Slackpup 0.4 beta

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Slackpup 0.4 beta

#46 Post by Billtoo »

Htop is only showing one core on this dual core pc.

Edit: I booted up my frugal install of luci-209 on the same computer and htop is only showing one core as well.

James computer shows two cores, is this the twilight zone or am I just overtired?

Edit: screenshot-1.png is ubuntu on the dual core
hardinfoquad.jpg is spup 040 on my quad core

htop shows both cores in ubuntu on the dual core
htop shows 4 cores with spup 040 on my quad core
htop shows 1 core on the dual core under spup 040 and luci-209

I used the same htop pet on both computers.

Edit: James, I booted spup 040 live on the dual core and then installed the htop.pet and it showed both cores so it shows both cores running live but only one on a frugal install. I'm not posting another screenshot but thems the facts, now off to bed.

Edit: James, you are right.I looked at the menu.lst file this morning and this is what it looked like:

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Wed Jul 7 11:07:22 2010
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/sda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.sda.23612'. You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.sda.23612 of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/sda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux 209 frugal in sda3 dir puppy209
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
kernel /puppy209/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=puppy209 nosmp
initrd /puppy209/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux 040 frugal in sda4 dir puppy040
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
kernel /puppy040/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=puppy040 nosmp
initrd /puppy040/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
root (hd0,1)
setup (fd0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/sda2)
root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0,1)
pause Press enter to continue.
title - For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title - For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)

I edited out the nosmp part and it now shows both cores.
How did nosmp get in there? I didn't put it in there the script that generated the menu.lst file did so I guess there's a problem with the script..
A screen pops up when you do a frugal install and shows you what to insert in the menu.lst file and I just pasted that into the original menu.lst so that's where it came from.
Not being a linux expert I had no idea what that meant (or even really read it) , I just looked at the "Linux bootable partition config begins (and ends) part" and inserted that into the original menu.lst file.

yikes!
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#47 Post by edoc »

Not sure what happened to my good news previously-posted but here it is:

SPUP 040 upgrade from 030 is 100% so far on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-29.

Seamonkey 2.0.5!

CUPS 1.4.3 (may not be original)!

Barry's Simple Network Setup!

OpenOffice 3.2.1 (I added that.)

Tests tomorrow on the troublesome ACER and the eccentric Z500 laptops.

Thanks Barry!
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Re: Slackpup 0.4 beta

#48 Post by James C »

Billtoo wrote:Htop is only showing one core on this dual core pc.
For what its worth, Slackpup 040 is showing both cores here.

Edit:

While I'm posting from this computer.......................



VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 040

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

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

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

Correct 1440x900x24 resolution.
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Re: Slackpup 0.4 beta

#49 Post by James C »

Billtoo wrote:Htop is only showing one core on this dual core pc.

Edit: I booted up my frugal install of luci-209 on the same computer and htop is only showing one core as well.

James computer shows two cores, is this the twilight zone or am I just overtired?
Strange. I was running live but that shouldn't make a difference. I tested Luci-209 on my quad-core and it showed all 4 cores too.

Sorry I'm no help but this is puzzling. Wouldn't happen to have "nosmp" anywhere in your menu lst? Other than that I don't know.

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spup 0.4

#50 Post by eps »

All spup pppoe not work

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#51 Post by BarryK »

I have fixed the wallpaper problem. Well, I haven't fixed Pwallpaper, but have fixed Nathan's Wallpaper Setter. See here for PETs to install:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01718
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stu90

#52 Post by stu90 »

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VIDEO REPORT: Slackpup, version 040

Chip description:
oem: ATI RadeonŽ Xpress 1150

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

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

Frugal install spup 0.4

Working good here 8)

Video / audio and streaming video / audio works.
Duel core works.
No problems with encrypted wireless connection.

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Sounds

#53 Post by Firefox »

I installed slackpup04 as frugal but do not get any sounds from the motherboard chip or my soundblaster card in pci slot. Video runs but no sound with it.

