Dingo alpha7 feedback/bugs

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divisionmd
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Connecting to wireless network using Dingo

#106 Post by divisionmd »

Hello,

Dont know if this bug is already reported in.

- Cant connect to a WPA 1 wireless network, using PSK passphrase.

This did not work in Alpha 1 or in Alpha 2.

- However using Puppy 2.17 it works like a clock and connects without anyproblem.

My access point is a Proxim Ap-2500M. Standard product when building large wireless networks (mesh).

Best regards,
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Adding syndaemon and synclient

#107 Post by Béèm »

Not directly a bug report but a request to add this support in order to better control the synaptics driver, f.e. to disable completely the touch pad.
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#108 Post by disciple »

EDIT - Ignore - that doesn't seem to be what fixed it after all...
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Re: Connecting to wireless network using Dingo

#109 Post by nic2109 »

divisionmd wrote:Hello,

Dont know if this bug is already reported in.

- Cant connect to a WPA 1 wireless network, using PSK passphrase.

This did not work in Alpha 1 or in Alpha 2.

- However using Puppy 2.17 it works like a clock and connects without anyproblem.

My access point is a Proxim Ap-2500M. Standard product when building large wireless networks (mesh).

Best regards,
Johan
Yes this IS already known but it is hardware dependent, and is why Barry is abandonning the latest kernel which has "retired" certain Modules and replaced them. For example IPW3945 was replaced by IPL3945 which has WEP but not WPA encryption.

I don't know about your specific hardware (forum member Tempestuous will be able to help with that if you get really stuck), but you could try one of the "Retro kernel" versions of Dingo and see if that cures your problem.

I believe that the first Beta is due over the weekend and will be on the retro kernel, so you could try that out when it is launched.

Good luck.
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#110 Post by disciple »

What level of hardware is Puppy compiled for now?
I copied my main (non-Dingo) setup onto an older PC with a 350Mhz Pentium 2 processor. This setup has the Dingo Mplayer and ffmpeg packages installed. Mplayer crashes with

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MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: unknown
- MPlayer crashed by an 'Illegal Instruction'.
  It usually happens when you run it on a CPU different than the one it was
  compiled/optimized for.
  Verify this!
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
I hope xine/gxine in Dingo doesn't have the same problem!
Also, I could have sworn I saw a page on puppylinux.com where Barry explained how he compiled Mplayer with shared ffmpeg, but I can't for the life of me find it now. Maybe it was on the forum and was someone else, but all I can find now is one little part on the puppy-from-scratch page. Does anyone know where to find this information?... because I could never find it anywhere else. If I remember correctly, using shared ffmpeg isn't "supported" anymore, but it's worked perfectly for everything on my other machine for months now.
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#111 Post by gerry »

A week ago (bit of a time lag here!) I used to Petget package manager to download and install the GIMP 2.4.0-rc3 package. It was supposed to be a 16MB download, but only 6MB downloaded. I let it install, but got a list of missing dependencies that went off the bottom of the screen- presumably the missing 10MB?

So I suppose Dingo is ok- the bug must be in the PET package? Or is it fixed already?

Gerry

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#112 Post by Joshas »

Not sure if this counts as a real bug, but I have problem with Xorg locking up on hardware probing, while running Puppy in QEMU. Xvesa works correctly. Any way to debug it? Tried using loglevel=7, but as far as I see it worked only until video selection.

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#113 Post by paulh177 »

Full HD install. en_GB, UK keyboard configured.

Keyboard oddity:
keys do not "repeat" & I have to press a key repeatedly to get repeated characters.

Esoteric keyboard oddity:
When running x11vnc from an Acer 5610 laptop to the HD dingo, the keymapping is incorrect as I cannot obtain a "pipe" sign or a "Pound sterling" sign (latter produces just "3" , former produces backslash -- i.e. they aren't "shifted") ; Key repeats however work fine.

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Double file entries.

#114 Post by capoverde »

With alpha7, when saving or loading a file from an application, sometimes all file entries appear twice in the file selector window. This gets back to normal by going to the "parent" directory then re-entering the "child".

Found no other report of this, and it seems odd. Is it happening only to me?

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#115 Post by BarryK »

disciple wrote:Also, I could have sworn I saw a page on puppylinux.com where Barry explained how he compiled Mplayer with shared ffmpeg, but I can't for the life of me find it now. Maybe it was on the forum and was someone else, but all I can find now is one little part on the puppy-from-scratch page. Does anyone know where to find this information?... because I could never find it anywhere else. If I remember correctly, using shared ffmpeg isn't "supported" anymore, but it's worked perfectly for everything on my other machine for months now.
Yes, I remember posting it somewhere. It isn't in my blog, so it must have been the forum.
I got it to compile in the T2 project, and if you download the package that I placed on ibiblio ...somewhere... its about 600MB I think, open that up and look in the there you will find the information, but it does need a bit of familiarity with T2 to be able to extract the info you need.

