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mms

#76 Post by rjbrewer »

This Seamonkey doesn't play mms streams or enable mms using
about:config.

Edit:

Found the April blog post about 2.04.
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#77 Post by edoc »

I did a search for "cpu scaling tool" and came up empty so am posting this spup 040-related question here as it applies to the Acer I am troubleshooting.

A Forum discussion (see link following) says that the Acer's, and other "economy" brand laptops, have marginal cooling systems which are sensitive to the version of the OS.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/laptops- ... tesco.html

I thought I would activate the CPU Scaling Tool to see if it helps with the overheating problem we are experiencing.

Is the AMD K8 the correct selection in the CPU Frequency Scaling Tool for an AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual-core processor QL-64 (2.1GHz, 1MB L2 cache)?

Also, what is the "trick" to get TopView to show both CPU's?
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Danger from attempting connection to a ttySL0 modem!

#78 Post by rerwin »

I received this in a posting by bopapu in my new modem-support thread:
rerwin I downloaded the spup 0.4 beta with kernel 2.6.34.1 and my modem motorola sm56 id 1057:3052 class 0703 is recognized but does not connect.
The user sees "no carrier" when attempting to connect to a ttySL0 modem device. I recreated the problem in my test PC and found the problem to be more dangerous than it appears. My reply is here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 842#433842
It appears that all is not well with the slmodem driver or executable. The problem seems to corrupt not only a pupsave file, but also the partition where it resides! However, an automatic filesystem check seems to restore the partition.

I also filesystem-checked the pupsave, resulting in the following:
# e2fsck spupsave.2fs
e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
spupsave.2fs contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Deleted inode 195 has zero dtime. Fix<y>? yes

Deleted inode 196 has zero dtime. Fix<y>? yes

Deleted inode 197 has zero dtime. Fix<y>? yes

Deleted inode 199 has zero dtime. Fix<y>? yes

Deleted inode 200 has zero dtime. Fix<y>? yes

Deleted inode 201 has zero dtime. Fix<y>? yes

Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Entry 'index.html' in /usr/share/doc (2166) has deleted/unused inode 2172. Clear<y>? yes

Entry '.icewm' in /root (4097) has deleted/unused inode 4153. Clear<y>? yes

Entry '.jwmrc-previous' in /root (4097) has deleted/unused inode 4156. Clear<y>? yes

Entry '.jwmrc' in /root (4097) has deleted/unused inode 4157. Clear<y>? yes

Entry 'globicons' in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer (4117) has an incorrect filetype (was 1, should be 2).
Fix<y>? yes

Entry 'globicons' in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer (4117) is a link to directory /mnt (4118).
Clear<y>? yes

Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Block bitmap differences: -(3130--3154) -(3159--3186) -3191 -(3202--3203) -(3207--3208) -(3235--3251) -(3260--3278) -(3280--3284) -(3288--3290) -(10753--10935) -(17409--17411) -(22017--22019) -(22530--22548) +(23043--23045) -(23066--23077) -(23731--23749) -(24065--24075)
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #0 (4888, counted=4990).
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #1 (5713, counted=5896).
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #2 (7477, counted=7541).
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong (25847, counted=26196).
Fix<y>? yes

Inode bitmap differences: -(195--197) -(199--201) -2172 -(4153--4158)
Fix<y>? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #0 (1847, counted=1853).
Fix<y>? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #1 (1924, counted=1925).
Fix<y>? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #2 (1954, counted=1960).
Fix<y>? yes

Directories count wrong for group #2 (43, counted=42).
Fix<y>? yes

Free inodes count wrong (7703, counted=7716).
Fix<y>? yes


spupsave.2fs: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
spupsave.2fs: 476/8192 files (0.6% non-contiguous), 6572/32768 blocks
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And this was a new pupsave created only to connect to ttySL0. This was after the reboot that discovered the corruption.
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#79 Post by davids45 »

G'day,

Further to my desktop's sound problem with new kernels:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=56162

spup-004 based on 2.6.34.1 also gives echoing or stuttering sound with the exception of mplayer which runs DVB and audio OK, but echoes slightly on closing.

No other unmentioned problem found so far with a frugal spup-004.

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#80 Post by wuwei »

Barry K wrote
SOLUTION:
Need Internet connection, run Puppy Package Manager, install package 'tcpdump' from the official Slackware repository.
Then you will have libpcap.so.1.

