Fatdog64 alpha3

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Fatdog64 alpha3

#1 Post by kirk »

This is a complete rebuild with the T2 trunk as of a few weeks ago. My wife got a new laptop, real nice, CoreI5, 4GB of DDR3, Blu-Ray drive $499, but with crappy intel graphics. Anyway, the Xorg 7.3 that was in alpha1 is too old and doesn't support this new Intel graphics chip, so I just rebuilt everything with T2. Probably should have called it something different since it's a new base. Some highlights:

Xorg 7.5
GCC 4.4.3
Cups 1.4.2
Gimp 2.6.8
FireFox 3.6
Kino 1.3.3
HandBrake snv 2/2010
openbox / Lxpanel
linux-2.6.33
Blackberry modem support for Verizon.
Xine-UI 0.99.6
libxine 1.1.18.1
x11vnc
TightVNC-viewer

Xorg now auto configures itself and the default keyboard is "US" and the default timezone is gmt -5. You can change these in the setup menu. I went this direction because I had problems on intel graphics with the console being blank after the KMS modules would load, before Xorg started. The old xorgwizard is still there if you want a detailed xorg.conf, just hit ctrl - alt - backspace to exit the Xorg server and at the prompt type xorgwizard-old, and the xwin to restart Xorg.

Firefox now runs as user spot, anything you download goes into the Downloads folder on the desktop. At the first shutdown, after making your save file, you'll be asked if you want to move the Downloads folder to the same place as your save file. Most will want to answer yes to that. Lots of other small changes, grabbed Barry's latest scripts out of woof; added options to the right-click menu for the optical disk icon on the desktop so you can eject or explore a disk; fixed some bugs; added new bugs Smile.

No lzma compression now, didn't want to use it for the main sfs file anyway, it would have been nice for the devx file though. You can look here for the details on that http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 2&start=90

So this is using squashfs 4.0, any old squashfs 3.1 sfs files won't work with it. I have tried a full install yet or did a whole lot of testing.
Changes since alpha2:

* Grub fixed
* Full hd install fixed
* PDF printer fixed
* Gimp crashing (hopefully) fixed
* recompiled GTK for Gimp problem.
* upgrade libxine and Xine-UI
* add Xine-UI plug-in for Firefox
* Various other small bug fixes


Image

Know issues:

* The firewall wizard breaks something with running Firefox as spot, haven't looked into it yet.
* DVDs don't play when clicked on from the desktop, they do play with xine.
* ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't kill X with some hardware?



The T2-packs folder contains all kinds of stuff I haven't test yet, like qt3, qt4, mysql, openldap. Everything the T2 build produced.[/b]

EDIT: UPDATED TO ALPHA4

Changes since Alpha3:

* Firewall fixed
* Petget fixed
* DVDs play when clicked on.
* Removed the "Do you want to unmount" message when you click on a mounted partition.
* Xine now runs as user spot.
Last edited by kirk on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 13:23, edited 4 times in total.

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#2 Post by Lobster »

Lobster,

When you say Firefox is not working after running the firewall wizard, do you mean Firefox can't connect to the network?
OK that is from Alpha 2 but same thing happening in Alpha3
Firefox does not connect if the Firewall is run

Here is the code that appears when the firewall is run so that may help you :)

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/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall start

-> Projectfiles.com Linux Firewall version 2.0rc9 running.
-> Performing sanity checks......iptables: Index of deletion too big.
iptables: Index of deletion too big.
 [ PASSED ]
-> Building firewall.iptables v1.4.6: Couldn't load target `standard':/usr/libexec/xtables/libipt_standard.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
iptables v1.4.6: Couldn't load target `REJECT':/usr/libexec/xtables/libipt_REJECT.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
.iptables v1.4.6: unknown option `--icmp-type'
Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
iptables v1.4.6: Couldn't load match `state':/usr/libexec/xtables/libipt_state.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
.iptables v1.4.6: Couldn't load match `state':/usr/libexec/xtables/libipt_state.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
.iptables v1.4.6: Couldn't load match `state':/usr/libexec/xtables/libipt_state.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
iptables v1.4.6: Couldn't load match `state':/usr/libexec/xtables/libipt_state.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
 [ DONE ]

                         *** Installation Complete ***

The firewall is now RUNNING on your system.  The firewall initialization
script has been installed here: /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall
and will run each time you boot your system.  Advanced users can modify their
firewall configuration by configuring the above file with any text editor.
After making changes you will need to run the rc.firewall script again for
changes to take effect.

