Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1

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danilone · #391 Post by **danilone** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 13:34

Hello.

It's nice to see mr. Kauler busy as ever. The new version of Quirky caught my attention specially for its UEFI-booting capabilities.

Recently I bought a LG Slidepad as a gift to my wife. Later I learned its chipset is an Intel Clover Trail which is not Linux-friendly to this day.
It is a 32-bit architecture with UEFI-booting and no Legacy mode. More info here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1341944

Anyway, I was planning on installing the new Quirky to a SDCard but the combination of 32-bit CPU + Over 1.2GB + UEFI made the Quirky Installer give me this:

No installing options for 32-bit Quirky, UEFI-booting. Suggest you go BACK and choose BIOS-booting (legacy mode)

Back to Windows 8.1...

jd7654 · #392 Post by **jd7654** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 15:45

L18L wrote: Just a friendly hint as an alternative to "blindly tabbing"
Keeping Alt key pressed
you can move any window
with left mouse tab pressed.

Ah yes, thanks. You can tell I don't use that tiny netbook too much.

I'm getting deja vu...I think I remember doing this way back in the CRT and SVGA days. Got lost in long term storage.

jd7654 · #393 Post by **jd7654** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 15:45

BarryK wrote: jd7654,
In your case the Installer wants to download into /tmp. I never encountered a problem with that, as I am testing on a laptop with 4GB RAM, and the tmpfs mounted on /tmp has a quite large maximum size limit.

Thanks for the response Barry.

Just so you know, that failure was just a trial on an old clunker sandbox PC, P4 with 512MB RAM, and only 256MB /tmp is available. So the error I assume was from it calculating not enough space being available for both the download and decompressed usfs file, around 600MB needed in /tmp?

linuxcbon · #394 Post by **linuxcbon** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 16:11

April64 7.0.3

- having a bi-core processor, when installing with 4install-quirky-to-partition : Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor

- can you add a modprobe for ipv6 at the start , so april is good for it ?

- for my card, /lib/firmware/radeon/RS780_uvd.bin is missing
can be found at http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/

- geany still missing 2 icons : save-all and build

linuxcbon · #395 Post by **linuxcbon** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 18:07

April64 7.0.3

- when removing the keyboard language in xorg.conf , the keyboard language is not set anymore

- # rxvt
rxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.

linuxcbon · #396 Post by **linuxcbon** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 19:03

April64 7.0.3

- # acpid
# more /var/log/acpid.log
acpid: can't change directory to '/etc/acpi': No such file or directory
solution : creating folder /etc/acpi solves it

jd7654 · #397 Post by **jd7654** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 23:08

Some more April 7.0.3 installquirky GUI feedback:

I should say the traditional install to drive or partition is fine, as it was before, and that's how I'd use Quirky anyway. April 7.0.3 works well and I have it installed all over the place.

But tried installing April 7.0.3 from a few more platforms just to test:

X-Slacko 2.3.2 - installed frugal OK.

LxPup 15.02.1 - install frugal FAIL! Got stuck on some kind loop or massive data copy, had to stop it after it gobbled up 5 GB!
Ran the installquirky from console and had the output below, the problem started after I hit continue to start the install, and the "recursion detected" message came out:

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# ./installquirky.x86
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing installquirky  100%  
ldd: /tmp/selfgz194726537/syslinux: No such file or directory
Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127 (g-dbus-error-quark, 25)
Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127 (g-dbus-error-quark, 25)
cp: recursion detected, omitting directory '/initrd/mnt/dev_save/LxPup-15.02.1/lxpupsave-TMP/april-7.0.3/dev_save'
^CSignal caught, cleaning up
#

Apparently installing in LxPup, instead of installing april-7.0.3 to:
/dev/sda4
where I selected,(and X-slacko did successfully) it installed it to:
/initrd/mnt/dev_save/LxPup-15.02.1/lxpupsave-TMP
the LxPup save folder.

And then it proceeded to copy dev_save under april-7.0.3, which happens to be /dev/sda4 that has a complete Fedora install on it, in addition to frugal X-Slacko and LxPup directories. So it was trying to copy all that under april-7.0.3 for some reason, copying all that under itself, and it got to 5GB and was still going so I had to stop it.

