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#31 Post by Marv »

Got around to testing 15.11.03 on my Bay-Trail machine (Asrock Q1900M mobo with intel j1900 quad core processor, RTL8168g chipset ethernet, intel 4000 HD graphics, 4Gb RAM, 80Gb SATA HDD).

Frugal Grub4Dos install booted cleanly. Video, sound, mouse, USB all perfect. The RTL8168 would not connect until the patch in the attached pet was applied. Once that was done and the correction in post#2 applied and hplip 3.14.10 installed, the HP4500 set up but would not print (see my post above).

without patch:

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# dmesg | grep r8169                                                                               
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:04:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: RTL8168g/8111g at 0xf893c000, d0:50:99:20:e4:05, XID 0c000800 IRQ 91
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
r8169 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw failed with error -2
r8169 0000:04:00.0: Falling back to user helper
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw (-11)
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
with patch:

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# dmesg | grep r8169
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:04:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: RTL8168g/8111g at 0xf86f4000, d0:50:99:20:e4:05, XID 0c000800 IRQ 90
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link up

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Motherboard Vendor: ASRock
Product Name: Q1900M

Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz
Max Speed: 2416 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:2416 MHz, 1:2415 MHz, 2:2415 MHz, 3:2415 MHz
Core Count: 4
Thread Count: 4

Memory Allocation:
 Total RAM: 3494 MB
 Used RAM: 989 MB
 Free RAM: 2505 MB
 Buffers: 93 MB
 Total Swap: 0 MB
 Free Swap: 0 MB

Linux Kernel: 4.2.5-EmSee-32-pae (i686)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Mon Nov 2 10:21:44 GMT 2015
PAE Enabled: Yes

Distro: Slacko-C Puppy 15.11.3
Desktop Panel: lxpanel 0.6.0-r694
Window Manager: Openbox 3.6.1
Desktop Start: xwin startlxde

OpenGL 2D/3D Rendering:
• Direct Rendering: Yes
• Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center
• Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2
• Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.5

RTL8186g/8111g ethernet chip

Class
• Device
• VendorID=10ec  DeviceID=8168  Rev=11
• Kernel Driver=r8169
• Kernel Module=r816

PRINTERS

DefaultPrinter CUPS-PDF
Printer HP4500

I've tried fiddling around with firewall and firewall settings, also swapped in the slackocurrent kernel but still no printing. Jobs aren't spooled... Got the same behavior in slacko 6.3.0, printer set up fine, just won't print.

Edit: The firmware files are in /lib/firmware of slacko 6.3.0 so also could be taken from there.
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#32 Post by Marv »

Another quirk on both of my machines:
In Puppy Setup, clicking on the Graphics/Screen button locks up the machine (or at least X). Lxrandr runs ok on both and xserverwizard doesn't if run from the terminal. First an error message.. can't find /proc/pci then on the core 2 duo laptop, gives a wild flickering display and on the Bay-Trail seems ok but no button response.
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#33 Post by Terry H »

Marv wrote:Another quirk on both of my machines:
In Puppy Setup, clicking on the Graphics/Screen button locks up the machine (or at least X).
Noticed this same issue the other day on my Dell D630 Core 2 Duo laptop.

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#34 Post by rcrsn51 »

@Marv: The CUPS v2.x in LxPupSc is missing some key components.

1. Go to page 1 and do the "lpadmin" fix.

2. Go here and get the packages cups-filters-1.0.76-i586-1.txz and qpdf-5.1.2-i486-1.txz.

3. Restart CUPS.

However, many print/scan driver packages built for older platforms will need some additional content. I am sending you something to test.

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#35 Post by Marv »

rcrsn51 wrote:@Marv: The CUPS v2.x in LxPupSc is missing some key components.

