Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1

Please post any bugs you have found
Message
Author
User avatar
Ted Dog
Posts: 3965
Joined: Wed 14 Sep 2005, 02:35
Location: Heart of Texas

#261 Post by Ted Dog »

many links are broken for install scripts have those been removed? what is the magical directory names for frugal to work?

kj4bnh
Posts: 23
Joined: Thu 20 Jun 2013, 16:28

#262 Post by kj4bnh »

BarryK wrote:
kj4bnh wrote:
BarryK wrote: What Xorg driver are you using?

(if you run 'report-video' in a terminal, it should tell you? As will 'quicksetup')
Intel.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky April, version 7.0.2

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1366x768
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: synaptics dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: dbe dri2 extmod glx kbd mouse present synaptics

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
The intel xorg driver is badly broken on my laptop, tearing effects, among many others.

I always change to the 'modesetting' driver. Just exit from X, run 'xorgwizard'.

There is a new intel driver just released, changelog shows heaps of bug-fixes. I will be testing that soon.
Thanks Barry, have made the changes, I will see how it goes. Jim

User avatar
James C
Posts: 6618
Joined: Thu 26 Mar 2009, 05:12
Location: Kentucky

#263 Post by James C »

I finally got around to doing a frugal install of April64 7.0.2 using the live cd. The installer script worked perfectly....I installed to sdb 3.....probably the easiest Puppy install I've experienced.No problems so far.

Code: Select all

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky April64, version 7.0.2

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0a65 (rev a2)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
  Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768x16
  Depth (bits, or planes):              24
  Modules requested to be loaded:       dbe 

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
  Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
  Loaded modules: dbe dri2 exa extmod fb glx kbd mouse shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
  Resolution:  1440x900 pixels (381x238 millimeters)
  Depth:       24 planes

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

Code: Select all

# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       4054008      1289920      2764088         1592        11112
-/+ buffers:            1278808      2775200
Swap:     14540792            0     14540792
# 

Code: Select all

-Computer-
Processor		: 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory		: 4054MB (636MB used)
Operating System		: Unknown distribution
User Name		: root (root)
Date/Time		: Sat 21 Mar 2015 12:54:59 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution		: 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer		: Unknown
X11 Vendor		: The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter		: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio Adapter		: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

User avatar
BarryK
Puppy Master
Posts: 9392
Joined: Mon 09 May 2005, 09:23
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Contact:

#264 Post by BarryK »

Guys, a question.

There was an earlier report of Pmusic hanging.

My question is, why do we even have Pmusic in April?

I am far from being a audio-player expert, but Xine seems to be a nice audio player. It supports play-lists, and has that pleasant visual affects to look at while listening to music.

Xine seems like an adequate music player to me. Is there anything else essential that Pmusic, Aqualung, or any other, has that Xine hasn't?

If the feedback is no, then I reckon I will remove Pmusic and make Xine the default audio player.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

User avatar
Ted Dog
Posts: 3965
Joined: Wed 14 Sep 2005, 02:35
Location: Heart of Texas

#265 Post by Ted Dog »

good point BK. I thought with everything included in GC would install google-chrome and map all the default player type to it. however did it with Fatdog64 and the bit by spot issue blocked it from being able to load the hard drive files outside of spot user directory.
May try it with April, Spot may not bite so hard over here. :x if you get some free time hop over to SLitaz and see how much they replaced apps of all kinds with a browser and back-end scripts. I do not know why they do not hide the browser title bar, without it you could replace almost exactly the look and feel of all our dialog based scripts.

linuxcbon
Posts: 1312
Joined: Thu 09 Aug 2007, 22:54

#266 Post by linuxcbon »

BarryK wrote:My question is, why do we even have Pmusic in April?
Please remove pmusic, I only use xine, even for mp3s. And while you are at it, remove all programs in /usr/local/ except the mandatory ones. Let the option for them to be installed from ppm.

User avatar
don570
Posts: 5528
Joined: Wed 10 Mar 2010, 19:58
Location: Ontario

#267 Post by don570 »

I burnt 7.0.2 ISO to a CD and booted my IBM desktop (with 1.5 GB) + intel graphics.

