Puppy 4 Beta Bugs

[JustGreg]

I have encountered the same problem as Jcagle (13 April 12:57AM) with Hot Pup. When one attempts to change the settings using the Hot Pup entry under the Desktop settings, it fails and reports that old settings will be used. I tried to disable Hot Pup on a Classmate Dingo Beta frugal installation to save screen area. I was not able to using the Desktop menu entry. I change the permissions on the Hot Pup application to prevent it being executed. Crude, but it worked.

I have also try to change the Hot Pup settings on full installation on my desk computer. I got the same problem. Hot Pup is nice. I think most people do like it. However, it is not clear what is the source of the configuration problem. It appears (to me) that new file is not being written.

Silly me After one changes the settings and gets the error message, one just re-starts the x-server and the new settings are used. The problem is the error message is confusing people. If the message stated that one needed to re-start the x-server, this post would not be needed. Thanks again for Hot Pup!

[linuxcbon]

To install seamonkey 1.1.9, it needs libstdc++.so.5.0.7

seamonkey 1.1.9 gets installed in /usr/local/seamonkey
But 1.1.8 is in /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.8 ?

[Flash]

Ack! I only just found out where Barry's blog is, and read where some people are having trouble saving sessions. I couldn't tell whether anyone besides me has had a problem with Dingo 4 beta on a multisession DVD.

For me, multisession Dingo 4 beta will save a session when it shuts down, but the next time it boots, SeaMonkey won't open at all. I get this error message:

# seamonkey
/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.8/seamonkey-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
#

[linuxcbon]

I was wondering what /etc/foomatic is.
I type in shell : foomatic-gswrapper
I got

Code: Select all

ERROR: /undefinedfilename in --.libfile--

Can you add x264 to ffmpeg ? (--enable-libx264)

[zygo]

Barry,

Will the simple addition of a driver get my acer m3600 displaying good graphics? Both xvesa and xorg look like there are vertical strips of blur on the screen. Xorg is worse. The /var/log/Xorg.0.log is attached.

BTW After booting the unadjusted live cd the xvesa wizard does not start automatically on my acer but does on my e370. I have no pupsave but with the acer I use pfix=ram boot parameter. The acer starts with 1440x900x16 and I bump it up to 1440x900x24. 301 started in a non-widescreen mode. So some improvement there.

Is there some way to stop the drive icons from appearing on the desktop?

*EDIT corrected above: It was 301 that started in a non-widescreen mode not Alpha7.

[WN2A]

Barry and All: (with reference to my prior posts in this thread)
It appears that I can install just about anything from the repository into 3.01 with few if any problems, but not so for Puppy 4 Beta 1 3.98. OK, I expected some dependency issues, (and got them). I tried two PC's, each with full 3.98 installation OK. I am wondering where the problems are, missing libraries, symlinks or even the installer? I get the dependency list after install, and the menu items appear after restarting JWM, but nothing else.

Here's my laundry list so far:

100% OK on 3.01, but not 3.98(mostly dependencies issues)
xpaint-2.7.0-pet
openoffice_cutdown3-2.2.0.pet
qucs-0.0.13-i486.pet (from my website)
fldigi-1.34-i486.pet
qt-3.3.6.pet
slidedraw-20011026.pet
tkmines-2.15.1.pet
tuxcards-1.2.pet

OK on both:
qt-3.3.8.pet
fltk-1.1.7

Hmmm, with 3.98's shift to gtk2+ and away from the others, I am starting to think of Dingo as a new distro or at least a fork in Puppy Linux. Does anyone think a .sfs could be made to supply the missing libs to Dingo, until transitions to gtk2+ are made?

73's to all

[grndoor]

### Missing Reiserfs support files

Puppy has the Reiserfs file system drivers compiled into the kernel.

However, the following Reiserfs support files are missing from all the Puppy-400 test isos:

/sbin/debugreiserfs
/sbin/fsck.reiserfs
/sbin/mkfs.reiserfs
/sbin/mkreiserfs
/sbin/reiserfstune
/sbin/reiserfsck
/sbin/resize_reiserfs

Without these Gparted can neither display the used and unused parameters of Reiserfs file systems nor can it format drives as reiserfs.

### Missing ufs.ko driver; Reading and writing BSD file systems

Several people have requested BSD file system handling on the forum recently.

I myself use the following to access FreeBSD and OpenBSD file systems from using the ufs.ko driver which I restored myself:

mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=ufs2 /dev/hdxx /mnt/yyy

mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdxx /mnt/yyy

It would be very useful if the ufs.ko driver could be restored back into Puppy.

At present, the kernel ufs read/write setting is read only:

# CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set

Could this be set to:

CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE=y

so that we have full ufs read and write access?

### XFS file system driver restored.

Adding the following bare minimum xfs file system support files would allow formatting and checking xfs drives:

/sbin/fsck.xfs
/sbin/mkfs.xfs

### Missing UDF file system driver

Restoring the udf.ko file system driver would give full access to read-only optical media, and optical media that are re-writable. This would be especially useful for DVD media.

