My report on Quirky 6.0

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#616 Post by mavrothal »

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#617 Post by BarryK »

Rodney Byne wrote:After a clean install of QT 6.0.5 to flashdrive, I note
the yellow First Time SeaMonkey box still appears
on every launch of SeaMonkey.
Its intended purpose to only appear once is not working.

Could the symlink

ln -snf /usr/lib/seamonkey/seamonkey /usr/bin/seamonkey

be permanently included by default please in future releases.
It should have disappeared after a reboot.

But, that was an act of desparation. You guys who have this problem, have to help me.

Download the attached, then:

# gunzip seamonkey.gz
# chmod 755 seamonkey

Copy it to /usr/bin/, replacing old 'seamonkey' -- if you have a symlink there, delete that first.

Now, in a terminal:

# seamonkey > /root/seamonkey.log 2>&1

Let us know if you get the popup, well you should, as that is the problem.

Exit seamonkey, start again, notice the two >>:

# seamonkey >> /root/seamonkey.log 2>&1

Then post the file /root/seamonkey.log here. As an attachment, you might have to gzip it, or just append ".gz".
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#618 Post by James C »

Used service pack to update from 6.0.4 to 6.0.5 .........no obvious problems so far.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky Tahr, version 6.0.5

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: dbe dri2 extmod glx kbd mouse

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       2065684       361732      1703952            0        19084
-/+ buffers:             342648      1723036
Swap:      2150396            0      2150396
#

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Fastest download of Quirky tahr 6.0.5

#619 Post by don570 »

Fastest download of Quirky tahr 6.0.5
Thanks to forum member Puppus Dogfellow

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing

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#620 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

unable to get webcam to work on dell inspiron mini netbook--it ran guvcview under slacko 5.3 and precise 5.6 and 5.7. in tahr i was able to get some basic webcam program (the name of which i can't recall--camsomething...) to work, but after the upgrade to 6.0.5, that wouldn't work either. i uninstalled all the webcam stuff, reinstalled the latest guvcview from the PPM and still no luck. any suggestions?

thanks in advance.

(other than that it really is running extraordinarily well off the usb 2 drive.)

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Testing Quirky Tahr 6.0.5

#621 Post by ETP »

This was a fresh install to a USB2 stick using method "D" in XP with 7-Zip (Portable) and Win32DiskImager.exe (V 0.7). I made no attempt to boot from that however, electing instead to copy over the contents of the second f2fs partition to an empty f2fs partition on my SSD. Vmlinuz was copied over to a bootable fat32 2GB SD card. That card had been prepared with firstly the HP utility and then Syslinux 4.04.
Syslinux.cfg was reduced to just the following single line of code.

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default /quirky/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 rw
The following pets were installed:
  • xdotool-2.20110530.1-3|no description provided
    PupControl-2.3|PupControl panel (preferred over later version)
    cursor_themes-1-1|themes for mouse cursor
    PupSnap-1.8_Scrot-0.8_32Bit|PupSnap screen capture (preferred over later version)
    PupClockset-2.2.1|PupClockset manager
    flashplayer11-11.2.202.336|Adobe Flash Player 11 browser plugin and Preferences. Note, this may not work on older PCs, use instead an earlier 11.x or even 10.x
    getflash-1.5-1|GetFlash Install Flashplayer
    chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_32.0.1700.107|Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser
    chromium-browser_32.0.1700.107|Chromium browser
    chromium-codecs-ffmpeg_32.0.1700.107|Free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser
    chromium-chromedriver_32.0.1700.107|WebDriver driver for the Chromium Browser
    thunderbird-16.0.1|Thunderbird mail reader (Subsequently updated to 24.0.3)
    tickr-0.6.0-i686|RSS Feed Reader
Experiment:
I will detail this in a separate “How To
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My report on Quirky 6.0

#622 Post by Billtoo »

New Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 install to hard drive partition of an emachines
D620 laptop.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Tue 18 Feb 2014 on Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 Linux 3.12.6 i686
5.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS690 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: modesetting
X.Org version: 1.15.0
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2650e
Core 0: @1595 MHz

Memory 1812MB (66MB used)
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

It's working well.
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Suggested feature for Quirky Tahr

#623 Post by Rodney Byne »

Barry, this suggested useful feature was absent in Puppy and the
same in Quirky Tahr.

