Wary Puppy 5.1.4 - 29 August 2011

[stiginge]

My screen doesn't seem to do 1280x1280 resolution. The pinboard seems to stretch the full length of the screen, however applications only seem to go 1280x1024, when I believe I need 1280x1280. Is this possible in 5.1.1.56?

[nooby]

My screen doesn't seem to do 1280x1280 resolution. The pinboard seems to stretch the full length of the screen, however applications only seem to go 1280x1024, when I believe I need 1280x1280. Is this possible in 5.1.1.56?

Is this same anomality as when I try to get 1024 x 768 but only get 1024 x 600.

Sounds similar to me. Could it be some built in thing in JWM?

[BarryK]

wary 5.1.1.56 and 5.1.1.53 screen saver bug

Menu > Desktop > pupX set properties of X > Screensaver
+ enable screen saver
+ check blank screen rather than pattern

+ wary starts screen saver with blank screen,
+ but key or mouse will only return to show the mouse pointer,
+ can reboot computer blindly

+ uncheck blank screen,
+ screen saver "X" is displayed and
+ returns to wary ok

both of these settings work ok in wary 5.1.1

I tried this, and it worked ok for me.

[BarryK]

No sound after replacing files on ISA soundcard ES1868. Sound setup with alsaconf or modprobe snd_es18xx.

I don't understand your post, it it is too cryptic.

[Sage]

I don't understand your post

The question is whether or not the ISA bus is scanned by default? Most (all?) present distros no longer seem to do this, but it does seem to remain in most kernels, so ALSA or w.h.y. will always need to be run manually unless a FULL install is present. We discussed this wrt Puppy a long time ago and similar discussions have appeared on other Fora. Previously, I have explained why it is preferable to run an old ISA card with onboard amp, provided a suitable board can be found and a cpu that runs in it. The MSI Ms-6378v2 is one such board; it accepts Barton cpu s. It will run most contemporary Linux distros and takes SDRAM. The sound quality is amazing.
M. rodin.s would do well to avail himself of the 'Search' facility. It would be helpful if, during discussions of kernels, those who dabble with such could alert folks to any changes to the complement of bus-accesses. As I recall, this was the case with the 'real' scsi bus - a cause célèbre indeed!

[BarryK]

On my PC with only a normal (intel8x0) sound card and the two files, upon reboot, the sound operates normally. And further reboots are also normal.

However, if I start the alsawizard and then immediately either cancel out of it or say "no" to saving the new settings (after making no changes), the sound no longer works. Running aplay from a console yields the following:

# aplay /usr/share/audio/2barks.au
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4633:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:608: audio open error: No such file or directory
#

But rebooting after that restores the sound function. Also, if I say "yes" to saving the new settings, the sound continues to work.

I then tested the new files on a Thinkpad with a built-in (ALSA) modem. All (including pupdial) went normally until I tried the alsawizard test. After canceling out of the wizard, neither sound nor the modem would work. Modemtest could not see the modem. But a reboot restored both.

I then tried the alsawizard test on wary without the fix and found that it behaves the same as above after the cancel-out. So, this is apparently a longstanding issue. The search for sound cards must damage the current settings; the wizard probably should restore them if the new settings are not saved.

As a further test, I ran the wizard and let it save the new settings. The sound continued to work, but the modem could not be seen by pupdial/modemtest. (I trust that a reboot would again restore the modem.)
Richard

I want to bring out Wary 5.1.2 rc1 very soon, so I think that I will just do a quick workaround for this, for now -- a message right at the start of 'alsaconf' that a reboot is required afterward, in those circumstances.

[BarryK]

Ok, I have released Wary 5.1.1.57, which is 5.1.2 rc1 (Release Candidate), see blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02299

[rerwin]

Barry,
I am working on alsaconf. It appears that the reason the cards do not respond after use of the wizard is that the drivers have been removed by the wizard (alsaconf). I think that merely modprobing all of the "current" drivers should restore operation. I am also experimenting with using the "options snd slots=" technique.
Richard

[Sage]

Magnifique! All the quirks seem to have disappeared on this Wary.

[Flash]

To continue my post from here, the multisession CD-RW rebooted with all settings intact.

Since the DVD player's full screen only filled half my screen, I downloaded Xine UI from the Wary 5 repository and installed it. (Xine is the only DVD player that has consistently worked well for me in Puppy.) It was supposed to create an entry in Menu -> Multimedia but it didn't. Nevertheless, Xine started when I entered xine in a console. However it crashed Xwindows when I tried to configure it. I restarted by entering xwin at the prompt and after that Xine worked ok. I think the glitch was in the Xine .pet, not Wary. Xine played The Adventures of Baron Munchausen full screen all the way through without a hitch.

