason, when I use the PETget package manager and I try to install something, it freezes on me.
Mark and I found something with Muppy that is probably true of Dingo too: the ram-based /tmp is too small (mine was 39MB) and fills up, then all sorts of weird things happen (I've seen Seamonkey crash, hang, or the whole machine hangs). Mark fixed it by tacking on some more from a disk-based directory (I used /root/tmp because I wanted to keep /tmp within an area protected by encryption). See pages 3 and 4 of this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 6&start=45
I left a note in the Puppy 3.01 bug thread too.
Posted: Tue 26 Feb 2008, 10:37
by cecc
Hi Barry,
Thank you and other guys. Dingo alpha6 is realy nice and good.
Posted: Wed 27 Feb 2008, 02:21
by linuxcbon
Can you please add libx264 to ffmpeg
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2008, 22:33
by disciple
Ah - someone somewhere said that they can get their sound to work if every time they boot Dingo they kill absvolume and then run the alsa wizard. I tried this and it works for me too. What could be causing the problem here?
Also, the bug I mentioned with Xine seems to be an intermittent problem, as last time I booted Dingo it was doing it again, even after playing files.
Posted: Fri 29 Feb 2008, 06:55
by HairyWill
I presume that absvolume is not behaving if the sound is not setup. It probably needs dev/mixer to be closed somewhere. I think that the alsa wizard requires exclusive access to the device. This would fail if absvolume was hanging on to it. I'll have a look at the weekend.
Missing libs
Posted: Fri 29 Feb 2008, 23:52
by Saturn
Hey something is terribly screwed up in pup get it all ways refuses to install libs or will say they are missing.... i'm terrible at compiling stuff in the terminal so that's out of reach... so far i've been unsuccessfull in installing vlc, xine, wine, and others
they all have somthing missing
is this because it's a alpha build?
because i could'nt install anything in 3.12 either
any ideas folks?
Any help will be appreciated in advance
Posted: Sat 01 Mar 2008, 04:23
by disciple
HairWill - the sound does get set up automatically, it just doesn't work.
Posted: Sat 01 Mar 2008, 04:27
by disciple
I was just thinking:
There is no gui to replace partview to display disk usage (or did I miss something). But even if we don't have a gui, why not have a menu entry and/or a thing lauched by clicking on the free memory applet, that just opens a terminal and runs whatever command tells you the disk usage? It would be better than nothing surely.
BTW does anybody know why Seamonkey does not obey the GTK font setting - even when you have the special line required for Firefox and Thunderbird to display it?
Wireless dhcpcd workaround
Posted: Sun 02 Mar 2008, 10:42
by lluamco
I have had troubles connecting to the network using RTL8187 wireless driver with WEP encryption in Dingo alpha 6. In short, the network wizard scans the available networks, but when acquiring an IP address using dhcpcd, the provided IP is wrong and thus the network unavailable. I have tried also to use the series of commands that work OK in puppy 2.16, with the same result: NO network.
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ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid "MYESSSID" freq 2.412G channel 1 mode managed ap 00:1D:D9:5D:C8:C9 key MYWEPKEY
rm -f /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-wlan0*
dhcpcd -d wlan0
Finally, after googling, I found a workaround that alllows connecting. It consists essentially in interchanging the order of the ifconfig and iwconfig lines, plus removing dhcpcd-wlan0* in the correct location. The WORKING sequence is:
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iwconfig wlan0 essid "MYESSID" freq 2.412G channel 1 mode managed ap 00:1D:D9:5D:C8:C9 key MYWEPKEY
ifconfig wlan0 up
rm -f /var/run/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid*
dhcpcd -d wlan0
EDIT: If the above code is inserted in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, to authomatize the process at each boot, I have found necessary to remove the rtl8187 module and reload it again. The final code in rc.local reads
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rmmod rtl8187
sleep 5
modprobe rtl8187
iwconfig wlan0 essid "MYESSID" freq 2.412G channel 1 mode managed ap 00:1D:D9:5D:C8:C9 key MYWEPKEY
ifconfig wlan0 up
rm -f /var/run/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid*
dhcpcd -d wlan0
I hope this can help anybody with similar problems.
Posted: Mon 03 Mar 2008, 01:44
by wow
Dingo alpha6 k2.6.24, frugal install:
I had a problem connecting my cell phone (an old ericsson k310a) as storage device, the phone was not detected in my custom setup. I think that was a problem with udev(slackware 12). So I rebooted and ran entirely in RAM and nothing.
I solved it loading these kernel modules: 'ssb' and 'ohci-hcd'.
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# dmesg | tail -20
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 3-3: USB disconnect, address 3
scsi 8:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
usb 3-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 3-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access Sony Eri Memory Stick 0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 29994 512-byte hardware sectors (15 MB)
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 29994 512-byte hardware sectors (15 MB)
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
usb-storage: device scan complete
#
Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2008, 02:11
by wingruntled
grubconfig problem:
Alpha6 K2.6.21
Full HD install on HDA4 with grub installed on /dev/hda4 & MBR
grub installed as sda1 & DOS and not Windows ME fat32 hda1
# Other bootable partition config begins
title DOS (on /dev/sda1)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/hda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/hda4)
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
I fixed the menu.lst but this was a first of this kind.
Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2008, 16:30
by wingruntled
pupdial:
After disconnecting pupdial cycles back to the connect page, within a few seconds.
--> PPP negotiation detected.
--> Starting pppd at Tue Mar 4 10:13:25 2008
--> pid of pppd: 23210
something new?
Posted: Thu 06 Mar 2008, 09:52
by John Doe
I found something
I ran the new "Setup-Sharing" under ~/FileSharing and selected server as onetime. The script didn't make a directory under root at ftpd. Not sure if it works for everytime sharing.
Sorry i've got no line numbers or code. I'm in no condition for that right now.
Maybe tomorrow.
