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#631 Post by Peterm321 »

sc0ttman wrote:Hello people....
Welcome back (it seems its been some time since your last post).

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#632 Post by sc0ttman »

Peterm321 wrote:
sc0ttman wrote:Hello people....
Welcome back (it seems its been some time since your last post).
It's been a while, but nice to be back... I see I have a lot of catching up to do... :)
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#633 Post by Puppyt »

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...
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#634 Post by starhawk »

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.)

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#635 Post by Keef »

Good to see you back Scottman. Posting from Beta 9 right now, and haven't come to any harm yet....

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#636 Post by Mark_C »

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.

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#637 Post by sc0ttman »

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...
Feeling much better thanks, recovered... feel like a baby for moaning when I was ill! :lol:
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:
Glad to hear they enjoyed it... Wish I could fill the repos even more...
the former had some minor WM screen issues
I guess the 'WM issues' are JWM related? (If that's what you used)..
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 :)
Which games needed extra libs? And which libs did they need?
Once I got OpenGL enabled (using NVIDIA-173.xxx.xxx), the pkgs work fine for me, if installed from PPM..
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'm not sure the xorg_xorg_dri pet works with Akita, in pup4 or wary repo..
...but Nvidia and Ati pets should work OK...
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.
Hmmmm... I tested SoulFu, worked fine for me... Not a bad little game..
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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#638 Post by sc0ttman »

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.)
Thanks very much :), nice to see you're still here...
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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#639 Post by sc0ttman »

Keef wrote:Good to see you back Scottman. Posting from Beta 9 right now, and haven't come to any harm yet....
Thanks Keef. If you're using it with any kind of regularity and have any ideas or suggestions for beta 10, let me know...
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Re: moving folders

#640 Post by sc0ttman »

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.
I just tried the same it worked OK... Which filesystem is /mnt/home using?
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#641 Post by technosaurus »

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].

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Re: moving folders

#642 Post by Mark_C »

sc0ttman wrote:
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.
I just tried the same it worked OK... Which filesystem is /mnt/home using?
fat32 on a usb hard drive
Could be my an error on my part, I will re-check what I am doing.

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#643 Post by sneekylinux »

have just posted a new video on akita beta 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oltg-lqDpkA

nice.

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#644 Post by greengeek »

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?

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#645 Post by sc0ttman »

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.
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...

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

#646 Post by sc0ttman »

Mark_C wrote:
sc0ttman wrote:
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.
I just tried the same it worked OK... Which filesystem is /mnt/home using?
fat32 on a usb hard drive
Could be my an error on my part, I will re-check what I am doing.
I don't think you can symlink on fat32, it must be ext2, ext3, etc...
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#647 Post by sc0ttman »

sneekylinux wrote:have just posted a new video on akita beta 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oltg-lqDpkA

nice.
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...

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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#648 Post by sc0ttman »

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?
First, for persistent settings, you need to make ~/Startup/load-touchpad-settings executable, using 'Startups' from akita_setup (loads at 1st boot)

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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#649 Post by greengeek »

sc0ttman wrote:First, for persistent settings, you need to make ~/Startup/load-touchpad-settings executable, using 'Startups' from akita_setup (loads at 1st boot)
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.

Will keep tinkering and report back if I make any progress.

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#650 Post by Keef »

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:

Code: Select all

rxvt -geometry 60x3 -bg orange -e /usr/sbin/alsaconf
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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