Puppy 4 Beta Bugs

[Greatnessguru]

> integr8e
> Posted: Today, at 4:05 pm
> Post subject: Cannot nount XFS partitions
> ... I receive the same when I try to manually mount the drive:
> # mount -t xfs /dev/sda5 /mnt/home
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'xfs'

I have the same problem, but with "-t davfs",
which I reported in the "Dingo alpha7 feedback/bugs" thread:
> Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:27 pm
> Post subject: mount: unknown filesystem type 'davfs'
> Using Puppy 3.96:
# cd /
# cd mnt
# mkdir dav0
# mount -t davfs "http://..." dav0
mount: unknown filesystem type 'davfs'

No improvement in Puppy 3.98.

Thanks,
Eddie Maddox

[boscobearbank]

Best I can do is 1280x1024:

http://soleil.nfldinet.com/~rockdoctor/ ... anPipe.png

The same xorg.conf file (listed below) gives me 1680x1050 on Fedora

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option      "XkbLayout" "us" #xkeymap0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  470   300	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "NTS"
	ModelName    "MBW-SERIAL"
	HorizSync    30-86
	VertRefresh  56-74
	#UseModes     "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
	EndSection
	
Section "Modes"
	Identifier "Modes0"
	#modes0modeline0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	### Available Driver options are:-
	### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
	### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
	### [arg]: arg optional
	#Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
	Option     "NoAccel"            	"True"
	#Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "ColorKey"           	# <i>
	#Option     "CacheLines"         	# <i>
	#Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "XvMCSurfaces"       	# <i>
	#Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel" #card0driver
	VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
	BoardName   "82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1680x1050"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

[Greatnessguru]

"Shutdown" > whatever, the one to power down the computer...

When the screen said: "Power down.",
I pressed the CD drive Eject button to eject my Puppy 3.98 CD.
The drive would not eject my CD!
The machine (HP Vectra VE) was still powered on,
the screen said, "Power down.",
but pressing the CD drive Eject button
did not make the CD eject.

How could that be?
Oh, must be a Bug in there somewhere
keeping it from ejecting.

Oh, that reminds me, with Puppy 3.96 doing an install...
I was booted from HD,
but used the CD for the source of files for a second install.
After the files were copied,
and the install application finished using the CD drive,
I could not eject my CD then, either!
The CD drive Eject button would not work!

What's happening with all this CD hoarding
after the CD is no longer being used
by the application or system?

Thank you,
Eddie Maddox

[veronicathecow]

Hi Barry, I am getting this error when trying to boot from a CD (also happened on Alphas) with my Intel's D201GLY2 MB. See screen shot. I think it only worked with the newer kernel.
Also any chance of the video drivers added to puppy please
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 900#187900
Cheers
Tony[/img]

[Tui]

I have had a full h/d install, grub menu and a wireless connection.

All going well with my usual install of firefox, gqview, gimp and other goodies,
desk setup the way I like it , with a reboot of each install of new prog.

All going well until I loaded a prog to view what's on my USB ports,
as this is not in the basic DINGO V4.00 I got from the repos and completed the
install only to find after a reboot that my bottom toolbar had gone also the MENU
opening. I can still get to the progs I loaded with the mouse control but I notice
that the style and size of fonts are changed .

How do I get the toolbar and menu back?

Tui

[marichely]

Current setting in XORGWIZARD refers to "cz" (Czech Republic)

I thought 3.01 was the best Puppy, but it looks like Dingo is trying harder...
That was the reason I registered to the forum right the way.

Kind regards from Croatia
marichely

PS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hr

[JustGreg]

I tried three different installations of Dingo Beta. I did two simple upgrades of a frugal installations. A simple upgrade is just deleting the old version of vmlinuz, initrd.gz, pup_###.sfs and zdrive_###.sfs and then copying the new versions of the files.

