Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Caneri · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1569 Location: Canada

Hi William,Charni, et al,

Hey...I wonder if the Gizmo project from Charni and now William could be a recording solution Lobster is looking for so as to record pawcasts and conferences.

Best,
Eric

tombh · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 422 Location: Bristol, UK

Gizmo looks interesting, I didn't realise it was such a competitor to skype. Well mcewanw's dotpet works in wNOP (3.01), though I haven't made a call yet -- no contacts! My gizmo name is tombh. It's a shame you can't call skype contacts with gizmo. I don't think there is video in this version of Gizmo, perhaps you have to have that version 5 -- maybe it's just in windows?

Caneri · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1569 Location: Canada

Well Tom and Sharon and myself had a good test run with Gizmo.

Recording seemed to work according to Tom...and we solved world peace and made everyone safer from nuclear attack...lol

EDIT: Thanks Charni and William...looks good so far but I crash although the voice connection keeps on going..no loss of voice and the bandwidth is much smaller than Skype...so slower connections may work and work well....good stuff guys.

Eric

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3194 Location: New Zealand

Lobster · Posted: Sat 07 Jun 2008, 01:43 Post subject:

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

@Lobster

I find the change of thread title, nearly as confusing as whether the god/dess exists, saga

aside/BTW:
Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?...............

He stayed awake all night trying to figure out if dog exists

end/meanwhile, back at the ranch......

I mean, the thread starts out about almost development progress and a need to chat about things generally

anyone else?

Aitch

Lobster · Posted: Sat 07 Jun 2008, 05:40 Post subject:

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3194 Location: New Zealand

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2946 Location: Southampton, UK

surprise surprise, I'm hairywill
that button is for preferences
you can also access preferences from the menu
both methods cause a crash for me in puppy 4.00

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3194 Location: New Zealand

@HairyWill

Yep, I'd worked out what the button was for, because on Puppy Linux 2.17.1, it actually works (well, it crashed on leaving Preferences, but only the first time I used it. Since then I haven't been able to make Gizmo crash on Puppy 2.17.1). However, I tried it on Dingo again, and it crashes every time; never gets as far as opening the Preferences window.

I don't have broadband or I'd check both of charni's dotpets in Dingo to see if they do the same thing. Actually, I still have one of his two gizmo dotpets still (the one for libstdc++6). I'm hoping the libstdc++5 one might make a difference, though I'm just hoping... with no reason to imagine that should make any difference. But why Dingo and not Puppy 2.17.1 and what about Tombh's WNOP based on 3.01?

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3194 Location: New Zealand

After checking and verifying the Preferences crash problem with Dingo, I rebooted to Puppy 2.17.1 to see how it was there. Although I thought I had experienced a crash in Puppy 2.17.1 when leaving the Gizmo preferences dialog, the effect was very different to that in Dingo. I think now that it hadn't actually crashed on that earlier Pup 2.17.1 occasion, but instead Gizmo was waiting for some internet communication before shutting down. Anyway, one thing for sure is that Gizmo is not crashing at all, as far as I can see, when run on Puppy version 2.17.1, but it crashes everytime under Dingo when Preferences is selected...

I also tried charnisingh's gizmo...stdlibc++6 version, and it crashed in the same way when run under Dingo.

Not having broadband I'm reluctant to download charni's gizmo...stdlibc++5 version to try, but if anyone else has the time to do that it would be good to know if it crashes on Dingo too (assuming it runs on Dingo; charni seems to suggest Dingo has the stdlibc++5 lib too; I haven't checked). Anyway, it "seems" to be a Puppy 4.00 problem rather than a gizmo one according to the above results. I'll be interested to know what tombh reports back about running gizmo on his wnop version.

Caneri · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1569 Location: Canada

Hi All,

I am running a test of gizmo-project-3.1.0.79-req.libstdc++5.pet from Charni's original .pet on tronkel's 2.16CE.

Hooray...it all works and no crash. The menus are all visible and function as they should. I didn't try the voice or my headset yet but this combination is very nice. I always did like Jack's 2.16CE.

Great!
Eric

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3194 Location: New Zealand

Caneri · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1569 Location: Canada

@Aitch,

olo...rats..lol Wink

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2616 Location: South Australia

I have the same problem with Gizmo crashing in puppy 4.0. The bigger problem is now it won't run at all. It reports "GDB could not be found on your system".

Anyway I uninstalled it through package manager then re-installed it, same problem. I guess there are parts of the software that wern't removed as it still remembered my username and password Crying or Very sad

I might give Charni version a try and see what happens.