Wary Puppy 5.1.4 - 29 August 2011

[rcrsn51]

The problem with hard-drive-less computers not booting off USB is still not resolved.

[nooby]

So the Plop thing does that not help either?

[don570]

newest version of mtpaint 3.34.67
only minor bug fixes


application here
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-d884c5f8.html

and locals here
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-72e397ba.html

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   * "Palette->Open" now can extract palette from indexed images in any supported file format
	

   * "Scale Canvas" now has 3 boundary extension modes - Mirror, Tile, Void
	

   * Filename and modified status now part of undo system


+  * Transparent colour now part of undo syste	

+  * Palette sorting, dragging a colour, or removing duplicate colours now do not lose transparent colour
	

   * New keyboard shortcuts added - J for lasso tool, D for line tool, F for flood fill tool
 	

   * Toolbar and menu icons are now themeable (Preferences->Paths->Default Theme)
	

   * Command line globbing now possible using -w option, e.g. mtpaint -w "*.jpg"

   * BUGFIX - Problems with editing large images at high zoom levels are now eliminated


   * BUGFIX - Titlebar now displays new image's filename after loading layers file, as it should

   * BUGFIX - Layers list now correctly displays selected layer after loading layers file
	

+  * BUGFIX - Layers window now correctly displays transparent colour after it has been modified elsewhere

   * BUGFIX - Loading TIFF files with X or Y mirroring doesn't cause crash
	

   * BUGFIX - Planar TIFF files with alpha now load properly
	

   * BUGFIX - Transparency in indexed TGA files is now read properly

[Lobster]

precord (after turning on the mic by right clicking on the bottom right sound icon and fiddling with mic settigs) worked OK - that is great

The xchat in PPM does not auto set to #puppylinux at freenode (I am such a quiche eater)

Pleased to report that Flash which I thought was not installed (a flash icon kept appearing) worked OK as did the browser - though I could not install an extension (lastpass) that I use, in the browser version . . .
Was able to watch 30 min of streaming video. . .

Games are good with sound - like that
The frogger game had no images - was not picking up graphics

Fido is what I was most interested in . . . but in the end did not bother even trying at this stage . . .

[rodin.s]

Chooselocale appears on each boot after save file is created. Problem is in /etc/rc.d/rc.country, lines 139, 140.

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LANG="`grep '^LANG=' /etc/profile | cut -f 2 -d '='`"
if [ "`locale -a | grep "$LANG"`" = "" ];then

locale and locale -a give different output. locale - ru_UA.UTF-8 and locale -a ru_UA.utf8. rc.country thinks that locale is not set and runs chooselocale on each boot again and again.
Here's shinobar's solution from Quickset Wary:

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# 02jul09 check LANG, allow 'UTF-8', and check timezone
LANG="`grep '^[ ]*LANG=' /etc/profile | tail -n 1| cut -f 2 -d '='`"
CLANG=$(echo $LANG | sed -e 's/\.UTF-8/\.utf8/')
[ "$CLANG" ] && locale -a | grep -q "$CLANG" || \
 /usr/sbin/chooselocale cli > /dev/console

[BarryK]

Barry, I will do my best to live up to not post bug reports here unless I can also fix them.

But Micko and others that can help you fix things maybe have help from us telling what did not work on our gear and then them too get curious on how that works on their gear and then they see how it all works and can suggest ways that solve it.

I bow out now only wanted to share how it appeared on my Acer D250 using N270 Atom.

I sure am looking forward that we have a Fido that works on all gear.

I requested that as I thought this thread would get flooded with bug reports about fido, which would raise the "noise level" in the thread considerably. Those who try fido will immediately encounter things that need to be fixed or improved, so for awhile at least those who "can fix it" have plenty to do. Later on, bug reports can be requested.

[BarryK]

Attym is crashing a lot for me, nothing to do with clicking on links, it's crashing when i move the window, it even crashed when i moved a window not related to it.


