Grafpup-2.xx fourth (and final) alpha

[Nathan F]

Somehow permissions got reset on the file. It should be fine now.

Nathan

[msumner]

OK Nathan, I am trying to attach the dmesg.out file. If I can't, I will email it.
The modprobes worked for the firewire! I have captured my first bit of dv.
I tried a flash install, but nothing gets saved to the save file on the flash drive at the end of the session, which is getting to be a bit of a pain.Any ideas on this one? After reboot, kino had gone and the dv file I had in /root had gone. Still, at least it's nice to know firewire can be made to work.
Have not managed to get the wireless to work though. Tried the wizard and modprobe. The driver shows up in the wizard but I get the "unable to find an alive interface" message when I test the connection. Tried reloading the driver, but no joy. It always works fine in puppy. Maybe the dmesg output will tell you something?
Cheers, Mike

[Nathan F]

Well let's hope that it does. Not to make light of things, but you're the only one having these sorts of problems right now, and it's getting to be a major pain in the %$&.

As for the ipw3945 driver apparently requires a bit of firmware, which I'm downloading right now. I'm not entirely sure how to get this whole thing working, but I'm confident this puts me on the right track. I'll send it off to you soon if I can figure out exactly what to send, and we'll see from there.

Nathan

[Nathan F]

Wait a minute, this comes with the kernel too? So the files should already be there. Try this, do a "modprobe ieee80211" and then try bringing up the interface. There are a few other modules in the package too, looks like they're needed for wep encryption on the interface. Does this thing work in Puppy, just using the network wizard?

Nathan

[SimonW]

Hi Nathan,

Below I have included my dmesg from the first boot. (The sda1 partition was formatted with FAT which I then reformatted ext3 before rebooting).

For the via-rhine ethernet coming up at only 10mbps, the machine has no internal CDROM so I'll have to hook one up temporarily to try another distro. I will also verify that the cat5 cable gives 100mbps when connected to another machine, ie. it may not be software at all.

I'll let you know as soon as there's news.
Simon.


-ddffffff
PREFETCH window: d8000000-dbffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1267k freed
NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/W].
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
VIA RNG detected
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0a: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 13824K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 15
PCI: setting IRQ 15 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 15 (level, low) -> IRQ 15
PCI: VIA VLink IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.1, from 255 to 15
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: TOSHIBA THNCF512MQG, CFA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 1000944 sectors (512 MB) w/2KiB Cache, CHS=993/16/63
hda: unknown partition table
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 424k freed
usbcore: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 15 (level, low) -> IRQ 15
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 15, io base 0x0000c400
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1 -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 11, io base 0x0000c800
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 10, io base 0x0000cc00
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 5, io mem 0xdf000000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
aufs 20070305
fuse init (API version 7.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
aufs test_add:360:mount[1198]: different uid/gid/permission, /graf_ro2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA CLE266 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
NET: Registered protocol family 23
libata version 2.00 loaded.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.2 Sept-11-2006 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 15 (level, low) -> IRQ 15
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1d800, 00:40:63:e8:94:84, IRQ 15.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 0021.
sata_sil 0000:00:14.0: version 2.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xCE8FC080 ctl 0xCE8FC08A bmdma 0xCE8FC000 irq 11
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xCE8FC0C0 ctl 0xCE8FC0CA bmdma 0xCE8FC008 irq 11
ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xCE8FC280 ctl 0xCE8FC28A bmdma 0xCE8FC200 irq 11
ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xCE8FC2C0 ctl 0xCE8FC2CA bmdma 0xCE8FC208 irq 11
scsi0 : sata_sil
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
scsi1 : sata_sil
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA7, 312581808 sectors: LBA48
ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 16
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi2 : sata_sil
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
scsi3 : sata_sil
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG SP1614C SW10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0021

[grndoor]

Thank you for making the "devx_004.sfs" module accessible.

I have a Hard Disk installation of the latest Grafpup iso.

