Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
@inspector:
re: item 1 -- What types of image files are causing tumblerd to segfault? On my end, it seems to be working with .jpg files but not .png's, though it doesn't seem to be segfaulting. I did try a newer development version of tumbler before pushing RC2 but it had issues and I reverted back to the earlier version -- perhaps something got compiled against a wrong version somewhere (and I will look into the .png support, perhaps I need to add the full libpng package at compile time so the headers are found and support is compiled in).
re: item 4 -- it looks to me like lcms lcms2 can exist side-by-side (just like gtk-2/gtk-3) so you should be able to simply add lcms2 and Evince (along with any other dependencies) to get it working. I didn't know that Evince no longer depends on gnome -- I'll look into it for version 2.1 but I'm afraid it's too late to change packages around for 2.0 final. Thank you for the suggestion!
@zer0-G:
I've not had this experience (phantom floppy drives showing up) -- are you able to test on other computers to see if it happens there? Also, on the computer where this does happen, please give me the output of 'lspci' and also try to click on that to mount it and let me know what error messages show up, if any. I'm wondering if maybe it is some kind of a memory card reader or other device that is interpreted as a floppy drive (or associated with that icon anyway) somewhere. Thanks!
re: item 1 -- What types of image files are causing tumblerd to segfault? On my end, it seems to be working with .jpg files but not .png's, though it doesn't seem to be segfaulting. I did try a newer development version of tumbler before pushing RC2 but it had issues and I reverted back to the earlier version -- perhaps something got compiled against a wrong version somewhere (and I will look into the .png support, perhaps I need to add the full libpng package at compile time so the headers are found and support is compiled in).
re: item 4 -- it looks to me like lcms lcms2 can exist side-by-side (just like gtk-2/gtk-3) so you should be able to simply add lcms2 and Evince (along with any other dependencies) to get it working. I didn't know that Evince no longer depends on gnome -- I'll look into it for version 2.1 but I'm afraid it's too late to change packages around for 2.0 final. Thank you for the suggestion!
@zer0-G:
I've not had this experience (phantom floppy drives showing up) -- are you able to test on other computers to see if it happens there? Also, on the computer where this does happen, please give me the output of 'lspci' and also try to click on that to mount it and let me know what error messages show up, if any. I'm wondering if maybe it is some kind of a memory card reader or other device that is interpreted as a floppy drive (or associated with that icon anyway) somewhere. Thanks!
Please take a look at our online documentation, here. Suggestions are welcome!
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
@Ahau:
item 1: It seems that only non-animated gifs work on my end. Bmp, animated gif, jpg and png cause segfaults.
item 4: Thanks for the tip.
@Ahau and @fanthom
Thanks for your hard work and quick responses.
item 1: It seems that only non-animated gifs work on my end. Bmp, animated gif, jpg and png cause segfaults.
item 4: Thanks for the tip.
@Ahau and @fanthom
Thanks for your hard work and quick responses.
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
Thanks, inspector! Do you have any other modules active when you are testing? Other applications, especially anything from Slackware 13.X vintage? I'm wondering if perhaps one of tumbler's dependencies is overwritten with some other version and that is causing the segfault. If you have a chance, please test with "always fresh" mode to be sure only the base modules are activated.
Please take a look at our online documentation, here. Suggestions are welcome!
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
My apologies, inspector! I wasn't paying enough attention -- tumblerd is segfaulting on my system (and then at times it seems to restart itself). I've recompiled version 0.27 as well as thunar and the issue is still present. I'll revert tumbler to 0.25 for 2.0 Final, as it is working (tested with .jpg, .gif, .png, and .bmp). Thanks for the bug report, and hopefully this is an upstream error that will get resolved soon!
Please take a look at our online documentation, here. Suggestions are welcome!
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
Porteus-v2.0-rc2-i486.iso
LXDE, 4GB Flash Drive, ext3 formatted.
a) Whenever I use "Super User Mode - PCMan" the dialog box shows asking me for the root password. I enter toor and PCMan appears showing "guest" in the title bar and /home/guest in the location window. And in the center of it all is a dialog box titled "Error" saying Permission denied. This box has an OK to click to close it, which I do, and everything is fine. PCMan is actually in Super User Mode and I can go about my business.
