Welcome back (it seems its been some time since your last post).sc0ttman wrote:Hello people....
Akita Linux, Beta 16 ISO
It's been a while, but nice to be back... I see I have a lot of catching up to do...Peterm321 wrote:Welcome back (it seems its been some time since your last post).sc0ttman wrote:Hello people....
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Hey yer, sc0ttman!
good to see you feeling better - I'd hoped maybe you'd happily eloped with a nurse etc, rather than a horror relapse/secondary infection you often hear about...
I probably owe a decent feedback sesh on Akita8 - the kids had a great time with it over the school hols - ran without hiccup. Particularly noteworthy are puppyluvr's X-Toys pet and Asri Educations' OOo4Kids: the former had some minor WM screen issues (maybe corrected in the fixes I see you listed for Akita9), and the latter SFS was converted easily and faultlessly into something Akita could digest, and also runs without blemish.
SuperTuxKart is the major drawcard in the games department, though tracking down respective dependencies for various games was awkward on a machine not connected online . Thanks for your Boost, mesa/glx/OpenGL/other lib pets in your repository - later I saw that your PPM and repository notes had more info on what went with what, so our Akita is armed to the teeth with libraries!
I did have trouble with SoulFu - never got it working - and I think there was another game that called for OGRElibs (?) and other libraries, but I can't remember what they were.
I didn't get around to loading ANY DOSgames (or DBGL), though would be interested in getting NetHack souped up with VultureEye or other 3D perspective or detailed tiling - kids today just don't seem to have the imagination for ASCII...
In Haste,
Puppyt
good to see you feeling better - I'd hoped maybe you'd happily eloped with a nurse etc, rather than a horror relapse/secondary infection you often hear about...
I probably owe a decent feedback sesh on Akita8 - the kids had a great time with it over the school hols - ran without hiccup. Particularly noteworthy are puppyluvr's X-Toys pet and Asri Educations' OOo4Kids: the former had some minor WM screen issues (maybe corrected in the fixes I see you listed for Akita9), and the latter SFS was converted easily and faultlessly into something Akita could digest, and also runs without blemish.
SuperTuxKart is the major drawcard in the games department, though tracking down respective dependencies for various games was awkward on a machine not connected online . Thanks for your Boost, mesa/glx/OpenGL/other lib pets in your repository - later I saw that your PPM and repository notes had more info on what went with what, so our Akita is armed to the teeth with libraries!
I did have trouble with SoulFu - never got it working - and I think there was another game that called for OGRElibs (?) and other libraries, but I can't remember what they were.
I didn't get around to loading ANY DOSgames (or DBGL), though would be interested in getting NetHack souped up with VultureEye or other 3D perspective or detailed tiling - kids today just don't seem to have the imagination for ASCII...
In Haste,
Puppyt
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moving folders
I was going to try and move the .mozilla folder out of the save file area and then link it back but I got errors when trying to move the folder, tried some others and same thing.
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but thought I would mention it.
Here are few of the error lines when trying to move the .wine folder
Moving /root/.wine as /mnt/home/.wine
mv: cannot create symbolic link `/mnt/home/.wine/dosdevices/c:': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot create symbolic link `/mnt/home/.wine/dosdevices/z:': Operation not permitted
mv: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/wineps.drv': Operation not permitted
mv: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/mswsock.dll': Operation not permitted
mv: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/dmsynth.dll': Operation not permitted
Done
There was one error.
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but thought I would mention it.
Here are few of the error lines when trying to move the .wine folder
Moving /root/.wine as /mnt/home/.wine
mv: cannot create symbolic link `/mnt/home/.wine/dosdevices/c:': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot create symbolic link `/mnt/home/.wine/dosdevices/z:': Operation not permitted
mv: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/wineps.drv': Operation not permitted
mv: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/mswsock.dll': Operation not permitted
mv: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/dmsynth.dll': Operation not permitted
Done
There was one error.
Feeling much better thanks, recovered... feel like a baby for moaning when I was ill!Puppyt wrote:Hey yer, sc0ttman!
good to see you feeling better - I'd hoped maybe you'd happily eloped with a nurse etc, rather than a horror relapse/secondary infection you often hear about...
Glad to hear they enjoyed it... Wish I could fill the repos even more...I probably owe a decent feedback sesh on Akita8 - the kids had a great time with it over the school hols - ran without hiccup. Particularly noteworthy are puppyluvr's X-Toys pet and Asri Educations' OOo4Kids:
I guess the 'WM issues' are JWM related? (If that's what you used)..the former had some minor WM screen issues
Which games needed extra libs? And which libs did they need?SuperTuxKart is the major drawcard in the games department, though tracking down respective dependencies for various games was awkward on a machine not connected online
Once I got OpenGL enabled (using NVIDIA-173.xxx.xxx), the pkgs work fine for me, if installed from PPM..
