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#461 Post by nooby »

Thanks Playdays. That would solve part of my problem
the other most likely a kind of catalogging that Sigmund
wants or prefer while I have that catalog alread in the Dir
ready to be used.

So how do I set it to not do catalog of records

I did mean GNU yes. I have to know what it is named
and then write that as the default music player as well.

Any suggestion what it might be?

But I got so sad and disappointed it maybe is too late
to repair my feelings. I am a bit too sensitive obviously.

I had longed for to have two OS both Lucy and Slacko
but my lack of knowledge broke the trust for Slacko.

You need to know too much to make it behave.

Sigmund like you told me I did write in the pmusic thread.

Will look for answer there
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Re: VLC with DVB

#462 Post by slick-puppy »

DC wrote:Hi,
Does anybody have a version of VLC with DVB working in slacko 5.7?

My normal pet "vlc-2.0.3_twoflower.pet" won't even open.

thanks

dc
I also had issues with every vlc I installed trying to play a recorded .ts from a satellite. Although every version would open for me I received an error " unable to decode mpgv audio or video ". Being that I tried several versions and received the same error I assumed the problem might be external with ffmpeg so I uninstalled ffmpeg and installed ffmpeg and vlc from here and everything works for me now:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... -slacko14/

ffmpeg-2.0-i686-s14.0.pet
ffmpeg_DEV-2.0-i686-s14.0.pet
vlc-2.1.0-i686-s14.pet

Since I installed all at the same time I still do not know exactly where the problem was. People at compile time on vlc choose to compile ffmpeg with vlc and others choose to use external installed ffmpeg.

gcmartin

#463 Post by gcmartin »

Sorry: moved to Pmusic thread.

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#464 Post by majorfoo »

playdayz wrote: Anyway, I usually used Audacious, which was/is available for Lucid and probably is or could be available for Slacko
I also like Audacious and have just installed Audacious-3.2.3-2 pet in Slacko 5.7 FInal.I don't remember where I downloaded the pet from.
Did not have any problem with installation or with playing of mp3 files

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#465 Post by Billtoo »

majorfoo wrote:
playdayz wrote: Anyway, I usually used Audacious, which was/is available for Lucid and probably is or could be available for Slacko
I also like Audacious and have just installed Audacious-3.2.3-2 pet in Slacko 5.7 FInal.I don't remember where I downloaded the pet from.
Did not have any problem with installation or with playing of mp3 files
I installed audacious from PPM in Slacko 5.7, it's working well.
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#466 Post by nooby »

Thanks for letting me know about Audacious.
Does not that one spend some several minutes to list
all the files under the Music Dir?
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VLC with DVB

#467 Post by DC »

Hi slick-puppy,
How do you uninstall ffmpeg? I tried installing over the top and that did'nt work :?

thanks

dc
slick-puppy wrote:I also had issues with every vlc I installed trying to play a recorded .ts from a satellite. Although every version would open for me I received an error " unable to decode mpgv audio or video ". Being that I tried several versions and received the same error I assumed the problem might be external with ffmpeg so I uninstalled ffmpeg and installed ffmpeg and vlc from here and everything works for me now:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... -slacko14/

ffmpeg-2.0-i686-s14.0.pet
ffmpeg_DEV-2.0-i686-s14.0.pet
vlc-2.1.0-i686-s14.pet

Since I installed all at the same time I still do not know exactly where the problem was. People at compile time on vlc choose to compile ffmpeg with vlc and others choose to use external installed ffmpeg.
a little bit of knowledge and I'm dangerous

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Re: VLC with DVB

#468 Post by slick-puppy »

DC wrote:Hi slick-puppy,
How do you uninstall ffmpeg? I tried installing over the top and that did'nt work :?

thanks

dc
I uninstalled the ffmpeg version in the menu:

Menu --> Setup --> Remove built in packages

There was two installed but it only allowed me to uninstall one. That left ffmpeg-0.11.2 installed. Then I was able to install the newer pets I downloaded.

Be advised I had to scale my processor from 80% to 50% in the menu:

Menu --> System --> CPU Frequency Scaling tool

And also adjusted the cache in vlc for the higher bit rate feeds in vlc to display properly with out jerking.

