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Sage wrote:PCLinux- Phoenix Edition has an utility Systeminfo v0.6.3 which gives a textual list of options. The first of these reads some basic BIOS info (dmidecode).

gcmartin wrote:

jim3630 wrote:installed ... multi-sound card appears not to work correctly. can not ...

Hi @Jim3630
This worked for me, and it might help you. - written by 01Micko

Hope this helps

peebee wrote:Hi Barry

Racy seems to lack support for my Broadcom B43 wifi on my HP550 laptop which works in other Puppies.

/lib/firmware/b43 is missing - I copied it across from lupu528

the b43 driver is not being loaded - I had to put
modprobe b43
into /etc/rc.d/rc.local

with these 2 changes, my wifi works with sns through reboots and I am posting this from Racy.....

I saw similar problems with the lupu528-k3.0.4 puplet from wuxiandianzi so it may be a k3 problem

Cheers
peebee

gcmartin wrote:@BarryK
The items you wanted tested have been done. Here are the results:

The newer Internet Connection Wizard and Hostname tools make changes appropriately. If anyone sets the hostname to "RACYRC-test1", for example (or any name following standards), all fields in the system reflect, correctly, the change.

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# hostname
RACYRC-test1
# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost RACYRC-test1
192.168.1.1 pc2
192.168.1.2 pc3
192.168.1.3 pc4
# cat /etc/hostname
RACYRC-test1# 
# echo $HOSTNAME
RACYRC-test1

But, after desktop restart, the tools do not correctly reflect the system's hostname. (See attached). Might want to review the tools.

Hope this helps.

BarryK wrote:...unless b43.tar.gz has the wrong firmware? That is possible. If you run:

# modinfo b43

it will show what firmware is expected.

It may be that b43.tar.gz in Lupu got upgraded, and we will have to do the same.

filename:       /lib/modules/3.0.7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
firmware:       b43/ucode9.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode5.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode16_mimo.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode15.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode14.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode13.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode11.fw
firmware:       FW13
license:        GPL
author:         Gábor Stefanik
author:         Michael Buesch
author:         Stefano Brivio
author:         Martin Langer
description:    Broadcom B43 wireless driver
alias:          pcmcia:m02D0c0476f*fn*pfn*pa*pb*pc*pd*
alias:          pcmcia:m02D0c0448f*fn*pfn*pa*pb*pc*pd*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev10*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0F*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0D*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0C*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0B*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0A*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev09*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev07*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev06*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev05*
depends:        ssb,mac80211,mmc_core,cfg80211
vermagic:       3.0.7 SMP mod_unload modversions 686 
parm:           bad_frames_preempt:enable(1) / disable(0) Bad Frames Preemption (int)
parm:           fwpostfix:Postfix for the .fw files to load. (string)
parm:           hwpctl:Enable hardware-side power control (default off) (int)
parm:           nohwcrypt:Disable hardware encryption. (int)
parm:           hwtkip:Enable hardware tkip. (int)
parm:           qos:Enable QOS support (default on) (int)
parm:           btcoex:Enable Bluetooth coexistence (default on) (int)
parm:           verbose:Log message verbosity: 0=error, 1=warn, 2=info(default), 3=debug (int)
parm:           pio:Use PIO accesses by default: 0=DMA, 1=PIO (int)

filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.37.6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
firmware:       b43/ucode9.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode5.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode15.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode14.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode13.fw
firmware:       b43/ucode11.fw
firmware:       FW13
license:        GPL
author:         Gábor Stefanik
author:         Michael Buesch
author:         Stefano Brivio
author:         Martin Langer
description:    Broadcom B43 wireless driver
alias:          pcmcia:m02D0c0476f*fn*pfn*pa*pb*pc*pd*
alias:          pcmcia:m02D0c0448f*fn*pfn*pa*pb*pc*pd*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev10*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0F*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0D*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0C*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0B*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev0A*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev09*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev07*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev06*
alias:          ssb:v4243id0812rev05*
depends:        ssb,mac80211,cfg80211
vermagic:       2.6.37.6 SMP mod_unload modversions 586 
parm:           bad_frames_preempt:enable(1) / disable(0) Bad Frames Preemption (int)
parm:           fwpostfix:Postfix for the .fw files to load. (string)
parm:           hwpctl:Enable hardware-side power control (default off) (int)
parm:           nohwcrypt:Disable hardware encryption. (int)
parm:           hwtkip:Enable hardware tkip. (int)
parm:           qos:Enable QOS support (default on) (int)
parm:           btcoex:Enable Bluetooth coexistence (default on) (int)
parm:           verbose:Log message verbosity: 0=error, 1=warn, 2=info(default), 3=debug (int)
parm:           pio:Use PIO accesses by default: 0=DMA, 1=PIO (int)

