Racy Puppy 5.2.2 Final, 18 Nov. 2011

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#286 Post by BarryK »

Fix for slow drop-down lists! (at least on my laptop).

See my blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02594

You might have to reboot after installing the PET, for the libraries to reload.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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Asus USB-N13

#287 Post by Greatnessguru »

From page 17, 07:56 11NOV2011:
DaveS wrote:Same old Same old. Broadcom wifi of course. Racy just cant do it........ /lib/firmware/B43 missing
Added it.. fixed
Racy automatically loads "rt2800usb" for my Asus USB-N13
and shows "wlan0". However, when I "Scan", the exact
same error msg appears as DaveS captured.

I am new to wireless. My Verizon Casio Commando only tethers using 3G Hotspot.

Thank you,
Eddie Maddox

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#288 Post by rcrsn51 »

BarryK wrote:Fix for slow drop-down lists! (at least on my laptop). See my blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02594 You might have to reboot after installing the PET, for the libraries to reload.
Excellent. That solved all my problems in Wary.

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#289 Post by Jim1911 »

Frugal installation on an ext4 partition.

CUPS will not set up printing for usb printers. I've installed hplip_scan-3.11.7 and hplip_print-3.11.7 pets. Xsane does work.

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Racy Puppy 5.2.1.90 (5.2.2 RC -- 10 Nov. 2011) Post a reply

#290 Post by Billtoo »

Manual frugal install to compaq desktop.

Racy Puppy, version 5.2.1.90 on Sun 13 Nov 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
oem: ATI RADEON 9200

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
7886 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1577.100 FPS
7896 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1579.170 FPS
7924 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1584.616 FPS

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 1553MB (74MB used)
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
Renderer Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5961) 20090101 AGP 8x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
Version 1.3 Mesa 7.10.3
Direct Rendering Yes

I installed gtk+-2.24.8-w5c.pet and that fixed the problem with the
drop down lists.
Racy is working well now.

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#291 Post by Karl Godt »

CUPS will not set up printing for usb printers.
I have an USB printer epson stylus sx-415 and printing with this had never been a real problem with official builds of Puppy with CUPS-1.1.23 , 1.3.11 and 1.4.x .

Just tested the snipplets below , printing some parts of rc.sysinit from geany previewer : no problem here ,

#It is new to me , that the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf would be written new each boot ... :

SKIPLISTVARS="`echo "$SKIPLIST" | tr '\-' '_' | tr ' ' '\n' | sed -e 's/^/blacklist /' | grep -v ' $'`"
BLACKLISTVARS=`cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf 2>/dev/null | grep -v "$SKIPLISTVARS"
echo "$SKIPLISTVARS" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
echo "$BLACKLISTVARS" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

#AND for bootmanager perhaps :

for i in $SKIPLIST ; do
j="${i//-/\\-}"
if [ -z "`grep "^blacklist $j" /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf`" ] ; then
echo "blacklist $i" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
fi
done

[ this i still have to observe ..]

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#292 Post by rcrsn51 »

Jim1911 wrote:Frugal installation on an ext4 partition.CUPS will not set up printing for usb printers. I've installed hplip_scan-3.11.7 and hplip_print-3.11.7 pets. Xsane does work.
Please provide details. I just used Racy 5.2.1.90 and hplip_print-3.11.7 to install an HP Deskjet F4280. It worked correctly.

A Photosmart C4680 also installed correctly.

Remember that if you are switching an HP unit between scanning and printing, it requires a restart.

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#293 Post by Jim1911 »

rcrsn51 wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:Frugal installation on an ext4 partition.CUPS will not set up printing for usb printers. I've installed hplip_scan-3.11.7 and hplip_print-3.11.7 pets. Xsane does work.
Please provide details. I just used Racy 5.2.1.90 and hplip_print-3.11.7 to install an HP Deskjet F4280. It worked correctly.

A Photosmart C4680 also installed correctly.

Remember that if you are switching an HP unit between scanning and printing, it requires a restart.
Restart worked, I did forget, thanks for the reminder. :oops:

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#294 Post by rcrsn51 »

Jim1911 wrote:Restart worked, I did forget, thanks for the reminder. :oops:
You can see this glitch in action. When the unit is ready to print, go to the folder /dev/usb and you will see the device node lp0.

Start a scan operation. The device node disappears. You need to reboot the unit to get it back.

HP is the only make I have seen that does this. I don't know if it is their fault or something in the Puppy USB detection.

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#295 Post by Karl Godt »

Start a scan operation. The device node disappears. You need to reboot the unit to get it back.
looks like something does a " rmmod usblp || modprobe -r lp " before scanning ... the sane backend perhaps ?
Maybe a manually " modprobe usblp " would recreate the /dev/usb/lp0 node ?

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#296 Post by Greatnessguru »

BarryK wrote:Fix for slow drop-down lists! (at least on my laptop).
See my blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02594
You might have to reboot after installing the PET, for the libraries to reload.
Worked for me. No reboot needed.

Thanks very much!
Eddie Maddox

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#297 Post by DaveS »

rcrsn51 wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:Restart worked, I did forget, thanks for the reminder. :oops:
You can see this glitch in action. When the unit is ready to print, go to the folder /dev/usb and you will see the device node lp0.

