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darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2549 Location: near here

I would like to make an SFS containing all those lovely sound apps for archpup - but I haven't got time at the moment ; -(

unni · Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Posts: 3

How can I install this ? I tried some steps given in some other threads of this forum like partitioning my drive & formatting it with ext4 . Then copied the 3 files some *.sfs , vmlinuz and initrd . Atlast , ran the grub4dos config . But on restarting the virtual machine ( yes , its on a VM ) , I get a window manager not found error . Is it some trouble with xinitrc ? Please help !

simargl · Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 572

unni · Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Posts: 3

Thanks for that ! I think I didnt copy all the sfs and that's what created the problem .
Now Im trying to install Guest Additions and when I tried to do

simargl · Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 572

Kernel from Arch Linux unfortunately cannot be used in archpup because it doesn't have aufs support,
so to get functional Virtual box modules it is required to recompile them with archpup kernel source sfs loaded.
I tried to do it once and got some udev related error.

unni · Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Posts: 3

So it is . As I earlier told , I tried installing linux kernel from arch repos but nothing happened as the arch thingy didnt have aufs support . Thanks for your support !

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

kind of odd error? playing .wma music file.
Nothing show up that one can use to shut it down.
I tested using mplayer and nothing shows up.

even if I go to menu and chose mplayer from there nothing shows
it just play the music but nothing to click on to stop it.
Very annoying if one have a file from a 60 minute speech
Esc does not help either

Scooby · Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 601

MAybe its time to move from old archpup version to the latest.

Is this stable -- will not be greatly changed in the near future?

You couldnt run new with your old savefile huh?

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

Are you sure that the new one have a different way for how the GMplayer works
with wma files?

I wanted to use it without a save file inspired by Oui but I am not as tech savvy as he is.

So it is just a test I do. I try to download latest and see if it behaves different?

Hm are not the gmplayer in the archapps-12-12.sfs okay maybe the new one has
its own archapps-13-xx.sfs

simargl · Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 572

Scooby,
I think current version is more stable than any one before, you can do what ever you want with it Cool

Only things missing are drivers for nvidia cards, original packages from Arch obviously don't work...

nooby,
That's strange error, if you started mplayer from terminal it should stop when you close it.
But if it's started with file manager it would open smplayer that one is just graphical fronted
it is still using mplayer. btw, this is original mplayer2 package from Arch with all codecs enabled, so it will play everything. Razz

Edit
If you want to test new UI framework QT5, instructions are here http://archpup.freeforums.org/general-discussion-f3.html

Scooby · Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 601

I saw somewhere that you've added a repository for ArchPup, What was the reason for this?

Do the new version of Archpup work with Mavrothals inpet and outpet for .pet files?

Im sorry to hear Mavrothal decided to leave this project. He was good for balance.

Why exactly do you hate the puppy stuff like yaf-splash and so on? Takes to much space?

simargl · Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 572

I do not hate yaf-splash - it is already included as pwireless needs it. Only I don't like when there
are 10 scripts with different names that do the same thing, and it is 'show system notifications using gtkdialog'.

Is it so hard to every script use one notifications system - yaf-splash, gtkdialog-splash or whatever, just choose one and stick to it.

Mavrothal's decision to quit is his right and I respect it, although not quite understand.
I'm not sure that yaf-splash was only reason for him to quit, it's not logical - so there must have been something else.
Who knows maybe he will return once, but if he doesn't, it's not big problem... world is still spinning around as you see. Wink

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

oop ssorry then it is my fault. I prefer mplayer so I did not knew
about the other one. I truly am a noob. So no problemo
none other most likely do such stuff me did. So nothing to worry about

Flash · Posted: Tue 26 Feb 2013, 15:57 Post subject:

Will Archpup run from a multisession DVD, like Puppy does?

stifiling · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 388