[Sugar-devel] [Activities] Issues Clock Maze Measure Physiscs

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 19:05, David Farning<dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Andrés,
> Most of it** is looking like a hardware gfx card driver issue under
> Fedora.  I am not sure how to fix that or even who is knowledgeable
> about the issue.  I have Cced Tomeu and Simon maybe they have some
> advice.

Yeah, I guess when we know which specific hardware graphics were in
use, we can check if there's open tickets in the fedora bug tracker.

Andres, if you can get us the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log from one of
those computers, that would help a lot.

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Thanks for sticking with us on this.
>
> david
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Andrés Arrieta
> Perréard<andres.ap.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Andrés,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>>
>>> On 5 Aug 2009, at 21:11, Andrés Arrieta Perréard wrote:
>>>
>>>> *Clock (Some times you can not see the clock):*
>>>> */usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/util.py:25: DeprecationWarning:
>>>> the
>>>> sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
>>>>  import sha
>>>> 1248977761.813519 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248977761.851770 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2323): DEBUG: Got client ID
>>>> "1093bb3c6e2cea8c72124897776519290500000021170003"
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2323): DEBUG: Setting initial properties
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2323): DEBUG: Received SaveYourself(SmSaveLocal,
>>>> !Shutdown, SmInteractStyleNone, !Fast) in state idle
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2323): DEBUG: Sending SaveYourselfDone(True) for
>>>> initial
>>>> SaveYourself
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2323): DEBUG: Received SaveComplete message in state
>>>> save-yourself-done
>>>> 1248977878.267682 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248977880.421383 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248977880.439221 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248977880.441122 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.*
>>>
>>> Clock is an Activity I recently adopted. Hmm, no useful
>>> errors/fails/tracebacks there unfortunately (just warnings, FWIW SoaS seems
>>> to have pretty low threshold for debug output). Can you describe what you
>>> mean by "some times your can not see the clock". Does the screen go blank or
>>> grey, does it redraw strangely, or perhaps stop for a while? Can you see the
>>> Sugar toolbar, or is it just the clock 'canvas' area that's incorrect?
>>
>>
>> It stays with the grey background, all loads except for the clock. At least
>> it seems that thi first time you open it it will not show any images within
>> that area, the text that says the time or something like that does loads
>> tho. After the first run every thing seems to run normally.
>>
>>>
>>>> *Maze (wont start):**
>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/util.py:25: DeprecationWarning:
>>>> the
>>>> sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
>>>>  import sha
>>>> 1248976744.209587 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248976744.213911 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2269): DEBUG: Got client ID
>>>> "1093bb3c6e2cea8c72124897674772567300000021170000"
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2269): DEBUG: Setting initial properties
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2269): DEBUG: Received SaveYourself(SmSaveLocal,
>>>> !Shutdown, SmInteractStyleNone, !Fast) in state idle
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2269): DEBUG: Sending SaveYourselfDone(True) for
>>>> initial
>>>> SaveYourself
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2269): DEBUG: Received SaveComplete message in state
>>>> save-yourself-done
>>>> 1248976777.877888 WARNING olpcgames.pausescreen: Pausing activity after
>>>> 30
>>>> with function <function pauseScreen at 0x9a752cc>
>>>> 1248976798.908470 WARNING olpcgames.pausescreen: Activity restarted
>>>> 1248976829.581685 WARNING olpcgames.pausescreen: Pausing activity after
>>>> 30
>>>> with function <function pauseScreen at 0x9a752cc>
>>>> 1248976878.653855 WARNING olpcgames.pausescreen: Activity restarted*
>>>
>>> Hmm, not one of mine (nut I like it). I know this is PyGame based (as is
>>> Physics). Again, nothing fatal logged above. When you say 'wont start' do
>>> you see anything on screen after the pulsing icon at start-up; blank or grey
>>> screen? The "pausing activity" messages look like it's running (somewhere).
>>> I'm beginning to think low level graphics card driver issues (just a guess).
>>
>> It shows the blinking icon and after sometime it goes back to the menu. I
>> can't remember the hardware of the computers on which was tested but as soon
>> as I have that info I'll send it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> *Measure (Wont Start):**
>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/util.py:25: DeprecationWarning:
>>>> the
>>>> sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
>>>>  import sha
>>>> amixer: Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0
>>>>
>>>> $$journal.py: This is the file I will work on
>>>> /home/liveuser/.sugar/default/org.laptop.MeasureActivity/data/tmp3UIdNJ
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>  File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 21, in <module>
