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d4-a3 with Compaq Armada E500

..using puppy since 1.08, since 2.01 with remastered cd's, usb sticks .. wonderful

gave d4a3 a try today, just burned live cd , experienced :

* touchpad does not work properly, "doubleclick" with finger doesn't work .. btw since 2.6.18.1

* gxine : bus error - doesn't start

* mozstart, seamonkey : bus error - doesn't start

* doesn't find maestro sound card ES1982 - no sound

With 3.01 it works flawlessly
And I think with 4.01 alpha 1 it worked also.
It is from alpha 2 on that it didn't work.

Beem, are you able to load the wep module manually?

I 'm trying to make a stable Pfind release, and have 2 problems with alpha 3. Gqview would give us a working imagebrowser and a slideshow viewer.

Sigmund

Hi guys,

I use puppy CD/DVD multisession only.

And now, I am writting this on my Dingo, puppy-4 alpha3, AFTER save on CD multisession, all my setup from the first load of puppy.
So many things are working just GREAT:

xorg, networking, internet connection, multisession save, etc etc , all are working just fine. .

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The bugs I found till now are:

1.- Gxine saga.

On gxine 0.4.9 on Dingo, a huge activitie of CPU is present. So sometimes the video movie freeze after some 2-3 minutes of work.

When I try to put fullscreen on Dingo, the gxine CRASH inmediately.

I dont have subtitles on the movies.in Dingo. I use .srt files normally.

On gxine 0.4.9 in puppy 2.14, puppy 2.15ce, puppy 2.17.1 this subtitles works normally and the activitie of CPU is minimal, NO CRASH.
Also on this puppies the fullscreen works normally, without CRASH.

2.- pup_293.sfs and zdrv_293.sfs issue.

I use multisession CD/DVD puppy.

On puppy 2.14, and puppy 2.15ce, I normally found pup_214.sfs and zdrv_214.sfs on my "/" directory.
That is very wood because I usual add new software to my puppy putting the New_214.sfs software on this "/" directory and reboot, saving my CD/DVD multisession puppy.
All works fine.

But from puppy 2.16; puppy 2.17.1; puppy 3.01; and now Dingo, I don't have this facilities, because this pup_xxx.sfs and zdrv_xxx.sfs are no present on this "/" directory any more.
When I try to put some new software in the form new_xxx.sfs on "/" directory, and reboot saving my CD/DVD multisession, It simple not save on it, and not appear on "/" directory after reboot..

I beg for this caracteristic on puppy 214 and 2.15ce return to the news puppies.
Hope this could be easy implemented.

Thanks, for your attention.

pdrito.

zigbert wrote:Gqview would give us a working imagebrowser and a slideshow viewer.

I agree. I vote for Gqview too. It's really nice program. If I remember right, Barry already mentioned this on his blog.

Hi, anyone else having firewall troubles? I ran the firewall wizard as usual and then rebooted. No Internet!
Heres what happens if i try the default set up.

Running './rc.firewall check'. Output will follow ...

-> Projectfiles.com Linux Firewall version 2.0rc9 running.
-> Performing sanity checks......iptables: Index of deletion too big
[ PASSED ]

Press any key to continue ...

Then I tried the AUTOMAGIC firewall install and got the following. I should say I removed the entry from rc.d local that runs the firewall and did re-boots etc.

-> Projectfiles.com Linux Firewall version 2.0rc9 running.
-> Performing sanity checks......iptables: Index of deletion too big
[ PASSED ]
-> Building firewall..iptables: Invalid argument
.iptables: Invalid argument
.iptables: Invalid argument
iptables: Invalid argument
[ DONE ]
-> Successfully secured the following addresses: 192.168.1.2.

@HairyWill, you did hit the nail, good.
After loading the_crypt_wep a live network was found and an IP obtained.
At the next boot the network was up correctly.
Thanks.

As I need another locale then available locally I tried to fetch the locales from the net via choose locale for your country.
As soon as the button is pushed nothing happens, no network activity.

Very annoying to test this alpha 3.

Hello !

For some reason CUPS cant show other .ppd files that are saved in
"/usr/share/cups/model"

I have downloaded the following .ppd file
http://openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi ... 125&show=0
for my LexmarkX125 Printer to the path "/usr/share/cups/model".

After the restart of the CUPS Manager the new File can't be see for selection.

Can somebody tell me what is wrong ?
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cg ... xmark-X125

nic2109 wrote:

ArnaudN wrote:The resolution found "out of the box" for my laptop (xorg) is 1024x748 instead of 1480x800 as it should be.

Do you have a seperate Graphics card (especially an ATi)? If so it probably needs a special driver to cater for "odd" resolutions. It happens to me every time until the (usually proprietory) driver has been compiled and a .pet assembled - usually by Kirk or one of the other specialists. Until then it's 1024 x 768 whatever xorg.conf says!