From one who cannot code from scratch, could you please devise a
labour-saving way of copy and pasting complex command lines
from say a web page, directly to the console terminal to avoid
making typing mistakes.

The mouse right click copy works in the browser, but the console
has no right click drop down box with a paste facility at all.

Others may find this useful as well, thanks.

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Re: Suggested feature for Quirky Tahr

#624 Post by Billtoo »

Rodney Byne wrote: The mouse right click copy works in the browser, but the console
has no right click drop down box with a paste facility at all.
Lxterminal which is available in Puppy Package Manager supports copy/paste.
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Re: Suggested feature for Quirky Tahr

#625 Post by broomdodger »

Rodney Byne wrote:Barry, this suggested useful feature was absent in Puppy and the
same in Quirky Tahr.

From one who cannot code from scratch, could you please devise a
labour-saving way of copy and pasting complex command lines
from say a web page, directly to the console terminal to avoid
making typing mistakes.

The mouse right click copy works in the browser, but the console
has no right click drop down box with a paste facility at all.

Others may find this useful as well, thanks.
+ open built-in terminal
+ switch to browser
+ highlight (select) some text
+ switch back to terminal
+ middle button click will paste

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Re: Suggested feature for Quirky Tahr

#626 Post by Billtoo »

You beat me to it.

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#627 Post by slavvo67 »

I have RoxTerm working in Tahr. It has the cut and paste options, with right click, as well.

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boot codes?

#628 Post by step »

Installed version 6.0.5 8gb USB image to a stick, and can boot fine an old DELL D531 laptop, wired and wireless connections and YASSM samba mounter working without a hickup, great.

BUT

on another PC booting ends with a black screen and I can't find the right mix of boot codes to fix it, can anyone suggest a method to discover the right mix, please?

On the same PC I can boot knoppix 7.0.4 with boot code
knoppix nomodeset.
So I tried booting quirky tahr the same way with
quirky nomodeset
but all I get is a black screen with vertical green stripes.

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Quirky Tahr 6.0.5

#629 Post by Kris55555 »

Hi @BarryK and all.

I have Quirky Tahr installed on a 16 gb flash drive usb-2.0 (f2fs).
Currently, version 6.0.5 Quirky Tahr (upgrade from 6.0.2).
Computer desktop, Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750, 4 GB RAM.
The system works OK. Works super fast.

I have the following questions, suggestions:
1. Quirky Tahr a system restore, but the restore takes a long time (I know - depending on the size of the system). Well if the message contained a percentage of the recovery made​​ ?.
2. Installation on a memory stick (The installation script, not the image), the system leaves a memory stick (16GB and 32GB - Toshiba) is always 616 MB (?) Space, checked a few stick and always with the same result. Like this place free and unallocated use?
3. Several times I tried to compile the nvidia driver (Used the latest getnvidia), but always fail, always receive error messages about bad paths or lack directories. Is there or will there be a version nvidia driver to the kernel k.3.12.6(i686)* ? in the file .pet or .sfs? I have NVIDIA Corporation card GF218 [GeForce GF 220].
* Or the new announced today Kernel 3.12.11.

Thank you Barry.K for Quirky Tahr :D
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QT 6.05

#630 Post by bobtron »

Help!
-recently service pack upgraded to QT 6.0.5

-Want "cursor_themes-1.1.pet" so I opened PPM/QPM and found in repo..however,tried to download from every mirror popped "Error, file not found"
-Then chose "Configure PPM" and "updated" repo info.
-Again tried to download "cursor_themes-1.1-pet" but still not found in download mirrors.
-So "Google-d" the same as ".pet"...found at Ibiblio mirror so I selected it but was offered as ".gz"
-I saved and extracted this file to /root/Downloads
Now what do I do to make it work?

Many TNX to all the fellas for great help.
QT6.0.5 is working great on 8GB USB stick..And I am looking forward to April7 2014 when Ubuntu releases Trusty Tahr {and the repos have been firmed up}
I will be very happy to commit QT 6.1(?) to hard disk partition!-TNX again!

