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[rhadon]

First success .

From a menu I can select sap6 and it boots to the desktop.

Keyoard isn't working, so it's only a small success . I guess it has to do with mksqashfs. Without /lib/modules (as suggested), I get kernel panic, with these, I get no keyboard. But it's a start .

I hold the line,
Rolf

[01micko]

Here's a sneak peek at my secret raspi project

[Lobster]

Thanks Mick

. . . for taunting us . . .
Iceape = Seamonkey
The most stable, powerful Puppy chimp

I have an SD card primed and ready
Good luck and remember to be kind to yourself
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=self-compassion-fosters-mental-health

Cases of beer to the usual shed
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[rhadon]

Hi,
no positive news about multi boot so far.

No matter I use alpha 2 or 3, including /lib/modules or not, it allways boots to the desktop and no keyboard available. I tried different options in cmdline.txt but without knowledge, only try and error. I guess that we must wait till one of the big dogs (meaning one with more knowledge than me ) will be interested.

Differences to the HOWTO:
kpartx doesn't work for me. I couldn't find it in the Slackware repos (Slacko 5.3.3.1), using a .deb file, I wasn't patient enough to solve all dependencies.

In Lucid 528 I could install kpartx with alll dependencies(?) but get an error message during run.

Well, at last we don't need kpartx, if we have the extracted files at partition 2 of the sd card or a copy of them (that's what I used).

I guess that all we need is the mksquash command.

The option -comp lzo doesn't work for me (get the message: not supported). So I used

[Lobster]

[BarryK]

Alpha4 is released:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02910

[01micko]

testing Alpha4

Sound works OOTB (I can only use analog)

Light browsing seems fine.

If you are interested I wrote a small gtkstatusicon in C to pop up "mixmos". It's very simple, you could make it more complex but I don't see the point.

PET <-- http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/armv6/pet_packages-wheezy/mixer_tray-0.1-armv6.pet

SOURCE <-- http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/armv6/source/mixer_tray-0.1.tar.bz2

On printing, I can't test! My printer needs either a special driver or gutenprint-5.2.8. I might compile gutenprint (overnigtht ). Printing fails with cups-1.5.3 in Wheezy Arm Puppy.

[rhadon]

First tests with alpha4:

My first impression, it's a good one.
German keyboard layout works fine.

Still problems with firewall. I can't install firewall during first boot or menu->Setuo->Firewall Wizard. Allways get the message

[aragon]

@rhadon

maybe a valid terminfo is missing for rxvt-unicode-256color.

aragon

[Lobster]

Finally in Alpha 4 - problems with dd in Slacko 5.3.3.2
took for ever to recognise my SD card . . .

Anyway tested sound.
Did not seem to work
typed in depmod at console and rebooted
(not even sure if that makes a real difference)

Then opened gnome mplayer from icon and was able to play ivy.mp3
This was the only file that seemed to play.
It played once and then I had to reboot to play again

The ivy.mp3 was the best test file in Puppi cockroach too incidentally. The sound is quiet even with mixmos set to full.

From strangled wasp to actual sound, progress

[01micko]

[01micko]

Barry

When I plug in my usb HDD I don't get the drive icons (2 partitions, ntfs and ext4). Need to run Pmount to use it.

Attempting to compile gutenprint-5.2.8 now.

EDIT: Yes! Printing works for me with gutenprint-5.2.8 .. more tomorrow, having a beer now! (tested with a .doc from abiword).

EDIT2: Got that problem with Xorg not dying, had to hard power off.. I reckon it's a kernel issue because my new kernel actually powers down the Pi (different xorg version though). Sap6 has never done that. The filesystem check was started and seemed successful.


(later edits are fixing typos due to beer )

[Lobster]

Thanks mick - using unpowered speakers
Gonna get better reader

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/19/chromium-browser-for-raspberry-pi-beta-available/

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[Lobster]

[rhadon]