4.3.2-SCSI 2.6.30.5 full older modem support

[gcmartin]

Along with Adaptec, LSI is another of the Controller chipsets used in onboard SCSI motherboards. This is very PREVALENT in Dell, IBM, HP. and, I believe, MAC servers which have the controllers (raid, too) built into the motherboards.

Shouldn't PUPs that address Retro and SCSI know this? It would be nice. So far in my 2 years of PUPs I have NOT found one PUP LiveCD that contains features which "see" server system SCSI drives. I believe someone(s) are building and supporting their PUPs, but, it NOT for any of the DELL/IBM servers I've testing them on.

Hope this helps anyone who attempts to use PUPs on server motherboards.

[tempestuous]

Yes, as I look through the kernel configuration for Puppy 4.3.x (and most other Puppies) it's strange that almost all SCSI device drivers have been enabled, so the "Fusion MPT" SCSI drivers are conspicuous by their absence.
I suggest that future "SCSI" derivatives should enable these drivers.

To be precise, the kernel configuration option I'm referring to is found at:
Device Drivers > Fusion MPT device support

The kernel modules concerned are:
mptspi
mptfc
mptsas

and the SCSI interfaces concerned are:
LSI53C1020
LSI53C1020A
LSI53C1030
LSI53C1035
ATTO UL4D
LSIFC909
LSIFC919
LSIFC919X
LSIFC929
LSIFC929X
LSIFC929XL
LSIFC949X
LSIFC949E
Brocade FC 410/420
LSISAS1064
LSISAS1068
LSISAS1064E
LSISAS1068E
LSISAS1078

[abushcrafter]

Is it possible for one to upgrade Seamonkey to the 2 series?

[tempestuous]

It would be relatively easy to add this driver ("mptspi") to any Puppy version

No, I was wrong. I checked just now, and when the "Fusion MPT" modules are enabled in the kernel configuration, the kernel itself is changed.
A full kernel rebuild is necessary.

PupGeek, let us know how you end up running Puppy on your Dell PowerEdge.
I just located the LSI MegaRAID Linux configuration utilities which might be of use to you.

[PupGeek]

Thanks Tempestuous for the advice. I havent been able to post in a while or run puppy on my server yet. I still have my hard drives taken off the RAID controller and now have ArtistX installed on one of them. It would just be nice to have a compact, lightweight distro like puppy as one of my options. I like my drives configured as separate, as when I install other OS's (yes, even Windoze Server), I can just install each to its own drive. I been playing around with Puppy Linux for about 2 years now and might try out a project like rebuilding a kernel or using the woof scripts to make a new puplet that will allow booting from SCSI devices. I'll still check out those LSI MegaRAID Linux Configuration Utilities though, if you can post a link.

[tempestuous]

LSI MegaRAID utilities now available here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 436#464436
Note that these utilities are not essential. MegaRAID adapters should work just fine in Puppy without them.

[shinobar]

Note that etx4 support of the grub4dos in Puppy-4.3.2 has some limitation.
You fail to install grub4dos for the ext4 formated USB and for the case /dev/sda1 is ext4 partion.
Upgrade the grub4dos installing grub4dos-0.4.4.v1.6.0.pet.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697

[James C]

Just installed the latest Opera 11 beta......basically only needed to download the deb and click on it.

Seems to be pretty stable and its quick.

[clarf]

Hi ttuuxxx,

In 4.3.2 I get many errors using pnethood-0.66 with cifs enabled. These errors seems to be related to libiconv library:

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init_iconv: Conversion from UTF-16LE to CP850 not supported
init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion from UTF-16LE to ASCII
init_iconv: Conversion from UTF-8 to CP850 not supported
init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion from ASCII to ASCII 

It´s the same error reported for lucid Puppy 5.1.1 by another user in the pnethood thread. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=280

I followed rcrsn51 advice in that thread and installed IBM850.so file in /usr/lib/gconv, the errors are gone but mount still don´t work in pnethood, found in dmesg:

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CIFS VFS: CIFS mount error: iocharset utf8 not found

Then I changed the mount code in pnethood to remove the "iocharset=utf8" support section, mount with cifs worked after that change.

I´m not sure but seems like the cifs.ko kernel module was compiled without utf8 support. I don´t have this problem with Puppy 4.3.1 although it uses the same kernel version.

