Puppy 4.3 beta3 -- bugs and reports

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tlchost · #21 Post by **tlchost** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 13:36

Created a bootable USB with this version. When system reboots, desktop does not appear, but cli prompt does.

Sometimes you can enter xwin to get to the desktop, other times the system is frozen.

Thom

sfl7fl · #22 Post by **sfl7fl** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 13:46

Card: HDA Intel x
x Chip: SigmaTel STAC9221 A1 x
x View: [Playback] Capture All x
x Item: Center [dB gain=0.00]

alsa mixer sees card, volume is up, no sound , worked in version 4.12
thanks, john

#23 Post by MU » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 13:47

filemanagers like Muppyfiler crash, if a non US locale is set.
This is caused by LC_ALL.

Workaround:
modify /etc/profile and reboot.

like this (add the last line):

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#this line gets edited by chooselocale script...
#LANG=de_DE.utf8 w004 going back to non-utf8...
LANG=de_DE
export LANG
#MU: the next line avoids crashes with non US locale
export LC_ALL=en_US

Hmm, why was UTF8 dropped again?

I missed the reason.

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First impressions:
extremly fast system, the theme is the best Puppy ever had - absolutely amazing

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Made a Ati Catalyst 9.8 pet:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 520#340520
Mark

01micko · #24 Post by **01micko** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 14:32

Theme...

I started the whole superpup thing with a theme based on clouds (and a podgy looking superpup flying through them!)... the original windows 98 clouds..

As a matter of course CatDude improved on my effort and superpup evolved...

It was of course a joke but things seem to have traveled full circle.. in more ways than one; cloud computing anyone?

Now the 4.3 theme is still with clouds, not that there is anything wrong with that!

IMHO, go for the JebaJQ8 cloud image posted in the wallpaper thread, while ttuuxxx sticks to compiling!

trio · #25 Post by **trio** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 16:43

BarryK wrote:One thing that I have not fixed.

It was reported that if the "Enable screensaver" checkbox is unticked, the screen still gets blanked.

Yeah, I don't know why.

pupX creates /root/.xset.sh, which gets executed in /root/.xinitrc.
All seems ok, except that the "s off" parameter has no effect. Weird.

Shouldn't it be

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xset s off -dpms

to prevent blanking of screen, not only "s off" but also "-dpms"

#26 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 17:46

01micko wrote: IMHO, go for the JebaJQ8 cloud image posted in the wallpaper thread, while ttuuxxx sticks to compiling!

LOL you must be joking, after I improved the image your talking about http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 525#340525
really everybody knows that water images should have a rippled mirror effect, well unless its really muddy. Anyways I've more than proven my graphic capabilities in the past, the quick 8kb post above is what it was, quick! still amazed at the size for 1024x768. Anyways mick its IMHO that your off course on that statement.
ttuuxxx

James C · #27 Post by **James C** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 18:23

After seeing a thread about older pc's and the newer kernel versions of Puppy I dug out my old Pavilion w/ a powerful 433 mhz Celeron.Posting right now on it from 4.25 Beta 3 running live.

Booted w/ no problem and actually seems pretty snappy.

Back to my other box for further testing.

r__hughes · #28 Post by **r__hughes** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 18:26

edit 17sep09
This issue has been solved - I should have accessed cups via Menu/System/Cups instead of http://localhost:631/ this starts cups_shell which brings in a whole slew of drivers. Please see
message by 8-bit circa 16sep09
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In frugal pup425, Cups detects my attached Canon S520 Parallel printer but doesn't let me install it. It is shown as Device: Parallel port#1 (Canon S520) but the Model/Driver shows NO Canon printers & no option to navigate to a ppd

The Canon S520 is listed in /usr/share/gutenprint/5.2/xml but I can't seem to attach it -- any ideas.

PS
In frugal pup421, CUPS installed a native Canon S500 driver for my S520 printer. worked beautifully. It was automatically detected by the system if the printer was attached - or - manually selected via Device LPT#1 from then on I could see and select Make/Manuf: Canon then Model/Driver:Canon S500

#29 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 18:26

James C wrote:After seeing a thread about older pc's and the newer kernel versions of Puppy I dug out my old Pavilion w/ a powerful 433 mhz Celeron.Posting right now on it from 4.25 Beta 3 running live.

Booted w/ no problem and actually seems pretty snappy.

Back to my other box for further testing.

