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muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

people have often asked for a suitable slideshow presentation application for puppy. i quite like the simplicity, and smallness, of this SDL based one.

http://www.xmission.com/~jstanley/slideshow.html

it needs SDL library files to run. extract the attached file to /, then type slideshow --help to see options.

fargo · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

EXCELLENT

I'm trying to run this on Puppy 2.x but it complains about the file /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 being too short!!

Any idea how to solve this?

BTW, your progy doesn't need X server, right?

MU · Posted: Thu 10 Jan 2008, 07:02 Post subject:

re-install sdl with petget, or use this dotpup:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Games/LibSDL1.2-forDoom.pup

Try petget first, as both versions are slightly different.
Mark

Yogi · Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 176

sh-3.00# slideshow
sh: slideshow: command not found
sh-3.00# slideshow -help
sh: slideshow: command not found
sh-3.00#

Installed to /, but for some reason it doesn't see it. I'm running Pizza Pup 3.01.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Hi Yogi,

how did you extract the archive to / ? I suspect that the executable, slideshow, has been extracted & ended up somewhere else in your file system, rather than /usr/bin. You can try & locate where it's been extracted to by entering:

find / -name slideshow

and, if you find it, move it to /usr/bin.

fargo · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

Thank you MU. The SDL lib is working well now.

slideshow seems to need X server to run, because when I exit X and try to run it, it complains about no display device was found.

I'm wondering about how difficult it is to write a slideshow outside X11?

Yogi · Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 176

Yes, thank you Muggins. That was it.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Yogi,

glad you got it working.

fargo · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

Thank you muggins Smile

Actually I came from the GP2X world where we have SDL games without X11 (framebuffer only).

Ok, how about stripping down X11 to the components needed by your program only and configure it to start up once the computer powers on?

Lobster · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2008, 19:01 Post subject:

Tried both SDL libraries and this command line:

MU · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2008, 19:14 Post subject:

Lob, you get any errors?
Maybe you need a different color-depth for your display.
Some games using SDL work only with 16 or with 24 bit.
Mark

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Hi Lobster,

you had me sweating there for a few secs, as I couldn't get the thing to work either!

Lobster · Posted: Sat 19 Jan 2008, 05:03 Post subject:

thanks guys Smile

MU · Posted: Sat 19 Jan 2008, 05:23 Post subject:

it definately is in:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Games/LibSDL1.2-forDoom.pup

But maybe that depends on another one?

Please post the result of this command:
ldd /usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0

Mark

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Hi mark & lobster,

I think Mark's http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Games/LibSDL1.2-forDoom.pup is the only thing you need to install. Maybe the libSDL-1.2.9 doesn't have libSDL_image.so ?