I hope you this information could be useful for the next 4.3.2 release. Anyway, I´ll make the utf8 support optional for the next pnethood release instead of hardcoding it.

Greetings,
clarf

[frayja2002]

Hi there

I have an old pc with several scsi tape drives.
When I go to system -> hardinfo I can see the tape drives listed by manufacturer name & I can see the scsi card in kernal modules (adaptec), but when I look in /dev there are no listings under /dev/st* or /dev/nst*

Is there something I have to do to get these to show up?

Thanks in advance
Alex

[ttuuxxx]

I'm thinking about doing another release based on the latest woof, plus the added fixes found on this thread, after 3 months we only had 5 pages in this thread, wow that's showing that 4 series is almost dead, luci gets that a day, 2.14x gets about 20 pages, lately its been a bit slow on 2.14x because well I haven't ever released it on Distrowatch which would make it skyrocket and I've been working on other projects as well.

Ok there are 2 options, one is a new backend, I already made one, but it was using gtk3 and well that's not so good since a lot of gtk2 apps don't work on it and it has limited apps for gtk3, wish I would of known that before spending a few days on it, but what I suggest is the latest gtk2 backend.

option fixes plus updates for apps like abiword, all the puppy "P" apps, drop the calculators and add galculator, update Seamonkey to Seamokey2 etc and leave gtk alone.

you guys choose option 1 or 2, you have about 60mins before I start working on it.
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

ok since I had "0" responses, I'll decide and well I guess you'll see
ttuuxxx

[abushcrafter]

I'm thinking about doing another release based on the latest woof, plus the added fixes found on this thread, after 3 months we only had 5 pages in this thread, wow that's showing that 4 series is almost dead, luci gets that a day, 2.14x gets about 20 pages, lately its been a bit slow on 2.14x because well I haven't ever released it on Distrowatch which would make it skyrocket and I've been working on other projects as well.

Ok there are 2 options, one is a new backend, I already made one, but it was using gtk3 and well that's not so good since a lot of gtk2 apps don't work on it and it has limited apps for gtk3, wish I would of known that before spending a few days on it, but what I suggest is the latest gtk2 backend.

option fixes plus updates for apps like abiword, all the puppy "P" apps, drop the calculators and add galculator, update Seamonkey to Seamokey2 etc and leave gtk alone.

you guys choose option 1 or 2, you have about 60mins before I start working on it.
ttuuxxx

I thought you weren't going to do any more on 4.3.*.

Hmmm....

If it would work on all me hardware then I am temped to say yes. This would mean, I guess saying bye bye to Ubuntu repos in puppy.

The current release does not auto config my sound card in one of my computers. It's a "". Odd in 4.3.2 v3 the command "lspci" gives me this:

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# lspci
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2580 (rev 04)
00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:2581 (rev 04)
00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:2582 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: 8086:2668 (rev 03)
00:1c.0 Class 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 Class 0604: 8086:2662 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 Class 0604: 8086:2664 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 Class 0604: 8086:2666 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03)
00:1d.3 Class 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev d3)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:2640 (rev 03)
00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03)
00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:2651 (rev 03)
00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03)
06:05.0 Class 0c00: 11c1:5811 (rev 61)
06:08.0 Class 0200: 8086:1064 (rev 03)
# 

If one enables other check sums in gtkhash. It Crashes when you try to generate check sums.

I think there might one or two more bugs.

If you could also compile a fully featured Mplayer (and ffmpeg?) (May be not it's GUI but the Gnome Mplayer GUI instead?) that can play every thing like OGG,WebM,Dirac,etc like the one in current puppy's that would be brill .

To top it off if some one would like to, a PET of the current version of Agave would be most appreciated.

but then I think of the 3d acceleration seams to work better in newer puppy's.

I will have a think and do one or two tests. Then I will give you my finial decision/position.

No to option 1 btw.

[ttuuxxx]

Thanks abushcrafter for the idea's, To tell you the trueth I haven't been impressed with gnome-mplayer on luci-puppy, the forward and reverse didn't work well. Gxine does handle it better, As for the extra file formats, later on I'll either add them to gxine or try building mplayer with them.
Actually I'm testing some Wary apps and they seam to work well, Seamonkey 2 needed a few libs libhunspell, libjpeg.so.7, libsqlite3.
after that it worked really well, actually for libjpeg.so.7 I just made a system link to libjpeg.so.62. Its strange Barry uses 2 libjpeg in Wary libjpeg.so.7 libjpeg.so.62
ttuuxxx

[abushcrafter]

Here's a link to the Agave website: http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/

With Agave one can

generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color

.

