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#841 Post by belham2 »

Hi Fred & all,

On my frugal-installed BionicDog 64-bit, I have a question. Is there any way to prevent my conky---which is started automatically on Startup--from disappearing from the desktop whenever I right- and/or left-click anywhere on the desktop. I have to re-hit the conkytoggle, weirdly twice, just to get it restarted.

Thanks for any advice/hints/tips.
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#842 Post by fredx181 »

Hi belham, try changing "own_window_type" to "normal" in conky config.
(not sure, but probably it's set it to "desktop" for you now)

Hey !, and thanks for testing.
Most important to do is doing a "apt-get upgrade" once in a while and hope and pray that nothing breaks until april next year.

EDIT:
I have to re-hit the conkytoggle, weirdly twice, just to get it restarted.
That's because conky display is not visible, but the process is still running, so clicking once conkytoggle will kill the conky process and clicking once more then activates it again.

Fred

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#843 Post by belham2 »

fredx181 wrote:Hi belham, try changing "own_window_type" to "normal" in conky config.
(not sure, but probably it's set it to "desktop" for you now)

Hey !, and thanks for testing.
Most important to do is doing a "apt-get upgrade" once in a while and hope and pray that nothing breaks until april next year.

EDIT:
I have to re-hit the conkytoggle, weirdly twice, just to get it restarted.
That's because conky display is not visible, but the process is still running, so clicking once conkytoggle will kill the conky process and clicking once more then activates it again.

Fred
Thanks, Fred!

That got me on the right track. But when I just put "normal" in for "own_window_type", I kept getting conky in an actual window that had its own title bar and borders. Then, looking at "own_window_hints", and Googling a bit, noticed the word "sticky" wasn't in there as an attribute. Once I put that ("sticky") in there along with the "normal" in "own_window_type", all was good & conky now stays on the desktop no matter what I do now :wink: Thanks again!

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Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting

#844 Post by backi »

Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem .

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... -Corrupter

But seems Bionic Beaver is not affected .

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Re: Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting

#845 Post by belham2 »

backi wrote:Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem .

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... -Corrupter

But seems Bionic Beaver is not affected .

Hi Backi! (Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to you!) :wink:

Thanks for this info!!

Boy, this is not good....NOT GOOD at all.

Just to be safe, I've deleted my Artful-Aardvark (from Peebee) frugal-install, and I've also deleted Bionic Beaver (from Fred).

I cannot afford to have my laptop's BIOS get corrupted and end up not being recoverable.

Ubuntu should be ashamed no one caught this earlier. They are supposed to test their releases across a wide range of hardware.

Obviously, they are falling down.....again :roll:

Is it any wonder that Linux Mint, Debian, and Manjaro are all ranked ahead of Ubuntu now? I've got a bad feeling Ubuntu is going to screw up too with the big Gnome Ubuntu 18 launch in April.

Too many of their knowledgeable people have left over the past year.

We can only hope....but for now, I am sticking with Debian-based stuff and distros, and of course some of the Slacko-derivative pups (I'm assuming Phil's Xenial is safe from this 17- madness, but I might delete frugal installs of it too just to be safe).

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#846 Post by backi »

Hi Belham ,Fred and all you guys !

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to you too !

:D :) :D :)

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Re: Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting

#847 Post by fredx181 »

backi wrote:Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem .

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... -Corrupter

But seems Bionic Beaver is not affected .
Thanks backi ! and best wishes for you too :) :D

That's a terrible bug, I guess many Ubuntu users go back to Window$ now...
I knew strange things can happen with test versions (not-LTS) but this bad.. :roll:
Maybe it's too easy to put the blame only on Ubuntu developers, it probably has to do with many complicated things all together (e.g. secure boot, not clear enough info from hardware manufacturers, etc..)

My first thought was to remove the download links for BionicDog (and never, ever have anything to do with Ubuntu), but then investigated a little and asked question in ArtfulPup thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 094#978094
(my guess is that there's no danger by using BionicDog (the driver that could cause harm isn't loaded), but who am I ? :wink: )
EDIT: Also wanna say that the official Ubuntu Desktop release is really something else than the "Dog" version (the latter has e.g. no support for secure boot, no UEFI, no GRUB2 etc...)

Fred

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#848 Post by pemasu »

It is not about if the spi is loaded but if it is created as loadable kernel module when compiling kernel and included to the build.
You should check from config file if the spi driver is enabled or not:
'CONFIG_SPI_INTEL_SPI=m' and 'CONFIG_SPI_INTEL_SPI_PLATFORM=m'
if they are m or y then there is danger with 4.13 kernel and I would not offer distro with that kernel for people to use it.

Upstream the spi bug has been fixed from some 4.14 rc upwards and 4.15 should be bug free.

Oops. I edited the post a little. I thought to post to the Artful pup thread, but I mixed the threads, cause fredx181 had posted to the two threads about same thing.
I suppose it would be safest not to offer compromised 4.13 kernel for people to use.