It booted nicely. --> 981 M personal storage and 384 M free

The devx couldn't be installed.

I ran the script for a frugal install. It booted nicely and I had 500M of free ram showing. :lol:
Everything running well so far. Well done!!

________________________________________________________

User avatar
don570
Posts: 5528
Joined: Wed 10 Mar 2010, 19:58
Location: Ontario

#268 Post by don570 »

Note to barry:

My script create-3mu works with xine (and pmusic)
Which is better? I don't know. They seem to both work well.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79825

________________________________________________

User avatar
Keef
Posts: 987
Joined: Thu 20 Dec 2007, 22:12
Location: Staffordshire

#269 Post by Keef »

Running live from CD on a HP Compaq nc6120 with 1.25 gig RAM and it is running very nicely. Booting was very slow, but very nippy now. According to htop (on my HDD) it is using 523mb of RAM with SeaMonkey running.
Going to try the frugal install now.

User avatar
BarryK
Puppy Master
Posts: 9392
Joined: Mon 09 May 2005, 09:23
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Contact:

#270 Post by BarryK »

Keef wrote:Running live from CD on a HP Compaq nc6120 with 1.25 gig RAM and it is running very nicely. Booting was very slow, but very nippy now. According to htop (on my HDD) it is using 523mb of RAM with SeaMonkey running.
Going to try the frugal install now.
Very good. I would like to find out how low the RAM can be for the live-CD.

There are so many PCs out there with 1MB RAM. It would be nice if the live-CD boots on those.

Even if the amount of RAM is impractical for daily usage, cannot download/install anything, it is still a means for evaluation of Quirky, and can become a means of installing to drive or partition.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

User avatar
James C
Posts: 6618
Joined: Thu 26 Mar 2009, 05:12
Location: Kentucky

#271 Post by James C »

James C wrote:I finally got around to doing a frugal install of April64 7.0.2 using the live cd. The installer script worked perfectly....I installed to sdb 3.....probably the easiest Puppy install I've experienced.No problems so far.
A little customizing, just need to remember to save.... :)

Actually,the saves are really fast.
Attachments
April64 7.0.2 frugal.jpg
(81.21 KiB) Downloaded 1058 times

zygo
Posts: 243
Joined: Sat 08 Apr 2006, 20:15
Location: UK

bugs in netstat, hardinfo, xmessage

#272 Post by zygo »

Barry,

I have used several Puppies including the latest precise from yourself and the latest slacko. Now I'm running april 7.0.2 live-CD (with 2GB RAM) and these errors are new.

A.
netstat -c -p -a -e -w -u -t -n
netstat: invalid option -- c

netstat -p -a -e -w -u -t -n
netstat: /proc/net/tcp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/udp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/raw6: No such file or directory

there is IPv4 output (which I have removed) and as I expected no IPv6 output.

B.
hardinfo has no USB info and there's no error in the console that launched it.

C.
xmessage -buttons "will do" -file msg.txt
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

The message box does appear though.

Thanks

Sage
Posts: 5536
Joined: Tue 04 Oct 2005, 08:34
Location: GB

#273 Post by Sage »

I would like to find out how low the RAM can be for the live-CD.
There are so many PCs out there with 1MB RAM. It would be nice if the live-CD boots on those.
Yes, it will boot (slowly) into 1Gb and is reasonably speedy thereafter; swap partition available on HD, independent video card(ie no shared mem.: 128MbDDR Radeon).
With 768Mb, "no space left on device", KP, non-blocking pool initialized(?), STOP.
896? Loads of error messages but arrives at CLI. Cannot run xorgwizard without 'no space' & 'Seg fault' messages. Very close - maybe a small SW tweek?
Folks with 1Gb and shared mem. could slot in a 128 strip - plenty of that knocking about at low or zero cost. Even the most basic boards have two slots, so depends on whether the 1Gb is a single strip!

