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[jd7654]

Installed to small 2GB SD card, in mini USB reader. Loaded and running well on two older dual core systems.

Same problems as others observed with VLC. Is this the same workaround required as Quirky 8.1.6 with the package name hack? Didn't try that yet. Just tried installing MPV and SMPlayer and that works fine.

Also some problems with speaker volume control. Always have to fiddle with it on this laptop with analog on 2nd card, but couldn't make it work here. Alsamixer worked though, to raise level and unmute, just not tray speaker icon control. Video and Youtube worked fine.

▶—— BASE SYSTEM ——◀

PC Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Product Name: HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
...
AMD E-350 Processor
Max Speed: 1600 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:1600 MHz, 1:800 MHz
Core Count: 2
Thread Count: 2
...
Actual Used RAM: 196 MB Used - (buffers + cached)
Actual Free RAM: 3362 MB Free + (buffers + cached)
...
Linux Kernel: 4.10.1 (x86_64)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Sun Mar 5 03:02:32 GMT-8 2017

Distro: Easy Linux 0.2
Window Manager: JWM vgit-976
Desktop Start: xwin jwm

▶—— DISPLAY ——◀

Display Specifications:
• Monitor VertRefresh: 60.03 times/s
• Screen Dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
• Screen Depth: 24 bits (planes)

Xorg Startup Log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
• Xorg Driver in use: ati
• Loaded Modules: dbe dri2 evdev exa extmod fb fbdevhw glx radeon ramdac synaptics
• X.Org version: 1.18.3

▶—— MULTIMEDIA ——◀

Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler HDMI Audio [1002:1314]
Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)


# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 1429676 533108 880184 38% /mnt/sdb2

[l0wt3ch]

Genius!

This is extremely exciting.

[BarryK]

[jd7654]

Experienced a hard hang on 2nd laptop test system. Worked initially, but after installing a just a few things, hangs with black screen or frozen mouse pointer on black screen at late stage of bootup.

Only installed B43 firmware, configured networking, and installed MPV/SMPlayer and browsed and played some videos I think. Will go back later and see if I can reproduce.

For now, I was trying something else. Tested with a VirtualBox install onto VHD, and that went fine, fully functional. Then with a few things tested there, did a manual hard drive install on the laptop. Copied boot and work files into existing Windows and Quirky partitions respectively, edited BOOT_SPECS, and looks to be functioning fine.(much faster than the USB)

This time, tried the zvlc hack and that did get the VLC program to launch, but getting h.264 error when trying to play MP4 video. This workaround did work in Quirky 8.1.6.



▶—— BASE SYSTEM ——◀

PC Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Inspiron 1520

Motherboard Vendor: Dell Inc.
Product Name: 0KY767
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Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz
Max Speed: 1500 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:1000 MHz, 1:1500 MHz
Core Count: 2
Thread Count: 2
...
Actual Used RAM: 200 MB Used - (buffers + cached)
Actual Free RAM: 1798 MB Free + (buffers + cached)

Linux Kernel: 4.10.1 (x86_64)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Sun Mar 5 03:02:32 GMT-8 2017

Distro: Easy Linux 0.2
Window Manager: JWM vgit-976
Desktop Start: xwin jwm

▶—— DISPLAY ——◀

Display Specifications:
• Monitor VertRefresh: 59.94 times/s
• Screen Dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
• Screen Depth: 24 bits (planes)

Xorg Startup Log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
• Xorg Driver in use: intel
• Loaded Modules: dbe dri2 evdev extmod fbdevhw glx present synaptics
• X.Org version: 1.18.3
...
VGA compatible controller:
• Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)

▶—— MULTIMEDIA ——◀

Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)

[L18L]

Formerly my computer was running with video driver modesetting only.

drm can be enabled now but kernel needs to be configured for EDID.

Kernel configuration contains:

[BarryK]

[stemsee]

Excellent introduction 'How Easy Works'. Very well presented. Very palatable. Very interesting.

[Dry Falls]

Very nice! I think this is going to be a keeper. My box isn't compatible with syslinux, but the following grub.cfg on sb2 booted right up. Posting from it now...

[slavvo67]

Hi BarryK:

The stop-container seamonkey did nothing (maybe wasn't running).
error can't unmount: /mnt/sdf2/containers/seamonkey/container: Invalid Argument

can't unmount /mnt/sdf2/containder/seamonkey/.ro0

The ec-chroot seamonkey did not work.

chroot: can't execute '/ec-run': no such file or directory.

BTW - The screenshot went to mnt/sdf2/home/media/images ... Pretty deep sub-directory. Found it but not very user friendly going that deep... in my opinion, of course. Couldn't attach the screenshot, either. Too big to attach on this board...

Anyway, thanks for all...

slavvo67

p.s. - Did you scrap the old firewall for security reasons or just a change of pace? - thanks...

[BarryK]

I have fixed VLC:

http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00519

[linuxcbon]

Easy Linux 0.2

- bootup is much too slow and long.
Snapshot at bootup is not necessary ? and much too slow.

- vlc doesnt play videos (I prefer xine)

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[ETP]

Another factor on the topic of edid is this:

/usr/sbin/get-edid
libx86.so.1 => not found

A complete list of missing system libs is attached.
(Please ignore Thunderbird which I installed manually.)

Pets currently installed:

GetLatest64bitChromeVersionWoofQ-MK1|Get Latest Chrome Version
google-chrome-stable_current_amd64|Access the Internet
cursor_themes-1-1|themes for mouse cursor
ListDD-1.1|List dynamic dependencies
PupControl-3.1.1|Control panel
PupSnap-2.5.1_Scrot-0.8_64Bit|PupSnap screen capture
Pup-SysInfo-2.6.6|System information utility
UrxvtControl-1.3|Urxvt configuration
uextract-3.28|Ultimate Extractor
packit-1.15|Archiving/Compressing GUI
pnmixer_0.6.1-1|Simple mixer application for system tray
libreoffice-style-elementary_5.1.2|office productivity suite -- Elementary symbol style
libguess1_1.2-1.1|high-speed character set detection library
librubberband2v5_1.8.1|audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library
libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.4+dfsg1|Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsndio6.1_1.1.0-2|Small audio and MIDI framework from OpenBSD runtime libraries
mpv_0.14.0|video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
libnuma1_2.0.11|Libraries for controlling NUMA policy

[scsijon]

tried to load it via the container instructions/scripts but it didn't. I followed what I thought were the instruction and checked multiple times.

Sorry but do you have a walkthrough of how and where as i'm use to just installing, or should I just unpack, dir2pet, and install it?

OH it took nearly forever to get loaded on a 64gig stick (all I had at the time free) but it did eventually install and convert the q.sfs across, but it's still slow starting. I think i'd rather just be able to install it in quirky format for a permanent set. On the other hand at least it loaded on the dell boxes that won't handle the normal .sfs's.