For more information, please visit:   http://projectfiles.com/firewall/

Firewall install script finished.
Press ENTER key to quit: 
ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't kill X with some hardware?
works OK for me (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+)
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#3 Post by kirk »

Thanks Lobster,

I had put /usr/libexec/xtables in the devx file, needs to be in the sfs file for the firewall to work. I'll fix it for alpha4 or might call it beta1. If you add the devx file using the BootManager it should work for you.

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#4 Post by Lobster »

I'll wait till the alpha 4/beta 1
The devx is massive and could not download anyway (did not try much - just from Firefox)
Besides running without a firewall is still safer in Puppy (did it for a couple of years before we ever had a firewall) 8)
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#5 Post by kirk »

Here's a pet package to fix the firewall and DVDs playing when the desktop icon is clicked.
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#6 Post by Lobster »

Still might wait for that beta1 . . .
Tried another pet
also tried downloading and then installing (rather than direct install)
same result . . .

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# petget fixes-a3.pet 
sed: -e expression #2, char 0: no previous regular expression
truncate: you must specify one of `--size' or `--reference'
Try `truncate --help' for more information.
Whilst I remember double clicking on a programs title bar does not expand it to full screen - even though this option is on in the openbox configuration You are probably aware that Openbox 3 is out . . .
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#7 Post by kirk »

That will teach me to assume something works :) . Petget needs a different version of truncate. There's another small binary Barry wrote called printcols, found the source. I'll include them in alpha4. If you want to manually install that pet package, change .pet to .tgz, then click on it and extract it to /.

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#8 Post by vabene06 »

Hallo,
i cant download the dev.sfs. Vabene

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#9 Post by kirk »

Sorry,

Had the permissions set wrong, the devx file should download now.

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#10 Post by DC »

Hi Kirk,
full install working fine.
did try a full install upgrade to alpha 2 but divx did not upgrade well.

64 bit - opera, vmware, java all working.

One request
when left clicking on a mounted drive icon to open.
could you get rid of the "Puppy drive manager" popup which asks
Do you want to unmount etc - really annoying

thanks

DC

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#11 Post by kirk »

One request
when left clicking on a mounted drive icon to open.
could you get rid of the "Puppy drive manager" popup which asks
Do you want to unmount etc - really annoying
Done. It will be fixed in alpha4. I guess I'll upload that soon. I keep hoping that 2.6.33.1 will show up.




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#12 Post by kirk »

Updated to alpha4. See the first post for details.

I'm not aware of any problems right now. I would like to update to 2.6.33.1 when it comes out. Might add some sort of NFS support.

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#13 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi Kirk,

Sorry, alpha 4 has a major problem with the video on this release, as least for nvidia cards. It quickly boots up to a very colorful display of mixed colors. Although, the menu can barely be seen, it is partly operational. However, going into setup the xorg video wizard does not work. Going to a prompt doesn't help either, since xorgwizard will not start. Xwin does take you back to the horrible desktop.

One other problem that I've had with all previous alphas, there is no Cups option, for an usb printer.

Thanks for keeping this one going, eventually 64bit is going to be the main distribution.

Cheers,
Jim
System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart 5280 All-in-One Printer

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#14 Post by kirk »

Jim1911,

Could you post the output of lsmod and lpinfo -v ?

The old xorgwizard has been renamed xorgwizard-old. You might want to try that. Unfortunately I don't have anything with a Nvidia card. Maybe I'll compile the Nouveau stuff, the Nouveau kernel module is already in there.

You may want to try booting with the USB printer on and plugged in and see if Cups has a USB option.

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Devx no permission to download

#15 Post by jduffy22335 »

Kirk, unable to download devx since change to A4

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#16 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi Kirk,

Weird, when I restarted Fatdog64 to respond to your post, I was very surprised to see it go straight to your default desktop with fine resolution, without prompts for my equipment. Quickest initial bootup ever. My installation is frugal, booting from menu.lst and it has no pupsave at the moment. since I didn't allow one to be created because the desktop was a disaster.

