Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3

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#161 Post by Sage »

D.S. : When I was at school the only digital anything was Morse code! More recently, when I want DAC I buy a little box or chip labelled DAC and look up the wiring diagramme on the InterWeb. Besides which, any electronics I've learnt has been self-taught on-the-hoof, i.e. with big holes.
Arizona is full of old folks like me, isn't it? And crooks trying to to fleece them?! Nice climate - done the Grand Canyon. But, why not just amend your profile? If you're sensitive about your exactly location you could just say N. America, although West Coast, East ditto, or, in your case, Mountain time. It helps threads like this one in particular to know when the discussion will continue.
Apart from that, you'll be wanting BarryK and R.ladder DAC.

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#162 Post by don570 »

don570 wrote:

5) no nano app



all Quirkies, and pups probably, have 'mp'.
Is there a way to launch mp when typing in console

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nano file.txt
such as a link or wrapper.
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compiling nano with
.configure --prefix=/usr --enable-tiny
keeps the size to 25k but all the good features are lost.
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#163 Post by don570 »

Another suggestion ...

If you are looking to keep the distro small--->

Instead of including Open office, you should offer a portable version to download from ibiblio .

I assume portable versions of apps use static libraries which makes them bigger but more flexible.

However they can be installed in /opt and then launched with the start menu.
This is how I use Blender in linux. I download the zip file and decompress into /opt

https://www.blender.org/download/
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#164 Post by greengeek »

DavidS wrote:Look up a resistor lader DAC.
hey, thanks for the tip. Very interesting indeed.

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#165 Post by don570 »

I found a possible error in Quirky Xerus

Procedure:

When right clicking on a music file there is 'Open With' menu item (see below)

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When I chose pmusic it assumed the mp3 file was an internet radio station rather than
a music file. Also read my pmusic suggestion for more info

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 534#929534

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#166 Post by don570 »

Good news... I was able to burn an Audio CD with my LG GP30 DVD burner.

Procedure:

Launch ...

Multimedia > PeasyDisc optical disk Tools

Drag a folder of wav audio files to open window.

Temp folder is inside /mnt/home/

The burn took only a couple of minutes ... GOOD!
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pburn program --> I had problems with burning an Audio CD. Maybe because
I was using a network share folder to hold my temp files.
I should try /mnt/home/ in future.

I was able to create an ISO file with pburn though.

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#167 Post by DavidS »

Sage wrote:D.S. : When I was at school the only digital anything was Morse code! More recently, when I want DAC I buy a little box or chip labelled DAC and look up the wiring diagramme on the InterWeb. Besides which, any electronics I've learnt has been self-taught on-the-hoof, i.e. with big holes.
Arizona is full of old folks like me, isn't it? And crooks trying to to fleece them?! Nice climate - done the Grand Canyon. But, why not just amend your profile? If you're sensitive about your exactly location you could just say N. America, although West Coast, East ditto, or, in your case, Mountain time. It helps threads like this one in particular to know when the discussion will continue.
Apart from that, you'll be wanting BarryK and R.ladder DAC.
In the city there are a lot of older. I live in the middle of nowhere in the desert.

And I am surprised that you did no know of RDAC's, as these have been comon with digital electronics since the 1960's, and the early smaller Mini Computers (smaller, as in it only takes one truck to move it to set up at a new location).

Though I understand the self taught part. I can not say that as I have atended to many uni courses, though I had already self taught myself most of the stuff they repeated at uni.

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#168 Post by DavidS »

Sound is doing a lot better, though I have to reconfigure it every time I reboot, or swap OS's and back to Puppy.

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#169 Post by BarryK »

don570 wrote:
don570 wrote:

5) no nano app



all Quirkies, and pups probably, have 'mp'.
Is there a way to launch mp when typing in console

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nano file.txt
such as a link or wrapper.
mp file.txt
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#170 Post by BarryK »

don570 wrote:I found a possible error in Quirky Xerus

Procedure:

When right clicking on a music file there is 'Open With' menu item (see below)

Image


When I chose pmusic it assumed the mp3 file was an internet radio station rather than
a music file. Also read my pmusic suggestion for more info

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 534#929534

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Hmmm, that seems like a pmusic bug. You will need to report that to zigbert.
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#171 Post by BarryK »

Ha ha, I am all ready to go with Quirky 8.1 final, but cannot upload it to ibiblio.

I have posted to the forum at ibiblio.org:

https://answers.ibiblio.org/questions/1 ... erver.html

Years ago, I had a direct email to someone at ibiblio.org, but he left. Now, we all have to go through this forum.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#172 Post by BarryK »

ally reminded me about archive.org, so I have created an account and uploaded Quirky 8.1:

https://archive.org/download/quirky-lin ... -xerus-8.1

Here is the announcement:

https://ia801503.us.archive.org/14/item ... 8.1%2b.htm

Let me know if it downloads OK, before I announce elsewhere (like the Raspberry Pi forum).

Note, the devx pet is not uploaded. There are a few pets that I can't upload to ibiblio.org until uploading is fixed.

Don't use the older 8.0.98 devx, it has a serious bug.
Well, you can, and fix the bug manually after installing. /sbin/getty after installing the devx, is a zero-byte file, need to change it back to a symlink to /bin/busybox.

This is the "front page":

https://archive.org/details/quirky-linu ... -xerus-8.1
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#173 Post by Sage »

Seems to be d/l-ing OK but very slowly.
Yup - got it.

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#174 Post by DavidS »

Downloading now, download speed is 384KB/s fairly decent speed for my connection.

@BarryK:
Are you still planning on adding a lite version??
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#175 Post by BarryK »

We are back in business with ibiblio.org!

Release announcement and download links for Quirky 8.1 on my blog:

http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00441
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#176 Post by DavidS »

No updated devx yet?

I was waiting to install devx till you gave us an update.

Well I guess I can continue to do my development on RISC OS, probably better that way anyway.

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#177 Post by Sage »

Apart from that, you'll be wanting BarryK...
Our leader is BARRY - BARRY, not Berry!

Tried to d/l from nluug site this morning but file wasn't loaded yet

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#178 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

Sage wrote:
Apart from that, you'll be wanting BarryK...
Our leader is BARRY - BARRY, not Berry!

Tried to d/l from nluug site this morning but file wasn't loaded yet
quirky pi2 8.1 mirrored.

download of the devx went wrong for me--nearly seven hundred megs from what was supposed to have been a 30k file (didn't mirror that one).

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#179 Post by BarryK »

Puppus Dogfellow wrote:
Sage wrote:
Apart from that, you'll be wanting BarryK...
Our leader is BARRY - BARRY, not Berry!

Tried to d/l from nluug site this morning but file wasn't loaded yet
quirky pi2 8.1 mirrored.

download of the devx went wrong for me--nearly seven hundred megs from what was supposed to have been a 30k file (didn't mirror that one).
I just now did a test download:

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# wget http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/armv7/packages/pet_packages-xerus/devx-8.1-xerus.pet

...199MB, downloaded OK, md5sum OK.

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# md5sum devx-8.1-xerus.pet 
3bef6c0865250159f942774edc66cd47  devx-8.1-xerus.pet
nluug hasn't yet got it. Usually they sync by now.
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a mirror

#180 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

BarryK wrote: [...]

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# wget http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/armv7/packages/pet_packages-xerus/devx-8.1-xerus.pet
...199MB [...]

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# md5sum devx-8.1-xerus.pet 
3bef6c0865250159f942774edc66cd47  devx-8.1-xerus.pet
[...]
devx now upped as well.

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