Bionicpup64 8.0 CE

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OscarTalks · #1171 Post by **OscarTalks** » Fri 14 Feb 2020, 23:20

BionicPup64 has MPV media player which is quite good but of course the user controls are rather rudimentary.

I compiled GNOME-MPV from source. Version 0.16
It is GTK+3 only and support for this in Puppy is not perfect.
I notice that there is a "Pause" icon which is missing (once you start to play something)
Otherwise the GUI looks quite nice and offers better user controls.
You can drag and drop media files or right-click > Open With > GNOME-MPV
In case anyone wants to TEST I have uploaded to:-
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks
Installed size is only around 450k

thinkpadfreak · #1172 Post by **thinkpadfreak** » Sat 15 Feb 2020, 00:59

linuxcbon wrote:

Palemoon uses 90% of cpu for me when watching youtube videos. Chromium only 5%.

ThinkPad X121e
CPU : AMD C-50 processor (dual core) at 1.0GHz
Video : AMD Radeon HD6250
RAM : 4GB

A result of XenialPup 32bit playing the same YouTube video:
Both Pale Moon 28 and Chromium 80 consume about 50% of CPU, except that Pale Moon consumes about 90% at the beginning of the playback.

As for Pale Moon, I switch "gfx.xrender.enabled" to "false." This reduces a considerable amount of CPU consumption.

Chromium 80 (ubuntu official build) is hardware-accelerated.
Chromium 79, which is not hardware-accelerated, is worse than Pale Moon.

Pale Moon seems to be a good choice as a default browser with about half the size of Chromium.

bigpup · #1173 Post by **bigpup** » Sat 15 Feb 2020, 01:56

Pale Moon high CPU usage.
There is a fix for Linux they are working on.
Testing it for now.

You can try to make the changes.

about:config in address slot, will bring up config window.
Make changes.

Try this one first.
layers.acceleration.force-enabled

This one may or may not help or be needed.
First try without changing this.
media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled

Shutdown and restart Pale Moon, so changes are being used.

about:support in address slot, will bring up support page, where you can see what changed.

Helped my Pale Moon v28.8.2.1

Also, Pale Moon v28.8.2.1 fixes You tube.

YouTube deprecating their old web UI. This change will enable the new YouTube UI by default.

bigpup · #1174 Post by **bigpup** » Sat 15 Feb 2020, 22:47

No way Google is the big Dog in web site feature control.

From You Tube support.
What browsers are supported.

YouTube no longer supports Internet Explorer. To continue using YouTube, update your browser to Chrome.

Wonder why they would recommend Chrome!

YouTube is an American video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

artsown · #1175 Post by **artsown** » Mon 17 Feb 2020, 11:45

No way Google is the big Dog in web site feature control. Rolling Eyes
From You Tube support.
What browsers are supported.
Quote:
YouTube no longer supports Internet Explorer. To continue using YouTube, update your browser to Chrome.

Wonder why they would recommend Chrome! Idea

Quote:
YouTube is an American video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

When I was testing various browsers, I encountered a warning message
in youtube using basilisk.

We’ll stop supporting this browser soon. For the best experience please update your browser.

The user agent basilisk uses for youtube is

general.useragent.override.youtube.com;Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Basilisk/52.9.2020.01.12

I suppose the goal is to eventually allow only "chromium and derivatives"
browsers.

Art

ProgRob · #1176 Post by **ProgRob** » Mon 17 Feb 2020, 16:45

hi ProgRob,

i've been trying to figure this out for a while with no luck
i think it may be to do with JWM

Thanks for the response, Phil. It might help you to know that

a) I am running OpenBox rather than JWM
b) On the same machine I also have Xenial and Compton works perfectly in that

Let me know if there are any tests I can run to help diagnose.

Regards,
Rob

bigpup · #1177 Post by **bigpup** » Tue 18 Feb 2020, 00:50

YouTube
We’ll stop supporting this browser soon. For the best experience please update your browser.

I was getting that from YouTube with Pale Moon.
After updating Pale Moon to v28.8.2.1 that warning stopped showing up.
That update fixed Pale Moon.

ally · #1178 Post by **ally** » Tue 18 Feb 2020, 21:17

hi ally,

this is an old fix but worth a go.
try adding
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options snd-hda-intel model=generic
the the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and reboot

thanks phil

unfortunately this did not work

ps - managed to get sound working with http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... x86_64.pet driver

ally · #1179 Post by **ally** » Tue 18 Feb 2020, 22:04

just an aside, this machine has been really troublesome and has not wanted to boot a fair collection of mainstream linux distros including a newly released mx 19.1 designed for newer 'difficult' hardware so kudos the only thing we couldn't get working was the sound

artsown · #1180 Post by **artsown** » Thu 20 Feb 2020, 12:14

On my faster computers, the speaker icon for sound volume control
sometimes or always does not appear at startup. Placing the following
script in /root/startup has fixed the problem for me.

sleep 15
retrovol -hide

Remove /root/Startup/autostart/retrovol.desktop

I add this script on xenialpup64 as well.

Create the script in geany and make it executeable (permissions).

The 15 second delay was chosen arbitrarily. It can probably be much
less and still be reliable.

Art

thinkpadfreak · #1181 Post by **thinkpadfreak** » Fri 21 Feb 2020, 13:34

Hello.

