Racy Puppy 5.2.2 Final, 18 Nov. 2011

[tommy]

I'm running Racy 5.1.110 with no problems in my old laptop:
Toshiba s1410 , 512MB ram, GeForce 440 , Celeron 1.8Ghz.
Pnethood works well with win98 shares.

# report-video
Calling INT 0x15 (F000:FEA8)
EAX is 0x5F15
Calling INT 0x15 (F000:FEA8)
EAX is 0x5F15
Racy Puppy, version 5.1.110 on Dom 30 Otu 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3)
oem: NVidia
product: NV17 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

I experienced the same problem of forum member peebee with b43 driver:
modprobe b43 won't load the b43 firmware. I solved with the old method:
rmmod b43
tar -zxf /lib/modules/all.firmware/b43.tar.gz
cp -a /lib/modules/all.firmware/b43/* /
sync
modprobe b43

The b43 driver works on reboots. My wifi card is a Broadcom 4306 minipci.

I would like to install tightvnc viewer, will it work the puppy 3.01 repo .pet or do I need a more recent .pet?
I continue testing... Bye!

[Billtoo]

I made an sfs file of Goggles Music Manager.
It is approximately 7mb in size and contains all the dependencies
required by gogglesmm.

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-8a433947.html

[stu90]

Other than the already reported B43 issue - things seem to be working fine so far.

AMD Turion 64x2 Tl-50
ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150

[raffy]

Racy is fine in the AMD Fusion E-350 with AR 8152 and BCM 4313, until the Internet Connection Wizard is launched (when there is no ethernet plugged in). If wired connection is established at boot (ethernet is connected), no problem.

[Sage]

Changed the board to Asrock, changed the cpu to A2500+mobile, changed the monitor to 19"widescreen and the on-board SiS chipset gave the 1600x900 persistence feature. Nothing will shift it. Not Xorgwiz, not driver change, nothing.
SiS chipset problems only started very recently. It not the chipset, so what's the answer?

[jim3630]

Jim,
Would you mind looking in file /var/log/xorg.0.log, and do a search for "i9" and "i8". That will determine which of the i810, i915 or i965 DRI drivers are loading.

On my laptop, it is the i965 DRI driver that is the culprit.

Barry

here you go looks like same here.
maybe then can get xorgwizard to load intel driver.

19.195] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 19.195] (II) Unloading vesa
[ 19.195] (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[ 19.195] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[ 19.195] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: i965

20.119] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_INTEL_swap_event
[ 20.119] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control
[ 20.119] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_make_current_read
[ 20.119] (II) AIGLX: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap backed by buffer objects
[ 20.119] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized i965

[jim3630]

did it work? I'm stuck with vesa, 1600x900 and xorgwizard from the firstrun-gui only cycles me back to same display without giving any choices.

Yes , it apparently [seems to have] worked :!

There are three buttons to select @xorgwizard :

dialog --colors --extra-button --title "Puppy Video Wizard"
--ok-label "Probe" --cancel-label "vesa" --extra-label "Choose"

[/quote]

Excellent!

got too darn used to setup wizard in others pups to notice difference. here pfix=ram boots to 1600x900 desk top and
gives the menu in pic.

specifically, the check box in pic. which reruns xorgwizard and gives the three buttons so brilliantly pointed.

obvious bug since menu>setup>xorg...wizard does not work. once booted to 1600x900 desktop it only returns to desktop not giving those three button choices.

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now have 1080x768

[Billtoo]

I made an sfs file of vlc 1.1.12 and it works in this newest version
of racy. It also contains the qt474 libs it needs to work but that
made the size of the sfs approximately 47mb.

Not tested in anything other than this version of racy and it works on
my computers, hopefully yours too if you want it

shinobar's sfs_load-1.2.9.pet can be used to load it on the fly or use
the bootmanager to load it.

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-60be1429.html

[Karl Godt]

it only returns to desktop not giving those three button choices.

This is the *NEW* [ hyper hyper ] [/usr/sbin/]xorgwizard-automatic feature , someone only can bypass by exiting to the prompt or boot with pfix=nox and type "[/usr/sbin/]xorgwizard" .

