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Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 14:24**

rcrsn51 wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:2. Cannot install printer -- selecting "CUPS Manage Printing" opens browser at Home CUPS 1.3.11, however clicking "Add Printer" takes you to an Administrative CUPS 1.5.2 screen which gives an error. Correct hplip pets for FD are installed. See desktop below.
Ummm... Are you using a shared browser cache with another Puppy? Because there is no way you should be seeing that.

Can you duplicate it with a fresh install?

You nailed it, I was using a shared cache.

However, as you can see from the attached screens, I am still unable to install the printer (my HP 5280 does not show up), although your latest hplip pets are installed. I uninstalled them and reinstalled several times with a fresh download, didn't help. I have rebooted the computer and also shutdown and restarted the printer several times.

@jamesbond

Firefox problem apparently was caused by a bad download. New save file did not have a problem.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 14:31**

Jim1911 wrote: However, as you can see from the attached screens, I am still unable to install the printer, although your latest hplip pets are installed. I uninstalled them and reinstalled several times with a fresh download, didn't help. I have rebooted the computer and also shutdown and restarted the printer several times..

Your drivers are fine. Read back a bit for jamesbond's permissions fix. You need to run

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chmod 0500 /usr/lib64/cups/backend/*

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 14:43**

Did a frugal usb install.

Internet connection established with ease.

Had to configure touchpad as usual.

Downloads from ppm and from the repro working well.
Installed all the apps I usually use and all working ok.

Encountered none of the problems that I had with alpha2.
Delighted with the result-great distro.

irishrm.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 14:43**

rcrsn51 wrote:2. You need the following 32-bit symlink
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ln -s libtiff.so.3 /lib32/libtiff.so.4
However, this link probably won't survive a reboot (I didn't check). The new 32-bit compatibility pack will need to contain it.

I will try to remember this. The next 32-bit libs will probably comes from Slacko - it would (or at least should) make the entire 32-bit Slackware apps (at least those that works with Slacko) to be available for use with Fatdog.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 14:46**

Note: taking down ironware-sfs, 01micko has indicated incompatibility with beta1 and he has a fix. I will upload it once I've applied the fix.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:05**

rcrsn51 wrote:
Jim1911 wrote: However, as you can see from the attached screens, I am still unable to install the printer, although your latest hplip pets are installed. I uninstalled them and reinstalled several times with a fresh download, didn't help. I have rebooted the computer and also shutdown and restarted the printer several times..
Your drivers are fine. Read back a bit for jamesbond's permissions fix. You need to run
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chmod 0500 /usr/lib64/cups/backend/*

Working fine, also scanner. Thank you.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:36**

When starting the Puppy Package Manager I get the following error dialogue:

GTK-server Error!
ERROR: No value entered where "gtk_tree_store_append" expects one!

It happens when attempting to refresh the package lists. Anyone else seen this?

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:40**

tronkel wrote:When starting the Puppy Package Manager I get the following error dialogue:

GTK-server Error!
ERROR: No value entered where "gtk_tree_store_append" expects one!
It happens when attempting to refresh the package lists. Anyone else seen this?

Yes, that means the package list doesn't conform to the standard package list format - some the the expected values are blank. Probably caused by foreign package (ie debs or tar.gz packages). Do you mind sending me your /root/.packages/user-installed-package and /root/.packages/Package-puppy-fd64-offical?

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:44**

jamesbond wrote:
Shinobar wrote:Note: Failed format floppy, tested on Fatdog64 alpha2 and beta1.
I only have one machine with floppy drive and I have not formatted a floppy for years ... I'm not even sure whether the
drive is still working Thank you for the report though, I think devtmpfs doesn't automatically create this "special" floppy device
nodes. The floppy formatter program needs to be upgraded to create them on the fly.

Shinobar, do you mind testing this? Rename the fake .gz to floppy-format.sh, chmod +x and put it to /usr/sbin (replacing the original file) and see if you can format a floppy with it?

cheers!

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 16:17**

jamesbond wrote:

Yes, that means the package list doesn't conform to the standard package list format - some the the expected values are blank. Probably caused by foreign package (ie debs or tar.gz packages). Do you mind sending me your /root/.packages/user-installed-package and /root/.packages/Package-puppy-fd64-offical?

