Squeezed Arm Puppy for Raspberry Pi, alpha4

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Squeezed Arm Puppy for Raspberry Pi, alpha4

#1 Post by BarryK »

Alpha4 is out

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02910

Feedback for alpha4 starts on page 11 of this Forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 452#641452


Alpha3 is out

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02899

Feedback starts on page 7 of this Forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 708#639708

July 2, 2012: Oh boy, alpha2 is out!

Blog announcement and download links:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02879

Discussion of alpha2 starts on page 2 of this Forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 941#637941

We have reached the first alpha release!

See my blog announcement, release notes and download links:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02874

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#2 Post by jamesbond »

Those who do not have Pi but interested to try or help to troubleshoot this, please refer to here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79358 for instructions.
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gtkdialog bug fix

#3 Post by jamesbond »

The line numbers are specific to gtkdialog revision 320 from svn trunk, but if you do a search, you should be able to find the line in other versions too.

File is src/automaton.c, line number 2149
Reverse a and b, from stackelement _sum(stackelement a, stackelement b)
to
stackelement _sum(stackelement b, stackelement a)

gtkdialog will magically display the correct ordering. Do I get a bounty? 8)

Can't help with the keyboard, I don't own a pi.
EDIT: I see from your post that keyboard problem is resolved with a new kernel Image. So two major problems are resolved then.
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Re: gtkdialog bug fix

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jamesbond
You are sure todays winner!
Since you didn't mention what CD-single you like, A bounty should be on its way.

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#5 Post by Lobster »

The Chromium browser makes a huge difference and the keyboard editing will be great.

We have an email client - it loads, anyone tested?
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#6 Post by 01micko »

libusb-1.0 is missing, you can get it from the debian repo.

I tried ffconvert-1.3 (latest, supports screen grab) from shinobar but I got some screen size error when trying to do a screen cast, this is using qemu, it might work on real Pi hardware (needs above mentioned libusb)
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#7 Post by jamesbond »

I posted this in Psync thread but post here again in case it was overlooked. "ntpdate" binary doesn't seem to be inside the disk image so Psync doesn't work.

@Ziggy: thanks :) I'm just glad I can help :)
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#8 Post by tasmod »

The binary is in the pet package in the Psync thread. You could extract it from there.
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#9 Post by eowens2 »

I just took sap6-5.95 out for a test drive and it looks very promising!

I have the R_pi tied in to my home network with wired ethernet, and included on the network is an HP Officejet 6500 E710n-z printer.

I chose the "add new printer" option and CUPS correctly found my network printer and added it. Although the HP driver collection does not include a driver for the "6500" model, I chose the "6100" model hoping that it would enable enough features to make the "6500" usable.

I loaded a test file into Geany, and it printed perfectly on the HP 6500!

Good work!

On my keyboard the arrow keys also do not work. Backspace key does delete backwards. Cannot test the delete key to erase figure under the cursor.

Question: Does this version of Puppy reside in memory, or are things loaded in from the SD card as they are needed?

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#10 Post by Lobster »

Great news about Cups. :D
Puppi SAP print server would be a cheap, cheerful and useful device for a charity office, educational project or other tight budget project.
Question: Does this version of Puppy reside in memory, or are things loaded in from the SD card as they are needed?

Puppy runs from memory as does this version.

Also there is presently only one place to save, so first shut down is simple
From Barry's blog:
the SD cards we are booting off now on the ARM boards, are full installations, no layered filesystem, and there is no need for selecting where to save the session at first shutdown.
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#11 Post by rhadon »

Hi,

tested sap6 alpha1 a little bit:

wireless keyboard with touchpad works OOTB. OK, a little bit too sensitive, but no problem.

I installed german keyboard layout but this doeesn't have any effect, keyboard still works with us layout.

xsane doesn't work for me, get "no device found". I think it's the general usb detecting problem.

At startup I can read:
usb-hub detected
4 ports detected
usb-hd detected,

but when puppy pops up, I can't see any connected usb device. No usb drive icon, not with Pmount and not with probepart.

Gparted has these missing dependencies:
libgtkmm
libpangomm
libglibmm
.

After installing these libs via PPM, Gparted worked and was able to detect usb drives.

Knowing the right name of the drive/partition (here sda3), it was easy for me, to mount it manually.

And now the highlight, after mounting sda3 manually, I connected 2 usb sticks too. I got drive/partition icons for sdb and sdc, and Pmount and probepart were able to detect all drives.

I hope, I can test more during the day,

Rolf

Edit: just tried xsane again (canon Lide30 via usb) but still no luck.
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#12 Post by Lobster »

Good stuff from Rolf. 8)

I am about to try a USB hard drive (it has its own power so I an hopeful) on the Rpi.

