Racy Puppy 5.2.2 Final, 18 Nov. 2011

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#281 Post by BarryK »

pemasu wrote:There is now 3 reports of failure with preinstalled /lib/firmware/b43.
Looks like 3.x kernel has changed something with recognition of b43.ko - firmware regarding to autodetection and autoload.

EDIT. According to Peebee. Oneirics newer b43 firmware package was incompatible with his b43. Older Puppy b43.tar.gz (from woof) worked ok after rc.local modprobe b43 fix.
Well, there isn't anything that we can do. The only thing left is to complain to the b43 developers.

It is not good, but it looks like I will have to put into the release notes that if you require the b43 kernel driver, then you will have to put "modprobe b43" into /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or add it to the modules list in BootManager.

Ha ha, I just looked at BootManager, the option to add a new module displays a drop-down list that has the problem we are experiencing with other apps -- extreme slowness. It uses the <combobox> tag in gtkdialog.
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#282 Post by rcrsn51 »

Karl Godt wrote:AND with Xdialog it is the same with gtkdialogN <combobox> on GTK-2.24.5 .... scrolling a large list takes hours .....
I can confirm this. An Xdialog applet with a combobox that has a long list requiring a scroll bar will show the jerky behaviour. The larger, vertically, that the list is displayed on the screen, the more pronounced the effect. This was tested in Wary.

So it's not just a gtkdialog problem.
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#283 Post by Karl Godt »

rcrsn51 wrote:I can confirm this. An Xdialog applet with a combobox that has a long list requiring a scroll bar will show the jerky behaviour. The larger, vertically, that the list is displayed on the screen, the more pronounced the effect. This was tested in Wary.
So it's not just a gtkdialog problem.
Yes , attached script works . I am running pup-431 atm and attach a screenshot of top and the Xdialog combobox-test for comparison purposes .
--buildlist and --combobox affected until now .

AND what i had observed looking at top :

EVEN if there are only 2 (two) items in the list like in /usr/local/jwmconfig2/virtualDesktopsnew , clicking the dropdown-button(icon) next to the first(default) entry already makes the CPU running high ... BUT just clicking one item in the list goes fast and the CPU calms down immediately ... if you need to scroll you're lost ....
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#284 Post by BarryK »

I regret moving up to gtk 2.24.x!

It would seem that the gtk developers made changes that should really have been held over until 3.x.

Regarding those users who have a large number of sfs files at /mnt/home, I have reverted to Xdialog for the sfs-chooser. 'bootmanager' attached. It goes to /usr/sbin.
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#285 Post by jim3630 »

found a light weight project management software that works in Racy during brief testing.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73371

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#286 Post by BarryK »

Fix for slow drop-down lists! (at least on my laptop).

See my blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02594

You might have to reboot after installing the PET, for the libraries to reload.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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Asus USB-N13

#287 Post by Greatnessguru »

From page 17, 07:56 11NOV2011:
DaveS wrote:Same old Same old. Broadcom wifi of course. Racy just cant do it........ /lib/firmware/B43 missing
Added it.. fixed
Racy automatically loads "rt2800usb" for my Asus USB-N13
and shows "wlan0". However, when I "Scan", the exact
same error msg appears as DaveS captured.

I am new to wireless. My Verizon Casio Commando only tethers using 3G Hotspot.

Thank you,
Eddie Maddox

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#288 Post by rcrsn51 »

BarryK wrote:Fix for slow drop-down lists! (at least on my laptop). See my blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02594 You might have to reboot after installing the PET, for the libraries to reload.
Excellent. That solved all my problems in Wary.

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#289 Post by Jim1911 »

Frugal installation on an ext4 partition.

CUPS will not set up printing for usb printers. I've installed hplip_scan-3.11.7 and hplip_print-3.11.7 pets. Xsane does work.

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Racy Puppy 5.2.1.90 (5.2.2 RC -- 10 Nov. 2011) Post a reply

#290 Post by Billtoo »

Manual frugal install to compaq desktop.

Racy Puppy, version 5.2.1.90 on Sun 13 Nov 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
oem: ATI RADEON 9200

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
7886 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1577.100 FPS
7896 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1579.170 FPS
7924 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1584.616 FPS

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 1553MB (74MB used)
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
Renderer Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5961) 20090101 AGP 8x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
Version 1.3 Mesa 7.10.3
Direct Rendering Yes

I installed gtk+-2.24.8-w5c.pet and that fixed the problem with the
drop down lists.
Racy is working well now.

