Fatdog64-521 (October 12, 2011)

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russoodle · #16 Post by **russoodle** » Sat 15 Oct 2011, 05:43

Many thanks Kirk, Jamesbond.....running FD64-521 on an intel mac, no issues so far.

Pleased to see the integration of Psip 1.2, too

Cheers!

timremy · #17 Post by **timremy** » Sat 15 Oct 2011, 10:16

sage

thank you for your honest opinion of me.

i am dumb and proud of it.

timremy

Sage · #18 Post by **Sage** » Sat 15 Oct 2011, 15:47

timremy : I am here to help, some folks just wont be helped. Today I tried to offer very detailed advice on PSU repair and yesterday I offered a free real external modem - what more can I do? I don't do SW, surely everyone knows that? If you don't live in the UK, I would expect other contributors to make similar offers as many also have old real modems sitting on their shelves gathering dust. For your part, you refuse even to edit your profile to show your location. I cannot help it if you are American, you'll just have to live with it or move.

gcmartin · #19 Post by **gcmartin** » Sat 15 Oct 2011, 15:59

I have a X2 with 2 DVD recorders.

When I insert a DVD disk in DVD player #2, an icon pops to the desktop for that player. When I'm ready to eject, I used to be able to right-click and select eject. This ONLY opens DVD #1. It does NOT eject the device its suppose to. This is obviously broken.

With all of the past FATDOGs, i could put a DVD disk in DVD #2 and i could start the player and click the DVD button and it would start the DVD Video in player #2. Now that doesn't happen. In fact, I cannot get the desktop player to behave for multimedia the way it used to.

Has there been a change in the philosophy of video players or DVD use in FATDOG that we should know or is there something wrong?

Further, to provide useful information to you, what would you want us to use to report back to you?

Having some interestingly different hardware behavior from 520-1 to 522
Thanks.

jim3630 · #20 Post by **jim3630** » Sat 15 Oct 2011, 18:18

jamesbond wrote:Jim,
The command to start vlc from command line is vlc.sh. It's right there in your screenshot, the Exec line, but yeah I agree it's a bit difficult to read because of the other characters.
Try to open the same file with xine.sh, if it can be opened by xine but not by vlc, the problem is mostly access rights (ie, spot cannot read the file). Give read permission to "Others" through ROX, and it should work.

cheers!

thanks, got it.

jim3630 · #21 Post by **jim3630** » Sat 15 Oct 2011, 18:19

kirk wrote:Jim,

You must of downloaded that pet a while ago. I originally tried to get vlc running as spot, but kept running into problems so I recompiled it to run as root. Download the pet again.

Kirk, yes old pet will get new one and try. thanks

timremy · #22 Post by **timremy** » Sun 16 Oct 2011, 00:48

hello jamesbond

thank you for explaining to me the use of a usb modem with fatdog64.

its ok. the reason i wondered is where i live we have power outages

all the time. so if i use a laptop with a usb modem i can still connect

as long as the laptops battery is charged. besides the canopy i had

just did not connect and i got tired of calling for their assistance.

the only other option i had was go to the usb modem.

i use puppy mostly as a secure live cd.

wary 2 is nice so i will just use that.

thank you again.

timremy

tasmod · #23 Post by **tasmod** » Sun 16 Oct 2011, 15:09

Hi Kirk,

Don't know if you want this but I compiled Psync as 64bit.

Psync uses ntpdate which I recompiled in 64bit.

I tested it out and seems to work OK to sync the time.

kirk · #24 Post by **kirk** » Sun 16 Oct 2011, 16:17

I posted a pet with a couple of minor bug fixes to the first post in the thread.

jim3630 · #25 Post by **jim3630** » Sun 16 Oct 2011, 22:13

Sage wrote:timremy : I am here to help, some folks just wont be helped. Today I tried to offer very detailed advice on PSU repair and yesterday I offered a free real external modem - what more can I do? I don't do SW, surely everyone knows that? If you don't live in the UK, I would expect other contributors to make similar offers as many also have old real modems sitting on their shelves gathering dust. For your part, you refuse even to edit your profile to show your location. I cannot help it if you are American, you'll just have to live with it or move.

can't quite tell if you think you are being witty but it is clear your no help.

russoodle · #26 Post by **russoodle** » Mon 17 Oct 2011, 04:58

Made myself an FD64 wallpaper, simple and unfussy.

Kirk, jamesbond: I took the liberty of using your logo from Fatdog's homepage and adding to it, i hope you don't mind.

It's here in two sizes if anyone else wants one...

gcmartin · #27 Post by **gcmartin** » Mon 17 Oct 2011, 09:25

I'm testing a Live media with 2 DVD recorders attach to system without a HDD. I have 3 items to share

One
Has anyone else noticed that ROXfiler is "scanning" every 2 seconds? This is not occurring on my 5.11 Fatdog. (See attaach pic)

Two
And, there is a new behavior of DVD use with desktop icon for DVD player.

