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#581 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Tue 02 Mar 2010, 19:32

I suppose the i915_dri.so has something to do with driving the video card.
By not finding it, I suspect xorg can't be initialized.
I am not familiar with this kind of problems, but that's the feeling I have.
Don't know where to find that file.
Use the puppysearch link in my sig and you might find some useful info.

gerry · #582 Post by **gerry** » Wed 03 Mar 2010, 07:48

I Googled i915_dri.so, and got zillions of hits. It lives in /usr/lib/dri/, which dpup doesn't have. I found it in my Debian partition (on another computer), so i'm going to copy it into dpup and see what happens.....

gerry

nooby · #583 Post by **nooby** » Wed 03 Mar 2010, 08:51

Could this explain why my video streaming are choppy or delayed as I name it.

I've also seen some text talking about missing driver. My Dpup use a nv driver most likely novoe or similar name and that one maybe are slow on my system. Only Dpup and Upup are this slow, none of the others are slow.

dejan555 · #584 Post by **dejan555** » Wed 03 Mar 2010, 14:12

Try to install libgl_dri or mesa from petget to get dri and opengl

nooby · #585 Post by **nooby** » Wed 03 Mar 2010, 14:37

dejan thanks indeed. Typically the answer was above my knowledge but I take a look at it. is petget a CLI command or a menyentry? Is it a url site?

I'm in Dpup now.

the only petget I did find was in CLI terminal console.

not know how to get libgl_dri or opengl I just tested to write

petget libgl_dri but it gave me an error. not sure why. too much to write down and me don't know how to copy and paste

Could it be found with package manager or some other way?[/quote]

Muggins have a pet that was talked about on in a thread so I test ed to install that one from here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 141#322141

I guess I have to reboot to make it active .It has no menu entry so not sure what to do with it. Will the video find it by itself?

dejan555 · #586 Post by **dejan555** » Wed 03 Mar 2010, 15:15

Sorry for confusing you, petget is another name for Puppy Package Manager (also reffered to as PPM). Download libgl1-mesa-dri from lenny repo, that's also hint for gerry

EDIT: Yes, that pet you installed is compatible with 4.x series haven't tried it in dpup though. When you install dri just restart X and system should activate DRI if present.

nooby · #587 Post by **nooby** » Wed 03 Mar 2010, 16:04

The xorg_xorg_full_dri_7.3 full dri did install and are now listed in the ppm but it is impossible to get the lenny repositry because everytime I try the ppm freeze and the only way to get out of freeze seems to do ctrl+alt+bkspace. And it all repeat with a new locked application.

anyway the full drivers did not help with playing streaming video.

Out of some 15 puppies I ahve tested running in RAM there are only three that behave like this and that is Dpup and Upup and FatDog but it was some time me tested Fatdog and not sure what drivers that one make use of.

What is common between these three distros that make them choppy when they render online video?

Am I the only one having that problem with these three?

gerry · #588 Post by **gerry** » Wed 03 Mar 2010, 22:56

Firefox just won't behave for me- when I scroll up or down, the screen gets sliced into overlapping horizontal bands.

Dillo is ok.

So.... I thought to install ice-weasel from the debian repo. No go. Even though I checked the url's and got answers that indicated ok, none of them will download.

Firefox had been working for a week or two, but started misbehaving. I did a total re-(frugal)install, but the problem is there straight away.

Ah well... wait till next beta.

gerry

Acer Aspire One.

#589 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Wed 03 Mar 2010, 23:24

Also in other puppies I experienced this kind of issue.
Therefor I always install SeaMonkey, now at 2.0.3.
I install via the tar file and outside the save file.
In this way other puppies take benefit of this way of operating.

shankargopal · #590 Post by **shankargopal** » Fri 05 Mar 2010, 10:37

gerry wrote:Firefox just won't behave for me- when I scroll up or down, the screen gets sliced into overlapping horizontal bands.

I can't quite understand what this wouldlook like, but this seems less like a Firefox problem and more like a problem either with your video driver or with your window manager. Could try installing one of the other window managers (icewm is in one of these threads somewhere, and my package for Enlightenment DR17 is in the "additional software" thread for dpup; otherwise can just use debian packages for icewm, fluxbox etc.) and see if that helps.

#591 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Fri 05 Mar 2010, 14:17

I have this kind of slugginess with FF also in the other ugly OS.

gerry · #592 Post by **gerry** » Fri 05 Mar 2010, 17:06

What has lately been done is: I thought I'd install Epiphany from the Lenny repo. All went well, until at the end the dependency check showed that a lib was missing. When I clicked on the "Libraries" button to find it, the package manager was frozen- completely crashed. Had to do cntrl-alt-backsp to get out.

Rebooted, and started Package Manager, which loaded one of its lists, and froze. So I couldn't finish installing Epiphany, and couldn't uninstall it either.