Try running Htop on both and look at your free memory applet and thats where the real difference is.
Still cool you have it running on a 433

ttuuxxx

#30 Post by MU » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 20:05

this is really the greatest Puppy I tried so far

Even is very quick on my old Toshiba Portege Subnotebook 3440, it has a Pentium 500 with only 128 MB Ram.
I described it here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25241

The savage graficschip is detected correctly.
The xircom module for the network PCMCIA card was offered as module in the network wizard.
Puppybrowser starts in 10 seconds, seamonkey also very fast for this old computer.

Gxine scales videos even without installing xorg_dri.
But it seems to need less resources, if you install that.
I just had to decrease the color-depth of the display from 24 to 16 in xorg.conf to be able to use DRI with only 8 MB of videoram.

I'm truly amazed...

Mark

Torp · #31 Post by **Torp** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 20:18

Hi all.

Fist of all I have to thank you all for a great OS, it brings new life to my old HP Omnibook 6000 Pentium, 189 MB RAM.

I'm running Puppy 4.3 Beta 2 frugal install and every thing seems to work fine except my wireless connection.
Puppy doesn't recognize the card at boot up so I thought I would try to load the module manually but I can't seem to find the acx module that works for this card.

DESCRIPTION: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
VENDOR: 104c DEVICE: 9066 KERNEL MODULE: unknown

The card works fine with a Puppy 4.2 full install using the acx_mac80211 module. I even managed to get it to work with WPA2 encryption after tampering a bit with the wizard

I'm also having some trouble to get the built in modem to work, Puppy won't recognize it either.
DESCRIPTION: 3Com Corporation Mini PCI 56k Winmodem
VENDOR: 10b7 DEVICE: 1007 KERNEL MODULE: unknown

Any suggestions how to solve these problems is very much appreciated.
Best regards
Torp

dejan555 · #32 Post by **dejan555** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 21:08

Theme suggestion: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 614#340614

James C · #33 Post by **James C** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 22:15

Still testing 4.25 Beta 3......no real problems to report.

Pretty solid.

01micko · #34 Post by **01micko** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 22:46

ttuuxxx wrote:
01micko wrote: IMHO, go for the JebaJQ8 cloud image posted in the wallpaper thread, while ttuuxxx sticks to compiling!
LOL you must be joking, after I improved the image your talking about http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 525#340525
really everybody knows that water images should have a rippled mirror effect, well unless its really muddy. Anyways I've more than proven my graphic capabilities in the past, the quick 8kb post above is what it was, quick! still amazed at the size for 1024x768. Anyways mick its IMHO that your off course on that statement.
ttuuxxx

Yeah, joking

However, the reflection you did didn't seem right... I wouldn't go as far to say it would scare the kids!.. (someone else said that!)

@veronicathecow

Pcur does not offer me any cursor choices.

Did you download the cursor themes from the PPM? There is a note saying to do that but you may have missed it.

panzerpuppy · #35 Post by **panzerpuppy** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 23:22

I think Pcur should include a button for that: "download additional cursor themes" or "start the puppy package manager"

cthisbear · #36 Post by **cthisbear** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 23:41

Internode Australia has a fast Aussie mirror for Puppy.

Fast....not even 15 seconds for me....Bang.

http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/pupp ... -4.3beta3/

"""""""""""""
Other Puppies:

http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/puppylinux/

Chris.

Ray MK · #37 Post by **Ray MK** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 23:45

Hi

This is the best puppy yet - running manual frugal, ext2 on 7yr old laptop and even older BookPC (91mb ram, 400MHz celeron proc. 241mb swap) and it runs very well.

Everything seems good - only 1 very minor niggle (view button in Nathon wallpaper changer not working).

This is truly a superb puppy.
Very many thanks to BK and all concerned for this masterpiece.

As always - very best regards - Ray.

01micko · #38 Post by **01micko** » Sun 13 Sep 2009, 00:21

Hi RayMK

Yes, the Nathan wallsetter does have that minor bug.

Fix:

In /root/.config/wallpaper/preferences change line 5 to

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VIEWER="viewnior"

...was fotoxx

Cheers

sertse · #39 Post by **sertse** » Sun 13 Sep 2009, 02:28

veronicathecow wrote:Looking good but still having this problem in that coming back into either Sidux or Pclinux I get the following error

Error 4 Superblock mount time in future and I have to do a fsck before booting

Sure it is not a debian (sidux) bug?

It was discussed here on the sidux forums. http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-17748.html

sullysat · #40 Post by **sullysat** » Sun 13 Sep 2009, 03:18

Both xorg and xvesa fail on my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop

VGA controller is Intel 82845G/GL chipset.

Will try it on my main puppy machine and see if that goes better.

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