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#291 Post by Karl Godt »

CUPS will not set up printing for usb printers.
I have an USB printer epson stylus sx-415 and printing with this had never been a real problem with official builds of Puppy with CUPS-1.1.23 , 1.3.11 and 1.4.x .

Just tested the snipplets below , printing some parts of rc.sysinit from geany previewer : no problem here ,

#It is new to me , that the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf would be written new each boot ... :

SKIPLISTVARS="`echo "$SKIPLIST" | tr '\-' '_' | tr ' ' '\n' | sed -e 's/^/blacklist /' | grep -v ' $'`"
BLACKLISTVARS=`cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf 2>/dev/null | grep -v "$SKIPLISTVARS"
echo "$SKIPLISTVARS" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
echo "$BLACKLISTVARS" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

#AND for bootmanager perhaps :

for i in $SKIPLIST ; do
j="${i//-/\\-}"
if [ -z "`grep "^blacklist $j" /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf`" ] ; then
echo "blacklist $i" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
fi
done

[ this i still have to observe ..]

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#292 Post by rcrsn51 »

Jim1911 wrote:Frugal installation on an ext4 partition.CUPS will not set up printing for usb printers. I've installed hplip_scan-3.11.7 and hplip_print-3.11.7 pets. Xsane does work.
Please provide details. I just used Racy 5.2.1.90 and hplip_print-3.11.7 to install an HP Deskjet F4280. It worked correctly.

A Photosmart C4680 also installed correctly.

Remember that if you are switching an HP unit between scanning and printing, it requires a restart.

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#293 Post by Jim1911 »

rcrsn51 wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:Frugal installation on an ext4 partition.CUPS will not set up printing for usb printers. I've installed hplip_scan-3.11.7 and hplip_print-3.11.7 pets. Xsane does work.
Please provide details. I just used Racy 5.2.1.90 and hplip_print-3.11.7 to install an HP Deskjet F4280. It worked correctly.

A Photosmart C4680 also installed correctly.

Remember that if you are switching an HP unit between scanning and printing, it requires a restart.
Restart worked, I did forget, thanks for the reminder. :oops:

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#294 Post by rcrsn51 »

Jim1911 wrote:Restart worked, I did forget, thanks for the reminder. :oops:
You can see this glitch in action. When the unit is ready to print, go to the folder /dev/usb and you will see the device node lp0.

Start a scan operation. The device node disappears. You need to reboot the unit to get it back.

HP is the only make I have seen that does this. I don't know if it is their fault or something in the Puppy USB detection.

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#295 Post by Karl Godt »

Start a scan operation. The device node disappears. You need to reboot the unit to get it back.
looks like something does a " rmmod usblp || modprobe -r lp " before scanning ... the sane backend perhaps ?
Maybe a manually " modprobe usblp " would recreate the /dev/usb/lp0 node ?

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#296 Post by Greatnessguru »

BarryK wrote:Fix for slow drop-down lists! (at least on my laptop).
See my blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02594
You might have to reboot after installing the PET, for the libraries to reload.
Worked for me. No reboot needed.

Thanks very much!
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#297 Post by DaveS »

rcrsn51 wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:Restart worked, I did forget, thanks for the reminder. :oops:
You can see this glitch in action. When the unit is ready to print, go to the folder /dev/usb and you will see the device node lp0.

Start a scan operation. The device node disappears. You need to reboot the unit to get it back.

HP is the only make I have seen that does this. I don't know if it is their fault or something in the Puppy USB detection.
I dont get this problem with my HP Photosmart c4380 when printing/scanning via wifi FWIW.
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#298 Post by Sage »

I don't know if it is their fault or something in the Puppy USB detection.
It's a Puppy feature. Doesn't happen with F15/16, Mint, etc. I only use HP printers.

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#299 Post by rcrsn51 »

Sage wrote:
I don't know if it is their fault or something in the Puppy USB detection.
It's a Puppy feature. Doesn't happen with F15/16, Mint, etc. I only use HP printers.
It may actually be a CUPS feature. Some distros build CUPS so it uses libusb instead of /dev/usb/lp0 to connect to a USB printer. But when you build CUPS that way, you lose certain legacy capabilities.

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mplayershell zoom/scale fix

#300 Post by Ted Dog »

please add -zoom in front of every place that -really-quiet appears

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nohup gmplayer -really-quiet $MYVIDOUT "$@" &
change to:

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nohup gmplayer -zoom -really-quiet $MYVIDOUT "$@" &
so that full screens will scale.

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