So I deleted the Pupsave (it's a frugal install) and booted up and will when I've finished this post create a new one.

So far, Firefox is behaving.

But what a palaver to set up wlan0 again!! I had to go through the process over and over, before eventually getting a connection set up. How can a scan show no networks available, then another scan a few seconds later show five?

gerry

#593 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Fri 05 Mar 2010, 18:33

gerry wrote:But what a palaver to set up wlan0 again!! I had to go through the process over and over, before eventually getting a connection set up. How can a scan show no networks available, then another scan a few seconds later show five?

gerry

I have that also even in other puppies. I say to myself: It's due to a bad wind.

Well I have no explanation either.

gerry · #594 Post by **gerry** » Sun 07 Mar 2010, 17:49

Firefox crashed again. Went to a black screen, cnt/alt/backsp did not do anything. Rebooted. Then found that Firefox had gone into the break-up-into horizontal-stripes-on-scrolling mode that I had before. Also, the minimise/maximise/close buttons at top right of screen had disappeared.

EDIT: More- it's an Acer Aspire One, with 1GB ram and a hard drive. When it happened, I was using an external mouse to scroll, using the right hand scroll bar.

Using Seamonkey pet from the 5d repo now.

gerry

stu90 · #595 Post by **stu90** » Wed 10 Mar 2010, 18:40

Wireless B43 set up with network wizard ok - however Pwireless2 shows no networks.

+/ - volume control in the task bar doesn't change volume level - volume +/ - works ok in mixer and video, audio player and streaming etc.

Other than these minor problems nice distro

cheers.

Shep · #596 Post by **Shep** » Thu 11 Mar 2010, 06:43

gerry wrote:Firefox just won't behave for me- when I scroll up or down, the screen gets sliced into overlapping horizontal bands.

You won't make much progress with FF executing at the speed of treacle.
Have you noticed what the load on the processor is?
Open a console and run top and you'll see what is hogging
the cpu usage. The whatyumacallit in the lower right-hand
corner of your screen near the clock gives a graphical indication
of how much the cpu is stressing out.

ps ax can reveal unneeded processes which you may be able to kill.

Is it possible that you have multiple instances of FF running? If so,
kill all but one.

gerry · #597 Post by **gerry** » Thu 11 Mar 2010, 07:48

@Shep- no, only one Firefox running.

As I said above, I installed Seamonkey 2 pet, and after a few days the same thing happened, although the minimise/maximise/quit buttons have not disappeared. So it's not a Firefox-specific problem.

I use this same Seamonkey pet on my desktop, with no problems over some weeks. That's an old machine, 600MHz cpu and 256MB ram. I have to try all the new puppies on the Acer Aspire One, as the desktop needs a retro kernel.

gerry

papos · #598 Post by **papos** » Thu 11 Mar 2010, 08:26

I experiment some problems with locale
locale for keyboard and writing are not affected
but application like kino gimp pburn are not in locale langage
exept QT application like scribus
where does i look?

some test with
# locale
LANG=fr_FR.utf8
or
LANG=fr_FR
or
LANG=DE

#599 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 11 Mar 2010, 09:38

papos wrote:I experiment some problems with locale
locale for keyboard and writing are not affected
but application like kino gimp pburn are not in locale langage
exept QT application like scribus
where does i look?

some test with
# locale
LANG=fr_FR.utf8
or
LANG=fr_FR
or
LANG=DE

maybe you need the gimp locales

http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/Quirky ... al-doc.pet
plus pburn doesn't have many locales, just a few so far. If you want to convert one and submit it to zigbert I'm sure he would be happy.
English - Native language
French - Jean-Jacques Moulinier (esmourguit) (3.1.7)
German - Thorsten Köbe, Mark Ulrich (MU) (1.9.4)
Greek - (the Hamsters) (2.0.9) Helpfile missing
Italian - Angelo Gemmi (2.0.9)
Japanese - Yukihiro MIYASAKA (1.9.4)
Norwegian - Sigmund Berglund (zigbert) (1.9.4)
Russian - Viktor Melechin (melviX), Aleksandr Proklov (Pro), Valeriy Danilin (Valeriy), (DdShurick), (Zloy_T) (2.4.0)
Spanish - Néstor Jiménez (bernard), Pedro Worcel (droope) (2.4.0)
http://puppylinux.asia/tpp/zigbert/pburn_NLS.pet
ttuuxxx

stu90 · #600 Post by **stu90** » Thu 11 Mar 2010, 17:32

stu90 wrote:Wireless B43 set up with network wizard ok - however Pwireless2 shows no networks.

+/ - volume control in the task bar doesn't change volume level - volume +/ - works ok in mixer and video, audio player and streaming etc.

Other than these minor problems nice distro

cheers.

Update on volume control - replaced dpup484 default volume control with retrovol 0.4 have a working volume slider in tray now

retrovol 0.4
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50744

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