Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3
- BarryK
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Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3
For anyone who has a Raspberry Pi2 or Pi3, you are welcome to have a play with this!
December 13, 2016, Quirky 8.1.4
Announcement on my blog:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00473
Puppy Forum discussion for 8.1.4 starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 672#935672
November 31, 2016, Quirky 8.1.3.1
Read the forum thread from page 28:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 054#934054
Also note, a fix for hdmi sound after reboot:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 127#934127
November 25, 2016, Quirky 8.1.2
Bug fixes, especially the Service Pack mechanism.
See announcement:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00457
Feedback on page 25 of this forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 610#933610
November 9, 2016, Quirky 8.1.1
Important bug fixes.
See announcement:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00450
Forum discussion from page 18:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=255
Take special note of fix posted for SimpleVP:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 950#931950
October 24, 2016 Quirky 8.1 final
Quirky 8.1 is the first official release of Quirky for the Raspberry Pi2 and Pi3.
Announcement and download links on my blog:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00441
Forum discussion starts on page 12:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 684#929684
October 18, 2016 now at 8.0.98 Release Candidate
Forum discussion starts on page 9:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 832#928832
Readme file:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... -alpha.htm
Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... pre-alpha/
WiFi currently broken, don't yet know why. Has anyone got an ethernet connection to Internet, find out if that works?
December 13, 2016, Quirky 8.1.4
Announcement on my blog:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00473
Puppy Forum discussion for 8.1.4 starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 672#935672
November 31, 2016, Quirky 8.1.3.1
Read the forum thread from page 28:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 054#934054
Also note, a fix for hdmi sound after reboot:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 127#934127
November 25, 2016, Quirky 8.1.2
Bug fixes, especially the Service Pack mechanism.
See announcement:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00457
Feedback on page 25 of this forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 610#933610
November 9, 2016, Quirky 8.1.1
Important bug fixes.
See announcement:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00450
Forum discussion from page 18:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=255
Take special note of fix posted for SimpleVP:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 950#931950
October 24, 2016 Quirky 8.1 final
Quirky 8.1 is the first official release of Quirky for the Raspberry Pi2 and Pi3.
Announcement and download links on my blog:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00441
Forum discussion starts on page 12:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 684#929684
October 18, 2016 now at 8.0.98 Release Candidate
Forum discussion starts on page 9:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 832#928832
Readme file:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... -alpha.htm
Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... pre-alpha/
WiFi currently broken, don't yet know why. Has anyone got an ethernet connection to Internet, find out if that works?
Last edited by BarryK on Wed 14 Dec 2016, 01:59, edited 6 times in total.
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Any chance of more progress on the armv6/11 architectures? At least we know Puppy works on it.
Two reasons: more of the early ones were sold, presumably many still in use, than the total expected for these later v7, both now and for the foreseeable future; secondly, this is the architecture of the zero which has a massive potential user base in view of it's price point, albeit appealing to a slightly different audience. v2 &3 are more directed at PC-substitute browsers with a bit of novelty? Zero is being most strongly supported with add-on HW, too.
All very interesting, but sad that ARM sold out. Harold Macmillan must be turning in his grave "...selling off the family silver.." , deja vu all over again.
Two reasons: more of the early ones were sold, presumably many still in use, than the total expected for these later v7, both now and for the foreseeable future; secondly, this is the architecture of the zero which has a massive potential user base in view of it's price point, albeit appealing to a slightly different audience. v2 &3 are more directed at PC-substitute browsers with a bit of novelty? Zero is being most strongly supported with add-on HW, too.
All very interesting, but sad that ARM sold out. Harold Macmillan must be turning in his grave "...selling off the family silver.." , deja vu all over again.
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Hi Barry nice to see your giving the Pi2 Quirky another go, I tried your first release like almost a yr ago when I got my Pi2. I'll give this one test in a bit Thanks
ttuuxxx
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
I did the installation to MicroSD card on an Asus laptop running Fatdog64.
The process seemed to have a problem with the installation shell command, which gave the following output:
So I did the extraction and dd’ing to MicroSD card as separate steps which worked fine.
As described above both wireless and ethernet did not work OOTB, but thanks to pakt’s post above
resolved both issues.
"Set Time and Date" seemed to work alright.
Puppy Package Manager appeared to update appropriately. I tried to download and install “HPLIP
The process seemed to have a problem with the installation shell command, which gave the following output:
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sh: --stdout : command not found
As described above both wireless and ethernet did not work OOTB, but thanks to pakt’s post above
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ln –s /sbin/dhcpcd5 /sbin/dhcpcd
"Set Time and Date" seemed to work alright.
Puppy Package Manager appeared to update appropriately. I tried to download and install “HPLIP
Reported within the hour, RPi passes 10million sales:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37305200
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37305200
I installed and my experience is mostly positive. the only real negative is the
keyboard keys.
-right alt key is dead
-the arrow keys in the numpad must be used.
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Here is some more observations.
-no 'defaultterm'
-eth0 was tricky to set up as previouly reported
-old version of pmusic doesn't play
so pschedule can't be used as alarm.
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vi is apparently the only terminal text editor. It's not my favorite
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leafpad can't be piped text. I've never seen that behaviour.
Example:
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keyboard keys.
-right alt key is dead
-the arrow keys in the numpad must be used.
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Here is some more observations.
-no 'defaultterm'
-eth0 was tricky to set up as previouly reported
-old version of pmusic doesn't play
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pmusic -B /usr/share/audio/2barks.wav
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vi is apparently the only terminal text editor. It's not my favorite
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leafpad can't be piped text. I've never seen that behaviour.