User avatar
BarryK
Puppy Master
Posts: 9392
Joined: Mon 09 May 2005, 09:23
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Contact:

#274 Post by BarryK »

James C wrote:
James C wrote:I finally got around to doing a frugal install of April64 7.0.2 using the live cd. The installer script worked perfectly....I installed to sdb 3.....probably the easiest Puppy install I've experienced.No problems so far.
A little customizing, just need to remember to save.... :)
Actually, you could put the 'savesession' script into /usr/bin/wmpoweroff and wmreboot, so it will save at every shutdown.

Or rather, it will ask, and you can decline if not want to save.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

User avatar
Blackfish
Posts: 324
Joined: Wed 26 Feb 2014, 15:36
Location: Brookings, SD

#275 Post by Blackfish »

Where can I find a LibreOffice that works with Quirky?
Dell Latitude E5500 w/ Intel Centrino processor-- running bionicpup64-8.0

User avatar
Ted Dog
Posts: 3965
Joined: Wed 14 Sep 2005, 02:35
Location: Heart of Texas

#276 Post by Ted Dog »

Hemmm.. savesession on shutdown what if we could ALSO save that single file back to DVD? DID you know that same name files can be saved to END of already burned DVD-R.. and it would be picked as the newer..
If you mount the DVD with a session number you could go get an earlier session. :roll:

Just tossing this out there.... :twisted:

User avatar
Ted Dog
Posts: 3965
Joined: Wed 14 Sep 2005, 02:35
Location: Heart of Texas

#277 Post by Ted Dog »

Actually you could also do a delta file between old and new savesession and save just the changes... But thats a bit more coding..

User avatar
Flash
Official Dog Handler
Posts: 13071
Joined: Wed 04 May 2005, 16:04
Location: Arizona USA

#278 Post by Flash »

BarryK wrote:Guys, a question.

There was an earlier report of Pmusic hanging.

My question is, why do we even have Pmusic in April?
Barry, Pmusic is more than just a media player. I use it to batch-edit the tags of audiobook mp3 files so I can see the author and title of the book I'm listening to (sometimes people ask what I'm listening to and I forget.) I haven't found another way to do that, though I didn't seriously look for one after I figured out how easy it is to do with Pmusic. Please, at least keep the latest version of Pmusic in Puppy's Package Manager.

User avatar
gcav
Posts: 104
Joined: Fri 25 May 2012, 04:12
Location: Ontario

Re: bugs in netstat, hardinfo, xmessage

#279 Post by gcav »

zygo wrote:Barry,

I have used several Puppies including the latest precise from yourself and the latest slacko. Now I'm running april 7.0.2 live-CD (with 2GB RAM) and these errors are new.

A.
netstat -c -p -a -e -w -u -t -n
netstat: invalid option -- c

netstat -p -a -e -w -u -t -n
netstat: /proc/net/tcp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/udp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/raw6: No such file or directory

there is IPv4 output (which I have removed) and as I expected no IPv6 output.


Thanks
I am also seeing the errors.
Does anyone know if netstat changed? or the kernel changed?

scsijon
Posts: 1596
Joined: Thu 24 May 2007, 03:59
Location: the australian mallee
Contact:

Re: bugs in netstat, hardinfo, xmessage

#280 Post by scsijon »

gcav wrote:
zygo wrote:Barry,

I have used several Puppies including the latest precise from yourself and the latest slacko. Now I'm running april 7.0.2 live-CD (with 2GB RAM) and these errors are new.

A.
netstat -c -p -a -e -w -u -t -n
netstat: invalid option -- c

netstat -p -a -e -w -u -t -n
netstat: /proc/net/tcp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/udp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/raw6: No such file or directory

there is IPv4 output (which I have removed) and as I expected no IPv6 output.


Thanks
I am also seeing the errors.
Does anyone know if netstat changed? or the kernel changed?
Not sure what netstat -c is for, it's not in any of my netstat lists as a switch, typo maybe?

The others are all for ip6, ?are you sure you have ip6 enabled, I think maybe not, it needs to be enabled at both ends.

Try

Code: Select all

netstat -a -s -p tcp tcpv6 ipv6 -f 
, this should list your tcp stats and connections if they exist for both ip4 and ip6 including ports.

Post Reply