Wary 0.9.2 (092) feedback
OO works with kernel 2.6.35.7!
Following my success with OO on Wary 092 I have revisited a clean install of Wary 090 kernel 2.6.35.7. Guess what? Add java-jre-6u20.pet before trying the OO sfs and then it does not crash. Yippee!
Wary 0.9.2 (092) feedback
I set up wary 092 kernel 2.6.34.6 on another 4gb usb drive and
installed the devx,kernel source sfs,and NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.12.run file.
I compiled dbus-1.4.0.tar.gz and dbus-glib-0.88.tar.gz, then I compiled
seamonkey-2.0.9.source.tar.bz2 and a few other applications.
This is another pc that is not in the target group for Wary but it's
working well.
BIOS
Date 09/15/2009
Vendor American Megatrends Inc. (www.ami.com)
Version P01-A4
Board
Name RS780
Vendor Gateway
The drive icons don't line up properly when a new usb drive is
inserted, the new drive shows up in the lower left corner and overwrites the
drive icon that is already there.
Having fun, thanks
installed the devx,kernel source sfs,and NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.12.run file.
I compiled dbus-1.4.0.tar.gz and dbus-glib-0.88.tar.gz, then I compiled
seamonkey-2.0.9.source.tar.bz2 and a few other applications.
This is another pc that is not in the target group for Wary but it's
working well.
BIOS
Date 09/15/2009
Vendor American Megatrends Inc. (www.ami.com)
Version P01-A4
Board
Name RS780
Vendor Gateway
The drive icons don't line up properly when a new usb drive is
inserted, the new drive shows up in the lower left corner and overwrites the
drive icon that is already there.
Having fun, thanks
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Wary has been very stable and I've had no problem with LibreOffice crashing using LibreOffice_3.3.0_beta2.sfs4.sfs available here.
As indicated above, it may be the video card.
However, my printer will not print from Wary. Although it appears to install properly, it will not print from any application.
Jim
System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One
As indicated above, it may be the video card.
However, my printer will not print from Wary. Although it appears to install properly, it will not print from any application.
Jim
System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One
Agere modem driver problem - links ignored
It appears that depmod in kernel 2.6.34.5 ignores links within the module directory structure. Neither relative nor absolute links seem to work. The agrmodem variant that is found by depmod is the first in the output of an "ls" command, sorted alphanumerically.
Since this is how the kernel wants to operate, I don't think we should modify depmod to respect links to modules. My next idea is to dynamically rename the two agr modules to and from .ko and something else so that they don't look like modules. I was trying to avoid changing modules, which would result in their being copied to the pup_rw layer of the layered file system. Maybe that cannot be avoided.
I think that effect would be minimized if the 11c11040 variant is the default, and the changes would be made only for the 048 and 06 variants, each of which supports only two hardware IDs. (But, to extend this idea to the Intel 537 modules, two of them would be moved up to pup_rw, and they are huge. But only one if there is no "default" to change.)
I see that the full depmod command allows arguments specifying module names. That would be much faster than a full run, if I specify only the two agr modules.
In the meantime, peebee, go ahead and rename the 048 and 06 variants, by removing the ".ko" suffixes.
Richard
Since this is how the kernel wants to operate, I don't think we should modify depmod to respect links to modules. My next idea is to dynamically rename the two agr modules to and from .ko and something else so that they don't look like modules. I was trying to avoid changing modules, which would result in their being copied to the pup_rw layer of the layered file system. Maybe that cannot be avoided.
I think that effect would be minimized if the 11c11040 variant is the default, and the changes would be made only for the 048 and 06 variants, each of which supports only two hardware IDs. (But, to extend this idea to the Intel 537 modules, two of them would be moved up to pup_rw, and they are huge. But only one if there is no "default" to change.)
I see that the full depmod command allows arguments specifying module names. That would be much faster than a full run, if I specify only the two agr modules.
In the meantime, peebee, go ahead and rename the 048 and 06 variants, by removing the ".ko" suffixes.
Richard
What driver package are you using? I installed my Photosmart c4680 using the hpijs-3.10.6-dynppd.pet from here and it worked fine.Jim1911 wrote:However, my printer will not print from Wary. Although it appears to install properly, it will not print from any application.
