Fatdog64-500 final

[growler]

edoc:

In Thunderbird go to

Edit->Preferences->General Tab->Config Editor

answer that yes you'll be careful you promise!

Then find:

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network.protocol-handler.app.http 

and double click it - make the value:

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/usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser

then find:

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network.protocol-handler.app.https

and double click it - make the value:

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/usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser

that's it!

[edoc]

Thanks!

BTW: What is the reason to prefer Firefox and Thunderbird to Seamonkey?

Speed?

Smaller?

???

Have you found a place to post your compiled Thunderbird?

I know that there are a bunch of standard Puppy repositories.

I need to inquire of my domain server host if I could host some of these -- I am sure I have lots of unused capacity.

[growler]

Maybe this isn't fadog related... but:

I went to thunderbird when sylpheed was bundled with puppy a few versions ago.

I don't want to have to convert my email everytime I change distro. I was happy with seamonkey email though prior to that.

There were a few kinks with seamonkey browser which have probably long since ironed out that I can't even remember what they were. That is why I went to firefox for compatibility.

Seamonkey is probably smaller and faster but I am wed to Thunderbird.

[edoc]

OK, thanks! Will try to have a look at this late tomorrow after fellowship.

I have been playing with adding uvcvideo.ko to the kernel boot and getting gnome-mplayer to see my Philips Pixel Plus SPC900NC Webcam.

I made good progress but need some help figuring out how to force the device to be released between uses.

Thanks again for your efforts re. Thunderbird!

BTW: I'm not sure I would notice the differences between the E-mail app in Seamonkey and Thunderbird -- are they significant?

[jamesbond]

pvideo package uploaded here. It's from here: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Pvideo?show_comments=1. I downloaded the latest youtube-dl (not from puppylinux.org site, but from the original developer's site), and re-package it together with pvideo.pet. The result is attached. It requires python, so you need to get python.pet from the repo. That being said, like kirk, I'd prefer using an add-on to firefox which can do the same in a much easier way.

dpg4x is just a front-end GUI for mplayer/mencoder, using python. Kirk has mplayer.pet in the repo. Python is also available. But in addition, it also requires wxpython - and that is not available ... it should be straightforward for someone to extract the relevant parameter and make a GUI with Xdialog / GtkDialog instead.

The latest uvc driver should work for most webcam, if It should be loaded automatically. Do a "dmesg | grep uvc" - if you see something, the uvc kernel driver is loaded and all should be good. (it works on mine). What you want to do with the webcam? If all you're interested in is to capture video with it, you can do that by running this command from terminal:

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ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -r 30 -i /dev/video0 test.mpg

You can change "test.mpg" to point to a location outside the savefile (e.g. /mnt/home/test.mpg). If this is too difficult, well, then let's wait until someone makes a GUI for it - should be very straightforward.

Firefox is preferred because it's at the forefront of mozilla's browser development work. All new codes and fixes will make to firefox first, and they will eventually trickle down to seamonkey too, but that takes time and even then, seamonkey isn't thoroughly tested as firefox simply because it isn't the flagship product. And of course, being the more popular browser, website designer designs for (and accounts for bugs in) firefox, making sure that they look good and work well with it. Not many tests for seamonkey. That doesn't mean seamonkey won't work - on the contrary, most of the time it will, because of the shared code, but seamonkey isn't firefox - there are some bugs and quirks which are in seamonkey but isn't in firefox. That being said, kirk has kindly provided seamonkey pet, so you can use whichever one you feel is better.

I can't say anything about thunderbird/slypheed/seamonkey email because I don't use them. I use web-based email almost exclusively.

growler, I suggest you pm kirk if you want the pets uploaded for the official repository ... your LAMP package looks interesting

All the credits of making Fatdog should go to kirk, he's the captain

[edoc]

Thanks! That does work and redirecting it is not a problem.

Last evening I was exploring this in spup 040 (Fatdog64 is on the ACER and I have that MAC Address turned off at 10pm in the Router to help my son "decide" to go to bed on time) -- I presume anything I can do in spup I can transfer to Fatdog64.

Anyhow, I added uvcvideo.ko to the kernel modules to be loaded at boot time and rebooted:

This works!

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# gnome-mplayer tv://

The problem is that it generates a continuous stream of:

ERROR: Failed to get value of property 'volume'.
ERROR: Failed to get value of property 'volume'.
ERROR: Failed to get value of property 'volume'.
ERROR: Failed to get value of property 'volume'

How do I prevent that, please?

I tried --softvol but the prior activation apparently did not release the device. How do I force that, please?

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# gnome-mplayer tv:// --softvol
GNOME MPlayer v0.9.9.2
vo = x11 ao = alsa
Running with GIO support
Master,0 Playback is 1
Master,0 Range is 0 to 31
Master,0 Current Volume 28, multiplier = 3.225806
Scaled Volume is 90.322581
Using volume of 90.00
Using softvol, since remember_softvol is enabled volume will be set to 87% of 90%
opening tv://
is block 0
is character 0
is reg 0
is dir 0
playlist 0
embedded in window id 0x0
playlist detection = 0
adding tv:// to playlist (cancel = 0)
getting file metadata for tv://
Skipping gathering metadata for TV channels
Using match: type='signal',interface='com.gnome.mplayer'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon'
Using match: type='signal',interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys'
Proxy connections and Command connected
playing - tv://
is playlist 0
libcurl required for cover art retrieval
mplayer -profile gnome-mplayer -quiet -slave -identify -softvol -volume 87 -mixer-channel Master,0 -framedrop -noconsolecontrols -noidle -osdlevel 0 -nomouseinput -cache 2000 -wid 0x1800047 -ss 0 -ass -noembeddedfonts -ass-force-style FontName=Sans,Italic=0,Bold=0,Outline=0,Shadow=0 -ass-font-scale 1.00 -ass-color ffffff00 -channels 2 -vf-add screenshot -dvd-device /dev/dvd -af-add export=/tmp/mplayer-af_exportlygvgb:512 -nomsgcolor -nomsgmodule tv://
Spawn succeeded for filename tv://
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.3.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team

Playing tv://.
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)
ERROR: v4l2: unable to open '/dev/video0': Device or resource busy
Thread completing
shutting down threadquery for tv:// since threaddata->done is TRUE

[gcmartin]

Edit: Aug 10, 2010.

