Quirky 1.4 bug reports and feedback

[shinobar]

There is a serious problem with Bootflash and Grub4dos.
USB flash devices treated by the 'BootFlash' corrupts with Grub4DosConfig v1.6.2.

CAUSE:
Grub4DosConfig v1.6.2 uses large boot loader to support ext4.
It requires 63 sectors for the boot loader.
But the BootFlash makes 32 sectors/track format and leaves smaller space for the boot loader.

SOLUTION:
New Grub4DosConfig v1.6.3 manages this issue. But you need not upgrade the Grub4dosconfig.
Re-format the USB device using gparted before using Grub4DosConfig (back up the data before).
1. Delete all the partition
2. Rewrite the partition table (Device >> Create Partition Table)
3. Create partitions and format.

P.S.
The Grub4DosConfig v1.6.2 on the Quirky-140 does not detect the new Puppy simple file names.
It is not a problem for the Quirky-140 but note that it does not detect Quirky-130 and some.
Try the new version Grub4DosConfig v1.6.3 if you are interested in. Your feed back is welcome.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697

[01micko]

quick report, no time

Fast box, Athlon X2 , nvidia mobo
sound ok on first boot
rt73usb wireless, recognised but would not connect, sns and Dougal's, very unusual

Slow Box, P3, acx wireless,
no ethernet detected, this has never happened before
acx loaded ok with ndiswrapper. No access points found. Sns and Dougal's. Wary-097 is still ok (booted as sanity check)

Middle box, Athlon 2100+, radeon, 3G huawaei 169 modem
sound ok
modem not detected. Tried hot plug,. modem not detected. Did 'modprobe option' and now online.

HTH.
Cheers

[shinobar]

Frugal install on HDD or USB flash.
At the first shutdown, the partitions list up to save the session.
The list shows curious behaviour.

• Frugal install on HDD shows all the partition. Wherever the installed partition, sda1 is the default.
• Frugal install on the USB flash shows only the partitions on USB flash.

Another thing, I tested booting off the frugal install on HDD with 'pmedia=cd' option.
It failed to find the puppy files.
It is different from older Puppy's. And as the result, UNetBootin installed fails as i reported earlier..

[Sage]

Weird. ATI128Pro AGP : Xorg can crash, irreproducibly, at startup. When it runs, scaling and placement of icons is haphazard; 800x600 res. is unusable. Default background is (unusually) plain white, but other wallpapers do work.
Sound is OK, ditto auto DSL. PPM seems to work but still getting 'missing' message re. alsa &???xul files, even though flash is working. The Opera 'O' icon still overlays the Advert-Blocker in menu.

[Billtoo]

Billtoo,
Did you test glxgears to see if a library is missing?

# ldd /usr/bin/glxgears

...or where-ever glxgears is located.

glxgears is in /usr/bin on the Acer desktop with nvidia card but not there on the hp desktop with ati card.

[davec51]

With a frugal install, I booted up fine, even got my resolution (1280x1024). However, after a few minutes X crashes and I can't get the desktop back without rebooting. I have a dreaded Intel video, but I have no trouble with other Puppies -- 4.3.1 and 5.1.1.

[taca0]

Here is the xerrs.log I really dont know if the X crash error is there...

X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux puppypc 2.6.31.14 #1 SMP Mon Oct 25 23:28:59 GMT-8 2010 i686
Build Date: 13 September 2010
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Nov 27 13:30:22 2010
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

(II) Module already built-in
(II) Module already built-in
(II) Module already built-in
Fulfilled via DRI at 3841664
Freed 3841664 (pool 2)
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/X11R7/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so failed (/usr/X11R7/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
/usr/bin/jwm
EXIT="Exit on mouse-over"
Playing Sparc Audio '/usr/share/audio/2barks.au' : Mu-Law, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
EXIT="Exit on click close-box"

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

May be error its in mplayer error log or...

[JonT]

As this quirky has the older Xorg and kernel, I did a frugal install by copying files from iso for testing, no save file. Chose the i810 driver, got woof-woof, connected to wireless vis SNS. Right-clicked on connect/Autoconnect to ethernet/wireless networks, then chose to upgrade the X drivers - had lost the network connection. Clicking the autoconnect option disconnects the established connection. Reclicking autoconnect reconnects. iwconfig shows that clicking autoconnect toggles access point association after several seconds of delay.

Back online, did recommended video upgrade with mesa-6.5.2-w5.pet, restarted X. New download app was fine. Billtoo and BarryK, this mesa pet doesn't have glxgears and doesn't change the hardinfo/Computer/Display:

Code: Select all

-OpenGL-
Vendor		: Unknown
Renderer		: Unknown
Version		: Unknown
Direct Rendering		: No

Installing mesa-demos-7.6-w5.pet gets hardinfo to fill out details in the OpenGL section (no X restart needed) plus provides glxgears (in /usr/bin/X11R7).

Opened a youtube video, played fine, sound was good with no adjustments to retrovol. Played a DVD with Ogle, subtitles and sound worked, fast & slow worked, reverse did not. Picking Mplayer from menu with DVD loaded opens ogle. To use Mplayer, the DVD must be removed first or start Mplayer from CLI.

Rebooting after creating save file, wireless automatically reconnected immediately - quickly! On light testing, no other problems found.

As the newer kernels give this computer fits, I look forward to wary and 2.14X keeping me up to date. Many thanks!

