Wary/Racy 5.3RC2 (5.2.91)

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#106 Post by James C »

Manual frugal install of Wary 5.2.90 on my main Athlon XP box. All basics working on initial boot.

# report-video
Wary Puppy, version 5.2.90 on Sun 18 Mar 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nv

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
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One small aggravation ......the Video Upgrade Wizard reports Wary not being connected to the internet, from the screenshot there obviously is an internet connection.Note this forum in the background.
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Russian langpack

#107 Post by rodin.s »

I have updated Russian langpack. Changes: xdelta translation, hunspell-ru etc. Some help files are not translated yet.
Since quicksetup.mo is part of base Puppy I put it separately from langpack.
And here is also Ukrainian mini-translation for Quicksetup.

If I choose ru_UA locale at first boot in Wary I have black squares in xorgwizard instead of letters. Console font is not loaded, In Racy it doesn't happen since it boots directly to desktop,
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#108 Post by aarf »

5.2.90
all seems well.
two things not racy enough: fsck,
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
Release 1.42.1 of e2fsprogs is available!

I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution. All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.42.1 version as soon as possible, which can be found here.
racy:
# tune2fs
tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010

and rhadon reports there is a gparted that does btfs files systems.
rhadon was talking of 11 there is now stable 12 at
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
racy has 07

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Wary/Racy 5.3RC (5.2.90)

#109 Post by Billtoo »

I did a full install of Wary 5.2.90 to my Acer Netbook.

Sun 18 Mar 2012 Operating System: Wary Puppy-5.2.90 Linux 2.6.32.55
5.0 VGA compatible controller:ATI Technologies Inc M880G MobilityRadeonHD4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (256x144 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11554 Compatibility Profile Context

# glxgears
8897 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1779.301 FPS
8910 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1781.847 FPS
9000 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1799.803 FPS

AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Core 0: 1695 MHz

It's working well.
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#110 Post by antiloquax »

New Racy RC is running like a dream on my old laptop. Got all my favourite software working - Vim, Python 3 with pygame and Scratch.
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#111 Post by James C »

Fresh manual frugal install of Wary 5.2.90 on my old P3 test box. Everything working on initial boot and looking good.

# report-video
Wary Puppy, version 5.2.90 on Mon 19 Mar 2012

Chip description:
1.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel810(TM) Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
1507 frames in 5.0 seconds = 301.376 FPS
2528 frames in 5.0 seconds = 505.490 FPS
2467 frames in 5.0 seconds = 493.394 FPS
2528 frames in 5.0 seconds = 505.453 FPS
2479 frames in 5.0 seconds = 495.763 FPS
2486 frames in 5.0 seconds = 497.058 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 254MB (113MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 19 Mar 2012 03:36:11 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI i810E 20050821 x86/MMX/SSE
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.32.55 (i686)
Compiled : #1 Thu Jan 26 16:38:55 GMT-8 2012
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution


# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 254208 245132 9076 0 19348
-/+ buffers: 225784 28424
Swap: 1020088 0 1020088
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#112 Post by OscarTalks »

Now on Racy 5.2.90
Clicking on the clock (left click or right click) brings up minixcal calendar which doesn't have a close button on it. It does have a taskbar button though.

If I do the instinctive move of right click the taskbar button and then left click on "close" this exits X to prompt which is a little alarming.

In fact a left click of the taskbar button closes the minixcal calendar and a right click of the taskbar button also closes minixcal but also brings up the usual context menu including "kill" and "close", so unless you realise that the function of the taskbar button is non-standard and that minixcal has already closed it is easy to give yourself a fright.

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5.2.90

#113 Post by sszindian »

Upgrade savefile from 5.2.2.7 to 5.2.90

Everything went well, I believe all personal info in savefile was properly updated, desktop of course was changed and had to re-do it to my personal prefs.

One slight flaw noticed... in pwidgets, changed a clock-face. Clock changed OK but at the bottom there was some other foreign (not en (U.S.) language as per my setup in the 'select buttons'. I took a shot that the r/h one was the 'OK' button and, 'it was' as the clock changed.

