Puppy Dingo 392 testing, bug reporting
rxvt terminal running # probepart shows everything detected
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
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
Compaq SATA
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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Barry
thanks for that,
The fact that you have a 'contacts' desktop icon means that you have upgraded an existing pup_save file, which is expressly warned against in the release announcement on my blog. This early alpha is not ready for that, and your pup_save file is stuffed up.
Please read the instructions first.
I will do so and try again
Jim
thanks for that,
The fact that you have a 'contacts' desktop icon means that you have upgraded an existing pup_save file, which is expressly warned against in the release announcement on my blog. This early alpha is not ready for that, and your pup_save file is stuffed up.
Please read the instructions first.
I will do so and try again
Jim
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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At the moment the highest res that xvesa can manage on my present hardware is 800x600
The new lemon theme (default) is the best and most usable (readable on TFT at 800x500) of the ones provided. Maybe variants of that can be provided by those able to design themes? The others are of very poor quality with cramped or blurry font display on my hardware . . .
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Just a question of altering colours in a text file . . .
At the moment the highest res that xvesa can manage on my present hardware is 800x600
The new lemon theme (default) is the best and most usable (readable on TFT at 800x500) of the ones provided. Maybe variants of that can be provided by those able to design themes? The others are of very poor quality with cramped or blurry font display on my hardware . . .
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/JoesWindowManager
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 129#151129
Just a question of altering colours in a text file . . .
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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.cthisbear wrote:Raman:
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Re: rxvt terminal running # probepart shows everything detec
Good.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
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
Again, same test I gave to Raman, can you run 'probepart' and report that the partitions are all shown properly or not.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).
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So does ddcprobe work fine without X running? -- is this a conflict between a running X and the ddcprobe on your video hardware?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.
installation to IDE hard disk
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.
Positive response from fellow workers to desk top appearance.
Do you intend to have system recover to desktop after unplanned power off without using xwin?
thanks
Jim
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.
Positive response from fellow workers to desk top appearance.
Do you intend to have system recover to desktop after unplanned power off without using xwin?
thanks
Jim
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Just a little suggestion if I may/BarryK wrote:See my blog, a completely rewritten pmount is ready for testing.
You might put the URL of your development blog in your signature.
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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.
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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CUPS Experiences
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.
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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Re: CUPS Experiences
There has been a lot of positive feedback that the new cups system works.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.
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.