[Proudog]

The sound, ethernet, and wired internet connection was autodetected at first boot:

Sound:
Card: Intel ICH 82801BA-ICH2 Chip: Analog Devices AD1885 Module:
snd_intel8x0

Ethernet:
Card: Intel PRO100 Module: e100

Bugs

Video report do not work correctly when a Video capture device is installed
REPORT
Quirky Puppy, version 140

Chip description:
Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

My video chipset is a ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY

In upgrade under Quirky 1.3, Seamonkey is changed to version 2.0.7 and the configuration file in ~/./mozilla/seamonkey/XXXXX is changed, this lost the old configuration and bookmarks, add-ons.....

[pemasu]

frugal install. Acer aspire 5820TG. Installed intel driver and dri.

# report-video
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
Driver used by Xorg:
intel
Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

Menu flickering like in wary 0.96 -- 0.98. I Suppose it is due to older xorg and intel driver.

Connects with ath9k.

Ayttm crashes in hyperlinks in #puppylinux. This uninformed feature in Ayttm is really funny. Makes newbies really look and feel newbies when ayttm crashes. People needs immediately help in irc.

There is Pidgin 2.7.5 in the repo. It gives an error:
# pidgin
pidgin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkspell.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtkspell was in the repo and with it pidgin works fine.

Strange slowness, when typing comp freezes sometimes for tens of seconds.

Cpu freq tool shows only 2 of 4 cores, so it is not that newer tool.

Flsynclient ok.

XF-Prot installs and works fine


Otherwise nothing special in this short test.

[nooby]

Ha ha hah, Quirky 1.4 must be the most popular software there is. Downloading takes forever.

Luci or Fluppy gets downloaded in under 30 secondes or something but this one takes some hour to take down Q1.4.

Or Barry have uploaded it to a slow server. Maybe the Luci-239 guys can be helpful and mirror it on their server?

Edit

Q1.4 works good so far.
The only think I can complain about is that when one user Viewnior then in F11 it constrain it self to the small 10" screen format instead of accepting the bigger second screen connected like Fluppy does.

Surprisingly it boot and boots and does not fail to boot as some other OS has done. But maybe it will fail if I install a pet that has another kernel as source?

Which Firefox pet am I supposed to use for Quirky?

[svgt]

I tried Quirky 1.4 with two different 7 year old machines - 2GHz 2GB Nvidia cards and I got the message:

searching for puppy files .. and searching deeper.

I tried with and without hdd drives. I add a screenshot.

[James C]

Another fresh manual frugal install of 140, this time on the P4 test box.

Initial boot had working internet and sound and easily selected desired 1024x768x24 screen resolution.Looks good on this old box.


VIDEO REPORT: Quirky Puppy, version 140

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#


-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 512MB (231MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.14
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 27 Nov 2010 04:31:09 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5


-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.31.14 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Mon Oct 25 23:28:59 GMT-8 2010
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Puppy Linux 0.14
-Current Session-
Computer Name : puppypc
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)
-

[James C]

Which Firefox pet am I supposed to use for Quirky?[/b]

Could try the one in the package manager.

[nooby]

One bug???

when I try to get mplayer to play a .flv or .mp4 file then it open a mp4 file it have found in mnt/home but not any of the music video files that I click on to play in the folder named Music.

Which it did for Q1.3 and Wary and Luci and Fluppy and so on.

So something is very odd about mplayer.

Thanks to James for the isntruction on how to get FF, I'll use that one if FF try to misbehave again.

[James C]

Thought I'd give Quirky 140 a quick live run on a Nvidia box.Live pfix=ram.

Working sound but no network interface detected. Was able to load necessary module from the Network Wizard so working now. Also able to set desired 1440x900x24 resolution with the default driver.Appears to work fine on this box too.


# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky Puppy, version 140

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (118MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.14
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 27 Nov 2010 04:56:15 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.31.14 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Mon Oct 25 23:28:59 GMT-8 2010
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Puppy Linux 0.14
-Current Session-
Computer Name : puppypc
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)

[nooby]

He he heh very odd behavior of this Mplayer.

Should I change something in the set up to make it normal?

It refuse to play when one click on a media file.

But without me have telling it it has internally to itself without showing it to me created an inner playlist in based on that directory.

To see that hidden list one have to first right click on the pop up of the player and then go to file and then further click until the list show up and there chose a file to play and then it play it very good but such a long many hoops to get there instead of just playing the file one click on.

Yes it is the default mediaplayer and that is what the set run is set to too.

so it is preinstalled to have a most unintuitive way of acting compared to what all the other puppies has been installed with.

Why was it set up that way?

[James C]

Went through the Video Upgrade Wizard installing both Mesa and the Nvidia driver. The new downloader worked perfectly again.

# glxgears
4165 frames in 5.0 seconds = 833.000 FPS
5523 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1104.600 FPS
5544 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1108.800 FPS
5595 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1119.000 FPS
5536 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1107.200 FPS
5607 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1121.400 FPS
12839 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2567.800 FPS
13132 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2626.400 FPS
13169 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2633.800 FPS
14048 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2809.600 FPS
14541 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2908.200 FPS
14313 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2862.600 FPS
14601 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2920.200 FPS

[bigpup]

Found a wallpaper for Quirky.

[pakt]

Barry, the ‘FONTMAP’ problem in rc.country remains in quirky-140.

One other thing. After upgrading the video driver, the existing drive icons are mis-aligned (higher up on the screen).

Could you have the ‘erase then redraw and align existing icons’ code run automatically after upgrading?

Many people probably aren't aware that they can re-align the icons by running the 'Desktop drive icons manager'.