This is no big deal but it is very annoying because it needs to be closed everytime. The major file window of the FM is blank behind the Error box until the error box is closed, then the files show.
It does not end there, anytime I wonder back into /home/guest the Error/Permission denied box pops up again. Up or down the directory tree everytime I get to /home/guest, I get the same problem.
Happens on both Sony and PNY 4GB flash drives.
This has continued to happen and I've re-installed 4 times in an effort to isolate the problem. Fresh install today to 1GB partition on 4GB flash drive formatted with ext3. Used Porteus Installer from Porteus Settings Center in Razor-Qt on a CD.
Installation successful
-reboot
-use spacefm to copy 003-lxde.xzm from local hard drive to /mnt/sdc1/porteus/base
-reboot, LXDE not in splash menu, so am back into Razor-Qt
-logout
-select #3 LXDE and login back in as guest - Now in LXDE (dolphin wallpaper)
*-Open - Super User Mode - PCMan, use password "toor" - Okay - close PCMan
-Use Porteus Package Manager to create ppm-slackware-db module
-find and download gvfs-1.12.3-i486-2.txz
-use Super User Mode - Terminal to convert this file to .xzm
-move gvfs-1.12.3-i486-2.xzm to /mnt/sdc1/porteus/modules
*-Open - Super User Mode - PCMan, use password "toor" - Okay - close PCMan
-remove "Keyboard Layout Switcher" from panel
-open - regular user PCMan, open Desktop, select "Home" and "System", right click, select Delete. Get msg asking if I wish to move them to Trash, Yes.
-right click on Trash, click on "empty trash", a Finished box pops up saying "the file operation is finished, but there are some errors" :Operation not supported
*-Open - Super User Mode - PCMan, use password "toor" - Okay
use it to activate gvfs-1.12.3-i486-2.xzm in /mnt/sdc1/porteus/modules - close PCMan
-open - regular user PCMan to attempt to delete Trash, and it works :-)
*-Open - Super User Mode - PCMan, use password "toor" - "Permission denied"
b) somewhere along the line a hidden file named .Trash-0 is created on /mnt/sdc1 beside the boot and porteus folders. This file fills up rather quickly when I download .txz files, convert them to .xzm files and then delete the original .txz file. By luck, I found it, but seem only able to empty it by using Super User Mode - Terminal, ls -a, rm -rf .Trash-0, and of course that deletes the folder also. Seems to be a real PIA deleting files in LXDE, I'm sure I have lots to learn though :-)
c) in LXDE you can right click and get a small menu, the last selection of which is "Desktop preferences". If this selection is made a 2 tab dialog box comes up. The 2nd tab is called Advanced with a check box: "show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked". This causes a useless "dead" menu to appear on the desktop with a right click. Furthermore, there is no way to recover after making this dead-end choice. I've seen this mentioned in this forum. I'm one to like right clicking to get a menu, such as in Xfce, but this one is a killer. Is there someway to remove that tempting-black-widow option ? :-)
d) Finally a question. In glancing through /var/log/messages I noticed a lot of mentions of ext4. What is the preferred file system for Porteus?
Love this distro !!!
Sean
LXDE, 4GB Flash Drive, ext3 formatted.
a) Whenever I use "Super User Mode - PCMan" the dialog box shows asking me for the root password. I enter toor and PCMan appears showing "guest" in the title bar and /home/guest in the location window. And in the center of it all is a dialog box titled "Error" saying Permission denied. This box has an OK to click to close it, which I do, and everything is fine. PCMan is actually in Super User Mode and I can go about my business.
This is no big deal but it is very annoying because it needs to be closed everytime. The major file window of the FM is blank behind the Error box until the error box is closed, then the files show.
It does not end there, anytime I wonder back into /home/guest the Error/Permission denied box pops up again. Up or down the directory tree everytime I get to /home/guest, I get the same problem.
