Puppy 1.0.8beta of "Singer" - bugs

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Puppy 1.0.8beta of "Singer" - bugs

#1 Post by Lobster »

1.0.8 beta (AKA "Singer")
http://www.puptrix.org/beta/puppy-1.0.8beta-mozilla.iso

Does Puppy 1.0.8 sing? :)

I was glad to find that lots of libraries - downloading everything including the Out house sink :oops: - were being either moved or removed. NVU seemed to be taken - but then it worked OK when I finished booting? (probably a good thing and not a bug - what is removed and what isn't? - have to read those docs again)

Rather disconcerting was opening help and Dillo opening and then vanishing . . .

The new blinky is there, JWM is there
Help?

Gonna turn off and start again . . .

Thanks for releasing 1.0.8 8)

How are others getting on? - thanks to Teddog for hosting on fast server

new exit to prompt (or any icon) missing from menu shutdown

did not play sound at end of ALSA config?
but clicking on woof woof dog sound in reference got a woof
so working

What volume mixer do I use? Can not get help . . .
CD reader on pmount now working on my system - good job!
You can only close pmount with "quit" - clicking on top right x-box thingee (wash my mouth out) does not work
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Re: Puppy 1.0.8beta of "Singer" - bugs

#2 Post by BarryK »

Lobster wrote: I was glad to find that lots of libraries - downloading everything including the Out house sink :oops: - were being either moved or removed. NVU seemed to be taken - but then it worked OK when I finished booting? (probably a good thing and not a bug - what is removed and what isn't? - have to read those docs again)

Rather disconcerting was opening help and Dillo opening and then vanishing . . .
Yes, the file cleanout is vicious. If you installed anything into /usr that did
not register with the PupGet package manager, it gets removed.
Lobster wrote: new exit to prompt (or any icon) missing from menu shutdown
Ah, okay, will fix.
Lobster wrote:did not play sound at end of ALSA config?
but clicking on woof woof dog sound in reference got a woof
so working
Yes, a bug in alsaconf script. Will look into it.
Lobster wrote: CD reader on pmount now working on my system - good job!
You can only close pmount with "quit" - clicking on top right x-box thingee (wash my mouth out) does not work
Okay, will fix.

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finally 1024x768x16/24 on Dell laptop

#3 Post by pop-pop »

I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop with only 1 MB of real video memory. Vesa seems to have no clue about using RAM as additional video memory. With previous Puppy versions, my video resolution thus has been limited to 640x480x16.

Xorg in Puppy 1.0.7a allowed 1024x768 but 1.0.7b and 1.0.7 did not. During Xorg configuration trying for 1024x768, the machine would lock with a blank screen after clicking on "OKAY" on the screen with the shark background.

I'm happy to report that I now have 1024x768x16 or x24 with both Puppy 1.0.8a and Puppy 2.

I installed Puppy 2 on a flash stick and it boots OK. I did see a bootup error about not finding a SCSI module and later a SCSI error after the "Registering unionfs 1.0.1.4" step. RC was 8000002. Known error?

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#4 Post by Nathan F »

Fujitsu LifebookC series, no sound.

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xtmix: Error opening mixer device /dev/mixer
Fatal: /dev/mixer probably does not exist or has no r/w permissions
Other than that, looks pretty good for me.

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#5 Post by daw »

MUT in version 1.0.7 succesfully recognized my internal ZIP drive.
In 1.0.8 it sees that the ZIP drive is there (hdd), but won't recognize that a disk has been inserted. Clicking on "SCAN" results in "No Disk"

(same bad behavior in puppy2 as well)

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#6 Post by flavour »

2 bugs in 1.0.8beta which I've not seen others as reporting:

(1) I need to re-run the ALSA wizard each boot (despite having a pup001 which saves other settings just fine)

(2) When increasing the size of the pup001 (using the excellent utility), upon next reboot I have to type xwin manually (because /etc/.XLOADED isn't tidied up)
- NB this bug was also present in 1.0.7

Thanks,
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1.0.8beta problems

#7 Post by jeffrey »

Other problems observed with 1.0.8 beta:

1. After running over the weekend (with blinky active on a connected eth0 and mozilla sitting on a static web page) the disk was thrashing very severely (boot from Live CD). From top, the X process had RSS 125M

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Re: 1.0.8beta problems

#8 Post by BarryK »

[quote="jeffrey"]Other problems observed with 1.0.8 beta:

1. After running over the weekend (with blinky active on a connected eth0 and mozilla sitting on a static web page) the disk was thrashing very severely (boot from Live CD). From top, the X process had RSS 125M

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#9 Post by lior2b »

Back in town :)

Read here:
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic ... 8646#38646

Thank you jeffrey!
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#10 Post by jeffrey »

You're welcome. I'd really like a useable blinky so I'm happy to test it.
Puppy 1.0.7 is a wonderful product.
Puppy 1.0.8 would be that little bit better with a well-behaved blinky...

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