BarryK wrote:

gcmartin wrote:

jim3630 wrote:installed ... multi-sound card appears not to work correctly. can not ...

Hi @Jim3630
This worked for me, and it might help you. - written by 01Micko

Hope this helps

I have modified the Sound Wizard, so now offers to run Kirk's Multiple Sound Card Wizard at Step THREE:

veronicathecow wrote:When running quick setup a single click on drop down box shows the list but disappears. A second click and it appears and stays up.

Karl Godt wrote:

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--- /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/sbin/xorgwizard	2011-09-27 01:31:20.000000000 -0100
+++ /usr/sbin/xorgwizard	2011-10-29 23:21:58.566654034 -0100
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ if [ ! "`echo -n "$PSFND" | grep "\\.xin
    NEXTWM="`cat /etc/windowmanager`"
    echo -n "$NEXTWM" > /etc/windowmanager #this makes change permanent.
    echo -n "$NEXTWM" > /tmp/wmexitmode.txt
+   echo -n "ICONWIPE" >/tmp/pup_event_icon_change_flag ##in case Xvesa selects different resolution
    sync
    exec killall X
    ;;
@@ -1919,5 +1920,5 @@ fi
 #[ -f /tmp/ddcprobeoem.txt ] && rm /tmp/ddcprobeoem.txt && exec xwin 
 #3.99 end
 [ -f /tmp/ddcprobeoem.txt ] && rm /tmp/ddcprobeoem.txt #w478
-
+echo 'ICONWIPE' > /tmp/pup_event_icon_change_flag
 ###END###

Bogus thingy , that bothered me for one year , but now racy-110 gave me vesa instead of nv or nouveau at startup , so ran xorgwizard from the new firstrun-gui :

Karl Godt wrote:NEXT : JWMCONFIG !!

Thie jwmconfig has got several bugs , which I was observing for one year now ,
[ perhaps will open a thread in the Cutting Edge section , but my fixes may still contain bugs also ]

Shinobar attempted to fix the line numbering , but moving the panel buttons around , deleted two lines in .jwmrc-tray :

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		<Pager/>
		<!-- Additional TaskList attribute: maxwidth -->

I have made some attempts to fix jwmconfig and one solution for the line numbering using wc -l could be :

ENSURE TRAILING NEWLINE IN .JWMRC-TRAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this could be achieved by adding this code into /usr/local/jwmconfig2/panel-buttons :

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--- /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/local/jwmconfig2/panel-buttons	2010-08-23 04:04:43.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/local/jwmconfig2/panel-buttons	2011-10-30 01:32:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ fi
 cat /root/.jwmrc-tray | sed '/^$/d' > /tmp/.jwmrc-tray  ### remove all blank lines in .jwmrc-tray
 mv /tmp/.jwmrc-tray /root/
 
+if test "`tail -n 1 $HOME/.jwmrc-tray | hexdump | grep -o '0a'`" = "" ; then
+ #KRGensure newline so wc counts the real line numbers :)
+ 
+ lastLine=`cat $HOME/.jwmrc-tray | tail -n 1`
+ 
+ if test "$lastLine" = "</JWM>" ;then 
+ echo >> $HOME/.jwmrc-tray
+ else
+ if test "`grep -o -w '</JWM>' $HOME/.jwmrc-tray`" = "" ; then
+ echo '</JWM>' >> $HOME/.jwmrc-tray
+ echo >> $HOME/.jwmrc-tray
+ fi
+ fi
+fi
 # 2009-NOV-06 low and high position fixed 
 total=`wc -l /root/.jwmrc-tray | sed -e 's/ *//' | sed -e 's/ .*//g'` ### get total number of lines
 low=`grep -n '^[[:blank:]]*<TrayButton' /root/.jwmrc-tray | head -n 1| cut -d':' -f1`  ### get line number of the first button(Menu)

