Fatdog64-520RC2

[Icyos]

Hi All

I have the RC2 build installed to a usb stick and would like to use GTK-Recordmydesktop or Xvidcap to make some videos about the o/s, however cant find either of them anywhere, the .pets on these forums dont work any help would really be appreciated.

Fatdog comes with a built-in screen recorder. Menu: Graphics --> Screencaster.

Ray, on behalf of kirk - you're welcome

Gcmartin, not that's not a font problem, more like incorrect configuration of pango/gtk, but I never have that kind of error before. Have you check your ISO's md5sum?

cheers!

Hey James many thnaks ill try that as well hehehe

[Barkingmad]

Hello again

After my earlier post I am defiantly using RC2 now.

Some observations after playing with multimedia stuff on Fatdog.

Xine won't play a certain VOB file ripped from DVD -- the error is "Input plugin failed to open mrl". I expect the log file would be helpful but I don't know where it should be so I could copy and attach it. The file plays alright in gxine 0.5.9 in Puppy 4.3.1 and in Mplayer from the PPM in Fatdog.

A bit more serious, but only under JWM not OpenBox. I can't use File Open from the Xine window. Sequence as follows

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With no file loaded > Right click in Xine window > click "open" > click "file".

The first time I do this the pop-out menus simply disappear and nothing seems to happen but if I repeat the commands xserver crashes to a text console, at least I assume this is what has happened as "xwin" restarts the desktop etc.

I have also tried Mplayer from PPM. This seems to run OK under OpenBox -- It shows odd errors but media plays well -- but fails completely with JWM. The video windows opens with a pale blue fill and the shape of the control window appears in solid black but X is "frozen" eg the mouse pointer moves but nothing responds to it. Ctrl+Alt+Del kills X and "xwin"restarts it after this has occurred.

Both these bugs seem to be fully repeatable for me so I might be able to get some logs etc if you tell me what to look for.

This isn't meant as any sort of criticism only I thought you might like the report.

Still think you've done a great job.
Will

[jamesbond]

Thank you for the report.

Xine won't play a certain VOB file ripped from DVD -- the error is "Input plugin failed to open mrl".

Possibly an access issue. Try launching Xine from terminal by typing "xine" (not xine.sh) and open that recalcitrant file. Let us know whether it works.

The file plays alright in gxine 0.5.9 in Puppy 4.3.1 and in Mplayer from the PPM in Fatdog.

Yes, that means it's possibly an access issue.

A bit more serious, but only under JWM not OpenBox.

JWM hasn't been tested (or updated) for a very long time, and probably contains a lot of bugs.

I can't use File Open from the Xine window.

Confirmed bug.

I have also tried Mplayer from PPM. This seems to run OK under OpenBox -- It shows odd errors but media plays well -- but fails completely with JWM.

Confirmed bug with you use gmplayer (the "graphical" mplayer). If you start mplayer from terminal "mplayer filename" it works.

Both these bugs seem to be fully repeatable for me so I might be able to get some logs etc if you tell me what to look for.

All in all, looks like jwm bugs. Solution for the time being: use openbox. I'll see whether we can get jwm updated - but no promises. Even if it does get updated, jwm will probably be as never tested as openbox (unless someone like you volunteers).

cheers!

[Barkingmad]

jamesbond: thanks for your feedback -- some results as requested.

Xine won't play a certain VOB file ripped from DVD -- the error is "Input plugin failed to open mrl"

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Possibly an access issue. Try launching Xine from terminal by typing "xine" (not xine.sh) and open that recalcitrant file. Let us know whether it works.

I have tried running xine from the terminal as requested and the file in question then plays.
For completeness -- the file is one chapter of a James Bond movie and was ripped in Windows. I have also tried playing a DVD (but not that particular title) directly from the drive and it seems to work OK.

Thank you for confirming the other issues are known -- I was thinking they might be somehow related to my hardware as the ATi card I have doesn't seem very well supported under Linux (except Fatdog!)

All in all, looks like jwm bugs. Solution for the time being: use openbox. I'll see whether we can get jwm updated - but no promises. Even if it does get updated, jwm will probably be as never tested as openbox (unless someone like you volunteers).

Thanks for the vote of confidence but I don't think I really have the time and certainly not the code skills to try and debug JWM
Perhaps a mention of the issues with it in the release notes or the welcome page would help others?

Thanks again
Will

[jamesbond]

Lobster, I will look at the pjsua later.

barkingmad, I don't expect you to debug jwm - but none of us use jwm often enough, so it doesn't get a lot of attention. What I mean is it would be good to have a regular jwm user that can point things out to us. That being said, jwm isn't actively updated nowadays, so ...

Anyway, I've compiled the latest jwm for you, it's located here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... x86_64.pet, if you can tell me whether this fixes most of your problem (or not), that would be good.
cheers!

[tony]

Hi,

just installed scribus from package manager.

libQtGui.so.4 => not found
libQtXml.so.4 => not found
libQtNetwork.so.4 => not found
libQtCore.so.4 => not found
libpython2.6.so.1.0 => not found

Anyone know where these libs can be found?

Regards Tony

[jamesbond]

Hi tony,
The first four - install qt4 from PPM.
The last one - install python also from PPM.
cheers!

[kirk]

Hi tony,
The first four - install qt4 from PPM.
The last one - install python also from PPM.
cheers!

And reboot

[tony]

Hi kirk and jamesbond,

Thanks for the info, scribus is now up and running.

I'm getting to like this 64 bit pup, no problems on my thinkpad T61.

Hope we do not overwork you.