[Sage]

Ah! You're back, grndoor. I've been talking about you. You gave a method of booting Puppy from scsi drives on BK's blog some long time ago. It was before he changed his host, his design & co several times, so we don't have access to your words of wisdom any longer. Please can you repeat what you said and place it in the scsi thread started by norte3:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=9377
Many thanks. But we still need one of the experts to help, too.
Glad you raised the BSD issue. There is also the ZFS for Sun systems, notably a new Belenix release today.

[Béèm]

To install seamonkey 1.1.9, it needs libstdc++.so.5.0.7

seamonkey 1.1.9 gets installed in /usr/local/seamonkey
But 1.1.8 is in /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.8 ?

You could make a symlink in the 1.1.9 structure which point to that line in the 1.1.8 one.

[Turpin]

Sry, doublepost.

[Turpin]

I was wondering what /etc/foomatic is.
I type in shell : foomatic-gswrapper
I got

Code: Select all

ERROR: /undefinedfilename in --.libfile--

Ooh! Something I can help with! I know! I know! Pick me!

I'm guessing you probably googled it by now, but foomatic is part of the printer driver mechanism, based on my experience installing my HP printer.

[ferikenagy]

puppy 398 on laptop dell inspiron 1526 bugs:

1)wireless doesn't work. Broadcom BCM 4311 (14e4:4311) wifi needs newer module.
Old deprecated module "bcm43xx" & "ieee80211..." could recognize and scan avalable signals,
but cannot connect WPA or OPEN mod.It should be replaced with"b43" & "mac80211" modules.
( on http://linuxwireless.org/ main page:<b43 and b43legacy Broadcom drivers which replace the older bcm43xx driver. bcm43xx is now deprecated and will be removed in future kernel releases.>),newer module needs newer 4 version firmware too.

ndiswrapper: has problem too, when quering about version, so it is no alternative for using wifi.
# ndiswrapper -v
modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper
module version is too old!
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '0'
module details:
modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper
You may need to upgrade driver and/or utils to latest versions available at
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

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2) video is ATI Radeon X1270. Xvesa works fine (doen't have 1280x800, resolution but works with 1024x768)
Xorgwizard for Xorg recognize ok the resolution, it offers 2 choiceis: 1280x800 with 16 & 24 colours, properly modify 'xorg.conf' with these resolutions, but when X starts the real resolution is 1024x768 i presume (reported by 'hardinfo')
regardless that xorg.conf says 1280x800)

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa" #card0driver
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 Series"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubsection
EndSection
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3) audio controler is: Sigmatel STAC9228Codec.Alsa wizard says it founds these cards:
- hda_intel 00:14.2 class 0403: 1002:4383
- hda_intel 01:0.52 class 0403: 1002:7919
The module "snd_hda_intel" is loaded but sound doesn'working ! (in other distros like ubuntu the same module works)

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4) modem is Conexant HDA D330 MDC. it is softmodem wasn't recognized, although there is some driver on dell site:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/Modems, & here: http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/modem-drivers/hsf,
maybe it should be included?
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5)-external monitor, video, and firewire, memory card slot was not tested yet
-Battery aplet is working ok.
-Even it is no paralell port in ilaptop the parport_pc, parport modules were loaded.
touch pad works ok, even in paralell with external usb mouse.The 'wheel' function on touch pad is simulated too (good point), I missed only the simulation of 'finger touch' equal 'left buton press' which works in ubuntu and win. Can it be someway activated too?
-laptop kebboard works ok in paralel with usb keybard, but I couldn't manage to setup altenative language keyboard (I tried to se to romanian ro, with no luck even the control key seems to be working , it turn on/off the led)
I don't remember well, but wasn't created an 'kbd' little aplet for menu bar in the past? It should be included in dingo!
- Cups printing: I have an Brother HL-1430, laser usb printer,for which the www.linuxprinting.org says to use hl1250 ppd file, well I tried it in puppy dingo with the included hl1250 from menu, it comunicates and load the printer with data (printer led are flashing), but no paper no actual printing command comes out. In the past with older puppy I could use the printer but if I remember with an downloaded hl1250.ppd file, it was easy to install because the older "CUPS setup" had an option to load external PPD file not included in puppy.But in this "dingo CUPS setup" that option has dissapaired, so I don't know how to probe rapidly in an easy way with external downloaded PPD file! Why was that option disregarded?
-Omnivision/Creative laptop webcam OV2640 2.0 megpix (05a9:2640) wasn't recognized, it was no "uvcvideo" module from http://linux-uvc.berlios.de included in dingo.
-CD/DVD read-write seems ok
-mounting NTFS file system (created win vista home premium 32) for reading is ok but writing to
NTFS was denied with error message: <Error creating '/mnt/sda2/NewFile': Permission denied>
-scanner wasn't tested because my HP scanner has no linux module developt.