The first frugal installation was on my desk machine with Intel Celeron 2.5GHz with 1024 Megabytes of memory and a 40 gigabyte hard drive. The partition is ext2 filesystem, so Puppy used the entire partition and no save file. It worked fine.

The second frugal installation was on a Intel Classmate (500 Mhz and 512 Megabyte memory). The puppy installation is on FAT32 partition and uses a save file. Once again, the update when well. The only problem is the Classmate small screen. Dingo Beta restored all the screen icons. The small screen gets a bit crowded. One has to remove the un-used icons (Play, Draw, Spreadsheet, etc.) to get some room. I also had to set the JWM tray/bar to autohide. Once again for more screen. I had changed my screen background to the one of the first PupEee (an Eagle in flight). The new installation did not change the background.

The third installation was a full installation on an available empty ext2 partition on the desktop hard drive. The first attempt the "Universal Installer" just stopped and exit after selecting the drive and partition to be used. I tried a second attempt and got the same results. So on the third attempt, I had Pprocess up to watch what was going on. On the third attempt, the Universal Installer worked perfectly fine. A version of Murphy's Law (when one can track down the cause of a problem, everything will work correctly) was invoked by the system. I had selected "update" Grub option. It work, but the actual Grub loader was on another partition so no changes were made. The /temp directory did have the "NewGrubText" file so it was easy to cut and paste the correct information into the menu.lst file of Grub. I have found always to check for Grub changes when modifying Grub after a new installation.

Bottom line, Dingo Beta updated correctly and my normal Grub changes procedures worked. Dingo Beta looks like we are going in the correct direction for success.

[trapster]

Any plans for a "retro" release of dingo? These newer kernels just do not like this laptop.

[kirk]

floborg wrote:

* There is what looks like a battery monitor in the JWM tray. It isn't displaying anything. I am not using a laptop. Check it out (attachment).

Does lsmod show the apm module loaded? Also dougal's update to asapm didn't make it in to beta1.


prit1 wrote:

6 - When I shutdown, it does not give me an option to save. It directly gives me a message that "session not saved". I ran using frugal and not from a cd.

I noticed this yesterday on alpha7. Does not happen if the psubdir option is used.

[floborg]

floborg wrote:

* There is what looks like a battery monitor in the JWM tray. It isn't displaying anything. I am not using a laptop. Check it out (attachment).

Does lsmod show the apm module loaded? Also dougal's update to asapm didn't make it in to beta1.

Output of lsmod:

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# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
parport_pc             31716  1 
lp                     12616  0 
parport                35528  2 parport_pc,lp
snd_mixer_oss          16896  0 
snd_es18xx             33332  0 
snd_pcm                75656  1 snd_es18xx
snd_page_alloc         10120  1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib           10624  1 snd_es18xx
snd_timer              22020  2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep               9220  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart         8320  1 snd_es18xx
snd_rawmidi            23584  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8460  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    52068  9 snd_mixer_oss,snd_es18xx,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,sn                              d_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7520  1 snd
usblp                  14080  0 
apm                    20304  0 
i2c_piix4               8716  0 
i2c_core               22032  1 i2c_piix4
tulip                  51360  0 
intel_agp              24860  1 
agpgart                34128  1 intel_agp
fuse                   44052  0 
unionfs                83732  1 
nls_iso8859_1           4224  1 
nls_cp437               5888  1 
usbhid                 24928  0 
usb_storage            83264  0 
uhci_hcd               24076  0 
usbcore               127128  5 usblp,usbhid,usb_storage,uhci_hcd
sr_mod                 17188  0 
ide_cd                 39200  0 
cdrom                  36768  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
squashfs               46856  1

[Marv]

I booted the pup 398 CD with pfix=ram on a PIII 1GHz box, via glue, ATI RP128 video, legacy sb16 soundcard, and smc NIC. Smooth as silk. Xorg, sound, network, DHCP all flawless. JWM setup as nice as the XFCE in my 2.17r2NOP and that's going some.

