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ETP wrote:....
Possibly missing a colon after sda3

shinobar wrote:BTW, where is the 3.4.2 kernel source?
The fd64-devx_600.sfs has linux-3.3.4.

01micko wrote:

shinobar wrote:BTW, where is the 3.4.2 kernel source?
The fd64-devx_600.sfs has linux-3.3.4.

Funny, I didn't check but the one I downloaded compiled nvidia just fine. All mirrors should have caught it well and truly by now.

Wait, I'll check, see screen cap

shinobar wrote:

01micko wrote:

shinobar wrote:BTW, where is the 3.4.2 kernel source?
The fd64-devx_600.sfs has linux-3.3.4.

Funny, I didn't check but the one I downloaded compiled nvidia just fine. All mirrors should have caught it well and truly by now.

Wait, I'll check, see screen cap

Thanks mike. maybe same filename but different ones. My fat64-devx_600.sfs has timpstamp 2012-06-11.
I am downloading the new, timestamp 2012-06-13.

shinobar wrote:But the probepart shows /dev/fd0 twice:

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# probepart | grep fd
/dev/fd0|none|2880
/dev/fd0|none|2880

EDIT: The probepart in the most recent woof is fixed.

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#120602 kernel 3.2.18 major deviance from earlier kernels, /proc/partitions (and /sys/block) now shows /dev/sr0 when no disk.
#       new situation, getting duplicate /dev/sr0 so need 'sort -u'.

ALLDEVS=$(echo $ALLDEVS | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u | tr '\n' ' ')

nooby wrote:Pardon my naive remark.
A noob would not know about this way to do a direct link to the savefile
in the menu.lst Even I who have read here each day since 2008
did not know about it. And I have at least tested frugal install of Puppy
almost daily following the developers suggestions on many different puppies.

savefile=direct:device:sda1:/fd64b2/fd64save.ext4

I changed it to savefile=direct:device:sda1:/fd64b2/fd64save.ext3
that worked too but needed some consistence at shut down that
maybe a noob will not be aware of.

have a noob notion that ext3 is safer to use than ext4 due to ext4 less known? First time I used it in all those years of saving a save file

Gobbi wrote:Using Skype with both Fatdog 521 and Lighthouse 5.14 was always possible only with Analogue Audio because the system recognized only the external analogue microphone and not ( no matter what I tried ) the digital microphone which is inside the usb webcam .

Is there any tweak that could arrange that by the time the Skype pet arrives

Jim1911 wrote:I removed those parameters from my code and found that you are correct and all that's needed are the "savefile" parameters to find the save file although they do no harm.

However, when I just used the legacy parameters the save file could not be found. Grub can only find a save file located in /mnt/home.

smokey01 wrote:Just tried to stream .mp4 from my website via seamonkey. VLC fires up but no video.

If you open VLC then use the URL it will work. Seems to be something wrong with Seamonkey's integration with VLC.

nooby wrote:I am interested in a 32-bit version of FatDog because it is a multi-user Puppy
so a lot of people would be able to use Puppy on 32 bit machines.

So if one had two versions of a multi-user Puppy because now they
refuse to use a single user Puppy. Yes I know that very few developers
do care about that criticism. But now when we do have a modern Puppy
that are multi-user then it is unfortunate that it is 64-bit.

Many many users of Linux still have older 32-bit computers.
So it would be great to have a modern 32-bit multi-user Puppy to recommend

Now I am a noob so I know too little. I have a lot of time but lack knowledge
So if the Devs have no time to make the compilation needed for 32-bit
would it be easy enough for a noob to do. I mean if the scripts as such
do it automatically and the only trouble is that it takes many ours a day
and many many days to accomplish but need no special knowledge to do?

As is obvious I know nothing so maybe I am way into fantasy land.

Could one expect a kind of woof script in future that allow us noobs
to accomplish the 32-bit if the developers have no time to let it have
its automatic course or is it a hard and tough job to make it 32-bit from
64-bit?

I apology if all this sounds very ridiculous. All of it is from my heart
caring about all these Linux users keen on the notion of single user root.

I am all for single user root but I do care about all these others
and want them to be able to have a good multi user Puppy Linux.

nooby wrote:I am interested in a 32-bit version of Fat ...

1. ARe you looking to have other users logon to the system's console?
2. Are you looking to have other users remotely get a desktop on the local PC?
3. Are you only looking to share "specific folders/files" with certain LAN PC users?

jamesbond wrote:

Gobbi wrote:Using Skype with both Fatdog 521 and Lighthouse 5.14 was always possible only with Analogue Audio because the system recognized only the external analogue microphone and not ( no matter what I tried ) the digital microphone which is inside the usb webcam .

Is there any tweak that could arrange that by the time the Skype pet arrives

I cannot promise anything. Skype is closed source software - you've got what they give out. All I did was to package skype with essential 32-bit libs so that it will work on Fatdog. How about using PuppyPhone instead

jamesbond wrote:

smokey01 wrote:Just tried to stream .mp4 from my website via seamonkey. VLC fires up but no video.

If you open VLC then use the URL it will work. Seems to be something wrong with Seamonkey's integration with VLC.

Do you have a sample link for us to try?

smokey01 wrote:

jamesbond wrote:

smokey01 wrote:Just tried to stream .mp4 from my website via seamonkey. VLC fires up but no video.

If you open VLC then use the URL it will work. Seems to be something wrong with Seamonkey's integration with VLC.

Do you have a sample link for us to try?

James, here is a little video made with this command:
ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0 -isync -f x11grab -s `xdpyinfo | grep -i dimensions: | sed 's/[^0-9]*pixels.*(.*).*//' | sed 's/[^0-9x]*//'` -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq smokey.mp4

http://www.smokey01.com/grant/smokey.mp4

01micko wrote:

smokey01 wrote:

jamesbond wrote: Do you have a sample link for us to try?

James, here is a little video made with this command:
ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0 -isync -f x11grab -s `xdpyinfo | grep -i dimensions: | sed 's/[^0-9]*pixels.*(.*).*//' | sed 's/[^0-9x]*//'` -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq smokey.mp4

http://www.smokey01.com/grant/smokey.mp4

Working here in seamonkey and Iron