Fatdog64-521 (October 12, 2011)

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lakedude · #76 Post by **lakedude** » Fri 11 Nov 2011, 03:40

So I think this is the line in the script at /usr/sbin/remasterpup2 that is making the sfs file?

"mksquashfs /tmp/root $WKGMNTPT/puppylivecdbuild/$SFSBASE.sfs -keep-as-directory"

mksquashfs happens several times and none of them seem to show the -comp xz option. The plan is to modify the script, I wonder if every instance of "mksquashfs" needs to be modified or only the last instance?

Reading about syntax here:

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Squashfs

Sorry for all the posts, I'm in a little over my head.

lakedude · #77 Post by **lakedude** » Fri 11 Nov 2011, 05:26

It lives! Thanks for the help!

Changed prefs.js at /usr/lib64/firefox-7.0.1/defaults/profile/prefs.js

Remastered large CD and booted from the new CD.

Used mksquashfs My-SFS fd64-521.sfs -comp xz to make a new SFS file and saved.

Booted Puppy 4.3.1 from CD and used the iso editor to plunk the new smaller SFS into the ISO and saved.

Burned and booted, WORKS at 195 MB! Thanks!

bmfx · #78 Post by **bmfx** » Sat 12 Nov 2011, 16:19

Thanks so much kirk, I have a question, how I can build a 32 bit library in 64 bit like 'fd64-32bit-libs-6.sfs'? Need need some QT library in 32 bits and I don't know how to make it.

Billtoo · #79 Post by **Billtoo** » Sat 12 Nov 2011, 20:08

I made a pet of goggles music manager for fatdog 64.
It contains all the dependencies needed by goggles.

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-be8dd008.html

Hans · #80 Post by **Hans** » Sat 12 Nov 2011, 21:57

lxpanel crashes

Same problem with fbpanel, see post from bigpup about retrovol:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ba2a6337d9

I get practically the same hcontrol.c error on lxpanel:
hcontrol.c:764: snd_hctl_handle_event: Assertion `elem' failed."

When I remove volume control from tray no crashes from lxpanel occur, so that points the finger at alsa for now.

Strange thing, this suddenly appeared, I worked with this fd64-RC release for months 24/7 so to speak and no problems with volume control.

Some more hits but no solution:
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/piperma ... 35265.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/715544

Any one else with these experiences?
Keep in mind, this happened on fd64-RC, not fd64-521 to my knowledge

I plan to migrate to 521, if it happens again I will report back.

Hold your horses, I just now saw post http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 77&t=73136

I will try this one of course

oldroy · #81 Post by **oldroy** » Tue 22 Nov 2011, 04:21

I have been using Fatdog64-520b5 for some time and loving it.

After downloading and burning Fatdog64-521 and trying it on this laptop ("Lance Armstrong - AMD Turion, 1 gig mem., report is attached) and booting with "fatdog pfix=ram" the whole thing slows and quits after typing one paragraph in Abiword. The cooling fan seems to be running more than it should be as well. MD5 sums were ok.

Went back to 520b5 and everything is working perfectly. Part of the unexplained.

Jim1911 · #82 Post by **Jim1911** » Mon 28 Nov 2011, 15:35

oldroy wrote:I have been using Fatdog64-520b5 for some time and loving it.

After downloading and burning Fatdog64-521 and trying it on this laptop ("Lance Armstrong - AMD Turion, 1 gig mem., report is attached) and booting with "fatdog pfix=ram" the whole thing slows and quits after typing one paragraph in Abiword. The cooling fan seems to be running more than it should be as well. MD5 sums were ok.

Went back to 520b5 and everything is working perfectly. Part of the unexplained.

When running 64-521 from a CD, did you allow a save file to be created and copied to your hard drive, also the sfs file? Because of the slow CD drive, it will alway be slow using pfix=ram so it's always best to set up a frugal installation on your hard drive.

My favorite technique is install puppy on a usb flash drive along with grub4dos which allows boot from the flash drive or the frugal installation on the hard drive. That way all that's accessed on the flash drive is the boot code which is very fast.

oldroy · #83 Post by **oldroy** » Tue 29 Nov 2011, 21:42

Wow! The forum is back!

Thanks to all who replied. This was and is now back to a frugal installation. Abiword still slows down to slower than I can type then freezes even when starting with fatdog pfix=ram.

I installed open office and open office writer works well so that will be the fix for now. No fan coming on, can type a whole page rapidly, and no freezing.

FWIW I tried fatdog64-521 on a 64 bit Acer machine and everything worked perfectly there.

smokey01 · #84 Post by **smokey01** » Wed 30 Nov 2011, 20:44

Fatdog doesn't work with the Netgear WN111 WIFI dongle.

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drive ... 70#working

Here is some information to help you get it going. The carl9170-1.fw needs to be placed in /lib/firmware.

get it here: http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j ... xw&cad=rja

Fatdog64-521 currently has the carl9170.ko driver but not the firmware installed.

