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#31 Post by ttuuxxx »

Thanks scsijon looking forward to more results, I've been building a new backend for it, and well its been complicated with gtk issues with compiling but I'm getting around it :)
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#32 Post by ttuuxxx »

Well I compiled the new backend, should extend the shelf-life of 4 series for a couple of years. It will take some time to put it together because I have to work mon-fri and usually pretty tired when I get home so I kind of slowdown during the week, nevertheless I'll plug away at it, If others could find fixes etc it would help to advance this version much quicker. People were asking for months for 4 series to move ahead, well this is your chance.
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#33 Post by Stripe »

Hi ttuuxxx

Wlll try my best (even though I have the technical abilities of a wet paper bag)
tried installing the xorg_xvesa-7.3-1.pet (got it from from the pet 4 folder of woof when I was remastering 4 to try and see if I could get xvesa working better) dont think it makes any difference to xvesa

Hope this helps
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#34 Post by clarf »

Hi,

I booted from CD and everything works fine in my old HP L2000 laptop, I have network, sound and Xorg. Non critical errors found, only some minor errors and warnings at xerrs.log:
killall: freememapplet: no process killed
killall: powerapplet: no process killed
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec]
They are loaded when JWM is loading the swallow applications, it's the same info that I get when start these applications from term.

A small error with powerapplet:
powerapplet: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by powerapplet)
Also found some errors about usb-core and usb-hid missing files, right when startx (xwin) is executed. But lsmod and dmesg show they are actually loaded, I must search the cause of this warning. (I wonder if some usb devices could have problems to load...)

Some errors shown with dmesg for lp module:
# lp: Unknown symbol parport_unregister_device
bash: lp:: command not found
# lp: Unknown symbol parport_unregister_driver
bash: lp:: command not found
# lp: Unknown symbol parport_negotiate
bash: lp:: command not found
# p: Unknown symbol parport_claim
bash: p:: command not found
# lp: Unknown symbol parp
Xorg "ati" driver run but seems unstable...

Not found any sound or network problem with 4.3.2. For people with issues please post your /tmp/bootsysinit.log and /tmp/bootkernel.log files.

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#35 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hi clarf nice to have you with us :) I appreciate you lending us a hand :)
Thanks for helping.
Also thanks Stripe for giving it a shot :)
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#36 Post by abushcrafter »

I am afraid I will be sticking to 4.3.2 V3 because the idea of not upgrading was so I not have to transfer/update all of my configuration. This was so I would get on/start my GCSES. The only reason for me to use 4.3.* in the future is if it is more compatible with hardware I will be using the most. Other wise if I am going to do all of that work I will put my effort into getting my work into Woof and switching to puppy 5. Sorry for not telling you before. I need to test the compatibility of Lupu with my computers though it should me fine. So you should assume I wont be helping you with this one :| .

I upgraded SeaMonkey in 4.3.2 V3 and have not noticed it being any slower in a few min test I did.
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#37 Post by ttuuxxx »

abushcrafter wrote:I am afraid I will be sticking to 4.3.2 V3 because the idea of not upgrading was so I not have to transfer/update all of my configuration. This was so I would get on/start my GCSES. The only reason for me to use 4.3.* in the future is if it is more compatible with hardware I will be using the most. Other wise if I am going to do all of that work I will put my effort into getting my work into Woof and switching to puppy 5. Sorry for not telling you before.

I upgraded SeaMonkey in 4.3.2 V3 and have not noticed it being any slower in a few min test I did.
That's ok :) woof 4 series will take a lot less resources than woof 5 series, currently pup-432.sfs <--78MB, I don't think it will be much over 83MB when I'm done updating it, Plus it will have a much newer backend compared to 5 series. Kind of good reasons to stick with 4 series :)
I'll also update the some of devx later on.
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#38 Post by abushcrafter »

ttuuxxx wrote:
abushcrafter wrote:I am afraid I will be sticking to 4.3.2 V3 because the idea of not upgrading was so I not have to transfer/update all of my configuration. This was so I would get on/start my GCSES. The only reason for me to use 4.3.* in the future is if it is more compatible with hardware I will be using the most. Other wise if I am going to do all of that work I will put my effort into getting my work into Woof and switching to puppy 5. Sorry for not telling you before.

