4.3 Beta 1 -- bugs and reports

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#106 Post by 01micko »

Just testing Firefox alpha "Namarooka" (codename) and it works fine so far in 4.3 beta 1- k 2.6.29.6 :)

Guess it's a firefox problem (or mozilla-1.9.1 source problem?) with these later kernels.

Cheers and be patient :lol:

edit; A post on Barry's Blog reports that it is a unionfs problem with firefox.
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#107 Post by veronicathecow »

MP4 not linked to Gxine 4.3 beta 1- k 2.6.29.6
Plays fine but no link.
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#108 Post by veronicathecow »

BBCi catchup requires Flash 9.0115 or higher

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Cups and Samsung 2510

#109 Post by veronicathecow »

Cups and Samsung 2510 not printing test page. Works on PCLinux with SpliX 2.0.0
This Puppy seems the snappiest so far on my Intel Atom
Thanks for all the hard work
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#110 Post by charlie6 »

Hi,
on puppy4.3beta-k.2.6.29 frugal booting on live-cd (grub problem...! see a few posts above)
I have installed the ...1.10... and pixam-MP150 -.pet files given here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 86&t=42703
and have connected a MP160 Canon mutlifonction (which works nice on Puppy412 with the same pets installed).
I got this:

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# scanimage -L
device `pixma:04A91714_F30F67' is a CANON Canon PIXMA MP160 multi-function peripheral
# scanimage > mypicture.pnm
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
error - libusb speedup error handling needs improvement
scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O
# 
 handling needs improvement
scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O
# 
looking at libusb (using PFind): there are more libusb present on Puppy412 than on the current Pup43bK2.6.29

Running Xsane:
no file is loaded / have to wait a longlonglong time before taking hand again (on a previous trial I simply killed the process...as it seemed so long to me...)

Hope this helps

Cheers
Charlie

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#111 Post by Kenny-M »

Charlie6,

""while running the PUI, the choice of the partition to install Puppy was proposed on "ext4 partition" (sda3 is announced in PUI as an "ext4 partition" whereas GParted confirms it is an ext3 partition)...!!??? ""

I think this is already a well known problem. Have not seen a solution.

I am testing 4.3Beta1.k2.6.25.16 SCSI

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#112 Post by Ray MK »

Hi

Just for your info - switched from dpupE to dpupG and it seems to boot noticeably faster and appears generally snappier - nice.

Everything seems ok to a n00bie - file copying, internet set-up and browsing - and a slightly prettier presentation.

As always - many thanks for all your work.

Very best regards - Ray

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#113 Post by Jim1911 »

Just a note about an ext4 partition that was sized and formatted by the Gparted on this release. I have installed Ubuntu karmic (development branch), kernel 2.6.31-6-generic on this partition (without allowing Ubuntu to format it) and it's running fine.

Puppy is becoming more friendly with ext4.

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Wireless modem support update

#114 Post by rerwin »

Barry,
I am attaching my latest script updates for wireless modems. They include moving the APN field in pupdial to the individual accounts, allowing use of pulse dialing in pupdial (ATDP), limiting PIN issuance to the first connection, to avoid disruptive error states on subsequent use. In addition, I added handling of the special case of hybrid devices, which I discuss below.

I have made the scripts ready for substitution, so you should not need to edit them unless you object to some code. They are in a dotpet, so users can try them immediately. The difference listings are in the tarball.

About the hybrids:
The script /sbin/pup_event_backend_modprobe always chooses the last module in a list generated from the module.alias file (or another representation of it). For most devices, which have only a single modules.alias entry, the generated list has the named module last, preceded by the modules it depends on. But hybrid devices such as some wireless modems may be represented by two modaliases, both of which are valid.

Hybrid modems are both a usb-storage device and a modem. The dual modaliases usually contain a filter to differentiate the module to be loaded in a particular circumstance. But the filters are limited such that either only one of the possible modules is placed in the generated list, or both are included -- not one or the other! Backend_modprobe selects only the second in the list, which is determined by automatic factors related to the "depmod" operation (I think). If the required module is the first of the two, it is never loaded!

To solve this, I inserted logic that is activated only when usb-storage is last in the list and module usbserial (a depencency of most USB wireless modem drivers) is also in the list. When that situation exists, the actual modem module follows usbserial in the list. The logic finds it there and makes it the selection. This works when usb-storage appears later in the modules.alias file than do the modem drivers.

