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pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5457 Location: Finland

Majorfoo. Yeah. Icons are still defective. I havent touched to them yet. I will do the job when the core works good enough.
Abiword from debian wheezy needs gtk-3.0, so it is out. Gnumeric might work ok, if you install all the dependencies.

When you say that network is not autoconnected, do you mean that you cant manually get network connected. if you mean that, please post the result of this command in console: dmesg > dmesg.gz
as attachment.

majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 443 Location: Wish I knew

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1447 Location: Maine, USA

majorfoo,

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5330 Location: Kentucky

Fresh manual frugal install on the Athlon XP box....... booted to the correct 1440x900 resolution with working sound and internet.

# report-video
Dpup Wheezy, version 3.5.2.1 on Tue 28 Aug 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1875 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a manual frugal install to the hard drive.

# report-video
Dpup Wheezy, version 3.5.2.1 on Wed 29 Aug 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
oem: SiS
product: 6325 1.05.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: sis

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

Computer
Processor mobile AMD Duron(tm)
Memory 708MB (89MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Wed 29 Aug 2012 01:14:22 AM EDT

Processor
Name mobile AMD Duron(tm)
Family, model, stepping 6, 7, 0 (AMD Duron (Morgan))
Vendor AuthenticAMD
Configuration
Cache Size 64kb
Frequency 850.05MHz
BogoMIPS 1700.93
Byte Order Little Endian

Firefox updated to 15.0 and seemed to be working okay but crashed. I
restarted it and it's working again, posting from it now.

stu91 · Posted: Wed 29 Aug 2012, 06:28 Post_subject:

Hi Pemasu,
Good news - report-video is showing radeon driver in use on first boot. Bad news - running xorgwizard after making driver selection it hangs at loading xorg.conf

Still problems for me with b43 wireless - it is not available on first boot - after creating a save file and reboot it seems to be loaded but the little wireless light is not on and i am unable to make a connection.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5457 Location: Finland

Stu91. Thank you of the report. Good to know that radeon works for you. Xorgwizard is broken. I have managed to restore X by replacing - deleting the files in /etc/X11 and copying back from /initrd/pup_ro2/etc/X11. Then the X boots with default driver just like when you boot first time.
I havent ever much tried to understand how xorgwizard works. Well....I try to learn about it.....

About b43. I believe this goes to your broadcom 4311 chip and rerwin`s new logistic problem. The preferences.log shows that wl - ssb axis fails:
20:04:48.022 9212 wl - Replaced by b43 for unsupported card (wl.conf)
20:04:48.048 8285 wl - Unload failed for module: ssb

Your b44 seems to load ok though. I believe your report is valuable for rerwin.

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1447 Location: Maine, USA

stu91, pemasu, majorfoo,

kros54 · Posted: Wed 29 Aug 2012, 12:06 Post_subject: Very fast!

That's not nothing! Perhaps the least power puplet RAM, the Turbo since.
Minor problem: the desktop is write, calc, chat icon, but the programs are missing. It does not matter who you want, and then install them.
I applied for the Hungarian language pack, lang_pack_hu-lupq-0.4.pet very well and stood over to the Hungarian language.
So far everything is working, congratulations.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5457 Location: Finland

Desktop icons miss the linked applications....and I dont know yet what I will provide for them. For chat probably Xchat or Pidgin.
( I have already compiled latest Pidgin-2.10.6 and used it last night in #puppylinux )
Abiword - Gnumeric - etc will need compiling....and I dont know if I will include them....or just put them to the repo. Maybe...maybe not. It is because I dont use either of them. Libreoffice is my app for them.
Xorgwizard is major problem atm.

kros54 · Posted: Wed 29 Aug 2012, 14:01 Post_subject:

Desktop icons: no problem, I just wrote 2 second improvement...

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5457 Location: Finland

I have gotten bit forward with xorgwizard not working. /usr/sbin/xorgwizard has these rows:
#autoprobe...
Xorg -configure > /tmp/xorgprobe.txt 2>&1
#... config in /root/xorg.conf.new

but Xorg -configure does this to me: demonstrated in X with this command: Xorg -configure :1
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.
Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.

It seems that autoprobe does not work right for me. It might explain something.

But Xorg autoconfiguring works. If I delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and restart X, the autoconfiguring selects intel xorg driver for me and X starts.

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1447 Location: Maine, USA

Pemasu, stu91,
I have just now booted up 3.5.2.1 and I have the same Broadcom problem as sut91 and probably majorfoo. My BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller does not get detected even though its b43 driver is loaded. I see that I, as a programmer, mistakenly assumed I was responsible for anything that goes wrong with wifi. But in this case, there is another factor. Stu91's message log:

Aug 29 11:04:54 puppypc1000 user.err kernel: [ 37.537510] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/b0g0initvals5.fw" not found

The mysterious "missing firmware" problem, even though I see that the file: "b43/b0g0initvals5.fw" is actually present in the iso (pup_ro2 layer)!
EDIT: My log shows the same thing, even though it does not try to use the wl driver, at all.

So, the 8a-delta package will not solve the problem and can be ignored for now, until we resolve the firmware issue. And I have no idea what the problem could be with the firmware.
EDIT: I will be including 8a in the experiment package because it is vital if the firmware is not already present in /lib/firmware, which is how most woof-puppies are set up.
Richard

charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 915 Location: South of Belgium

Hi Pemasu,

stu91 · Posted: Thu 30 Aug 2012, 06:37 Post_subject: Re: Broadcom wifi