Quirky 008 feedback

[aarf]

Removed duplicate post

[01micko]

Ok,

Pwireless thing already mentioned and solution.

I run an rt73 Ralink compat usb wireless device and it seems very flakey with the kernel. I can say this because I also bullt a ppup from the latest woof with the latest kernel. So, in that respect not a quirky problem. Possibly a "conglomerate" ( ) network wizard problem. By flakey i mean that it is fast as a rocket for a minute or two, and then seem down for five minutes, then seem back to full performance for awhile, then drops off again. Very unusual. The wife is running Quirky-006 concurrently with absolutely no issues on Facebook so I know it is not a router issue, incidently she has the exact same model USB wireless adapter.

However, in the network wizard (Dougal version) I scan, my essid is detected, I choose (wep), all good... (save of course), I "use" and the gtkdialog progressbar hits 100% and stops, then the gui comes up saying "puppy can't find network.. bla bla" so I hit "test wlan0" (which indicates the interface is fine) and the progress bar barely reaches 20% and I get the "'Puppy was able to find a live network' You can proceed to acquire an IP address" message. I get the IP and connect.

Sorry, haven't looked further than this but as I mentioned it may be a kernel issue with my particular module.

[4-stroke]

I run an rt73 Ralink compat usb wireless device and it seems very flakey with the kernel.

I can't get mine to connect with anything with WPA2, not even from the commandline.

[adi]

c-media ac97 usb or integrated not recognized
keyboard layout not set after boot (remains on us)

[Terryphi]

keyboard layout not set after boot (remains on us)

See Barry's post on page 1 of this thread which gives a fix for this problem.

[Béèm]

...that should be XKEYMAP="$CONSKEYMAP", not XKEYMAP="$xCONSKEYMAP" -- delete that "x" then save.

Exit from X, run 'xorgwizard', and then run 'xwin' to restart X, and all should be right.

I solved this for my Belgian keyboard by editing xorg.conf.

[Béèm]

Pwireless2 doesn't detect my wireless device (ipw2100) in my R40 Thinkpad, while the netw wizard does.

[Lobster]

I was rather perplexed by the new integrated wizard (I have ethernet)
In the end Dougals worked OK
The BK wizard did not - not sure if that helps any tweaking . . .

My AtI Radeon HD 4350 Graphic card worked OK
and by dragging the latest xaraLX sfs into the Menu / utility / sfsConvert
I was able to use XaraLX

[Béèm]

As aarf pointed out in the last post, a work-around from Jemimah is to run /etc/init.d/Pwireless2.

On running this script from its folder location, I noticed that its permissions were set to non-executable, so fixed that in ROX and Pwireless2 ran fine.

I'm not sure just how feasible this would be to implement, but it would be ice cool if Pwireless2 could check for a plugged-in or hot-plugged usb wlan device and then offer to connect it. Maybe a UDEV event could be used to detect this.

If say Pwireless2 was being used on a netbook or laptop where the device is already built in, would also be cool if the boot script could detect the presence of such a device and then pop-up a dialogue just after boot time that offers to connect it - a la Ubuntu.

LOL I don't want much do I?

Fixed the permission issue also.
Then, when running from a terminal got:

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+ /usr/local/Pwireless2/start-wpa
+++ DHCPCD=/usr/sbin/dhcpcd
+++ export WPA_SUPPLICANT=/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
+++ WPA_SUPPLICANT=/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
+++ export WPA_CLI=/usr/sbin/wpa_cli
+++ WPA_CLI=/usr/sbin/wpa_cli
+++ cat /usr/local/Pwireless2/interface
++ INTERFACE=eth1
++ /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -b -f /usr/local/Pwireless2/dhcpcd.conf
dhcpcd: version 5.1.5 starting
dhcpcd: forking to background
++ sleep 2
Selected interface 'eth1'
wpa_supplicant did not reply to PING command - exiting

Then tried the internet connection wizard agai and selected Pwireless.
This time I could configure the interface.
But I am missing the little antenna in the system tray.

[Béèm]

Pwireless2 doesn't detect my wireless device (ipw2100) in my R40 Thinkpad, while the netw wizard does.

After fixing the permission of Pwireless2 I tried the Internet connection wizard again.
This time the network was configurated ok, but I miss the little green antenna in the system tray.

[Béèm]

One more thing on the Pwireless2.
In the access point list, I miss the strength indicator as it is done in the network wizard. Is needed to choose a access point and for information.

[Béèm]

Nice idea to have the temperature displayed in the system tray under the battery loading indicator

[8-bit]

Not trying to be a stickler here, but I downloaded the devx SFS file, but where do I get the patched kernel source SFS file for Quirky 8?
And was Quirky 8's kernel compiled with smp support?

