Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[01micko]

HI Barry,

I'm having a problem with mini-icons displaying with Xorg in upup-476, ie- they don't show!

Here's a pic and my /tmp/xerrs.log

[tempestuous]

[gerry]

Standard upup 476 iso.

Running live cd on 600MHz CPU and 256MB ram, born in year 2000.

Boots ok, looks ok, ps2 mouse ok.

Then the problems- associated with running Canon i965 printer via Windows XP machine.

Installed driver. (Was originally a deb, but I've made it into a pet- saves time.)

Symlink named /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb pointing to /opt/samba/bin/smbspool is missing, so I created that. PLEASE can we have this as standard, as it is required to print to a Windows printer.

Then installed the printer. Try to print test page- no go. Got a message saying: "Can't load /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf. Run testparm to debug it." Well, we don't have testparm, do we? So I replaced smb.conf with the one from 4.1.2, which does work. Same result.

The cups (debug) error log shows:

Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf
Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf
Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/cpdftocps
Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonbj
Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb
Can't load /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf run testparm to debug it
/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb stopped with status 1!


Trying to print an Abiword document gives similar results, except that somwhere among all that, pstocanonbj crashes with status 11!

Question 1: why does the data have to go all around the houses via pdf?
Question 2: how do we debug smb.conf?

Gerry

[gerry]

Sanity check: set printer up connected directly to Puppy machine.

Cups test page worked, but an Abiword document failed. The log file had screen after screen of errors- but the data went the same roundabout way. ie the ps data went to pdf, then pdf to pdf, then back to ps, then to pstocanonbj.

Gerry

[floborg]

[01micko]

Thanks floborg, that worked fine.

Cheers

[pdrito]

Hi guys.

I know Jaunty is on alpha 9, but When I try to make wine to work nothing happened.

Wine worked OK for me on all serie puppy 4.xxx

Hope to see wine working on beta or RC. I love how wine work on linux !

[Doglover]

My graphics is via unichrome agp 64 mb shared, max res is 1024x768

On boot Xorg fails, Xvesa defaults to 800x600 instead of allowing choices. No bark bark.

I need acpi on to scale cpu.

Reboot or shutdown just cycles to a new desktop.
Unable to create save file.

Drive icons nonexistent.

[`f00]

@Doglover - you could try the 'delete-all-in-/tmp' workaround to get past the initial hurdle (worked for me in upup-471 and both upup-476s I've tried.. ). Xorg takes a bunch of fiddling for me (only worthwhile for if I really need pmount to work as expected ), but for some it's the preferred mode. Driveicons are tricky (for me they never appear on initial desktop in upups).
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my upup-476, upup-471 and upup-461 testing

[CHLee]

1. The pmedia=ideflash success boot to PMODE=13. Thanks Barry!
I can run with PMODE=13 for the internal SSD on my EEEPC900. (use extlinux).
[url]http://www.puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00647[/url]

2. Could you add utf8 support in pmount and All_drive when mounting Vfat?
(-o mixed,quiet,utf8)
Without utf8 encoding, we can not see the non-English file name. Thinks!
Best regards,

ChiHang Lee

[Béèm]

[Schism]

Put Puppy 476.iso frugal on my rebuilt Dell 4100:
-Pentium II
-256 MB ram
-1024 x 768 display
-CD/DVD burner
-CD drve
-Floppy drive
-10 GB drive
-6 GB drive

Works as good as the other Puppies on it.

Thank You Barry, and everyone involved in puppy!

My main OS! XP for games only!

But why can't i load my OpenOffice.sfs's? I have 3.01 and 2.2.0?

[flugwelpe]

ok, first the success note: i can start woof upup 476 via wakepup from a USB and I like it so far
Still need acpi=force boot option for that to work.

I got a sfs-not-found issue though...
Live-cd doesnt work. I tried alpha 6 to 9 and all of them dropped out of the booting process when trying to find the sfs; e.g. :

upup-476.sfs not found

(note I'm 'reopening' the bug from the alpha 8 thread, now as i verified that the upup works on the machine; old thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42439&sid=d )

Before 3.x/ puplets were the only linuxes booting up on that machine without any problems (yay for puppy linux). Sometimes I had to specify nopcmcia boot option (which seems to get ignored on 4.2.x and upups).

Checked the live-cds with md5 and on another machine; that one found the sfs.

That machine is a Gericom Blockbuster N251S1 laptop;
Pentium 4 (not mobile), 512 MB RAM
* No harddisk
* broken PCMCIA
* broken ethernet ( I'm using a usb ethernet adapter with the kaweth driver )
* CD/DVD-RW; USB 2.0; firewire .. working )
3.? worked with boot option 'nopcmcia'; live-cd
4.0 worked out of the box, live-cd
4.1 worked with the retro kernel, live-cd
4.2 freezes on boot; tested booting from live-cd or usb (pcmcia-issue?)
upup - boots only from usb (sfs-not-found); touchpad-looses-sync issue

Is there a place i should post this stuff and keep it updated for other blockbuster users?

Multisession Live-CD is one of the big selling points of puppy-linux IMHO, so I'd be glad if I can help somehow fixing this.

Boot options I tried (and didnt help):
* pmedia=cd
* nopcmcia
* acpi=force

[Flash]

Several times now SeaMonkey has closed unexpectedly when I was using mtPaint. There seems to be a correlation, perhaps when I'm opening large images in mtPaint. Sorry, I haven't had time to try to duplicate the problem.

[david_halliday]

Last night I tried Alpha9 on my Webpad (DT Research 366) and it failed. Here is what happened:

If I just hook up USB CDROM and boot. It starts fine and proceeds down the bootup order outputting the usual [OK]'s but when it switches to X (using Xorg) I just a set of bands and lines. Reminiscent of when you would overdrive an old CRT.

To my surprise I get the same problem booting to nox

When I tried setting the res to 800x600 to match the screen via vga= The screen went black (before the normal [OK]'s) and never came back.

It is not a general problem with Puppy as 4.2.1 comes up fine (I still need to add touch screen support).

A little info on the webpad may help debug. It has 256M memory 512M flash drive, 800x600 LCD screen driven by NSC chip CPU is a 400Mhz AMD Geode.

Dave.