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#676 Post by check5 »

No but if you want to use steam with e.g Proton in the future, you need a mesa 18.2x and LLVM 7.x.
see
https://www.golem.de/news/steam-play-un ... 38309.html (german)

That's why I'm interested in it, and if you can not explain that to me here in this Forum then where?

I think here in the forum are the puppy linux experts or not? I'm not synonymous with BionicDog in general but all the derivatives of puppy linux, if you want to compile something yourself ...

I hope that did not sound provocative now. If so: that's not how it is meant.

Can everyone help me?

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#677 Post by dancytron »

check5 wrote:No but if you want to use steam with e.g Proton in the future, you need a mesa 18.2x and LLVM 7.x.
see
https://www.golem.de/news/steam-play-un ... 38309.html (german)

That's why I'm interested in it, and if you can not explain that to me here in this Forum then where?

I think here in the forum are the puppy linux experts or not? I'm not synonymous with BionicDog in general but all the derivatives of puppy linux, if you want to compile something yourself ...

I hope that did not sound provocative now. If so: that's not how it is meant.

Can everyone help me?
This is a link to the "proposed" already compiled binary for mesa 18.2.x for Ubuntu Bionic.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/s39 ... u1~18.04.1

This is the llvm page. Not seeing 1.7 yet.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+package/llvm

Someone else may be around to help you compile it yourself, but as a general rule, that isn't necessary for things based on Ubuntu.

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#678 Post by fredx181 »

Hi All, ETP, s-kami

I noticed that there's a video review of BionicDog Cinnamon version on YouTube from Kálmán Staudinger (is forum member s-kami and also known from this great website: https://skamilinux.hu/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_leIWgP4U
I don't understand hungarian, but it looked like a big struggle to finally (at 25:17) get to the Cinnamon Desktop. :roll:
@s-kami, if you read this maybe you can comment yourself.
After the preparation intro you tried for more than 10 min to get to a working desktop (you are a very patient man, btw :lol: ). What happened ? :) Something wrong with the way we prepared BionicDog Cinnamon ?
For the rest, great video !

Or maybe someone who understands hungarian can comment ?
Something with monitor, hdmi, as far I can understand.

Fred

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#679 Post by ETP »

Hi Fred,

LBW ???
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#680 Post by fredx181 »

ETP wrote:Hi Fred,

LBW ???
Ah, of course LBW, I knew it must have to do something with cricket :lol:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket ... 176136.stm
No... curious, what's LBW ??

Fred :wink:

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#681 Post by ETP »

Hi Fred,

We have an expression "To fail to prepare is to prepare to fail".
I don't think that s-kami did a dry 'run' before he embarked on his ambitious live YouTube broadcast.
I was drawing a comparison with a batsman who fails to prepare to correctly strike or block the ball with the
bat and can frequently be out - LBW.
I remain "stumped" but suspect a screen resolution mismatch caused by the broadcast starting before the actual boot.

Rather than speculate further I will send him a pm to see whether he can explain.
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#682 Post by s-kami »

Hi all,

Thank you very much for your attention.

The main problem was the HDMI connection on the second display.
Unable to detect or setup correctly.
You need zarfy or any other tool for multiple screen but this puppy does not contain such utility.
I switched to VGA from HDMI and finally worked the second display but that was lower resolution than it is usual...

..so Cinnamon DE not able to handle more display or HDMI ?
This puppy cannot handle more display and you are not able to use any tool for setting resolution and any kind of issue about that.

Precise, tahr or xenial puplets are ready for multiple screen setup but this one is not. That is the problem.
Thank you for you kind interest!
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#683 Post by s-kami »

...2x times posting... delete this pls...
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#684 Post by fredx181 »

Thanks ETP.
(just read your message about PM to s-kami )

In fact I was just kidding / guessing about what you said about LBW, but appears to be in the right direction :)
Interesting to know about the technical details that s-kami may possibly give, if he replies, thanks in advance if you can get more info about that.

And to be honest, I initially just wanted to mention that there's a BD Cinnamon version video review on YouTube, and, although I don't understand hungary language, s-kami is doing a lot for promoting linux , and he is very nice and funny guy (IMO as I see on the video) :)

EDIT: @s-kami
Thanks, just see your reply above.

Fred

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About apt2sfs...