Happens on both Sony and PNY 4GB flash drives.
This has continued to happen and I've re-installed 4 times in an effort to isolate the problem. Fresh install today to 1GB partition on 4GB flash drive formatted with ext3. Used Porteus Installer from Porteus Settings Center in Razor-Qt on a CD.
Installation successful
-reboot
-use spacefm to copy 003-lxde.xzm from local hard drive to /mnt/sdc1/porteus/base
-reboot, LXDE not in splash menu, so am back into Razor-Qt
-logout
-select #3 LXDE and login back in as guest - Now in LXDE (dolphin wallpaper)
*-Open - Super User Mode - PCMan, use password "toor" - Okay - close PCMan
-Use Porteus Package Manager to create ppm-slackware-db module
-find and download gvfs-1.12.3-i486-2.txz
-use Super User Mode - Terminal to convert this file to .xzm
-move gvfs-1.12.3-i486-2.xzm to /mnt/sdc1/porteus/modules
*-Open - Super User Mode - PCMan, use password "toor" - Okay - close PCMan
-remove "Keyboard Layout Switcher" from panel
-open - regular user PCMan, open Desktop, select "Home" and "System", right click, select Delete. Get msg asking if I wish to move them to Trash, Yes.
-right click on Trash, click on "empty trash", a Finished box pops up saying "the file operation is finished, but there are some errors" :Operation not supported
*-Open - Super User Mode - PCMan, use password "toor" - Okay
use it to activate gvfs-1.12.3-i486-2.xzm in /mnt/sdc1/porteus/modules - close PCMan
-open - regular user PCMan to attempt to delete Trash, and it works :-)
*-Open - Super User Mode - PCMan, use password "toor" - "Permission denied"
b) somewhere along the line a hidden file named .Trash-0 is created on /mnt/sdc1 beside the boot and porteus folders. This file fills up rather quickly when I download .txz files, convert them to .xzm files and then delete the original .txz file. By luck, I found it, but seem only able to empty it by using Super User Mode - Terminal, ls -a, rm -rf .Trash-0, and of course that deletes the folder also. Seems to be a real PIA deleting files in LXDE, I'm sure I have lots to learn though :-)
c) in LXDE you can right click and get a small menu, the last selection of which is "Desktop preferences". If this selection is made a 2 tab dialog box comes up. The 2nd tab is called Advanced with a check box: "show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked". This causes a useless "dead" menu to appear on the desktop with a right click. Furthermore, there is no way to recover after making this dead-end choice. I've seen this mentioned in this forum. I'm one to like right clicking to get a menu, such as in Xfce, but this one is a killer. Is there someway to remove that tempting-black-widow option ? :-)
d) Finally a question. In glancing through /var/log/messages I noticed a lot of mentions of ext4. What is the preferred file system for Porteus?
Love this distro !!!
Sean
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
Porteus XFCE 64 2.0 RC2 Bugs
Bug: Cups is missing some files for its administration website. When you navigate to localhost:631, it says "Not Found". If you navigate to localhost:631/admin, it displays a page but the formatting and images are missing. To fix it, make sure directory /usr/doc/cups exists with its contents, and add the symlink /usr/share/doc/cups which points to /usr/doc/cups.
@Ahau
Glad to hear you got tumbler sorted. Thanks!
Bug: Cups is missing some files for its administration website. When you navigate to localhost:631, it says "Not Found". If you navigate to localhost:631/admin, it displays a page but the formatting and images are missing. To fix it, make sure directory /usr/doc/cups exists with its contents, and add the symlink /usr/share/doc/cups which points to /usr/doc/cups.
@Ahau
Glad to hear you got tumbler sorted. Thanks!
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
Good morning !
last weeks I worked on last version of Salx with Kde4
it was perfect but I felt there is big size with less apps.
today I installed Porteus-2.0-razor32bit
it is amazing and cool, really there are a lot of apps with small size.
I will work on it, then I will write my feedback soon.
thanks guys for your effort.
regards !
last weeks I worked on last version of Salx with Kde4

today I installed Porteus-2.0-razor32bit

I will work on it, then I will write my feedback soon.
thanks guys for your effort.

