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marco07 · Joined: 18 Jan 2011 Posts: 176 Location: Lincoln , NE, USA

Hi pemasu:
Thanks for polar puppy 002! i have installed it on my oldr desktop an ESI box with Pentium III, 1 GHz, 1.5 GB ram, and on my laptop a Thinkpad R60. They both are performing well and have had no problem so far. Also installed Thunderbird mail client from the the quickpet. I am enjoying their performance. Great Job!
Would you advise what is the best way to install Libre office and Java packages for P002?
Is installation of sfs from quick pet OK? Or are there .pet packages available?
Thanks again!

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Finland

Jim3630. Hah. I think you have found Clementine usable then. I have not tried to use external speakers.
Do you connect by mini-jack ?

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Finland

Jim3630. I believe you have to get external speakers detected at system level, not from Clementine.
I just tested the connection to my living room stereos. I connected the mini-jack plug to the headphone hole. Then in alsamixer I increased the level in headphone and the sound came from speakers connected to the stereos.
Note, I didnt do any s/pdif tinkering, just headphone setting.
Audio settings are sometimes quite hw spesific. The entries in alsamixer and Retrovol differs in different hw.
And I am not expert in this. Smokey01 is surely more handy for example in audio settings.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Finland

Marco07. For java, you can use the java pet from the link.
For Libre Office. I think that 01Mickos Libre Office gui pet is usable. I have still Libre Office as standalone installation and I havent updated it yet.
Iguleder also has something going on regarding Libre Office.

I remember that I had thiskind discussion in Ice Puppy thread and there was some solutions after my miserable intervention.

http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/Pets/jre-1.6u25-i586.pet

For Libre Office 3.4
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65918

For older sfs libre office:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet-packages-lucid/LibreOfc-3.3.1_en_US_sfs4.sfs

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

also ALSA sound wizard flashes open but closes when choose "One: Adjust levels"

looks like new savefile.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Finland

Jim3630. That gstreamer-phono libs package is the one I made for Polarpup and it is already installed during woof building stage. It has combined Ubuntu libs for audio-video-media functionality and gstreamer libs with about 190 plugins.
You should not install it. It is not useful and only eats your savefile.

Installing Gnomad2 didnt brake sound in my laptop.

I think that installing again that massive libs pet might have broken your existing system. Gstreamer has somekind mechanism to detect and preserve system information of hardware and functionality. At least some gstreamer plugins might not be used as they used to be.

I uploaded that massive gstreamer enabling libs pet if someone wants the functionality of it in Lucid based Puppy without need to install them one by one from the PPM.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2625 Location: Earth

On hostname command

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

this is a time when an option to close without saving would undo this correct?

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

posting from 263 noticed has updated version of ALSA wizard 1.0.24.2 and Alsamixer in multimedia. I'm easily able to select setting for external speakers HDA intel: HDMI 0 (hw 0.3). Nice

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Finland

Jim3630. Polarpup has alsa 1.0.24.2 also, lol, so not so old. And thank you of that alsamixer in menu tip. I will include it to the next build.
In Polarpup alsamixer works from the console. But the entry in menu is much better.
I just usually do changes in Retrovol so I havent thought about menu entry for alsamixer.

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Finland

Jim3630. HDMI sounds much more familiar than DMDI. Now I know what you try to do. I think alsa 1.0.24 is the first alsa version which offers HDMI usability. I can be wrong.

Alsawizard usage is bad because it hardcodes the selection. Dont use it if you can. Barry has now even made the gui to warn about using it.

But.....You can try with Multiple soundcard wizard pet if you can change the soundcard to use HDMI.

I am not tested HDMI connection in Puppies. Interesting thing that you get it working in Luci 263. I need to test HDMI also in Polarpup and in Luci 263.
I have unfortunately quite difficult hw for audio. I didnt get sound at latest spup with pmusic at all.

It can be also that my 2.6.38 kernel and alsa detection is not 100 % working. So maybe lack of HDMI is the distro problem. Lets see.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Finland

Jim3630. I just want to be sure. Did you get HDMI audio working in Polarpup with VLC and Umplayer or did you mean Luci 263 only.

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada