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Posted: **Thu 10 Sep 2009, 13:02**

Puppy ignores my lappies' power buttons.

Posted: **Thu 10 Sep 2009, 13:20**

On my PC it won't auto power-off [does on BoxPup & Puppy 4.2.1-rc3], so it's necessary for me to manually use the off switch once it reports that the system has halted.

Posted: **Thu 10 Sep 2009, 15:57**

Hi,
on pup4.3beta2 frugall
I installed
xorg_xorg_full_dri-7.3.pet
to get OpenGL and subsequently instal, let us say ....MU's GoogleEarth sfs file.
To see if OpenGL was running I did this:

on pup4.3b2 + xorg.xorg-7.3-full-dri.pet

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# glxinfo 
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2

then no working OpenGL using that pet.
Cheers
Charlie

Posted: **Thu 10 Sep 2009, 17:31**

My wifi network misses the firmware. I have found that, when included in
/lib/firmware, the wireless network works properly. I include the firmware attached here.
It needs to be unzipped before copied to /lib/firmware directory.
I hope that it can be included in puppy 4.3.

Posted: **Thu 10 Sep 2009, 17:55**

Sylvander wrote:On my PC it won't auto power-off [does on BoxPup & Puppy 4.2.1-rc3], so it's necessary for me to manually use the off switch once it reports that the system has halted.

I have the same exact problem and it is present in both beta1 and beta2.

I have on older pentium3.
It goes through the shut down and ends in white text on the screen saying "system halted" and I then push the power button once to turn it off.

Posted: **Thu 10 Sep 2009, 18:08**

Hi charlie6:

I installed
xorg_xorg_full_dri-7.3.pet

I am using a manual frugal install and my computer has an ATI 9550 graphic card.

DRI is working and I did not installed the full xorg, but the lesser xorg_xorg_dri-7.3-1 pet package plus the file r300_dri.so from the full package, for just my card. If I install the full dri pet, it always gives a problem, I believe it overwrites some files incorrectly in my /usr/X11R7/bin area.

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  # glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2

I started over with a fresh backup, save file.

Kal

Posted: **Thu 10 Sep 2009, 21:23**

One more minor problem is my motherboard's on-board sound only uses PCM and the old absvolume in the tray, controls the Master volume only. The solution was to compile and put in a newer AbsVolume-4.3, replacing Puppy's from their site. This one uses PCM. Then I just started it in /root/.xinitrc with the command "absvolume &" only. It is not as fancy, but, works.

Kal

Posted: **Thu 10 Sep 2009, 22:43**

Note to anyone wanting to compile their own kernel (and Barry) -
the lzma compression utility is required at the last stage of the kernel image compression, but Puppy 4.3b2's version of lzma will fail, since it does not recognise the "9" and "c" switches of the build script.

In fact, none of the official LZMA SDK versions from
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
will work this way.

Instead you need the unofficial LZMA Utils package from
http://tukaani.org/lzma/

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 00:32**

tom4jesus wrote:
Sylvander wrote:On my PC it won't auto power-off [does on BoxPup & Puppy 4.2.1-rc3], so it's necessary for me to manually use the off switch once it reports that the system has halted.
I have the same exact problem and it is present in both beta1 and beta2.

I have on older pentium3.
It goes through the shut down and ends in white text on the screen saying "system halted" and I then push the power button once to turn it off.

Unfortunately, this is an issue that has to be taken up with the kernel developers.

The kernel has a configure option to handle shutdown quirks of particular hardware, and I enabled that. However, recent kernels do not shutdown all the old PCs that once did shutdown.

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 00:45**

tempestuous wrote:Note to anyone wanting to compile their own kernel (and Barry) -
the lzma compression utility is required at the last stage of the kernel image compression, but Puppy 4.3b2's version of lzma will fail, since it does not recognise the "9" and "c" switches of the build script.

In fact, none of the official LZMA SDK versions from
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
will work this way.

Instead you need the unofficial LZMA Utils package from
http://tukaani.org/lzma/

Um, no it doesn't fail. I compiled the 2.6.30.5 kernel and it did get lzma compressed, 1978KB, compared with the 2.6.29.6 kernel at 2320KB.

