(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Posted: **Wed 04 Jan 2012, 13:09**

@rerwin,
Just for an experiment I took out the sim card and inserted a micro SD card. But the micro SD dont show up as a drive, as a USB jump drive it is completely useless. I have been able to unlock the modem but I cant delete the ISP's doze setup files, (not yet, I'll use diskper.exe if I can get away with it) If I were to be able to delete the doze files would that bypass the need for usb_modeswitch at all. I have a dashboard from a mob that calls their selves simply '3'. Putting the question another way, Can I 'hotwire' the modem to NOT need modeswitch but to be responsive (by deleting the doze dashboard) to 3's dashboard? Will diskpar delete the 'CD rom' partition/files? aung

Posted: **Wed 04 Jan 2012, 17:43**

Aung
I use a 3G device, a huawei E220, successfully in puppy since 4.12 or 4.21? [thanks Rich]
Once the modeswitch is done, invisibly...you aren't even aware the windoze cr*p is there....and it works well - I can't see why you'd want to mess with the flash partition/windoze autorun stuff - it's not doing anything?

The 3 [ISP] dashboard isn't used either, unless you need to top-up, then it's done via a browser

btw I set up an E160, I think it was, for a mate and a uSD card worked as a spare small flashdrive as sdc1, but it has to be a dongle with a microcard slot, not put it where the sim goes

Aitch

Posted: **Thu 05 Jan 2012, 03:41**

@Aitch,
'not put it where the sim goes' ~!@#$%^&*()_+, I just flamed you you stupid young boy, I might be old but I'm not that stupid, seriously, they all have USB slots, that's their bug-bear and hence their need for 'modeswitch'. Maybe hotwired is not the correct word to use, 'bypass' may be better. There must be memory inside the dongle like a SSD or a SD drive has and it is formatted as a CD rom and nothing can touch it (delete it), except something like diskpar or maybe fdisk that can take it back to its 'raw' state without any sectors. The big question is, after being formatted again without the doze modeswitch CDrom cr*p would pupdial see the dongle hardware and communicate with it. Is there a dongle that does not have a USB micro SD slot built in??? Aung

Posted: **Thu 05 Jan 2012, 04:46**

Flame away, I've been well and truly cooked

64 years is young...great! thanks
We seem to be at cross purposes here, however

Just for an experiment I took out the sim card and inserted a micro SD card,

....and

seriously, they all have USB slots

....makes me wonder if you do understand...
It is possible to get wifi dongles that have a uSD slot which you can put a uSD card in....(u=micro) - but it is a different slot to the sim card one, and uSD shouldn't even fit in a sim slot
see http://acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answer ... crosd-card
you will see the differences in card shapes
also, you aren't the 1st
http://www.nokiausers.net/forum/nokia-n ... -oops.html
OK, they aren't dongles but have the same slots nonetheless

However the flash memory that has the win code in is a tiny chip soldered in, with an autorun code with driver etc for win [and maybe mac?] users, but not linux.... and as far as I know it's read only memory 'rom' type, not 'ram' random access memory, writeable type, [i.e. hard-coded, or blown fusible links...look it up] - so diskpar nor gparted nor any other utility will affect it

OK, old man....?..

Aitch

Posted: **Thu 05 Jan 2012, 20:47**

I made a vlc-1.1.13-x86_64.sfs

Compiled and tested in fatdog 5.2.1

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-65577678.html

Posted: **Fri 06 Jan 2012, 12:47**

@ Aitch, O'dear, your still insisting I put the SD card in the SIM slot, I'll move on.
'It is possible to get wifi dongles'
No,no ,no, we are dealing with 'Broardband' modems that need modeswitch.
' you will see the differences in card shapes'
Really, is that why I needed a tack hammer to get the SIM to fit into the USB slot!!!
All jokes aside, thanks for the information about the soldered in rom memory. We shall just have to wait until rerwin can land a 64bit system. The score so far :- Sage 1, Aung nill
Aitch, Can you build Roxterm and Avidemux for Fatdog. I dont know all the things one puts after ./configure. Aung

Posted: **Fri 06 Jan 2012, 20:15**

I made a seamonkey-2.6.1-x86_64.pet

It will start from the internet section of the fatdog menu and run as
user root but I think the better way to run it is to open the terminal
and do:
su spot
seamonkey

Then downloads will go to the same directory as firefox which is
outside of your save file (if you setup that way when you installed
fatdog)

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-b06e5989.html

Posted: **Sat 04 Feb 2012, 19:03**

Guys, how to upgrade GCC to 4.6 ?

