EasyOS version 2.3.2, June 22, 2020

[BarryK]

Boot Manager problem
I'm trying to load some sfs of various things (games, pwidgets, printer driver) I've copied to the indicated directory but nothing seems to be loading on re-booting (screenshot). Is there a new type of sfs required?

sfs files placed under the 'sfs' folder are supposed to be created with special meta-data inside them. The way to re-make an existing sfs is to open it up and use 'dir2sfs' -- there is a blog post on that.

However, traditional sfs files can be loaded, place them in /mnt/wkg/releases/easy-0.9.10, then run the menu Filesystem --> Easy BootManager and you can select them.

It requires a reboot. Not supporting load-on-the-fly, as when a change in sfs layers, there is special checking done in 'initrd' before the layers get loaded.

I am remembering more about the decisions I made when originally designing this...

SFSs placed in /mnt/wkg/releases/easy-0.9.10 will NOT be recognised by the BootManager, only those under the 'sfs' folder -- and they must be built with 'dir2sfs' to have the required meta-data.

If you really want to use one of your SFSs, place it in /mnt/wkg/releases/easy-0.9.10 and manually edit /mnt/wkg/releases/easy-0.9.10/configuration, insert a variable

EASY_LAYER_RO1=name-of-the-sfs-here

Then reboot.

However, I do not recommend doing this. Well, you can, with caution.
SFS's should really be compiled for the host system in which they are going to run, with matching folders.

For example, your ace-of-penguins has /usr/lib64 folder, however, easy.sfs has /usr/lib64 as a symlink to /usr/lib. So does Xenialpup.

Easy does not have /usr/lib/X86_64-linux-gnu, Xenialpup has it as a symlink to /usr/lib -- so, if ace-of-penguins SFS is a layer above easy.sfs or xenialpup.sfs, it could totally mess things up.

Although it might seem to work, it will break other apps. For example, some apps are hardcoded to look in /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, and their files will no longer be there.

[BarryK]

There have been a couple reports about the background sometimes getting scrambled in containers.

I have tweaked some delays, which might fix this.

The next release will be 0.9.13, probably out tomorrow.

[BarryK]

It became 0.9.14, do to testing of version upgrading and fixing a few things.

Release announcement:

http://bkhome.org/news/201812/easyos-ve ... eased.html

And a new tutorial on upgrading:

https://easyos.org/user/easy-version-up ... grade.html

Though, it might be best not to upgrade any current installation, treat 0.9.14 as new install. After that, should be good for upgrading.

[Billtoo]

I installed to a 32gb usb-3.0 flash drive with easydd, pc is an Acer laptop.
So far have installed Kodi.
Screeny doesn't work properly for me, I installed tas and it works fine.

I need sleep so will test more later.
Thanks.

[Sage]

0.9.14: no issues - works perfectly, 16Mb USB/GF video card.
[I prefer to extract the .img.gz as an intermediate step for integrity checking and burn through an old 1.1USB port, kept for the purpose, which gives a much slower burn rate and less burn errors.]

[Billtoo]

I installed to a 32gb usb-3.0 flash drive, pc is a lenovo desktop:

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Memory 4041MB (981MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Easy Pyro64
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Tue Dec 18 15:04:39 2018
SCSI Disks
ATA WDC WD3200AAJS-5
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH40N
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0
Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 4.14.87 (x86_64)
Version #1 SMP Mon Dec 10 09:49:25 AWST 2018
C Library GNU C Library version 2.25 (stable)
Distribution Easy Pyro64
OpenGL
Vendor Mesa Project
Renderer Software Rasterizer
Version 2.1 Mesa 17.3.8
Direct Rendering Y_es
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.19.6
Monitors
Monitor 0 1920x1080 pixels

Screenshot is from Google maps.

My Acer laptop install wouldn't boot this morning,was on a verbatum
flash drive which have given problems before.
The nouveau driver is working fine so far.
Screeny worked okay on this install.

Thanks.

[Billtoo]

I installed to another 32gb usb-3.0 flash drive, pc is an HP desktop:

Computer
Processor 6x AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Memory 8163MB (203MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Easy Pyro64
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Tue Dec 18 20:40:09 2018
SCSI Disks
ATA Hitachi HDS72101
hp BDDVDRW CH20L
SanDisk Ultra
Generic- SD/MMC
Generic- Compact Flash
Generic- SM/xD-Picture
Generic- MS/MS-Pro
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0
Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 4.14.87 (x86_64)
Version #1 SMP Mon Dec 10 09:49:25 AWST 2018
C Library GNU C Library version 2.25 (stable)
Distribution Easy Pyro64
OpenGL
Vendor Mesa Project
Renderer Software Rasterizer
Version 2.1 Mesa 17.3.8
Direct Rendering Y_es

It's working okay on this computer.
-------------------------------------------

EDIT: On this install (core 2 install as well) the processor is working harder that expected when running kodi.
Running kodi in bionicpup64 takes much less (processor runs at 800mhz on this pc) screenshot3.
Screeny no longer works in a container, I installed tas pet to get screenshot2.
The processor on the dual core get up to 63C when running Kodi

That's it for now,
Thanks.

