Quirky 008 feedback

[ttuuxxx]

Hi Ttuuxxx

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

regarding the dir2pet

Thanks I already fixed it
I just took the dir2pet from 2.14x and replaced quirky's.
Then I copied /root/.packages/Packages-puppy-quirky-official as /root/.packages/packages.txt
and it worked perfectly, probably not the best method, but at least I can make pets without errors and only took 10 seconds to put a band-aid on
ttuuxxx

[James C]

Frugal install on my old P3 test box. Nothing really to complain about yet....installed FF 3.6 which works fine, even with streaming flash video. Mplayer also plays every type of file I throw at it too.

[capoverde]

Running Quirky 008 from Live-CD on an Athlon XP 1800+, Biostar M7VIW mainboard, 512MB RAM.

Fast boot but keyboard (PS/2) isn't active on splash page, impossible to set options or call F2.***Edited: was my fault - the kbd plug went into the PS/2 mouse port (USB mouse here). What, after the splash page it worked regularly!!! All else valid.***

Keyboard layout is entered, but doesn't become active until set in the 'Mouse - Keyboard Wizard' dialog, which shows the previous choice already selected. After pressing OK there, the screen goes black except for about 10% of the top of the normal display, greatly enlarged. After exiting X with <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Bcksp> and restarting X, all is back to normal and the kbd. layout works.

** I see Barry's recommended correction to /usr/bin/xorgwizard just now, maybe gets OK that way.

Wired ADSL net connection works fast and fine no matter which path.

Gnome-Mplayer seems to have no problems with any of the video formats I've tested. On full screen, however, it does enter some kind of a slo-motion effect, possibly due to CPU overload; it doesn't lose a frame, however, and the sound is repeated at abt. 0,3 seconds chops without losing sync - never seen before, funny...

AbiWord seems quite stable, no odd behavior with symbols, and all TrueType fonts work regularly as before; is also way faster and better at inserting pictures in pages, which was a pain in the back up to now. Maybe the best AbiWord in years! Haven't yet tried printing.

No <Insert> key crash with SeaMonkey... Ahhh.

More testing going on, anyway IMHO it's already an incredibly wonderful Quirk. One thousand thanks Barry!

[pemasu]

Quirky008 has been the first which supports backlight brightness since Puppy 4.3.1 retro in my acer laptop !!!
Newer kernel maybe has done the trick.
Thanks. This is really great news.

Pwireless2 worked after /etc/init.d/Pwireless2 from console.

Touchpad short movements was fixed editing xorg.conf:

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Option "MinSpeed" "0.30"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.90"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0090"

and finnish characters worked by changing "fi" to xorg.conf.

ATI radeon driver was configured automatically also.

[MinHundHettePerro]

Only Puppy with sound in flashplayer ! (None in 412, 431, 432, dpup, Bruno, 214X, upup ...)

SB PCI 128/Ensoniq 1370, for which sound otherwise works.

/
MHHP

[maddox]

Quirky-008 using live-cd
Acer laptop "tm-4602LMi"
cpu-freq scaling chooses the correct values and they are correctly entered into the min max box.
However, when I close the lid, the cpu hibernates/suspends but it won't wake up completely.
Hit any key, it tries to wake-up, (screen, drive and fan) then falls back to sleep. Only way out is to power-off

[Lobster]

This morning I took short .ASF and .mov movies
and they played OK (not automatically) when I dragged them into xine
This may be the new Radeon card or the upgrades in Quirky.

Also used Menu / System / pdisk to great effect
deleting some minor, non-Puppy Linux known as Ubuntu
(be careful noobs
- this is low level partitioning . . .)

Yesterday I watched a streaming movie from the BBC website
- basically I have been using Quirky 008 as my OS

I only use an OS (at this stage) as long as it does what I want
So far so good - several days now

[LoneRifle]

Reporting everything working well on the Edubook. However, noticed that drivers for my wireless card don't support WPA. Is there a guide to replacing the drivers with ones that do support it? Thanks.

[BarryK]

Reporting everything working well on the Edubook. However, noticed that drivers for my wireless card don't support WPA. Is there a guide to replacing the drivers with ones that do support it? Thanks.

pakt sent me a pm about that:

Indeed, sound and wireless work. I have the Realtek 8188S adapter which works with the r8192s_usb module. It didn't show up in Pwireless but did in Dougal's wizard and works with WPA2 in spite of being warned by the wizard that it wouldn't.

[tempestuous]

Clearly the r8192s_usb driver is WPA-compatible, it simply needs to be specified as compatible in the Network Wizard:
line 322 of /usr/sbin/wag-profiles.sh

[aarf]

pwireless2 as pointed out still need work on the intergration into connect wizard..
pgprs-connect still cant be found in the menu after the first setup i.e. menus are not refreshed after setup: this the last time will point that out.
pgprs-connect does connect from a terminal.

aarf,
One important feature of this new integrated networking is there are no longer arbitrary menu entries for individual network connection tools.

If you chose GPRS as the default tool, then you should have /usr/local/bin/defaultconnect with this in it:

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#!/bin/sh
exec rxvt -title "pgprs-connect PRESS CTRL+C TO DISCONNECT" -e pgprs-connect

When you click on the 'connect' icon on the desktop, 'defaultconnect' script will run immediately.

