Wary and Racy Puppy 5.5 Release Candidates

[gcmartin]

@AARF has attempted to help the community with a Torrent. This helps all of us as together download times would decrease significant over what iBiblio provides.

@AARF's torrent is racy5491 torrent

TRANMISSSION is the vehicle in most PUP distro, but the version we are using is 2.22 versus the current version which has fixed several seeding problems is at 2.77.

[ally]

seeding.........

[OscarTalks]

Sorry but also have to report a problem with X with Racy 5.4.91 on my nvidia geforce FX 5200 card.

First boot loads vesa at 1280x1024 but "exit to prompt" from the menu and screen goes blank. Typing "xwin" (blindly with nothing on the display) does bring it back.

Running xorg wizard from the menu also gives a blank screen but I can (again all blindly) press enter (for probe), the down arrow (to select 1024x768x24 instead of the default 1024x768x16), and then press enter again and I get the desktop back with nouveau loaded at 1024x768x24 and glxgears gives around 250 fps.

Oh, and the nouveau is loaded with none of the graphics missing by the way, so not sure what is going on there.

[npierce]

Note, Wary 5.5RC has ffmpeg 'ffmpeg-0.8.12-1-w5c.pet'.
Wary 5.3 has 'ffmpeg-20111002-w5c.pet'
If I recall rightly, the original ffmpeg lacked network support, and someone, it might have been shinobar, recompiled it, hence the different PET in 5.5RC.

Yes.

You are correct, the original had network disabled, I believe you uploaded a re-compile yourself and the 0.8.12 was from shinobar a little later.

Yes.

Barry, you recompiled ffmpeg in March to add network support and gave it the "dash one" name (ffmpeg-20111002-1-w5c.pet). This you included in RC1 of Wary 5.3. But then someone reported that the new version didn't support x11grab, and you asked that person to try the old version (ffmpeg-20111002-w5c.pet). You never got a reply, so to be safe, you reverted to the old version for RC2, RC3, and the final Wary 5.3.

As it turned out, the old version didn't support x11grab either. Both versions should have, since you had compiled with --enable-x11grab, but because of a bug in ffmpeg's configure script (since reportedly fixed), the configure script reported no error despite not finding a needed library.

Anyway, in July shinobar recompiled ffmpeg again giving us ffmpeg-0.8.12-1, which has both x11grab and network support, and you uploaded it to the Wary repo.


used in Wary 5.2.2:
ffmpeg-20111002-w5c.pet 2011-Oct-02

used in Wary 5.3 RC1:
ffmpeg-20111002-1-w5c.pet 2012-Mar-17

used in Wary 5.3 RC2, RC3, Final:
ffmpeg-20111002-w5c.pet 2011-Oct-02

used in Wary 5.5 RC1:
ffmpeg-0.8.12-1-w5c.pet 2012-Jul-30


By the way, it's great to see a new Racy!


References - - -

Barry's Blog: ffmpeg 20111002svn recompiled, Posted on 17 Mar 2012

barryk, Bugs forum: Wary/Racy 5.3RC2 (5.2.91), Posted: Thu 29 Mar 2012, 05:38

shinobar, Bugs forum: Wary/Racy 5.3RC2 (5.2.91), Re: ffmpeg and x11grab, Posted: Tue 24 Jul 2012 01:15

Barry's Blog, Wary: ffmpeg improved, Posted on 31 Jul 2012, 8:13

[James C]

Same problem with Racy as I reported in the Precise k-3.8.0 thread.....will not mount an usb flash drive.
Flash drive is detected by the kernel as noted in the logs but no icon appears and Pmount doesn't even notice it's plugged in.