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#849 Post by fredx181 »

Thanks Pemasu
You should check from config file if the spi driver is enabled or not:
'CONFIG_SPI_INTEL_SPI=m' and 'CONFIG_SPI_INTEL_SPI_PLATFORM=m'

They are both set to 'm' and also these .ko files are present, so indeed better be on the safe side, thanks again.

@ALL
BionicDog ISO's are removed, edited my BionicDog alpha announcement post, see here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 892#975892

Fred

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#850 Post by fredx181 »

(removed ISO's from Here, but just couldn't let go... :) )
*** BionicDog Preview (Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver development) ***

Hi Everyone,

New Alpha version with kernel 4.14 , "Bionic Beaver" development stage.
Bug fix: This kernel incuded doesn't contain the intel_spi driver (previous ISO's with kernel 4.13 (including intel_spi) could possibly corrupt BIOS, so removed), see bug report here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1734147
Only further change is that I upgraded all installed packages to newest version (apt-get upgrade)

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root@live:~# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch) \n \l
Login details:
root with password root (default automatic login)
puppy with password puppy

Specifications:
Built from an absolute minimal Ubuntu by using debootstrap.
Kernel: 4.14
Choice of Boot Methods: porteus-boot only , see options at the XenialDog Wiki Porteus-Boot
Default WM - OpenBox with lxpanel and pcmanfm providing the desktop
Default File Manager - pcmanfm with option to use rox.
Default Internet Browser - Firefox. (there is launcher for "apulse firefox", so audio works without pulseaudio installed)
Applications included: gnome-mplayer, mpv, abiword, pburn, pfind, gparted, synaptic, leafpad, quick-remaster, dogradio, peasywifi, wex and much more (almost as full featured as XenialDog)
TODO's: Testing.... testing..., upgrade packages (there will be many available during next months), and add more packages to custom repos (e.g. apps that rcrsn51 made for StretchDog (need to test first) )

32-bit ISO: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... -12-23.iso Size: 298 MB
Md5sum: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... -12-23.md5

64-bit ISO: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... -12-23.iso Size: 306 MB
Md5sum: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... -12-23.md5

Firmware .squashfs module: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... e.squashfs

Screenshot:
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Fred

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#851 Post by backi »

Hi Fred !
I am going to test !

Merry Christmas !!!

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#852 Post by backi »

Greetings Fred !
Posting from Bionic now.......running fine so far .....could not find any issues.
......except suspend is not working (on my Machine )
installed acpitool ......made a small script :

#!/bin/sh
acpitool -s

made it executable ......in case i want to suspend.....click it .

Happy new Year !

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#853 Post by Null_ID »

Hi fredx181. New guy here, loving these ***dog-projects that you're doing, and especially the fact that I can access Ubuntu's repos with apt-get, which is the main selling point for me, it makes installing new software trivial. I hope you keep them coming for as long as you can.

Here's a question, though: I have some old Puppy saves from old Puppy installations. Is there something that I can do to mount them for read/write under Xenialdog? The usual double-clicking of the file didn't seem to work here.

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#854 Post by rcrsn51 »

@Null_ID: You should be able to loop-mount these old save files. For example:

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mkdir /media/savefile
mount -o loop pupsave.2fs /media/savefile
ls /media/savefile

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#855 Post by fredx181 »

@backi, thanks ! strange that suspend doesn't work for you, it works for me with 'pm-suspend'
If you have time can you do in terminal (and what's the message?):

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pm-suspend
@Null_ID, indeed what rcrsn51 suggested works , but you can also use filemnt, it just needs association (supports also .2fs, .3fs .4fs, besides iso, squashfs and sfs) just right-click on the pupsave file > open with, and type filemnt as custom command line, see pic below (for pcmanfm)

Fred
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#856 Post by Null_ID »

Coolio, thanks a bunch, guys!

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#857 Post by backi »

Hi Fred !
When i wrote " Bionic Dog " does not suspend i meant when going to >Menu>Logout ......choosing Suspend ......does not work for me .

But this is no big Deal ...

Cheers !

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#858 Post by fredx181 »

backi wrote:Hi Fred !
When i wrote " Bionic Dog " does not suspend i meant when going to >Menu>Logout ......choosing Suspend ......does not work for me .

But this is no big Deal ...

Cheers !
Hey backi, yes, I did understood Menu > Logout > Suspend doesn't work for you
The executed command for that is "pm-suspend", so I just like to know if it doesn't work for anyone what could be the reason exactly (to look for bugs and possible improvements).
So that's why I asked you for output of "pm-suspend" , it could be help for further improvement (anyway nice that you did solve it your own way, btw)

Regards !

Fred

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#859 Post by backi »

Hi Fred !

pm-suspend does not work for me.
When put it in terminal no message .

Hardware related Issue ?

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#860 Post by don570 »

I couldn't get my simple timer PTM timer to work in Bionic,
because Bionic uses mpv to play music.
However is mpg123 or mpg321 was installed it should work.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112410
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