#685 Post by cochranizer »

I was using apt2sfs earlier this week, and I like the idea of using that program to make a whole distro just by using the apt-get tool, as I find it difficult to make an sfs modification without making much mistakes (such as accidentally leaving in personal residue and bash history). But the problem is, I don't really know what packages are required to make the sfs bootable and chrootable.

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#686 Post by fredx181 »

Hi cochranizer,
I was using apt2sfs earlier this week, and I like the idea of using that program to make a whole distro just by using the apt-get tool, as I find it difficult to make an sfs modification without making much mistakes (such as accidentally leaving in personal residue and bash history). But the problem is, I don't really know what packages are required to make the sfs bootable and chrootable.
Well, I don't know what you'd like it to be based on, but for Debian Stretch there is the "mklive-stretch" script, it can build a full OS, by using debootstrap and installing with apt-get in chroot (similar to what apt2sfs does)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=111199
(but note that it's not puppy and using completely different way of building than Woof-Ce)
Another option may be to use rcrsn51's starter-kit (also based on Stretch), install what you like and make a remaster (e.g. by using "quick-remaster", for frugal install only)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112784

BionicDog is also built by using debootstrap, very basic info here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 052#990052

EDIT: Here's more info, also about "making bootable"
https://willhaley.com/blog/custom-debia ... vironment/

Fred

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Try Update Cinnamon Desktop from PPA

#687 Post by quantumbox »

I tried updating cinnamon desktop from ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon, update everything. After restarting the xorg, the desktop was missing.I know that it was nemo-desktop which cannot run in root.
My question is how to be able to run nemo-desktop as root

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Re: Try Update Cinnamon Desktop from PPA

#688 Post by fredx181 »

quantumbox wrote:I tried updating cinnamon desktop from ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon, update everything. After restarting the xorg, the desktop was missing.I know that it was nemo-desktop which cannot run in root.
My question is how to be able to run nemo-desktop as root
Hi quantumbox, to be honest, I don't know, the nemo-desktop (included in BD-Cinnamon) runs as root for me:

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root@live64:~# ps aux | grep nemo-desktop
root      1927  2.6  1.8 717288 37908 tty1     Sl   17:08   0:01 nemo-desktop
Are you sure it cannot run as root ? If so, then apparently something has been changed in the updated Cinnamon version.

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Re: Try Update Cinnamon Desktop from PPA

#689 Post by ETP »

Hi quantumbox,

The Cinnamon edition of BionicDog was modified in true Puppy fashion to run everything as root.
That entailed forcing some items not normally run as root to do so including:

chromium (Tested then removed. Poses no real problem whilst the root flag continues to exist)
vlc
cups
nemo-desktop
pulseaudio

In the above list nemo-desktop is the name of the binary held in /usr/bin/
In Ubuntu, nemo acts as a file manager AND graphical shell for Cinnamon.
Last August OOTB, Cinnamon 3.6.7 was installed and Ubuntu show no signs of issuing any official updates.

For some reason you have attempted to update it to 3.8.9.1 using an unofficial PPA which was intended for normal Ubuntu Bionic
which would not be running as root.
In general one would only use a PPA to obtain some vital app that was not available in the official Ubuntu repositories.
Even then you use a PPA at your own peril. For something of fundamental importance like a window manager using a PPA
to force the issue is not generally a good idea. It is safer to wait for the official update to be rolled out.

You now have a number of options assuming you can access the terminal. Please say which you would prefer:

1. Attempt to persuade 3.8.9.1 to work which may or may not be possible as it is an unknown quantlty.

2. Uninstall 3.8.9.1 in which case you should be able to revert to the original 3.6.7 and modified nemo-desktop file which are still held in the read only 01-filesystem.squashfs file.

3. Using another Pup, delete the complete contents of your changes folder to return to the OOTB state.
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Re: Try Update Cinnamon Desktop from PPA

#690 Post by quantumbox »

ETP wrote:Hi quantumbox,

The Cinnamon edition of BionicDog was modified in true Puppy fashion to run everything as root.
That entailed forcing some items not normally run as root to do so including:

chromium (Tested then removed. Poses no real problem whilst the root flag continues to exist)
vlc
cups
nemo-desktop
pulseaudio

In the above list nemo-desktop is the name of the binary held in /usr/bin/
In Ubuntu, nemo acts as a file manager AND graphical shell for Cinnamon.
Last August OOTB, Cinnamon 3.6.7 was installed and Ubuntu show no signs of issuing any official updates.