[rerwin]

OK, I've finally tested this on this machine, sound is fine but the wrong modem variant issue remains as described in that thread. The surefire way to fix it is to manually hide the variant in /lib/modules.

This is what the 2-secand delay in the agrsm firmware pinstall script was intended to fix. I got the impression that it did the job. I recommend restoring the delay to the script and relying on the ALSA improvements to handle the issue being worked around by the removal of the delay.
Richard

[Billtoo]

Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this but it is wary related.
I produced this today using woof and pemasu's 2.6.38.4 kernel.

Fri 20 May 2011 Operating System: Wary Puppy-5.1.1.56 Linux 2.6.38.4
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (382x302 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600
Core 0: 1603 1: 1603 2: 1603 3: 1603 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
44868 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8973.535 FPS
50893 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10178.515 FPS
50857 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10171.303 FPS

Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8310MB (121MB used)

It does better with nvidia than ati, at least a wary080 I made the
other day did, just started testing this one.
The ati proprietary driver wouldn't compile in 080.

edit:I found the problem with the ati driver, I removed a
linux_headers_DEV-2.6.32-40.pet and reran the build packages etc. then
did build distro again and the ati proprietary driver compiles now.

[James C]

Manual frugal install of Wary 5.1.1.57 on my old P3 test box.All of the basics...internet, sound and display working correctly on initial boot.

-Computer-
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 254MB (82MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 22 May 2011 12:38:11 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH


# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 5.1.1.57

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
#

[James C]

Just installed Mesa......

# glxgears
480 frames in 5.2 seconds = 91.937 FPS
480 frames in 5.2 seconds = 92.484 FPS
480 frames in 5.1 seconds = 93.492 FPS
480 frames in 5.2 seconds = 92.733 FPS
480 frames in 5.1 seconds = 94.267 FPS
420 frames in 5.1 seconds = 82.065 FPS
520 frames in 5.1 seconds = 102.404 FPS

[gcmartin]

Would it be appropriate to request a look at report-video-glx for ideas on a video reporter with a wee bit more meaningful information about the video system? Or maybe replacing report-video with report-video-glx.

Hope this helps

[abushcrafter]

Firefox 4 can't exit from full screen. Right click menus don't work (Like the one on the tool bar.). This is a JWM bug because I do not have this problem in OpenBox.

What about axle in PPM instead of wget? The idea is that you could even the load on the servers.

How To Keep Videos Downloaded With Flash Player 10.2+

My Theme Submission
Please read the notes text file. It is 24 MB. It has 2 extra GTK themes one of which also has a metactiy and GTK1 theme. It also has one extra icon theme. There is also several extra wallpapers. I have also included a mod of the Polished-Blue GTK2 theme which has fatter scrollbars and both of the steppers at the bottom or right side of the scroll bars Most of the artwork is not by me.

If you don't like mine I recommend puppy.look off the forums.

[abushcrafter]

Theres been new versions of VLC. One change is

Faster Webm/VP8 decoding

this is of interest to me. Could anyone face compiling a new version?

[nooby]

Don't get me wrong now but I have read in puppy forum that later VLC asks that one don't reun as root and some even refuse to run at all in root and that the person doing the pet need to change something so it does run as root? worth to know I guess.

[abushcrafter]

Don't get me wrong now but I have read in puppy forum that later VLC asks that one don't reun as root and some even refuse to run at all in root and that the person doing the pet need to change something so it does run as root? worth to know I guess.

When compiling you need to use the enable run as root parameter.

BTW I edited the wallpapers in my theme submission. So the say "Puppy" or "Puppy GNU/Linux" because I think Puppy Linux is incorrect and that it should be "Puppy GNU/Linux". You thoughts Barry would be nice.

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/google-en ... em-freedom
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-users-never- ... f-gnu.html

[abushcrafter]

Bug:

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<Mon May 23><23:18:35>/mnt/sdb2/MultiMedia/Video/Internet
4>>> 
file --mime-type ./sunflower.webm 
./sunflower.webm: application/octet-stream

In the previous in-dev release, I tested Paintball2 and it worked under spot . However it keeps disconnecting me from games because it thinks it's has been modified, when all I have done is change the permissions of it's files.

In a older version of Wary (5.1 I think. Which is the one I am currently using day to day.). I find that when XLock is running any sounds played I don't hear. This is most annoying.

Is the background colour of the downloading terminal in PPM still hard coded? If so could you either hard code the text colour or remove the hard coded background colour please.