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BarryK wrote: If you restart 'cupsd' then it scans all ppd files in /usr/share/cups/model, I know, mine works.

It looks like that this problem was related to a unionfs problem that i had in this moment.
Actually i can download and save every PPD file to the path and the
files are showed for selection in CUPS.

BarryK wrote: Is this a new bug, or have you had the ppd file working on older puppies?

The LexmarkX125 has worked with no problems till yet.
Recognisation and Configuration of the Printer in Cups is very easy.
Still at the Moment i cant print something with Dingo Puppy 4 A3 on LexmarkX125
Everything looks in Cups correct. All settings are right and all paths are also right.
If i try to print the "Testpage" from Cups nothing happens.
Not even a Print Job is showed ?

It would be great if somebody could tell me some Cups Terminal Commands to proove the status of the printer so i can easy find out where the problem is !

Hi All

I am running puppylinux 4a3 frugle install usb thumb drive. I always turn off DPMS with the thumb drive setting but for some reason it is not keeping the setting when I click on the apply button it just goes away no error messages but does not save the setting.

BarryK wrote:

ttuuxxx wrote:"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

You mean the Xine-UI? Does it handle full-screen ok?
I seem to recall, when I tested it awhile back, the GUI window had a crappy font -- have you been able to make that look nicer, with say the DejaVue font? -- I'm just going from memory, but I think that I didn't see any way to change the default font.

Yes Barry last night I watch a movie with Xine-UI fullscreen and it ran perfectly, Not a flaw, It was a divx movie, also I used it to watch a dvd 2 days ago. I use puppy/FH tv-out on my video card to my tv all the time, I've also been able to use VLC and Mplayer full screen. But when I tried Puppy 3.01 with Gxine it didn't work full screen. Thats why I always change it to Xine-UI.
Tell you the truth I never really looked at the font size, but now that you mentioned it they are very small, I'll have to get back to you on it.
ttuuxxx

Plus On another note I ripped apart the latest Slackware Distro last night and uploaded all the "Lib's" to http://www.puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/ Very slow upload about 8hrs for 900MB. I did this because when I try to make pet packages, A lot of the time I'm missing Libs and I spend hours trying to find them, So this way we'll all have a place to find the ones missing. It should save tons of time. I still have about another 3hrs left until the upload is finished. around 2000 files.

Hope This helps, ttuuxxx

I can't seem to find where lsusb is now. It's always been in the menu, but in puppy 4 it's gone and you can't get it through the terminal(that hasn't changed).

HP Pavilion 600 MHz Celeron - 256M RAM - mobo video i810 feeding a very vanilla Dell CRT monitor

xvesa - maximum resolution 800x600, only two other choices, both lower resolution. Screen flicker is painful: epileptics beware.

xorg - distorted pincushion video. Am able to adjust to reasonably acceptable (but not perfect) deflection with xvidtune, however xvidtune, besides being torturously unintuitive with its poorly designed GUI, doesn't save the changed settings.

The predominant color used and the default background image are going to problematic for aging baby-boomers with any history of serious experimentation with lysergic acid diethylamide. Dabblers should fare better ...

Nice to hear from the Nutmeg State Nabob of Negativity or is it Connecticut Cranky Curmudgeon,

alienjeff wrote:HP Pavilion 600 MHz Celeron - 256M RAM - mobo video i810 feeding a very vanilla Dell CRT monitor

The predominant color used and the default background image are going to problematic for aging baby-boomers with any history of serious experimentation with lysergic acid diethylamide. Dabblers should fare better ...

This can easily be fixed using the wallpaper setter, theme setter, and icon setter to a different visual display. This will leave some yellow in the jwm tray. I think a good forum search will turn up something to change this.

Is it normal that in Cups the USB Printer is recognised verywell but in the "Puppy Hardware-Interface Information Wizard" nothing is showed about the connected Printer Device on USB?
http://s3.directupload.net/images/071216/23eg4ckv.png
My USB Mouse is also connected to USB but not showed as a device.
Is this related more to the Wizard or is this more a Puppy BUG ?

usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x043D pid 0x006D
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready

input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /class/input/input2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:10.1 -1

ttuuxxx wrote: Plus On another note I ripped apart the latest Slackware Distro last night and uploaded all the "Lib's" to http://www.puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/ Very slow upload about 8hrs for 900MB. I did this because when I try to make pet packages, A lot of the time I'm missing Libs and I spend hours trying to find them, So this way we'll all have a place to find the ones missing. It should save tons of time. I still have about another 3hrs left until the upload is finished. around 2000 files.

