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gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

SAMBA problems using pristine EmSeeV2

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2262 Location: In The Way

On the desktop bottom right corner click setup > gui opens next click internet , another gui opens.... on the bottom right of that gui is the hostname, type any hostname in the field and click the big green tick! There hostname resolved!

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

Barry, Shinobar and others went thru an awful lot of interaction to correct and resolve subsystem behavior such that FirstRUN resolve this and other problems for users at system's initial starts. It is discussed at length, here.

Every Puppy system which does NOT use FirstRUN has this problem and another. I only ask because users need not have the problem, considering that was solved for PUP distro development by BarryK, et al.

Picture, below to see the EmSeeV2 example of the bug. All of PUPs fields DO NOT MATCH as they should when hostname is proper. An ordinary user would never suspect the system didnt handled it nor the LAN adjustments necessary. (There is a LAN adjustment that FirstRUN also handles in background)

Test for yourself to verify. This is the reason I've been appealing to bring attention for helping.

Hope this helps understanding. If you would like to get more detail from me on this, send me a PM.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

Tested EmSeeV2 64bit using the ISOmaster utility to create the 64bit ISO (see below for ISOmaster procedure). When complete and the ISO booted, the following command shows the 64bit kernel in play.

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2262 Location: In The Way

Ok! So I have a new EmSeeV2.1.iso uploading right now. It grew by 300mb somehow! Added Viacam to control cursor with head movements, requires webcam. Bleachbit aded, Espeak text to speech, cli, utility. Upgraded wine-1.7.17 to 1.7.22, upgraded xbmc-13.1 to 13.2, sorted out samba completely, added EmSeeV2savefile.sfs.tar.gz to be decompressed and copied from dvd to usb/hdd etc. Header files are now included in main sfs and removed from modules (openshot requires them to run). TestDisk-6.13 now has menu entry! Some icons fixed in menus. Cleared up status file for synaptic. Added welcome1stboot and quicksetup on first run. Removed a few small scripts, and added unattendremaster by nic007 modified by StemSee, mistakenly named 'remaster express' in menu!

I will post the links, after successful upload, at which point the previous iso links will be removed, but not deleted from the server for a day or two in case someone is in mid download!

BTW: This was remastered from a running frugal install with savefile using nic007's unattendedremaster script modified by myself to ask for path to working directory! The only thing it missed, but not its fault, was the /usr/include/ folder for headers which was mounted as sfs with modules.sfs. I recommend that method for remastering, it should be added as a standard feature in puppy.

BTW2: F2FS (full install to usb flash device) works well on my usb 3.0 stick but not on my usb 2.0 sick.

EDIT: incremental update 16/07/14

EDIT: Getting ready for EmSeeV2.2 incremental update

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2262 Location: In The Way

I recommend users run 'shutdownconfig' from a terminal before first shutdown to create a reliably loaded savefile. Pupsaveconfig is there but....try it.

New Kernel 3.15.8-pae

EmSeeV2.2 MD5
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4GhZVmB2RkwZ0F5bWlKMDkzNEk/edit?usp=sharing

EmSeeV2.2.iso

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2262 Location: In The Way

Here is Skype-4.3.0.37.sfs specially prepared for EmSeeV2.2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4GhZVmB2RkwWWU4QldRM2xicDQ/edit?usp=sharing

Gobbi · Joined: 09 Mar 2012 Posts: 241

Hi @stemsee ,

I tried to boot EmSeeV2.2 on an HP laptop :

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3120M CPU @ 2.50GHz
Memory 6009MB
Display
Resolution 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH

I know it has 2 RAM modules one of 2Gb and one of 4GB . Besides it shares memory with the videocard(s)...

This machine behaves in a strange way with 32bit OSes . It shows less than 800MB memory when I boot 32bit OSes on it , and I can't activate wireless even from the terminal , forget about the button from the keyboard . I can use wireless easily in Fatdog 630 and Fatdog 700.
Anyway , since it offers little RAM I thought to boot EmSee like a LiveDVD ...
I had difficulties to insert parameters at boot because it's not like : " say puppy and kernel parameters ..." works. Instead of puppy first word to write was "vmlinuz" and then everything after...
I inserted as parameters : pmedia=cd pfix=nocopy loglevel=7 . In the end it hanged out saying it doesn't find the EmSee sfs file Shocked

In september I'll be home and I shall be able to make a frugal install ... This machine has Windoze 8,1 on it and it's not mine so I'll just wait till then...

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2262 Location: In The Way

Hi Gobbi

Download this latest iso from17th August.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4GhZVmB2RkwR0E0NGFlMWNJNVE/edit?usp=sharing

you could also do a frugal install on a usb stick/memorycard/phone and boot the pc from it.

The kernel is pae enabled and should use all the memory (my laptop has 8gb)

Alternatively you could download the 64bit kernel I provided, that might solve all issues!

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4GhZVmB2RkwVW45STZJUm4tMzQ&usp=sharing

step · Joined: 04 May 2012 Posts: 1085

Hi StemSee, I'm writing this from EmSee 2.2, frugal install on HDD. Very nice job indeed, thank you! The icon sets are beautiful.
I selected the ATI kms video driver, went through the initial configuration and the first time wizard changing hostname and time settings and closing the wizard. Then a terminal window labelled "Espeak" popped up with a bunch of alsa / sourd driver error messages. Unfortunately it must have closed it before I could copy the error text here. But If I open another terminal now and run espeak this is what I get:

stemsee · Joined: 27 Jun 2013 Posts: 2262 Location: In The Way

@step

Thanks for the feedback!

I have four puppy distros that I use for different purposes! Fatdog64 700a boots fastest and allows easiest method to edit initrd and also saves to folder, I use mostly to recover my main system and compiling 64bit apps/kernels. Studio1337 slacko 5.7 for super lowlatency and all round fastest operation for audio work, but not social media (QQ doesn't work on slacko). DebianDog for 100% debian compatibility in a puppy compatible distro which sees a lot of active development, I enjoy using this with puppy boot method as an alternative OS. Of course EmSeeV2.2 does everything I could possibly want and more, I use this 90% of the time.

I don't know why espeak has trouble with your sound card settings. Try running alsa soundcard wizard and then re-try espeak.

I recommend the 64bit kernel for all scenarios, just be careful when compiling as he system assumes full 64bit appearance even when compiling 32bit apps/kernels ... you may have to specify architecture compatibility (32bit).

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

Link to EmSee ISO in the 1st post needs review.

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England

gcmartin,

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gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

Problem occurred on Live DVD pristine boot of EmSee V2 prior to Aug17th version using Firefox. Does not seem to be browser related.

Switched horses: Used Live LH64 to download ISO on user's PC. Download is currently processing. But, the md5 link in the 1st post on this thread yields error, now. Using Chrome on LH64 downloading to default browser location

Can md5 for latest Aug17 version be posted (I think that is the version coming down from the 1st post)?

I see that the ISO link was updated today. Thanks