Quirky Xerus 8.6 (Aug. 16), Beaver 8.7.1 (Sept. 21), 2018

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Downloading now.

[gcmartin]

• On a subsequent reboot, the system required a manual restart for the wired adapter to join the network.
• I have found that some extensions do not have default apps; namely ".xz", "png", etc.

More issues

[Sage]

you beat me to it. :lol:

Did we forget to say 'please'?! Sorry.
Almost every other distro still uses .iso for distribution. The arguments have been well rehearsed. Developers can, of course, pursue whatever strategy they choose, but my guess is that a CD .iso is preferred by the majority, UEFI/secure boot/w.h.y.? .img formats would be imperative for ARM 7, 8, mobiles, etc. devices but Pi s, Arduino s and such tend to be aimed at different audiences and applications. Both formats would satisfy everyone, though.

[linuxcbon]

you beat me to it.

Did we forget to say 'please'?! Sorry.
Almost every other distro still uses .iso for distribution. The arguments have been well rehearsed. Developers can, of course, pursue whatever strategy they choose, but my guess is that a CD .iso is preferred by the majority, UEFI/secure boot/w.h.y.? .img formats would be imperative for ARM 7, 8, mobiles, etc. devices but Pi s, Arduino s and such tend to be aimed at different audiences and applications. Both formats would satisfy everyone, though.

I agree with you, we need an iso (or a vmlinuz and a initrd.gz, to do a frugal install). Please.

[ETP]

More testing:

On the issue of the (Unable to update the static FcBlanks:) errors the fontconfig.log shows:-

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fc-cache: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 is a symlink to:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1.9.0 (size 273832)

It would appear that the content of that lib is the problem. Increasing its permissions did not help.
/usr/bin/fc-cache is not showing any missing dependencies.

[BarryK]

Hi Barry,

thank you a lot for the great work you're doing!

I'm trying quirky xerus 7.90 from a 16gb usb key on my asus e200ha.

Unfortunately, the touchpad doesn't work (it did with ubuntu 16.04 beta).

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Thank you very much in advance!

I have an E200HA also!

I thought that the touchpad was working. Hmmm, maybe I changed something that broke it. I have been recompiling the kernel many times, trying different config options.
I will investigate.

My touchpad on E200HA works.

However the Flsynclient GUI doesn't. Something seems to have changed in how xorg works.

[BarryK]

More testing:

On the issue of the (Unable to update the static FcBlanks:) errors the fontconfig.log shows:-

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fc-cache: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 is a symlink to:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1.9.0 (size 273832)

It would appear that the content of that lib is the problem. Increasing its permissions did not help.
/usr/bin/fc-cache is not showing any missing dependencies.

The strange thing is, fc-cache actually works:

# fc-cache --verbose

...and it reports success.

[mda]

My touchpad on E200HA works.

Thank you for your reply!

Unfortunately, I still can't get the touchpad on my asus e200ha to work.

I am booting without passing kernel parameters, should I use any?

The output of cat /proc/bus/input/devices doesn't contain any touchpad entry. Maybe different e200ha are equipped with different touchpads, mine not being recognized by the kernel? Any suggestion would be very appreciated!

Thank you very much!

[BarryK]

you beat me to it.

Did we forget to say 'please'?! Sorry.
Almost every other distro still uses .iso for distribution. The arguments have been well rehearsed. Developers can, of course, pursue whatever strategy they choose, but my guess is that a CD .iso is preferred by the majority, UEFI/secure boot/w.h.y.? .img formats would be imperative for ARM 7, 8, mobiles, etc. devices but Pi s, Arduino s and such tend to be aimed at different audiences and applications. Both formats would satisfy everyone, though.

The USB stick will boot on BIOS computers, that is, all pre-2012 Pcs.
Requires 64-bit CPU though.

[linuxcbon]

The USB stick will boot on BIOS computers, that is, all pre-2012 Pcs.Requires 64-bit CPU though.

my usb stick is only 2GB. And what about people who want a hard disk install or to boot from CD ? Please an iso
Did you know you can do this from an iso file too ?

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# dd if=puppy.iso of=/dev/sdb

[Billtoo]

Installed 16gb image to a 32gb flash drive:

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Fri 15 Apr 2016 on Quirky Xerus64 7.90 Linux 4.4.7 x86_64
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF108 Board - 1071v1p1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nouveau
X.Org version: 1.18.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (508x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NVC1
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.0

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Core 0: @2003 1: @2003 MHz

Okay so far.

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Installed the 4 gb image to an 8 gb drive.
Booted to a desktop just fine.
Wireless, Video (glx via nouveau), audio, automounting, all worked ootb.
Seamonkey lags occasionally, but plays youtube fine.

