Dpup Exprimo 5.X.15

[backi]

Hi folks !
My intend now is to report about useful apps or tools i found and tried out.

Here i want to advertise a little (but powerful) tool called SWAPFILE-MANAGER.
It works like a (virtual) ram extender-expansion.

I am just a linux beginner and i am thankful learning from other peoples experinces
Ok.... so i want share my experince with a little tool called Swapfile-manager.

Here is what i did , and how i used it.

My computer is a toshiba laptop with 1 gigabyte of ram. DPupexprimo is installed to USB stick- 4 gigabyte memory.

I am working with this audio recording and editing app "audacity".
With audacity i used to stream and record quite large audio Wave files from internet.
(sometimes 30 minutes as wave file)
Before i used this swapfile -manager, oftenly, when wavestreams became to large, the Audacity app collapsed and went off.

Since using these little devil, my machines ram , works like on steroids.

Now i am able to handle (wave) files in large sizes ,i couldn`t do this never before. Now i can record and edit my favorite music even if the files became really big.

This little tool REALLY makes me happy.......and i hope it will do this to anybody else too .

I also posted this on macpuppy forum cause i am using on one USB stick
DpupExprimo on another stick Macpup 528.

Swapfile manager works on both.

Have a nice day !

[stu90]

Hi Pemasu / Béèm,
Tested bluetooth .pet in Exprimo 5x7 - my phone is detected in bluetooth search but i am unable to make a connection to it, usually what happens is PC generates a pin code and sends it to phone then the two pair and make a secure connection but this is not happening the gui just errors out with connection failed and no pin code is generated / sent.

Worth mentioning D-Lite uses a different (Iguleder compiled) kernel to Exprimo - looking in
/lib/modules/2.6.39/kernel/net/bluetooth i notice these kernel moduels are not there in Exprimo:
bnep.ko
hidp.ko
rfcomm.ko

I have attach below o content of /lib/modules/2.6.39/kernel/net/bluetooth directory in D-lite - i tried to copy these to Exprimo but this doesn't work.
http://www.mediafire.com/?jxusd4898rfejjj
cheers.

[pemasu]

About bluetooth. I seem to need to compile those modules this evening.

[Béèm]

pemasu/stu90

Thanks for your interest.

Quite some time ago I had some success with BT and remember now it was in Fluppy.
So I booted Fluppy 13 and indeed I have the BT icon in the tray.
My phone is detected and a pin code is generated, which I have to type in the phone to get them paired.
I can send and retrieve files to/from the phone.

l2cap and rfcomm modules are there and loaded.
Kernel is 2.6.35-7

HTH

[pemasu]

Thanks stu90 and Beem. I am compiling those bluetooth modules now.
I will make a pet of those. The needed stuff were in one clear section. Barry Kauler seem not to include those in his Wary Racy. I concentrated in wireless modules and acer aspire one modules, and since I dont use bluetooth, I didnt check the situation of bluetooth modules. But now I have and compiling is in process....

About Fluppy, yes... Jemimah created the working framework for Fluppy, but it is not possible to just copy that stuff from it and expect it to work. I am afraid there will be library incompatibilities.

[stu90]

pemasu/stu90

Thanks for your interest.

Quite some time ago I had some success with BT and remember now it was in Fluppy.
So I booted Fluppy 13 and indeed I have the BT icon in the tray.
My phone is detected and a pin code is generated, which I have to type in the phone to get them paired.
I can send and retrieve files to/from the phone.

l2cap and rfcomm modules are there and loaded.
Kernel is 2.6.35-7

HTH

That is pretty much how it works in D-lite and Lucid lite although the file transfer is only a single file at a time with the gui. I did try the gnome-bluetooth gui for fluppy but it doesn't have the ability to turn on/off bluetooth so i used debain version which requires some large libs to display the tray icon but you can turn bluetooth on/off when needed - for convenience i mount the phone as a drive so i can copy to and from multiple files at a time - there are instructions for setting up fstab auto mount on the obex page - however i just do it manually

get the phone ID with hcitool scan:
get obex file transfer channel with sdptool browser:

to mount create a directory where you wish to mount to - then in terminal do: obexfs -b "phone ID" -B"transfer channel" /mount/directory
to unmount - in terminal do: fusermount -u /mount/directory

[pemasu]

For enabling and disabling bluetooth...Dpup Exprimo has scripts for it and support for it already. Check /etc/acpi for those scripts.