Here's my attempt at the NVIDIA-x86-260.19.44 driver for wary. It uses the pinstall scripts from the lucid nvidia driver, so thanks again to whoever created those, and i hope you don't mind.
It seems to be working ok for me, HD1920x1080,glxgears & googleearth all working fine.

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
12531 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2506.159 FPS
13577 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2715.376 FPS
13540 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2707.994 FPS
13639 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2727.701 FPS
13567 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2713.294 FPS

If you try it, could you please say if it's working for you,or not.

You can download it here....
http://www.mediafire.com/file/sml6fi0wc ... ary511.pet
MD5: 0673631f93767404dc695f9ea60c75b7

666philb

Thanks for the nVidia PET, I have downloaded it.

Do you know if there is any difference, re crashing, when you run Ayttm before and after installing the nVidia driver?

Try running 'ayttm' in a terminal window, let me know if there is any useful error report when it crashes. Thanks.

[BarryK]

Chooselocale appears on each boot after save file is created. Problem is in /etc/rc.d/rc.country, lines 139, 140.

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LANG="`grep '^LANG=' /etc/profile | cut -f 2 -d '='`"
if [ "`locale -a | grep "$LANG"`" = "" ];then

locale and locale -a give different output. locale - ru_UA.UTF-8 and locale -a ru_UA.utf8. rc.country thinks that locale is not set and runs chooselocale on each boot again and again.
Here's shinobar's solution from Quickset Wary:

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# 02jul09 check LANG, allow 'UTF-8', and check timezone
LANG="`grep '^[ ]*LANG=' /etc/profile | tail -n 1| cut -f 2 -d '='`"
CLANG=$(echo $LANG | sed -e 's/\.UTF-8/\.utf8/')
[ "$CLANG" ] && locale -a | grep -q "$CLANG" || \
 /usr/sbin/chooselocale cli > /dev/console

Thanks for that, I have fixed it.

[Jim1911]

Frugal installion of wary 5.1.1.53 is working fine as administrator. 666philb's Nvidia driver works great.

Thanks,
Jim

System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One

[666philb]

Concerning ayttm, been testing it for a while, it seems that the crashing may be to do with the devx. Moving the attym window, and for instance rolling it up and down would cause the crashes.....but only it seems when the devx is installed. I did discover another bug, right clicking in the attym window will crash it everytime. Installing the nvidia driver made no difference. Links are working though.

here's some errors.......

Devx installed, mouse wheeled over the title bar to roll up window

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# ayttmshell
mkdir: can't create directory '/root/.ayttm': File exists

(ayttm:29697): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

warning: Can not parse XML syscalls information; XML support was disabled at compile time.

warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library, thread debugging will not be available.

warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library, thread debugging will not be available.

warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library, thread debugging will not be available.

warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library, thread debugging will not be available.

similar output as above, when right clicking in the window with devx installed.

this is right clicking with no devx installed

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# ayttmshell
mkdir: can't create directory '/root/.ayttm': File exists
deleting stale lock file
ayttm: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.

EDIT: i may be wrong about the DEVX as i've just got this error, with no devx, and just the nvidia driver installed. It hasn't crashed though.

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# ayttmshell
mkdir: can't create directory '/root/.ayttm': File exists

(ayttm:24281): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_is_ancestor: assertion `ancestor != NULL' failed

(ayttm:24281): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_is_ancestor: assertion `ancestor != NULL' failed

(ayttm:24281): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_is_ancestor: assertion `ancestor != NULL' failed

(ayttm:24281): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_is_ancestor: assertion `ancestor != NULL' failed

[don570]

There's a new version of mhwaveedit 1.4.21

Make sure you compile it with retrovol as the default audio mixer

http://gna.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2281

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New features in version 1.4.21:

 * A few new keyboard shortcuts added for navigation
 * In follow mode, left,right,home,end also move playback
 * Extended playback auto-conversion to include channel and sample rate
 * Select distance unit (seconds or samples) in position cursor dialog
 * Bug fixes for building and wav header parsing on x86_64
 * Various bug fixes
 * New translation: Polish (pl)
 * Updated translation: it

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[don570]

New version 4.9 now supports Wary 5.1 and Wary 5.2 Beta!
Lots of right click options to make using Puppy convenient.
Renamed to Right-click-4.9.pet

Zigbert's pclock included to be an alarm clock

Now it doesn't need a restart of X. A simple click to install.
More info.