# lsmod
Module Size Used by
evdev 10240 1
parport_pc 31716 0
lp 12616 0
parport 35528 2 parport_pc,lp
snd_mixer_oss 16896 0
ac 5252 0
battery 10116 0
usblp 14080 0
bcm43xx 431392 0
firmware_class 9600 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211softmac 29056 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 33864 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 5632 1 ieee80211
sdhci 17548 0
mmc_block 8712 0
mmc_core 27284 2 sdhci,mmc_block
8139too 25088 0
mii 5888 1 8139too
snd_hda_intel 289308 0
snd_pcm 75656 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 22020 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 9220 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 52068 5 snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,sn d_hwdep
soundcore 7520 1 snd
i2c_piix4 8716 0
i2c_core 22032 1 i2c_piix4
fuse 44052 0
unionfs 83732 1
nls_iso8859_1 4224 0
nls_cp437 5888 0
usbhid 24928 0
usb_storage 83264 0
ehci_hcd 31116 0
ohci_hcd 21252 0
usbcore 127128 6 usblp,usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
sr_mod 17188 0
ide_cd 39200 0
cdrom 36768 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
squashfs 46856 1

[nic2109]

2) video is ATI Radeon X1270. Xvesa works fine (doen't have 1280x800, resolution but works with 1024x768)
Xorgwizard for Xorg recognize ok the resolution, it offers 2 choiceis: 1280x800 with 16 & 24 colours, properly modify 'xorg.conf' with these resolutions, but when X starts the real resolution is 1024x768 i presume (reported by 'hardinfo')
regardless that xorg.conf says 1280x800)

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa" #card0driver
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 Series"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubsection
EndSection

This happens to me all the time with my ATi card which nees the proprietory fglrx driver package installing before doing anything other than 1024x768 whatever xorg.conf says!

You can get a copy of the .pet package at http://files.filefront.com/ATI+fglrx+84 ... einfo.html and there's a thread about it at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 61&t=23995

Hope this helps.

[HairyWill]

NOT A BUG
I just wanted to report that universal installer usb stick comboformat option worked for me when I couldn't get the other methods to work. After installing to the stick I reformatted the large empty ext2 partition as fat16 so that I could use it easily on windows. It boots fine though on shut down the only place I was offered to put the save file was on the small boot partition (only 32MB). I haven't tried moving it to the other partition yet.

[Turpin]

In Rox, when you copy a massive group of files and folders over a similar group of files, it asks you "overwrite?" for each and every single file that it's overwriting, even if you have "force" and "quiet" turned on. To the user, this means having to hit the Y key while holding down alt sometimes many thousands of times. It's so annoying it's almost funny (to look back on). I'm glad I installed XFCE and Thunar.

[John Doe]

To the user, this means having to hit the Y key while holding down alt sometimes many thousands of times.

perhaps it's too late this time, but one way around that behaviour is to hold down the y key rather than pressing it again and again.

[Turpin]

That would work if the repeat didn't happen so slowly. I have my typematic rate turned to highest, and it was still only copying a couple files a second when I tried that. So I had to resort to using my dexterity that luckily I still have in my hand to speed the process up. I figure I did on average 8 files a second that way, but my hand was worn out. At times I was probably doing 20 files a second, playing a little game to see if I could max out the cpu for a moment.
oops, that would max out the hd before the cpu.

[DreamsToGo]

NOT A BUG but there's a new version of xine-lib out.
From xinehq.de

[quote]15.04.2008 xine-lib 1.1.12
A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains a security fix (unchecked array index, CVE-2008-1686). There are also a few bug fixes (including the 1.1.11.1 regressions), a new version of the pulseaudio output plugin, and open-source support for RealAudio “cook

[Wilsonb]

Using Puppy 398, Beta 4
Bugs
Initially running Live-CD;
The Install Icon - brings up the Pet Package Manager. Is this normal or what install suppose to bring up Universal Installer or HD Install. Maybe I\'m thinking of standards like in Ubuntu.

After doing a Universal Install on USB flash device;
Was a hit or miss when trying to make device bootable.
Fat32 (lba) , boot flag- dos label
Also, most of the time get;
syslinux: possibly unsafe /tmp/permissions
and it doesn't write a bootable syslinux.
You will have to go here if your using windows and download syslinux.exe
and run;
syslinux.exe -sfma [USB drive letter]
http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php

Also, it starts to hang sometimes at 'switch-root'.
Also after creating .2fs file, hangs at Starting X, xorg.conf, even when selecting XVesa mode.

Novice question:
Why doesn't Puppy understand commands like;
Apt-get
I thought that was universal.



Suggestions;
Make Puppy Software Installer a standard app included in build. Pet Package manager is lacking.

[divisionmd]

Hello,

Was really glad when i tested the Dingo Alpha 1 that it works/loads both CPUS in my computer.

However when i try the latest release of Puppy 4 the Beta it however does not load the dual core in my pc?

I hope that the final version of Puppy 4 will use and autoload both CPUS´s.

To test if the Puppy is using both cores i typed this command: "cat /proc/cpuinfo"

Best regards,
Johan