Dingo alpha6 feedback/bugs

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#91 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

***EDITED by SHS (problem downloading it, see below)***
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#92 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

***EDITED by SHS***The problem was here--for some unknown reason my (Windows software) proxy firewall is not passing-on the .iso correctly.***
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#93 Post by divisionmd »

Hello all,

Here is a few bugs i found with Dingo Alpha 6.

- You can start/install .PUP files

- When unpacking files i get the error "wrapper exited with error all the time even though everything is unpacked perfectly.

- After some random bootups the screen is black. Then i need to "ctrl-backspace" and type xwin to start up X

Best regards,
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#94 Post by trapster »

divisionmd wrote:
When unpacking files i get the error "wrapper exited with error all the time even though everything is unpacked perfectly.
I get this all the time (puppy300-retro frugal) when I save the .pup / .pet outside my pup_save (vfat). If I save inside my pup_save, no error messages.
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Currently using full install: DebianDog

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#95 Post by NathanO »

Testing at the San Antonio Public Library. It took three 'scans' and 'choosing' the WIFI berfore the WIFI in this HP zv6000 laptop would stay on. I was then able to auto DHCP to get on line. Am using it now.

3.01, with no 'bug fixes' only takes one 'scan' and one auto DHCP to connect.

Will try at San Antonio Collage later.

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#96 Post by russ »

I was having the same problem as lobster earlier until I downloaded the 2.6.23.12 version and everything is working better.

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#97 Post by NathanO »

At San Antonio College. Same problem as 3.02A1, takes several 'scan', 'choose' and auto DHCP on WIFI.

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#98 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

I don't know whether this is a "bug" or a "feature," but, I used

mksquashfs ./* trashedsystem.sfs

to make an archive of a trashed filesystem...while running tmxxine 'Vision' from live-CD..'Vision' uses kernel 2.6.24rc8...and...

..the resulting trashedsystem.sfs is not mountable by Puppy 2.17-1.

Nor mountable in Sabayon 1.1 PE, which uses a 2.6.23-something kernel. dmesg | tail did advise that I should update my kernel.

trashedsystem.sfs is mountable in 'Vision' --I presume it would also be mountable in Barry's "stock" 4-alpha-6 which has a 2.6.24 kernel, though haven't tried. I wonder if it is mountable in the earlier 4-alphas.

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#99 Post by linuxcbon »

In /etc/ld.so.conf, there should be no /opt/qt4/lib and /opt/mozilla.org/lib
In /etc/mtab, what is /dev/root ?
Is it better to compile for i386 instead of i686 ?

libXss.so.1 is missing. (needed for new skype beta)

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#100 Post by disciple »

Sorry - I haven't had a chance to read through the thread, so there will likely be some duplication. Some of this is more FYI than expecting anyone to do anything about it.

Blurb
Dingo is awesome!
- It seems very solid/stable already.
- It looks truly abominable, but is great if I change the JWM, GTK, and icon themes to normal/standard/whatever the most traditional ones are called.
- It seems very much faster than Puppy 2. I am almost tempted to upgrade from my highly customised Grafpup 104 :):):) Browsing (esp. sf.net) is particularly fast. I wonder why?
- I think a lot of the recent improvements are very much addressing real useability, especially for non-geeks, which is great.

More Useful observations/experience
- When I shutdown, it does not turn off my PC. Puppy always has before - is this intentional? Should I provide more information?

- It loads the drivers and everything properly for my soundcard (PCI with a fortemedia fm801 chip) properly, but never turns the sound on. I've checked volumes and muting etc. Grafpup 2 is the same. It works in Puppy 2.16. I've tried to find answers, but maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

- the alltray package is broken - try launching most GTK2 applications with it, and you will get a string of error messages. This is a pity, because it is very useful. I have the same problem with the version I compiled on Puppy 1 (when I say you mention it here). I posted a question to the alltray message group, but now I can't find that, and it needs a new maintainer.