Thanks

sebus

Posted: **Mon 06 Feb 2012, 00:01**

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# sensors
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +0.0 C  (high = +70.0 C)

This is on a machine with an Athlon II with 4 cores. This appears to be the correct device, nothing else comes up on detection.

I've tried this several ways, rebooting to make sure the correct module loads. So far, all the fd versions of lm-sensors and cpu-scaling-on-demand appear to behave the same way.

I'll admit to being confused at the moment, the tray ap appears even when the PPM says the package is no longer installed.

I'd feel better if the tray icon didn't suggest I was burning the cpu.

Installed Psync, Retrovol, Sylpheed, ATI-catalyst.

Minor problems: clock assumes hardware clock is set to GMT on shutdown. On reboot it comes up 5 hours ahead, until I run Psync. Retrovol keeps coming up open on every boot.

Grateful plaudits: Sylpheed 3.1.1 transferred to this system without a hitch, without losing my huge accumulation of email.

Posted: **Mon 06 Feb 2012, 19:22**

More information on my problems with CPUtemp.

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# CPUtemp
FATAL: Error inserting coretemp (/lib/modules/3.0.3/kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.ko): No such device

The module is definitely present. What about the device?

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# sensors-detect
# sensors-detect revision 5818 (2010-01-18 17:22:07 +0100)
# System: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7596
# Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD 880GM-E43 (MS-7596)

This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need
to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe
and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions,
unless you know what you're doing.

Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers contain embedded sensors.
Do you want to scan for them? This is totally safe. (YES/no): 
Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595...                       No
VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors...                          No
VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors...                            No
AMD K8 thermal sensors...                                   No
AMD Family 10h thermal sensors...                           Success!
    (driver `k10temp')
AMD Family 11h thermal sensors...                           No
Intel Core family thermal sensor...                         No
Intel Atom thermal sensor...                                No
Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor...                         No
VIA C7 thermal sensor...                                    No
VIA Nano thermal sensor...                                  No

Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to
standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe.
Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): 
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No
Trying family `SMSC'...                                     No
Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'...               No
Trying family `ITE'...                                      No
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No
Trying family `SMSC'...                                     No
Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'...               Yes
Found `Fintek F71889FG Super IO Sensors'                    Success!
    (address 0xe80, driver `f71882fg')

Some systems (mainly servers) implement IPMI, a set of common interfaces
through which system health data may be retrieved, amongst other things.
We first try to get the information from SMBIOS. If we don't find it
there, we have to read from arbitrary I/O ports to probe for such
interfaces. This is normally safe. Do you want to scan for IPMI
interfaces? (YES/no): 
Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0...                      No
Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' at 0xca8...                     No

Some hardware monitoring chips are accessible through the ISA I/O ports.
We have to write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually
safe though. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any
ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (yes/NO): 

Lastly, we can probe the I2C/SMBus adapters for connected hardware
monitoring devices. This is the most risky part, and while it works
reasonably well on most systems, it has been reported to cause trouble
on some systems.
Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no): 
Using driver `i2c-piix4' for device 0000:00:14.0: ATI Technologies Inc SB600/SB700/SB800 SMBus
Module i2c-dev loaded successfully.

Next adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0b00 (i2c-0)
Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): 

Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Just press ENTER to continue: 

Driver `k10temp' (autoloaded):
  * Chip `AMD Family 10h thermal sensors' (confidence: 9)

Driver `f71882fg':
  * ISA bus, address 0xe80
    Chip `Fintek F71889FG Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)

So, why the problem?

Posted: **Tue 07 Feb 2012, 20:33**

I now have just about everything working in FD64. CPUtemp doesn't display nicely, but it appears, from the BIOS readings, my processor is maintaining a temperature in the 30s C.

Just for advice to others, I tried to use foomatic-rip + a PPD file for my Samsung ML-1710 printer, which failed. The 64-bit samsung_printer_fd64_3.0.0.65.pet works fine. Foomatic and PPD files are no longer guaranteed fallback options.

I just tried to use the Skype 2.2.0.35.sfs, which calls itself a beta version. This comes up, but then crashes immediately after login. Running it in a terminal yields this message:

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# skype
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed
QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed

I suspect this is due to the error message having no place to appear when I launch it without a terminal. I'll use this in a terminal until the final version appears.

