Quirky Xerus 8.6 (Aug. 16), Beaver 8.7.1 (Sept. 21), 2018

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Re: Woof issue

#761 Post by BarryK »

slavvo67 wrote:Also, I see update certficates where system is trying to do something. Not sure where it's pulling the certificates from but please be sure they're not your personal ones. Not sure what it's doing....
It's ok, it is just creating symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs to certificates that are provided by the 'ca-certificates' DEB package.

This is required by the web browsers.
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#762 Post by slavvo67 »

BarryK:

Thank you for your response. The .pet fix did not work for me. I believe it's a Rox Filler association issue. I can install pets via command line....just can't point and click. Also, pet packages do not have the normal .pet icon.

Thanks for any guidance...

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#763 Post by BarryK »

Quirky Xerus 8.5 released.

Links here:

http://bkhome.org/news/201802/quirky-xe ... eased.html
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#764 Post by BarryK »

slavvo67 wrote:BarryK:

Thank you for your response. The .pet fix did not work for me. I believe it's a Rox Filler association issue. I can install pets via command line....just can't point and click. Also, pet packages do not have the normal .pet icon.

Thanks for any guidance...

Slavvo67
If you right-click on a .pet file, choose "Properties", is it identified as type "application/pet"?

If not, the "shared-mime-info" package is broken.

This is the one in Xerus 8.4 and 8.5:

shared-mime-info-0.90|shared-mime-info|0.90||Personal;database|5345K|april|shared-mime-info-0.90.tar.bz2|+bash,+binutils,+bzip2,+coreutils,+diffutils,+findutils,+gawk,+gcc,+gettext,+glib,+glibc,+grep,+intltool,+libffi,+libxml,+make,+mktemp,+perl,+perl-xml-parser,+pkgconfig,+sed,+sysfiles,+tar,+xz,+zlib|The freedesktop.org shared MIME database|t2|april||

That is the one selected by the package list in file DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-ubuntu-xenial
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#765 Post by Sage »

8.5: Very good, thanks!
Presently resurrecting even more 754 boards and a few 939s. Reason : they contain at least two SATA ports, at least one IDE port, FDD port, PS/2 k/b+mouse, serial and parallel ditto along with adequate USB2 ones. No point in junking excellent DVD drives, HDD s, k/b s, mice & co., most of which were better built than present market offerings.
Just one further request. Would like to activate the 6-channel audio on several ECS761 boards but the ADI 1888 chip isn't recognised. Maybe I read it is a clone/copy of a similar one? or perhaps adding it to the list isn't too difficult? Advice appreciated.

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Quirky Xerus 8.5 for x86_64, released Feb. 27, 2018

#766 Post by Leon »

BarryK wrote:Quirky Xerus 8.5 released.

Links here:

http://bkhome.org/news/201802/quirky-xe ... eased.html
I made two manual frugal installs of Quirky 8.5 by extracting and copying the contents of xerus64-8.5.iso file. The first install was to VFAT partition on USB flash drive. The second one was to FAT32 partition on hard disk. On both times by keeping a personal savefile from Quirky 8.4. Everything seems to work well.

Thanks for bugfixing and for the improvements of my favorite distro.

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Quirky Xerus 8.5 for x86_64, released Feb. 27, 2018

#767 Post by Billtoo »

Installed to a 16gb SDHC card with easydd:

System: Host: QUIRKYPC9722 Kernel: 4.14.17 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: JWM git-976 Distro: Quirky 8.5 xerus64
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard product: HPE-410f serial: MXX0370KF3
Mobo: FOXCONN model: 2AB1 v: 1.00 Bios: American Megatrends v: 6.02 date: 07/21/2010
CPU: Hexa core AMD Phenom II X6 1045T (-MCP-) speed/max: 809/2700 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5550/5570/5630/6510/6610/7570]
Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
tty size: 147x36 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Network: Card-1: Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci
Card-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1016.2GB (0.2% used)
Weather: Conditions: 41 F (5 C) - Partly Cloudy Time: February 27, 6:42 PM EST
Info: Processes: 126 Uptime: 55 min Memory: 171.6/7986.9MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35

No problems so far,
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#768 Post by BarryK »

I re-uploaded the 8GB image file. It was xz'ed, which Windows USB Flash writer apps can't handle. So recompressed it with gzip.

The downside of that is the download grows from 359MB to 542MB.
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#769 Post by slavvo67 »

@BarryK

To follow up on our previous posts, I added the packages below to fix the .pet issue. .pet packages are now properly recognized. Thanks for all your help!

packages-bz2-april:
shared-mime-info-0.90.tar.bz2

packages-pet:
shared-mime-info-0.90-april64.pet
shared-mime-info_DEV-0.90-april64.pet
shared-mime-info_DOC-0.90-april64.pet
shared-mime-info_NLS_0.90-april64.pet

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#770 Post by BarryK »

Improved efficiency for pup_event Service Manager:

http://bkhome.org/news/201802/more-effi ... vices.html
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Quirky Xerus 8.5 for x86_64, released Feb. 27, 2018

#771 Post by Billtoo »

I installed to a 64gb flash drive with easydd:

