Quirky 1.4 bug reports and feedback

[davec51]

With a frugal install, I booted up fine, even got my resolution (1280x1024). However, after a few minutes X crashes and I can't get the desktop back without rebooting. I have a dreaded Intel video, but I have no trouble with other Puppies -- 4.3.1 and 5.1.1.

[taca0]

Here is the xerrs.log I really dont know if the X crash error is there...

X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux puppypc 2.6.31.14 #1 SMP Mon Oct 25 23:28:59 GMT-8 2010 i686
Build Date: 13 September 2010
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Nov 27 13:30:22 2010
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

(II) Module already built-in
(II) Module already built-in
(II) Module already built-in
Fulfilled via DRI at 3841664
Freed 3841664 (pool 2)
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/X11R7/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so failed (/usr/X11R7/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
/usr/bin/jwm
EXIT="Exit on mouse-over"
Playing Sparc Audio '/usr/share/audio/2barks.au' : Mu-Law, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
EXIT="Exit on click close-box"

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(seamonkey-bin:19358): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

May be error its in mplayer error log or...

[JonT]

As this quirky has the older Xorg and kernel, I did a frugal install by copying files from iso for testing, no save file. Chose the i810 driver, got woof-woof, connected to wireless vis SNS. Right-clicked on connect/Autoconnect to ethernet/wireless networks, then chose to upgrade the X drivers - had lost the network connection. Clicking the autoconnect option disconnects the established connection. Reclicking autoconnect reconnects. iwconfig shows that clicking autoconnect toggles access point association after several seconds of delay.

Back online, did recommended video upgrade with mesa-6.5.2-w5.pet, restarted X. New download app was fine. Billtoo and BarryK, this mesa pet doesn't have glxgears and doesn't change the hardinfo/Computer/Display:

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-OpenGL-
Vendor		: Unknown
Renderer		: Unknown
Version		: Unknown
Direct Rendering		: No

Installing mesa-demos-7.6-w5.pet gets hardinfo to fill out details in the OpenGL section (no X restart needed) plus provides glxgears (in /usr/bin/X11R7).

Opened a youtube video, played fine, sound was good with no adjustments to retrovol. Played a DVD with Ogle, subtitles and sound worked, fast & slow worked, reverse did not. Picking Mplayer from menu with DVD loaded opens ogle. To use Mplayer, the DVD must be removed first or start Mplayer from CLI.

Rebooting after creating save file, wireless automatically reconnected immediately - quickly! On light testing, no other problems found.

As the newer kernels give this computer fits, I look forward to wary and 2.14X keeping me up to date. Many thanks!

[Proudog]

The sound, ethernet, and wired internet connection was autodetected at first boot:

Sound:
Card: Intel ICH 82801BA-ICH2 Chip: Analog Devices AD1885 Module:
snd_intel8x0

Ethernet:
Card: Intel PRO100 Module: e100

Bugs

Video report do not work correctly when a Video capture device is installed
REPORT
Quirky Puppy, version 140

Chip description:
Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

My video chipset is a ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY

In upgrade under Quirky 1.3, Seamonkey is changed to version 2.0.7 and the configuration file in ~/./mozilla/seamonkey/XXXXX is changed, this lost the old configuration and bookmarks, add-ons.....

[pemasu]

frugal install. Acer aspire 5820TG. Installed intel driver and dri.

# report-video
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
Driver used by Xorg:
intel
Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

Menu flickering like in wary 0.96 -- 0.98. I Suppose it is due to older xorg and intel driver.

Connects with ath9k.

Ayttm crashes in hyperlinks in #puppylinux. This uninformed feature in Ayttm is really funny. Makes newbies really look and feel newbies when ayttm crashes. People needs immediately help in irc.

There is Pidgin 2.7.5 in the repo. It gives an error:
# pidgin
pidgin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkspell.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtkspell was in the repo and with it pidgin works fine.

Strange slowness, when typing comp freezes sometimes for tens of seconds.