My system boots its LIve media and assigns the boot drive as /dev/sr0.
In the past, I have put selected folders-files on tbe boot media, which also has the save-session files used at boot-time. The FATDOG 5.11 and earlier FATDOGs would start playback of video DVDs from the 2nd DVD (/dev/sr1), always. Should be obvious why the system was designed that way. ("because its not the boot DVD device")

Now, it does NOT work that way anymore. The system now INSISTs on using /dev/sr0 for playback of videos. This forces removal of the boot material.

Dont know what's changed, but is there any instructions someone can give to permanently set the system to use /dev/sr1 when there are 2 DVD drives in the system?

The system appears to be ejecting properly now, though.

Three

I noticed that Barry is including 2 tools for reporting problems that were obtained from TaZOC; namely Report-Video-GLX and sys-info.
JamesBond, last year, produced a tool for reporting.
I have used a method of reporting to you in the past using a combo of video and Hardinfo.

I would like to use a tool that you feel is best for providing good information to you on the system layout and behavior. Since each of these methods provides and lays our information differently, I was wondering if it would make your effort easier, either in review or when helping, if we use a method that you prefer.

Which method would make your life easiest for us to use when reporting system behavior for FATDOG? If it doesn't make a difference, I'll continue reporting as I had in the past.

Thanks in advance.

Stripe · #28 Post by **Stripe** » Tue 18 Oct 2011, 02:17

Hi all

Love the new fatdog, everything works out of the box, nice to see Psip 1.2 included, (didnt even have to change the audio settings it just worked straight away

)

A very good selection of libs in the devx, and the source code is included as well.

one fly in the ointment is the inclusion of the nouveau driver, but this was soon removed and replaced with the nVidia one. (thanks to catdude on psip talking me through it

)

I have been busy pimping it up to how I want it

Thanks to DaveS for the howto on the launchbars.

Heres a couple of screen shots

Thanks
Don

WillM · #29 Post by **WillM** » Tue 18 Oct 2011, 21:04

This is working great. Thanks for the upgrades. Especially ePDFView.

lag0a · #30 Post by **lag0a** » Wed 19 Oct 2011, 12:57

I accidentally deleted squashfs.ko from /lib while trying to remove unnecessary modules but I can still boot into fatdog64-521 desktop so do I need it because I saw during the loading boot up screen that it was looking for it?

If so, how do I get it back? I originally thought there was a backup file at /initrd but it's not there.

kirk · #31 Post by **kirk** » Thu 20 Oct 2011, 15:15

lag0a,

Squashfs.ko is contained in the initrd.gz, it's copied to save file at first boot along with all of the other initrd modules. It's OK to delete it, it's always loaded in the initrd.gz anyway.

russoodle · #32 Post by **russoodle** » Thu 20 Oct 2011, 18:07

I downloaded and installed the Audacity 1.3.13b pet from the official repo but received an error message regarding missing libwx_gtktu_richtext-2.8.so.0.

I'm sure to find it floating somewhere around the traps, but thought i'd let you know.

kirk · #33 Post by **kirk** » Thu 20 Oct 2011, 18:35

You need to install the wxwidgets pet. If you use the Puppy Package Manager it should let you know about other needed packages.

russoodle · #34 Post by **russoodle** » Fri 21 Oct 2011, 09:47

Done and dusted now, thanks Kirk....all good.

I didn't use the PPM, i was browsing the pets on your repo and just grabbed it while i was there.

Pardon my ignorance if this is a doofus question, but....what would i have to do to install more filters in Gimp? Would most filter scripts work in 64-bit as well as 32-bit?

maddmike · #35 Post by **maddmike** » Sun 23 Oct 2011, 04:20

I've been using Puppy 421 for years. But my new laptop (Panasonic CF-C1) is too new for it... So I've been trying the newer Puppy versions and derivatives. Fatdog runs the best; it's the only puppy I've found that correctly identifies the networking and display hardware. Everything seems great except for one big problem: Java applications all crash with the same type of segfault:

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#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fba0c220680, pid=15851, tid=140436762040080
#
# JRE version: 6.0_27-b07
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.2-b06 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2+0x12680]  _dl_make_stack_executable+0x2410
#

The same thing happens with freemind, moneydance, and QtCreator. The crash always seems to be caused by _dl_make_stack_executable in ld-linux-x86-64.so.2. I've had the same trouble when I use the JRE sfs file from the Fatdog download page, or a fresh installation of JDK from Oracle's download site.

Has anyone else had this trouble? I have yet to find any java app that works OK.

Thanks in advance.

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Fatdog64-521 (October 12, 2011)

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Java crashes: Fatdog 520 and Fatdog 521