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Re: Quirky Tahr 6.0.5

#631 Post by Billtoo »

Kris55555 wrote: 3. Several times I tried to compile the nvidia driver (Used the latest getnvidia), but always fail, always receive error messages about bad paths or lack directories. Is there or will there be a version nvidia driver to the kernel k.3.12.6(i686)* ? in the file .pet or .sfs? I have NVIDIA Corporation card GF218 [GeForce GF 220].
My graphics card is similar to yours and I was able to compile the
proprietary nvidia driver for it.
I have devx-6.0.5-tahr.pet,kernel_src-3.12.6-patched.pet,
linux_kernel-3.12.6-nopae-aufs-squashfsbuiltin-i486-quirky6.pet
installed and I downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.119.run proprietary driver from the
nvidia web site.
You need to exit to the prompt and enter "sh
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.119.run" no quotes, it will prompt saying that
the nouveau driver is installed and ask if you want the installer to
try to remove it, choose yes then reboot.
After rebooting and back at the prompt do
"sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.119.run" again.
It will now show an error message about gcc version mismatch and ask
if you want to abort, say no and it will compile the driver, when it
has finished it will ask if you want to update the xorg.conf
automatically, say yes and when you are back at the prompt reboot.
After rebooting the proprietary driver will be working.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Wed 19 Feb 2014 on Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 Linux 3.12.6 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.15.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 220/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.119

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Core 0: @2003 1: @2003 MHz

My Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 is on a hard drive partition so I don't know how
well compiling the driver on a usb 2.0 flash drive would work.
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#632 Post by 666philb »

Has anyone got the ati/amd driver working yet?
Bionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331

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Re: QT 6.05

#633 Post by ETP »

bobtron wrote:Help!
-recently service pack upgraded to QT 6.0.5

-Want "cursor_themes-1.1.pet" so I opened PPM/QPM and found in repo..however,tried to download from every mirror popped "Error, file not found"
-Then chose "Configure PPM" and "updated" repo info.
-Again tried to download "cursor_themes-1.1-pet" but still not found in download mirrors.
-So "Google-d" the same as ".pet"...found at Ibiblio mirror so I selected it but was offered as ".gz"
-I saved and extracted this file to /root/Downloads
Now what do I do to make it work?

Many TNX to all the fellas for great help.
QT6.0.5 is working great on 8GB USB stick..And I am looking forward to April7 2014 when Ubuntu releases Trusty Tahr {and the repos have been firmed up}
I will be very happy to commit QT 6.1(?) to hard disk partition!-TNX again!
Here is the .pet (Click on the small download button at the top)
http://www.datafilehost.com/d/beab0c97
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follow up comment on BarryK's blog re rel 6.0.5

#634 Post by step »

@BarryK,
I'm posting here the output you requested in your blog, as all my direct replies to the blog entry didn't stick even though I specified my blog password.

# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe554bbd3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 20482047 10240000 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 20482048 488396799 233957376 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 20484096 37269503 8392704 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 37271552 79214591 20971520 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda7 79216640 142622719 31703040 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 142624768 446453759 151914496 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 446455808 488396799 20970496 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
# probepart
/dev/sda1|vfat|20480000
/dev/sda2|ntfs|2
/dev/sda5|swap|16785408
/dev/sda6|ntfs|41943040
/dev/sda7|ext4|63406080
/dev/sda8|ext3|303828992
/dev/sda9|ntfs|41940992
/dev/sdb1|vfat|32768
/dev/sdb2|f2fs|14974976
#

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Childproofing

#635 Post by Rodney Byne »

Re: blog point 14. Child-proofing. Optional, make PC hard drives invisible.

From Barry's blog link & after reading the Ubuntu spiel,
in plain english, is this harmful to hard drives or SSDs
with an existing OS installed?

How does making a hard drive invisible, reconcile with people
who want to install Q Tahr or Q T2 to their pc hard drive partition,
rather than as simply portable on a flashdrive?
Does "invisibility" cloaking protect the HD from virus infections?

Am somewhat apprehensive where this is all going.
To the uninitiated this is dark territory - uncharted waters.
Would appreciate serious clarification.

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