Hope This helps, ttuuxxx

Dude! No more missing dependencies (?).

I have just D/L'd the latest version I think, of Dingo 393 -- rc4-- full zdrv.
I have tried to use this prog (gxine) over a large number of versions of
Puppy, and they have all seem to have had something missing.
It just seems to be such a dud!

Can anyone offer something better or should I turn to MS for a solution?

This latest effort does produce a full screen but now has a new problem,
see my screenshot.

The rectangular block- What's that doing here ?

Just tried alpha3, seems quite fast. My dvd drive has DMA working without me having to boot with combined_mode=libata. Nice! Fonts look sharp.

The clock is wrong. To fix it I changed the symlink /etc/localtime to a link from /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-0 to /etc/localtime. That's probably how it should be set if most people have their BIOS clock set to local time.

But when I tried Puppy 3.01 with Gxine it didn't work full screen.

For later versions of Gxine to get full screen you have to maximize the Gxine window and then hit ctrl-f. If you hit ctrl-f without having the window maximized it just flickers.


I haven't had problems with Gxine 0.5.11 in Puppy 3.01 so I tried compiling it in Alpha 4. It errors with:

gtkvideo.o: In function `gtk_video_get_fullscreen_geometry':
gtkvideo.c:(.text+0x100b): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
gtkvideo.c:(.text+0x1039): undefined reference to `XineramaQueryScreens'
noskin_window.o: In function `xevent_filter_cb':
noskin_window.c:(.text+0x1044): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [gxine] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/my-documents/gxine-0.5.11/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
#

I downloaded 0.4.9, it builds fine in alpha3. Maybe a problem with Gxine 0.5.11 and Xorg 7.3 ?

Also, the Desktop Icon switcher works nice. Used it to change to Stardust. The Stardust Icons look very sharp.

Looking forward to the T2-build-package for Dingo!

Thanks Barry.

EDIT: Installed the missing Xorg libs. But when Xorg would start radeon.ko and drm.ko wouldn't load. Tried modprobe radeon, but got module not found. So I copied the drm and radeon modules from the zdrv, restarted X and both modules loaded.

Still have problems with DRI. Logs look good. And games that need DRI run, but the video is scrambled. In alpha2 I installed the fglrx driver to fix it. (which includes it's own libGL) Maybe a problem with libGL or maybe my radeon X300 isn't supported anymore by the Xorg drivers? Anyone get DRI working in Dingo?

kirk wrote:The clock is wrong. To fix it I changed the symlink /etc/localtime to a link from /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-0 to /etc/localtime. That's probably how it should be set if most people have their BIOS clock set to local time.

/etc/localtime should be a symlink to the appropriate file in /usr/share/zoneinfo, which is done by the "set timezone" entry in the "System" menu. The default is GMT+8 which is the timezone for Western Australia.

Module ath-pci appears to be missing, so can't get wireless networking going. Otherwise looks good so far on my Acer 2423WXMI laptop.

floborg wrote:

ttuuxxx wrote: Plus On another note I ripped apart the latest Slackware Distro last night and uploaded all the "Lib's" to http://www.puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/ Very slow upload about 8hrs for 900MB. I did this because when I try to make pet packages, A lot of the time I'm missing Libs and I spend hours trying to find them, So this way we'll all have a place to find the ones missing. It should save tons of time. I still have about another 3hrs left until the upload is finished. around 2000 files.

Hope This helps, ttuuxxx

Dude! No more missing dependencies (?).

Well pretty much have all the latest slackware ones posted, I also installed every option when installing slackware on the hard drive then booted puppy up to rip'em out and peazip them, If you go to my page just right click then select "Save Link As" and then it downloads. http://www.puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/Libs/ <----Libs
Its already helped a few people out already:)
ttuuxxx

kirk wrote: I haven't had problems with Gxine 0.5.11 in Puppy 3.01 so I tried compiling it in Alpha 4. It errors with:

gtkvideo.o: In function `gtk_video_get_fullscreen_geometry':
gtkvideo.c:(.text+0x100b): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
gtkvideo.c:(.text+0x1039): undefined reference to `XineramaQueryScreens'
noskin_window.o: In function `xevent_filter_cb':
noskin_window.c:(.text+0x1044): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [gxine] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/my-documents/gxine-0.5.11/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
#

You should link /usr/X11R7/lib/libXinerama.so into /usr/lib

pupmate wrote:Module ath-pci appears to be missing, so can't get wireless networking going. Otherwise looks good so far on my Acer 2423WXMI laptop.

