Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3

[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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[DavidS]

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.

[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.

[BarryK]

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

[BarryK]

I found a possible error in Quirky Xerus

Procedure:

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




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.

[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.

[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

[Sage]

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

[DavidS]

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

@BarryK:
Are you still planning on adding a lite version??

[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

[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.

[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

[Puppus Dogfellow]

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).

[BarryK]

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.

[Puppus Dogfellow]

[...]

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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.

[tinker]

It's been an age since I last posted a reply to this forum, and it was Barry's Quirky for the Raspberry Pi that got me back, combining my old enthusiasm for Puppy-related distributions and my new enthusiasm for the Raspberry pi.

I downloaded the file, burnt it to a 32GB SD card, booted, and there it was!

This is Pi improved - pie a la mode as we say in the US - pie with ice cream on top - two beautiful flavors together.

Thank you, Barry!

[pakt]

Good news! I've got Barry's latest creation booting and running from a USB flash drive - NO SD card needed at all

Finally, no more fiddling around with these tiny SD cards!

Using a Pi3 (no overclocking) and a USB3 flash drive, boot time ~15 seconds from the 4 raspberry icons to the desktop.

Note that this will only work on the Pi3 (and probably on the newly released v1.2 Pi2 board (Pi2B2?), which now has the same SoC (BCM2837) as the Pi3.


=> See the next post on how I created a bootable Quirky Linux USB flash drive

[pakt]

How to boot Quirky Linux from a USB flash drive on a Pi3

Part I. Some technical background (for just the practical part, skip to Part II)

When the Broadcom BCM2837 SoC (CPU/GPU chip on the Pi3) was designed, a small amount of experimental boot code was added in ROM. This code cannot be modified once the SoC is manufactured, so the designers decided to keep the new boot modes disabled (using a register bit) until they could test that the code worked as planned before publicizing how to enable these boot modes.

Turns out the new boot modes work well enough so that the Pi3 can now boot from USB (flash drive or hard disk), over Ethernet and well as from an SD card.

Quoting Gordon Hollingworth, the Director of Software at Raspberry Pi, on adding the code for the extra boot modes: "Needless to say, it’s not easy squeezing SD boot, eMMC boot, SPI boot, NAND flash, FAT filesystem, GUID and MBR partitions, USB device, USB host, Ethernet device, and mass storage device support into a mere 32kB."

Ref: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-b ... rage-boot/

Part II. Enabling the new boot modes

To enable the new boot modes, follow the tutorial in this link:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... des/msd.md

To summarize, you put Raspbian on an SD card, boot it on a Pi3, then install special versions of 'start.elf' and 'bootcode.bin', and edit 'config.txt' adding a line. You then reboot and the previously mentioned register bit will be enabled allowing the new boot modes to work.

Part III. Preparing Quirky Linux to boot from a USB flash drive

What needs to be done is to copy Quirky Linux to an 8GB (or bigger) USB flash drive, then replace all files except 'kernel7.img', 'cmdline.txt' & 'config.txt' on the 1st, FAT32, partition with ones from the SD card (containing the modified Raspbian used in Part II). I also copied over the 'overlays' folder but don't know if that was really neccessary.

Then edit 'cmdline.txt', replacing

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root=/dev/mmcblk0p2

with

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root=/dev/sda2

Now, on the 2nd, ext4, partition of the USB flash drive, edit /etc/fstab changing the line

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/dev//dev/sdb2     /     ext4     defaults,noatime   0 1

to

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/dev//dev/sda2     /     ext4     defaults,noatime   0 1

(that's changing 'sdb2' to 'sda2')

That's it! Just remove any SD card still inserted in your Pi3, plug in the USB flash drive with the modified Quirky Linux on it and connect power. The Pi3 now-enabled boot code will look on the FAT partitions of any connected devices it finds for 'bootcode.bin' (in this case, the USB flash drive) and boot from it.

Here's a link explaining the boot code flow:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/document ... ootflow.md

Booting is faster from an SD card than from a USB flash drive for the usual reason: about 5 seconds needed to wait while detecting a USB drive.

Hope I didn't miss anything.

Edited: Oops, need to keep Barry's kernel too!

[Minnesota]

First THANK you Barry for this Puppy. Fun to play a bit on the Pi, been waiting a long time to get involved with the Pi.

Did I miss something? Beginning of the thread mentions issues with sound - audio.

After basic set up, I have sound for video or audio files. Can play as many as I wish. Turn off power, reboot. NO Sound. Volume control set to 96%, mute off - not selected. aumix screen not helpful at all, does not seem to do anything. Running ALSA wizard no effect.

I am on a TV HDMI output from the Pi to the TV.

THANK you again for all your past and present efforts. Enjoy your hiking and retirement Sir:

Looking forward to ODROID-XU4 software >

[Olle]

First post, been looking at puppy for some years.

The PI3 wifi works OOTB with 8.1.
For sve keybord I had to manually edit
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev-puppy.conf
to
Option "XkbLayout" "se"
instead of "us"

Tack! Thanks from Årsta. /olle