4.3 Beta 1 -- bugs and reports

[Kenny-M]

Image: puppy-4.3beta1-k2.6.25.16-v423-SCSI.iso 8-14-2009 11:07

Now properly sets Matrox G550 card to 1024x768 at 60hz.

Properly indetifies Adaptec AIC-7880 and AIC-7890 SCSI chipsets.
Also correctly identifies drives and Dell DLT-1 tape drive.

Drivers from Forum for mount.cifs download OK and installs Pet OK.
I can mount cif shares on my NAS server. Maybe include in pkg.
Mount.cifs worked and downloaded OK under Puppy 4.2.1.

Console rxvt screen much, much better with Black letters on White.

Comment on initial boot screen. If someone is having issues and has
to use the pfix=nox option the graphics for Keyboard, Country and
Time Zone still come up? Depending on machine troubles video
driver or otherwise is this good idea? Perhaps no graphics at all
should come up if you use pfix=nox since you are looking for only
the shell prompt?

Question - NIC is indentified as 3c59x when is 3c918/3c509b
compatable. It seems to work OK.

Problem - Identifies Plextor PX-204A CD-RW IDE as a SCSI device.

Problem - After getting Crystal 4237b audio working using lagecy
cs4236 and producing output after a reboot I notice the audio ICON
has disappeared from the taskbar. Running through procedure does
not restore audio ICON and now there is no output. When audio
was working running 'aqualung' after playing tune when exited the
desktop application disappears however the process keeps running.

Problem - From rxvt console 'vi' command causes Segmentation Fault.

Problem - Downloading HP drivers from files foo2zjs-i486 and
hpijs-2.8.2_static-1-patched421 does not now show HP PSC
series like PSC 1310. Under 4.2.1 it worked.

Problem - SeaMonkey 1.1.17 playback of online videos from CNN
and YouTube are very choppy with hesitation. OK with earlier version
of SeaMonkey on Puppy 4.2.1 on another machine.

Problem - Puppy Universal Installer always identifies installation
partition as ext4 even when it is Gparted to ext2 or ext3. Also,
selecting SCSI says Not Implemented so I tried internal IDE/Sata.

Problem - Grub fails on ext4 partition. Grub fails to SCSI drive
as sdb and leaves boot MBR on sda with a prompt and dosen't boot.
Could not load XP on sda had to use DOS fdisk /mbr to recreate.

More testing to follow...

[Sylvander]

@8-bit
"run the dotpup.sh script"
I'm a newbie, never done that before; how is it done?
(a) Right click on the dotpup.sh file and "Open" didn't work.

(b) Ran a terminal in the folder holding the file and entered the command dotpup, and that didn't work either.

[8-bit]

@8-bit
"run the dotpup.sh script"
I'm a newbie, never done that before; how is it done?
(a) Right click on the dotpup.sh file and "Open" didn't work.

(b) Ran a terminal in the folder holding the file and entered the command dotpup, and that didn't work either.

Actually, we are in the wrong thread and area of the form for this.
Try installing and trying the dotpup handler for installing pup files.
You can get it at
http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/pet ... .0.4-2.pet

Or just install it from the package manager in Puppy.

[playdayz]

It's not Barry's problem I know, but I cannot get Firefox/Swiftfox 3.5.2 to run on 4.3b1 advanced kernel 2.6.29. I got no errors from the command line, and ldd shows that all the modules can be found, but every time I try to start firefox from the command line I get an error message that firefox is already running. yes, there is a firefox-bin in Pprocess. If I kill it and try again the very same thing happens again Same with swiftfox 3.5.2

I installed myself as per http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45030

The three libraries that need to be added to 4.2.1 are dbus, dbus-glib, and libgio, but adding these three to 4.3b1k2.6.29.6 does not work. Help, I need my swiftfox

Now, i will test seamonkey 2.0b1 and also test kernel 2.6.25..
Seamonkey 2.0b1 does not work either; ldd shows several files that are not found.


I tested with 4.3b1 k2.6.25.16 and Firefox runs correctly there; I installed as per the instructions in the link a couple of lines above this.

