QSSTV for Pups 4, Lupu and Slacko

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QSSTV for Pups 4, Lupu and Slacko

#1 Post by drspastic »

hi, can somebody compile a pet or sfs for this slow scan tv studio. it is as far as i know the only sstv program for linux, windows had hundreds. having this available will push puppy to the amateur radio community and i am sure it will be grabbed for the ham pup distros that are very popular.
a previous version is available on the ubuntu synaptic manager but the latest version is the one we need. its most important to get it auto configured to the sound card. it needs to warble on transmit!
myself and at least 7 members of this forum will be eager to test it out on air. i imagine it has many dependencies that are for the ham radio community so good pointers are the hermes repo where amateur radio pups are kept.
Please someone take the time to get this binary up, i promise it will do good in the world!
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Beg less, post links more.

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#3 Post by Flash »

What Adagio means is, where do we find the program? How about a URL? :)

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sorry

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sorry, i go to excited to make any sense, the radio bands are crowded with sstv this last few weeks and i was hyped up to be able to see some nice images. i only run puppies but i dug out my emergency backtrack sd card and got qsstv installed on that but it didnt find the soundsystem and then went tits up and crashed. :(
heres the link to qsstv:
http://users.telenet.be/on4qz/

it also lists a gridsquare package that would be nice to have as a pet, but now im getting greedy!
seriously, thanks to all you guys already. doing a great job there.

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#5 Post by 666philb »

hi drspastic

here's a pet of qsstv and qgrid, it was compiled on lucid puppy and i've no idea if it's fully funtional as i don't really know what it does :), you'll have to let me know if it's ok.

http://www.wuala.com/666philb/Documents/qsstv-7.1.pet/ 12mb
MD5 5a93d9722ad01d6b458475dd6995461a

It also works on slacko with this extra dep, http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... 3_i386.deb

Note: that whilst it runs on slacko, it may mess up any other slacko apps that use QT, as the pet contains lucid QT libs. so back up first
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thanks

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:D thanks a million, i will test it tomorrow when the bands are active. i was not expecting anything so fast! my fingers are crossed and i will be sure to post any feedback. if this works ok there will be a lot of people happy!

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#7 Post by drspastic »

it seems to be working fine on slacko, although the slack machine aint quite powful enough to run it smooth. im trying also on puppeee but i need libltdl.so.7 ; do you have any idea where i can find it?
666philb wrote:hi drspastic

here's a pet of qsstv and qgrid, it was compiled on lucid puppy and i've no idea if it's fully funtional as i don't really know what it does :), you'll have to let me know if it's ok.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/vrhprsu79 ... tv-7.1.pet 12mb
MD5 5a93d9722ad01d6b458475dd6995461a

It also works on slacko with this extra dep, http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... 3_i386.deb

Note: that whilst it runs on slacko, it may mess up any other slacko apps that use QT, as the pet contains lucid QT libs. so back up first

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#8 Post by 666philb »

here's the lib, http://pkgs.org/ubuntu-10.04/ubuntu-mai ... /download/
that's a good site to find missing libs

again, back up before installing,
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#9 Post by drspastic »

well my slacko is gone fubar (not because of your binary) and lucid wont load any more. i think machine #2 is dying.
machine #1 is the puppeee machine. i added that lib, and lo and behold it asks for another. libc.so.6 which i cant find in the massive list on that site. i have a feeling if i find that it will keep asking for more. like giving a gypsy a cigarette.
if i add the dev sfs file will that have all this stuff in it, or are the librarys application specific?
at the moment its 10pm and im trying to hammer a fresh copy of slacko onto a disk-on-module and its not having any of it. i have to be up at 7 to drive a truck of moonshine mash to the distilling house :x
on the up side of things, i captured a lot of audio files today for qsstv to decode when i get thing sorted, so no more waiting around for someone to transmit. i got half a picture on slacko before it fell apart so i can say your good work is all correct, and i bet if im nice i can get my spare usb drive off the xyl (desperate housewives AND lucid 528!) and boot the eeepc from that. only the touchpad mouse buttons wont work on 528 for some strange reason.
thanks for all the work!