[abushcrafter]

Thanks abushcrafter for the idea's, To tell you the trueth I haven't been impressed with gnome-mplayer on luci-puppy, the forward and reverse didn't work well. Gxine does handle it better, As for the extra file formats, later on I'll either add them to gxine or try building mplayer with them.

Gxine is fine with me. However Xine does not at the moment support VP8 the video format for WebM. Only the WebM container is supported. It does not support Dirac too.

If you use the Mplayer GUI please use the Corelian theme. It's the one of best Mplayer themes.

after that it worked really well, actually for libjpeg.so.7 I just made a system link to libjpeg.so.62. Its strange Barry uses 2 libjpeg in Wary libjpeg.so.7 libjpeg.so.62
ttuuxxx

Me thinks "libjpeg.so.7" would also be useful to have because some apps I found want it.

[ttuuxxx]

Thanks abushcrafter for the idea's, To tell you the trueth I haven't been impressed with gnome-mplayer on luci-puppy, the forward and reverse didn't work well. Gxine does handle it better, As for the extra file formats, later on I'll either add them to gxine or try building mplayer with them.

Gxine is fine with me. However Xine does not at the moment support VP8 the video format for WebM. Only the WebM container is supported. It does not support Dirac too.

If you use the Mplayer GUI please use the Corelian theme. It's the one of best Mplayer themes.

after that it worked really well, actually for libjpeg.so.7 I just made a system link to libjpeg.so.62. Its strange Barry uses 2 libjpeg in Wary libjpeg.so.7 libjpeg.so.62
ttuuxxx

Me thinks "libjpeg.so.7" would also be useful to have because some apps I found want it.

I think Gxine does support Dirac, Its just that we don't add the extra Schroedinger lib, http://diracvideo.org/ to ffmpeg, as the website states, and I remember seeing it disabled in the past because of it.

Also as Mplayer goes and WebM, when I look at the website for info on it to see if its possible to get it working on gxine, Mplayer isn't a media player listed ok for WebM, just VLC. Also Seamonkey isn't listed just Firefox 4beta plus which see monkey isn't based on.
http://www.webmproject.org/users/

also do you have any other bugs or things you would like updated?
ttuuxxx

[James C]

ok since I had "0" responses, I'll decide and well I guess you'll see
ttuuxxx

It was about 5 am here when you made the post, a lot of people were asleep....including me.
Still using this every day , one request......latest SeaMonkey.

[ttuuxxx]

one request......latest SeaMonkey.

Maybe not the first release but the second
I'm building the backend first
next release after if all goes well with the backend will be apps
ttuuxxx

[abushcrafter]

Also as Mplayer goes and WebM, when I look at the website for info on it to see if its possible to get it working on gxine, Mplayer isn't a media player listed ok for WebM, just VLC.
http://www.webmproject.org/users/

Rubbish I have being playing WebM in Mplayer in new puppy's and in in 4.3.2 v3 using the Mplayer PET:Puppy Linux Discussion Forum :: View topic - Mplayer SVN pet

WebM test video: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 050#436050

also do you have any other bugs or things you would like updated?

Hmm...

• FFmpeg Wrapper
• [Edit]Drive Labels For Desktop Drive Icons And Drives In The Panel In The GTK File Dialog
• [Edit]Replace the screen shot scripts with PupShots.
• My goodies: http://silverdollarsolutions.com/PuppyL ... ter/appup/
  There are a lot of GTK themes you will probably want to delete. if you delete the ClearLooks ones you will not need the ClearLooks PET. Do not delete the copy of "Polished-Blue". I modified it. It now has fater scroll bars and 2 sets of up & down arrows. At the top and bottom of the scroll bar.
  [Edit Mon,20,12,2010] You will also want to regenerate the Rox-Filer Open With menu items. Using the "/usr/local/apps/Rox-Right-Clicks" RoxApp. You will also want to delete "/root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/OpenWith_LiveCDEntrys".
• Another bug is I found firefox more resposive/less laggy in LHP when I was testing KDE don't know if it was a KDE thing as I did not test the other WMs or DEs enough.