Transferring files in an out of the Pi has not been easy without USB
and I have been using attachments to emails . . .

There is also Drive (released yesterday) You need Chromium on both machines.
Drag pics or files from Puppy rox into a 'Drive' directory on one machine and it should be available from any browser (Drive will appear on your gmail account)
For some reason (probably mostly impatience and stupidity) I could not get dropbox to work.

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#13 Post by 01micko »

Ed, Rolf....

Make sure libusb-1.0 is installed (it seems to be missing)... search it in PPM and you'll find it in debian main iirc.
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#14 Post by Lobster »

Thanks Mick,

Jamesbond is reminding of his file transfer method (see the Qemu initiative thread) which he wants to know if it works on rpi (real hardware).
It is a little complex but one of the hardware enabled raspberrians might rise to the challenge . . .

I may have to get a new SD card . . .
Gonna try the ffmpg recording feature - that is my priority
Now leaving Intel CPU and transferring to low power raspberry . . .

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#15 Post by rhadon »

01micko wrote:Make sure libusb-1.0 is installed (it seems to be missing)...
Yes, this was the first thing I did, but I realized no difference. Then I tried Gparted. I don't know if it's needed or not, but it's good to write that I did it first :oops: .

In the meantime after several reboots, usb drive detection (and mounting/unmounting) still works fine. At least with Pmount. Looking back, it looks like an "initial push" was missing. The appearing of drive icons also works fine (the appearing of icons from my hd takes a very looong time) but the disappearing doesn't seem to work right. Not a big problem, Pmount seems to work OK, or you can restart xserver.

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#16 Post by Lobster »

ffmpeg working on Raspberry

'Drive' (a cloud dropbox from Google) does not allow me to access my own files. Why? The fact that I have no timer running means I am considered a potential hacker by Chrome. Setting the timer is not persistent. Barry has mentioned problems . . .

At the moment Chrome browser is crashing with four open tabs. When I say crash I mean no ability to use ctrl+alt+backspace - so until alpha 2 not sure how serious . . .
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#17 Post by jamesbond »

tasmod wrote:The binary is in the pet package in the Psync thread. You could extract it from there.
tasmod, I can't find the pet which contains the arm binary. I can find one for x86 and one for x86_64. Barry said Psync 2.8 is already in alpha1 so naturally I was expecting the binary is already inside the image file :roll: I may have to hunt down the package from debian squeeze armel packages :D

EDIT: Am happy to report that after installing ntpdate from debian package ("ntpdate" is all you need) and choosing autorestart, Psync gets the correct time at next boot. Binary tarball is attached.
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ntpdate-4.2.6.tar.gz
Corrected version that will open in GUI. ntpdate extracted from debian squeeze armel package.
(39.56 KiB) Downloaded 1090 times
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#18 Post by jamesbond »

While waiting for Barry to release the next version, this is the corrected gtkdialog4 (this one is svn revision 320 - slightly newer than 0.8.0). You can use this to overwrite the existing /usr/sbin/gtkdialog4.
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#19 Post by rhadon »

@jamesbond
it seems to me, that something's wrong with ntpdate-4.2.6.tar.gz.

Although it's ~80k, if I try to extract, it seems to be empty. I downloaded and tried it 2x.

Now testing gtkdialog 8).

Thanks,
Rolf

Edit: gtkdialog4 works fine now, tested with PPM and WallRefresh. :D
Small problem, e.g. Pmount has still reversed order, maybe this version is based on gtkdialog3? No matter, this is a big step forward :D .

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#20 Post by eowens2 »

After more experience with sap6-5.95, a couple more observations.

As rhadon mentioned, the drives attached to the USB hub were not seen (and no icons present) and Gparted did not work. But as suggested the addition of libgtkmm, libpangomm and libglibmm enabled both Gparted and the recognition of the USB drives and their icons.

The addition of the 3 libs with the Puppy Package Manager seemed to be somewhat of a struggle. Even after reporting that a lib had been successfully added, PPM did not give me an option of a clean exit from the process, but kept trying to download and install the library. I tried to stop the process with "OK" or "X" in the dialogue, but finally had to use "Kill" to get back control. I was not sure if the library had been added or not, and had to use "find" at the command line to verify its presence (it HAD been added).

The console seems to have lost its memory. I am accustomed to being able to recall previously typed-in commands by using the up- and down-arrow keys...this feature is missing. But I guess this is part of the same problem which has already been described of (the missing) ability of moving the cursor about the screen with the arrow keys.

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