HP PhotoSmart 7150 - CUPS + Gutenprint v5.2.5 which has worked fine with my Photosmart C5280 on Wary before.rcrsn51 wrote:What driver package are you using? I installed my Photosmart c4680 using the hpijs-3.10.6-dynppd.pet from here and it worked fine.Jim1911 wrote:However, my printer will not print from Wary. Although it appears to install properly, it will not print from any application.
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You guys might be interested to know that there is another Wary coming very soon with the 2.6.31.14 kernel:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01886
Off topic, my use of the term "the one" reminds me, during the US Presidential campaign, Oprah said that Obama is "The One".
Ahem, better get back on-topic, don't want this thread to get hijacked by discussion of President Obama's post-election performance!
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01886
Off topic, my use of the term "the one" reminds me, during the US Presidential campaign, Oprah said that Obama is "The One".
Ahem, better get back on-topic, don't want this thread to get hijacked by discussion of President Obama's post-election performance!
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Barry wrote:
He causes the system to break though under certain circumstances. Needs a few patches I'd say. No need to mention for what.
Well this not off-topic really, since BO is a sort of political "kernel" of the US government.Ahem, better get back on-topic
He causes the system to break though under certain circumstances. Needs a few patches I'd say. No need to mention for what.
Life is too short to spend it in front of a computer
Domainname is a symbolic link to hostname which is a symbolic link to busybox, so could this be a busybox issue? It would explain why the crash is so total.tronkel wrote:Both OpenOffice and LibreOffice crash on my system. Video card is ATI Radeon 3450.
Starting from a terminal, output is:
domainname: applet not found.
Have googled around for this but haven't found much. Sounds like a java problem though.
Does wary use a different (hacked?) busybox?
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Just tried using the XVESA video driver instead of the xorg ATI driver. LibreOffice now works and so does GoOffice. Strangely Openoffice 3.2.1 still bombs out with a Sun Java error.
So this looks like the proprietary built-in ATI kernel module has probably not been correctly compiled for the 2.6.34 kernel. I think I had the same problem with real Ubuntu Lucid. The problem was resolved by the time the 2.6.35 kernel appeared.
That's not to say that there is also not a problem with Busybox though. That has also been recently altered in Wary. TerryPhi seems to think that the domainname error is not the problem here though. Dunno.
It's a real shame though that this is happening with k2.6.34. In other respects it's great. Runs like a dream on my hardware, the OpenOffice problem aside. Showstopper though.
So this looks like the proprietary built-in ATI kernel module has probably not been correctly compiled for the 2.6.34 kernel. I think I had the same problem with real Ubuntu Lucid. The problem was resolved by the time the 2.6.35 kernel appeared.
That's not to say that there is also not a problem with Busybox though. That has also been recently altered in Wary. TerryPhi seems to think that the domainname error is not the problem here though. Dunno.
It's a real shame though that this is happening with k2.6.34. In other respects it's great. Runs like a dream on my hardware, the OpenOffice problem aside. Showstopper though.
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Agreed. Its worth dumping OpenOffice for me just to stay with the '34 kernel.tronkel wrote: It's a real shame though that this is happening with k2.6.34. In other respects it's great. Runs like a dream on my hardware, the OpenOffice problem aside. Showstopper though.
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DaveS wrote:
As a compromise - trying to have my cake and eat it, by installing the UbuntuFont pet that I made last week, I can get away with using the Xvesa driver - which allows LibreOffice to run - and still have fonts that are usable. This is not the case with with Xvesa and the DejaVu font set. The Ubuntu fonts look far less corrupted under Xvesa than do the Ubuntu ones.
See here for the UbuntuFont pet:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60776
Yes, that's what I'm thinking too.Its worth dumping OpenOffice for me just to stay with the '34 kernel.
As a compromise - trying to have my cake and eat it, by installing the UbuntuFont pet that I made last week, I can get away with using the Xvesa driver - which allows LibreOffice to run - and still have fonts that are usable. This is not the case with with Xvesa and the DejaVu font set. The Ubuntu fonts look far less corrupted under Xvesa than do the Ubuntu ones.
See here for the UbuntuFont pet:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60776
Life is too short to spend it in front of a computer
Ha Ha... been using the Ubuntu font EXCLUSIVELY since you made it available. Used in conjunction with the fontwizard from Iguleder I can now get font display on my LCD screen as good as in Ubuntu/gnome with all versions of Puppy. First thing I install....tronkel wrote:DaveS wrote:
Yes, that's what I'm thinking too.Its worth dumping OpenOffice for me just to stay with the '34 kernel.