On checking these files:
/root/.packages/user-installed-package is an empty file and
/root/.packages/Package-puppy-fd64-offical doesn't exist in the /root/.packages folder at all. Seems to have been deleted.

What I have locally installed is the DEBBI printer installer DEB as originally built by rcrsn51.

This may well be the cause of the problem?

This is causing the whole system to crash on shutdown as well

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 16:20**

I used the fatdog installer to install fatdog to an 8gb flash
drive,checked the small initrd box.
I then used grub4dos 1.8 to install the boot loader to the flash drive.

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
Memory 4045MB (366MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Fatdog64 [bb155f4388]
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Fri Jun 15 12:04:37 2012
Display
Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce GT 220/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Input Devices
Power Button
Power Button
Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0
Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0
Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0
PC Speaker

OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 220/PCIe/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.59
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
32084 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6416.749 FPS
32106 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6421.148 FPS
32083 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6416.583 FPS

Working great so far.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 16:23**

tronkel wrote:What I have locally installed is the DEBBI printer installer DEB as originally built by rcrsn51.This may well be the cause of the problem?

Probably. It was built with the old PET packaging system.

I will update it.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 16:36**

@rcrsn51

Sorry it was a PET package not a DEB you made - silly me!

Thanks for the prompt reply and the offer to rebuild it for FATDOG.

Best regards

Tronkel

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 16:43**

tronkel wrote:Sorry it was a PET package not a DEB you made

Debbi is a PET package. In any case, I have repackaged it here with the newer PET packaging format.

Could you test it in FD600? I'm assuming that you are installing a 32-bit Brother driver.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 17:08**

Ooops so sorry I asked a Q in the other older thread for Alpha 1
and this is for Beta 1
I will move the text here and indicated this?
I Set it up as easy as I could so maybe
the grub4dos menu.lst is too simple?

title fatdog
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /fatdog/initrd
kernel /fatdog/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda2 psubdir=fatdog pfix=fsck
initrd /fatdog/initrd

It reported it could not find a certain file but it went by
too fast for me to read. Anyway I am using it now but it
fail to make use of simplfied html files. Could be the browser
being too picky and unrelated to fat dog as such.

But I found not way to install firefox on it. No ppm.

Am one supposed to do some apt-get or what?
that simplified html file that I use as my "home page"
lies on my sda2 file and have tested it on some 25 different
OS and many many puppies and only fatdog with this SM
failed to read it. So that where odd.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 17:11**

Yes, the reason for using it is to install the Brother DCP7030 driver. Brother only provides a 32 driver version for the printer component of this multi-function device. The scanner driver is provided as 32 bit and 64 bit versions though.

Thanks for doing this. I'll test this in fd-64600B1 over the weekend and let you know how it goes.

Thanks again.

Tronkel.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 17:20**

I just tested this with my HL2070N.

1. I fixed the CUPS backend permissions.

2. I hooked in the 32-bit compat pack and did the CUPS start32 setup.

3. I downloaded and debbi'd the two Brother driver packages.

4. The USB printer that was auto-installed worked OOTB.

The 32-bit Brother setup is much simpler than the Canon.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:44**

Billtoo wrote: OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 220/PCIe/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.59
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
32084 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6416.749 FPS
32106 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6421.148 FPS
32083 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6416.583 FPS

Working great so far.

Billtoo, what's your secret for installing the NVIDIA driver? When I execute

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sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run

it naturally complains about the nouveau driver being in use. Every time I try to get rid of it I manage to trash the save file when I delete nouveau files. Xorgwizard-old only allows selection of proper resolution, option to choose the vesa driver never appears. Putting "pfix=vesa" in my menu.lst and rebooting after deleting nouveau files also trashes the save file. So I wind up having to restore the save file with the nouveau driver.

What file do I need to edit so that vesa will be selected?

Thanks,
Jim

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 19:53**

01micko's "get_libreoffice-0.16.pet" successfully creates a sfs of LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 which works great including printing.

Posted: **Fri 15 Jun 2012, 22:55**

Re Printing:

So I fixed permissions:

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# chmod 0500 /usr/lib64/cups/backend/*

and added the tiff symlink, did nothing else and I can print and so can unprivileged user. I didn't need to reinstall the printer,

/dev/usb/lp0 still is the same as before crw-rw---- or 660. I guess if I switched back the group from lpadmin to root in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf I'd need to reinstall the printer? I'm happy with it as is and I learned something!

Thanks

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