Then you will probably find the the previous pppoe-start works, but I would appreciate if you can test the method I posted also, see if that works.
Sorry Barry for my delayed response. I was offline for a while due to some extraordinary summer weather we are having in Europe.

Anyway tried the new spup 040 both with and without the previous save file.

In both cases the Network Wizard and Roaring Penguin seem to work at first. RP status reports a working connecting, yet no pages open in Seamonkey. Tried the 2 files under /etc again, but to no avail. Of course without internet connection I cannot install the package 'tcpdump' from the official Slackware repository.

I am not as versed as some of the other members here; so this seems to be as far as I can go.
I am just wondering why this pppoe problem occurs in spup, but Quirky and Lupu are not affected?

Just a final thought: Could someone make the missing tcpdump package available, so it can be downloaded with another Puppy and then installed to spup offline? It seems to be hard or rather impossible to find via Google.


aarf

#82 Post by aarf »

just checking.
my disconnecting wifi problem doesn't stem from this corruption problem
# fsck -f /mnt/home/spup04/spupsave-spup04ext3.3fs
fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/mnt/home/spup04/spupsave-spup04ext3.3fs: 1100/8192 files (3.7% non-contiguous), 17344/32768 blocks
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#83 Post by edoc »

aarf:

I have "pfix=fsck" in the kernel line of my GRUB on all of the computers here.

I have suffered too many corrupt save files and other problems in the past - it slows the boot but I am unaware of any other problems introduced.

I am also using ext3 rather than ext2 in hopes that will also prevent trouble.

As a result I cannot see how a corrupt save file could have caused Wifi to suddenly start refusing to connect.

WDYT?
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#84 Post by aarf »

edoc wrote:aarf:

I have "pfix=fsck" in the kernel line of my GRUB on all of the computers here.

I have suffered too many corrupt save files and other problems in the past - it slows the boot but I am unaware of any other problems introduced.

I am also using ext3 rather than ext2 in hopes that will also prevent trouble.

As a result I cannot see how a corrupt save file could have caused Wifi to suddenly start refusing to connect.

WDYT?
hmm now that i check i also have "pfix=fsck" in my menu.lst line.
my problem seems different than yours in that i can easily connect and reconnect. but just as easily automatically disconnect. this doesnt happen in puppeeerc7 or spup03.
WDYT?
my thoughts are not based in relevant knowledge so are not posted. i just do testing and reporting.

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#85 Post by stu90 »

GView:

Clicking on an image opened with Gview or using scroll on laptop touch pad in Gview cause 100% memory and 100% CPU usage.

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#86 Post by edoc »

Should I expect this driver/module to work in Puppy SPUP 040?

It looks as though it wants to install in /usr/lib/modules/usb/media but there was no previously existing directory like that.

Once I know if this should be SPUP 040 compatible I can eliminate that as a reason it isn't working and create a new thread to chase the gtkam problem.


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EDIT: I tried copying the module to: /usr/lib/libgphoto2/2.4.8 but gtkam does not appear to "see" it. Do I need to copy and rename one of the ".la" files and edit it to match the pwc.o? There is a mention in the comment text of the .la file that I looked at which said the file was necessary for linking.
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#87 Post by edoc »

Wifi works fine on my CF-29 and Z500 laptops but not on the CF-28 and ACER Aspire 5525 laptops.

I can find no setting anywhere that is causing them to fail to connect.

There is plenty of signal (56 of 70) and everything else is the same - other than they are different laptops with different Wifi nics than the other two.

All four have worked fine previously - so it points to some anomaly in the SPUP 040 setup for Wifi ...

EDIT:

I am sorry to say that the problem is in Barry's Simple Network Setup. Dougal's works fine in SPUP 040 on both computers. I just deleted the savefile and started over with Dougal's and Wifi is fine.
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mplayer sound distortion

#88 Post by don570 »

I discovered that some hardware has a quirk with mplayer.
Ordinarily mplayer sets the volume level to highest when it first launches
with a sound file. With some machines such as mine, this causes distortion.
There is two possible solutions:
1) set the preference setting ‘Mplayer Software Volume Control Enabled’

2) Put the line

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softvol = "yes"
in .mplayer/config which is hidden in /root
This apparently stops Mplayer from changing system-wide volume

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#89 Post by wuwei »

Thanks upnorth for your links.

I downloaded the package with another Puppy and installed it in spup to /usr/sbin. Yet, I still can't get pppoe to work properly. From the PPPOE GUI "Status" I can see that I should be connected. Still Seamonkey does not open any web page at all.

