Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

lumi · Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 61

i tried puppy on my Rpi and monitor and the resolution seems locked to 1824x984 and i cant change it too 1920x1080.

am i able to change this somewhere as xorgwizard isnt detecting the correct resolution

thanks

ah found out how. you need to plug sd card back into windows in my case, browse to the sd card and edit the config.txt. add the line disable_overscan=1

BarryK · Posted: Sun 08 Jul 2012, 22:30 Post subject:

Well, getting close to alpha3!

I just now fixed the reshaping of the background image to suit wide-screen. At first boot, the background was coming up distorted.

I also fixed gnome-mplayer appearing in the Utility menu, now in Multimedia menu.

The biggest problem now is sound. I would like to get that sorted before upload alpha3 -- if it is sorted, might bump it to beta1.

Pmusic is broken? So, we need a little music player that works.

A mixer that works.

A audio tray applet that works.

I wonder if any of the other distros have fixed these sound problems?

Lobster · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2012, 00:52 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld

I'm just installing my "SLR" (SLacko for Rasberry Pi, built from Armedslack-13.37) to an SD card, used Barry's kernel, latest .img (july 7).

It will be a very different build (if it works). It has later Alsa than Debian, see if that makes a difference to sound.

If the image works but sound doesn't I might try a build from -current.

LATER: boo.... kernel panic on boot.... hmmm..

"Kerenel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Documentation/init.txt for guidance."

Lobster · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2012, 01:03 Post subject:

looking forward to Mick making using of woof on ARM Smile

Good luck Mick Cool

Thanks to everyone compiling pets for Puppi SAP

Meanwhile antiloquax is probably still busy Confused

He may be able to create a mega-devx.sfs . . .
Programming gone mega . . .
I can say that the Arch files seem much more up to date (as one would expect) but also faster

Arm the world
. . . with Puppy's

antiloquax · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 405

Hi Lobster,
Yes - I have been quite busy - but mainly with programming things. The last issue of the MagPi had something by me on Scratch and I am hoping to get something in the next issue - a game in Python.

So, I haven't got around to experimenting further with SAP Sad

The programming side is important if we want the Foundation's good wishes: Python with Tk, Scratch and maybe stuff like Greenfoot / Alice.
mark

rhadon · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 1293 Location: Germany

Hi,

I got a problem with PPM.

Downloading the packages was OK, but when processing packages into a standard format, every line looks like

Lobster · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2012, 07:49 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2012, 09:04 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2012, 09:10 Post subject:

lumi · Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 61

will the little music player support flac files? and pure bitstreaming?

make a nice little music player to my dac then Smile

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld

IIRC thunor wrote a music player but I think it only supports mp3/ogg, depends mpg123, ogg123.

Mplayer likely has support for most formats, maybe thunor's app could be made to use it?

peterw · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 294 Location: UK

Hi

I am looking for suggestions as to what I am doing wrong. I can't get the Puppy SAP image to my SDHC. The history so far.

I have recently received my board. To get it to work reliably I had to add two parallel power supply wires to the +5V and 0V USB lead to achieve a stable 5V at the board TP1 and TP2. It then booted up the debian programme using their procedure to write it to the SDHC and my keyboard and mouse attached to a powered usb hub works fine.

Knowing my hardware is OK, I have then used Barry's procedure to write the image:
# unxz --stdout raspi-sd-4gb-sap6-5.95.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb
# sync
In my case it is sdb1

It writes the image but it is not then recognised by the system and does not produce an icon on the screen. dmesg shows that the SHDC is seen with errors (Unhandled sense error). If inserted to the board the PWR light comes on but not the OK green LED. To get the SDHCs to work again I have to use the HP usb utility.

I have tried this with two SDHCs and got the same result. I have also tried the raspberry pi method by uncompressing the SAP file and using a modified version of their command:
dd bs=1M if=raspi-sd-4gb-sap6-5.96.img of=/dev/sdb1

Looking at the debian SDHC it has a 75MB vfat partition and a large ext4 one. Should I have done something to the partition of the SDHC first?

Sorry this is bit of a ramble. I am running out of ideas.

Peterw

eowens2 · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 172

A question about the Puppy Package Manager.

I wanted to add some board games to SAP Alpha2, so I entered "Ace-of-Penguins" to the "Find" field of PPM. PPM promptly found the file in debian-squeeze-main, I checked "examine dependencies" and PPM downloaded the file and any necessary dependencies and gave me a final "Successfully Installed" message.

I closed down PPM and went to the "Fun" menu, hoping to find some new games there, but there were no new items in the menu.

I went to the console and used "find" to look for *ace-of-penguins* and all of the files were found in various directories of "/usr" and a session can be initiated with something like "/usr/games/ace-frecell" or "/usr/games/ace-taipei".
So the question is, does PPM not install programs into Puppy's menus if they are not a dot-PET package?

Another observation about PPM. I must have somehow accidentally un-ticked "debian-squeeze-contrib" and "debian-squeeze-main" as repos, because they disappeared from the list at the top of the PPM main page. I clicked on "Configure package manager" and re-ticked those two repositories, clicked on "O.K." and exited PPM.

However on re-entering PPM, those two repos are still missing from the list (and if I again go into "Configure package manager", those two repos are again un-ticked).

When I look at /root/.packages/REPOS_DISTRO_COMPAT I find "http://us.debian.org/debian" which I assume is debian-main. PPM seems to be not remembering that I want to include debian-squeeze-contrib and debian-squeeze-main. Or do I need to edit REPOS_DISTRO_COMPAT?
Thanks!