- It has become very confusing with JWM having so many configuration files. I changed the focus mode with the jwm config tool, then edited one of the files manually, then changed the focus mode back with the jwm config tool, but it didn't actually do anything and I had to change it back manually. It also seems to ignore some settings, e.g. I added a line to include jwmrc-personal2, as I was lazy and it has some key bindings not in jwmrc-personal, but they won't work for some reason.
Also, what happened to the warning in .jwmrc to edit the other files instead?
Also, I thought somebody was rewriting the jwm configuration manager? Was I right about this? Barry seems to have rewritten just the theme selection or something, and some of the other (basic) functions are broken like they have been for a year or two. Maybe I should have a look at it... seems like something even I might be able to do. Also, I think a font option in the JWM theme selector would be good.

-Can I suggest having something other than MTPaint as the default action when clicking on a JPEG? People are much more likely to be viewing a JPEG than editing it, and MTPaint isn't great for this.

-What happened to Glipper?

-I have some very common network cards that used to have their driver (tulip) autodected by Puppy, but they haven't been for a number of versions now. Do we try to get everything autodetected (i.e. should I post more information), or not?

-Please can we have xev?

-I had a number of problems with Gnumeric, particularly graphs not being drawn. Hopefully these things will have been fixed in 1.8

-Do we have anything that points users to the easiest way to install dictionaries for Abiword? .pet packages even?

-If you open ChmSee (without opening a chm) it freezes or something and you have to kill it.

-Even if I set the user level thing in Xine to "master of the known universe" most of the tabs in the options dialogue say they are not available at this "user experience level". What does this mean?

-If I boot up Puppy and open Xine, it crashes. If I open it again it crashes again. If I open a file with Xine, it works, and continues to work thereafter.

Probably the two things I miss most are not being able to get the graphical view of mounted partition usage from the memory indicator on the taskbar, and the old volume control in the taskbar :(

----------------EDIT---------------------
This is the xine error message:

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# xine
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5.
(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.
AFD changed from -2 to -1
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  140 (XVideo)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  1846
  Current serial number in output stream:  1847
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#101 Post by Jesse »

Hi,

I've got a fundimental boot problem that seems quite odd to me.
I've tried 3.95 and 3.96 with the same face value problem: can't find pup_396.sys at boot, and I'm dropped into the initial ram disk shell.

Ok, first thing I try is mounting the CD, it seems ok, all the files are on it.
Ok, so the next thing I try is iso checksum, which looks ok to me:

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sh-3.00# md5sum /dev/hda
e19a7f96ece3df4938a1fb74ee92c08f  /dev/hda
sh-3.00# md5sum /mnt/hdd7/puppy-3.96-seamonkey-k2.6.24.iso 
e19a7f96ece3df4938a1fb74ee92c08f  /mnt/hdd7/puppy-3.96-seamonkey-k2.6.24.iso

sh-3.00# wget ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/test/puppy-4.00-dingo-alpha6/puppy-3.96-seamonkey-k2.6.24.iso.md5.txt
--23:30:40--  ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/test/puppy-4.00-dingo-alpha6/puppy-3.96-seamonkey-k2.6.24.iso.md5.txt
           => `puppy-3.96-seamonkey-k2.6.24.iso.md5.txt'
Resolving ibiblio.org... 152.46.7.80
Connecting to ibiblio.org|152.46.7.80|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/test/puppy-4.00-dingo-alpha6 ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR puppy-3.96-seamonkey-k2.6.24.iso.md5.txt ... done.
Length: 67 (unauthoritative)

100%[====================================>] 67            --.--K/s             

23:30:44 (1.07 MB/s) - `puppy-3.96-seamonkey-k2.6.24.iso.md5.txt' saved [67]

sh-3.00# cat puppy-3.96-seamonkey-k2.6.24.iso.md5.txt 
e19a7f96ece3df4938a1fb74ee92c08f  puppy-3.96-seamonkey-k2.6.24.iso

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sh-3.00# /usr/lib/mut/bin/guess_fstype /dev/hda
iso9660

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h-3.00# disktype /dev/hda

--- /dev/hda
Block device, size 85.01 MiB (89135104 bytes)
CD-ROM, 1 track, CDDB disk ID 02024401
Track 1: Data track, 85.01 MiB (89135104 bytes)
  ISO9660 file system
    Volume name "CDROM"
    Application "GENISOIMAGE ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM CREATOR (C) 1993 E.YOUNGDALE (C) 1997-2006 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING (C) 2006-2007 CDRKIT TEAM"
    Data size 85.01 MiB (89135104 bytes, 43523 blocks of 2 KiB)
    El Torito boot record, catalog at 26
      Bootable non-emulated image, starts at 27, preloads 2 KiB
        ISOLINUX boot code
So I have a little look-see inside the initial ram disk shell.
I notice that I can't access any drives via ide drive nodes (e.g. hda) even though those node names are there, but the drives are accessible via the scsi node names, and the /dev/sr0 is my cdrom drive.