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Feb 28 02:26:35 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  710.429979] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
Feb 28 02:26:35 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  710.555780] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1603
Feb 28 02:26:35 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  710.555786] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Feb 28 02:26:35 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  710.555790] usb 1-4: Product: DataTraveler 2.0
Feb 28 02:26:35 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  710.555793] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Kingston
Feb 28 02:26:35 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  710.555796] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 0019E06B9C90SK8704140BEB
Feb 28 02:26:35 puppypc7473 user.debug kernel: [  710.560066] usb-storage: device found at 2
Feb 28 02:26:35 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  710.562623] scsi2 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0
Feb 28 02:26:35 puppypc7473 user.debug kernel: [  710.562746] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Feb 28 02:27:07 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  743.156642] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
Feb 28 02:27:22 puppypc7473 user.err kernel: [  758.293318] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
Feb 28 02:27:38 puppypc7473 user.err kernel: [  773.533326] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
Feb 28 02:27:38 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  773.743323] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
Feb 28 02:27:53 puppypc7473 user.err kernel: [  788.879975] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
Feb 28 02:28:08 puppypc7473 user.err kernel: [  804.119987] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
Feb 28 02:28:08 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  804.330011] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
Feb 28 02:28:19 puppypc7473 user.err kernel: [  814.756744] usb 1-4: device not accepting address 2, error -110
Feb 28 02:28:19 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  814.863322] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
Feb 28 02:28:29 puppypc7473 user.err kernel: [  825.289961] usb 1-4: device not accepting address 2, error -110
Feb 28 02:28:29 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  825.290032] usb 1-4: USB disconnect, device number 2
Feb 28 02:28:29 puppypc7473 user.info kernel: [  825.290113] scsi 2:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
Feb 28 02:28:29 puppypc7473 user.debug kernel: [  825.290597] usb-storage: device scan complete

Errors continue on as long as flash drive is plugged in.
No problems with the drive or usb ports in other Puppy installs.

[James C]

Attempting to setup the radio stations or web music in PMusic and I get.......

EDIT:
In Pemasu's Upup Precise I've been using PMusic 3.0.6 with zero problems.

[musher0]

Hello, Mr. Kauler.

No problems here! Writing this in Opera 12.13 from wary 5.4.90 with enhanced Xorg. My screen has never been this nice. French localization takes a little convincing (5-6 Xorg re-initialisations plus a couple of reboots !) but it does work fine when it finally start.

So, many thanks for this. And "bonne continuation"!

musher0

[Sage]

Glad to note not alone in reporting nV issues which seemed to proliferate about six months ago, possibly longer. Maybe ask James & co to swap temporarily to an ATI card, for which I experience zero problems, and report back.

[scsijon]

@BarryK

Sorry, in the latest racy 5.4.91 and with no additional packages yet added, not even a jwm update, and on a box with an intel i915 video. I am getting some display problems.

This is with a fresh woof build of 25 Feb.

I have attached a screeny capture example for comments and sugestions. All Woof pages are showing the same problem and won't resize smaller.

However I'm not sure if it's racy or woof having the problems.

All comments would be appreciated.

[Ray MK]

Hi BK - you have been busy. New Wary, new Racy and a new Quirky. Nice.


Report Video 1.3 - Wed 27 Feb 2013 on Racy Puppy 5.4.91 - Linux 3.8.0 i686

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1366x1024 pixels (361x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


Manual frugal to ntfs partition and booting via grub4dos on SDcard. Using the E732 (Emachines) laptop with 2gig ram and an i3 proc.

All seems to be working well OOTB on this machine.
According to top - resource usage is virtually zero.
Nice to see acpitz temp working (40 to 42c average).
New Racy looks nice too. Overall - a luvly Puppy. Many thanks. (forgot to mention - fast - really fast - screams)

Report FYI. (quirky soon)

[James C]

Manual frugal install of the latest Quirky.Just like Racy I had to copy the xorg.conf from another install to get the correct resolution and since it's the same kernel can't mount a flash drive.
Most interesting is that Quirky only seems to boot about 1 time out of three attempts..... the bootloader finds the kernel.qky and all activity ceases.Hard poweroff and eventually it'll go ahead and boot.

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Wed 27 Feb 2013 on Racy Puppy 5.4.91 - Linux 3.8.0 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 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
#

Interesting little experiment.

[sszindian]

Racy-5.4.91

This is one 'Blazing-Fast' Puppy, I keep thinking they can't get any faster but 'this one did!'

Did an UPDATE to Racy-5.2.90 to see how well it would go.

Everything went well except for the usual few Icon drops from personal desktop programs and of course the background pic.
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WiFi stayed without issue:
Linksys AE1000 (usb plugin - using rt2800usb)
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Already had a lot of programs installed in 5.2.90 and they all worked as before!
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The 3.8.0 Kernel appears to be working just fine on this old box.
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Internet Graphics & Picture display just don't get any better, crystal clear and coloring as it should be, even in Mplayer
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USB plugins working fine, even my VADO camcorder/camera.
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For those wanting a really good Google Earth sfs program for 5.4.91:
Google Earth-6.0.3.2197-luki.sfs
You can get it here:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-a5a90a31.html
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And... for those wanting to expermint with a little 'cloud' computing, (or use it for other programs, many other functions) my little cloud.pet works great in Racy-5.4.91
You can get it here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69192
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-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 764MB (126MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Puppy Linux
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed Feb 27 22:01:57 2013
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
2.4G Wireless Mouse
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
HP_Deskjet_1050_J410_series
-SCSI Disks-
ATA SAMSUNG SP1604N
ATA WDC WD1600AAJB-0
TSSTcorp CDW/DVD TS-H492A
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glxgears