regards !
Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
@Ahau
Sorry I haven't had a chance to run on another PC yet but will try when I get access.
When I try to mount the phantom drive it gives the following error: http://i49.tinypic.com/14vs40m.jpg
Failed to mount "Floppy Disk"
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending
I did run lspci here:
Thanks...
Sorry I haven't had a chance to run on another PC yet but will try when I get access.
When I try to mount the phantom drive it gives the following error: http://i49.tinypic.com/14vs40m.jpg
Failed to mount "Floppy Disk"
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending
I did run lspci here:
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00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode) (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP77 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] (rev a2)
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
PPM
PPM, when put in full mode, seems to waste space:
http://i47.tinypic.com/vhsuux.png
In my example, the full sized window is large enough to show all the information.
But instead the left first row info - the categories - is way too large, and then below the still scrolled info with the individual packages is wasted.
Would it be better optimized, all the packages info in this example could be seen without the need to scoll...
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What's necessary to have a gnome-mplayer that is able to go frame-by-frame using a keyboard shortcut?
Does it require recompilation or just hacking its settings file?
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Sound/playing ma4 / wma with audacious and saving a playlist in audacious
Playing m4a files :
mplayer just works fine:
Is there no never version of mplayer available? It's from 2011, at least it says so, and we have 2013...
So it seems the needed decoder is available on the system.
Now let's try the main sound player for XFCe Porteus, audacious:
It can read the meta tags, giving me the same artist and album info as quoted above from mplayer, but playing?
But it seems the decioder is available. Me thinks it was not build / hard coded into mplayer but comes as module, yes?
So it only should be an issue inserting that module / making it known to audacious. Or do I lack knowkledge here? Is it once again some M$ Windoze plugin that mplayer can use, but audacious not?
Same goes for wma: again all I get is
with audacious, but it plays just fine with mplayer / gnome-mplayer.
And this time, wma is even set in Thunar to be opened with audacious... [default is mplayer, though] so it seems it definitely should work.
Also, when I try to save a playlist with audacious, I get this error:
But the save file box not gives the info of what the supported file extensions might be.
Me thinks this is an issue with the used audacious version, but nonetheless it should be resolved prior releasing 2.0 finale.
[After trying csv I could save the playlist using pls as file extensions; but only because I knew this is a common used play list format; that's far from the optimum solution for an user friendly OS like Porteus.]
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And last but not least: what cheat codes do I need to have no changes saved? Using "always fresh" is not the option since I needs stuff from rootcopy/ and also must load non standard modules from base. (Mainly the nVidia driver)
Cheers
PPM, when put in full mode, seems to waste space:
http://i47.tinypic.com/vhsuux.png
In my example, the full sized window is large enough to show all the information.
But instead the left first row info - the categories - is way too large, and then below the still scrolled info with the individual packages is wasted.
Would it be better optimized, all the packages info in this example could be seen without the need to scoll...
____________________________________________________
What's necessary to have a gnome-mplayer that is able to go frame-by-frame using a keyboard shortcut?
Does it require recompilation or just hacking its settings file?
____________________________________________________
Sound/playing ma4 / wma with audacious and saving a playlist in audacious
Playing m4a files :
mplayer just works fine:
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guest@porteus:/run/media/guest/what-ever/sound/Anne Clark/The Sitting Room$ file 01\ Titel\ 01.m4a
01 Titel 01.m4a: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, iTunes AAC-LC
guest@porteus:/run/media/guest/what-ever/sound/Anne Clark/The Sitting Room$ mplayer 01\ Titel\ 01.m4a
MPlayer SVN-r34180-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
Playing 01 Titel 01.m4a.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang und
Clip info:
major_brand: M4A
minor_version: 0
compatible_brands: M4A mp42isom
creation_time: 2006-02-26 17:44:18
title: Titel 01
artist: Anne Clark
album: The Sitting Room
track: 1
encoder: iTunes v6.0.2.23, QuickTime 7.0.4
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 127.2 kbit/9.01% (ratio: 15894->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 13.5 (13.5) of 141.5 (02:21.5) 1.1%
Exiting... (Quit)
So it seems the needed decoder is available on the system.
