Fatdog64-802/801/800 Final [21 May 2019]

[OldAndInTheWay]

Sorry wrong place to ask.

[vtpup]

Fatdog64 800 keyboard doesn't work on Acer R11 Chromebook. Have tried it dual booting through Mr. Chromebox legacy boot with both the stock Google firmware, and standalone UEFI boot with Mr Chromebox replacement ROM firmware.

Both Ubuntu 18.10 and GalliumOS 3.x do work and recognize the keyboard.

Likely possibility is that kernel module pinctrl_cherryview needs to be a built-in kernel module instead of a loaded module (config=y, not m). It has been reported online that the module needs to be built in. I have checked successful Ubuntu 18.10 kernel and it is indeed built-in there.

I have tried modprobing it in, and setting the boot option loadmodules=pinctrl_cherryview, but no joy.

Thanks for any assistance in getting this working.

[don570]

Note :

While using ptmtimer (which uses mpg123)
I noticed that the version of mpg123 included ---> 1.25.10
won't support the full path added to beginning of the command...

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# /usr/bin/mpg123 /mnt/sdc1/Zeitumstellung.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
	version 1.25.10; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
	free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module alsa.
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module oss.
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module jack.
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module portaudio.
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module sdl.
[src/libout123/libout123.c:455] error: Found no driver out of [alsa,oss,jack,portaudio,sdl] working with device <default>.
main: [src/mpg123.c:309] error: out123 error 3: failure loading driver module

So I switched to

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mpg123 /mnt/sdc1/Zeitumstellung.mp3

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[kirk]

Likely possibility is that kernel module pinctrl_cherryview needs to be a built-in kernel module instead of a loaded module (config=y, not m). It has been reported online that the module needs to be built in. I have checked successful Ubuntu 18.10 kernel and it is indeed built-in there.

I'm going to build a new kernel soon. I'll make that and a few other pinctrl_ modules built in. Also it will have the missing SOC sound modules and firmware. I'll make a post when it's done.

While using ptmtimer (which uses mpg123)
I noticed that the version of mpg123 included ---> 1.25.10
won't support the full path added to beginning of the command...

Gee, I don't know Don, I tried:

# /usr/bin/mpg123 /mnt/sda6/Living_in_the_Overflow.mp3
and
# mpg123 /mnt/sda6/Living_in_the_Overflow.mp3

Both work for me. I wonder if you installed another version of mpg123 that was included with some other package and the builtin mpg123 is trying to use those libraries. You could try doing:

# which mpg123

and that should return /usr/bin/mpg123.

[vtpup]

Thanks very much, Kirk!

[SFR]

Note :

While using ptmtimer (which uses mpg123)
I noticed that the version of mpg123 included ---> 1.25.10
won't support the full path added to beginning of the command...

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# /usr/bin/mpg123 /mnt/sdc1/Zeitumstellung.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
	version 1.25.10; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
	free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module alsa.
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module oss.
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module jack.
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module portaudio.
[src/libout123/module.c:133] error: Failed to open module sdl.
[src/libout123/libout123.c:455] error: Found no driver out of [alsa,oss,jack,portaudio,sdl] working with device <default>.
main: [src/mpg123.c:309] error: out123 error 3: failure loading driver module

So I switched to

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mpg123 /mnt/sdc1/Zeitumstellung.mp3

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Ok, I can reproduce it.
If 32bit.sfs is also loaded, invoking mpg123 directly via /usr/bin/mpg123 results in picking up modules from the wrong location - /usr/lib/mpg123 instead of /usr/lib64/mpg123.

I looked at the sources, but it's unclear to me how it works exactly...

Greetings!

[stemsee]

Request: Could the fatdog team come with a package (sfs) for full pulseaudio with pavucontrol?

cheers
stemsee

[OldAndInTheWay]

Apparently the googleearth .sfs from fatdog's repos is missing libproxy.so.1, so I went to the slack repos and installed libproxy-0.4.15-x86_64-3.txz. That fixed it. Maybe you guys could look into it and save some headaches. thanks for an excellent distro, it is my main one.

[don570]

Ok, I can reproduce it.
If 32bit.sfs is also loaded, invoking mpg123 directly via /usr/bin/mpg123 results in picking up modules from the wrong location - /usr/lib/mpg123 instead of /usr/lib64/mpg123.