Replaced entry on SeaMonkey to here, What is SeaMonkey becuse it seem to be a more appropriate location.

[jamesbond]

edoc, I'm a bit silly with my ffmpeg cmd line above. Of course if you're recording from webcam, you want to see what you're recording (so you can adjust accordingly), and not do that after the fact.

Here's the ffmpeg/ffplay combo:

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ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -r 30 -i /dev/video0 -f avi - | tee test.avi | ffplay -

And here's the mplayer/mencoder combo (lifted from here: http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=MPlayer_FAQ)

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mencoder -fps 30 tv:// -tv device=/dev/video0:outfmt=rgb24  -ovc lavc -lavcopts threads=2 -o >( tee filename.avi | mplayer -cache 64 -)

Stop recording by Ctrl-C on the terminal.

I can't help you with gnome-player - I don't have that installed. From the error message, it seems to say that it cannot read the volume (which is perfectly fine because webcom doesn't have sounds - the sound comes from your microphones, which is part of alsa).

[kirk]

Edoc,

If you search for flash in Tools - Add-ons, you'll find several add-ons for downloading flash videos (youtube).

Growler,

If you can upload your web server package somewhere, I'd like to try it out.


I uploaded a Thunderbird pet package a few days ago. Sorry I'm a bit slow at checking in here, been busy lately.

[edoc]

Is there a PET for unrar for Fatdog64-500 or will a version that runs in Lucid-5.1 work OK?

I looked here and didn't see unrar:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ns/fatdog/

[edoc]

Firefox is preferred because it's at the forefront of mozilla's browser development work. All new codes and fixes will make to firefox first, and they will eventually trickle down to seamonkey too, but that takes time and even then, seamonkey isn't thoroughly tested as firefox simply because it isn't the flagship product. And of course, being the more popular browser, website designer designs for (and accounts for bugs in) firefox, making sure that they look good and work well with it. Not many tests for seamonkey. That doesn't mean seamonkey won't work - on the contrary, most of the time it will, because of the shared code, but seamonkey isn't firefox - there are some bugs and quirks which are in seamonkey but isn't in firefox. That being said, kirk has kindly provided seamonkey pet, so you can use whichever one you feel is better.

I did join this Seamonkey support discussion list - lots of very knowledgeable and helpful Seamonkey folk there.

support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org

They also have a newsgroup for those that prefer that format.

But I suppose this is drifting off-topic for the thread.

We did load Seamonkey and it is performing well. Thanks kirk!

[gcmartin]

Thanks Kirk. I now have SeaMonkey email server running out of the box. And the webpage composer is working too.

Very classy, helpful piece of work.

[jamesbond]

Is there a PET for unrar for Fatdog64-500 or will a version that runs in Lucid-5.1 work OK?

I looked here and didn't see unrar:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ns/fatdog/

unrar is already in Fatdog. Open terminal and type "unrar". If you click a rar inside Rox, though, it doesn't seem to work. That isn't because unrar isn't there, but because of some problem in pupzip. To fix, just do a right-click on any .rar file, choose "Set Run Action", and change "pupzip $1" to "xarchiver $1".

cheers!

[edoc]

I tried that but got an error saying that the archiver could not work because unrar does not exist.

[jamesbond]

I tried that but got an error saying that the archiver could not work because unrar does not exist.

Please look here: /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/bin/unrar. If you can find unrar there, for whatever happens it's accidentally deleted, just copy it over to /usr/bin.

If you cannot find it there, that means you're not using the latest fd64-500.sfs from the Final release. You should delete the copy in your harddisk and replace it with the one from the latest Final iso.

cheers!

[ricky123]

May be it's interesting:
Installing and running VirtualBox-3.2.6-63112-Linux_amd64.run within Fatdog64 is quite easy, if you have already installed fd64-devx_500.sfs , python-2.6.4-amd64.pet, qt4-4.6.1.pet, tcl-8.5.8.pet and tk-8.5.8.pet.

Thank you for Fatdog64, so my machine (amd64) can use all his resources. Enjoy your work with Fatdog64. I am waiting for progress and further pet packages.

[growler]

I uploaded to

http://www.logicworks.co.nz/fatdog/LAMP ... x86_64.pet

[Lobster]

tried some imagination

# imagination
imagination.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libsox.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[pemasu]

I have managed to make fatdog64 acer timelinex 5820tg compliant. Compiling acpi_call makes it possible to shutdown unused graphic card. I have intel and ATI. That saves almost half of the battery time.

I also compiled kernel succesfully to get patched ec.c module included. After that battery status was enabled and I can also monitor battery power consuming with powertop. Also power management works now better.

Only problem is that wireless loses connection all the time. I installed pwireless2. Still testing if it works better.

[edoc]

Only problem is that wireless loses connection all the time. I installed pwireless2. Still testing if it works better.

Have you checked your dhcpcd version?

I don't have Fatdog64 on this machine but am told that some of the newer Puppies have an old dhcpcd and in some cases the upgrade to current helps.