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Terryphi
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#1036 Post by Terryphi »

Suddenly I find that Skype and retrovol are broken. I think that the broken retrovol crashes Skype when it is opened.

Here is the result when retrovol is run from terminal:

# retrovol
retrovol: hcontrol.c:573: snd_hctl_load: Assertion `hctl->count == 0' failed.
Aborted

Using the Alsa Sound Wizard I can select the correct driver and configure it but at the sound test I see this error at terminal:

Amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

Consequently there is no sound volume.

LATER: Oh, and the retrovol tray icon has disappeared. I think we need something more retro than retrovol that works reliably!

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#1037 Post by tony »

Hi,

I was initially very pleased with this lucid pup and spent a lot of time setting it up.

But suddenly I lost all sound. I have tried endlessly cycling between the Alsa wizard and Alsa mixer and several times succeeding in getting the sound back. Unfortunately the sound disappears again at shutdown.

Perhaps it is all down to my IBM T42 thinkpad

I am now going to wipe this Lupu 527 off my drives and wait until this or another pup comes along that is stable.

Regards Tony

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#1038 Post by bigpup »

Terryphi wrote:Suddenly I find that Skype and retrovol are broken. I think that the broken retrovol crashes Skype when it is opened.

Here is the result when retrovol is run from terminal:

# retrovol
retrovol: hcontrol.c:573: snd_hctl_load: Assertion `hctl->count == 0' failed.
Aborted

Using the Alsa Sound Wizard I can select the correct driver and configure it but at the sound test I see this error at terminal:

Amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

Consequently there is no sound volume.

LATER: Oh, and the retrovol tray icon has disappeared. I think we need something more retro than retrovol that works reliably!
If this is a frugal install of Puppy.
Run a file system check.
There is a chance the file system got corrupted.
Did you uninstall any audio programs before this happened?

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#1039 Post by scsijon »

Sage wrote:
There is no message spellchecker as such yet, however it is on the todo list, but that is some time away still.
Best news yet. RoW will rejoice. Always was the best but Qualcomm was ostrich-like. Mr Webster was the real culprit, though.
Almost as perverse as punters who insist on using Puppy with multi-core processors and Intel graphics! Not as if the world's best chip designers aren't 'local' to the plaintiffs.
No, the problem is internationalization of the dictionaries that must be used and the different ways the operating systems identify.

Anyway were offtopic here, keep an eye on the Eudora thread in coming months (say 6).

scsijon

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#1040 Post by scsijon »

New maybe problem folks to check on, I think.

521rc. update a frugal install.

Our active interfaces (globe and screen) in the tray is playing up.

Well the data storage it displays is anyway, the month readings it's giving are badly out, showing last week's only rx and tx is six figures. Was very different before update.

Hopefully it's an update problem only, but this didn't happen with earlier updates.

While were here, is there anyway to have the reset to zero ocurr on a set day rather than the first of the month?

Otherwise the rc I find sound.

regards
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#1041 Post by playdayz »

If you want to use a USB Wifi device *and* you want to boot Puppy from a USB disk with ext3 or ext4 filesystem, then you should

1. Install Puppy to the USB drive
2. Boot the USB Drive
3. *DO NOT* Set up networking but immediately shut down and create a save file.
4. Then reboot Puppy and set up networking. This way it will be persistent.

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#1042 Post by majorfoo »

majorfoo wrote:don't know if this is causing any problems but thought i would pass it along

in /usr/lib found following symlinks to libraries that are missing
libAMDXvBA.so symlink to libAMDXvBA.so.1.0
libAMDXvBA.so.1 symlink to libAMDXvBA.so.1.0
libAMDXvBA.so.1.0 is missing

libatiuki.so symlink to libatiuki.so.1.0
libatiuki.so.1 symlink to libatiuki.so.1.0
libatiuki.so.1.0 is missing

libfglrx_dm.so symlink to libfglrx_dm.so.1.0
libfglrx_dm.so symlink to libfglrx_dm.so.1.0
libfglrx_dm.so.1.0 is missing

libfglrx_gamma.so symlink to libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0
libfglrs_gamma.so.1 symlink to libfglrx_gamma-so.1.0
libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 is missing

libXvBAW.so symlink to libXvBAW.so.1.0
libXvBAW.so.1 symlink to libXvBAW.so.1.0
libXvBAW.so.1.0 is missing

this as information
solved missing libraries reported above -
i installed ati-fglxrx-10.10-luicd.pet yesterday and did not work on my equipment - received segmentation fault when tried to run glxgears - i have ati-radeon mobility M6LY card and the one i installed was apparently for newer equipment

i checked all the libraries reported missing above and found they were associated with the newer ati card

sorry for false report - should have checked further before reporting

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#1043 Post by playdayz »