>>>>   main.main()
>>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/activity/main.py", line
>>>> 140,
>>>> in main
>>>>   create_activity_instance(activity_constructor, activity_handle)
>>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/activity/main.py", line 34,
>>>> in create_activity_instance
>>>>   activity = constructor(handle)
>>>>  File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Measure.activity/measure.py", line 71,
>>>> in
>>>> __init__
>>>>   self.audiograb = AudioGrab(self.wave.new_buffer, self.ji)
>>>>  File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Measure.activity/audiograb.py", line 61,
>>>> in __init__
>>>>   self.PCM = self.get_PCM_gain()
>>>>  File "/home/liveuser/Activities/Measure.activity/audiograb.py", line
>>>> 382,
>>>> in get_PCM_gain
>>>>   return int(p)
>>>> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''*
>>>
>>> Again not mine, but Measure does/did have some custom hardware specific
>>> code for the XO laptop that allows its audio line-in to be set to special
>>> input modes allowing you to use it like an oscilloscope. I might expect this
>>> one to crash currently on some hardware It's been a while since I last
>>> tested this. It should ideally at least fail gracefully, and just disable
>>> those special features if not supported by the hardware (again I'm just
>>> guessing here from the log).
>>
>> Ok
>>>
>>>> *Physiscs (Video all messed up, photos on links)*
>>>> http://dashwire.com/alphinux/image/bs0XtsFtSr3QccadbiFPIU/
>>>> http://dashwire.com/alphinux/image/bUbgtUFtCr3QccadbiFPIU/
>>>> http://dashwire.com/alphinux/image/bEd3deFtCr3R4JadbiFTTI/
>>>>
>>>> */usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/util.py:25: DeprecationWarning:
>>>> the
>>>> sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
>>>>  import sha
>>>> 1248973844.612091 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.626403 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.631980 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.635663 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.639058 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.642383 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.645793 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.649399 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.652005 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.654533 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.657102 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.659660 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973844.672775 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2412): DEBUG: Got client ID
>>>> "10d240b9f8cec92402124897384789079400000023220001"
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2412): DEBUG: Setting initial properties
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2412): DEBUG: Received SaveYourself(SmSaveLocal,
>>>> !Shutdown, SmInteractStyleNone, !Fast) in state idle
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2412): DEBUG: Sending SaveYourselfDone(True) for
>>>> initial
>>>> SaveYourself
>>>> ** (sugar-activity:2412): DEBUG: Received SaveComplete message in state
>>>> save-yourself-done
>>>> /home/liveuser/Activities/Physics.activity/tools.py:80:
>>>> DeprecationWarning:
>>>> integer argument expected, got float
>>>>  pygame.draw.circle(self.game.screen,
>>>> (100,180,255),self.pt1,self.radius,thick)
>>>> 1248973871.619364 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.628075 WARNING olpcgames.activity: No file created in
>>>> '/home/liveuser/.sugar/default/org.laptop.physics/instance/1248973873'
>>>> 1248973873.672515 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.680338 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.681211 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.683851 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.685444 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.685910 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.686345 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.686778 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.687187 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.687619 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.703018 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.703706 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.704137 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> 1248973873.704550 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level
>>>> window.
>>>> Loading box2d for Linux (32bit)
>>>> * Pygame selected as renderer
>>>
>>> OK, Physics is something I do help maintain. Again no critical errors
>>> shown above, all normal (given the Soas debug level) for a working case of
>>> Physics. Physics is based on PyGame (as is Maze above). Thanks for the
>>> screen shots, these very much say to me "likely problems with graphics card
>>> driver". I do use and test Physics here in a number of different resolutions
>>> and different hardware.
>>>
>>> Can you perhaps name the hardware you are running Soas? Graphics card
>>> details/type would be particularly useful so we can check if Fedora supports
>>> it correctly.
>>
>> Sure just let me get that info.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again for taking the time to provide us with feedback!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> --Gary
>>>
>>
>> Thx for the help
>>
>>
>> --
>> - Andrés Arrieta Perréard (XE1YAA)
>>
>>
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