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Unhban

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3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« on: April 10, 2009, 05:22:08 PM »
First, there's bad news and then GOOD NEWS!

I'm now getting from Netsurf browser a lot of 'Low on Memory' from it, even if I kill it and start again. If I kill it again and run IceWeasel that has no problem.

The GOOD NEWS: IceWeasel seems much faster on 3.1 than 3.0 on my machine....

The year in DATE/TIME seems fixed at 2037! Well, you can change it but next time you boot up we're all back in 2037 again (or should that be forward...).

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wicknix

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2009, 07:34:17 PM »
I've noticed that in netsurf when using google, other sites seems fine. Maybe go to its preferences and increase the cache a bit.

As for iceweasel i was hoping itd be a little quicker. I tweaked the config pretty good and shut alot of useless stuff off in it. Glad to know it helped a little. :)

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2009, 01:13:03 PM »
Confirmed Wicknix, about Netsurf having problems with only the Google Search page. The first time I used Netsurf I set the cache to 10MB. When I got the problem with Google I reduced it to 2MB thinking it might give some of that newly-found 8MB to the main program but no luck. Just tried it again with 5MB cache and still the same problem. C'est la vie! :)

No matter though, I'll be using IceWeasel in the future - it reminds me of the speed of FF2 in v.1.1. ;)

And while I'm on - thanks for 3.1!

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« Last Edit: April 11, 2009, 01:19:02 PM by Unhban »

Leven2e

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2009, 01:43:26 PM »
How about increasng the cache to 200MB??
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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2009, 04:34:43 PM »
Maybe the netsurf developers have no love for google and coded that into the browser..lol. No idea. As stated it seems to work ok with most every other site.

And you're welcome. Though no need to thank me. Was fun hacking away the last 2-3 months on the machine. :)

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2009, 06:29:45 PM »
But we do thank you none the less, none of us have stuck our nose into a cross compiler, well I did try, QEMU which emulates a full Debian mipsel install and saves the image funnily enough as *.img but in qcow format and then when you try to recover the files from the CramFS that's a whole noodle of new fun!

I found this link and thought I would share it as I like the look of some of those browsers, but I remember Wicknix said something about the Kernel not playing nice with GCC 4.1 as it's only 2.4 not 2.6, so I did some more digging around and found the boot uImage for the Kernel is compiled with uboot-mkimage.

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/02/lightweight-browser-rundown/

I found a few bug's, xiph dosnt work for me, xine radio works fine I can hear EPNFAN ;) Online video player is busted.. Looks like its working till you try to play a video. LBreakout speakers crackle, reminds me cant play Midi files, those would make cool start-up sounds ;)

Stream Tuner doesnt work for me & bit torrent trying to save to the SD crashes the client. (seems a bit mad trying to use this for torrents anyways) and also when trying to download a large file to SD from Dillo it made Dillo vanish (classic software borked itself to death!)

Why re-invent the wheel, perhaps I wanted a triangle! :P Developers (sigh) always one sided, their way is the right way, their way or the highway... Cant pull the wool over this old goats eye's though, I knew I was on the right track when I found vfs.conf and gnupg (gnome) folders on the original recovery image.. Someones been in there with a knife and fork.. My turn.. :D
« Last Edit: April 12, 2009, 10:55:15 PM by lokesh »

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2009, 06:56:03 AM »
 Hi Wicknix,
   Sorry to be a pain, but I have a fairly major issue with 3.1 and hope you might be able to help-

Basically Abiword is no longer opening ANY document properly, other than those saved previously with the font set as Liberation. All others open as blank. If I create a new document and then save/re-open I get the same problem - just a blank page.

I have opened a few old docs with the text editor and can see the text, interspersed with the control codes etc, so I don't think it is a problem with the docs (The ones saved as Word docs also open OK on another PC). Basically Abiword is unusable for me right now. I suspect it is a font problem with 3.1.

Other than installing 3.1, my machine is a V70 vanilla box. I will try downgrading to 3.0 tonight if I get a chance, but hope you might be able to advise on what I need to do to get it working again.

Many Thanks

James

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2009, 09:49:23 PM »
OK - Just checked - same problem with RC3. Downgrading to 2.1....

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2009, 11:21:08 PM »
Huge frustration - also not working under 2.1 unless the document is saved as a .abw using Liberation Serif as a font. Do not have a clue what to do!

If I save a file as a .doc or.rtf it will re-open fine on my PC
Yet I cannot then open it again on Abiword.

Aaaaargh!

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2009, 04:06:56 AM »
Strange indeed. Tried rc1.1 or the default OS yet to see if the problem is persistent in all recovery images? I'd be curious to see the results. Might just be an issue with that particular version of abiword... could be a font issue.. hard to say really. The default OS and rc1.1 use an older abiword than rc2/3 so its possible it might be ok on those. Worth trying i suppose.

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2009, 07:15:01 AM »
Thanks Wicknix,
   I'll give it a go. It will be a shame though as RC3 is great otherwise. Is it possible to "downgrade" just Abiword?

James

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2009, 04:51:51 PM »
OK I can now confirm that any version of 3MX above 1.1 will not properly support conversion to and from Word documents, or certain fonts in Abiword. This has unfortunately meant that I have had to drop back to 1.1 (although this is still very cool, I think 3.1 was just that bit cooler).

 :-\

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Re: 3MX-rc3.1 bugs
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2009, 07:28:59 PM »
One of the 'out of the box' problems im having is that the wifi isn't resolving anything.
I can ping 4.2.2.2, but not IBM.com, which is odd...
Not quite sure what's going on with that. It's not a problem I had with RC2 which I was messing with earlier today, nor the CnM OS version.
I'm going to check by rolling back to RC2.