Now let's try the main sound player for XFCe Porteus, audacious:
It can read the meta tags, giving me the same artist and album info as quoted above from mplayer, but playing?
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No decoder found for file [....].m4a
So it only should be an issue inserting that module / making it known to audacious. Or do I lack knowkledge here? Is it once again some M$ Windoze plugin that mplayer can use, but audacious not?
Same goes for wma: again all I get is
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No decoder found for file [....].wma
And this time, wma is even set in Thunar to be opened with audacious... [default is mplayer, though] so it seems it definitely should work.
Also, when I try to save a playlist with audacious, I get this error:
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Cannot save file://mnt/whatever: unsupported file extensions
Me thinks this is an issue with the used audacious version, but nonetheless it should be resolved prior releasing 2.0 finale.
[After trying csv I could save the playlist using pls as file extensions; but only because I knew this is a common used play list format; that's far from the optimum solution for an user friendly OS like Porteus.]
_____________________________________________________-
And last but not least: what cheat codes do I need to have no changes saved? Using "always fresh" is not the option since I needs stuff from rootcopy/ and also must load non standard modules from base. (Mainly the nVidia driver)
Cheers
Cheers!
Yours Rava
Yours Rava
Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
@Rava, The problem you have pointed about waste of space is related to responsive mode of PPM. I don't think PPM has a responsive design and I don't think that's possible to implement it at the moment. The only solution to solve your problem is to set dimension from pixel to percentage of window which is not possible (i think) in the GUI language used to build Porteus Package Manager. Brokenman should confirm/infirm this.
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
Hello,
I tried "Poteus-32bit_Razor", and here you are my feedback and comments :-
1- how to boot in ROOT ? did you change cheatcodes !
2- will be better to add CPU monitor beside the clock in corner.
3- how to add keyboard layout language!, also I can not add from Porteus settings !
4- need to update firefox, also I think screenshoot addons is useful if you can add it because it's allow to capture all page.
5- add Skype, please!
6- about uGet, I think need to add flashgot addons to firefox to download through uGet directly.
7- spell checker is nto working in Abiword !
8- there are 2 mediaplayer "Smplayer and Gnome-mplayer", may can delete Smplayer and use Gnome-mplayer faster.
9- I had problem with Gnome-mplayer when I play "*.mkv" movie with daul audio, but here is the solution to save these configurations: * edit => preferences => player => Audio channels to output => stereo.
10- also with Gnome-mplayer will be nice to pick checkbox on: * edit => preferences => interface => only allow one instance of Gnome-mplayer => pick checkbox on two choice of instance.
11- SpaceFM file manager, right click to view files as icons style maybe better, also right click in partitions side and remove checkbox mark from "new tab" because I saw it noisy when open everything in new tab.
best regards,
I tried "Poteus-32bit_Razor", and here you are my feedback and comments :-
1- how to boot in ROOT ? did you change cheatcodes !
2- will be better to add CPU monitor beside the clock in corner.
3- how to add keyboard layout language!, also I can not add from Porteus settings !
4- need to update firefox, also I think screenshoot addons is useful if you can add it because it's allow to capture all page.
5- add Skype, please!
6- about uGet, I think need to add flashgot addons to firefox to download through uGet directly.
7- spell checker is nto working in Abiword !
8- there are 2 mediaplayer "Smplayer and Gnome-mplayer", may can delete Smplayer and use Gnome-mplayer faster.
9- I had problem with Gnome-mplayer when I play "*.mkv" movie with daul audio, but here is the solution to save these configurations: * edit => preferences => player => Audio channels to output => stereo.
10- also with Gnome-mplayer will be nice to pick checkbox on: * edit => preferences => interface => only allow one instance of Gnome-mplayer => pick checkbox on two choice of instance.
