Puppy Dingo 392 testing, bug reporting

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rxvt terminal running # probepart shows everything detected

#46 Post by Raman »

Dear Mr. BarryK,

You asked me to do the following: "Can you please open a rxvt terminal and run: # probepart ... let me know if that correctly detects everything."

I have done as you suggested and can report that yes, everything is detected by the Puppy alpha 2 OS and reported as such by probepart, including all the USB files (drives, etc.), but Pmount does not detect or mount any of the USB files (drives). Not in Puppy 3.01 Pmount and not in alpha 1 or alpha 2.

I have done this same rxvt terminal running probepart in Puppy 3.01, and yes, probepart reports that the OS recognizes all of the USB files, which Puppy MUT will mount all the time, but which Pmount will not mount all the time, or mount at all, depending. Depending on what is the obvious question that I cannot answer, unfortunately.

I hope this helps.

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Compaq SATA

#47 Post by raffy »

In a Compaq PC with SATA (and firewire), that is easy to check. SATA drives are visible as sdaX, but as soon as you plug in a USB drive and refresh pmount, the SATA drives disappear (from the pmount window, that is).
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instructions

#48 Post by fwilt1 »

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thanks for that,
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I will do so and try again
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#49 Post by Flash »

When I ran ddcprobe from a console of Puppy Dingo 392 (on a multisession DVD+RW) the display instantly went black and the computer locked up. The power had to be turned off before it would restart. So as an experiment I ran ddcprobe from the console of a 3.01 multisession DVD. The screen went black for a second but then came back, and the console showed the results of ddcprobe.
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#51 Post by BarryK »

cthisbear wrote:Raman:
" May I be permitted to _mount_ the modest proposal that MUT be included in Puppy 4? "

Vote now?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23801

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MUT is a Tcl/Tk application and cannot be in Dingo. Whatever is wrong with Pmount can and will (most likely) be fixed.

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Re: rxvt terminal running # probepart shows everything detec

#52 Post by BarryK »

Raman wrote:Dear Mr. BarryK,

You asked me to do the following: "Can you please open a rxvt terminal and run: # probepart ... let me know if that correctly detects everything."

I have done as you suggested and can report that yes, everything is detected by the Puppy alpha 2 OS and reported as such by probepart, including all the USB files (drives, etc.), but Pmount does not detect or mount any of the USB files (drives). Not in Puppy 3.01 Pmount and not in alpha 1 or alpha 2.

I have done this same rxvt terminal running probepart in Puppy 3.01, and yes, probepart reports that the OS recognizes all of the USB files, which Puppy MUT will mount all the time, but which Pmount will not mount all the time, or mount at all, depending. Depending on what is the obvious question that I cannot answer, unfortunately.

I hope this helps.

Hail Puppy!

Raman
Good.
Can you please post the result of running 'probepart', so I can see if there is anything strange about it. (Just drag to highlight the text, click middle mouse button to past selection)

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Re: Compaq SATA

#53 Post by BarryK »

raffy wrote:In a Compaq PC with SATA (and firewire), that is easy to check. SATA drives are visible as sdaX, but as soon as you plug in a USB drive and refresh pmount, the SATA drives disappear (from the pmount window, that is).
Again, same test I gave to Raman, can you run 'probepart' and report that the partitions are all shown properly or not.

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#54 Post by BarryK »

Flash wrote:When I ran ddcprobe from a console of Puppy Dingo 392 (on a multisession DVD+RW) the display instantly went black and the computer locked up. The power had to be turned off before it would restart. So as an experiment I ran ddcprobe from the console of a 3.01 multisession DVD. The screen went black for a second but then came back, and the console showed the results of ddcprobe.
So does ddcprobe work fine without X running? -- is this a conflict between a running X and the ddcprobe on your video hardware?

