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#331 Post by Billtoo »

belham2 wrote:Billtoo,

You really gotta start some sort of 'background-repo', maybe on your smokey01 acct, for all the great backgrounds you find and use. Seriously, you really do find the best ones (luv the two above for pyro on the 32gb sdhc card) :)

Heck, I am still even looking for this one ever since I first saw it (not the dog one, haha) 3 years ago :lol:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 535#816535
I found that background that you like and posted it on smokey's site, it's named photowall19.jpg or close to that:

http://www.smokey01.com/Bill2/

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Easy Linux 0.5 pre-alpha, released Oct. 02, 2017

#332 Post by Billtoo »

I installed to a SDHC card for use on my Lenovo Thinkcentre desktop:

# inxi -bw
System: Host: easypc30187 Kernel: 4.13.2 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 Distro: Quirky 0.6 xerus64
Machine: System: LENOVO product: 7491B8U v: ThinkCentre M58e serial: MJ01509
Mobo: LENOVO model: N/A serial: INVALID Bios: LENOVO v: 5HKT39AUS date: 06/17/2009
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E8400 (-MCP-) speed/max: 2992/3003 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430]
Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
tty size: 114x27 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Network: Card-1: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
Card-2: Linksys WUSB54GC v1 802.11g Adapter [Ralink RT73] driver: rt73usb
Drives: HDD Total Size: 352.0GB (0.4% used)
Weather: Conditions: 48 F (9 C) - Mostly Cloudy Time: November 3, 9:29 AM EDT
Info: Processes: 89 Uptime: 8 min Memory: 195.3/3959.7MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35
#

I didn't feel up to attempting a frugal install so I have a 32gb SDHC card
plugged into a usb card reader that is plugged into a usb 2.0 port in
the back of the computer.

I downloaded the latest Nvidia driver (Nov 2nd) installed the devx and
kernel source sfs's, then blacklisted the nouveau driver, rebooted and
and compiled the new driver.

Also added applications with pkgget.

Good so far,
Thanks.
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#333 Post by belham2 »

Billtoo wrote:
belham2 wrote:Billtoo,

You really gotta start some sort of 'background-repo', maybe on your smokey01 acct, for all the great backgrounds you find and use. Seriously, you really do find the best ones (luv the two above for pyro on the 32gb sdhc card) :)

Heck, I am still even looking for this one ever since I first saw it (not the dog one, haha) 3 years ago :lol:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 535#816535
I found that background that you like and posted it on smokey's site, it's named photowall19.jpg or close to that:

http://www.smokey01.com/Bill2/

Thank you, Bill!

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feedback thread for easy 0.6 ???

#334 Post by mmmrr »

did an other place for feedback open
and i missed the notice?? thx for info.
cheers, mm

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Re: feedback thread for easy 0.6 ???

#335 Post by BarryK »

mmmrr wrote:did an other place for feedback open
and i missed the notice?? thx for info.
cheers, mm
This is the right place! Just nothing happening, for now anyway.

I have been working on Quirky, but another release of Easy is on the way.
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#336 Post by BarryK »

Here it is, EasyOS 0.6.4!

Blog post:

http://bkhome.org/news/201712/easy-os-p ... eased.html

This is a "Pyro", not an "Xerus", as it is built with packages that were compiled in OpenEmbedded.

It features the new QuickSamba, and mikeb's DropboxGUI.
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#337 Post by upnorth »

First tried frugal install, but video signal shut off just before desktop appearance, so tried the easydd install to usb stick. At same point the video signal shut off. Computer was still responsive, though.
Connected via HDMI/DiplayPort.

Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]

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#338 Post by BarryK »

upnorth wrote:First tried frugal install, but video signal shut off just before desktop appearance, so tried the easydd install to usb stick. At same point the video signal shut off. Computer was still responsive, though.
Connected via HDMI/DiplayPort.

Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
Booting from usb, there is a menu, choose to boot to commandline, then run "xorgwizard". Maybe try the modesetting driver.

that's unaccelerated video, but I don't know what else to suggest at this stage.
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#339 Post by BarryK »

BarryK wrote:
upnorth wrote:First tried frugal install, but video signal shut off just before desktop appearance, so tried the easydd install to usb stick. At same point the video signal shut off. Computer was still responsive, though.
Connected via HDMI/DiplayPort.

Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
Booting from usb, there is a menu, choose to boot to commandline, then run "xorgwizard". Maybe try the modesetting driver.

that's unaccelerated video, but I don't know what else to suggest at this stage.
Ha ha, no, I take that advice back!

Thought I would test the xorgwizard myself, but it just outputted this:

"Sorry, the text-mode xorg wizard is disabled for this build of Puppy"

Hmm, will look into that.
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#340 Post by BarryK »

BarryK wrote:
BarryK wrote:
upnorth wrote:First tried frugal install, but video signal shut off just before desktop appearance, so tried the easydd install to usb stick. At same point the video signal shut off. Computer was still responsive, though.
Connected via HDMI/DiplayPort.

Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
Booting from usb, there is a menu, choose to boot to commandline, then run "xorgwizard". Maybe try the modesetting driver.

that's unaccelerated video, but I don't know what else to suggest at this stage.
Ha ha, no, I take that advice back!

Thought I would test the xorgwizard myself, but it just outputted this:

"Sorry, the text-mode xorg wizard is disabled for this build of Puppy"

Hmm, will look into that.
OK, that message should not be happening. Workaround for now, at the commandline, run:

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# mp /usr/sbin/xorgwizard-cli
and comment out lines 55 to 59.

Then you can run xorgwizard:

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# xorgwizard
and choose the modesetting driver. I have intel video which works. To test, I chose modesetting driver, it is working also.
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easyos pyro booting

#341 Post by upnorth »

Thanks,
I put qfix=nox in the grub entry and when I got to the console prompt I decided to try xwin first. It came up fine with net connected, audio works, and full resolution 1920x1080. ThenI edited the xorgwizard-cli just in case I need it later. Have not rebooted yet. So, will try normal boot later.

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#342 Post by BarryK »

upnorth wrote:Thanks,
I put qfix=nox in the grub entry and when I got to the console prompt I decided to try xwin first. It came up fine with net connected, audio works, and full resolution 1920x1080. ThenI edited the xorgwizard-cli just in case I need it later. Have not rebooted yet. So, will try normal boot later.
You ran xwin, without running xorgwizard, and got the desktop?! That's odd, that it didn't start the desktop before.

xorgwizard has more wrong with it, needs some TLC. Will look into it.

Notice "share" icon on the desktop. I am keen for someone to try it.
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eko audio editor

#343 Post by don570 »

eko audio editor

I was able to get a .bin file to run in Easy Linux with simple click...
http://semiletov.org/eko/dloads/eko-git ... x86-64.bin

I found it on this Russian site
http://semiletov.org/eko/#downloads
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#344 Post by don570 »

Review: Easy Linux 0.6.4, released Dec. 18, 2017

-pschedule worked however pclock wasn't installed

-I noticed that there is a window --- BootManager:Manage system services
I click on 'OK' button at bottom of window and the window doesn't close???

- ethernet and samba is running ---> I checked by running 'top'

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dhcpcd  -I '' eth0
is running
But I can't make a samba server???
A connection can't be made by a second machine,
even though a second machine sees the pupshare.
I am using a firewall which I normally don't have on.

I am using
user:root
password:woofwoof

But it doesn't say that I have added this user when I type

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smbpasswd -a root
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On the subject of firewall...

There is a confusing instruction on the quick samba window
which says that two boxes should be clicked but the
two names aren't mentioned. I assumed samba and smb-client???

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#345 Post by upnorth »

You ran xwin, without running xorgwizard, and got the desktop?! That's odd, that it didn't start the desktop before.
I suspect it was started, but something was killing the vid signal during the normal boot process right at that stage.