[01micko]

@playdayz

I even went to the extent of compiling Firefox-3.5.2 from the mozilla-1.9.1 source.

It just wont work in ppa-423 (or ppa-422). It wouldn't work with 'spup' I built in July either, k 2.6.29.4.

However, my compile worked fine with puppy 4.2.1.

Will be interesting to see how seamonkey 2 goes.

#libgio is there, but I've dev_x loaded

[playdayz]

@ 01micko ,

Firefox (actually Swiftfox) 3.5.2 is running for me in 4.3b1 k2.6.25.16--same kernel as 4.2.1. I installed using my own instructions at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 247#327247
except, I only installed dbus and dbus-glib. Seamonkey also works in 4.3beta1 with the 2.6.25.16 kernel.

[trio]

Trio
Try changing /usr/local/pstreamvid/tmp/fullscreen to 'on'
It is set to off by default.
I changed it to on with a text editor, saved it and all worked!

thanks for the tip, I just use the patch provided in pstreamvid's thread, and it's all good. Anyway, fullscreen mode is "off" by default on first boot, but it will remember the last mode you use it, when you open it the next time.

Cheers

[01micko]

@ 01micko ,

Firefox (actually Swiftfox) 3.5.2 is running for me in 4.3b1 k2.6.25.16--same kernel as 4.2.1. I installed using my own instructions at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 247#327247
except, I only installed dbus and dbus-glib. Seamonkey also works in 4.3beta1 with the 2.6.25.16 kernel.

Hmmm, yes, with k2.6.25.16 all is well with Firefox, but these later kernels there seems a problem, I just tried in 417alpha, k2.6.30.1 and the same bad result . I might take a look around the mozilla forums to see if this issue surfaces with other linuxes.

I think dejan555 reported it works ok in dpup, forget which kernel, but I don't think it was 2.6.15.16., gposil might know how to fix it.

I'm using Opera10 atm in 417 and it's fine.

Cheers

[playdayz]

e3 and vi still segfault. I noticed a report that nedit did also--are all these just different names for the same program ;-0

[4-stroke]

e3 and vi still segfault. I noticed a report that nedit did also--are all these just different names for the same program ;-0

No. e3vi is Barrys replacement for busybox vi. Medit is a replacement for the previous Geany. Both are text editors however.

[ttuuxxx]

e3 and vi still segfault. I noticed a report that nedit did also--are all these just different names for the same program ;-0

No. e3vi is Barrys replacement for busybox vi. Medit is a replacement for the previous Geany. Both are text editors however.

I compiled the latest Geany plus plugins for Dpup and the latest Geany is light years ahead of of Medit, plus Medit doesn't feel stable, it kind of flashes when you start it. Plus it lack loads of features that Geany has. Medit is good but not great like Geany. Many others feel the same.
ttuuxxx

[4-stroke]

I compiled the latest Geany plus plugins for Dpup and the latest Geany is light years ahead of of Medit, plus Medit doesn't feel stable, it kind of flashes when you start it. Plus it lack loads of features that Geany has. Medit is good but not great like Geany. Many others feel the same.
ttuuxxx

I'm sure you're right. I wouldn't know since Medit has never worked for me... I just change defaulttexteditor to nicoedit.

[ttuuxxx]

I compiled the latest Geany plus plugins for Dpup and the latest Geany is light years ahead of of Medit, plus Medit doesn't feel stable, it kind of flashes when you start it. Plus it lack loads of features that Geany has. Medit is good but not great like Geany. Many others feel the same.
ttuuxxx

I'm sure you're right. I wouldn't know since Medit has never worked for me... I just change defaulttexteditor to nicoedit.

Yeah the latest version of Geany even has spellcheck now as plugin, below is a list of plugins for geany that I included in the dpup version.
http://plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins/
* Addons
* Geanygdb
* Geanylatex
* Geanylipsum
* Geanylua
* Geanysendmail
* Geanyvc
* Shiftcolumn
* Spellcheck
ttuuxxx

[Sylvander]

@8-bit
Captura now installed and functioning.