11- SpaceFM file manager, right click to view files as icons style maybe better, also right click in partitions side and remove checkbox mark from "new tab" because I saw it noisy when open everything in new tab.
best regards,
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
@claude
hang at 'udev' part could be anything as udev is loading all kernel drivers at this stage (pobably one driver is borked, could be the nouveau one)
couple things to try:
a) please try to boot with 'nomodeset' cheatcode to disable KMS on nouveau driver
b) boot with 'acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor' cheatcode as they helped with resolving SYS_resq issue (intel+nvidia dual GPU setup)
c) if 2 advices above wont help then please boot as normal and save changes on some device/.dat container, access them from other OS and upload /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log to pastebin.com
please answer as soon as you can as tomorrow i'm compiling the kernel for 2.0 final so this is the last chance to tweak it's settings.
can anybody confirm this?
@sean
you could copy entire razor one (ofc rename it to lxde) the main difference would be to use 'lxde' cheatcode instead of 'razor' and this should login you to LXDE desktop automatically.
@Jay - is gvfs included in 002-xorg in 32bits?
if you care about stick life the most then i would go with ext2 as it comes without journaling (less writes on the media)
we have laptop-mode-tools which can buffer data and delay writings (please dig into LMT cofig) but i would personally go with ext4 + 'changes=EXIT:' cheatcode which is a blast if you know how to work in 'always fresh' mode (just make sure you do not fill up root / completely)
@Rava
btw: newer does not always mean better. i have downgraded qmmp to prev version as it did not play any files at all and Ahau has to downgraded image viewer for similar reason.
our current mplayer is pretty solid (plays everything) so it's not that much of hassle i believe.
(just an idea - is 'audacious-plugins' package installed in XFCE?)
thanks a lot for the great feedback guys - really appreciated.
i have skipped some issues where i'm not relevant person to deal with them. should be answered by other maintainers soon.
Cheers
hang at 'udev' part could be anything as udev is loading all kernel drivers at this stage (pobably one driver is borked, could be the nouveau one)
couple things to try:
a) please try to boot with 'nomodeset' cheatcode to disable KMS on nouveau driver
b) boot with 'acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor' cheatcode as they helped with resolving SYS_resq issue (intel+nvidia dual GPU setup)
c) if 2 advices above wont help then please boot as normal and save changes on some device/.dat container, access them from other OS and upload /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log to pastebin.com
please answer as soon as you can as tomorrow i'm compiling the kernel for 2.0 final so this is the last chance to tweak it's settings.
never experienced such issue and i booted latest porteus on at least 5 PC's.Question: The banging sound at the aforementioned point during boot up takes place on all systems I've tried
2.0-rc1 on... Why is this happening and is this necessary?
can anybody confirm this?
@sean
Ahau recompiled gvfs without fuse support and $HOME/.gvfs is never created - this error will be gone for final.in the center of it all is a dialog box titled "Error" saying Permission denied.
you could edit /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg and add an entry for LXDE.-use spacefm to copy 003-lxde.xzm from local hard drive to /mnt/sdc1/porteus/base
-reboot, LXDE not in splash menu, so am back into Razor-Qt
you could copy entire razor one (ofc rename it to lxde) the main difference would be to use 'lxde' cheatcode instead of 'razor' and this should login you to LXDE desktop automatically.
that's strange as i'm pretty sure Trash is working fine on 64bit LXDE.-right click on Trash, click on "empty trash", a Finished box pops up saying "the file operation is finished, but there are some errors" :Operation not supported
*-Open - Super User Mode - PCMan, use password "toor" - Okay
use it to activate gvfs-1.12.3-i486-2.xzm in /mnt/sdc1/porteus/modules - close PCMan
-open - regular user PCMan to attempt to delete Trash, and it works :-)
@Jay - is gvfs included in 002-xorg in 32bits?
probably xzm files were owned by root and guest had no permissins to delete them. will double check on 64bits.b) somewhere along the line a hidden file named .Trash-0 is created on /mnt/sdc1 beside the boot and porteus folders. This file fills up rather quickly when I download .txz files, convert them to .xzm files and then delete the original .txz file. By luck, I found it, but seem only able to empty it by using Super User Mode - Terminal, ls -a, rm -rf .Trash-0, and of course that deletes the folder also.