Right-click-4.9.pet
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[BarryK]

The problem with hard-drive-less computers not booting off USB is still not resolved.

Fixed! See my blog:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02272

[tengzelius]

Computer:

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
Memory : 253MB (105MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Tue 10 May 2011 07:18:31 AM GMT+5
-Display-
Resolution : 800x600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA WDC WD1600BEVE-0
HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4243N
SD/MMC Card Reader

OS readily installs to 4 GB SD into 411 folder frugally. Functions perfectly. Aqualung installed with libraries via Prog Mgr. Open .m3u file using customized usr>bin>aqualung link. Can not get it to open or boot. Will not boot from Menu.

Thank you for another great OS update. L.T.

[BarryK]

I need assistance from someone who has a laptop with PCMCIA slot that does not work in Wary.

See my blog post:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02274

Please note, my request is for the PCMCIA slot itself, not for whatever card is plugged in. Recognition of a card is a different matter.

[don570]

I compiled the new version of mhwaveedit 1.4.21
on Puppy 4.31 and it works well on various Puppies
but I noticed that it needs libsamplerate to be installed in
Wary Puppy 5.1.1.53 (5.1.2 beta1) otherwise
it won't launch.
Here's how I compiled it.

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./configure  --without-oss --with-default-mixerapp=retrovol --without-portaudio --without-sdl  --without-oss --without-jack --without-check-casts  --prefix=/usr

Available
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 70916d7a35

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[don570]

I'd like a recent version of gxmessage installed in Wary, please.

I am tinkering with Zigbert's pclock program
and made a change to show a message on the screen.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... h&id=40710
Try this code in the terminal

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gxmessage -bg orange -title pClock -fn big -center -geometry 300x100  "éééééé éééé ééé " &   

and in Wary it will look something like this



whereas in Fluppy013 it will look like this



The problem is with displaying accented characters.
Fluppy013 has a recent version of gxmessage as well as some other Puppies.
Just upgrade gxmessage and this problem will be fixed.
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[BarryK]

Wary 5.1.1.56 (5.1.2 beta2) released! See announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02285

For those on dialup, there are small delta files to upgrade from Wary 5.1.1 or 5.1.1.53.

[Sage]

5.1.1.56

Interesting! LiveCD initially gives : 'Mouse hasn't moved so maybe...' message: ignored and deleted. Give a man a chance to get there!
Waving souris over message box at top gives blank screen for 30(?)s. - too long; but patience is eventually rewarded.
No sign of fido - yet.

[Billtoo]

I did a frugal install of wary-5.1.1.56.iso.
Used xvesa to get to the desktop.
Used sns to setup wired internet connection.
Downloaded and installed nvidia-260.19.12-k2.6.32-w5.pet.
Fri 13 May 2011 Operating System: Wary Puppy-5.1.1.56 Linux 2.6.32
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA product: MCP77 Board - mcp78pvo Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 9200/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 260.19.12

Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e
Core 0: 2500 1: 2500 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.
# glxgears
5654 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1130.800 FPS
6676 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1335.200 FPS
6670 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1334.000 FPS

When I plug in a usb flash drive it doesn't mount, the mount utility
works though.

Edit:
Sound was low when playing music so I loaded alsamixer in the
terminal and adjusted the levels, then exited and saved the settings
with alsactl store.

After rebooting the wired internet connection is gone, I used the
network wizard this time and rebooted again, the network connection
was active.
I plugged in a usb flash drive and it showed up on the screen,
clicking on the icon mounted the drive.