Multisession CD worked correctly also.

Still some glitches installing to ideflash for me.

The universal installer just stopped immediately after trying to read the files off the CD or from a directory. Tried syslinux from a terminal and got the same unsafe permissions at /tmp error JustGreg noted in the Dingo alpha7 bug notes. Running chmod 1777 /tmp cleared this error and syslinux then wrote ldlinux and the MBR correctly to an empty freshly formatted 256Mb fat16 partition on the ideflash card.

A frugal install to that partition then boots and runs ok, but in spite of the pmedia=ideflash parameter being passed correctly (checked in PUPSTATE), PUPMODE is 12, not 13 and the Pup_Save file is mounted to the top layer.

2.17r2 NOP is the last version to install to ideflash 'automatically' and use PUPMODE=13 for me. I have forced this behavior by editing init in some 2.i7 versions, but have yet to get a sucessful init edit using the guidelines for editing in the 3.01 release notes or from the forum. My edited initrd.gz is the same size and permissions as the original initrd.gz, but gives a kernel panic....init not found.

Alas, still at 2.17 for my ideflash systems.

[Wolf Pup]

Dialup works in dingo beta, but only if stupid mode is added to /etc/wvdial.conf

[djringjr]

The ALSA configuration won't save.

Actually this has been a bug since 3.00, but I didn't report it until now.

I was in the raspberry bushes messing around instead of reporting the bugs.

Anyway the raspberries are great! So was Mrs. Bunny!

Best

David

[GrumpyWolfe]

Hi all

Just first want to say I like Puppylinux 4 great job Berry.

Now when I try and play a wmv or a gvi movie file there is sound but there is a blue screen where the movie should be. I have tried it on a couple of files. BTW the gvi are google file type played be for the are of the mpg4 type.

[linuxcbon]

GrumpyWolfe I guess blue screen is because of xorg.conf should contain Depth 24 instead of Depth 16 ? (not sure)

[djringjr]

Mini bugs

Seamonkey complains that updated version with "important" security fixes is available.

pet files (perhaps more types) aren't registered with Seamonkey - should be to make it "shoot and use" - which is Barry's aim.

Best

djringjr

[linuxcbon]

v4lctl needs libXxf86dga.so.1 and libXaw.so.8 etc, not sure if important.

[bde]

WPA2 wireless setup in the first Puppy 4 Beta (398) is not being reused. Used Menu/Setup/Network Wizard. In Configure network interface for wlan0, setup wireless using WPA2, ran Test wlan0, ran Auto DHCP to get wireless connection (dhcp). [Note: During Wireless/wlan0 setup found error: Puppy Ethernet Wizard/Acquiring WPA connection/Unable to establish WPA connection. However, in the next screen, saw that testing of wlan0 was successful.] After acquiring Auto DHCP address, the message said

CONFIGURATION OF wlan0 SUCCESSFUL!
Do you want to save this configuration? If you want to keep this configuration for next boot: click 'Yes'.

I said yes to this. Was able to connect to the internet and browse successfully. At the next boot, have to set this up again. This happens repeatedly. /etc/wpa_supplicant2.conf is correct (I see that my network ssid, psk, proto, key_mgmt, group in this file are correct.) Something else is wrong.

SOLVED: See http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 584#188584

[bde]

Taskbar vanished at one point during tweaking of x from Menu/Setup/Xorg Video Wizard. Restarting X did not fix it. Had to reboot computer and the taskbar came back.

[bde]

From Menu/Help, came to http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27521 and wanted to download firefox package. After the download in progress page, a mini-window appeared giving option to save download. I clicked and activated the save download on disk button, and hit OK. Nothing happened after that no matter how many times I clicked it, and you could see that the OK button was responding (by change in appearance back and forth) without associated action. I closed it and clicked the "If your download does not start, Click here!. " A new and empty window opened.

Finally, gave up on this and had to go to Firefox and input the address to download the file.