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#2191 Post by charlie6 »

Hi David !
maybe you already are aware of this thread...http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 5&start=15 which might be of some help for MPlayer use ?
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#2192 Post by edoc »

Yes, I have had excellent experience with Exprimo on several older and newer laptops and netbooks.

I thought I read that there was one version specifically optimized for older computers and thought if Exprimo had trouble with drivers or performance a different Puppy may meet the need.
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Gateway M675PRR laptop

#2193 Post by edoc »

I did get the older and less-sophisticated of the two laptops to work and the children in Honduras to whom it was delivered are very pleased.

The trouble with the better of the two may be maybe something about the interface of Exprimo and the chipset of the Gateway M675PRR laptop?

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gat ... sp75.shtml

The DVD drive handles the Linux CD OK.

After trying various video settings I was able get as far as playing the video but it fails on sound no matter how many settings I have tweaked in every place I could find!

WDYT?
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#2194 Post by pemasu »

Edoc. It can be that the audio chip is not supported in squeeze based dpup. You should try other Puppy versions.

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#2195 Post by edoc »

I did try an older version of Lucid, no joy.

I'll try a search of the audio chip & Puppy and see if the general search engine brings up a match somewhere.

EDIT1: Sigmatel® Soft Audio 6-channel AC97 revision 2.3 codec (STAC9758)

EDIT2: This was apparently addressed back in 2004! A patch to alsa-deiver 1.0.3
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... 75-145832/

I tried looking in Puppy Package Manager and there are a ton of alsa-related files but I have no idea which, if any, would resolve the problem.

WDYT?
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#2196 Post by pemasu »

That patch was incorporated to the alsa-driver in version 1.0.4

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf

You could try the suggest rows there:
Here's my /etc/modules.conf:
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-midi

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#2197 Post by edoc »

At the top of /etc/modules.conf it has this seemingly contradictory statement:
#I left this file here for old-times sake. 2.6 kernel uses modprobe.conf.
# Note, the script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit*
# calls script /etc/rc.d/rc.modules*
# to load the modules.
# modprobe* references this config file, modules.conf.
#v432 rerwin: This file is still used by Conexant-modems to retain major-number selections for the experimental range (240-254).
Toward the bottom of /etc/modules.conf is:
#Puppy 1.0.0, added Alsa support...
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
Which means that these three are missing from what you have:
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-midi
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A small mysql in Exprimo?

#2198 Post by edoc »

I just need mysql in Exprimo.

XAMPP for Linux seems to be the most-simple way to get mysql ...
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html

But XAMPP seems larger than necessary for the purpose.

Should I still prefer it for minimal install hassle?

Has anyone installed it successfully in Exprimo?
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Using a USB Tuner?

#2199 Post by edoc »

This all sounds like a giant mess if I try it.

Anyone understand what he is saying who can offer a paint-by-numbers set of instructions?

Or even better a PET or SFS?
Yes, the RTL-based usb stick will work in Linux using gnuradio and gqrx.

Typically to get gnu radio you download the gnu radio build script and run it, which grabs source
code from various locations and compiles it for you. Other apps, like gqrx, are build on top of gnuradio
.

http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gn ... stallingGR

http://superkuh.com/rtlsdr.html
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#2200 Post by edoc »

As a follow-up I did end up loading XAMPP.

The next adventure is in MySQL.

After executing a CREATE USER and a couple of GRANT lines it refused to "quit" so I had to Ctrl-C out - which I presume lost the prior work.

Any idea why "quit" would not function in MySQL?
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Tray Disappeared!

#2201 Post by edoc »

The bottom tray disappeared.

I have been trying to get some Debian-based python, MythTV, and other stuff in place (I hate Debian) and suddenly the bottom tray was gone.

I tried the suggestions in threads here on the Forum re. jwm but none of them worked to restore the tray.

Any suggestions, without losing everything in my squeezesave.4fs ?
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PPM Links Broken in Exprimo?

#2202 Post by edoc »

All of the MythTV links appear to be broken in Exprimo 5x15

I have updated the database and that did not solve the problem.

Any ideas, please?

I really need to be able to load MythTV now that I am finally past the MySQL install & set-up adventure.
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#2203 Post by futwerk »

a few new backgrounds.
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Upgrade Path from 5x15?

#2204 Post by edoc »

Has the Exprimo-series terminated at 5x15?

While all seems well at the moment I imagine it will become necessary to upgrade at some point.

Don't need bleeding-edge, all 9 computers here are laptops & netbooks, so good management of various chipsets & hardware is important.

What should be on the short list of alternatives?
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#2205 Post by Puppyt »

Hi edoc,
do you mean perhaps a Wary-based dpup? That would certainly get my vote - a LTS Puppy base for +PIII-era laptops and desktops, with -in cases where the PETS and SFS' are not available - OOTB integration for "recent" applications in the extensive deb repository. glibC and gtk2+ library support would be the biggest bugbears there, I imagine? I think that pemasu has been super-busy not only with BK on Puppy5 issues, but also with his new Wheezy-dpup puplet http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 583#648583. I agree with his approach for the latter - let the user do all the personalisation - but I'll be waiting to see any kinks ironed out before I migrate from my beloved 5x15 which I use for work on a daily basis :)
It's a tough call - when does a developer choose to shift the kernel base upwards and risk the time shoe-horning the lagging libraries into it so the bleeding-edge applications are happy with it (see also this comment from popov http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 299#696299)? And not loose the loyalty base of users with their recycled hardware (me) and their dreams of bleeding-edge applications?
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#2206 Post by pemasu »

edoc. Dpup Exprimos suffer already of the too old libraries. Several apps does not work anymore in debian squeeze based build.

You could try dpup wheezy. It is still its early stage. I have though build it several times. and the worst bugs have been shaved out.

The PPM database surely need update as the first thing when you start to test it. Debian Wheezy is still under testing stage and the repo packages change.

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#2207 Post by edoc »

Thanks for the suggestion!

Just downloaded and installed on an old Z500 laptop.

Looks great!

I'm looking for a PET for Seamonkey as it doesn't like the ancient Seamonkey 2.4.1 PET I was installing in Exprimo then updating.
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Why contacts are missing in OSMO ?

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Why contacts are missing in OSMO ?
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Dpup exprimo is the best ratio size/features

#2209 Post by Pelo »

Dpup exprimo is the best ratio size/features
This Puppy gives live again to an old laptop which was to be burried XPincluded, and hard drive out of service. :)
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Re: Why contacts are missing in OSMO ?

#2210 Post by musher0 »

Pelo wrote:Why contacts are missing in OSMO ?
Hi, pelo.

Because sometimes, some developers are very lonely, they have no friends; or maybe
they are orphans. ;) Therefore they do not need a contacts list.

They think everybody is like them, so they compile osmo without the contacts list.
(Very sad story, I know, but it happens !) :)
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