That was a full hd installation, of pup 4.3beta1 I think.

lzma 4.32.0beta3 Copyright (C) 2006 Ville Koskinen
Based on LZMA SDK 4.43 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov

Usage: lzma [flags and input files in any order]
-c --stdout output to standard output
-d --decompress force decompression
-z --compress force compression
-k --keep keep (don't delete) input files
-f --force force overwrite of output file and compress links
-t --test test compressed file integrity
-S .suf --suffix .suf use suffix .suf on compressed files
-q --quiet suppress error messages
-v --verbose be verbose
-h --help print this message
-L --license display the license information
-V --version display version numbers of LZMA SDK and lzma
-1 .. -2 fast compression
-3 .. -9 good to excellent compression. -7 is the default.
--fast alias for -1
--best alias for -9 (usually *not* what you want)

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 08:01**

no sound on SigmaTel stac9228 driver loads fine alsa mixer shows card, but no sound,

this is in /etc/modprobe.conf

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alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

this is in /proc/asound/card0/codec#2

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Codec: SigmaTel STAC9228
Address: 2
Function Id: 0x1
Vendor Id: 0x83847616
Subsystem Id: 0x10280242
Revision Id: 0x100402
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
    rates [0x7e0]: 44100 48000 88200 96000 176400 192000
    bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
    formats [0x1]: PCM

so ... i dont know, its broken for me.

mutepup

it had sound in my virtual box.... lol

ps, my grub is broken too

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:18**

Hi Kal,
many thanks for your reply!

DRI is working and I did not installed the full xorg, but the lesser xorg_xorg_dri-7.3-1 pet package plus the file r300_dri.so from the full package, for just my card. If I install the full dri pet, it always gives a problem, I believe it overwrites some files incorrectly in my /usr/X11R7/bin area.

my card is nvidia GeForce 6200 se
I installed xorg_xorg_dri-7.3-1 pet package plus the file nv_drv.so (which I suppose to suit my card) and place nv_drv.so in
/usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers folder.
Restarted and glxinfo answered again

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direct rendering: No

I stay puzzled...

ps: have previously uninstalled the full xorg...and restarted.

cheers
charlie

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:51**

Damn........... cant find any bugs!

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:54**

Hi,
browsing accross the forum, I found that graphic card drivers could be kernel version dependent.
I should load nvidia-180-modiliases_180.44.pet
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 29&t=46306
and choice of driver acc. to (thnx MU !)
http://puppyisos.org/isos/2009-01-to-06 ... cards.htm
BUT:
- I hav'nt yet found the puppy5 repo to load and get a try ---> help please
- I am not sure it shall suit the kernel.

thanks for any advice
cheers, charlie
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- I hav'nt yet  found the puppy5 repo to load and get a try  ---> hel[/quote]- I hav'nt yet  found the puppy5 repo to load and get a try  ---> help please[/quote]
HAVE FOUND here
[url]http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34001&start=45
[/url]
Onpippy412k2.5.26.15 I downloaded one of these drivers and it worked fine ! It well seems to be kernel version dependent.[/color]

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 11:05**

Damn........... cant find any bugs!

Maybe you need a new kernel?

http://www.osnews.com/story/22145/Linux ... _Released/

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 11:33**

Yes, I did a full HD install again, and lzma works fine.

My original problem seems to stem from the fact that I compiled the
modules only (make modules) without the kernel image. But a reboot
then complained about mismatched modules. So I compiled the kernel
image afterwards.

Moral of the story: don't cut corners. Just run "make".

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 16:05**

Looks like Seamonkey has a whole new data storage system from 1.17 on, presumably based on the Firefox model. Whatever, its stable and fast. In fact everything about 4.3.2 feels faster than previous Pups.

I miss a proper shut down dialog though, the menu system is horrid with a touchpad, so I installed Zigberts as it is in keeping with the default theme. Changed the desktop but kept the icons... nice.

BTW, how can one trigger JWM to auto-update without 'refresh menus'?

Also wish there was a way to disable the screensaver permanently via the menu system.
I use an xset script in the startup dir but it seems an oversight, and what noob is going to know how to create the script?

Why does this Pup run faster on my dual-core machine than my SMP Pup?

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 16:20**

Why does this Pup run faster on my dual-core machine than my SMP Pup?

Two words: newer kernel

What's even more interesting is that an even newer stable kernel (k2.6.31) was released yesterday and it's even faster than the one used in Puppy 4.3 beta 2.

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 16:26**

Why does this Pup run faster on my dual-core machine than my SMP Pup?

This build is also smp enabled

DC

Posted: **Fri 11 Sep 2009, 18:21**

DC wrote:
Why does this Pup run faster on my dual-core machine than my SMP Pup?
This build is also smp enabled

DC

So I guess I can remove nosmp from grub?

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