At my wit's end.... :cry:

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#90 Post by BarryK »

wuwei wrote:Thanks upnorth for your links.

I downloaded the package with another Puppy and installed it in spup to /usr/sbin. Yet, I still can't get pppoe to work properly. From the PPPOE GUI "Status" I can see that I should be connected. Still Seamonkey does not open any web page at all.

At my wit's end.... :cry:
Note that Spup 0.4 already has tcpdump installed. That problem was in 0.3.

As to why it is still not working, I don't know. Thanks for trying to help.

I wish that I could get access to a pppoe network to experiment on.

Did you try the alternative method that I posted here, in Spup 0.4?:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01701
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#91 Post by wuwei »

Hi Barry,

thanks for helping me.

Yes I did try your 4 step method. That was my first approach in a fresh spup 040.
Right here
[quote]We need to add to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets our login and password.
If you plan to use pppd for more than one connection, than there is a necessity to introduce a unique ID along with login and password. For example, “PROV

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#92 Post by tazoc »

In /usr/sbin/alsaconf, when restarting alsa at line 907

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     if [ -x $rcalsasound ] ; then
      echo Loading driver...
      $rcalsasound restart
    fi
/etc/init.d/alsa would be executed, but it doesn't have a restart option, only start and stop. In my testing this failed to restart alsa (no sound) until I rebooted. I fixed this by changing the beginning of /etc/init.d/alsa to

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case "$1" in
 *start)
Of course another fix would be to have alsaconf execute $rcalsasound with a start instead of restart.
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#93 Post by Hacao »

Hi all,

Slackpup working well on IBM R50e laptop (made Hacao Linux series from 2.0 to 2009 CE).

Thanks,
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#94 Post by panda_watch »

Hi All,

I'm a newbie so don't know if my reporting will help. Of the recently released iso's Slackpup is the only one to boot to the desktop when I probe for a video driver. In Lucid and Quirky I have had to choose Xvesa as the computer freezes otherwise.

Wifi is working intermittently for me on Slackpup. I was having the same problem in Quirky but NOT in Lucid. If I use Dougal's network setup it works for only a short time. Using Barry's network setup it lasts longer. Oddly when I first boot up and try to use Barry's straight away it won't work but if I use Dougal's, wait for it to cut out, and then use Barry's again it works. Weird.

Anyway thought I'd let you know.

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SlackPuppy looks very promising but some problems

#95 Post by peebee »

Thanks first to Barry for giving us all these things to try....

Trying out spup-040 from LiveCD on HP550 laptop, Thinkpad 600 laptop and on an AMD based desktop.

On HP550 laptop:
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2066MB (88MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.04

-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Agere Systems HDA modem with manufacturer:model id = 11c1:1040

-PCI Devices-
Network controller : Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g

**Wifi problems:
Can connect using Network Wizard but not with Simple Network Setup however connection is not remembered through a reboot.
Connection drops periodically see dmesg output ++++1++++ below - but is reconnected with this command:
iwconfig wlan0 essid xxxxxxxxx
SAMBA via pNethood worked but the new Samba tools did not work for me - the buttons when clicked didn't seem to do anything.

**Modem problem:
Tried to force load modules agrmodem and agrserial - dmesg output ++++2++++ shows error messages - do I need to load something else??

**Sound problem:
Sound is muted on reboot and then springs into life after a time delay.

Other than these problems - much better with far fewer problems than recent tries to use lupu501, qret-120 and wary-030.
Successes were that mplayer played dvb-t ok and webcam worked out of the box.

Also tried on my AMD desktop and that seemed OK but on my Thinkpad 600 spup would not boot - strangely it started to boot and read stuff off the cd but then was unable to read the spup-040.sfs file and stopped - I guess I need a retro version for this age of hardware.

Cheers
Peter

dmesg ++++1++++
wlan0: authenticate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=1)
wlan0: associated
cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
wlan0: deauthenticated from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (Reason: 3)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
wlan0: authenticate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=1)
wlan0: associated
wlan0: deauthenticated from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (Reason: 3)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
wlan0: authenticate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=1)
wlan0: associated

dmesg ++++2++++
agrmodem: disagrees about version of symbol snd_cards
agrmodem: Unknown symbol snd_cards
agrmodem: disagrees about version of symbol snd_hda_codec_read
agrmodem: Unknown symbol snd_hda_codec_read
agrmodem: disagrees about version of symbol snd_hda_codec_write
agrmodem: Unknown symbol snd_hda_codec_write

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