Cpu freq tool shows only 2 of 4 cores, so it is not that newer tool.

Flsynclient ok.

XF-Prot installs and works fine


Otherwise nothing special in this short test.

[nooby]

Ha ha hah, Quirky 1.4 must be the most popular software there is. Downloading takes forever.

Luci or Fluppy gets downloaded in under 30 secondes or something but this one takes some hour to take down Q1.4.

Or Barry have uploaded it to a slow server. Maybe the Luci-239 guys can be helpful and mirror it on their server?

Edit

Q1.4 works good so far.
The only think I can complain about is that when one user Viewnior then in F11 it constrain it self to the small 10" screen format instead of accepting the bigger second screen connected like Fluppy does.

Surprisingly it boot and boots and does not fail to boot as some other OS has done. But maybe it will fail if I install a pet that has another kernel as source?

Which Firefox pet am I supposed to use for Quirky?

[svgt]

I tried Quirky 1.4 with two different 7 year old machines - 2GHz 2GB Nvidia cards and I got the message:

searching for puppy files .. and searching deeper.

I tried with and without hdd drives. I add a screenshot.

[James C]

Another fresh manual frugal install of 140, this time on the P4 test box.

Initial boot had working internet and sound and easily selected desired 1024x768x24 screen resolution.Looks good on this old box.


VIDEO REPORT: Quirky Puppy, version 140

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated 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
#


-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 512MB (231MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.14
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 27 Nov 2010 04:31:09 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5


-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.31.14 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Mon Oct 25 23:28:59 GMT-8 2010
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Puppy Linux 0.14
-Current Session-
Computer Name : puppypc
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)
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[James C]

Which Firefox pet am I supposed to use for Quirky?[/b]

Could try the one in the package manager.

[nooby]

One bug???

when I try to get mplayer to play a .flv or .mp4 file then it open a mp4 file it have found in mnt/home but not any of the music video files that I click on to play in the folder named Music.

Which it did for Q1.3 and Wary and Luci and Fluppy and so on.

So something is very odd about mplayer.

Thanks to James for the isntruction on how to get FF, I'll use that one if FF try to misbehave again.

[James C]

Thought I'd give Quirky 140 a quick live run on a Nvidia box.Live pfix=ram.

Working sound but no network interface detected. Was able to load necessary module from the Network Wizard so working now. Also able to set desired 1440x900x24 resolution with the default driver.Appears to work fine on this box too.


# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky Puppy, version 140

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

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

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (118MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.14
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 27 Nov 2010 04:56:15 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.31.14 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Mon Oct 25 23:28:59 GMT-8 2010
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Puppy Linux 0.14
-Current Session-
Computer Name : puppypc
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)

[nooby]

He he heh very odd behavior of this Mplayer.

Should I change something in the set up to make it normal?

It refuse to play when one click on a media file.

But without me have telling it it has internally to itself without showing it to me created an inner playlist in based on that directory.

To see that hidden list one have to first right click on the pop up of the player and then go to file and then further click until the list show up and there chose a file to play and then it play it very good but such a long many hoops to get there instead of just playing the file one click on.

Yes it is the default mediaplayer and that is what the set run is set to too.

so it is preinstalled to have a most unintuitive way of acting compared to what all the other puppies has been installed with.

Why was it set up that way?

[James C]

Went through the Video Upgrade Wizard installing both Mesa and the Nvidia driver. The new downloader worked perfectly again.

# glxgears
4165 frames in 5.0 seconds = 833.000 FPS
5523 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1104.600 FPS
5544 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1108.800 FPS
5595 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1119.000 FPS
5536 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1107.200 FPS
5607 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1121.400 FPS
12839 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2567.800 FPS
13132 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2626.400 FPS
13169 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2633.800 FPS
14048 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2809.600 FPS
14541 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2908.200 FPS
14313 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2862.600 FPS
14601 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2920.200 FPS

[bigpup]

Found a wallpaper for Quirky.