I do not think my graphic card is that odd.
It is a built-in AGP GeForce4 440 Go 64M.
A far as I remember Puppy recognize the right resolution only since 2.17, or 3.0. For previous releases, I needed to manually tweak xorg.conf.

About dingo alpha3, I have to say that after a start from a saved session, the network settings were lost and I needed to reselect the wifi settings and restart a dhcp request to have internet work.

Did some more testing of Dingo a3 on my old hardware (P2 400MHz):
I notice when I set the date and timezone correct in Dingo then reboot into P301 from the hard drive my P301 time has moved 12 hours ahead and if I reset it correct in P301 and reboot into Dingo (running from cd with pup_save) the time is 12 hours behind.

power management:
acpi works if I add the acpi=force boot parameter (I suspect if my bios was any older this wouldn't work). If I don't force acpi most things still work but the laptop doesn't power off on shutdown.

gxine:
I copied gxine 0.5.11 from my P301 install and that is working in Dingo. One annoying thing is gxine doesn't seem to save it's visualization setting. On a slow cpu you need to select "none" for playing mp3's but the next time it starts it's back on "goom".

Generally though it's running quite smooth for an alpha even on this old hardware.

OK, I found the setting in the config file for turning off visualization:
# Default audio visualisation plugin
# { None goom oscope fftscope fftgraph }, default: 1
gui.post_plugins.audio_visualisation:None

Not sure why it wasn't updating automatically before but since the default comment uses a number, I set it to "0" manually and after running gxine visualization was off and it automatically updated the config entry to "None".

Just some more information about the resolution detection:

(1) Puppy sees my card as Geforce4 420 32M (and not 440 64M).

(2) I have reported the modifications in xorg.conf that used to work to have the right resolution after restart, and it does not work for dingo alpha 3: the screen is always on 1024x768.

BarryK wrote:Regarding it being "confusing" not having 'hda', that's the way it is. The major distros have gone over to this system and eventually all will, except for those stuck on the 2.4 kernel.
It actually has advantages, being the uniformity of naming the internal drives -- what is really confusing is mixed IDE and SATA drives and the different hd and sd names can cause problems, for example with GRUB.

While it's good that all internal drives are treated the same, what bothers me is that they are not separated from removable drives -- and we know that the "removable" flag is not very dependable... so now it's harder to know what is removable media (i.e. pendrives).

InkscapeLite works well.

Nothing new to report on Compaq Presario with Firewire - pmount, probepart and disktype can't handle the USB devices.

Re Gxine, MOV files play jerkily even in Xorg.

"gxine" ,Ok I still have no clue why this application even made it into the alpha 3, Please Just understand, Gxine and puppy just don't work! But xine does, very well. So why not just drop Gxine and replace it with Xine, I do it everytime I make a new Fire Hydrant and I always get a "thank you for doing that." from people. Other than that great stuff guys.
ttuuxxx

I tried booting
puppy-400alpha3-dingo393-seamonkey-k2.6.24-rc4-fullzdrv.iso
on my HP Vectra VE, 64 MB.
(It runs Puppy 3.01 just fine.)
I used "puppy pfix=ram".
Some errors went sailing by,
but now it is stuck repeating endlessly:
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block d8ee08, size 8da2
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x365e

I do not know which of the two error lines above comes first.

Thanks,
Eddie

raffy wrote:Testing on AMD PC (Pentium 4 grade) with HP 1300N printer:

Minuses:

- pmount's mounting/unmounting USB drive can take ages - I tried 2 USB drives and in the second USB mounting, pmount virtually disappeared and the CPU usage steadily climbed, so I had to killall pmount. Later, I restarted pmount and was able to unmount one USB after the another; pmount disappeared for about 3 minutes, then reappeared.

- volume control box would not disappear when opened.

Is this the same PC that earlier exhibited the problem with recognising USB drives?

You will need to delve underneath Pmount and find out just where the slowness is occurring. Pmount uses 'probedisk' and 'probepart' to probe the drives, so run those directly.
To mount a partition, test the 'mount' program, for example:
# mount -t vfat /dev/sdg1 /mnt/data
...if that proves to be the cause of the slowness, try this:
# mount-FULL -t vfat /dev/sdg1 /mnt/data

The volume control will disappear if you click on the loudspeaker icon.

ARAN wrote:Hello !

For some reason CUPS cant show other .ppd files that are saved in
"/usr/share/cups/model"

I have downloaded the following .ppd file
http://openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi ... 125&show=0
for my LexmarkX125 Printer to the path "/usr/share/cups/model".

After the restart of the CUPS Manager the new File can't be see for selection.

Can somebody tell me what is wrong ?
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cg ... xmark-X125

Is this a new bug, or have you had the ppd file working on older puppies?
If you restart 'cupsd' then it scans all ppd files in /usr/share/cups/model, I know, mine works.

Béèm wrote:As I need another locale then available locally I tried to fetch the locales from the net via choose locale for your country.
As soon as the button is pushed nothing happens, no network activity.

Very annoying to test this alpha 3.

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