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Slackpup 0.4 beta

#54 Post by Billtoo »

BarryK wrote:I have fixed the wallpaper problem. Well, I haven't fixed Pwallpaper, but have fixed Nathan's Wallpaper Setter. See here for PETs to install:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01718
It works now, thanks.

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#55 Post by tony »

Hi,

Nvidia Fx Go 5200 card does not work in 0.4 beta.

regards Tony.

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#56 Post by gerry »

Running Spup 04 Beta on Intel Celeron 600MHz 256MB ram.

Problems: printer is connected to a windows machine. Set up ok in cups, using "windows printer via smbclient" (Or is it sambaclient?). Tried to print test page, got "Conversion from ASCII to CP850 not supported".

PNethood finds the windows machine, but reports "No Shares". WRONG, there is the printer and a share folder, Pnethood usually finds them.

gerry

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#57 Post by rcrsn51 »

gerry wrote:Running Spup 04 Beta on Intel Celeron 600MHz 256MB ram.

Problems: printer is connected to a windows machine. Set up ok in cups, using "windows printer via smbclient" (Or is it sambaclient?). Tried to print test page, got "Conversion from ASCII to CP850 not supported".

PNethood finds the windows machine, but reports "No Shares". WRONG, there is the printer and a share folder, Pnethood usually finds them.

gerry
The new smbclient program built from samba_tng is broken. This is testing in Quirky, but it explains gerry's problems in Spup. For example, the following command fails to identify the shares on machine PCNAME.

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smbclient -NL PCNAME
[Edit] However, the samba_client-3.0.37-s131.pet does work with Pnethood, LameSMBxplorer and CUPS printing.

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#58 Post by edoc »

While 040 is working fine on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 it is giving me fits on the older CF-28.

I figured out that the CF-28 will only handle a video depth of 16 vs 24.

The Wifi connects and the Internet appear to work OK.

But when I go to reboot I get a bunch of text on the screen and it stops that way. I can arrow up and down but that's it.

I see the words "Stack" and I see the word "Trace" in the text.
.
The last line is "ath9k unloaded".

I am using a pcmcia wifi card for Internet access - it was working OK in wary 030.
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#59 Post by Ray MK »

Hi

JFYI - spup04 is working well on my acer laptop - even got mouse tapping to work - nice.

All the basics seem good - and automagically setup internet - very nice puppy.

Using it now - hardinfo report attatched if of any interest.

As always many thanks and very best regards - Ray
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#60 Post by bopapu »

spup 0.4 beta modem dial up motorola SM56 - device id 1057:3052 class 0703 does not connect. until it is recognized but does not create connection.
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pppoe

#61 Post by eps »

After completing resolv.conf manually all is ok
nvidia work
internet work
sorry for pppoe not work
thanks
eps

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#62 Post by BarryK »

eps wrote:After completing resolv.conf manually all is ok
nvidia work
internet work
sorry for pppoe not work
thanks
eps
Yes, we have an on-going problem with resolv.conf and pppoe. I thought that I had fixed it sometime ago, but from reports since then it is still a problem.

I would appreciate if you could explain step-by-step what you did manually to get it going...
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#63 Post by edoc »

Any reason to believe that this TV setup for 4.3.1 will work with SPUP 040?

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=382703

Or is there a possibility that it may just make a mess?
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#64 Post by nooby »

Barry, I booted into Spup-040 last night some ten hours ago.

I let the OS chose driver. It chose nouveau and it was late at night so I did not take time to test other drivers.

I have NVidia chips and they seems picky.

1. error or bug
The desktop background had horizontal glitches a few pixels wide and ten times long and many such on that line. If one click on Menu then they doubled or so. First time I see that unusual error. I guess me need to use a nvidia pet to get the best driver. But I am lazy so ...

I most likely wait until next Spup to test with other drivers to see if it was driver related.

2. error or bug
Animated Gifs did not start or run as they do in Quirky 1.0

But all else worked. Full screen and streaming audio and video and all the formats I had to test it with so looks very promising.

Pmusic played MP3 which it did not do for me in earlier versions.
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not an ideal solution though

aarf

#65 Post by aarf »

micko's test-vid works in spup. reports which videocard is in your computer.
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