[pakt]

Barry, the ‘FONTMAP’ problem in rc.country remains in quirky-140.

One other thing. After upgrading the video driver, the existing drive icons are mis-aligned (higher up on the screen).

Could you have the ‘erase then redraw and align existing icons’ code run automatically after upgrading?

Many people probably aren't aware that they can re-align the icons by running the 'Desktop drive icons manager'.

[pakt]

After installing:

xorg_upgrade_intel-2.10.0-w5
mesa-6.5.2-w5
mesa-demos-7.6-w5

on my Intel G41 graphics PC and re-booting, I tried running glxgears but got:

# glxgears
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
#

# ldd /usr/X11R7/bin/glxgears

showed no missing files.

Checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log which showed that /usr/X11R7/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so is missing:

(EE) AIGLX error: i965 exports no extensions (/usr/X11R7/lib/dri/i965_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driDriverExtensions)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/X11R7/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/X11R7/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
(EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
(II) GLX: no usable GL providers found for screen 0

[BarryK]

Barry, the ‘FONTMAP’ problem in rc.country remains in quirky-140.

I am running Quirky 1.4 right now. I just checked /etc/fontmap, it is empty, as it should be.

The code in rc.country is fine:

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 FONTMAP='' #101112
 return 0
} #end of askkbdlayout

if [ ! -e /etc/keymap ];then
 KMAP="us"
 askkbdlayout #this is extended menu, func above.
 #...this sets KEYBOARD, FONTMAP, CODEPAGE variables.
 [ $? -eq 0 ] && KMAP="$KEYBOARD"
 echo -n "$KMAP" > /etc/keymap
 echo -n "$FONTMAP" > /etc/fontmap

...the function askkbdlayout gets called, it sets FONTMAP='', which gets written to /etc/fontmap. I don't see how that can go wrong.

[BarryK]

After installing:

xorg_upgrade_intel-2.10.0-w5
mesa-6.5.2-w5
mesa-demos-7.6-w5

on my Intel G41 graphics PC and re-booting, I tried running glxgears but got:

# glxgears
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
#

# ldd /usr/X11R7/bin/glxgears

showed no missing files.

Checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log which showed that /usr/X11R7/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so is missing:

(EE) AIGLX error: i965 exports no extensions (/usr/X11R7/lib/dri/i965_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driDriverExtensions)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
(II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/X11R7/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/X11R7/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
(EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
(II) GLX: no usable GL providers found for screen 0

Hmmm, perhaps this needs to be clarified in the Video Upgrade Wizard. If you upgrade the Intel video driver, you do NOT use mesa 6.5.2.

The 'xorg_upgrade_intel' package already has DRI Mesa files in it, nothing else should be required.

If you do need the rest of the mesa package, the Wizard explains to install 'xorg_upgrade_dri_extra-7.8.2' -- see the two buttons at bottom of window.
....but you shouldn't need that, the 'xorg_upgrade_intel' pkg is complete.

Ok, I will take a look at the Wizard, see if it is worded in a confusing manner.

If you did install mesa-6.5.2, it must be installed before xorg_upgrade_intel so that the latter will over-write with the later dri files.

[fluxit]

Video Upgrade Wizard indicates:



Installation of mesa via the DRI button, restart xserver leads to no dri as previously noted.

After downloading the Catalyst driver package for X series Radeon for Linux from www.ati.com, running the installer and a reboot later; I get a "Frequency out of range" message from my lcd monitor. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, mp /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows: DDC not detected(I've never seen this one before.) Also- still no dri(of course with no display what difference does it make right ) correct chipset was detected by the flgrx.

Back to Quirky 1.3 for now.

--Edit: run-on corrected.

[artifus]

just had a brief look... have been playing with an old usb 'pc cam' on various pups without much success til today when inpu picked it up. on plugging it in to the latest quirky it triggered a 3g usb modem wizard message that popped up briefly. grub4dos seems to have lost luci reporting error 15 but that may be me. or the machine. or both. been messin'