How do I mount and extract the contents of the "devx" module so that it can be copied to the HD installation.

Barry's "devx_xxx.sfs" modules can be mounted with a simple:

"mount -o loop devx_xxx.sfs tmp_dir" command, but that doesn't work here.

[plinej]

I mounted it with a mount -o loop command just like in puppy. Nathan mentioned a neat way earlier in this thread. It'll take 2 commands:

mount -o loop devx_xxx.sfs /initrd/graf_ro4
mount-FULL -o remount,append:/initrd/graf_ro4 /

[Nathan F]

There's one difference here between Puppy and Grafpup that is stuffing this up. In Grafpup with the new kernel, squashfs is built as a module, which means you will have to specify that it is a squashfs when you mount it so that the module can be loaded. It's already loaded when running from live cd or usb, but not with a full hard drive install, so it won't recognize the filesystem. So here's the command -

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mount -o loop -t squashfs devx_004.sfs tmp_directory

The code Jason mentioned, with the "remount,append", would merge the mountpoint into the main filesystem using aufs, provided / was an aufs filesystem. But it isn't one when we're talking about a full hard drive installation. The best way to get the files onto your hard drive then is to mount devx as mentioned and manually copy them over, at least until there is a better method in place.

I remember seeing a blurb about a squashfs installer somewhere on this forum, which does the copy for you, but I don't remember any details. I'm going to hunt for it sometime soon and if it works well perhaps add it to the iso or hack the code into the universal installer. If it doesn't look very elegent I may just write something similar myself.

I think that the universal installer should at least offer to merge in files from any squashfile extensions it finds, and this little feature is something I've been thinking about for a while but just never put into writing anywhere. I'm going to add it to the bug tracker now so I'll have a harder time forgetting.

Nathan

[msumner]

Well let's hope that it does. Not to make light of things, but you're the only one having these sorts of problems right now, and it's getting to be a major pain in the %$&.

Nathan

Hi Nathan, sorry for causing so much trouble, I know you have lots to think about at the moment. The thing is, laptops now outsell desktops, so they appear to be the future, and Dell probably sell more than anyone. AND Vista is such a bag of nails more users are going to be driven towards linux but only if they actually hear about it. Maybe Dells are a problem? I doubt it, but maybe things will improve when they start putting linux on them, and then linux will start to become more widely known about. I tried running the alpha4 live cd on my dads hitachi and it picked up the wifi no probs with an ipw2200. My friend has just got a new dell 1504 so I will see if I can test it on that. He probably won't want me messing his partitions up though! Might be able to persuade him to try a frugal install. I would love to hear if anyone else is having sata / wifi problems.

I tried modprobe ieee80211 but that did not help. If I do a scan, it finds the router fine, but testing the connection, it comes back with unable to connect to an alive network. When using puppy, the wifi has always come straight up, so does that point to something in the new kernel? But then, I have never had grafpup working with the wifi, and the new kernel is only in alpha4 so it seems that puppy has something that grafpup has missing? Would a dmesg of puppy help?
Mike

[Nathan F]

No Mike, pester me all you want because I want it to work for everybody. Seriously.

I'm uploading a new version of the firmware for this card, because the version in zdrv is out of date. That may be where the problem lies. Please try it after booting with "pfix=ram" so we can see if it's going to fix things or not without having any extraneous files from a failed attempt in the way.

As for sata, we have it working for some so at least that's progress. I want to get your wireless working and then we'll concentrate on getting sata working for you too.

Nathan

[Nathan F]

I tracked down the squashfs installer. It turns out sunburnt is working on it, which gives me hope it will be good. I'll check it out and let you guys know what I find.

Nathan

[setecio]

Unfortunatley I don't want to read the 11 pages of this topic to find out how near the final release is ....

What would be your guestimate for the release of 2.xx .... or is it still at alpha stage ?