To achieve that it was necessary to install both:
http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/pet_packages-4/dotpuphandler-0.0.4-2.pet
And...
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Programming/PuppyBasic-2.6.pet

Only then did the pup file install.
It's in the menu at "Menu->DotPups->captura".

[ttuuxxx]

The latest Abiword with docX should be used and GPL ttf Liberation fonts should replace the nonfunctional pcf fonts. That will save space and also give extra functionality to puppy. Just keep enough pcf for xorg/rxvt like 1 or 2.

https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/

ttuuxxx

[gposil]

And as ttuuxxx knows, dpup already has the Liberation fonts as standard...This FF3.5 problem is queer, I just installed it on my son's Ubuntu Jaunty laptop, and guess what disaster(100%cpu and then crash)...he has upgraded his kernel to 2.6.29.6, the same as puppy423, so maybe this is a kernel problem...

[ttuuxxx]

And as ttuuxxx knows, dpup already has the Liberation fonts as standard...

LOL I didn't know, I thought 2.14X was the only puppy with them in
well thats good to know, a few months back when I was working with abiword I looked at Ubuntu to see what fonts they were using with abiword and it was Liberation and so was Slackware, So I figured then and there time to change
ttuuxxx

[tronkel]

The latest Beta1 (older kernel) is looking good. Latest Firefox 3.5.2 doesn't run under the latest 2.6.29.6 kernel though.

The latest Google Chrome does run under the older kernel. Haven't tried as yet with the later kernel.

If you want to try the Chrome browser you can google for the unstable version repo. This browser is now almost complete and is very usable even now.

Download the DEB version. Package manager in Puppy 423 Beta 1 can install this DEB. There are some missing libraries, some of which you can install as debs from packages.debian.org. There are also some required libs from Mozilla that Chrome also needs. Simply copy these from your Firefox/Mozilla application folder to the Chrome application folder which gets installed to /opt in Puppy. If you use the command line to start the browser, you can see the names of the missing libraries that the browser complains about.

If you need flash-player, download the latest linux version from Adobe. Expand the tar-ball and copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

Then go back to the Chrome application folder in /opt. Create a new plugins folder called "plugins" within the chrome sub folder and in this empty folder make a symlink to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Start the Chrome browser once from the command line as:
chrome-browser --enable-plugins

You should now have flash running in Chrome.

As far as I can see, there is very little left to do now in Chrome. Would be nice to be able to prevent webpages from being able to default to their own fonts, rather that the user-configured ones. Firefox can do this no problem.

Enjoy.

[01micko]

And as ttuuxxx knows, dpup already has the Liberation fonts as standard...This FF3.5 problem is queer, I just installed it on my son's Ubuntu Jaunty laptop, and guess what disaster(100%cpu and then crash)...he has upgraded his kernel to 2.6.29.6, the same as puppy423, so maybe this is a kernel problem...

Yes, the Firefox problem..

ttuuxxx, tried your method too, no cigar. I'm at a loss

As you suggest gposil, it might be a kernel problem, but not restricted to 2.6.29.6.

Anyone else with any ideas?

[ttuuxxx]

And as ttuuxxx knows, dpup already has the Liberation fonts as standard...This FF3.5 problem is queer, I just installed it on my son's Ubuntu Jaunty laptop, and guess what disaster(100%cpu and then crash)...he has upgraded his kernel to 2.6.29.6, the same as puppy423, so maybe this is a kernel problem...

Yes, the Firefox problem..

ttuuxxx, tried your method too, no cigar. I'm at a loss

As you suggest gposil, it might be a kernel problem, but not restricted to 2.6.29.6.

Anyone else with any ideas?

Well It could be compiled, but then it all gets messed up, the reason why, is that the latest ff3.5 on 2.14X runs perfect, it auto updates instantly very nice no compiling needed:)
But If we would start compiling FF like seamonkey, then each release should be compiled and the rat race starts up for FF. Really I could compile it maybe every 4-6months but I wouldn't want to do it every month, takes too long. Really if its the kernel then change the kernel it would suck being force to do this all the time. Like what we do with seamonkey etc.
ttuuxxx