Dpup 484beta Testing

[nooby]

4-stroke, you are bright indeed.

My dim or dull skull had not enough imagination to think that it was flashbloc that blocked it. Yes now it play.

But this player works not as the one on Seamoneky does.

This one have severe delay in the rendering so it look like waves on the ocean. One get seasick looking at its wavy motion while the seamonkey in the pup431std play it without any waves and delays.

So this is really sad, almost unusable.

But thanks for pointing out what caused it to be blocked.

Dpup was my big hope. Does every Firefox with flash activated behave like this?

[gerry]

@Shankargopal- I have a copy of xerrs for you, but forum wont allow me to attach it, nor will pm. I'll have to email it to you. Please pm your email address to me.

I edited the config file (had to rapidly learn vi), and then xwin restarted X.

EDIT: Shankar- do you need the whole file, or just the "ring" part? The whole file is long, nearly 200 lines, that's a lot to cut and paste into a forum post.

gerry

[Béèm]

gerry, you can trick the system by adding one of the allowed extensions for upload and telling in the comments to remove that added extension first.

[gerry]

@Shankar- attached file is my xerrs file. Note it is not really a zip file, remove the .zip before you open it.

gerry

[mawebb88]

Hi

Just giving dpup-484beta4-2.6.30.5 a go on an Acer Aspire 5100. Two problems so far.

1) WifI: The Network wizard does not find my WPA network. Similar to Pup-431 I had to resort to NDisWrapper with with Windows drivers I downloaded somewhere off the net sometime ago

2) pNetHood: The latest pNetHood patched by BarryK is needed (pnethood-0.65-utf8-2.pet). See:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=00970

This cures a CIFs problem. Otherwise for seeing files on my LANDisk I have to execute:

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echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled

each time.

Love having FF3.6 and not at all bothered by the larger ISO. Keep up the good work!

Rgds Mike

[shankargopal]

@Shankar- attached file is my xerrs file. Note it is not really a zip file, remove the .zip before you open it.

gerry

Gerry, sorry, I didn't get an email about a new post in this thread so did not see your posts till now. Actually the xerrs file is kind of useless to me as I don't know enough to make sense out of it, but hopefully it will be useful for others to figure out what is wrong. If you were able to restart X with vesa then it is the same bug as the one I was experiencing.

For the moment my workaround is just to hand-edit xorg.conf every time I boot! Sad, but true . Will devote some more time to figuring out how to get an updated intel driver at some point, if that would work...

[shankargopal]

Incidentally can anyone hazard a guess if gposil's dotpet for synaptic / apt - made in dpup477 beta 1 - would still work in 484 beta 4? I doubt it, but wonder what others think.

[Béèm]

Gerry,
Around line 23 I see something about the i915_dri.so not found/not loaded.
With pfind you can see if it's on your system.

Also, did you check the download of the ISO with the checksum?
I just had an experience with 4.4CE pre alpha, which did all kind of weird things. I re-downloaded the ISO and all worked then.

[shankargopal]

Gerry,
Around line 23 I see something about the i915_dri.so not found/not loaded.
With pfind you can see if it's on your system.

That's interesting, I have the same error. May be worth checking out like you say...

Also, did you check the download of the ISO with the checksum?
I just had an experience with 4.4CE pre alpha, which did all kind of weird things. I re-downloaded the ISO and all worked then.

Nope, this has happened to me with all dpups since 477 beta 1.

[gerry]

@Be'em - file not found.

gerry

[Béèm]

I suppose the i915_dri.so has something to do with driving the video card.
By not finding it, I suspect xorg can't be initialized.
I am not familiar with this kind of problems, but that's the feeling I have.
Don't know where to find that file.
Use the puppysearch link in my sig and you might find some useful info.

[gerry]

I Googled i915_dri.so, and got zillions of hits. It lives in /usr/lib/dri/, which dpup doesn't have. I found it in my Debian partition (on another computer), so i'm going to copy it into dpup and see what happens.....

gerry

[nooby]

Could this explain why my video streaming are choppy or delayed as I name it.

I've also seen some text talking about missing driver. My Dpup use a nv driver most likely novoe or similar name and that one maybe are slow on my system. Only Dpup and Upup are this slow, none of the others are slow.

[dejan555]

Try to install libgl_dri or mesa from petget to get dri and opengl

[nooby]

dejan thanks indeed. Typically the answer was above my knowledge but I take a look at it. is petget a CLI command or a menyentry? Is it a url site?

I'm in Dpup now.

the only petget I did find was in CLI terminal console.

not know how to get libgl_dri or opengl I just tested to write

petget libgl_dri but it gave me an error. not sure why. too much to write down and me don't know how to copy and paste

Could it be found with package manager or some other way?[/quote]

Muggins have a pet that was talked about on in a thread so I test ed to install that one from here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 141#322141

I guess I have to reboot to make it active .It has no menu entry so not sure what to do with it. Will the video find it by itself?

[dejan555]

Sorry for confusing you, petget is another name for Puppy Package Manager (also reffered to as PPM). Download libgl1-mesa-dri from lenny repo, that's also hint for gerry

EDIT: Yes, that pet you installed is compatible with 4.x series haven't tried it in dpup though. When you install dri just restart X and system should activate DRI if present.

[nooby]

The xorg_xorg_full_dri_7.3 full dri did install and are now listed in the ppm but it is impossible to get the lenny repositry because everytime I try the ppm freeze and the only way to get out of freeze seems to do ctrl+alt+bkspace. And it all repeat with a new locked application.

anyway the full drivers did not help with playing streaming video.

Out of some 15 puppies I ahve tested running in RAM there are only three that behave like this and that is Dpup and Upup and FatDog but it was some time me tested Fatdog and not sure what drivers that one make use of.

What is common between these three distros that make them choppy when they render online video?

Am I the only one having that problem with these three?

[gerry]

Firefox just won't behave for me- when I scroll up or down, the screen gets sliced into overlapping horizontal bands.

Dillo is ok.

So.... I thought to install ice-weasel from the debian repo. No go. Even though I checked the url's and got answers that indicated ok, none of them will download.

Firefox had been working for a week or two, but started misbehaving. I did a total re-(frugal)install, but the problem is there straight away.

Ah well... wait till next beta.

gerry

Acer Aspire One.

[Béèm]

Also in other puppies I experienced this kind of issue.
Therefor I always install SeaMonkey, now at 2.0.3.
I install via the tar file and outside the save file.
In this way other puppies take benefit of this way of operating.

[shankargopal]

Firefox just won't behave for me- when I scroll up or down, the screen gets sliced into overlapping horizontal bands.

I can't quite understand what this wouldlook like, but this seems less like a Firefox problem and more like a problem either with your video driver or with your window manager. Could try installing one of the other window managers (icewm is in one of these threads somewhere, and my package for Enlightenment DR17 is in the "additional software" thread for dpup; otherwise can just use debian packages for icewm, fluxbox etc.) and see if that helps.