[Béèm]

Icons in the menu and sys tray have a black background. Not a transparent one.
This is disturbing.

[`f00]

@Béèm - nope, it's jwm (or JWM, as pointed out) - but not too terribly disturbing (in my opinion) as it only affects JWM's display of icons in those parts of the display that the wm dictates, sorry if I misunderstood your concern. Alpha values (or transparency/opacity both true and pseudo) may sometimes be interpreted differently by certain setups as well.

___firstlook___
Hello q008 (and yet another use of my personal quirky-Xorg cribsheet to get Xorg up out of its confusion.. it should be framed, perhaps). Still 'bad'alpha on jwm's display of icons screenie 9k, scaling and/or simply not correctly rendering alpha hint - afaict, not an issue for any other gui (altho inkscapelite, aka .36-pre, may show a bit of oddness/artefacts depending). I approve of the plain bg (for testing, anyway), kind of like the old 18% graycard used in photography (and my 1st shot on the roll when I use film).. No idea why leafpad seems to be 'out of favour' on some recent pups (but no biggie since it's an easy add and yah, nico' is lots more versatile).

(prepares for crash..) And now, multimedia! alsamixer looks to be usual default and leaving as-is .. trash barks when lockscreen is fed to it .. barks again when lockscreen 'deleted' (oops) .. try an audio CD .. and even with simple pCD it crashes - was doing a note on a floppy, setting up rox to openwith or sendto leafpad and keeeeeeeeeeeeeeen-bang-deadog (and not in the mood to edit xorg.conf again just to load it, altho it gets easier with repetition..).

___disc-switch upgrade from q006___
For me, this resulted in a neither fish nor fowl (but somehow basically functional) quirkypup. As a side comment, I can understand keeping/reverto Official files (sanity and more-or-less enforced consistency in testing) - for general release it would be imo a good option to have a simple method of 'personal' remastering that would keep user settings intact (for multisession livedisc). It seems always to be a jumble regarding what prefs have been reverted (actually, the switch-disc upgrade worked well - just sometimes I get confused as to what got pulled from multisession layers and what was modifications on the remaster's sfs) and a bit tedious but educational shaking down an upgrade to personal taste.

Mounting fs by driveicon on the roxpin-standard desktop is quite sluggish (not my personal pref anymore but many use it). /tmp/versioncleanup dir is a bit sparse - good, the Official libjpeg set now seems fine from the get-go However; just to pick at a scab, jwm doesn't respect or render icon transparency properly - to be sure, mostly a cosmetic flaw but still.. even a wm should get display proper or closer than this smallish anomaly indicates.

Lots to do (mostly done asof this 100309 edit) - wine survived the upgrade but the earliest and more vital (to me, anyway) apps&etc are probably on the remastered q006 sfs (ick, quirky having an issue with mounting the sfs on disc but oki on the original buildfile sfs on flash) - xfe first since rox is less solid at d'n'd for me (often rox will regard a button-release as a click and try to move what I'd intended to copy ). Trim the menu (which is probably the last thing I'll do before sessionsave) etcetc.. usw

Freememapplet shell (swallowed in jwm tray) was fine initially, disappeared from display after the save

[BarryK]

Not trying to be a stickler here, but I downloaded the devx SFS file, but where do I get the patched kernel source SFS file for Quirky 8?
And was Quirky 8's kernel compiled with smp support?

I stated in the release notes that the 2.6.33-git7 kernel is only temporary. I have not bothered to create an SFS of the source for it.

It is configured for uniprocessors, because I was targeting netbooks and I had a suspicion that the smp kernel still doesn't "run right" on some uniprocessor systems.

[Béèm]

@Béèm - nope, it's jwm...

What do you mean by this.
I know it's JWM.

[aarf]

If you accidently delete the connect icon drag and drop a new one from /usr/local/apps push the touch bar in the wrong place and it will delete desktop icons.

[ttuuxxx]

Tried to make a pet and got an error message

GUI window
Press ENTER key to bring up a GUI window that will help you to create
a database entry for the package. This will be shown in a text editor
for saving somewhere, also written to file 'pet.specs' inside the pkg.
Press ENTER:

** ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 16, near token '</default>': syntax error

aborting...
Aborted creation of PET package.



Also new network manager now has extra annoying information windows, Remember less is more

Also still have black background on menu icons, Quirky is the only puppy to this on my pc's.

ttuuxxx

[upnorth]

Hi Ttuuxxx

see thread at
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... e9f#397264

regarding the dir2pet