Thanks

[Nathan F]

If nothing blows up in my face then beta is out the door early next week. After that I plan on pushing the final through within about two weeks of the beta release.

Nathan

[grndoor]

The "jre_004.sfs" module ( dated 20 Apr 2007 ) is currently inaccessible.

The "devx_004.sfs" module ( dated 27 Mar 2007 ) appears to be "faulty".

1) The command:

"mount -o loop -t squashfs devx_004.sfs tmp_directory"

fails with the message:

"mount: Mounting /devx_004.sfs on /tmp_directory failed: Invalid argument"

2) The command:

"unsquashfs -ls devx_004.sfs"

which should list the module contents, fails with the message:

"Can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on devx_004.sfs"

The primary Grafpup ".sfs" files "graf_004.sfs" and "zdrv_004.sfs" can both be
mounted successfully using either of the above two commands.

[Nathan F]

Right on both counts. Not sure how or when but the devx file managed to get corrupted on the server. I'm uploading a good copy now, although it will need updated soon to reflect some changes that have been made in the kernel config and libraries. The Java squashfile is not official until the beta gets released, but I fixed the permissions so you can download it now if you like. If you do, then you will have to add the bin a library directories to the search path. Insert this code into /etc/profile, just after the mozilla section.

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if [ -e /opt/jre ];then
 PATH=/opt/jre/bin:$PATH
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/jre/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi

Nathan

[plinej]

I've been messing around with cdrskin a bit more today and I figured I'd see if I could get it to work with graveman. Graveman uses some various scanbus commands to find the drives to use. I couldn't get either of my drives recognized by default so I decided to work on a script called "cdrecord" to fix that problem. This will need to be used in place of the cdrecord symlink to cdrskin. Of course there's still the issue to make the cd drives world writeable first but that could easily be resolved in a startup script. The only problem would be for external burners that might not be plugged in during the boot up process. This script allowed graveman to see my drives but I didn't try to burn anything yet. I'm guessing that shouldn't be an issue.

Here's the script:

[msumner]

Nathan, I tried the firmware download, but still "unable to connect to a wireless network" in the wizard.
In case I missed something, this is what I did:
Downloaded with puppy to a spare partition.
Started grafpup with pfix=ram
copied tar.gz file to /root.
Clicked to expand. selected all.
modprobe ipw3945
modprobe ieee80211
tried the wizard.
Have I missed anything?
I see it has been downloaded 5 times already. Anyone else got problems?
Mike.

[SimonW]

OK the 10mpbs issue with via-rhine is resolved - it was my fault.

The network cable to the VIA motherboard was routed from the wallplate through a VoIP phone, with a repeater port on the back. That repeater port is only 10Mbps. I think I knew that when I installed it, but you know how you forget these things over time!

Going direct to the wallplate gives me full 100Mbps, no issue.

The SATA drives can now be mounted by Pmount. I put them in /etc/fstab, don't know if this is required or optional.

So all of my issues are sorted and I can go on and create my server. I am going to be running the open source program 'motion' for cctv motion detection. It's a nice application, only generates images and films when movement occurs.
(I will of course test the beta with my h/w when it's issued as well).

Cheers, Simon.

[Nathan F]

MIke - the firmware package has to be installed. Either use pkgtool or gpkgtool and install it with the local install button.

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pkgtool -install ipw3945_firmware-1.14.2

This command shoulod be run from in the same directory the package is in, and you should be root when you run it. If I understand correctly you just expanded the tarball in /root and left it there.

Simon - awesome news, that's the sort of thing I've been wanting to hear! There should be no need to put the entries in fstab, but no harm in doing so either.

I'm interested in the "motion" program you mentioned, but I've had no luck searching for it. Sounds like something a lot of people might find useful.

Nathan

[SimonW]

You've done a fine job Nathan, thanks.

Motion can be found at: http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

It is also on sourceforge I believe, hosting the latest version. I make contributions of patches to motion every now and then.