Hmm, I should be a bit more helpful than that. I have looked in the T2, got out the relevant file, mplayer.conf. Some of the relevant stuff in it:

# BK...
var_append confopt " " " --enable-menu \
--with-extraincdir=/usr/include/libpng \
--enable-fbdev --enable-largefiles"

# TODO: used system avformat and postprocess ... BK...
pkginstalled ffmpeg && var_append confopt " " "--disable-libavcodec_a --disable-libavformat_a --disable-libavutil_a --disable-libpostproc_a"
pkginstalled xmms && var_append confopt " " "--enable-xmms"
pkginstalled xmms && var_append confopt " " "--with-xmmslibdir=`pkgprefix libdir xmms`"
pkginstalled directfb && var_append confopt " " "--enable-directfb"
var_append confopt " " "--enable-tv-v4l1 --enable-tv-v4l2"

If I recall right, those options in bold are the key. They disable mplayer's inbuilt libs and cause to use the system ffmpeg libs, which must already be installed.
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#116 Post by GrumpyWolfe »

Hi to all

I have been trying to make a replacement for gxset. This time I may have made enough headway for it to be at least a working start. There is one problem, with gxset still installed it will reset the xsetting on each reboot. But I have been able to reset most of the setting untill I reboot. I had it to where it would reopen the main window but the same line of code all at once stopped working. I will try and find out why.

Berry I hope this will work as a replacement for gxset and mite make it into puppylinux.

So please someone give it a try and give me some feed back.
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#117 Post by Greatnessguru »

Thanks, Barry...

I'm using Puppy 3.96, but plan to burn 4.00.BETA.

I just did both Full and Frugal installs on a
1997 Gateway 2000, Pentium MMX 200 MHz, 64 MB, 2 GB.
(The local 12 MAR 2008 ad said: FREE GATEWAY COMPUTER
with monitor and keyboard. As is.)
I'm using the Full installation ATM to compose this.

1. Please: Could NEWGRUBTEXT be put in the
Frugal install directory?

2. When unused, but running, Puppy seems to be accessing the HD
every few seconds. This is very bad for HD longevity.

Could the HD be left alone, not accessed,
and Powered Down, please,
when Puppy is unused, but running,
for minutes/hours/days at a time?

The screen blanks after the 12 minutes I selected in the BIOS Setup,
but the HD stays active.

3. Very much need a way to access WebDAV directories/"Folders".
I do not know what options you have, but providing an
Official PET of "cadaver" might help for now:
http://webdav.org/cadaver/

Thank you, and the all volunteer crew, very much,
Eddie Maddox

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#118 Post by BarryK »

wingruntled wrote:Mr. Barry
Not only are ALL ports open on your home (personal) system but you have left everybody running Puppy WIDE open.
I missed this post earlier, prehistoric has communicated with wingruntled and it seems that that issue is I was running the Ayttm IRC client without a firewall. My apologies, it wasn't for very long. In future I'll be extra careful to put up the firewall first before going online.
I'm always building new Puppy systems, so it's an extra step I'll have to discipline myself to do.
To others reading this, having visible ports does not mean that I can be compromised. But it is better to be hidden.
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mount: unknown filesystem type 'davfs'

#119 Post by Greatnessguru »

Using Puppy 3.96:

# cd /
# cd mnt
# mkdir dav0
# mount -t davfs "http://..." dav0
mount: unknown filesystem type 'davfs'

Barry, I need webDAV access. So, can this be fixed, please?

An official PET of "cadaver", as mentioned before, would also be nice, for flexibility, but, fixing "mount -t davfs" is a "must". Ok?

Thanks very much,
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#120 Post by disciple »

Thanks for that mplayer information Barry.

Does anybody know if there is a good reason for the userChrome.css hack that prevents the Seamonkey gui from obeying GTK font settings? Because if I remove it, then Seamonkey still appears to work fine, and it actually matches everything else (except JWM - I changed the font preferences in every config file I could find, and it still doesn't work:cry: :roll: )

Now if only I could fix a couple of the other annoying things about seamonkey...
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#121 Post by disciple »

Puppy NEEDS glipper. Otherwise people come from Windows and say "the clipboard doesn't work", and we can't say, "but at least it is better in this way".
Packages from older puppies work fine.
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#122 Post by John Doe »

problems that grub config could have fixed were mentioned a couple times recently. i also had trouble finding it when goofing around with a full alpha6 and an xp install on the same HD. should we drop something like this @ /usr/share/application/grubconfig.desktop?

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Grub Config
Icon=mini-ray.xpm
Comment=Gurb Config
Exec=grubconfig
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=X-SetupUtility
GenericName=Grub Config

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#123 Post by BarryK »

John Doe wrote:problems that grub config could have fixed were mentioned a couple times recently. i also had trouble finding it when goofing around with a full alpha6 and an xp install on the same HD. should we drop something like this @ /usr/share/application/grubconfig.desktop?

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Grub Config
Icon=mini-ray.xpm
Comment=Gurb Config
Exec=grubconfig
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=X-SetupUtility
GenericName=Grub Config
I don't understand. The 'System' menu in Dingo has 'Grub bootloader config' which runs grubconfig.
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#124 Post by BarryK »

disciple wrote:Puppy NEEDS glipper. Otherwise people come from Windows and say "the clipboard doesn't work", and we can't say, "but at least it is better in this way".
Packages from older puppies work fine.
It was taken out because I had trouble with it conflicting with copy/paste in SeaMonkey Composer.

There is an alternative:
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Parcellite
...maybe I'll put that into the 4.00beta.
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#125 Post by Sage »

......or even take out OceanPrimate?

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