1. Go to page 1 and do the "lpadmin" fix.

2. Go here and get the packages cups-filters-1.0.76-i586-1.txz and qpdf-5.1.2-i486-1.txz.

3. Restart CUPS.

However, many print/scan driver packages built for older platforms will need some additional content. I am sending you something to test.
Working on the core 2 duo laptop:
1. "lpadmin" fix was applied, hplip 3.14.10 was installed.
2. Previous printer install deleted.
3. Both xxx.txz files above installed.
4. CUPS restarted (reboot).
5. Done both without and with lxpup_print_patch-1.0.pet installed:
a.Reboot.
b.Install HP4500 printer.
c.Print test page.

In both cases under 5, the attached is the result.
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#36 Post by rcrsn51 »

@Marv: I did a clean frugal install of LxPupSc. I did NOT touch the firewall setup. I performed the above steps and installed the hplip_print driver.

I installed a USB HP Deskjet F4280. It worked. I installed a networked Brother laser with socket:// and Gutenprint. It worked. I did a simulated install of your Officejet 4500. It worked.

[Edit] I installed an HP Envy 4500 by WiFi and socket://. It worked.

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#37 Post by Marv »

@rcrsn51: I redid the installation leaving hplip til after the patches with the same result. In case it was my savefile updated from 15.11.02, I then did the patches, hplip, printer install on a fresh frugal install of 15.11.03. The exact order outlined, checked that the files in the txzs were installed, stopped and restarted CUPS. Same result. Stopped on the way to the fresh install to print a test page in X-slacko 3.1n to check the printer. Printed fine. I'm stumped for now but LxPupSc isn't my daily so it is on the back burner. I'll attach a gz of the portion of the CUPS error log file pertaining to the final print attempt in the fresh install.

Edit: The patch you sent me by PM did get HP Officejet 4500 g-m printing going for me in Slacko 6.3.0. It had an hpcups filter error previously. Thanks.
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#38 Post by rcrsn51 »

Officejet_4500: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
That's definitely an error, but I have no idea where it is coming from. LxPupSc has libpoppler.so.56 and it works correctly in all my tests.

You could try fixing this with a symlink.

[Edit] Slackware has already bumped the cups-filters package up a version and it now needs libpoppler57.

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#39 Post by Marv »

rcrsn51 wrote:
Officejet_4500: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
That's definitely an error, but I have no idea where it is coming from. LxPupSc has libpoppler.so.56 and it works correctly in all my tests.

You could try fixing this with a symlink.

[Edit] Slackware has already bumped the cups-filters package up a version and it now needs libpoppler57.
I know it's bad form to symlink to an older lib, but a 57>56 symlink tried and it prints.
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#40 Post by peebee »

rcrsn51 wrote:
Officejet_4500: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
That's definitely an error, but I have no idea where it is coming from. LxPupSc has libpoppler.so.56 and it works correctly in all my tests.

You could try fixing this with a symlink.

[Edit] Slackware has already bumped the cups-filters package up a version and it now needs libpoppler57.
Thank you both rcrsn51 & Marv for your valuable experiments....much appreciated.

You've hit on a real problem with slackware current based systems - you can't rely on adding things from the slackware current repository to a built system as "things may have moved on".....

I'm going to add the 2 packages identified by rcrsn51 to my next build which will also have other updates, particularly the ppm problem which mavrothal is kindly helping with.

Cheers and thanks for your testing
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LxPupSc-15.11.09-pae

#41 Post by peebee »

LxPupSc-15.11.09-pae.iso is now available
md5 = 0aa10b336208acd4efeacd9795437c80

Based on latest woof-ce build of slackocurrent with kernel huge-4.3.0-EmSee 32bit pae with added firmware-140621-big

Fixes include CUPS (thank you rcrsn51 & marv) and ppm (thank you mavrothal). 01micko found some bugs to squash - see post #2.

Pup-volume-monitor has been recompiled for LxPupSc and eudev.