Regards Tony

[James C]

First, I went ahead and did a frugal install of RC2 on the dual-core reported on the first page of the thread.... been working fine and no real problems to speak of.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 992#555992
Second,RC2 live multi-session dvd on a different box.Same result,everything working on initial boot and nothing really bad to report yet.Looks good.

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3796MB (288MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.50
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 03 Sep 2011 01:24:44 AM GMT+5
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio Adapter : PC-Speaker - pcsp


-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.0.3 (x86_64)
Version : #1 SMP Thu Aug 18 22:58:50 GMT+5 2011
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.11.1 (stable)
Distribution : Puppy Linux 0.50

[Fishy]

Tried to install on a new barebones system for my nephew. Seemed to load properly but went black screen. so I a cannot get or give anymore information. Regular puppy versions tend to lock up shortly after starting to use them.

The kit came with 8 gig of memory. Windows7 - 64 works perfectly but they would like to have puppy back.

Is the problem that Fdog automatically selects video properties therefore not allowing repair is selction is wrong?

Anybody having similar issues with the new AMD processor?

[Fishy]

Tried to install Calibre in Fatdog and got the following message in terminal. I have installed the python pet required to install it in puppy 5.2.8.

I do have the devx.sfs installed. Fdog otherwise is working well.

Thanks

[gcmartin]

... Gcmartin, not that's not a font problem, more like incorrect configuration of pango/gtk, but I never have that kind of error before. Have you check your ISO's md5sum? ... !

Yes, the md5 and ISO match. I am running from a Live media with a single save-session. The only PET in the save session is the updated "report-video-glx" tool for reporting to this thread. I've wait for next release.

Iwait for the next release, if you feel this may be an anomaly that may be result of some hardware mis-driven by the application. Just seemed like a problem from last year.

Hope this helps

[jamesbond]

Tried to install on a new barebones system for my nephew. Seemed to load properly but went black screen. so I a cannot get or give anymore information. Regular puppy versions tend to lock up shortly after starting to use them.

The kit came with 8 gig of memory. Windows7 - 64 works perfectly but they would like to have puppy back.

Is the problem that Fdog automatically selects video properties therefore not allowing repair is selction is wrong?

Anybody having similar issues with the new AMD processor?

Fishy,
Try booting with "pfix=vesa". If this still fails, try booting with both "pfix=vesa" and "nomodeset".

cheers!

[jamesbond]

Tried to install Calibre in Fatdog and got the following message in terminal. I have installed the python pet required to install it in puppy 5.2.8.

I do have the devx.sfs installed. Fdog otherwise is working well.

Thanks

libdbus is available on Fatdog PPM.

[jamesbond]

... Gcmartin, not that's not a font problem, more like incorrect configuration of pango/gtk, but I never have that kind of error before. Have you check your ISO's md5sum? ... !

Yes, the md5 and ISO match. I am running from a Live media with a single save-session. The only PET in the save session is the updated "report-video-glx" tool for reporting to this thread. I've wait for next release.

Iwait for the next release, if you feel this may be an anomaly that may be result of some hardware mis-driven by the application. Just seemed like a problem from last year.

Hope this helps

No, this doesn't seem to be hardware problem, more like software problem. Try running abiword from terminal and see if you get any error messages that we can decipher

[rcrsn51]

I am running from a Live media with a single save-session.

Have you tried booting with no save sessions? I cannot reproduce your problem.

[Barkingmad]

Hello

jamesbond -- this might be a bit late as I see you have the final release out but as a follow up to

Anyway, I've compiled the latest jwm for you, it's located here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... x86_64.pet, if you can tell me whether this fixes most of your problem (or not), that would be good.

Still won't play that VOB but that happened under both WM anyway. Points: If I dismiss the report of "plugin failed to open" there is another error about permissions so you must be right -- is this something I could fix with the file or what? Another VOB ripped from a different disk but with the same ripper will play with no trouble.


Xine Open > File menu now works.

Mplayer GUI still freezes X. As you suggested mplayer runs from a terminal with no graphical controls.

Thanks again for all your work.

BTW is there a list anywhere of changes from RC2 to final relese so I could see if it's worth the download?

Will

[jamesbond]

Still won't play that VOB but that happened under both WM anyway. Points: If I dismiss the report of "plugin failed to open" there is another error about permissions so you must be right -- is this something I could fix with the file or what? Another VOB ripped from a different disk but with the same ripper will play with no trouble.

The permission problem is a known problem - supposed to be fixed a couple of while ago but didn't because we forgot about it Now that we have a proper bug-tracker, we should remember better.
The fix - edit /usr/local/bin/defaultmediaplayer, change "xine.sh" with "xine" and you're good to go.

Xine Open > File menu now works.

Good - that's what the new jwm is for.

Mplayer GUI still freezes X. As you suggested mplayer runs from a terminal with no graphical controls.

Didn't test this yet, so can't comment, but thanks for testing.

BTW is there a list anywhere of changes from RC2 to final relese so I could see if it's worth the download?

Will

Major update: fotoxx (you need to see it to believe it), latest gnumeric, and jwm-500 and a few libraries, plus other fixes video/sound related fixes.

[Barkingmad]

Thanks James for replying.

The fix for Xine sounds easy enough I'll do that.

BTW is there a list anywhere of changes from RC2 to final relese so I could see if it's worth the download?

Will

Major update: fotoxx (you need to see it to believe it), latest gnumeric, and jwm-500 and a few libraries, plus other fixes video/sound related fixes.

Right, that sounds worth having -- I'll have to see how I'm doing for download allowance this month though before trying it.

Thanks again for the developement.
Will