Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3

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Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3

#1 Post by BarryK »

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?
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#2 Post by Sage »

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.

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#3 Post by ttuuxxx »

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
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#4 Post by pakt »

Nice! Both eth0 and wlan0 (with WPA) work on my RPi3, but I had to make a symbolic link to dhcpcd from dhcpcd5 first to get them working.

Will test more...
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#5 Post by ally »

I had a quick spin, was unable to get ethernet or wireless working (pi2, rtl8192 & wpa2)

will try the symlink

looks fantastic and booted very quickly, unable to test further as family here

:)

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#6 Post by ally »

@pakt

can you be more specific on which files to link please

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#7 Post by eowens2 »

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:

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sh: --stdout : command not found
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

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ln –s /sbin/dhcpcd5 /sbin/dhcpcd
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

gcmartin

#8 Post by gcmartin »

Anyone know if this distro has bluetooth enabled, OOTB?

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#9 Post by slavvo67 »

BarryK:

Please be careful with the Emtec brand. It may just be me but I've had very bad experiences with their brand.

Kind regards,

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#10 Post by Sage »

Reported within the hour, RPi passes 10million sales:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37305200

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#11 Post by don570 »

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

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pmusic -B  /usr/share/audio/2barks.wav
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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docx2txt.pl  example.docx  | leafpad
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#12 Post by don570 »

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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Attachments
fatdog_connect-1.13.pet
Fast connection to a server
(9.67 KiB) Downloaded 885 times
ptm-timer-v7-1.4.pet
simple timer alarm to play mp3 file
(2.98 KiB) Downloaded 918 times
mhwaveedit-v7-1.4.23.pet
edit sound files
(186.43 KiB) Downloaded 897 times
playmusic-v7-0.1.8.pet
Thunor script to play a folder of music files
(19.23 KiB) Downloaded 858 times
docx2txt-v7-1.4.pet
Open microsoft docx documents
(10.78 KiB) Downloaded 875 times
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#13 Post by don570 »

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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#14 Post by BarryK »

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.
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#15 Post by BarryK »

I have added these extra packages to (hopefully) get abiword to work:

clutter
cogl
evolution-data-server
libchamplain
libsecret

...these are the generic package names. Each consists of one or more DEBs.

EDIT:
Needs this also: json-glib
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#16 Post by BarryK »

ally,
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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#17 Post by Sage »

I need to try a usb plugin wifi thingy.
- 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.

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#18 Post by pakt »

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?
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:

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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
sns also lists the "M52_Red_Note" wireless network.

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?
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#19 Post by Sage »

The M52 is capable of connecting to both the 2.4GHz & 5GHz bands...
- now that's really worth knowing! Thanks, p.
PS My dual band stick is a fenvi-n600. Other third party manufacturers/suppliers all wanted the Samsung price when I bought mine about a year or so back.

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#20 Post by ally »

thanks

the symlink solved the ethernet, using that at present

have mirrored don's pets

:)

edit, could we have ssh to make testing easier?

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