Start a scan operation. The device node disappears. You need to reboot the unit to get it back.

HP is the only make I have seen that does this. I don't know if it is their fault or something in the Puppy USB detection.
I dont get this problem with my HP Photosmart c4380 when printing/scanning via wifi FWIW.
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#298 Post by Sage »

I don't know if it is their fault or something in the Puppy USB detection.
It's a Puppy feature. Doesn't happen with F15/16, Mint, etc. I only use HP printers.

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#299 Post by rcrsn51 »

Sage wrote:
I don't know if it is their fault or something in the Puppy USB detection.
It's a Puppy feature. Doesn't happen with F15/16, Mint, etc. I only use HP printers.
It may actually be a CUPS feature. Some distros build CUPS so it uses libusb instead of /dev/usb/lp0 to connect to a USB printer. But when you build CUPS that way, you lose certain legacy capabilities.

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mplayershell zoom/scale fix

#300 Post by Ted Dog »

please add -zoom in front of every place that -really-quiet appears

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nohup gmplayer -really-quiet $MYVIDOUT "$@" &
change to:

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nohup gmplayer -zoom -really-quiet $MYVIDOUT "$@" &
so that full screens will scale.

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Racy Puppy 5.2.1.91 (5.2.2 RC -- 10 Nov. 2011)

#301 Post by Billtoo »

Manual frugal install to gateway desktop pc.

Racy Puppy, version 5.2.1.91 on Mon 14 Nov 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF108 Board - 1071v1p1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (373x231 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
59366 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11873.066 FPS
59474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11894.719 FPS
59483 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11896.526 FPS

Computer
Processor 4x AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Memory 8312MB (98MB used)
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 430/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
Version 4.2.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09
Direct Rendering Yes

So far everything is working perfectly, pets and sfs files created in
recent racy versions work.
Will keep testing.
I used Psync time server synchroniser to set the clock to standard
time, the clock was one hour fast because we are no longer on daylight
saving time.

Edit:
I've installed racy 52191 on two computers and I am having the same problem on both, that is that web pages are really slow to load completely.The page will load partially then take a minute or more to finish loading.
I booted racy of oct27 on another pc and web pages loaded quickly as they usually do.

Edit:
I think the problem with web pages loading was because I installed a
seamonkey 2.4.1 pet that I made a while ago in an early version of
wary.It works fine in the oct 27th racy but not the new one.
I deleted the save file of my second racy 5.2.1.91 install and
rebooted and went through setup,save file creation, etc, but this time
I went with the seamonkey 2.3.1 that racy comes with and web pages are loading normally.
Racy 5.2.1.91 didn't like my seamonkey 2.4.1 pet for some reason.

@broomdodger
The flash plugin didn't download for me either, I installed the
plugin as I had downloaded it yesterday from the adobe site and saved it
to a flash drive.

Edit: It wasn't a problem with the seamonkey 2.4.1 pet, I removed the flash plugin and web pages load normally.
Last edited by Billtoo on Tue 15 Nov 2011, 07:41, edited 2 times in total.

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Re: Racy Puppy 5.2.1.91 (5.2.2 RC -- 10 Nov. 2011)

#302 Post by broomdodger »

Billtoo wrote: Edit:
I've installed racy 52191 on two computers and I am having the same problem on both, that is that web pages are really slow to load completely.The page will load partially then take a minute or more to finish loading.
I booted racy of oct27 on another pc and web pages loaded quickly as they usually do.
I am seeing the same slow loading of web pages. Racy5.2.1.91 IBM ThinkPad x30

@ Billtoo - Did you install flash? If yes, did you check Seamonkey plugins to see if it was active?

Also when first connect to internet, Flash ask to install.
It did download Flash but gave an error that the download did not complete.

I looked and the file was in /usr/lib/mozilla but did not uncompress and install. I manually installed it but pages loaded so slow, I thought Flash was the problem so removed it.

I will check tomorrow to see how pages load without flash.

Adobe recently announced that Flash is dead.
Not soon enough for me.

-Bill

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#303 Post by James C »

I haven't tried Racy yet but noticed the same problem in the new Wary 5.2.1.91 as well.
EDIT:
I had upgraded to SeaMonkey 2.4.1 as well......I'll revert back and see if there is a difference.

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#304 Post by James C »

Racy 5.2.1.91 live multi-session dvd.Sound and internet good on boot.....had to use xorgwizard with nouveau driver to get the desired 1366x768 resolution.
No apparent problems with pages loading in the installed SeaMonkey 2.3.1.

# report-video
Racy Puppy, version 5.2.1.91 on Tue 15 Nov 2011

Chip description:
d.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#


-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3884MB (187MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Tue 15 Nov 2011 12:52:38 AM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
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#305 Post by Sage »

Good news and good news. Everything that caused problems in 5.2.1.90 now appear to work ie mouse, long menus, sound, etc - haven't checked printers yet.
Even better SM seizes up fairly easily, particularly when resizing window. Perhaps we can dump this appalling item now?! Opera 11.6beta working utterly reliably - of course.

Whoa - spoke too soon. Mouse slows to a crawl when running iPlayer. Horizontal movement eventually failed completely during video playing.

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