System: Host: QUIRKYPC12521 Kernel: 4.14.17 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: JWM git-976 Distro: Quirky 8.5 xerus64
Machine: System: Acer product: Aspire R3610 serial: PTSCX0205302001AC12700
Mobo: Acer model: FMCP7A-ION-LE serial: U020102009703
Bios: American Megatrends v: P01-A4 date: 11/03/2009
CPU: Dual core Intel Atom 330 (-HT-MCP-) speed: 1599 MHz (max)
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA ION VGA
Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 driver: nvidia tty size: 137x34 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Network: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP79 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
Card-2: Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci
Drives: HDD Total Size: 223.1GB (3.6% used)
Weather: Conditions: 45 F (7 C) - Mostly Cloudy Time: February 28, 11:31 AM EST
Info: Processes: 112 Uptime: 38 min Memory: 178.8/1496.5MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35

Installed applications with QPM + proprietary nvidia driver.
Working well,
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#772 Post by slavvo67 »

@BarryK

Woof is no longer recognizing the Packages-pet-common-official when using ./2createpackages. Now, I have to put under Packages-pet-xerus-official for them to be recognized. I think this may be a result of 2a-fix-pkg-list but not sure. Not world ending but a little inconvenient. Can you enlighten me again?

Using woof-project-20180301 quirky-out amd64 amd64 Ubuntu Xerus and using Woof-code.

Thanks,,

Slavvo67

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#773 Post by BarryK »

slavvo67 wrote:@BarryK

Woof is no longer recognizing the Packages-pet-common-official when using ./2createpackages. Now, I have to put under Packages-pet-xerus-official for them to be recognized. I think this may be a result of 2a-fix-pkg-list but not sure. Not world ending but a little inconvenient. Can you enlighten me again?

Using woof-project-20180301 quirky-out amd64 amd64 Ubuntu Xerus and using Woof-code.

Thanks,,

Slavvo67
Yeah, I took it out. Look at file DISTRO_PET_REPOS*

I wanted to reduce the number of PET repositories. Quirky Xerus 8.5 only accesses -noarch and -xerus PET repos.

You could put in an older DISTRO_PET_REPOS* file, to bring back the ones you want.
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Re: Error booting Quirky Xerus 8.4 - Kernel Panic

#774 Post by amigodetux »

BarryK wrote:
amigodetux wrote:Hello, greetings from Central America.

- My CD Optical Device is ok, I have tested others distros of puppy without problems.
- MD5SUM Ok
- My BIOS is configured correctly, no security boot is on. CD boot sequence in 1st place.

-I´m a little new solving problems, my goal is run Xerus64-8.4 from a CD or USB, using the ISO file, and then use Puppy Installer to install the system in a EXT4 formated USB.

Some information about my PC:

Product Name: OptiPlex 740
BIOS Version: 2.2.5 Dell
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Total RAM: 2908 MB

Thanks, in advance.

amigodetux
Did you get that kernel panic when booting off a CD?
Amigodetux wrote: Hi BarryK! thanks for the great contribution you have made with Puppy linux!

I would like to inform you that I had no problems using version 8.5 and boot from a CD. Best regards,
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Seamonkey update

#775 Post by FeodorF »

Just downloaded Seamonkey 2.49.2 from:

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

see further down the page:

Contributed builds (other platforms) Linux/x86_64

Linux/x86_64 .tar.bz2 (readme) (MD5 sum) (SHA1 sum)

and copied it to /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.49.2

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Using an old Intel motherboard

#776 Post by FeodorF »

Did a frugal install on my old Intel DG31PR motherboard with Intel Core Duo E7200 CPU.

As it operates on 2GB of RAM only the RAM stack indicator dropped down to 1.2GB while creating the q.sfs file - but everything went well!

Graphics runs in 1600x900 with the Mesa DRI Intel G33 driver.

PNMixer 0.5.1 works great with the old Intel NM10 HDA Audio.

The only thing I had to set up once was the alsamixer Front volume from 75% to 100% to make sound work great.

Another job well done Barry!
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Old ASUS motherboard with Intel Core Duo

#777 Post by FeodorF »

Did another frugal install on my ASUS PC with Intel Core Duo E4500 CPU, also running on 2GB of RAM.

Using a NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS graphics card with it. Resolution is set to 1280x1024 pixel.

The browser update from 2.49.1 to 2.49.2 from the Seamonkey site looks stable.

Looks very good.

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#778 Post by Flash »

I booted Quirky Xerus64-8.5 from DVD (RAM only, no hard disk), Installed tree and copy fast, made some settings in SeaMonkey and remastered, burning to another brand new DVD-R. It wouldn't boot; the computer couldn't find anything to boot from. It appears that the q.sfs file didn't get included in the remastered DVD. By the way, remastering took at least 10 minutes even though Puppy was running entirely in RAM.
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#779 Post by Flash »

Here's another little oddity I noticed about Quirky Xerus64-8.5 There are two 2GB sticks of RAM in this computer.
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#780 Post by Flash »

Xerus64-8.5 won't leave the disk tray out. No matter what it's been doing or what I told it to do, the tray will only stay out for about a second before it retracts. Unless I grab it and hold it for a few seconds. Then it will finally give up trying to retract and stay out until I tell it to go back in.

It's actually kind of fun to see if I can swap out disks before the tray retracts. (I have to keep a disk of some kind in the drive or the tray jams and won't eject unless I poke a wire in the hole provided for the purpose. Nearly every CD and DVD drive I've owned has failed the same way. I suspect it's a deliberate design flaw. It's a very subtle one though; I've taken several of them apart, yet haven't figured out what's causing them to jam. Nothing seems to be broken or noticeably worn.)

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