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BarryK · Posted: Wed 14 Sep 2016, 06:49 Post subject:

A little progress report.

I got Abiword to run, after adding lots of dependencies.

This is using the official Abiword DEB, but it needs GTK3, as does Gnumeric.

I am thinking that I should compile Abiword and Gnumeric for GTK2, can eliminate a heap of deps, and won't need the gtk3 libs at all. As I have done in past x86(_64) Quirkies.

What I am trying to fix, before doing another upload, is the keyboard layout. So far, it has me baffled.

At the commandline, X not running, the arrow keys work. You can type something, then use the left-arrow and right-arrow.
However, start X, then the arrow keys cease to work.

The package selection, and all the infrastructure, is identical to my x86_64 Quirky Xerus, so why the keyboard layout is broken is a total mystery to me.

I have of course been trying various things to identify the cause of the problem, to no avail yet.

I looked at Jame's Fatdogarm, the arrow keys are working.

One other thing that I have done, is compile Busybox statically. This is required for the recovery snapshot mechanism. I posted about it here:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00403

BarryK · Posted: Wed 14 Sep 2016, 10:00 Post subject:

Another little progress report.

I have got the arrow keys to work.

Well, kind of. The left, right and down keys work, but the up-arrow key launches 01micko's "Screeny" screen capture app.

Up until now, I have stuck with the old 'mouse' and 'keyboard' xorg drivers, instead of 'evdev'.

The reason is, 'evdev' requires udev. the xorg-server uses udev to determine input devices.
However, by using the old mouse and keyboard drivers, these can be "hardcoded" into /etc/X11/xorg.conf or in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, and udev is not needed.

This is if I wanted to build a distro without udev. Which has become just about impossible to do these days.

So, I should go with the flow. 01micko with Slacko Puppy, and jamesbond with Fatdog, have gone over to using evdev for input, and udev for providing all the input info.

So, with Quirky running in my Pi2, I made the required changes. The difference is, as I mentioned above, the arrow keys now work, with that one caveat.

Tomorrow, I will probably put this change permanently into woofQ.

Note, I am still intending to keep a skeleton /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but mouse and keyboard setup will now be in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

Scripts that need to modify the mouse or keyboard, such as the keyboard country layout, will operate on the latter file.

I will probably rethink this tomorrow morning.

greengeek · Posted: Wed 14 Sep 2016, 15:53 Post subject:

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

fonts-freefont-ttf_20120503-1_all.deb needs to be install if
omxplayer shows text subtitles on screen.

Easy to install

https://packages.debian.org/uk/wheezy/all/fonts-freefont-ttf/download

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newest version of pmusic works well.

pmusic 5.2

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BarryK · Posted: Thu 15 Sep 2016, 06:18 Post subject:

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

Bug report...

I reported this to Zigbert.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=923588#923588

When I tried to install the newest pmusic 5.2 in quirky alpha
I got a warning message that the install didn't succeed.
So I extracted the pet package with uextract and removed the pinstall.sh file
and made my own pet package (dir2pet). This package installed without complaint.

Zigbert says that Barry wrote the pinstall script. Very strange.
What is happening?
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Here is the modified pet package that works....

BarryK · Posted: Thu 15 Sep 2016, 20:10 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 16 Sep 2016, 21:00 Post subject:

Version 8.0.11 pre-alpha is released, see my blog announcement:

http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00405

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

After investigating the bug further...
The error definitely is not the pinstall.sh script.

I came across a similar problem a couple of months ago and reported to
uextract developer

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=917998&sid=e74165695afcf39f9d9a97ced152f2d1

He said the problem was due to an old version of bash 3.0 that BarryK uses,
whereas 01micko and others have moved on to a newer version.
A simple change of a sed command solved the problem.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

I noticed that there was a desktop file

/usr/share/applications/mtPaint-snapshot-screen-capture.desktop

but no mtpaintsnapshot.sh

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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

Preetam and Tyler Martin seem close to getting a Nexus 7 to boot maru OS
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/maru-os-dev/zdT_qHydRXA
However only 2013 Google version of Nexus 7 has a Slimport which is needed to
see the linux screen. Tyler says that android works on his smartphone.
He still needs to boot up the linux kernel.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 17 Sep 2016, 22:23 Post subject:

I'm on the track of getting bluetooth working, in the Pi3. Making progress, will report back.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 17 Sep 2016, 22:26 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Mon 19 Sep 2016, 04:56 Post subject:

I have thrown in a lot more firmware, so users won't have to go hunting for it.

The next release is going to be very interesting, there will be a surprise Surprised