From Barry's release notes:

no third party drivers compiled

Might explain it.

bug 1; Pupscan print no information about any usb device conected (I had
2 usb device an flash stick and printer conected) in puppy 301 was ok, but in dingo 4 nothing

bug2: verry old bug,ROX will display only (always) the content of first mounted removable device (floppy or usb mass storage).After umounting first device and mounting an second one , ROX persist on displaying the first one. IT is not an KERNEL BUG, it seems to be an ROX bug, because 'ls'command show the correct content of the current storage as you see in the figure. I tested with 'uxplore' too (in puppy 2.14) and uxplore is correct while ROX display the old (previous) storage content. Does ROX have some sort of cache needed to be discarded?

No problems noted on following boxes.
Box1: PowerSpec 1440 which has an Amptron mainboard with a Celeron 2.53 GHz CPU. On board graphics, sound, ethernet.
Box2: Home built using a Via EPMA mainboard with Via C3-800 CPU. On board graphics, sound, ethernet.

Some of the changes / things I like:
- OSMO personal organizer
- Desktop Icon Switcher (and related config tools)
- spell checker in SeaMonkey
- Leafpad included
- CUPS included
- HardInfo tool

Some wishes:
- Menu icons for Pfind and Zfind
- 1 or 2 more larger font choices for Rxvt (After Rxvt is open when using Shift++ or Shift+- to change the font used for display it would be nice to a few more larger font sizes.)

All this in 80MB - this really is amazing!

Kit: 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop with Centrino Duo processor, 1Gb RAM, SATA disk, ATi X300 Graphics card, on-board sound (hda-intel chip), Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 network card.

Experience with Dingo so far :-

Good News

1. Boot up fine.

2. Sound is fine - hurrah (it's been an old bugbear of mine) - played through gxine.

3. CUPS is good - both USB attached and Network attached (using ipp for protocol and socket://192.etc:9100 for address). My specific device wasn't listed but a near-neighbour works OK. But, has the hpijs .pet disappeared?

4. Icon switcher - nice. And, contrary to the message, you don't have to re-start X. Each icon switches as soon as you move the pointer over it.

Not so Good News

1. pmount didn't detect an SD Card in its socket. This is new as pmount always used to find it whereas MUT never does.

2. Wireless is no good - can't get it to work at all. Earlier Puppies worked with ipw3945, but this time nothing was detected automatically. 'Load Module' listed iwl3945, but when this was selected the report was 'Already loaded but new interface not detected'. It also gave false hits with 8139cp and 8139too on Auto-probe. I gave up after 2 goes.

I hope this is useful information.

Nick

kirk wrote:
The clock is wrong. To fix it I changed the symlink /etc/localtime to a link from /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-0 to /etc/localtime. That's probably how it should be set if most people have their BIOS clock set to local time.

/etc/localtime should be a symlink to the appropriate file in /usr/share/zoneinfo, which is done by the "set timezone" entry in the "System" menu. The default is GMT+8 which is the timezone for Western Australia.

Tried setting it to GMT-5, The clock didn't change, so I set it back to GMT+8, no change. Made another new pup_save file. This time the clock was correct. (/etc/localtime still set to GMT+8 ) I don't know why the clock was wrong with the first pup_save or why changing /etc/localtime to GMT-0 fixed it. I changed /etc/localtime to GMT-0 when the clock was wrong because, with the KDE sfs file I made for 3.01, it had to be set to GMT-0 for the clock to be correct. Sorry for the bad report.

kirk wrote:
I haven't had problems with Gxine 0.5.11 in Puppy 3.01 so I tried compiling it in Alpha 4. It errors with:

Quote:
gtkvideo.o: In function `gtk_video_get_fullscreen_geometry':
gtkvideo.cSad.text+0x100b): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
gtkvideo.cSad.text+0x1039): undefined reference to `XineramaQueryScreens'
noskin_window.o: In function `xevent_filter_cb':
noskin_window.cSad.text+0x1044): undefined reference to `XineramaIsActive'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [gxine] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/my-documents/gxine-0.5.11/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
#

You should link /usr/X11R7/lib/libXinerama.so into /usr/lib

I did try that. Actually I copied all of the Xorg include files to /usr/include and all of the .so files from /usr/X11R7/lib to /usr/lib. The folders in /usr/X11R7/lib were already linked to /usr/lib. I goggled the error, didn't really find anything. Not that there's anything wrong with 0.4.9, just curious.

nic2109 wrote:

3. CUPS is good - both USB attached and Network attached (using ipp for protocol and socket://192.etc:9100 for address). My specific device wasn't listed but a near-neighbour works OK. But, has the hpijs .pet disappeared?

hpijs.pet can be found Here