Cheers

Liboicl · #85 Post by **Liboicl** » Mon 05 Dec 2011, 04:49

When I right-click on a drive and choose "Unmount ALL mounted partitions" it opens pMount, but does not unmount any drives. This has been happening for quite some time through the versions. I am now on 521. I assumed it was a small bug and would probably be fixed quickly. It seems I was wrong. Does this happen to anyone else?

Jim1911 · #86 Post by **Jim1911** » Mon 05 Dec 2011, 21:07

I've been trying to learn to use Samba to share files over a wifi network with my laptop. Samba apparently is already setup properly with /etc/samba/smb.conf, however when I run lameSMBexplorer on my laptop or desktop, I get the following dialog when I doubleclick on data Downloads: I've tried root, woofwoof, and spot with no password, neither work.

I am very inept about Samba, although I have read gcmartin's tutorial which to me doesn't seem relevant since Fatdog already has the smb.conf file setup to use Spot. Are their other configuration files that I need to address, or am I just missing the proper Options to add under Domain, Username, and Password in lameSMBexplorer?

Thanks,
Jim

kirk · #87 Post by **kirk** » Tue 06 Dec 2011, 13:41

Jim,

In LameSMBxplorer don't put anything for username or password. It should work. You can also double right click on the data folder. If it doesn't work, something has probably been changed in /etc/samba/smb.conf. You can copy the original file from /initrd/pup_ro2/etc/samba/smb.conf and then stop and restart Samba.
The default Samba configuration forces anonymous users to be logged in as user spot, so you'll only be able to write to places spot owns.

Liboicl,

That's a bug, we'll have to look into it. Thanks.

smokey01,

I'll put the firmware in for next time.

Jim1911 · #88 Post by **Jim1911** » Tue 06 Dec 2011, 15:46

Hi Kirk,

Thanks, however the problem was not with Samba or lameSMBexplorer, I had a broken link to /Spot/Downloads.

I can't believe that I've wasted so much time copying files to a USB flash drive to transfer them to my laptop when you already had Samba set up to easily accomplish the file transfer over my wifi connection.

Cheers,

Jim

Jim1911 · #89 Post by **Jim1911** » Tue 06 Dec 2011, 16:04

Hi Kirk,

Fatdog64-521's installation was flawless and all software appears to be working correctly.

The only problem that I've had is that Reboot and Shutdown do not work properly from the menu. However, they do set action code because using Ctrl>Alt>Backspace accomplishes the Reboot or Shutdown that was requested.

Cheers,
Jim

deniros · #90 Post by **deniros** » Sat 10 Dec 2011, 16:56

Hi, if anyone interested, I've created pets for fatdog64-521:

lmsensors (for temp monitoring type "sensors" in xterm, or use it in another application)
S-lang, the missing dependency for MidnightCommander, namely slang (libslang.so.2 was the missing dep)
Tint2 + imlib2 (imlib2 is needed for tint2)
sylpheed

they can be downloaded here: http://www.pupsys.net/FILES/Fatdog64/Fatdog64-521-PETS/

papos · #91 Post by **papos** » Sun 18 Dec 2011, 08:46

Thank you for this speedy puppy that use the programs I love!
this resolve some problem on my hp pavilion g7: detection of sd card, audio, wireless drivers, just have to add in root/startup #numlockx on.

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The devx file is unchanged since 520, it's just been renamed for 521.

but where can I found the devx file it is not in http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... atdog/web/ ?
merry Christmas

CatDude · #92 Post by **CatDude** » Sun 18 Dec 2011, 11:07

Hello papos

papos wrote:.....
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The devx file is unchanged since 520, it's just been renamed for 521.
but where can I found the devx file it is not in http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... atdog/web/ ?
merry Christmas

You have been looking in the wrong place.

You can get it from either of the following links. (the first one is usually a lot faster

)

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/fatdog/sfs/500/fd64-devx_521.sfs
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fatdog/sfs/500/fd64-devx_521.sfs

CatDude
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papos · #93 Post by **papos** » Mon 19 Dec 2011, 08:39

Thank you
I have some problems with transcoder 0.0.5 include in fatdog, i download transcoder_0.0.6 who seems to work good
http://sourceforge.net/projects/transco ... b/download
very nice actual version

Eathray · #94 Post by **Eathray** » Wed 21 Dec 2011, 13:48

kirk and jamesbond,

landlord's machine dumped the harddrive (shop environment, dust). I found him a 16gig flash drive and stuck fatdog on it for him...

All I hear from him is what an improvement your work is over Vista. Thought you might like to know. He's one of those who never heard of Linux before and didn't know there was an alternative to Windoze.

Keep up the great work.

Eathray

Barkingmad · #95 Post by **Barkingmad** » Wed 21 Dec 2011, 17:17

Hello

I've been using Fatdog 521 on-and-off for a time now and it runs great on my Pentium D so I thought I would try the benchmarks in Hardinfo so as to compare with the results I get with other Puppies.

The results displayed for all but one are "rubbish" so there must be some problem. Should I put it on Kirk's bug tracker, list the details here or try to report it to the Hardinfo team - I think there is a link in the Hardinfo menus?

Thanks for any input.

Will

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