Mplayer2 (Not mplayer; it has some issues with high bit rate feeds) actually uses less resources and plays some tp's that vlc will not; I use it more often than vlc.
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#469 Post by nooby »

Help me spot what goes wrong. To me these look identical
apart from 5.6 and 5.7
title slacko-5.6 Puppy Linux
kernel (hd0,0)/slacko-5.6/vmlinuz PMEDIA=atahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=slacko-5.6 pfix=fsck
initrd (hd0,0)/slacko-5.6/initrd.gz

title slacko-5.7 Puppy Linux non-Pae
kernel (hd0,0)/slacko-5.7/vmlinuz PMEDIA=atahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=slacko-5.7 pfix=fsck
initrd (hd0,0)/slacko-5.7/initrd.gz
The older one works well but the new one fail to go pass
Automatic logon. While the old one do it instantly.

So it looks to me that slacko7 is different internally ?
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VLC -DVB

#470 Post by DC »

Hi slick-puppy,
Tried your way did not work for me. So read some more and started again.
loaded
qt-4.8.2.sfs and vlc-2.0.3.sfs - works fine
tried
qt-4.8.2.sfs and vlc-2.1.0-i686-s14.pet - works
qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.2-i686-s14.sfs and vlc-2.1.0-i686-s14.pet works

so it seems my problem was the missing qt files and the BBC is working in VLC at 01:43 in the morning.
And the bonus is I'm now running VLC 2.1.0

thanks
dc
slick-puppy wrote:I uninstalled the ffmpeg version in the menu:

Menu --> Setup --> Remove built in packages

There was two installed but it only allowed me to uninstall one. That left ffmpeg-0.11.2 installed. Then I was able to install the newer pets I downloaded.

Be advised I had to scale my processor from 80% to 50% in the menu:

Menu --> System --> CPU Frequency Scaling tool

And also adjusted the cache in vlc for the higher bit rate feeds in vlc to display properly with out jerking.

Mplayer2 (Not mplayer; it has some issues with high bit rate feeds) actually uses less resources and plays some tp's that vlc will not; I use it more often than vlc.
a little bit of knowledge and I'm dangerous

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Re: VLC -DVB

#471 Post by slick-puppy »

DC wrote:Hi slick-puppy,
Tried your way did not work for me. So read some more and started again.
loaded
qt-4.8.2.sfs and vlc-2.0.3.sfs - works fine
tried
qt-4.8.2.sfs and vlc-2.1.0-i686-s14.pet - works
qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.2-i686-s14.sfs and vlc-2.1.0-i686-s14.pet works

so it seems my problem was the missing qt files and the BBC is working in VLC at 01:43 in the morning.
And the bonus is I'm now running VLC 2.1.0

thanks
dc
Did not think about the qt installs. I had already had them installed when I compiled all my dvb programs so they would work with my modified modules and frontend.h. Glad you got it working. I guess that is the reason my vlc installs was working. I just had a codec issue.

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#472 Post by slick-puppy »

nooby wrote:Help me spot what goes wrong. To me these look identical
apart from 5.6 and 5.7
title slacko-5.6 Puppy Linux
kernel (hd0,0)/slacko-5.6/vmlinuz PMEDIA=atahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=slacko-5.6 pfix=fsck
initrd (hd0,0)/slacko-5.6/initrd.gz

title slacko-5.7 Puppy Linux non-Pae
kernel (hd0,0)/slacko-5.7/vmlinuz PMEDIA=atahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=slacko-5.7 pfix=fsck
initrd (hd0,0)/slacko-5.7/initrd.gz
The older one works well but the new one fail to go pass
Automatic logon. While the old one do it instantly.

So it looks to me that slacko7 is different internally ?
Is the first line in your /etc/fstab file exactly the same on the two different installs? I have had issues in the past if they were the same on multiple installs. I gotten where the first thing i do after each install is generate a uuid and replace the /dev/sd?? with a uuid. I make back up images of all of my linux installs so when I restore they are not tied to any partition. All I have to do is restore and update grub. Example:

This is on a full install

UUID=9d65e084-5b0c-4d40-bc6d-a611c83e62d0 / ext4 defaults 0 1
Instead of
/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults 0 1

I have never done a frugal.It looks like you are using the same partition for both installs so when it gets to loading the fstab file and they say the same /dev/sda1 i would think it would get confused. I do not know anything about a frugal install but I would have created another partition for the second install.

I have used nothing but linux for over 20 years. I have been playing with puppy linux for about 3 months. Seems like I am learning something everyday I boot over to puppy.