Today i had to boot pfix=nox after having had blacklisted the nouveau kernelmodule in the bootmanager .... to see what happens : BLACK SCREEN and no input from keyboard ... booted without any kernel parameters ....

pfix=nox and xorgwizard was ok to choose the nv driver .

Now I have one vesa , one nv and one nouveau xorg.conf backup for future reference .

I think i will enable the nouveau.ko again , looks like nouveau.ko+nouveau_drv.so work better than nv .

[DaveS]

A really strange thing happens with Peasyscan. I have to install the HP scanner driver, and then, to make it possible to scan via wifi, net_snmp package.
If I then try to scan, Peasyscan seg faults BUT, if I first install the HP driver, and run a scan via USB, THEN install the net_snmp package, Peasyscan operates via wifi just fine. Something to do with creating a configuration file (not the config file in /usr/local/peasyscan/config) at first run I guess.

[jim3630]

I made an sfs file of vlc 1.1.12 and it works in this newest version
of racy. It also contains the qt474 libs it needs to work but that
made the size of the sfs approximately 47mb.

Not tested in anything other than this version of racy and it works on
my computers, hopefully yours too if you want it

shinobar's sfs_load-1.2.9.pet can be used to load it on the fly or use
the bootmanager to load it.

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-60be1429.html

Billtoo

thanks both working here.

[jim3630]

flsynclient appears not working. clicking close in the notice closes both, see pic. noticed a post about tapping not working in wary but seems first here in Racy.

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get same error in slacko pae. odd seems was working b4.

[shinobar]

@jim3630
It can be the kernel problem, but...
have you tested?
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/synclie ... 101001.pet

[jim3630]

@jim3630
It can be the kernel problem, but...
have you tested?
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/synclie ... 101001.pet

shinobar

will do when get back in racy.
thanks

[jim3630]

@jim3630
It can be the kernel problem, but...
have you tested?
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/synclie ... 101001.pet

installed pet in racy and slacko. did not work. shows message in pic but regardless of reboots only shows same message on start up.

[ecube]

Partview (Free Space in Drives) shows a "Please wait ..." splash window during the processing of the All Drives option.

However, for Slacko 5.3 and Racy-51110 the splash window does not dissappear when the calculation is finished.

The problem is illustrated by the following script, which intended to start yaf-splash, and to kill its process after 3 seconds.

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yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -placement center -text "Please wait, processing..." &
XPID=$!
echo "XPID=$XPID"
`sleep 3`
`kill $XPID`
PIDOF=`pidof yaf-splash`
echo "PIDOF=$PIDOF"

For Slacko 5.3 and Racy-51110 the output of the script is.

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XPID=28255
./p11: line 8: 28255 Terminated              yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -placement center -text "Please wait, processing..."
PIDOF=28296

Thus, yaf-splash is still running with PID = 28296.

The yaf-splash option -font "8x16" seems to be the culprit.

I enclose updated versions of partview, where the -font option is removed from yaf-splash. The version Partview-2.2-Slacko.pet includes the stuff added by 01micko.

[shinobar]

The yaf-splash option -font "8x16" seems to be the culprit.

See my posts:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 131#479131
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 315#575315

[wuwei]

This might be a duplicate question, but I haven't checked the 13 pages before.

Just wondering why Racy and Wary 5.2 don't allow running Firefox and Thunderbird from /mnt/home anymore?
Also, neither FF 7.0.1 (or 8.0) nor TB is available by way of PPM.

I'd appreciate some comments as to the reasons for these surprising restrictions.

[upnorth]

probably only need libdbus and libdbus-glib. These two pets should suffice:

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl:21/pub/metalab/distr ... .82-w5.pet

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl:21/pub/metalab/distr ... e-1-w5.pet

[DaveS]

This might be a duplicate question, but I haven't checked the 13 pages before.

Just wondering why Racy and Wary 5.2 don't allow running Firefox and Thunderbird from /mnt/home anymore?
Also, neither FF 7.0.1 (or 8.0) nor TB is available by way of PPM.

I'd appreciate some comments as to the reasons for these surprising restrictions.

To run generic Firefox you would need to install dbus and dbus-glib from the package manager. Racy certainly does allow running browser from mnt/home, doing so now.