I'm not sure the xorg_xorg_dri pet works with Akita, in pup4 or wary repo..Thanks for your Boost, mesa/glx/OpenGL/other lib pets in your repository - later I saw that your PPM and repository notes had more info on what went with what, so our Akita is armed to the teeth with libraries!
...but Nvidia and Ati pets should work OK...
Hmmmm... I tested SoulFu, worked fine for me... Not a bad little game..I did have trouble with SoulFu - never got it working - and I think there was another game that called for OGRElibs (?) and other libraries, but I can't remember what they were.
What errors did you get?
Thanks for the feedback once again, I really appreciate it.
And I'm happy you enjoyed using Akita.
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Thanks very much , nice to see you're still here...starhawk wrote:sc0ttman, it's WONDERFUL to see that you're back. I was worried that you were in the sort of state that would prevent such a thing
What happened? (I remember hearing about appendicitis IIRC and then... nothing.)
Might not be posting so regularly for a while though, a bit busy...
Yeah it went pop and I was all like "Ouch!", and stuff...
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Thanks Keef. If you're using it with any kind of regularity and have any ideas or suggestions for beta 10, let me know...Keef wrote:Good to see you back Scottman. Posting from Beta 9 right now, and haven't come to any harm yet....
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Re: moving folders
I just tried the same it worked OK... Which filesystem is /mnt/home using?Mark_C wrote:I was going to try and move the .mozilla folder out of the save file area and then link it back but I got errors when trying to move the folder, tried some others and same thing.
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My kids are still enjoying using v8 on their underpowered DecTops with the gtk1 standalone flash player 6 (gflashplayer) They have so little ram that I had to disable rox and use jwm for the desktop icons (actually though rox-gtk1 with imlib works too) so now I have another jwm tool that will generate pseudo desktop icons from *.desktop files in $HOME/Desktop looks good if the background is a solid color and the trays are the same color. If there is enough interest here, I can extend it to support other files similar to .lnk on ms.
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].
Re: moving folders
fat32 on a usb hard drivesc0ttman wrote:I just tried the same it worked OK... Which filesystem is /mnt/home using?Mark_C wrote:I was going to try and move the .mozilla folder out of the save file area and then link it back but I got errors when trying to move the folder, tried some others and same thing.
Could be my an error on my part, I will re-check what I am doing.
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scottman - I've installed A9 to the hard drive of my Acer Aspire One netbook (D250 1.6ghz 1gig ram) and have some problems with the synaptics touchpad adjustments.
It works ok, but I want to turn off tap-to-click and scrolling etc but no joy.
As soon as I use control panel to open the flsynclient the touchpad stops working and I can't position the mouse pointer to make the changes I need. However, if I plug in a usb mouse I am able to set the flsynclient as i want it to be, and then I click on save, but the settings do not get remembered, so that after a reboot the touchpad drops back to the original settings.
Any ideas?
It works ok, but I want to turn off tap-to-click and scrolling etc but no joy.
As soon as I use control panel to open the flsynclient the touchpad stops working and I can't position the mouse pointer to make the changes I need. However, if I plug in a usb mouse I am able to set the flsynclient as i want it to be, and then I click on save, but the settings do not get remembered, so that after a reboot the touchpad drops back to the original settings.
Any ideas?
Glad they like it... I'd like to get rox-gtk1 in the akita repo, along with any other cool gtk1 stuff you know of/can link to... I've tested ur jwm icons, I didn't have the background matching so it was a bit ugly, but it worked well, I like it... Would be interested in using it...technosaurus wrote:My kids are still enjoying using v8 on their underpowered DecTops with the gtk1 standalone flash player 6 (gflashplayer) They have so little ram that I had to disable rox and use jwm for the desktop icons (actually though rox-gtk1 with imlib works too) so now I have another jwm tool that will generate pseudo desktop icons from *.desktop files in $HOME/Desktop looks good if the background is a solid color and the trays are the same color. If there is enough interest here, I can extend it to support other files similar to .lnk on ms.
I think, with JWM desktop icons, I could update 'Toggle Rox Desktop' to simply 'Toggle Desktop', and change the offer - either a JWM only solution, or 'the full whack' (ROX icons, etc)....