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#473 Post by nooby »

Could be that they get mixed up somehow?
But usually it just works.as expected. I will try
it out tomorrow if I feel better.
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Boot failure

#474 Post by drblock2 »

nooby

Are you sure that the directory containing your slacko-5.7 files is actually called "slacko-5.7"? If it is not, the boot will fail and you will have to either change the name of the directory to match the menu.lst entry or the menu.lst entry to match the directory name.

If this does not solve your problem, please post the error message on the screen when you attempt to boot.

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#475 Post by nooby »

Mnu.lst has this Dir name slacko-5.7

and the actual Dir on HD has this one. slacko-5.7
Bootcode is this

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title slacko-5.7  Puppy Linux non-Pae slacko-5.7
kernel (hd0,0)/slacko-5.7/vmlinuz PMEDIA=atahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=slacko-5.7 pfix=fsck 
initrd (hd0,0)/slacko-5.7/initrd.gz
Just in case I test to boot again and try to catch some error message.

Edit. I am so sorry. My bad. Sad that I took up so much time
due to me too tired to spot the obvious thing to look for first.

I had a savefile that was not compatible with 5.7
And when I deleted that one it all worked as expected.

I am booted now and all looks great.

So my heart felt apology.
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#476 Post by nooby »

The Error from some days ago. Will not go away.

Not easy to describe I lack proper words

The boot up "stall" at Puppy 27380
Login:root automatic.

Log in [4643] root login on 'tty'

The only way out is to do ctrl-alt-delete which reboot the computer.

It stalls several times in a row so not a reliable boot at all.

What could cause such an odd thing?
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#477 Post by j3nnydeguzman »

thanks for not helping :(

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#478 Post by slick-puppy »

I am having an issue with my Samsung Galaxy S4. Seems to work up to a point. It will show folders in browser but when you click on the folders; nothing is there. My precise puppy 571 install works correctly and when connected to phone it will display a cdrom drive icon at the lower left of screen. Here are the two dmesg's from each:

Precise puppy 571:

[ 42.785537] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[ 42.910079] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=685b
[ 42.910088] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 42.910094] usb 1-6: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[ 42.910099] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[ 42.910103] usb 1-6: SerialNumber: a1e2458d
[ 42.912012] usb-storage: device found at 6
[ 42.912045] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-6:1.0
[ 42.912151] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 43.915235] scsi 7:0:0:0: CD-ROM SAMSUNG File-Stor Gadget 0001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 43.916955] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x cd/rw tray
[ 43.917111] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 43.917538] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 68.446470] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 68.472711] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[ 73.061397] usb 1-6: USB disconnect, device number 6
[ 73.317356] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[ 73.443172] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6860
[ 73.443180] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 73.443186] usb 1-6: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[ 73.443191] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[ 73.443196] usb 1-6: SerialNumber: a1e2458

Slacko 570 PAE:

[ 44.920095] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[ 45.044618] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=685b
[ 45.044627] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 45.044634] usb 1-6: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[ 45.044639] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[ 45.044644] usb 1-6: SerialNumber: a1e2458d
[ 45.046285] usb-storage 1-6:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 45.046359] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-6:1.0
[ 46.046542] scsi 7:0:0:0: CD-ROM SAMSUNG File-Stor Gadget 0001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 46.048134] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x cd/rw tray
[ 46.048435] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 46.048564] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 5
[ 51.222188] usb 1-6: USB disconnect, device number 6
[ 51.477368] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[ 51.602337] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6860
[ 51.602348] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 51.602355] usb 1-6: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[ 51.602360] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[ 51.602365] usb 1-6: SerialNumber: a1e2458d

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#479 Post by rufwoof »

j3nnydeguzman wrote:thanks for not helping :(
Not sure about Chrome, but in Firefox you can EDIT, PREFERENCES, CONTENT and set the Font.

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Boot problems

#480 Post by drblock2 »

nooby

I gotta admit that this is puzzling. I have never seen error messages like the ones you have posted.

Let me suggest the following:

1. Try booting with pfix=ram. Probably, the easiest way to do this is to copy your existing entry in menu.lst with pfix=ram instead of pfix=fsck. This will boot without the save file and eliminate that source of problems. See if this works.

2. Bizarre problems are often caused by defective downloads. Did you check the md5sum of slacko-5.7-NO-pae.iso? You can find the information here: http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... lacko-5.7/. If the md5sum does not check, reload the iso and start over. (You can check this by opening a terminal in the directory where you have downloaded the iso and typing: md5sum slacko-5.7-NO-pae.iso.

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