But I can't mount it. The mount command just fails no matter what I try.
I notice that the insmod command crashes with a Seg-Fault. and modprobe can't install the module (.ko.gz?) files.
disktype doesn't want to let me in on what my cdrom is, its output looks something like this:

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# disktype /dev/sr0

--- /dev/sr0
Block device, size 85.01 MiB (89135104 bytes)
CD-ROM, 1 track, CDDB disk ID 02024401
Track 1: Data track, 85.01 MiB (89135104 bytes)
       can't read a sector x
       can't read a sector y
but guess_fstype does work.

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# guess_fstype /dev/sr0
iso9660
So does anyone know whats going on? I'm a bit lost.

Has anyone else had this problem happen to them?

My hardware is an ASUS CD/DVD drive, with an AMD based motherboard, AMD cpu.
My IDE hard disk is accessable no probs from the initial ramdisk via /dev/sda.

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#102 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

Jesse wrote:So does anyone know whats going on? I'm a bit lost.
I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I notice that Sabayon Gentoo puts my (1) scsi drive at the top of the chain, e.g. sda, and my 3 ATA drives as sdb sdc sdd. Dingo, by contrast, puts the scsi drive at the bottom as sdd. Perhaps this is causing confusion?

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#103 Post by Jesse »

Hi SHS,

Its not the ordering of drives thats a problem. I have only 1 ide disk (sda) and 1 ide cdrom/dvd (sr0). There is a usb chip reader which gets drive nodes sdb-sde.
I am wondering if it is a bug/issue in the new linux kernel ide-as-scsi drivers?
It would be nice if someone else has this problem can let me know their motherboard ide driver filename and/or chipset.
Here is the computers pci list from elspci -l running from puppy 2.13.

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sh-3.00# elspci -l
01:00.0 030000 10DE:0092 <nvidia>
05:07.0 040100 1073:000D <Yamaha DS-1 PCI>
05:06.1 048000 109E:0878 <Bt87x>
05:06.0 040000 109E:036E <bttv>
00:18.3 060000 1022:1103 <>
00:18.2 060000 1022:1102 <>
00:18.1 060000 1022:1101 <>
00:18.0 060000 1022:1100 <>
00:0e.0 060400 10DE:005D <pcieport-driver>
00:0d.0 060400 10DE:005D <pcieport-driver>
00:0c.0 060400 10DE:005D <pcieport-driver>
00:0b.0 060400 10DE:005D <pcieport-driver>
00:0a.0 068000 10DE:0057 <forcedeth>
00:09.0 060401 10DE:005C <>
00:08.0 010185 10DE:0055 <sata_nv>
00:07.0 010185 10DE:0054 <sata_nv>
00:06.0 01018A 10DE:0053 <AMD_IDE>
00:04.0 040100 10DE:0059 <Intel ICH>
00:02.1 0C0320 10DE:005B <ehci_hcd>
00:02.0 0C0310 10DE:005A <ohci_hcd>
00:01.1 0C0500 10DE:0052 <nForce2_smbus>
00:01.0 060100 10DE:0050 <>
00:00.0 058000 10DE:005E <>
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#104 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

Hi Jesse,

Can't help ya. Old MUT's guess_fstype works correctly where it should, and doesn't work where it shouldn't, on my Dingo.

disktype works right for me too--on /dev/sr0. No idea why it's seeing your sr0 CD/DVD as hda. Forgive it if this is an ignorant question, but, Is AMD mainboard + Intel ICH a common combination?

PMount and mount work correctly here too, even on the scsi drive.

insmod does segfault though.

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Chat in Dingo Alpha 6 - can't get it to work

#105 Post by GeoW »

Hello All,

First, let me admit that this is the first time I've ever tried to chat.