Example:
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docx2txt.pl example.docx | leafpad
Here is some useful apps I've packaged for use on quirky prealpha
docx2txt-v7-1.4.pet --> open microsoft docx documents with a right click.
Geany opens with the text. Supports foreign characters. Config file in /etc
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playmusic-v7-0.1.8.pet ---> thunor script to play a folder of music files.
Config file in /root
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fatdog_connect-1.12.pet ---> uses mount-Full command to
connect to a server in a network. I use it to quickly connect to a Window server.
EDIT: updated to version 1.13 (bugfix - inserting old address at launch)
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ptm-timer-v7-1.4.pet --> input number of minutes until a note is shown
and a mp3 file is played.
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docx2txt-v7-1.4.pet --> open microsoft docx documents with a right click.
Geany opens with the text. Supports foreign characters. Config file in /etc
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playmusic-v7-0.1.8.pet ---> thunor script to play a folder of music files.
Config file in /root
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fatdog_connect-1.12.pet ---> uses mount-Full command to
connect to a server in a network. I use it to quickly connect to a Window server.
EDIT: updated to version 1.13 (bugfix - inserting old address at launch)
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ptm-timer-v7-1.4.pet --> input number of minutes until a note is shown
and a mp3 file is played.
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- Attachments
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- fatdog_connect-1.13.pet
- Fast connection to a server
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- ptm-timer-v7-1.4.pet
- simple timer alarm to play mp3 file
- (2.98 KiB) Downloaded 918 times
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- mhwaveedit-v7-1.4.23.pet
- edit sound files
- (186.43 KiB) Downloaded 898 times
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- playmusic-v7-0.1.8.pet
- Thunor script to play a folder of music files
- (19.23 KiB) Downloaded 858 times
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- docx2txt-v7-1.4.pet
- Open microsoft docx documents
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Last edited by don570 on Sat 10 Sep 2016, 19:48, edited 1 time in total.
I was able to get omxplayer to work by adding a lot of libraries.
https://github.com/huceke/omxplayer
http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Audio
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... fig-txt.md
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http://www.mydrive.ch
porteus@don570
password: porteus
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https://github.com/huceke/omxplayer
http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Audio
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... fig-txt.md
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http://www.mydrive.ch
porteus@don570
password: porteus
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- BarryK
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Thanks to pakt for the fix for dhcpcd.
Scan now works in SNS, except it only lists my neighbours wifi network, not mine (which is right here in the same room).
Tried all sorts of things, it just doesn't want to see my wireless network.
I am doing another build, 8.0.9, with the 'iw' package, as I read that is better than wireless-tools. Will play with that.
I also found all of the missing deps for abiword ...quite a lot. In the past, I have compiled abiword myself, this time using the official DEB, hence huge number of deps.
I fixed Dia, now starts. Just needed a symlink 'dia' to /usr/bin/dia-normal
Fixed retrovol.
Added pure-ftpd
8.0.9 won't get uploaded, just for me to more testing.
Scan now works in SNS, except it only lists my neighbours wifi network, not mine (which is right here in the same room).
Tried all sorts of things, it just doesn't want to see my wireless network.
I am doing another build, 8.0.9, with the 'iw' package, as I read that is better than wireless-tools. Will play with that.
I also found all of the missing deps for abiword ...quite a lot. In the past, I have compiled abiword myself, this time using the official DEB, hence huge number of deps.
I fixed Dia, now starts. Just needed a symlink 'dia' to /usr/bin/dia-normal
Fixed retrovol.
Added pure-ftpd
8.0.9 won't get uploaded, just for me to more testing.
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- BarryK
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Here are some instructions for getting wifi working:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 28&t=44044
I still haven't got wifi working on my Pi3. Stupid thing doesn't know my wireless network exists -- I am wondering if the wifi chip in the Pi3 doesn't support the frequency that my wifi hotspot in my phone broadcasts at?
I need to try a usb plugin wifi thingy.
Here are some instructions for getting wifi working:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 28&t=44044
I still haven't got wifi working on my Pi3. Stupid thing doesn't know my wireless network exists -- I am wondering if the wifi chip in the Pi3 doesn't support the frequency that my wifi hotspot in my phone broadcasts at?
I need to try a usb plugin wifi thingy.
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- if you do that, it may require one of those dual band jobbies? I could not get my Samsung TV to work on a regular cheapo dongle and they wanted forty quid for their posh unit. Eventually, I found who supplied Samsung and bought one via a third party supplier on eBay for about £18. A couple of mobiles play the same silly tricks, as well as Apple. The HW inside one of these sticks barely differs, so I guess they've etched a couple of extra tracks in the silicon to deal with the two frequencies? Either way the cost of design, manufacture & marketing can't differ more than a few pennies.I need to try a usb plugin wifi thingy.
Are you using your M52 phone as a hotspot? I just set my M52 (running stock Android 5.0) up as a wifi hotspot and my RPi3 had no problem in finding it:BarryK wrote: I still haven't got wifi working on my Pi3. Stupid thing doesn't know my wireless network exists -- I am wondering if the wifi chip in the Pi3 doesn't support the frequency that my wifi hotspot in my phone broadcasts at?
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# iwlist scan
Cell 03 - Address: 6A:5D:3F:BC:F1:87
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"M52_Red_Note"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
The M52 is capable of connecting to both the 2.4GHz & 5GHz bands (I've checked with my dual band AC router).
IIRC, you're running a modified Android OS on your M52. Could the hotspot be transmitting on the 5GHz band somehow?
Methinks Raspberry Pi were ideal for runnin' Puppy Linux