I have found two cases where the dual modaliases are identical, meaning that one of the two modules will never be loaded. I think that can be overcome by special udev rules to detect when the neglected module should be loaded, and invoke backend_modprobe with the module-name parameter. That will require feedback from users encountering the problem.

Thanks for considering these updates for beta2.
Richard
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Beta bugs and reports

#115 Post by bert07 »

puppy-4.3beta1-k2.6.29.6-v423
Could not get b43 to work.
Did not recognize b43 automatically.
When loaded and started "scan" it gave the following error:
"Failed to raise interface wlan0. Failed command was: ifconfig wlan0 up. Error returned was: ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory."
Filling in the network manually, gives the same error.


puppy-4.3beta1-k2.6.25.16-v423
The CD would not boot. Downloaded it twice. Burned it three times.
Also, when trying to copy pp4c-423.sfs manually, gave a read/write error.
PC: Dell Inspiron 531 - Motherboard: NVIDIA MCP61 chipset - Sound: Realtec High Definition Audio ALC888 - Display Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro - Wired: NVIDIA nForce networking controller - Wireless: Broadcom AirForce One 54g (ASUS WL-138g-V2)

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#116 Post by Kenny-M »

Can I make the assumption with work going forward on
4.3 beta 1- k 2.6.29.6 that the SCSI beta Barry made for
me 4.3 Beta 1- k2.6.25.16 SCSI which also included the
drivers for the Matrox G5xx series viedo cards will be
skipped?

How does one make sure that for example SCSI drivers
for Adaptec cards/chipsets (AIC-7880 & AIC-7890) and
video drivers for Matrox cards, specifically the G5xx (G550)
will continue to be included?

Also the Printer drivers for HP PSC series (specifically PSC-1310)
are included? Could not find this printer in 4.3 Beta 1- k2.6.25.16
SCSI. It does and work in 4.2.1. Downloading 'foo2zjs-i486.pet',
and 'hpijs-2.8.2_static-1-patched421.pet' does not seem to work
under 4.3 Beta 1- k2.6.25.16 SCSI.

Thanks

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#117 Post by sinc »

i can't get my wireless internet to work on 4.3 and was wondering if someone could help me with that.

on ttuuxxx's 2.14 i have to download the bcm43xx.pet in order to get wireless working.

it doesn't auto-detect any wireless driver for me. when i load bcm43legacy it finds the module but when i try to set up wireless it comes up with an error ... "can't raise something or other"

please let me know if any further info is needed. thanks.

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#118 Post by 01micko »

01micko wrote:
BarryK wrote:
01micko wrote: Not in mine, this little script I wrote depends on it...
/etc/puppyversion not used anymore. Look in /etc/DISTRO_SPECS
guess I'll update my script then

(um, for me /etc/puppyversion is definitely still there, I just checked, "puppy pfix=ram", is it used in the welcome note?)
Well, /etc/puppyversion is not in dpup, gposil's woof build, so I updated my script... Versioninfo

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#119 Post by paulh177 »

installed frugally on an acer aspire one 1gb ram 120gb hdd, on the preexisting Linpus ext2 fs

loading devx-4.3beta1-k2.6.29.6_423.sfs

trying compiles:

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Configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
and in config.log i see:

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gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory

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#120 Post by Bert »

Perhaps not a bug, but rather an oversight..It was reported earlier in this thread, by playdayz, at the bottom of page 2.

Puppy 4.3 beta1 does not start up X in Xorg when running in VirtualBox. (Neither did the pre-beta.)
This is kind of important, as VirtualBox has become very reliable, fast and user-friendly and must by now be the most popular way to check out new releases and distros.
Someone new to Puppy will probably just hit the 'enter' key to choose the default settings. Xorg is the default setting and this results in a black screen, leaving the newcomer clueless.

So, while not essential to Puppy, I think it is an important service for new users, testers and distro-hoppers.

Playdayz even mentioned the solution: a missing Xorg-file...
[url=http://pupsearch.weebly.com/][img]http://pupsearch.weebly.com/uploads/7/4/6/4/7464374/125791.gif[/img][/url]
[url=https://startpage.com/do/search?q=host%3Awww.murga-linux.com%2F][img]http://i.imgur.com/XJ9Tqc7.png[/img][/url]

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#121 Post by Bert »

Seamonkey now has language packs for 20 additional languages. It is simple: just download your language file, go to 'Edit'>Preferences>Appearance>Languages and choose your language....