The usb printer problem still exists, though, with my printer on, the attached desktop picture, desktop.png shows choices given.

Another problem, as you can see from the attached screenshot, desktop1.png, I was trying to install wine. However, when I clicked "Download-and-install selected packages, it just went back to the first screen and nothing happened. Same thing happened when I tried to install nvidia-180.29 from the t2 repository. Is this due to some missing 32bit files? These latter two problems were noted after a pupsave was created.

Thanks,
Jim

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#17 Post by kirk »

jduffy22335,

I fixed the permissions, the devx file should down load now. Maybe I can remember that next time.


jim1911,
The usb printer problem still exists, though, with my printer on, the attached desktop picture, desktop.png shows choices given.
Was with the printer turned on and connected before booting?

If so, can you post the output of lsmod and lpinfo -v ? That's after booting with the printer turned on and connected.
Another problem, as you can see from the attached screenshot, desktop1.png, I was trying to install wine.
This distro is compiled all 64bit, the packages in the Puppy Package Manager are all 32bit, they won't work. I probably should disable that until I can point it to a 64bit repo. But if wine is essential to you, you'll probably not want to use an all 64bit distro. Wine is 32bit. There is a wine 64bit, but it's very experimental.

I compiled the Nouveau Xorg driver. Can you or anyone else with nvidia graphics install the attached pet and reboot. Then gzip /var/log/Xorg.0.log and post it? I didn't recompile the kernel module, I'm hoping the one in 2.6.33 will work.

Thanks,

Kirk
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Nouveau Xorg driver and DRM from git on 3/13/2010.
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#18 Post by Jim1911 »

Kirk,
My KP 5280 is connected and turned on before boot.

Here is the output you wanted:
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 37283 0
snd_seq_dummy 1327 0
snd_seq_oss 26879 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5204 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48029 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 5005 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_mixer_oss 14702 1 snd_pcm_oss
usblp 10467 0
serio_raw 4072 0
snd_pcsp 7396 0
r8169 34152 0
mii 3754 1 r8169
ohci1394 27292 0
ieee1394 69854 1 ohci1394
nouveau 420710 0
ttm 44134 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 23375 1 nouveau
drm 153330 3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 4919 1 nouveau
i2c_i801 8086 0
i2c_core 16753 5 nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
snd_hda_codec_realtek 253160 1
snd_hda_intel 19314 1
snd_hda_codec 53288 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 69214 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcsp,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 17695 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 49712 13 snd_pcm_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcsp,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5295 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 6729 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
wmi 5957 0
thermal 11786 0
evdev 8569 0
button 4570 1 nouveau
processor 28656 0
asus_atk0110 8998 0
hwmon 1385 1 asus_atk0110
fuse 57191 0
aufs 149576 1
nls_iso8859_1 4285 0
nls_cp437 5817 0
usbhid 35143 0
usb_storage 41158 0
squashfs 19855 2
uhci_hcd 21308 0
ehci_hcd 34842 0
usbcore 135421 6 usblp,usbhid,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
#


# lpinfo -v
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct scsi
network socket
file pdf-writer:/dev/null
network beh
#

Installed your nvidia pet and rebooted. I really see no change.
Attached file is not zipped, Just rename it.

Cheers,
Jim
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#19 Post by jamesbond »

kirk,

You're so fast ... I am still with alpha3 here (downloading alpha4 ... ibiblio is very slow from where I am).

In alpha3, there is still a problem with wl, I saw your BC-wl script. The problem is in the line where it compares the pci with "4310". The result of the $(scanpci etc) in my h/w is "432b", and the test fails because it expects an integer, which "432b" is not. FIX: do the comparison in hex instead of decimal ...

Good news is that Gimp is now good, thanks!

cheers!

PS: still downloading alpha4 ...
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Re Devx

#20 Post by jduffy22335 »

[quote="kirk"]jduffy22335,

I fixed the permissions, the devx file should down load now. Maybe I can remember that next time.
/quote]

Thanks, downloading now.

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