i have done it once and the only way of getting original behavior was to to edit /home/guest/.config files manually. will tell you exac file to change tomorrow.Is there someway to remove that tempting-black-widow option ? :-)
this is a tough question but i would advice to stick to ext4 if you care about performance and robustness.In glancing through /var/log/messages I noticed a lot of mentions of ext4. What is the preferred file system for Porteus?
if you care about stick life the most then i would go with ext2 as it comes without journaling (less writes on the media)
we have laptop-mode-tools which can buffer data and delay writings (please dig into LMT cofig) but i would personally go with ext4 + 'changes=EXIT:' cheatcode which is a blast if you know how to work in 'always fresh' mode (just make sure you do not fill up root / completely)
will fix this for final (we used to delete all files from /usr/doc except for firmware licenses so adding an exception for cups wont be a big deal)Bug: Cups is missing some files for its administration website.
@Rava
i would say just digging into it's config but i dnot know the exac answer which setting to changeWhat's necessary to have a gnome-mplayer that is able to go frame-by-frame using a keyboard shortcut?
Does it require recompilation or just hacking its settings file?
too late to upgrade now but will do for next release of Porteus (2.1).Is there no never version of mplayer available? It's from 2011, at least it says so, and we have 2013...
btw: newer does not always mean better. i have downgraded qmmp to prev version as it did not play any files at all and Ahau has to downgraded image viewer for similar reason.
our current mplayer is pretty solid (plays everything) so it's not that much of hassle i believe.
mplayer uses internal ffmpeg libs (that's why it plays everything) and audacious probably needs external libraries - Ahau should look after this...So it seems the needed decoder is available on the system.
Now let's try the main sound player for XFCe Porteus, audacious:
It can read the meta tags, giving me the same artist and album info as quoted above from mplayer, but playing?
No decoder found for file [....].m4a
(just an idea - is 'audacious-plugins' package installed in XFCE?)
please edit /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg and add/remove/edit cheatcodes you want. if you dont want to save changes then please remove 'changes=/porteus' from any mode (xfce, copy2ram, text, other) you like.what cheat codes do I need to have no changes saved?
thanks a lot for the great feedback guys - really appreciated.
i have skipped some issues where i'm not relevant person to deal with them. should be answered by other maintainers soon.
Cheers
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
Hi zer0-G, I think I figured out where this is coming from. Please look at this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1054414zer0-G wrote:@Ahau
Failed to mount "Floppy Disk"
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending
It seems udisks1 was not very good at handling floppy drives, and this is fixed in udisks2; however, due to the hardware limitations of floppy drives, the kernel can't tell whether or not one is actually present in some cases. Please try disabling floppy drives in your BIOS, but first you can test this with:
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#enter root password
rmmod floppy
Please let me know if this helps, and thank you for the report!
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
Hi all
I test 32 and 64 bit distro with vga_detect cheatcode.
My vga card is 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
Both of the nVidia-304.64-porteus-v2.0-rc2-i486-1ftm.xzm and nVidia-310.32-porteus-v2.0-rc2-i486-1ftm.xzm packages are loaded startup.
Is it normal?
Thanks for 2.0 for everyone.....
I test 32 and 64 bit distro with vga_detect cheatcode.
My vga card is 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
Both of the nVidia-304.64-porteus-v2.0-rc2-i486-1ftm.xzm and nVidia-310.32-porteus-v2.0-rc2-i486-1ftm.xzm packages are loaded startup.
Is it normal?
Thanks for 2.0 for everyone.....
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Re: Feedback for Porteus version 2.0 RC2
@oranus
linuxrc should pick up only one driver.
please post 'lspci -knn | grep vga' command so i'll check if pciids inside initrd are up to date.
thanks
linuxrc should pick up only one driver.
please post 'lspci -knn | grep vga' command so i'll check if pciids inside initrd are up to date.
thanks
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