[FeodorF]

There have been a couple reports about the background sometimes getting scrambled in containers.

I have tweaked some delays, which might fix this.

The next release will be 0.9.13, probably out tomorrow.

Well, as far as I can tell it looks good over here, The containerized background screen goes black - than white and after that the right
background image shows up. I do have some keyboard delay while typing - um German keyboard still have some issue. I will have to get me a new UK/US keyboard for Christmas!

Season greetings to all,
Feodor

[BarryK]

Screeny no longer works in a container, I installed tas pet to get screenshot2.
The processor on the dual core get up to 63C when running Kodi

That's it for now,
Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback about Screeny, I will test it.

Is that running hot when running Kodi in a container?
-- ah, yes, I see it is in a container, from your snapshot.

[Billtoo]

Screeny no longer works in a container, I installed tas pet to get screenshot2.
The processor on the dual core get up to 63C when running Kodi

That's it for now,
Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback about Screeny, I will test it.

Is that running hot when running Kodi in a container?
-- ah, yes, I see it is in a container, from your snapshot.

This install is using the nouveau driver, I looked everywhere that I
could think of but can't find the kernel source sfs.
Wanted to see if the proprietary nvidia driver would run better than
nouveau, cooler maybe?

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Easy Pyro64, version 0.9.14

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768x16
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe dri2 evdev exa extmod fb fbdevhw glx shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1920x1080 pixels (508x285 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

I used tas to get the screenshot, screeny wouldn't work with kodi.
Thanks.

[foxpup]

This install is using the nouveau driver, I looked everywhere that I
could think of but can't find the kernel source sfs.
Wanted to see if the proprietary nvidia driver would run better than
nouveau, cooler maybe?

I think here:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64 ... s/oe/pyro/

[Gyle]

The Screeny capture tool works OK
Edit: not in Easy container. The picture is well registered in a folder and editable but there is no way to send it with a browser in or out the container.
Edit 2: neither to export the picture out the container with Gimp

These many windows's pictures on the desktop just to help me understanding where I am in the Easy system from the Puppy user side,
especially the differences between root, home, root/Downloads I created
and /mnt/sdb2/home/downloads, /home and /mnt/sdb2/home, etc...

Graphic Driver Nouveau OK + script xrandr Edit: in order to position the laptop's screen to the right of the monitor

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
xrandr --output LVDS-1 --mode 1280x800 --pos 1920x280 --rotate normal --output HDMI-1 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal

[Billtoo]

This install is using the nouveau driver, I looked everywhere that I
could think of but can't find the kernel source sfs.
Wanted to see if the proprietary nvidia driver would run better than
nouveau, cooler maybe?

I think here:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64 ... s/oe/pyro/

Hi,

0.9.14 is running the 4.14.87 kernel so I need the kernel source sfs for that.

[Gyle]

Screeny's picture in container transfert via network is working.

[foxpup]

Hi,

0.9.14 is running the 4.14.87 kernel so I need the kernel source sfs for that.

My eyes don't remark the difference between 7 and 1 anymore. Since about a year I notice it goes downhill. Hmmm.
You're right, it isn't there. Have to wait for Barry.

[BarryK]

This install is using the nouveau driver, I looked everywhere that I
could think of but can't find the kernel source sfs.
Wanted to see if the proprietary nvidia driver would run better than
nouveau, cooler maybe?

I think here:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64 ... s/oe/pyro/

0.9.14 is using kernel 4.14.87, I haven't uploaded the source SFS for it.

This is the first kernel that I have ever compiled with CONFIG_SCHED_SMT enabled. Because it is now forced enabled.

Next release, will upload the kernel SFS. Will be bumping to a later kernel.

[BarryK]

The Screeny capture tool works OK
Edit: not in Easy container. The picture is well registered in a folder and editable but there is no way to send it with a browser in or out the container.
Edit 2: neither to export the picture out the container with Gimp

There is /shared-folder, save stuff there to export them "outside", at /mnt/wkg/home/shared

[BarryK]

I discovered a couple of bugs with EasyShare. Fixed.

The SSHFS method of file sharing did not work. I found the cause, but want to go through all the steps again, as per the tutorial.

Found a bug when change hostname, samba did not get updated. Fixed.

We are having a heatwave in Perth today, so just hanging out, might do further testing of EasyShare later tonight.

[don570]

I was able to get blender 2.79b to work with Easy 0.9.14
with my intel graphics.
I put fatdog 800 /etc/drirc file in Easy and that was the solution.

I attach the file for anyone else with old intel graphics chip 950
(fake gz extension)

[BarryK]

The next release will have Zarfy, for managing multiple monitors:

http://bkhome.org/news/201812/zarfy-mul ... nager.html