I am also still keen do get something better than the JWM drive Icons I am using, maybe migrate it all into a tray, so it updates with jwm -reload... Will have to have another look at jwm_tools.
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Re: moving folders
I don't think you can symlink on fat32, it must be ext2, ext3, etc...Mark_C wrote:fat32 on a usb hard drivesc0ttman wrote:I just tried the same it worked OK... Which filesystem is /mnt/home using?Mark_C wrote:I was going to try and move the .mozilla folder out of the save file area and then link it back but I got errors when trying to move the folder, tried some others and same thing.
Could be my an error on my part, I will re-check what I am doing.
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Nice, thanks for the loverly video... Sorry about the persistent 'wanna keep this pet?' dialog, planned all along to make a settings checkbox thing, to either do it automatically or not... got lazy... will make that change for the next one...sneekylinux wrote:have just posted a new video on akita beta 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oltg-lqDpkA
nice.
I'll update the 'full' icon set template, so that doc2txt no longer loads up from the ROX desktop 'Write' icon - as you get that 'No file given' msg, as you know...
You should check out the doc2txt, docx2txt, doc2html, etc - use ROX right clicks...
Abiword is listed under 'Compose', you missed it
You can use 'Defaults-Chooser' to make Abiword the defaultwordprocessor...
It needs lots of deps, cos Akita doesn't have goffice at all...
Why have goffice when so many use OpenOffice?
I think I can get away with removing even more deps from the abiword PPM listing though...
The Akita repo has openoffice 2 and 3, libreoffice 3.4.3, plus ooolite-unofficial (only 57mb!!) and also softmakeroffice (13mb) - all of which are much better than abiword.... IMHO
Anyway, thanks for the video
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First, for persistent settings, you need to make ~/Startup/load-touchpad-settings executable, using 'Startups' from akita_setup (loads at 1st boot)greengeek wrote:scottman - I've installed A9 to the hard drive of my Acer Aspire One netbook (D250 1.6ghz 1gig ram) and have some problems with the synaptics touchpad adjustments.
It works ok, but I want to turn off tap-to-click and scrolling etc but no joy.
As soon as I use control panel to open the flsynclient the touchpad stops working and I can't position the mouse pointer to make the changes I need. However, if I plug in a usb mouse I am able to set the flsynclient as i want it to be, and then I click on save, but the settings do not get remembered, so that after a reboot the touchpad drops back to the original settings.
Any ideas?
About the rest... Hmmm... Not sure.. Will see what I can do, but I don't really use laptops...
Possible ideas include
- re-compile and re-install flsynclient
- http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 569#633569
- get the wary files - http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01782
- errr.... not sure what else..
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Thanks, that gives me persistence. Still have odd behaviour once the touchpad settings load. The touchpad works but has a large deadzone in the middle. Only functional area is a 5mm strip around each edge.sc0ttman wrote:First, for persistent settings, you need to make ~/Startup/load-touchpad-settings executable, using 'Startups' from akita_setup (loads at 1st boot)
Will keep tinkering and report back if I make any progress.
Scott,
That problem with alsaconf I mentioned some time back is still there (my soundcard is not getting detected automatically, so have to run it).
The window is too narrow to read anything, but attempting to resize either closes the window, or sometimes crashes X.
The line at the end of alsawizard:
can be altered to cure this, changing the 3 to 30 or more, or even getting rid of the -geometry bit altogether. Resizing still closes the window, but it isn't really necessary to do that.
Bash history is not working for me - the .history file is there but isn't updated. Can't work out why, but I've been trying. Had similar problems with this in previous versions too.
Apart from that, everything is fine. Plenty of stuff to play with.
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Compaq Armada M700 : Pentium III (Coppermine) 850mhz
Memory : 580MB (186MB used)
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
Audio Adapter : ES1978 - ESS ES1978 (Maestro 2E)
That problem with alsaconf I mentioned some time back is still there (my soundcard is not getting detected automatically, so have to run it).
The window is too narrow to read anything, but attempting to resize either closes the window, or sometimes crashes X.
The line at the end of alsawizard:
Code: Select all
rxvt -geometry 60x3 -bg orange -e /usr/sbin/alsaconf
Bash history is not working for me - the .history file is there but isn't updated. Can't work out why, but I've been trying. Had similar problems with this in previous versions too.
Apart from that, everything is fine. Plenty of stuff to play with.
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Compaq Armada M700 : Pentium III (Coppermine) 850mhz
Memory : 580MB (186MB used)
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
Audio Adapter : ES1978 - ESS ES1978 (Maestro 2E)