212 frames in 5.0 seconds = 42.363 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.837 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.841 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.840 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.841 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.841 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.839 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.846 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.841 FPS
---------------------------------------------------

'Thanks for the very nice Puppy BK'

>>>---Indian------>

[Ray MK]

Report Video 1.3 - Wed 27 Feb 2013 on “qky

[BarryK]

Note, Wary 5.5RC has ffmpeg 'ffmpeg-0.8.12-1-w5c.pet'.
Wary 5.3 has 'ffmpeg-20111002-w5c.pet'
If I recall rightly, the original ffmpeg lacked network support, and someone, it might have been shinobar, recompiled it, hence the different PET in 5.5RC.

Yes.

You are correct, the original had network disabled, I believe you uploaded a re-compile yourself and the 0.8.12 was from shinobar a little later.

Yes.

Barry, you recompiled ffmpeg in March to add network support and gave it the "dash one" name (ffmpeg-20111002-1-w5c.pet). This you included in RC1 of Wary 5.3. But then someone reported that the new version didn't support x11grab, and you asked that person to try the old version (ffmpeg-20111002-w5c.pet). You never got a reply, so to be safe, you reverted to the old version for RC2, RC3, and the final Wary 5.3.

As it turned out, the old version didn't support x11grab either. Both versions should have, since you had compiled with --enable-x11grab, but because of a bug in ffmpeg's configure script (since reportedly fixed), the configure script reported no error despite not finding a needed library.

Anyway, in July shinobar recompiled ffmpeg again giving us ffmpeg-0.8.12-1, which has both x11grab and network support, and you uploaded it to the Wary repo.


used in Wary 5.2.2:
ffmpeg-20111002-w5c.pet 2011-Oct-02

used in Wary 5.3 RC1:
ffmpeg-20111002-1-w5c.pet 2012-Mar-17

used in Wary 5.3 RC2, RC3, Final:
ffmpeg-20111002-w5c.pet 2011-Oct-02

used in Wary 5.5 RC1:
ffmpeg-0.8.12-1-w5c.pet 2012-Jul-30


By the way, it's great to see a new Racy!


References - - -

Barry's Blog: ffmpeg 20111002svn recompiled, Posted on 17 Mar 2012

barryk, Bugs forum: Wary/Racy 5.3RC2 (5.2.91), Posted: Thu 29 Mar 2012, 05:38

shinobar, Bugs forum: Wary/Racy 5.3RC2 (5.2.91), Re: ffmpeg and x11grab, Posted: Tue 24 Jul 2012 01:15

Barry's Blog, Wary: ffmpeg improved, Posted on 31 Jul 2012, 8:13

Thanks very much for that clarification!

My memory can be rather hazy. It's not that I'm getting old, I have always had hazy recall. As a boy, my dad used to tell that I would forget my head if it wasn't screwed on.

I am wondering if any issues are due to the 3.8 kernel. Especially video.

I have decided that Racy 5.5RC2 will have the 3.0.66 kernel. This is a continuation of the 3.0.x used in Racy 5.3. ...um, it might have been 3.0.27.

[BarryK]

[quote="Ray MK"]Report Video 1.3 - Wed 27 Feb 2013 on “qky

[zekebaby]

I just gave Racy, Quirky, and Wary a quick frugal install on a Dell D430 laptop with a B43 wireless chipset.

Racy and Quirky both seem to work equally well with absolutely no issues so far. Solid as usual.

Wary, on the other hand, has a really annoying issue with SeaMonkey. Scrolling is not smooth and fluid like in Racy and Quirky; it seems to "stutter". Also, there's a small but perceptible lag when switching tabs when compared with Racy.

My main distro on this laptop is Puppy Precise 5.4.3, which also has no issues. I just tried Wary 5.3 and it also seems to stutter in SeaMonkey, so this may not be a new problem. I'm 99% sure Wary 5.2.2 was OK, but I don't have the ISO handy to give it a try right now.

Did something change in Wary SeaMonkey between 5.2.2 and 5.3, or could this be a system-related problem?

[BarryK]

The tg3 ethernet driver module does not work with my Broadcom NetLink 57788 (and some others, so I am told).

I downloaded the latest driver tarball from http://www.broadcom.com/support/etherne ... nk_k57.php and compiled it.