..except that in this Puppy-version of Seamonkey, "Appearance" does not have the "Languages" option!

There must be a good reason for this, I'm sure. Probably to avoid problems with non-western fonts or something like that.
But what a great pity, now that the Seamonkey guys have made localization so easy...
[url=http://pupsearch.weebly.com/][img]http://pupsearch.weebly.com/uploads/7/4/6/4/7464374/125791.gif[/img][/url]
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#122 Post by playdayz »

Sorry all if my original message was not clear. What I meant was that the gparted that is in 4.3beta1 works much better for me than the gparted in any previous version. Since this was a forum for bugs, I "cleverly called it an "anti-bug."

Original message: an "anti-bug" gparted is working far better than ever before. Previously in all versions it would take 10-15 seconds to write a header on a unallocated partition and about the same time to set the boot flag. Now, both things happen instantly. much nicer. thanks.
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#123 Post by esmourguit »

Bonjour à tous,
@ Barry K,
With the help of MU's script and improved by Shinobar, we created for version 4.3 (from version 417) these 3 localized files xwin, xorgwizard and chooselocale .
To simplify the localization of Puppy and avoid to repeat translations when scripts are upgraded, would it be possible to include these localized scripts in the official version as Nathan Wallpaper Setter, for example.
Thank you in advance,
Cordialement ;)
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#124 Post by Kenny-M »

BarryK,

I appreciate the work you are doing but have to ask after the
image you built for me below will the additions roll into the
next new release as standard because the SCSI Puppy also appears
to load fine on machines with SATA drives? Also, the video drivers
for Maxtox G550 and the mod. to the rxvt console colors stay?
Other problems are listed below.

Image: puppy-4.3beta1-k2.6.25.16-v423-SCSI.iso 8-14-2009 11:07

Now properly sets Matrox G550 card to 1024x768 at 60hz. OK

Properly indetifies Adaptec AIC-7880 and AIC-7890 SCSI chipsets. OK

Console rxvt screen much, much better with Black letters on White. OK

Problem - After getting Crystal 4237b audio working using lagecy
cs4236 and producing output after a reboot I notice the audio ICON
has disappeared from the taskbar. Running through procedure does
not restore audio ICON and now there is no output. How to reset to
normal or initial state?

Problem - Puppy Universal Installer always identifies installation
partition as ext4 even when it is Gparted to ext2 or ext3. Also,
selecting SCSI says Not Implemented so I tried internal IDE/Sata.
So can't install Puppy onto a SCSI drive.

Other SCSI drive operations work as expected. As with Gparted.

Problem - Grub fails on ext4 partition. Grub fails to SCSI drive
as sdb and it leaves boot MBR on sda with a prompt and dosen't boot.
Could not load XP on sda had to use DOS fdisk /mbr to recreate.

Problem - From rxvt console 'vi' command causes Segmentation Fault.

Problem - Downloading HP drivers from files foo2zjs-i486 and
hpijs-2.8.2_static-1-patched421 does not now show all the HP PSC
series like PSC 1310. Under 4.2.1 it worked. Per 8-bit Cannon
print drivers are also missing.

Problem - When certain jobs are queued I get garbage in the colsole
window. Open a console windows and type in the following:

lpstat -t

What should come back is the status of the print sub-system and queues.
Jobs in queue will look like <printer_name>-job_number <other info>
At times the printing sub-system status displays OK but when it gets to
the point of displaying the jobs in qeuue you will get back control
characters and the cursor is moved elsewhere on the screen.

Browsing - Becase the Dell Precision 610 Zeon 550 machines are older
and slower is there a way by default to up the priority of SeaMonkey so
streaming video is displayed normally and not choppy / freeze frame?

Thanks.

P.S. In trying Puppy and other Linux's I can see a great potential for
using Puppy to recover data from crashed Windows 2000 & XP file
systems. I.E. Fat32 and NTFS. Also, use Puppy as a bare metal backup
tool for Windows machines to make an image and store it on a NAS
server.

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#125 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

Kenny-M wrote:Browsing - Becase the Dell Precision 610 Zeon 550 machines are older and slower is there a way by default to up the priority of SeaMonkey so streaming video is displayed normally and not choppy / freeze frame?
Haven't looked at this, but in perusing this page I see:
"Process Lasso -- a freeware package that allows you to set the process priority of any thread. Bump up the priority of your web browser, for example, and see how lousy your system behaves."

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