I upgraded SeaMonkey in 4.3.2 V3 and have not noticed it being any slower in a few min test I did.
That's ok :) woof 4 series will take a lot less resources than woof 5 series, currently pup-432.sfs <--78MB, I don't think it will be much over 83MB when I'm done updating it, Plus it will have a much newer backend compared to 5 series. Kind of good reasons to stick with 4 series :)
I'll also update the some of devx later on.
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#39 Post by gcmartin »

Downloaded and MD5 the ISO. Burned to CD under PUP511.

Rebooted the PC and am on desktop.

I cannot display the contents of the CD drives. (this system has 2 SATA DVD readers.)

When I click the sr0 or the sr1 icon at the bottom of the desktop, the Pmount facility launches to the desktop. When I click the Mount button, I get a RED messagebox whose text is "ERROR: unable to mount sr1".

The mount command works fine in a terminal window.

Just a note

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SCSI ???

#40 Post by gcmartin »

Booted this version on my DELL server. Its got 2GB RAM and a non-RAID controller with 2 10K SCSI drives, 1 DVD, and 1 CDROM.

The desktop is not showing my drives and mount doesn't show them either?

Ideas anyone...

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#41 Post by scsijon »

sorry, couldn't wait, :? should be in the garden pulling weeds :lol:, but.... :lol: puppy rules!

box 2 has ati video card (gigabyte 4350), dialup modem card (winmodem from netcomm), and a usb2 card

lspci here (doesn't seem to have all info others do, like what they mean)
---------------------------------
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02)
00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:2771 (rev 02)
00:1c.0 Class 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 Class 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 01)
00:1d.3 Class 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 01)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 01)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev e1)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:27b8 (rev 01)
00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:27df (rev 01)
00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:27c0 (rev 01)
00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 01)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:954f
01:00.1 Class 0403: 1002:aa38
04:00.0 Class 0780: 11c1:044c (rev 02)
-----------------------


Problems found:

1/ on install noticed on first screen (f1):
------------
Login [15166]: root login on 'tty1"

Warning: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernal/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko': no such file or directory
Fatal: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/ketnal/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko' No such file or directory.

2/ Video installed ok in vesa

In x-org seemed to probe ok, but when it restarted X, colours were mixed and fonts, "backlit"
Dropped back to # and retried with xorgconfig, same result, eventually worked out every second drop to # and xwin start was bad

Will try selecting instead of probe and see what happens (will amend this when tried)

ammendment: :D
tried selections for all three ati combinations and vesa, all fail and don't select frequencies, ended up going back to the xvesa from first screen of xorgwizard, which works marvelously. :? BTW, this just drops you back to the prompt, there is no message to type in xwin to start, maybe a line or two is needed for newbies..... :lol:

3/ Modem found and initialised first time, but the initialization took a lot of time (maybe a warning needs to be inserted)

4/ package installs ok both online and from memstick

more later, I must get some work done out there :roll:

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#42 Post by runtt21 »

ttuuxxx said ," Plus it will have a much newer backend compared to 5 series"

Yeah!!! :D


Does that include the X11 stuff ?

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#43 Post by Country Bumkin »

Some minor items to fix....

Gparted - swapoff function fails with this error message.

swapoff: invalid option -- v
BusyBox v1.15.0.svn (2009-07-25 18:23:53 GMT-8) multi-call binary

Usage: swapoff [-a] [DEVICE]

Stop swapping on DEVICE

Options:
-a Stop swapping on all swap devices


Also the inclusion of ntpdate is useful but /etc/services file is missing these entries for ntp

ntp 123/tcp
ntp 123/udp

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#44 Post by clarf »

A newer backend for 4.3.2, Great ttuuxxx a smart move...