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#346 Post by BarryK »

don570 wrote:Review: Easy Linux 0.6.4, released Dec. 18, 2017

-pschedule worked however pclock wasn't installed

-I noticed that there is a window --- BootManager:Manage system services
I click on 'OK' button at bottom of window and the window doesn't close???

- ethernet and samba is running ---> I checked by running 'top'

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dhcpcd  -I '' eth0
is running
But I can't make a samba server???
A connection can't be made by a second machine,
even though a second machine sees the pupshare.
I am using a firewall which I normally don't have on.

I am using
user:root
password:woofwoof

But it doesn't say that I have added this user when I type

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smbpasswd -a root
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On the subject of firewall...

There is a confusing instruction on the quick samba window
which says that two boxes should be clicked but the
two names aren't mentioned. I assumed samba and smb-client???

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I don't see why there is confusion. There are only two Samba checkboxes, tick both.

QuickSamba executes "smbpasswd -a root", you don't have to do that. If you do type that in a terminal, it doesn't tell you that it has already been done.

You should be able to just click the "share" icon on desktop, tick those two checkboxes in the firewall, accept the defaults for Samba Setup (user root and password woofwoof) and it will just work.

EDIT:
I just checked QuickSamba. There is no ambiguity, QuickSamba insists on both checkboxes being ticked, and won't go to next stage until that is done.

There are no other checkboxes identified as Samba-related.

I want to keep the verbosity at a minimum on the main window, so don't know how to explain it better, while using a minimum of words.

EDIT2:
Maybe if I change the text to:

"The firewall is blocking Samba, you must click the "Firewall Setup" button, and tick the two Samba checkboxes"

...yeah, will do that, that's less words than before, and clearer.
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#347 Post by BarryK »

don570 wrote:-I noticed that there is a window --- BootManager:Manage system services
I click on 'OK' button at bottom of window and the window doesn't close???
That's odd. I tested, menu "Filesystem -> Easy BootManager -> Manage system services"

And OK button works.

One thing, if you are using a non-English locale, and the language-pack is installed, the translation could be faulty and that can wreck a script, make it do something undesirable.

But, I take it that is not your case, so I don't know why the OK button does not close the window. Very odd indeed.
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#348 Post by don570 »

That's odd. I tested, menu "Filesystem -> Easy BootManager -> Manage system services"

And OK button works.
I think i got confused which button to press, the left or right.
Blender 3d program uses the right button to click on object,
which confuses me.
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A right click and select 'Move' menu item in Rox filer
causes crash. However middle mouse drag will move a Rox window by the title bar.

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Start Menu > RestartX
allows me to login as root but then I can't get a desktop, so I must
reboot.

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Pcurlftp filesharing app seems to need more software running to work.
Does ftp need to running?

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pclock can be installed , but because pmusic isn't installed there needs to be a line changed to use 'aplay'

...change line 452 to...

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 pschedule -s -e "aplay '$ALARM'" "pClock Alarm" &
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#349 Post by BarryK »

There were two problems with xorgwizard.

Firstly, edit this file, /etc/rc.d/BOOTCONSTRAINED so that the last two lines have "no", as shown:

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BOOT_ATIME='noatime'
BOOT_DIRTYWRITE='1500'
BOOT_SCHEDULER='deadline'
BOOT_UDEVDCHILDREN='1'
BOOT_BOARD='pc'
BOOT_DISABLEXORGWIZARD='no'
BOOT_DISABLEALSACONF='no'
That will allow xorgwizard to run, however, I found another bug if there is nvidia graphics. The wizard gets confused with the two drivers, 'nouveau' and 'nv' -- the latter is unaccelerated, a fallback if the nouveau driver doesn't work.

I fixed, see attached. Remove the fake ".gz" extension, make sure it is executable, and place at /usr/sbin. Exit to the commandline and run:

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# xorgwizard
...which actually runs xorgwizard-cli.
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#350 Post by BarryK »

Have a great Christmas guys! I posted a picture to my blog:

http://bkhome.org/news/201712/merry-xmas-2017.html

I will be slowing down a bit, but still intend to keep the ball rolling, so if you discover any more bugs/issues with Easy, please post them.
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