Lucid Five Twenty-Two

A Double-Digit Update from Lucid 5.2
The Ultimate Expression of the Lucid Vision

First message of this thread

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#1044 Post by James C »

playdayz wrote:Lucid Five Twenty-Two

A Double-Digit Update from Lucid 5.2
The Ultimate Expression of the Lucid Vision

First message of this thread
Already downloading...... :lol:

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usb wifi setup on lucid

#1045 Post by cowboy »

Playdayz - looking great, and downloading soon to check it out. (Though I am beginning to think you are in league with the CD manufacturers)

Question...
playdayz wrote:If you want to use a USB Wifi device *and* you want to boot Puppy from a USB disk with ext3 or ext4 filesystem, then you should

1. Install Puppy to the USB drive
2. Boot the USB Drive
3. *DO NOT* Set up networking but immediately shut down and create a save file.
4. Then reboot Puppy and set up networking. This way it will be persistent.
Does that apply only to the release candidate OR to Lucid in general (5.11+)? If broadly applicable, I might suggest that information be presented up front - now, if memory serves, a user is encouraged to setup their internet connection almost immediately. Most users (myself included) will probably do that before creating the first savefile. Thank your for your efforts on this release.
[i]"you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go.."[/i] - Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men.

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#1046 Post by James C »

Quick manual upgrade from 521 to 522 on my main Linux box. Other than the jumbled up icons, everything appears to have upgraded fine. Same JWM, wallpaper and Pwidgets on desktop as before upgrade.

Nvidia driver still working..... :)

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
8904 frames in 5.0 seconds
16128 frames in 5.0 seconds
14901 frames in 5.0 seconds
14219 frames in 5.0 seconds
Looking good........ :)

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#1047 Post by James C »

Fresh manual frugal install of 522 on the old P3 test box.Everything good on initial boot. Installed Xorg_High and Firefox 4.

# glxgears
1128 frames in 5.0 seconds
1480 frames in 5.0 seconds
1552 frames in 5.0 seconds
1473 frames in 5.0 seconds
1583 frames in 5.0 seconds
1521 frames in 5.0 seconds
1166 frames in 5.0 seconds

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#1048 Post by playdayz »

Does that apply only to the release candidate OR to Lucid in general (5.11+)? If broadly applicable, I might suggest that information be presented up front - now, if memory serves, a user is encouraged to setup their internet connection almost immediately.
That's what I thought too, so there is a message on the first run screen. I don't actually know how prevalent it is--I discovered it today, much to my delight :x

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#1049 Post by 666philb »

Just upgraded form 521 to 522, and it all went smoothly .everything's working fine, drivers and settings retained. Apart from the pinboard, but i was prepared for that.

Looking good playdays
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#1050 Post by James C »

One final manual upgrade from 521 to 522 on the P4 test box.Other than the icons all good. Everything installed in 521 still working in 522.
No problems yet on 3 installs on 3 different boxes. :)

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#1051 Post by bigpup »

Fresh frugal install Lucid 522.
In browser installer.
Select Iron browser.
List of Iron browsers has programs other than Iron.
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#1052 Post by 01micko »

Hi bigpup

I can confirm and also fix....

BUT!

What annoys me is that we have hundreds of testers yet not one discovered this? It was introduced on 2101202.

Here's the comment I made in the quickpet script.
GRABPET=`grep -i "$THEPET" $CONFFILE | cut -d '|' -f8|grep -i "$THEPET"` #changed from grep -iw call #20101202 bigpup
Ok, you can blame me, it's my code. But I just discovered a bug (and fix) reported here to do with rox being slow. The bug is in shino's countrywizard script. Again, an easy fix but how come no body found it until the twelfth hour?

I know I put in enough time trying to fix this stuff and do my best as do I'm sure shino and every other coder out there. This is in no way a spray toward you bigpup as you have been instrumental in finding bugs, but I'm sure as hell is down that you aren't the only one to see this.

I'll post playdayz the fixes but I'm sure he's a bit tired of all the "last minute" bugs surfacing when we hardly had a bug report in the preceding month! :roll:

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#1053 Post by James C »

01micko wrote: (Don't mind me, jus' lettin' off some steeam Image )
Chrome and Iron won't even run on my computers............ :lol:

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#1054 Post by James C »

Still better than seeing this.....
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#1055 Post by 01micko »

James C wrote:Still better than seeing this.....
:lol:

I don't use iron or chromium much either.. only time recently was in spup testing.

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