Other than that, I haven't noticed any change to any programs so I assume all the upgrades etc., are working in the background. So far,everything working real well!

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WiFi problem

#114 Post by sszindian »

It appears that something happened to 'WiFi' in 5.2.90? (at least with my config)

WiFi was working in 5.2.2.7 with the rt2X00-new-firmware-folder-0.0.1.pet pemsau made and posted in an earlier (this thread) page.

Racy 'Does Show wlan0' as being available in Puppy Connect Wizard.

Linksys blue light comes when doing a scan to connect but... does not connect.

Using (same computer as previous):
rt2800usb
LinksysAE1000 usb-stick
Belkin 300 Router

Even tried re-installing the: rt2X00-new-firmware-folder-0.0.1.pet from pemasu again but still no connection with WiFi.

No problem with eth0... it connects automatically every time!

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Wary/Racy 5.3RC (5.2.90)

#115 Post by Billtoo »

Wary works very well on my Acer netbook, it couldn't find the builtin
wireless though and I had to use a linksys usb wireless adapter that
uses the rt73 module.
The linksys adapter works well with Wary but it only leaves me with 2
free usb ports, so:

I put a full install of Racy 5.2.90 on another partition of the hard
drive.
Tue 20 Mar 2012 Operating System: Racy Puppy-5.2.90 Linux 3.0.17
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: # vesa
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11554 Compatibility Profile Context

# glxgears
8957 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1791.246 FPS
9059 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1811.796 FPS
9053 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1810.572 FPS

AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Core 0: 1695 MHz

06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

I used the network wizard to setup the wireless and it found the
builtin adapter and it's working fine.

Racy 5.2.90 continues to work great on my full install to an HP
desktop.
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Re: Wary/Racy 5.3RC (5.2.90)

#116 Post by peebee »

Billtoo wrote:Wary works very well on my Acer netbook, it couldn't find the builtin
wireless though

06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
Hi Billtoo

You may find the later b43 firmwares that I've provided links to at:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76495
may help in Wary

- or you could try the Broadcom-STA wl driver which I've tested on wary5.2.90 and is uploaded here:
http://ubuntuone.com/5gAMo7ljr84Tw2GjR85e0j
and which Broadcom explicitly say supports your version bcm43225

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#117 Post by L18L »

Difficult....
not only for foreign languages :roll:
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Re: Wary/Racy 5.3RC (5.2.90)

#118 Post by Billtoo »

peebee wrote: You may find the later b43 firmwares that I've provided links to at:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76495
may help in Wary

- or you could try the Broadcom-STA wl driver which I've tested on wary5.2.90 and is uploaded here:
http://ubuntuone.com/5gAMo7ljr84Tw2GjR85e0j
and which Broadcom explicitly say supports your version bcm43225

Cheers
peebee
Thanks, I'll give that a try.

EDIT: I installed the Broadcom-STA wl pet and then loaded the module, it's working fine, it sees the wireless as eth0 but it is working.

Thanks again.
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#119 Post by vicmz »

unable to fix wrong translations in menus

just one example:

the Bcrypt entry should say 'cifrado de archivos' (file encryption), the existing translation says 'encriptado de aplicaciones' (application encryption) -- the word 'encriptar', is so un-Spanish :roll:

langpack_es installs the new translations, but existing fuzzy translations remain
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#120 Post by antiloquax »

Having a bit of a problem with ffmpeg. Trying to run Lobster's screen video-capture script, but I get

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unknown input format: 'x11grab'
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ATI Radeon HD6000 video card. Built-in driver is no go

#121 Post by tronkel »

Running Racy 5.2.90RC with ATI Radeon HD6050

The radeon driver included with this Puppy does not seem to work with the 3.0.17 kernel

I tried to compile the proprietary driver from the AMD web page. This compile fails with a DKMS error. The DKMS version that I installed was a DEB from Debian testing. I have a kernel source pet for k3.0.17 PAE installed - maybe this is a problem as well -it's the nearest kernel source version I could find. The DEVX used is the one for Racy 5.2.90

How can I set up the correct build environment for this driver?