I read the rel help page. I clicked on the chat icon. It finally started
continuously telling me GeoW was not registered. I couldn't find a
clue as to how to register.

After a while, I gave up and rebooted into Puppy 3.01.

Found the chat routine on the menu.

It just worked! beautiful - although I couldn't figure out how to enter
multiple chat forums.

I was hoping that the access would somehow carry over, but when I
rebooted to Dingo Alpha 6 I still couldn't chat.

I think it's a bug, but maybe I just don't know what I'm doing.

Any help would be appreciated,

GeoW

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#106 Post by oli »

There is still a problem with the xorgwizard. My hardware isn't recognized properly by Puppy Dingo (and the older releases, too. I hoped this could be fixed in Dingo) so I use Xvesa. But Xvesa doesn't know the German special characters (like ä ö ü ß) although I had choosen the German keyboard layout. So I had to edit Xmodmap. This is not the best way so it would be good if Xorg would work for me.

In the meantime I tested a live CD of PCLinuxOS. This distro uses XFdrake and recognizes my hardware very well. Perhaps you could add XFdrake to the xorgwizard. Below you will find the content of the file xorg.conf of my PC created with PCLinuxOS (I cannot show the content of the file created by Puppy because xorgwizard crashes and doesn't create this file):

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 57713)

Section "Files"
# font server independent of the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"

# minimal fonts to allow X to run without xfs
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de(nodeadkeys)"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Plug'n Play"
ModelName "S1931"
HorizSync 31-64
VertRefresh 59-61

# Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 64.0 kHz hsync, ratio 5/4)
ModeLine "1280x1024" 108 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName ""
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX and later"
Driver "nv"
Option "DPMS" "false"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

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#107 Post by BarryK »

Sit Heel Speak wrote:I don't know whether this is a "bug" or a "feature," but, I used

mksquashfs ./* trashedsystem.sfs

to make an archive of a trashed filesystem...while running tmxxine 'Vision' from live-CD..'Vision' uses kernel 2.6.24rc8...and...

..the resulting trashedsystem.sfs is not mountable by Puppy 2.17-1.

Nor mountable in Sabayon 1.1 PE, which uses a 2.6.23-something kernel. dmesg | tail did advise that I should update my kernel.

trashedsystem.sfs is mountable in 'Vision' --I presume it would also be mountable in Barry's "stock" 4-alpha-6 which has a 2.6.24 kernel, though haven't tried. I wonder if it is mountable in the earlier 4-alphas.
Yeah, there's a problem here. Dingo uses squashfs v3.3, whereas Puppy3 uses squashfs 3.2r2 and earlier puppies may have an even earlier version of squashfs. The 'mksquashfs' utility in Dingo creates smaller sfs files, but that means incompatibility with earlier squashfs's. The problem specifically is the squashfs kernel module in the earlier puppies.
What you have to do is boot the older puppy and use its mksquashfs utility.
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#108 Post by BarryK »

Jesse, I've just compiled the 2.6.24.2 kernel, with the conventional /dev/hd* restored for IDE drives. The libata PATA /dev/sd* works for most IDE drives, and on all PCs that I have tested. There are just a few, like yours and sage's, that are troublesome. So, probably alpha7 will have the /dev/hd* restored and we'll see if that fixes the problem.
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#109 Post by Jesse »

Yay! I'll give it a go soon. I want to fix a MUT2 bug that prevents it running on Dingo editions. Although the bug seems related to scsi disks, so it MUT2 might run unchanged on Dingo alpha7 no-problems.
Jesse

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Dingo Alpha 6 Chat continuous loop * fixd w Xchat*

#110 Post by GeoW »

Help,

I'm just starting to use chat, Puppy 3.01 works, Dingo A6 seems to go
into an auto log loop. freenet and nickserv generate tabs so fast
that I can't even send out a msg asking for help.

If I x it closed, it pops up again and continues. I need to kill it.

I am running a frugal install
Multi booting Puppy 301, Dingo A6, Windows XP Pro (SP2)

Anyone seen this? I've just reread this entire thread and no mention.

My defaultchat says exec pidgin

I get the same behavior from the menu sel and the icon.

Help,

GeoW
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