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60
Memory : 3021MB (403MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Quirky Xerus64
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri Apr 15 13:54:09 2016
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV67
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
HP Webcam
Sleep Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
Power Button
Video Bus
HDA Digital PCBeep
HDA NVidia Mic
HDA NVidia Front Headphone
PC Speaker
HP WMI hotkeys
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA WDC WD1600BEVT-7
TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632N
PNY USB 2.0 FD

Will run it for a few days and get back.

[linuxcbon]

Maybe you can add these important libraries :
- libpng16.so.16 (needed by 0ad , urbanterror , libreoffice etc.)
- libSDL_mixer-1.2 (needed by sauerbraten etc.)

I hope "update-mime-database" will be added for firefox and seamonkey to work ok.

noticed in werewolf : init should be in /sbin and not in /bin . lsmod is in /bin and /sbin , but should be in /sbin only.

[WB7ODYFred]

I tried registering at http://barryk.org/news/?do=register but I don't receive email to set password. Therefor I post here, to comment on Windows USB FLash writer.

Check out Windows single file Rufus.exe http://rufus.akeo.ie I have used rufus.exe many times and recommend it to new users coming from windows to test drive puppylinux.

or Look at http://www.linuxliveusb.com LiLi to create a bootable USB Flash drive from many different Linux distributions including puppylinux.

My own blog post that describes creating a PuppyLinux bootable USB flash drive. http://puppylinux-or-pcbsd.blogspot.com ... ux-or.html

Search for USB and author wb7odyfred on http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy or search with http://wellminded.net63.net

Can this post be Stickied for beginning users? When I started from Windows to create a working version of PuppyLinux in a USB Flash drive. this would have been helpful.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=101366

Another similiar post on creating a USB Flash drive from Windows.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=100169

User EricBenner wrote up his HowTo do a Full Hard Drive install
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 9&start=15

Howto Create a Live CD from Windows XP
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 1&start=15

Thank you Barry for allowing me to Use PuppyLinux and for creating all
these tools. Like MoManager.


Fred Finster
wb7odyfred@yahoo.com

[Billtoo]

Installed the 8gb image to a 16gb flash drive:

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Fri 15 Apr 2016 on Quirky Xerus64 7.90 Linux 4.4.7 x86_64
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: PARK 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.18.3
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.0

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz
Core 0: @1199 1: @1199 2: @1199 3: @1199 MHz

Okay so far.

Edit:
I added a few applications with QPM, games mostly.
I've been running this beta for a few hours with no problems.

Thanks.

[James C]

Installed the 16 gb image to a 32 gb flash drive using Rufus.

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# inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: puppypc13361 Kernel: 4.4.7 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.3.1)
           Desktop: JWM git-976 dm: N/A Distro: Quirky 7.90 xerus64
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial: 150545593600028
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42161
           clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 2000 MHz 2: 1400 MHz
           3: 2000 MHz 4: 1400 MHz 5: 1400 MHz 6: 2000 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
           Display Server: X.org 1.18.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: vesa)
           tty size: 80x25 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.7
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1151.6GB (0.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: N/A
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: N/A
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: Cruzer size: 31.4GB serial: N/A
Partition: ID-1: / size: 14G used: 2.0G (15%) fs: f2fs dev: /dev/sdc2
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
RAID:      System: supported: raid0
           No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
           Unused Devices: none
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 144 Uptime: 11 min Memory: 294.4/15964.4MB
           Init: SysVinit v: N/A runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.01 running in urxvt) inxi: 2.2.35 

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# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:   free: can't open '/proc/meminfo': No such file or directory

Other than the error when running "free" things looking good so far in a quick test.

[James C]

Rebooted and "free" is working......

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# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      16347572     421868   15925704       6104        292     217124
-/+ buffers/cache:     204452   16143120
Swap:      8396796          0    8396796
# 

[James C]

Went ahead and made another Fat32 partition for data in the unallocated space on the drive, so Gparted is working.

[ETP]

Continuing to test with 8GB image installed to 32GB USB3 stick. (3rd [f2fs] partition created in unused space)
Have now thrown the Out house sink at it including:

• Minidlna_1.1.5
  Firefox 45.0.2
  Thunderbird 45.0 (Just released)
  Google Chrome Stable 50.0.2661.75
  vlc 2.2.2
  gdisk_1.0.1
  tree_1.7.0-3

It is holding up well & I will test the Bluetooth next when a new battery for my 10 year old mobile phone arrives.

Full sized screen-shot here: (Press F11 to toggle into full screen then click on link)

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... 2tVbnFiVjg

[linuxcbon]

Hi Barry,
I am testing some games and programs, and you could also add these 2 more small libraries : (plus 2 others asked before)
- libplibjs.so.1 (for programs like Ardour, Speed Dreams etc)
- libSDL2-2.0.so.0 (for programs like Warsow, steam, Volgarr , The Witcher 2 etc)
.iso is coming, I have faith.
Cheers.