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installation to IDE hard disk

#55 Post by fwilt1 »

Barry
Decided to try installation to hard disk using a pentium 4 with 256 mem. Process went smoothly with hard ware detection fault free (not always the case with in this case a purpose built Dell ex bank office computer.)
Hardware detection was accurate, all peripherals up and working .Will endeavour to try cups with more printers
System was stable over extended test.
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#56 Post by cthisbear »

" MUT is a Tcl/Tk application and cannot be in Dingo. Whatever is wrong with Pmount can and will (most likely) be fixed."

Gotcha....................and thanks.

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#57 Post by BarryK »

See my blog, a completely rewritten pmount is ready for testing.

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#58 Post by Béèm »

BarryK wrote:See my blog, a completely rewritten pmount is ready for testing.
Just a little suggestion if I may/
You might put the URL of your development blog in your signature.
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#60 Post by Béèm »

Thank you jonyo for the link, but I know how to get there as I follow quite some time here already.

My remark was made to Barry, with the new persons in mind who don't know about the different websites.

But it's up to him to decide what he wants to do.
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#61 Post by jonyo »

Wasn't sure myself whether to post it but have seen others do it so figured it was ok. There are (or were) some dead links out there.

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CUPS Experiences

#62 Post by nic2109 »

I've tried out Dingo A2 + CUPS with an HP Photosmart 2575.

The first thing I discovered is that if you need a .ppd file then d/l it first and put it in /usr/share/cups/model. When I tried this while the wizard was running - it helpfully tells you what to do if your printer isn't listed - everything hangs. Following a reboot, and putting the .ppd in the right place first, the wizard worked fine.

Next: USB connected. No joy. I set it to use USB#1 but nothing happens. the status is

Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
"Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/usb/lp1": No such device"
Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0.

Lastly: unplug the USB lead and try the Ethernet connection. No better.

I tried many combinations of ipp and http protocol, but with no luck.

(In case I did it wrong, can some please re-assure me that where the examples say something like http://hostname:631/ipp/' that I substitute the actual ip address of the printer for 'hostname'. If not then this might be my problem.).

I wish I had more success, but so far - nothing has worked. Are there any diagnostic tests I should try? I have tried to ping the printer's i/p address and it's fine.

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#63 Post by BarryK »

Béèm wrote:
BarryK wrote:See my blog, a completely rewritten pmount is ready for testing.
Just a little suggestion if I may/
You might put the URL of your development blog in your signature.
Ok, done.
Hmm, no signature. maybe I have to logout then back in.

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Re: CUPS Experiences

#64 Post by BarryK »

nic2109 wrote:I've tried out Dingo A2 + CUPS with an HP Photosmart 2575.

The first thing I discovered is that if you need a .ppd file then d/l it first and put it in /usr/share/cups/model. When I tried this while the wizard was running - it helpfully tells you what to do if your printer isn't listed - everything hangs. Following a reboot, and putting the .ppd in the right place first, the wizard worked fine.

Next: USB connected. No joy. I set it to use USB#1 but nothing happens. the status is

Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
"Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/usb/lp1": No such device"
Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0.

Lastly: unplug the USB lead and try the Ethernet connection. No better.

I tried many combinations of ipp and http protocol, but with no luck.

(In case I did it wrong, can some please re-assure me that where the examples say something like http://hostname:631/ipp/' that I substitute the actual ip address of the printer for 'hostname'. If not then this might be my problem.).

I wish I had more success, but so far - nothing has worked. Are there any diagnostic tests I should try? I have tried to ping the printer's i/p address and it's fine.
There has been a lot of positive feedback that the new cups system works.
When it displays the interfaces to choose from, the one with your printer should be obvious as it will give the name of your printer that it has identified on the usb interface -- if you don't get that then something is wrong. It seems something is wrong as you mention 'lp1' whereas if you only have one printer I would expect it to be using '/dev/usb/lp0'. You shouldn't have to manually edit anything, it should just be a matter of selecting from the menus.

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#65 Post by BarryK »

Where's raffy and raman? I want them to test the new pmount, make sure it detects all usb and sata devices, and mounts ntfs read-write. Make sure you grab the latest off ibiblio, that I have just uploaded.

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