Fatdog64-700 beta2 [Closed]

[JustGreg]

I have started to use FileZilla as FTP cliient. I have been using it as root. I know the standard practice is to run email clients and web browsers as spot rather than root for security reasons. Should the same be done for FTP clients? Thanks in advance for any help on this.

I decided to set it up to run as spot. I have also modified the spot script into a separate script to allow it to be run also as root. I can run either way and still use the same configuration file in spot. Normally, clicking on the menu entries for it will run using the spot script. If there is a need to run as root, one uses the other script.

[Sage]

Will do...

Bad news. I tried it on my rather non-standard nF3 board.
First problem: PS/2 mouse inactive. Stuck a USB mouse in.
Next problem: Had to use wifi connection. Appalling connection utility in control panel. Seen some bad ones in my time, but this one takes the biscuit. Eventually fathomed it, but refused to connect. Not a lot of point in pursuing machines without wired access.
Sorry - abandoning FD64 for the moment.

[Jasper]

Do you still juggle dozens of distros and rather more machines simultaneously daily?

[Gobbi]

Hi kirk !
I think changing some views with Geoffrey about his way of compiling mvsas.ko module could help solving an issue in Fatdog ...
On my desktop mvsas.ko module does not work in Fatdog . My drive it's not seen at all . It happened also on my previous Gigabyte mobo and now on my actual Asus mobo.
Typing lsmod | grep mvsas in the Fatdog 700b2 terminal gave the result seen in the attached picture .
Now , in Carolina my OCZ Revodrive 3 is seen in Gparted and in Pmount as 2 drives .It's a bit strange that Pmount sees them as USB attached drives !!! Maybe it's the way the module get to them through a USB controller inside the motherboard , or is something in the module - I don't know , but it works!
Using mdadm and creating a fake raid and a small script in Startup folder gave me the possibility to use it in Carolina - no matter which kernel !!!
I got some infos from the terminal from battleshooter's Carolina with kernel 3.17 and compared them with the same infos taken in Fatdog 700b2 . I outlined the differences - the most important one seemed the last one , about vermagic: ...
Hopefully , maybe a hint from Geoffrey could help you to make the mvsas.ko module work in Fatdog , too .

[rek769]

Greetings,
I have successfully booted Fatdog64-700 beta2 (frugal) on my Dell Inspiron 15. I am searching for a Puppy that can run Skype easily and FatDog has two Skype 4.3.x SFS versions available. I have tried both SFS files but when I launch skype from the terminal I receive an error message(s): "No such file or directory"

I have verified that the files in question do, in fact, exist.

Trying to launch the files in question manually from the terminal also results in the same error message.

Any ideas?

Thanks very much

[smokey01]

Skype is a 32bit application so you need to load the slacko 32bit libraries which can be found in the FatDog Package Manager.

[spartagus]

Bug report?/Can't find solution in forums.. Any help appreciated.
I have FD64 621 installed on one HP GT7725 - drive works
I have a 2nd GT7725 I installed FD64 700b2 on. Seagate drive icon doesn't show on screen (not there to click on to mount) Not showing in Pmount.
I have a USB 3.0 thumbdrive that does show then plugged in to 700b2.
Below is what I see when I plug in the Seagate 1TB Mod:SRD0061
Sda1 is the 1GB onboard SSD

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# dmesg|tail

[ 2777.919990] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
[ 2778.048363] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=ab20
[ 2778.048378] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[ 2778.048385] usb 1-3: Product: BUP Slim BK
[ 2778.048392] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Seagate
[ 2778.048397] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: NA76N37W

# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 413c:3016 Dell Computer Corp. Optical 5-Button Wheel Mouse
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 04f2:0760 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Acer KU-0760 Keyboard
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0bc2:ab20 Seagate RSS LLC 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c52f Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 977.5 MiB, 1024966656 bytes, 2001888 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device    Boot Start       End Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1 *       63   1997855 998896+ 83 Linux

# lsub -v
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0bc2:ab20 Seagate RSS LLC 
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.10
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0 
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x0bc2 Seagate RSS LLC
  idProduct          0xab20 
  bcdDevice            1.00
  iManufacturer           2 Seagate
  iProduct                3 BUP Slim BK
  iSerial                 1 NA76N37W
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           85
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0x80
      (Bus Powered)
    MaxPower              100mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass         8 Mass Storage
      bInterfaceSubClass      6 SCSI
      bInterfaceProtocol     80 Bulk-Only
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       1
      bNumEndpoints           4
      bInterfaceClass         8 Mass Storage
      bInterfaceSubClass      6 SCSI
      bInterfaceProtocol     98 
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
        Data-in pipe (0x03)
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
        Data-out pipe (0x04)
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
        Status pipe (0x02)
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x04  EP 4 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
        Command pipe (0x01)
Binary Object Store Descriptor:
  bLength                 5
  bDescriptorType        15
  wTotalLength           22
  bNumDeviceCaps          2
  USB 2.0 Extension Device Capability:
    bLength                 7
    bDescriptorType        16
    bDevCapabilityType      2
    bmAttributes   0x00000002
      Link Power Management (LPM) Supported
  SuperSpeed USB Device Capability:
    bLength                10
    bDescriptorType        16
    bDevCapabilityType      3
    bmAttributes         0x00
    wSpeedsSupported   0x000e
      Device can operate at Full Speed (12Mbps)
      Device can operate at High Speed (480Mbps)
      Device can operate at SuperSpeed (5Gbps)
    bFunctionalitySupport   1
      Lowest fully-functional device speed is Full Speed (12Mbps)
    bU1DevExitLat          10 micro seconds
    bU2DevExitLat        2047 micro seconds
Device Status:     0x0000
  (Bus Powered)

[JustGreg]

I added three stable release packages from Mozilla to the ibiblio.org fatdog64 contributor repository. They are FileZilla 3.9.0.6, Thunderbird 31.2.0 and Firefox 33.1.1 The applications are all configured to run as spot.