I have got video to run using the VESA driver.
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Re: ATI Radeon HD6000 video card. Built-in driver is no go

#122 Post by Billtoo »

tronkel wrote: I tried to compile the proprietary driver from the AMD web page. This compile fails with a DKMS error. The DKMS version that I installed was a DEB from Debian testing. I have a kernel source pet for k3.0.17 PAE installed - maybe this is a problem as well -it's the nearest kernel source version I could find. The DEVX used is the one for Racy 5.2.90
I was able to compile the amd-driver-installer-12-2-x86.x86_64.run for
my hd4200.
I opened the terminal and ran "sh
amd-driver-installer-12-2-x86.x86_64.run", when it finished compiling
I did the "aticonfig --initial" command and then exited the terminal
and rebooted.

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11554 Compatibility Profile Context
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#123 Post by tronkel »

Thanks Billtoo - the link to the kernel source is here:

http://bkhome.org/sources/kernel-3.0.17/

Compiled without error this time.

"report-video" command still shows VESA as the driver though. Other people have also found this to be the case as well. Uhu I see why - the xorg.conf that got updated by the "aticonfig --initial" command now has two device sections in it - one of which shows the vesa driver.

This looks like a bug in the proprietary driver then?
Section "Device"

### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
Video appears to work though.
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#124 Post by Billtoo »

tronkel wrote:Thanks Billtoo - the link to the kernel source is here:

http://bkhome.org/sources/kernel-3.0.17/

Compiled without error this time.

"report-video" command still shows VESA as the driver though. Other people have also found this to be the case as well. Uhu I see why - the xorg.conf that got updated by the "aticonfig --initial" command now has two device sections in it - one of which shows the vesa driver.

This looks like a bug in the proprietary driver then?
Section "Device"

### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
Video appears to work though.
Yes, report video info is wrong, hardware acceleration is working though because google earth and other programs (games :) ) that need it work fine.
EDIT: I should say some games work, nexuiz works, others like openarena that would work in earlier releases of wary don't for some reason.

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Wary 5.2.90 as Virtualbox guest

#125 Post by mdisaster2 »

I installed Wary 5.2.90 under Virtualbox 4.1.10. I choose Wary instead of Racy because the emulated hardware in Virtualbox is nothing to write home about, and the lower resource usage of Wary doesn't hurt either.

Only problem I had was xorgwizard crashing to a black screen trying to start X (which is required if you want to install the Virtualbox Guest Additions which enable a number of useful features, such as mouse integration, shared clipboard, shared folders, 3D acceleration support, window resize and so on).

Selecting Vesa does work by the way, but you have to disable mouse integration from the vm dropdown menu and you don't have access to the above goodies.

However I restarted the virtual machine with puppy pfix=nox and found out that xorgwizard had left behing a xorg conf in a usable state - I only had to edit it and set the monitor resolution @ 1024*768*24, and this time xwin put me in a regular X (non-Vesa) environment.

Next step was to compile the Guest Additions, so I downloaded the kernel sources sfs and the devx sfs (btw, I didn't have to run anything to connect the network, it worked right out of the box). I made the boot manager mount the sfs, told the VM to load the Guest Additions iso image that comes with the Virtualbox install, then I gave these commands from a terminal:

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make -C /usr/src/linux oldconfig prepare scripts 
mkdir /var/run/vboxadd 
adduser -S -G daemon -u 999 -h /var/run/vboxadd vboxadd 
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 
/mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
umount /mnt/cdrom 
sync
Everything worked perfect, no errors or weird messages. I only had to reboot Puppy as directed by the install and figure out how to launch the services that virtualbox requires (they are in the VBoxClient-all script, so either you arrange for VBoxClient-all to be launched at X startup, or look into it and make the services it launches start from where services are supposed to start in first place).

Bottom line, this is the first Puppy I see in years that runs under Virtualbox with all the Guest Addition features enabled and working, and it is pretty fast as well. 8)

Hopefully the detection issue in xorgwizard is fixable, or else we could just start in Vesa, download a proper xorg.conf and restart X...

Anyway, thanks for another awesome Puppy 8)

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