Wary Puppy 0.9.4 (094) feedback

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Wary Puppy 0.9.4 (094) feedback

#1 Post by BarryK »

Another Wary, and yet another kernel! See announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01906

Hopefully, though, this one is close to a Release Candidate (fingers crossed).

And, is this 2.6.31.14 kernel "The One"?
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Wary Puppy 0.9.4 (094) feedback

#2 Post by Billtoo »

I have 094 installed to an 8gb flash drive.The commercial ati driver
installed okay.The video driver upgrade wizard is advising to install
the commercial ati driver which is already installed.
The icon for retrovol in the tray is x'ed out but I do have sound.
Hardinfo doesn't give any info on temperature like it did in 092.

I am happy that this pc wasn't shut out by the new (older) kernel in
094. :)

# uname -r
2.6.31.14
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: REDWOOD 01.00

Driver used by Xorg:
#card0driver

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

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#3 Post by BarryK »

I have upgraded the firmware tarballs for the Conexant HSF and HCF modems. Attached.

These two files go into /lib/modules/all-firmware/.

If you have such a modem, after downloading these files and placing them at the correct location, delete any line in /etc/modules/firmware.inst.2.6.31.14 with "hcfpcimodem" or "hsfmodem", then reboot.

Note, these tarballs have gone into Woof, so will be in future Woof-built puppies.
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#4 Post by DaveS »

Looking VERY good so far including the notorious OpenOffice :)
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#5 Post by BarryK »

Billtoo,
Looking at your snapshot, I see that the Video Upgrade Wizard is displaying some wrong information.

Could you please post the output from running this in a terminal window:

# lspci -nn -m

Also, could you please gzip your xorg.conf file and post it here:

# gzip /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Thanks very much.
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#6 Post by DaveS »

OpenOffice Writer, LibreOffice Spreadsheet, Gnumeric, and borked mplayer :)
Enabling transparency in jwm borks it :)

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Both OpenOffice, LibreOffice and java are running from sfs files. Cool. Printer installed no problem, and Gnumeric does not stall for a few seconds while gathering printer info (it did on 09 and 092). Very close to RC.
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#7 Post by DaveS »

Holy CRAP Barry what did you do.. Seamonkey is absolutely flying. The screen re-draw is the best ever, Linux, Windows, whatever. Well done...
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#8 Post by DaveS »

Going back, most Puppies since 4.3.1 has had big problems on my system with this webcam http://livecam.courchevel.com/index.php?langue=2
094 just nails it :) Brilliant.
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Wary Puppy 0.9.4 (094) feedback

#9 Post by Billtoo »

BarryK wrote:Billtoo,
Looking at your snapshot, I see that the Video Upgrade Wizard is displaying some wrong information.

Could you please post the output from running this in a terminal window:

# lspci -nn -m

Also, could you please gzip your xorg.conf file and post it here:

# gzip /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Thanks very much.
I sent you two files in a pm, I hope it worked because the message doesn't show up in my "sent" box.

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#10 Post by James C »

Fresh manual frugal install of Wary 094 on the old P3 test box. Working sound but not internet connection on initial boot.Easy enough to connect with SNS though.


VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub]
Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

-Computer
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 253MB (84MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.09
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 28 Oct 2010 09:15:59 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation


Kernel : Linux 2.6.31.14 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Mon Oct 25 23:28:59 GMT-8 2010
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown

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#11 Post by James C »

Wary 094 live pfix=ram on my main Linux box. Working internet and correct 1440x900x24 resolution on boot,sound was muted though.


VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
oem: S3 Graphics ProSavage DDR Family BIOS
product: VBE 3.0 Rev 0.0

Driver used by Xorg:
savage

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#


-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1001MB (140MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.09
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 28 Oct 2010 04:27:16 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1400x1050 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation


xorg.conf

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "metamodes" "1440x900_60 +0+0" #METAMODES_0
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubsection
EndSection

#PuppyHardwareProfile=S3_Graphics_ProSavageHanns_GHW19

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sound

#12 Post by broomdodger »

1) wary 094 clean frugal, sound works, wireless internet works

2) wary 094 second restart upgrade previous warysave
- this time no sound ie muted
- open full window make changes still no sound
- open config window > tray > tray slider was set to "19:Beep..."
- changed to "21:Master..." and sound is ok

This has happened with a previous wary/quirky/puppy but I did not make a note.

Also icons I added to the desktop/pinboard did not show up after the upgrade.

Quite a snappy puppy!

-Bill
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#13 Post by broomdodger »

acer travelmate 4670
-Computer-
Processor : 2x Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
Memory : 1024MB (196MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.09
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 28 Oct 2010 03:06:43 PM PDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

150212 ~# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 16 Depth: "Display"

-Bill

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#14 Post by rjbrewer »

Working fine on all 3 boxes (full installs), and bootflash now
working too.