For some reason you have attempted to update it to 3.8.9.1 using an unofficial PPA which was intended for normal Ubuntu Bionic
which would not be running as root.
In general one would only use a PPA to obtain some vital app that was not available in the official Ubuntu repositories.
Even then you use a PPA at your own peril. For something of fundamental importance like a window manager using a PPA
to force the issue is not generally a good idea. It is safer to wait for the official update to be rolled out.

You now have a number of options assuming you can access the terminal. Please say which you would prefer:

1. Attempt to persuade 3.8.9.1 to work which may or may not be possible as it is an unknown quantlty.

2. Uninstall 3.8.9.1 in which case you should be able to revert to the original 3.6.7 and modified nemo-desktop file which are still held in the read only 01-filesystem.squashfs file.

3. Using another Pup, delete the complete contents of your changes folder to return to the OOTB state.
Thanks for the information, maybe I just need to wait until the official version is released, I have no problem reverting to previous state. I always back up the save folder to tar.gz, before doing the experiment

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#691 Post by quantumbox »

I don't know if this is normal, when shutdown the following warning appears

Failed unmounting /mnt/live/memory/changes
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/mnt/sda1
Failed unmounting /mnt/live

Is this safe or are there another solution

BTW I'm using portreous boot in ext4 HDD, and same problem in USB ext4
This happened in Cinnamon edition only, does not occur in BionicDog64_2018-06-04.iso version

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#692 Post by ETP »

quantumbox wrote:I don't know if this is normal, when shutdown the following warning appears

Failed unmounting /mnt/live/memory/changes
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/mnt/sda1
Failed unmounting /mnt/live

Is this safe or are there another solution

BTW I'm using portreous boot in ext4 HDD, and same problem in USB ext4
This happened in Cinnamon edition only, does not occur in BionicDog64_2018-06-04.iso version
Hi quantumbox,
That message has been there since the Cinnamon version was released last August. It seems benign and can I believe, be safely ignored.
It is probably another consequence of running everything as root.
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#693 Post by quantumbox »

ETP wrote:
quantumbox wrote:I don't know if this is normal, when shutdown the following warning appears

Failed unmounting /mnt/live/memory/changes
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/mnt/sda1
Failed unmounting /mnt/live

Is this safe or are there another solution

BTW I'm using portreous boot in ext4 HDD, and same problem in USB ext4
This happened in Cinnamon edition only, does not occur in BionicDog64_2018-06-04.iso version
Hi quantumbox,
That message has been there since the Cinnamon version was released last August. It seems benign and can I believe, be safely ignored.
It is probably another consequence of running everything as root.
After reading the previous post, finally I was able to solve the problem, I just need to add the following command near the end of wmpoweroff and wmreboot script located in /usr/bin

umount -l /mnt/live/memory/changes 2> /dev/null
umount -l /mnt/live/mnt 2> /dev/null
umount -l /mnt/live 2> /dev/null

and now shutdown is faster :D

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#694 Post by ETP »

Hi quantumbox,

Thanks for your solution. I will need to liaise with Fred on this problem
as changes to those scripts may be required in all versions.
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#695 Post by sinc »

Hi all, thank you so much for your efforts. This has been so much fun to play around with.

Just fyi before my question, I'd put me in the category of novice linux user. I'm not afraid to try stuff but don't know what I'm doing without googling it.

I am using the Cinnamon variation of BionicDog.

I bought a wifi dongle since the old computer I am using doesn't have builtin wifi and I need to install the driver for RTL8821AU. I have gone all through the Ubuntu discussion forums and I just can't make it work.

At one point, I had Ubuntu installed and in the software packages I was able to simply say Use Third Party Drivers and it functioned.

Can anyone help me get this wifi adapter working? thank you again, i have already spent too many hours playing with this... my wife is getting annoyed :).

One other question if I may. I didnt really see covered in the thread (I have gone back and read all 47 pages so maybe I missed it). Is it not recommended to run apt update and apt upgrade because it makes the size of the OS so enormous after doing so?
I try to use copy2ram in Grub but I have maxed out the ram here at 4 Gigs and I believe it gets too large to run in Ram if I update all the packages. Does this sound like I'm making sense. Thanks again.

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