Puppy Raspi Zap6

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amj · #41 Post by **amj** » Thu 24 Dec 2015, 19:03

@ally

zap6 is based on Debian wheezy. The Debian wheezy armel repository is still online. It's the squeeze armel repository that is gone.

ally wrote:amj, could you look at getting fatdog arm working on the rpi2, I do not have the skills.....

Neither do I. As you know I played around with fd-arm recently and am convinced that it could be ported to RPi2. But I know nothing of the internals of fd-arm and don't have any of the devices it runs on.

Although a port of fd-arm would be nice, it's probably not the solution we really need. fd-arm is not compatable with a major repository.

What is needed is a Puppy armhf build based upon Debian jessie or an equivelent Ubuntu. I'm happy to work towards that but at my current rate of progress Debian 9 will be out before it's done.

amj · #42 Post by **amj** » Wed 09 Mar 2016, 21:10

RPi3

A quick note to say that I have zap6 running on an RPi3 with the current 4.1.19 (v7+) kernel. In terms of modifying/upgrading zap6, it's the same procedure as for the RPi2.

I've run zap6 on RPi2 with 4.1.13 kernel. That seemed to work perfectly and I'm not (yet) seeing any problems with 4.1.19.

In terms of the hardware, this seems to be a much smaller upgrade than the RPi to RPi2 upgrade. In terms of performance, maybe web pages load slightly faster but its not a significant difference.

Unless you specifically need more power for your USB devices or a built-in wireless and/or bluetooth interface, I can't see any urgent need to upgrade from RPi2 to RPi3. But if you do upgrade, you can still run Puppy Linux.

don570 · #43 Post by **don570** » Mon 14 Mar 2016, 18:46

I used the instructions of forum member amj
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 280#832280

It was easy to install zap6 on a raspberry pi2

(Using Precise Puppy) First start with the instruction....

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unxz --stdout raspi-sd-4gb-zap6-5.100-ALPHA1.img.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdYOURDRIVE;sync

From the rpi-firmware master, copy the 3.18.8+ and 3.18.8-v7+ directories to lib/modules (so that they co-reside with the original 3.1.9-zapu-cutdown modules).

I accidently left out this step but zap6 still booted anyway.
There was no sound so these modules are necessary for sound.

Rox filer has a nasty bug ----> finding info of a folder.
I had to restart X

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Some comments:

Installed pclock and countdown worked
uextract ---> will allow extraction of a pet file
raspi date-time ---> Set the date and time easily on arm machine

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don570 · #44 Post by **don570** » Thu 17 Mar 2016, 16:59

I made a mtpaint 3.45.01 zap pet package.
Also updated gtkdialog from 0.8.0 to 0.8.4 to test pmusic

gtkdialog-zap-0.8.4.pet
mtpaint-zap-3.45.01.pet
mtpaint-zap_NLC-3.45.01.pet
pmusic-zap-4.9.5.pet

Available:
http://www.mydrive.ch

User: porteus@don570
Password: porteus

don570 · #45 Post by **don570** » Sat 19 Mar 2016, 20:34

Added viewnior 1.6 slideshow presenter to mydrive.ch

viewnior-zap-1.6.pet

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don570 · #46 Post by **don570** » Thu 24 Mar 2016, 00:31

to stop rox from crashing when using the menu I compiled again.
Perhaps the dbg file was left out

Rox-filer-zap-update.pet at http://www.mydrive.ch

install and restart x
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amj · #47 Post by **amj** » Thu 24 Mar 2016, 13:16

@don570: Thanks for the uploads.

I'm not sure what to make of your ROX problem. ROX has never given me any trouble. On RPi/RPi2/RPi3 with zap6 and on RPi/RPi2 with alpha4, it gets a clean bill of health from me all down the line.

I experimented a while ago running alpha4 with kernel 4.1.13 on RPi2 and saw some slight regression with a couple of minor application functions not responding as I expected. alpha4 itself still appeared to be well behaved.

don570 · #48 Post by **don570** » Fri 25 Mar 2016, 00:02

Amj. Thanks for info. I'll re-install from scratch and test again.
I had left out /lib/modules

Then installed later. Maybe that is problem.

Viewnior 1.6 needs 'exiv2' . Does zap already have that installed?
I will check.

I put right click menu in pmusic to add music files and uploaded again.
pmusic-zap-4.9.5.pet
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amj · #49 Post by **amj** » Fri 25 Mar 2016, 09:35

don570 wrote:Viewnior 1.6 needs 'exiv2' . Does zap already have that installed? I will check.

For some reason, viewnoir did not work on RPi model A and so was excluded from the alpha4/zap6 builds. (A bug in the 3.1.19 kernel maybe?) I've always used geeqie (and never investigated the viewnior problem). There is a version of exiv2 is in zap6 and I'm under the impression that it works OK with geeqie. Of course all this software dates from 2012 and updated versions may be no bad thing.

don570 · #50 Post by **don570** » Sat 26 Mar 2016, 16:54

For some reason, viewnoir did not work on RPi model A and so was excluded from the alpha4/zap6 builds

I was able to compile viewnior 1.6 for zap. I might have written

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./configure --prefix=usr --disable-guile

I also made a viewnior 1.1 package for Barry's alpha4 sap
by taking an arm7 version I found in ibiblio and adding links for the right click menu.
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don570 · #51 Post by **don570** » Sat 26 Mar 2016, 17:56

I updated to version 4.1.20-v7+
with rpi-firmware

https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware

but I still have problem with rox-filer and my keyboard numpad.

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How do I obtain an older version of firmware??
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