As a compromise - trying to have my cake and eat it, by installing the UbuntuFont pet that I made last week, I can get away with using the Xvesa driver - which allows LibreOffice to run - and still have fonts that are usable. This is not the case with with Xvesa and the DejaVu font set. The Ubuntu fonts look far less corrupted under Xvesa than do the Ubuntu ones.
See here for the UbuntuFont pet:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60776
Seamonkey loves it too...
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Hi
and if you don't mind, a link to the OpenOffice package you are using would be nice too.
As i have tried using both: (with wary-092-k2.6.34.6)
ttuuxxx's jre1.6.0_18-1.pet http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/programs/internet/jre1.6.0_18-1.pet
and the jre-1.6.0.22.pet available from here: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/JavaRuntimeEnvironment
but the system still locked up when i tried to run OpenOffice.
CatDude
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Don't suppose you'd like to share the location of where you got that java-jre-6u20.pet from,Terryphi wrote:Following my success with OO on Wary 092 I have revisited a clean install of Wary 090 kernel 2.6.35.7. Guess what? Add java-jre-6u20.pet before trying the OO sfs and then it does not crash. Yippee!
and if you don't mind, a link to the OpenOffice package you are using would be nice too.
As i have tried using both: (with wary-092-k2.6.34.6)
ttuuxxx's jre1.6.0_18-1.pet http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/programs/internet/jre1.6.0_18-1.pet
and the jre-1.6.0.22.pet available from here: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/JavaRuntimeEnvironment
but the system still locked up when i tried to run OpenOffice.
CatDude
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[img]http://www.smokey01.com/CatDude/.temp/sigs/acer-futile.gif[/img]
Its not what you asked for catdude but I am putting together OpenOffice LibreOffice Java resources here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/CatDude wrote:Hi
Don't suppose you'd like to share the location of where you got that java-jre-6u20.pet from,Terryphi wrote:Following my success with OO on Wary 092 I have revisited a clean install of Wary 090 kernel 2.6.35.7. Guess what? Add java-jre-6u20.pet before trying the OO sfs and then it does not crash. Yippee!
and if you don't mind, a link to the OpenOffice package you are using would be nice too.
As i have tried using both: (with wary-092-k2.6.34.6)
ttuuxxx's jre1.6.0_18-1.pet http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/programs/internet/jre1.6.0_18-1.pet
and the jre-1.6.0.22.pet available from here: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/JavaRuntimeEnvironment
but the system still locked up when i tried to run OpenOffice.
CatDude
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linux
These packages all work fine in all puppies so far tested EXCEPT wary 09 '35 and wary 092 '34. Sorry.
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Hello DaveS
i just wanted to play with the actual packages Terryphi is using, to see if they work on my setup (with wary-092-k2.6.34.6)
CatDude
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Thanks for the link, but i already have a working OpenOffice in my main Puppy (432),DaveS wrote:Its not what you asked for catdude but I am putting together OpenOffice LibreOffice Java resources here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/
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These packages all work fine in all puppies so far tested EXCEPT wary 09 '35 and wary 092 '34. Sorry.
i just wanted to play with the actual packages Terryphi is using, to see if they work on my setup (with wary-092-k2.6.34.6)
CatDude
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[img]http://www.smokey01.com/CatDude/.temp/sigs/acer-futile.gif[/img]
If anyone wants to try browsers that require dbus, I made a little sfs of it here:http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/
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Sometimes it makes me crazy. Spent so much time messin' with Open Office I just noticed I have no video playback with mplayer. Sound is fine, but playback screen is just blank yellow 
The fix is to run xorg wizard and select low res driver. Run the video and its ok, then run video wizard again and select hi res option and it is fixed!
EDIT: Only half right. Simple fact is on my system video in Wary does not work with transparency enabled.
The fix is to run xorg wizard and select low res driver. Run the video and its ok, then run video wizard again and select hi res option and it is fixed!
EDIT: Only half right. Simple fact is on my system video in Wary does not work with transparency enabled.
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A yellow window is not an error, it is simply that mplayer is waiting for something to play.DaveS wrote:Sometimes it makes me crazy. Spent so much time messin' with Open Office I just noticed I have no video playback with mplayer. Sound is fine, but playback screen is just blank yellow
I get the yellow window if I click on a streaming media link, until the connection is made and the stream is flowing.
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