Devx
Kernel 4.3.0 sources

Cheers
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System report:
System: Host: puppypc23839 Kernel: 4.3.0-EmSee-32-pae i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.7.1)
Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.6.1) Distro: Slacko-C Puppy 15.11.9
Graphics: Display Server: X.org 1.18.0 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: vesa)
tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card-1 HDA NVidia driver: HDA-Intel
Card-2 pcsp driver: PC-Speaker
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.3.0-EmSee-32-pae
Info: Processes: 169 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 96.3/3786.7MB
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.421) inxi: 2.2.28

Distro: Slacko-C Puppy 15.11.9
Desktop Panel: lxpanel 0.6.0-r694
Window Manager: Openbox 3.6.1
Desktop Start: xwin startlxde

Development:
Bash: 4.3.42
Geany: 1.25
Gtkdialog: 0.8.4
Perl: 5.22.0
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busybox: 1.23.1
dhcpcd: 6.8.2
GlibC: 2.22
OpenSSL: 1.0.1p 9 Jul 2015, built on: Thu Jul 9 13:13:17 2015
wpa_supplicant: 2.4
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Re: LxPupSc-15.11.09-pae

#42 Post by Marv »

peebee wrote:LxPupSc-15.11.09-pae.iso is now available
md5 = 0aa10b336208acd4efeacd9795437c80
Downloaded, md5 checked, and installed as pristine frugal Grub4Dos on both the core 2 duo with iwlwifi and the Bay-Trail desktop with the RTL8168g NIC.

Video, sound, touchpad, mouse fine on both.

On connection: The core 2 duo is fine using Frisbee, as it was in 15.11.03. The Bay-Trail box with the RTL8168g now connects immediately on boot with the firmware patch for it found and loaded. Posting from that now. I'll check the ethernet speed on it at some point as that has been a reported issue with that NIC and earlier drivers.

On printing: Both machines now print with straightforward installs of the HP4500 printer. hplip 3.14.10 installed, CUPS sets up the printer correctly. I do need to use the lxpup_print_patch-1.0.pet that rcrsn51 sent me or I get a filter error. Perhaps he will incorporate it in his magnificent printer install page. All in all it's a great leap forward.

Not to mention the PPM which no longer hides under its gray coat after one operation :)

I'll continue to use it daily on the laptop and leave it as default on the Bay-Trail in the cellar if there are any questions.

Thanks,
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Re: LxPupSc-15.11.09-pae

#43 Post by mavrothal »

Marv wrote:Not to mention the PPM which no longer hides under its gray coat after one operation :)
That was the least of the problems. :D

May be a good idea to inactivate the slackware-14.1 repo from the settings as it provides older versions of the same packages as "current" and installing from 14.1 may break things.
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LxPupSc-15.12.02-pae

#44 Post by peebee »

UPDATED: 7-dec-2015 - rebuild with latest slackware current

LxPupSc-15.12.02-pae.iso is now available
md5 = 2b9b8e4e328ea81a9d7998ae6f9606a5

Based on latest woof-ce build of slackocurrent with kernel huge-4.3.0-EmSee 32bit pae

Main changes in this version are:
- cut-down llvm is included - thanks 01micko - glxgears should now work
- kernel from stemsee now includes firmware - thanks stemsee
- further small changes to ppm - thanks mavrothal

Devx
Kernel 4.3.0 sources

Cheers
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Linux Kernel: 4.3.0-EmSee-32-pae (i686)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Sat Nov 28 22:54:16 GMT 2015
PAE Enabled: Yes

Distro: Slacko-C Puppy 15.12.2
Desktop Panel: lxpanel 0.6.0-r694
Window Manager: Openbox 3.6.1
Desktop Start: xwin startlxde

Development:
Bash: 4.3.42
Geany: 1.25
Gtkdialog: 0.8.4
Perl: 5.22.0
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busybox: 1.21.0
dhcpcd: 6.8.2
GlibC: 2.22
OpenSSL: 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015, built on: reproducible build, date unspecified
wpa_supplicant: 2.4

System: Host: puppypc1109 Kernel: 4.3.0-EmSee-32-pae i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.7.1)
Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.6.1) dm: N/A
Distro: Slacko-C Puppy 15.12.2
Info: Processes: 173 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 112.5/3786.7MB
Init: SysVinit v: N/A runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.421 running in lxterminal) inxi: 2.2.28
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#45 Post by Billtoo »