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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#15 Post by rjbrewer »

DaveS wrote:Going back, most Puppies since 4.3.1 has had big problems on my system with this webcam http://livecam.courchevel.com/index.php?langue=2
094 just nails it :) Brilliant.
It's really beautiful in full screen!

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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Wary Puppy 0.9.4 (094) feedback

#16 Post by Billtoo »

Running 094 from flash drive:

On first boot retrovol needs to be configured, no sliders were set so
no sound.
I chose probe at xorgwizard and chose the proper resolution but x
wouldn't start so I ran the wizard again and chose a lower resolution
of 1440x900 which worked.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

Nexuiz won't start.

I rebooted to create a save file and load wary_devx_094.sfs and
kernel_src-2.6.31.14-patched.sfs.One more reboot and then exited to the prompt
and ran NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.12.run which I had downloaded from the nvidia
site.
Ran xorgwizard when it was finished and chose the nvidia driver.
Resolution is now 1920x1080
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

Nexuiz plays at proper resolution of 1920x1080 with effects set to ultra.
So hardware acceleration is working.

The video upgrade wizard says that I've already upgraded, in the next section
it advises to go to the Nvidia site and download a driver.

It's looking good now :)

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#17 Post by Billtoo »

I'm running 094 on a 2gb flash drive.
I ran xorgwizard and chose probe and this time it used the nv driver
at the correct resolution of 1440x1900

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

Nexuiz will start but it's unplayable.

I used the same procedure as before to load the devx,kernel sources sfs, and
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.12.run files.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

Nexuiz runs at 1440x900 resolution with effects set to ultra.

So I'm able to get accelerated graphics on all 3 computers, 2 nvidia and 1 ati
which is nice :)

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Agere & Intel 537 modem variant detection firmware

#18 Post by rerwin »

I have attached the missing piece for correct detection of agrmodem variants, to match Barry's implementation of the agrmodem directory structure.

In addition, the attached package has a possible fix for HDA modems using the HSF Conexant chipset. If the module hsfhda gets loaded in addition to snd-hda-intel, the device is set as ttySHSF0 and the slmodemd daemon is not started. I cannot test this part, so please report any problem with it.

Regarding the renaming of the Agere and Intel 537 drivers, to hide them: I recommend that the 11c11040 variant be delivered with its correct (.ko) name and all others as .koHIDE. The 11c11040 variant generates modalias entries, so must be available to depmod. None of the others create modaliases.

The reason to hide all the Intel 537 variants is because they are each about 4 megabytes in size. Each rename makes a copy of the module in the top (read-write) layer of the file system, consuming 4 more MB of pupsave-file space! With all initially hidden, utilization of one of the variants would use 4 MB. If another variant had to be hidden (renamed), that would use an additional 4 MB! Of course, this is not an issue with a full installation.

One other thing: the Intel536 module need not be in its own directory, since there are no variants. It can be directly under intelmodem.

UPDATE 10/31/2010: Uploaded replacement attachment with refined Agere detector and new Intel 537 variant detector. Also separated alsa.conf file to separate the automatically detected sound card aliases from those created by the ALSA wizard (alsaconf). The automatically (backend modprobe) generated file is alsa_cards.conf. Card number determination now avoids using any "snd-card" number already taken by the wizard and included in alsa.conf. This retains the wizard's number(s) across bootups, which regenerate the numbers for PCI sound cards. In "real life", the wizard probably would be used only if no PCI sound cards are installed; but this is for "just in case" that is not true. Later, I re-uploaded after download number 2 with a resolution of Barry's issue with the pctel modem driver and its dependencies.

UPDATE 11/2/2010: Uploaded replacement attachment, after download number 8, to add support for already switched USB modems which would not otherwise have their driver loaded if that depends on usb_modeswitch to initiate the loading (e.g., some Vodaphones).

UPDATE 11/4/2010: Uploaded replacement attachment that adds to "-3" support for the HSF modems. The wary driver appears broken. I was unable to even compile it! This new driver version is built from the latest release. But it may not work for HDA HSF modems, because I am uncertain of the status of the HSF-HDA patch to the ALSA HDA driver.

UPDATE 11/5/2010: Re-uploaded the "-4" modem package after download number 4, to add updates to the HSF, HCF and DGC firmware tarballs, in support of the new versions of those drivers. Although I have tested HSF and DGC modems, I do not have an HCF modem for testing.
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#19 Post by broomdodger »

Running great.

dell inspiron 5150
-Computer-
Processor : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 1034MB (92MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.09
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 28 Oct 2010 08:59:44 PM PDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

205637 ~# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: NV34 Board - p135nz Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 16 Depth: "Display"

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nicoedit seg. fault

#20 Post by myman_05 »

Happen when click save button. (see attachment)

VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 094

Chip description:
oem: Copyright 1998 TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC.

Driver used by Xorg:
trident

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 16 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

except this bug averything else running great.

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