Billtoo wrote:I made an sfs file of vlc 1.1.12 and it works in this newest version
of racy. It also contains the qt474 libs it needs to work but that
made the size of the sfs approximately 47mb.

Not tested in anything other than this version of racy and it works on
my computers, hopefully yours too if you want it

shinobar's sfs_load-1.2.9.pet can be used to load it on the fly or use
the bootmanager to load it.

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-60be1429.html

ecube wrote:Partview (Free Space in Drives) shows a "Please wait ..." splash window during the processing of the All Drives option.

However, for Slacko 5.3 and Racy-51110 the splash window does not dissappear when the calculation is finished.

The problem is illustrated by the following script, which intended to start yaf-splash, and to kill its process after 3 seconds.

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yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -placement center -text "Please wait, processing..." &
XPID=$!
echo "XPID=$XPID"
`sleep 3`
`kill $XPID`
PIDOF=`pidof yaf-splash`
echo "PIDOF=$PIDOF"

For Slacko 5.3 and Racy-51110 the output of the script is.

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XPID=28255
./p11: line 8: 28255 Terminated              yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -placement center -text "Please wait, processing..."
PIDOF=28296

Thus, yaf-splash is still running with PID = 28296.

The yaf-splash option -font "8x16" seems to be the culprit.

I enclose updated versions of partview, where the -font option is removed from yaf-splash. The version Partview-2.2-Slacko.pet includes the stuff added by 01micko.

BarryK wrote:

peebee wrote:Hi Barry

Racy seems to lack support for my Broadcom B43 wifi on my HP550 laptop which works in other Puppies.

/lib/firmware/b43 is missing - I copied it across from lupu528

the b43 driver is not being loaded - I had to put
modprobe b43
into /etc/rc.d/rc.local

with these 2 changes, my wifi works with sns through reboots and I am posting this from Racy.....

I saw similar problems with the lupu528-k3.0.4 puplet from wuxiandianzi so it may be a k3 problem

Cheers
peebee

b43.ko is supposed to load automatically. This also causes the firmware (at /lib/modules/all-firmware/b43.tar.gz) to install.

...unless b43.tar.gz has the wrong firmware? That is possible. If you run:

# modinfo b43

it will show what firmware is expected.

It may be that b43.tar.gz in Lupu got upgraded, and we will have to do the same.

Sage wrote:Suggest the appearance of Flashplayer is directly linked to first use of browser. Even better, to any use of browser requiring it

  if [ "`echo "$ALLPS" | grep -v 'wget' | grep -v 'petget' | grep -v 'cut' | grep -v 'sed' | grep -v 'indexgen.sh' | grep -v 'grep' | grep -v 'yaf-splash' | grep -E 'seamonkey|firefox|opera|midori'`" != "" ];then

Thanks, partview 2.2 PET will be uploaded to the 'common' repo soon.

BarryK wrote: I checked, the firmware file ucode16_mimo.fw is needed, for certain hardware anyway. I got it out of here:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/linu ... re-nonfree

have put it into the 'b43' firmware in Puppy.

Nov 11 12:56:43 puppypc17231 user.info kernel: b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 13)
Nov 11 12:56:43 puppypc17231 user.debug kernel: ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
Nov 11 12:56:43 puppypc17231 user.debug kernel: Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
Nov 11 12:56:43 puppypc17231 user.debug kernel: Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
Nov 11 12:56:43 puppypc17231 user.debug kernel: Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
Nov 11 12:56:43 puppypc17231 user.info kernel: Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PML, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]

Nov 11 12:56:45 puppypc17231 user.info kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)