For the Firefox application, before installing it, one needs to remove the default Firefox package using Gslapt package manager. The new package can then be installed using Gslapt. Please excuse the description show in Gslapt. I am still learning how to correctly make a slack-desc file for packages.

I hope this helps.

I did not get the package name for FileZilla correct It does not show in Gslapt list of packages. You can find it here:http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/contrib/packages/700/

I will get the package naming and slack-desc right one of these days.

[prehistoric]

I have also seen that problem with mounting a Seagate Backup Plus 1 TB external USB 3.0 drive. But, I had not done as much to track it down. In my case both machines showing the problem had USB 3.0 cards added. I will need to bring up a machine with USB 3.0 on the mainboard to check if this also exhibits the problem. I'll also try some other brands of external USB drives.

[Ted Dog]

I also having USB issues but can't pin point it. Just seems less stable.

[neerajkolte]

I am also thinking to add usb 3.0 PCI card to my machine in a week or two. Hope it works well.

- Neeraj.

[JustGreg]

I have connected a small USB bluetooth device (SounsBot Model SB340). It is successfully detected and set up properly. I can connect to a bluetooth audio receiver (IBT-8), However, I can not transfer the audio from computer to the receiver and my stereo. I did a search on bluetooth audio, but had no luck. I also checked alsamixer to see if there was a control for bluetooth on it, no luck there. How does one get the computer audio to the bluetooth device?

After some searching of the Internet, I found out the Bluez protocol, which fatdog uses. I did try again and again with no audio. Here is what is reported:

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# bt-device -i IBT-08
[AB:12:67:11:1E:B7]
  Name: IBT-08
  Alias: IBT-08 [rw]
  Address: AB:12:67:11:1E:B7
  Icon: audio-card
  Class: 0x240414
  Paired: 1
  Trusted: 1 [rw]
  Blocked: 0 [rw]
  Connected: 1
  UUIDs: [Headset, AudioSink, AVRemoteControlTarget, AVRemoteControl, Handsfree, 0000112e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb, PnPInformation]

Any suggestions for the next step? Thanks in advance for any help.

20 Nov. edit:
After searching the Internet and trying different things, I think the bluetooth connection is fine and does not have the problem. It appears that control needs to be added to alsamixer for bluetooth. The sites with information say the change needs to be in /etc/asound.conf file. Fatdog64 has /etc/asound.state file. It is not clear to me if asound.state is the same as asound.conf. The control is needed for pcm bluetooth audio. I hope this helps.

[kirk]

Guys, I won't have much time for Fatdog64 until next week. My mom has been in the hospital. Also James and his family have had health problems. Thanks to everyone for testing.

[JustGreg]

Kirk and James take care of yourself and your families. They come first and are more important. Thanks again for your efforts. For the fatdog problems, we will have to exercise some patience. After all, patience is a virtue that has to be practiced

[Ted Dog]

Take care. I missplaced my favorite flashdrive so having issues booting. Plus I am caring for my mom. She says her finger iz infected and asked me to do her dishes and clean up house for her its taken me two days so far and not much of a dent. I hope to drop by my place soon and get my mail.

[jangelelcangry]

Tried again with 3.16.2 kernel (same as B1).
it won't start x even if fglrx has no errors during installation.
driver works on beta 1.
need more info?
Please let me know.

[neerajkolte]

Kirk and James, take care brothers. Family should always come first. I wish them a fast recovery.
Thanks for all your work.

- Neeraj.

[JustGreg]

I used micko01 get_libreoffice script (version 0.29) to create a 64 bit English LibreOffice version 4.3.4 SFS. It does not show up in the SFS manager control panel application, probably due to a lack of knowledge on my part. It is available in the contributor repository here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/contrib/sfs/700/

I hope this helps.

[neerajkolte]

oops

[rek769]

Good evening to all...

I have set my wife up with Fatdog and she has been using it for several days. All was going well until she discovered a printing issue. It seems that this version of CUPS does not want to play with my printer. I have installed a PET file:

(http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt ... -1.4.0.pet)

which contains the drivers for my printer. Of course Fatdog converted the pet and I installed the converted package.

This pet has worked on Lucid 5.2.8.6, Slacko 5.3.3, Precise 5.6, and Precise 5.7 (all of which are running an earlier version of CUPS.

When printing the page will make it about halfway though the cycle and stops with the error "Stopped - filter failed"

I have tried using the built in NX2xx and NX3xx drivers but each has their own issues which will not allow successful printing.

I am tempted to install an earlier version of CUPS but wanted some feedback and other thoughts and ideas first....anyone have any insight?

Thanks in advance.