/usr/local/bin/pnscan is identified as a malware by ClamAV.

Bionicpup64 also has /usr/bin/pnscan, so there are two of "pnscan."

I wonder what to do with the situation.

OscarTalks · #1182 Post by **OscarTalks** » Fri 21 Feb 2020, 17:45

The executable /usr/local/bin/pnscan is 32bit in a 64bit distro
Looks like it was installed as one of the files of PeasyPort LAN Scanner.
Probably best to delete it.

The executable /usr/bin/pnscan is the correct 64bit version. The peasyport script will be calling this one as it has priority anyway (/usr/bin has priority over /usr/local/bin).

I wonder if ClamAV will still complain with the 32bit one removed? If so I reckon you should ignore it or regard it as a false result and add it to a list of such if possible.
Someone with more knowledge than me will correct me if I am wrong.

thinkpadfreak · #1183 Post by **thinkpadfreak** » Sat 22 Feb 2020, 01:28

OscarTalks wrote:

The executable /usr/local/bin/pnscan is 32bit in a 64bit distro

I did not know it was a 32bit executable.

I wonder if ClamAV will still complain with the 32bit one removed?

No. ClamAV identifies only /usr/local/bin/pnscan as a malware.

Now I am relieved. Thank you for the information.

bigpup · #1184 Post by **bigpup** » Sun 23 Feb 2020, 21:28

New version released.

Uextract v4.0
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87864

Version 4.0:

- AppRun: add GtkDialog GUI (Xdialog as a fallback)
- added '-s, --skip-symlinks' CLI option (do not follow symlinks)
- extract in the symlink's dir, not the target's
- can extract most of compressed initrd* files in one go
- use also 7z to extract DEB
- extract attachments from video files
- better compatibility with older/BusyBox versions of 'fdisk'
- fix extracting absolute symlinks from RAR archives (thanks to don570)
- refactoring, fixes, improvements

666philb · #1185 Post by **666philb** » Mon 24 Feb 2020, 16:06

thinkpadfreak wrote:OscarTalks wrote:

The executable /usr/local/bin/pnscan is 32bit in a 64bit distro
I did not know it was a 32bit executable.

I wonder if ClamAV will still complain with the 32bit one removed?
No. ClamAV identifies only /usr/local/bin/pnscan as a malware.

Now I am relieved. Thank you for the information.

hi thinkpadfreak & OscarTalks,

i think the 32bit pnscan in /usr/local/bin got into the distro by woofce grabbing the wrong peasyport.pet which includes pnscan.

interestingly the 64bit pnscan (which is the official ubuntu version) in /usr/bin is also detected as malware when uploaded to virustotal, although clamav misses it.

it seems that it can be used as a hacktool and is not malware in itself. see this post at pnscans github page https://github.com/ptrrkssn/pnscan/issues/2

bigpup · #1186 Post by **bigpup** » Thu 27 Feb 2020, 22:30

If you have a computer that has this Intel WIFI hardware.

WIFI : Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165

Here is a pet for the firmware.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &id=126858
Thanks go to ozsouth for making this pet!

Not sure if the kernel supports it, but hopefully it does.
Constant needed updating to support newer hardware.

bigpup · #1187 Post by **bigpup** » Mon 23 Mar 2020, 08:44

nic007 put all his very good scripts together into one package.
A lot of useful stuff in this one package.
Download and unzip to the SFS package.
Use SFS-load-on-the-fly to load it.
Puts entry to access all of them in menu->Utility
nicOS-Utility-Suite
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=118382

linuxcbon · #1188 Post by **linuxcbon** » Mon 30 Mar 2020, 10:36

Bionicpup64 8.0 CE

2 packages are needed for steam :

On steam, I tried to run "path of exile" with proton 5, but I got this error :

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<module>
    import filecmp
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'filecmp'

I installed libpython3.6-stdlib from the ppm and it solved it. So that package is needed for bionicpup.

Also another package "xdg-utils" is needed to solve this :

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sh: xdg-icon-resource: command not found

gellert234 · #1189 Post by **gellert234** » Thu 02 Apr 2020, 14:51

Steam Proton didn't work. I made an improved package

https://mega.nz/file/LpoTiQZZ#3DdayCCpD ... 6HkYvneFC0

666philb · #1190 Post by **666philb** » Thu 02 Apr 2020, 20:52

linuxcbon wrote:Bionicpup64 8.0 CE

2 packages are needed for steam :

On steam, I tried to run "path of exile" with proton 5, but I got this error :
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<module>
    import filecmp
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'filecmp'
I installed libpython3.6-stdlib from the ppm and it solved it. So that package is needed for bionicpup.

Also another package "xdg-utils" is needed to solve this :
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sh: xdg-icon-resource: command not found

hi linuxcbon,
libpython3.6-stdlib is installed automatically when the steam pet installs. make sure to run quickpet updates or you will be offered the older version which doesn't.

i'll have a look at xdg-icon-resource, although it doesn't effect the running of windows steam games, and may have zero effect in puppy.

BTW installing xdg-utils from the PPM breaks puppy which is why it shows as already installed so as not to be brought in when installing apps.

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Bionicpup64 8.0 CE

Re: Compton opacity only works at 50%

missing speaker icon at startup

/usr/local/bin/pnscan

Steam Proton didn't work.