You can bind them with xbindkeys-config app.

[stu90]

For enabling and disabling bluetooth...Dpup Exprimo has scripts for it and support for it already. Check /etc/acpi for those scripts.

You can bind them with xbindkeys-config app.

Thanks for heads up pemasu - i am going to eat some diner now so will check them out later on today.

cheers.

[pemasu]

Here are all the bluetooth modules.

I couldnt upload the pet to the forum.

Sorry, but the maximum filesize for all Attachments is reached. Please contact the Board Administrator if you have questions.

http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/Drivers/ ... lupe30.pet

[pemasu]

For enabling and disabling bluetooth or wireless, you need rfkill module to be loaded, probably automatically, not sure. And also you need rfkill binary.
You can use debian squeeze repo. There is rfkill_0.4-1_i386 which has only that /usr/sbin/rfkill binary.
With rfkill module loaded you can switch bluetooth or wireless on and off:

rfkill unblock bluetooth
rfkill block bluetooth
rfkill unblock wifi
rfkill block wifi

I will include rfkill binary to the next Exprimo version.

[Béèm]

ooops.

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# modprobe rfcomm
FATAL: Error inserting rfcomm (/lib/modules/2.6.39.4/kernel/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/rfcomm.ko): Invalid module format
# 

[stu90]

Hi Pemasu,
Just installed your bluetooth modules .pet - bluetooth now works in Exprimo 5.x.7.

[pemasu]

Beem. You might use Exprimo SMP or you have installed wrong pet. Use mine bluetooth module pet with Dpup Exprimo 5.X.7, not with 5.X.7 SMP.

Stu90, great news, I cant much test my self these bluetooth things.

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# modprobe rfcomm
# 

No errors, it just loads.

[stu90]

ooops.

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# modprobe rfcomm
FATAL: Error inserting rfcomm (/lib/modules/2.6.39.4/kernel/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/rfcomm.ko): Invalid module format
# 

Béèm with pemasu's bluetooth .pet being kernel modules you need to reboot for them to load - also before reboot delete any file in the hidden directory /root/.dbus/session-bus/

[pemasu]

And you need to delete those modules, which you might have installed from stu90`s package. They are not compatible.

[stu90]

Beem. You might use Exprimo SMP or you have installed wrong pet. Use mine bluetooth module pet with Dpup Exprimo 5.X.7, not with 5.X.7 SMP.

Stu90, great news, I cant much test my self these bluetooth things.

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# modprobe rfcomm
# 

No errors, it just loads.

No rfcomm errors my end - i just have bluetooth.pet and your bluetooth-modules.pet installed.

[Béèm]

Beem. You might use Exprimo SMP or you have installed wrong pet. Use mine bluetooth module pet with Dpup Exprimo 5.X.7, not with 5.X.7 SMP.

Stu90, great news, I cant much test my self these bluetooth things.

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# modprobe rfcomm
# 

No errors, it just loads.

pemasu, I am indeed in 5X7 SMP.
So this does matter.
Will install 5X7 (no SMP) then.

[pemasu]

Beem. Yep. 5.X.7 SMP is multicore and 5.X.7 is intel atom optimized, not much other difference, but that cpu optimization itself makes the difference.
SMP version is more or less my test bed, maybe I will update and improve it, but for generic support, plain 5.X.7 and this thread is the main route.

Now I will start to improve my previous libreoffice mime handlers pet.

[pemasu]

Libre Office mime improvement pet has been updated.

Mime type bindings for libreoffice, also rox right clicks. After installing this pet Libreffice opens doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx.
Rox right clicks have more options depending on file type.

Use this pet only and when you have Libre Office installed and you prefer Libre Office to open the supported file types.

[pemasu]

About bluetooth. E17 has bluetooth module. You need to enable that module and then add it as gadget to the Ibar.

Of course bluetooth modules needs to be loaded, bluetoothd running or whatever, but then you can test and play with e17 bluetooth module. I think it uses bluez but that is needed anyway, I think.