Interesting . I also have http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/sfs/80 ... 64_800.sfs
installed. I never would have guessed.

mpg123 is installed automatically in the wine package available from
forum member ---> version2013
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 04#1012178

So it may be preferable to remove mpg123 out of 32bit package and put it
into the wine package http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/sfs/80 ... i686-1.sfs
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Another odd thing I observed with 32bit-fd64_800.sfs ....

the gmic plugin needs libpng12 library and libpng12 is inside 32bit-fd64_800.sfs
but it contains wrong elf which causes an error in terminal.

Fortunately by installing correct fatdog64 libpng from repository
the error goes away and I have no problems with gmic plugin.
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[don570]

results in picking up modules from the wrong location - /usr/lib/mpg123 instead of /usr/lib64/mpg123.

Mpg321 doesn't use a lot of libraries. It's just one big executable .
That may be better.
http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/
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[21js]

seems to be a problem running gnumeric in ver 800. It apparently installs using gslapt package manager. but fails to respond to clicking on the menu item.
No problems using gnumeric in ver 721. Be grateful if you can check this out

21js

[OldAndInTheWay]

Hi guys .... I made a fatdog remaster and was wondering if it is possible to install to a flash drive. I have tried but it did not work. Thanks

[vtpup]

Hi guys .... I made a fatdog remaster and was wondering if it is possible to install to a flash drive. I have tried but it did not work. Thanks

First burn your ISO to a CD If you have a CD burner) and try to boot from it as-is, to make sure your re-master isn't a problem itself.

Then:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... drive.html
or:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... rive2.html

As always, be EXTREMELY careful when running a dd command that you have EXACTLY the right drive after the "of" parameter. Because that one will get overwritten.

If it's accidentally your hard drive's designation instead of the thumb drive, say goodbye to your hard drive data.

Also make sure that the thumb drive is UNmounted first, and that you designate it as the drive name, not the partition name (ie. sdb, NOT sdb1, even if there is an sdb1 partition).

[vtpup]

seems to be a problem running gnumeric in ver 800. It apparently installs using gslapt package manager. but fails to respond to clicking on the menu item.
No problems using gnumeric in ver 721. Be grateful if you can check this out

21js

Install ghostscript.

[OldAndInTheWay]

Hi vtpup... I need to clarify what I want to do. I made a bios-only REMASTER from a flash drive and saved the iso. I tried installing to a different flash drive from the normal installer in the Control Panel (bios only) and failed. I don't want uefi.

[vtpup]

There are two possibilities -- the method of booting the ISO failed, or the ISO itself was a problematic remaster. Can you distinguish which of these you mean by failed? Did you try burning the ISO to a CD rather than a memory stick? What happened on the screen when you tried to boot the stick?

[kirk]

I've uploaded linux-4.19.32 here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/kernels/800/

This includes the missing SOC audio modules / firmware and the PINCTRL_xxx config changes.

Note: The file vmlinus-initrd-4.19.32, is not used in the ISO. This is for booting with just this file and the fd64.sfs.

Haven't uploaded the source yet, I'll do that tonight.

[Volhout]

hi fatdog team,

Just wanted to inform you that I tried fatdog on an Acer C720 (2955U CPU, 2G ram) and it would not boot. Not enough memory.

I used the fatdog 631 with C720 patches for a while on this Acer C720, was curious about the new 800 series. This machine must be too old.

Keep up the good work !!!

[don570]

A note:

Back Seat driver app needs two icons...
/usr/share/midi-icons/network48.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/midi-icons/network48.png
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I succeeded with samba server -->
connection to older computer with old version of samba client.
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[jd7654]

I've uploaded linux-4.19.32 here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/kernels/800/

This includes the missing SOC audio modules / firmware and the PINCTRL_xxx config changes.

I have an Acer R11 also. On mine, FD800 takes a long time, several minutes, to boot to the desktop, and then the keyboard doesn't work. I assume its erroring out and failing during this long bootup, but it shows blank screen until the desktop appears.
Tried with swapping in the 4.19.32 kernel, and it boots normal long time (about a minute) for FD on CB, but the touchpad doesn't work, and the screen res is not correct.(lower, I assume 1024 instead of 1366)

I have FD800 working fine on an Acer C740. But on another rare C740 with Celeron 3215u CPU instead of 3205u, it won't work. Blank/blinking screen, This late model C740 has Broadwell rev. 09 board instead of the standard rev. 08 on normal C740.
Tried the new 4.19.32 kernel on this rev. 09 CB and it has the same problem as the R11: touchpad doesn't work and screen res not correct.(lower)