Posted: **Wed 22 Feb 2012, 22:13**

Hi,
Just want to install vlc. Have tried from ppm and ibiblio.
Installs missing many libs and will not start from multimedia tab.
Have just got vlc. sfs from post above. Now what do I do with it?
Newbie, have been using puppy for a year.
Have this on 64bit HP laptop. Happy, except for not being able to find many missing libs for vlc and not installed.
Frugal install, but I have always used "full" for Puppy 528 back to 525.
Do not know what to do with the vlc sfs downloaded.
Many thanks.

Posted: **Thu 23 Feb 2012, 19:10**

openwell3 wrote:Hi,
Just want to install vlc. Have tried from ppm and ibiblio.
Installs missing many libs and will not start from multimedia tab.
Have just got vlc. sfs from post above. Now what do I do with it?
Newbie, have been using puppy for a year.
Have this on 64bit HP laptop. Happy, except for not being able to find many missing libs for vlc and not installed.
Frugal install, but I have always used "full" for Puppy 528 back to 525.
Do not know what to do with the vlc sfs downloaded.
Many thanks.

You need to save it in the same directory as the fd64-521.sfs file.
Then, Menu -> System -> BootManager .
Click "Choose which extra SFS files to load at bootup".
Highlight the vlc sfs and click add. Click OK and reboot your computer.

Posted: **Thu 23 Feb 2012, 21:15**

openwell3,

If you don't want to use the sfs file, the pets you need are:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 1.1.11.pet

and

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -4.6.1.pet

Download the pets and then click on them. You'll have to reboot after the qt4 package, then all should be well.

Posted: **Fri 24 Feb 2012, 18:57**

Thanks to kirk and others for vlc help above.
Now, pburn is installed but missing the "close" plugin to fixate dvds.
It gives error message and when I try link on pburn forum pg 1.
It does nothing?
Anyone know how to get the "close" for fatdog64-521?
Many thanks,

Posted: **Fri 24 Feb 2012, 19:06**

Sorry, I am having trouble with above 2 links in kirk's post for vlc.
May have something to do with permissions on spot user?
Any help is appreciated very much.
I am using aurora with no scripts plugin.
But I have approved the forum.
vlc pet link yields universal 403 forbidden message.
other link yields nothing at all?
Many thanks again.

Posted: **Mon 27 Feb 2012, 18:02**

Could a new correct version be build into Fatdog64 on next release?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... start=1665

The current one is really OLD

sebus

Posted: **Thu 01 Mar 2012, 20:01**

I'm working on Fatdog64-600 right now. Rebuilt all the base packages with T2. Some of the changes will be VLC replacing Xine, Wpa_gui replacing Frisbee, maybe VLMC replacing Kino. The latest kernel, Xorg, Mesa, Firefox, Flashplayer. I'll try to remember to check out cdrecord, it seems like that was replaced by another project.
Right now just trying to kill bugs.

Posted: **Thu 01 Mar 2012, 20:38**

kirk wrote:I'm working on Fatdog64-600 right now. Rebuilt all the base packages with T2. Some of the changes will be VLC replacing Xine, Wpa_gui replacing Frisbee, maybe VLMC replacing Kino. The latest kernel, Xorg, Mesa, Firefox, Flashplayer. I'll try to remember to check out cdrecord, it seems like that was replaced by another project.
Right now just trying to kill bugs.

Kirk that is good news. I always have FD installed somewhere as it has proved quick and reliable.

courious what advantage you find using T2 pkgs? and if it is built with T2 pkgs can use prior FD pgks? I have a folder full of FD pets. thanks.

Posted: **Fri 02 Mar 2012, 15:45**

kirk wrote:I'm working on Fatdog64-600 right now. Rebuilt all the base packages with T2. Some of the changes will be VLC replacing Xine, Wpa_gui replacing Frisbee, maybe VLMC replacing Kino. The latest kernel, Xorg, Mesa, Firefox, Flashplayer. I'll try to remember to check out cdrecord, it seems like that was replaced by another project.
Right now just trying to kill bugs.

I like the way this is going! Never got along with xine, kino and frisbee, I always looked for other solutions. Well done Kirk, and I would really love the VLMC addition!

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Fatdog64-521 (October 12, 2011)

Fatdog64-521 (October 12, 2011)

Fatdog64-521 (October 12, 2011)

Keyboard selection on each boot... please no

temperature sensor problems

64-bit skype problem?

Can not get vlc for fatdog64

Re: Can not get vlc for fatdog64

Need pburn 3.3.7 plugin: "close" required to fixate dvd

@ kirk links above for vlc yield 403 forbidden

fatdog64-600