ETP · #398 Post by **ETP** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 13:29

Google Chrome Pet for 64bit versions of Quirky April.
GetLatest64bitChromeVersion-V3.pet

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... aring#list

This pet (302k) will download, install & set as the default browser the latest 64bit stable version of Chrome.
Having installed the pet a menu item "Get Latest Chrome Version" will appear on the JWM Internet sub-menu.

When clicked, a series of prompts will guide you through the process.
A final prompt (White text on a blue background) will invite you to launch Chrome.
Please note that this final prompt may take a couple of minutes to appear.

The pet includes the additional dependencies required by Chrome and is only suitable for use with
64bit versions of Quirky April.

When newer versions of Chrome become available in order to update:

1. Use PPM (Puppy Package Manager) to uninstall the existing version of Google-Chrome-Stable.

2. Click on the JWM Internet menu “Get Latest Chrome Version

peebee · #399 Post by **peebee** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 15:10

Qurky April 7.0.3 "frugal" install to a hard disk directory

Wifi connection established using sns - do a save - reboot - wifi connection does not automatically re-establish itself - needs a right click on the network_tray icon and then manual click of 'connect now' to re-establish....

LxPupApril64-15.03 pets work fine on this new edition except that the "do a save at each reboot" option is not detected - will need to work out why.....@BK any clues as to what has changed for this new feature?

Cheers
PeeBee

L18L · #400 Post by **L18L** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 15:29

No way for a remaster?

I am running it (just for fun) from a 1GB USB stick controlled by grub4dos.

jd7654 · #401 Post by **jd7654** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 15:58

peebee wrote: Wifi connection established using sns - do a save - reboot - wifi connection does not automatically re-establish itself - needs a right click on the network_tray icon and then manual click of 'connect now' to re-establish....

Yeah, I noticed on frugal that ethernet network stayed down after save and reboot if SNS was used, but did come up automatically if Network Wizard was used instead.

Did not try wireless with frugal as my test laptops are under 1.2GB so frugal install not allowed.(did not try manual yet) Regular HD/partition install was fine though.

gcav · #402 Post by **gcav** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 17:48

Testing April 7.0.3 with UEFI.

Acer Switch 10, I cannot make it boot. I disabled secure boot and all. Yet it does not appear at the F-12 Bios boot menu.

Anyone tried this on an Acer Switch?

gc

Ted Dog · #403 Post by **Ted Dog** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 18:04

Acer Switch looks cool for the price. did FatDog64, boot on this? My Acer One did not boot, or dark screen ( may be lack of firmware/driver some posted above )

FeodorF · #404 Post by **FeodorF** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 18:11

Hi All !

Has anybody tried to download the 'devx pet'?

The Netherlands and ibiblio fails.

L18L · #405 Post by **L18L** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 18:33

FeodorF wrote:Hi All !

Has anybody tried to download the 'devx pet'?

The Netherlands and ibiblio fails.

Hi Feodor,
If I recall correctly I have installed it per package manager without choice of server. So it was from ibiblio.

ally · #406 Post by **ally** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 18:48

https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linu ... pril64.pet

FeodorF · #407 Post by **FeodorF** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 18:54

Thanks L18L, thanks ally!

That does it.

jd7654 · #408 Post by **jd7654** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 21:51

jd7654 · #409 Post by **jd7654** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 21:52

gcav wrote:Testing April 7.0.3 with UEFI.

Acer Switch 10, I cannot make it boot. I disabled secure boot and all. Yet it does not appear at the F-12 Bios boot menu.

Anyone tried this on an Acer Switch?

gc

You know, I was gonna tell you, "good luck with that Bay Trail machine! They don't like Linux!"

But before I opened my mouth, I decided to try again on mine, what the heck.
And it WORKED!
Dang, got Quirky April64 7.0.3 running on this ASUS T100 2-in-1 Windows 8.1 tablet: (similar architecture to yours)

Had it for over a year, but it was so hard to run any kind of Linux on it, I just gave up and didn't bother anymore.
Networking and touchscreen not working, but those were always the sticky issues.
But I can poke around and work on that now that I have a basic working system at full res with keyboard and touchpad at least. Cool.

Rodney Byne · #410 Post by **Rodney Byne** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 22:39

To Barry K,

in Utility/pRun application launcher, if speaker test is selected
and the noise runs, the noise doesn't stop when pRun
is closed down.

The only way to stop the noise is to re-boot Q7.0.3
Regards, RB

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