About the usb modules errors, If I do a rmmod for all the usb modules (usbcore, usbhid, usb_storage, etc) and then I try to reload them, I get the same error:
Warning: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko': no such file or directory
Fatal: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko' No such file or directory.
Fatal: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko' No such file or directory.
...
Those modules exists and are loaded by initrd at boot (for this reason they are shown by lsmod), later these files in initrd are copied to '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/initrd/, but actually they are not seen by the modprobe command after Puppy transfers control from initrd.

modprobe should load these "transferred" initrd modules that are not located in the zp432305.sfs FileSystem, that´s the way it work in other Puppies to save some space and avoid use of redundant files already present in initrd. But I don´t see a custom modprobe script like in earlier Puppies...

I Should read Woof documentation about it. There is no reason to copy initrd modules if modprobe doesn´t use them, there is some weird bug here.

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#45 Post by Stripe »

Hi all

Regarding the usb module errors, they do not happen on a full install.

Have been having a good look at the video/audio, and it is as good as it gets, (seems slightly better using smplayer-0.6.7-i386.pet, but that needs the qt4-4.3.2.pet about 7mb for the pair, and I dont think gxine and pmusic would get anywhere near that)

Have been looking for other options, to make the guis more user friendly and better looking while still retaining the quality and size but havent found anything yet..

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#46 Post by abushcrafter »

Stripe wrote:Hi all

Regarding the usb module errors, they do not happen on a full install.

Have been having a good look at the video/audio, and it is as good as it gets, (seems slightly better using smplayer-0.6.7-i386.pet, but that needs the qt4-4.3.2.pet about 7mb for the pair, and I dont think gxine and pmusic would get anywhere near that)

Have been looking for other options, to make the guis more user friendly and better looking while still retaining the quality and size but havent found anything yet..

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#47 Post by clarf »

Hi,

Just found that executing the command "depmod-FULL" solves the problems with initrd modules not loaded by modprobe, and of course solves the usb errors shown when xwin is initiated.

A "depmod -a" don´t do the work, the rc.sysinit script executes "depmod" at line 181 but it should be replaced by depmod-FULL.

Barry already reported problems using busybox depmod applet (http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=00861) with 64MB or less RAM systems. Later, he compiled a new Busybox 1.14.2 and the depmod applet worked in that low RAM conditions, he tested modprobe and modinfo and they worked fine with the 'modules.' files created by the new depmod applet.

But he doesn´t mention that depmod applet fails to add the lib/modules/$KERNVER/initrd modules to the dependency file (this file is later used by modprobe to automatically load the correct module). Any initiramfs module copied to the main system will fail to load with modprobe.

I wonder if Barry haven´t seen this problem, are other Woof builds having the same problem?.

Are you using the last Woof build ttuuxxx?. I´m new to the Woof system and their related bugs, but I´ll be watching any news.

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#48 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hi clarf thanks for the fix :), Yes I'm using the latest woof, I updated to it, maybe Barry hasn't updated the script yet?
Thanks for that once again:)
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#49 Post by Stripe »

Hi all

Thanks Clarif, I managed to change line 181 in the rc.sysinit script from depmod to depmod-FULL (technical for me LOL)

just testing pupshot out with 432 as it seems a lot better and easier to use than mpaints screen capture.

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#50 Post by 8-bit »

Abiword crashes on selecting "Create or Modify Styles"
I had a version of Puppy 431 SCSI installed frugally with same kernel (Barry's Creation), and I upgraded Abiword using a Pet of a later version.
But currently my mind is blank and I cannot remember who did it.
Also, my 250meg SCSI zip drive was recognized when I inserted a disk.
And my sound card ws not recognized until I ran alsawizard.
Other than that, it is good so far.
Point of interest in Seamonkey! In the lower right hand corner is a word that says Disabled. If you right-click on it, it enables Adblock.

I do not know why I mentioned Abiword though as it seems most users never use it.
I have though.
Will have to try printing to CUPS PDF and see if it works.

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