Manual frugal install to a usb-3.0 SSD.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Wed 2 Dec 2015 on Slacko-C Puppy 15.12.1 Linux 4.3.0-EmSee-32-pae i686

X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.18.0
dimensions: 3840x1080 pixels (1015x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD REDWOOD (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.7.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.0.6

AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Core 0: @800 1: @2700 2: @2700 3: @2700 4: @2700 5: @800 MHz

Installed some kdegames with PPM, they won't run from the menu but do
work with the run on the lxde menu.

That's it so far.
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LxPupSc-15.12.03-pae

#46 Post by peebee »

LxPupSc-15.12.03-pae.iso is now available
md5 = e5fb178586b7c7871795bb28f5610373

Based on latest woof-ce build of slackocurrent with kernel huge-4.3.2-EmSee 32bit pae

Main changes in this version come from updates to slackware current including:
- Firefox 43.0
- openssl 1.0.2e
- CUPS 2.1.2

Devx
Kernel 4.3.2 sources

Cheers
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LxPupSc-15.12.03-pae

#47 Post by Marv »

Downloaded, md5 checked, frugal install to Fujitsu 6520 laptop. Fresh install went perfectly, boots well to desktop, correct intel video drivers, OK glxgears FPS, sound fine, synaptics touchpad fine, Frisbee WPA2 connection using iwlwifi (5300 chip) fine. Inbuilt Firefox, latest chromium/pepperflash SFS fine as is geriatric Opera 12.16. All browser profiles are outside pupspace.

Updated 15.11.9 savefile. One glitch, not Lx specific. I've also had it with Slacko 6.3.x and experimental Slacko without automatic Xorg. On updating a savefile (probably cross kernel), the connection seems fine but the interface has been remapped from eth0 or wlan0 to eth1 or wlan1 via eth125 or wlan126. No ping or connection is possible though the route table seems correct and uses wlan1. Seems to be related to the 4.xx kernels as I've never had it before. Did a little fiddling trying to remove prev. configuration with no sucess and then just used the fresh install save (uses wlan0 correctly) and just petted in my look and feel. Not an issue, just a possible note for those of us who do use frugal and update savefiles. I don't keep any browser profiles or user data in the savefile so no problem there.
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#48 Post by gcmartin »

@Marv, If this is NOT the case, let me know.

Am I correct in assuming your boot was able to acquire an IP from your DHCP router/LAN, but could not route?

If so, I have been reporting this for over a month with several modern distros.

And, can I also assume that older distro have no problems with this on your PC(s) until now?

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#49 Post by Marv »

gcmartin wrote:@Marv, If this is NOT the case, let me know.

Am I correct in assuming your boot was able to acquire an IP from your DHCP router/LAN, but could not route?

If so, I have been reporting this for over a month with several modern distros.

And, can I also assume that older distro have no problems with this on your PC(s) until now?
For me this behavior only occurs ONLY on updating a save file. With pristine frugal installs If an IP is acquired, routing works correctly. I regard updating saves as a 'do at your own risk' operation, particulary cross machine or cross kernel, so if I can figure it out it will make me happy but don't really see it as a bug. When it does occur, I always see a remapping of the interface in dmesg.

There always will be missing firmware issues but any I have had have been corrected quite quickly and they show up clearly in dmesg. I'm pretty convinced I never saw this behavior prior to the 4.xx.xx kernels but there is also a huge latitude in how kernels are configured.
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LxPupSc-15.12.05-pae.iso

#50 Post by peebee »

LxPupSc-15.12.05-pae.iso is now available
md5 = ac59320261b0716cd377c471ab4226fd

Based on latest woof-ce build of slackocurrent with kernel huge-4.3.2-EmSee 32bit pae

Main changes in this version come from updates to slackware current including:
- Firefox 43.0.3
- changes to slackware locale and timezone configuration

Devx
Kernel 4.3.2 sources

Cheers
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