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#10 Post by 666philb »

lo and behold it asks for another. libc.so.6
when something asks for a different version of libc (libc is in puppy) i give up trying to get the thing to work, as changing the libc version screws puppy up.

the solution is to compile the application on the puppy version it's to run on. (although some apps require a minimum version of libc)

i'll install puppeee if i get time and have a go, although puppeee is problematic as it now has no repo, to get deps from.
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#11 Post by 666philb »

no joy.... i couldn't get it to compile on puppeee
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#12 Post by drspastic »

thanks for trying, i should be learning all this myself. maybe its time to let puppeee slip away and get a modern pup installed. i have been reluctant for so long because of the wonderful job jemimah done of having everything perfect for this netbook (701). but it must be time to move on.
i got the other machine working again with 431, later i will get slacko or a version of lucid on it. the wyse has only 256mb ide flash drives x2 and puppy universal installer always hangs when copying the sfs, so i have to play around manually to get it booting right; even copy from the cd only gets the sfs to 33 meg and hangs. 528 just kernel panics with a not synching message.i seem to remember either 5 or 501 worked before. 511 defo wont work. sumfin to do with xorg, cant drop to text console on ctrl alt bs, or shutdown. text mode just hangs. i need vesa only, and i think it was 501 that gave me that.

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#13 Post by 666philb »

have you tried jemimahs new project .....saluki?
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#14 Post by drspastic »

i have hammered lucid puppy 501 on the machine now and its stable. i installed qsstv but running it asks for libaudio. i may be mistaken, but isnt libaudio built into puppy as standard? im starting to wonder how sloppy qsstv may have been written. so far i only had it run on slacko. pity slacko was too heavy to run qsstv on 550 mhz.
should i bother any more or is it time in your opinion to give up and get on with life? :roll:
maybe i should write to the developer

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666philb wrote:have you tried jemimahs new project .....saluki?
i have now! i just stuck it on my girlfriends eeepc701 after puppeee started getting unstable. she likes it, i havnt had a chance to play with it properly. do you thing sstv will compile on it?

501 needed libaudio for qsstv but the machine is still not powerful enough. im sure its down to the programmer using qt. i know that i coud run sstv under ms dos years back on a 200mhz machine, and bbc micro and zx spectrum used to handle it. the world is a hell of inefficient code today.
if only the russian kolibri guys had kept working on that project!

the eeepc701 should have power to spare running sstv but every puppy after 431 has issues with keyboard map, mouse buttons, just siy stuff like that. it looks like jemimah is on to a winner with saluki. she does not compromise.

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#16 Post by drspastic »

hi, im back again! i got this running fine on 528 on eeepc701 running from the missus usb disk. i installed 528 to sd card and then it didnt work again. it needed QT. anyway i did some more stuff as well now (remaster with hamapps sfs and a lot of other amateur radio essentials. its getting towards being the most complete hampup yet.

now, qsstv wont start from menu. from console it asks for :

sh-4.1# qsstv
qsstv: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4: cannot open shared object file: Input/output error
sh-4.1#

i examined dependancies:

libqtcore libqtgui
these exist but are not in the search path(assumed startup script makes them loadable by application)

so can i copy these into the correct place? which is where?

so close to having it perfect!

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#17 Post by drspastic »

by the way they are all there in more than one version under /usr/lib

that looks the right place. where the hell is it looking for them?

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#18 Post by drspastic »

i looked at /usr/lib and there was libqtcore.so.4 with an exclamation mark triangle icon and the name in red. thats bad yeah?

theres also libqtcore.so.4.6 and 4.6.2

there was no libqtgui.so.4 but there was .4.6 and .4.6.2


under /initrd/r04/usr/lib i found both libqtcore.so.4 and libqtgui.so.4

so i have them both safe.

tried to copy to /usr/lib but failed. wont let me.

it let me copy them to /lib but i guess thats not where the problem is.

any thoughts? what does the red /yellow triangle mean?

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#19 Post by drspastic »

ok, all is good so far copying to /lib let qsstv start!
receive mode works and i have pictures straight off-air. love it!

but transmitt is not making any sounds. i guess the audio settings. in and out are set to 'default' so why one works and the other dont. i will try and get the settings from fldigi and post the results.

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#20 Post by drspastic »

fldig worked with default as sound input, and /dev/dsp as sound output
i tried /dev/dsp on qsstv but still no sound.
on start it says cannot access /dev/dsp no such device.
hmmm....
whats going on here?

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