...that's the idea anyway, the actual implementation has some rough edges, as this is just the "first take" at doing it.

connect-icon: although it is a good, although non-intuative system, it is not doing it for me.
my connection:
firstly i try pwirless2 for any open networks that are around, ok fine if there are,

but if not next is USB-cable-gprs to mobile phone which was fine when/if the menu entry got into network menu place but now if i have pwireless2 as default in quirky008, i then need to use pgprs-connect in a terminal because the gprs option is not in the right-click on connect-icon.

additionally now i also have an a faster bluetooth dongle in USB port used to connect to a bluetooth enabled mobile phone which works easily as a bluetooth connected modem in knopix531 but i can't see how to get it to connect in puppy. "internet by dialup or wireless modem" and "internet by wireless GPRS modem" both fail to see a bluetooth modem connection and jemimah's bluez ain't cutting it yet..

[LoneRifle]

Reporting everything working well on the Edubook. However, noticed that drivers for my wireless card don't support WPA. Is there a guide to replacing the drivers with ones that do support it? Thanks.

pakt sent me a pm about that:

Indeed, sound and wireless work. I have the Realtek 8188S adapter which works with the r8192s_usb module. It didn't show up in Pwireless but did in Dougal's wizard and works with WPA2 in spite of being warned by the wizard that it wouldn't.

Thanks Barry. I actually got my Edubook from a supplier other than NorhTec, so my wireless adapter is actually based on a Ralink 3070 chipset. iirc trying to get Puppy to scan for networks on this chipset resulted in no networks being found, but I'll try again tonight.

As an aside, did you compile the Xorg driver for the RDC VGA controller onboard the Edubook? doesn't seem to be present at the usual path.. if you didn't don't worry about it.

[nooby]

I know that Q8 and the others are not supposed to be working puppies. Barry use q to test the woof woof with different ideas and see how they work out.

But I hope later when somebody make use of woof that they fix the nVidia thing so even us who have bought a HP/Compaq with AMD cpu and nVidea graphics can see the desktop instead of a black screen.

No hurry, I can wait.

[BarryK]

Here is my Simple Network Setup (SNS).

The PET can be installed into Quirky 008, but might cause trouble in older puppies, as it has /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and rc.shutdown that might not be compatible with older pups.

Simple Network Setup can be run just by typing "sns" in a terminal.

It can also be launched by clicking the 'connect' icon on the desktop, then choose 'Internet by wired or wireless LAN', then another window will offer a choice between the Network Wizard and SNS.

If you set SNS as the default, then "exec sns" gets written to /usr/local/bin/defaultconnect. The boot script rc.sysinit reads this and will use SNS to make the connection. Also, the 'connect' icon on the desktop will run SNS immediately when clicked on.

Bug reports most welcome.

EDIT: If you are running Quirky 008, it is probably best to remove all the files /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/99-*. These are part of Pwireless2.

[01micko]

Hi

Using SNS in a tpup build from woof March 4

I previously had issues in this pup connecting with wireless, I fluked a connection with Pwireless2 by playing with Pwireless2 scripts on the command line but did not record what I did!

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I installed sns-1 in tpup running pfix=ram. I tried it and the interface and available networks showed. Good. I chose the radio button of my essid, chose wep, entered key and hit connect. It failed. Tried again but no networks showed.

Here is the dhcpcd log

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dhcpcd: sending commands to master dhcpcd process

This is what I was getting on the command line with my earlier efforts with Pwireless2.

I went and tried Pwireless2 (remember, I'm pfix=ram) and lo and behold it worked! There must have been something triggered by the sns-1 scripts. Weird but I'm posting now from my tpup. (It is very closely related to quirky for those who don't know).

Any further logs needed, or suggestions???

Cheers.

[BarryK]

01micko,
Ok, can you try doing it all from the commandline. Boot up with pfix=ram, then run this:

You will have to substitute the variables where required. $INTERFACE is something like 'wlan0' or 'wlan1':

# ifconfig $INTERFACE up
# iwlist $INTERFACE scan
...from this you can find the $CHANNEL number.

# iwconfig $INTERFACE mode managed
# iwconfig $INTERFACE essid $ESSID
# iwconfig $INTERFACE channel $CHANNEL

$KEY will be a 10, 26 or 58 digit hexadecimal number...
# iwconfig $INTERFACE key $KEY

If all the the above completed without error, then you should be able to start the dhcpcd client daemon:

# dhcpcd $INTERFACE

...to confirm that this has succeeded, /etc/resolv.conf will have IP addresses in it.

If you get an error at any step above, that will help me to narrow down the problem. Ditto for anyone else reading this. The above steps are for WEP, not WPA.

[01micko]

Followed instructions... I got online on the second go.. but it seems weird.

The results are in PM I sent you, it is an exact copy/paste from Urxvt, so can't publish here.

Cheers.

[ttuuxxx]

Followed instructions... I got online on the second go.. but it seems weird.

The results are in PM I sent you, it is an exact copy/paste from Urxvt, so can't publish here.

Cheers.

you can save it as a .txt file and tar.gz it then upload it on here, or use past.bin http://pastebin.ca/

like http://pastebin.ca/1831836

ttuuxxx

[Terryphi]

Tried SNS, and then shinobar's net-setup-20100310.pet, but Quirky still does not work with Netgear WG111v2 or WG511.

[upnorth]

Some of the "extra stuff" on screen looks like stuff from:
dcpcd-hooks/20-resolv.conf

This from Q009 with preinstalled version sns.
update: now with sns-2.1

Otherwise everything was good.

EDIT: As a workaround, I removed comment lines from /etc/resolv.conf and edited the script /usr/sbin/ipinfo at line 84 to be:
<label>\"${nl}${var04}${nl}${nl}${var05}\"</label>
The display is now normal under the DNS tab.
For some reason, the markup <b> and <tt> was interpreted as standard text
on line 84 of ipinfo.