It works for me and I will attach it but I expect you will wish to compile your own.

I notice those *.ko drivers in that directory are not stripped so I didn't strip this one. Do we know if they are best left not stripped?

Kernel modules do not get stripped, not that I know of anyway.

Thanks for that update, I have replaced the tg3 module with yours in the kernel pet package.

[BarryK]

Bonjour à toutes et tous,

It seems that I have a problem with remasterpup2.
Just after validated in this window, the attached message is displayed:

Cordialement

That means the syntax for Xdialog is wrong.

I cannot reproduce this problem. I changed to de_DE.UTF-8, but it still worked.

After the first window, there is a "Please wait" window, then another window with a menu-list of partitions to choose a working partition.

You are crashing before that.

Do you get the "Please wait" window before the crash?

Have you run 'remasterpup2' from a terminal to see if there are any more error messages?

After it has crashed, you will find a file '/tmp/savedlg' -- please gzip that and post it here. That should tell us why the Xdialog is crashing.

[L18L]

/tmp/savedialog is ok
my crash is coming later and not language dependent

I have no CD/DVD and use 'virtual cd'
added some echos into function choice_cdd

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  echo m_01="$m_01"
  echo MSG="$MSG"
  echo m_14_1="$m_14_1"
  echo SELECTIONS="$SELECTIONS"
 DIALOG="Xdialog --wrap --left --title \"$m_01\" --stdout --menubox \"$MSG\n\n$m_14_1\" 0 56 4 $SELECTIONS 2> /dev/null"
 echo DIALOG="$DIALOG"
 BURNERDRV=""
 RESULT=$(eval "$DIALOG") #w018	# 22jun09
 [ $? -ne 0 ] && exit
 BURNERDRV=$RESULT
 [ "$BURNERDRV" = "" ] && exit
 BURNERDRV="`echo -n "$BURNERDRV" | cut -f 3 -d '/'`"
	echo ending choice_cdd

and started remasterpup2 in English from console:

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# LC_ALL=C remasterpup2
/usr/sbin/remasterpup2: line 288: 22023 Terminated              Xdialog --wrap --left --title "$m_01" --no-buttons --ignore-eof --infobox "$m_06" 0 0 0
WKGPART=sda3

Usage:
 losetup-FULL loop_device                             give info
 losetup-FULL -a | --all                              list all used
 losetup-FULL -d | --detach <loopdev> [<loopdev> ...] delete
 losetup-FULL -f | --find                             find unused
 losetup-FULL -c | --set-capacity <loopdev>           resize
 losetup-FULL -j | --associated <file> [-o <num>]     list all associated with <file>
 losetup-FULL [ options ] {-f|--find|loopdev} <file>  setup

Options:
 -e | --encryption <type> enable data encryption with specified <name/num>
 -h | --help              this help
 -o | --offset <num>      start at offset <num> into file
      --sizelimit <num>   loop limited to only <num> bytes of the file
 -p | --pass-fd <num>     read passphrase from file descriptor <num>
 -r | --read-only         setup read-only loop device
      --show              print device name (with -f <file>)
 -v | --verbose           verbose mode

MSG=This remaster program needs to read some files off the current live-CD.
You can also use a .iso file if it is already mounted as a virtual CD (you would need to have previously clicked on a .iso file to mount it).
starting choice_cdd
m_01=Puppy simple CD remaster
MSG=This remaster program needs to read some files off the current live-CD.
You can also use a .iso file if it is already mounted as a virtual CD (you would need to have previously clicked on a .iso file to mount it).
m_14_1=Choose the CD/DVD drive...
SELECTIONS=  /dev/loop2 
DIALOG=Xdialog --wrap --left --title "Puppy simple CD remaster" --stdout --menubox "This remaster program needs to read some files off the current live-CD.
You can also use a .iso file if it is already mounted as a virtual CD (you would need to have previously clicked on a .iso file to mount it).\n\nChoose the CD/DVD drive..." 0 56 4   /dev/loop2  2> /dev/null
# 

echo ending choice_cdd
has not been executed because of crash
hope this helps

Also see my comment from feb 26 at
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00146 which is not a show stopper but if you can fix that would be nice.

[sszindian]

Racy-5.4.91

Yes, it was designed with more-modern computer systems in mind but...

Just had to try it on my old...

IBM T22 Thinkpad
P3
512MB RAM
20GB HDD

The new Racy-5.4.91 performs just beautiful on it!!! looks like this old notebook will be around for at least a few more years yet

>>>---Indian------>