Introducing April64 (and April i686 on page 12)

[slavvo67]

Hi Guys:

While it might not be practical for some, I found that a 32 GB stick gives you plenty of room for pretty much everything. I have about 5 distros on different USB's and you can use an 8GB, but I certainly wouldn't go below that unless you don't intend to install any other applications. 2GB is definitely too small and 4GB is pushing the limit for sure.

Best,

Slavvo67

[broomdodger]

It may soon be easy to run puppy on a Chromebook.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873561/ ... ebook.html

Bill

[slavvo67]

April 6.9.4 note:

I was surprised and excited to see an even newer ABI Word. I tried to load a .docx file which immediately shutdown ABI Word. I thought that was one of their fixes on this version. Not sure if it's a Quirky issue or an ABI Word one but my best guess would be adding +1 to the track record of ABI Word - The program you want to love... but don't....

Slavvo67

[scsijon]

It seems that the gparted problem resided with the hard drive, it wasn't set with a msdos partition table, but a GPT (The GUID Partition Table (Globally Unique IDentifier) is a part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical hard disk. Many operating systems now support this standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table). And the 551 gparted 0.7.0 couldn't handle it (maybe the age of the release was the problem).

As this drive is one of the new batch of the 2tb expansion drives I wrote about last year (http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95884, I suspect they all will now be GPT. They are still at least with a SATA drive interface inside the box so you can upgrade at a decent price.

Just as a point, it's easy to change the table when you set it up with gparted, goto the top menu bar and select 'DEVICE" and "Create Partition Table", you can select what you want here. Just remember that your removing the old partition tables (BOTH COPIES) and replacing them with new ones, NOTHING you had on the drive will exist or be recoverable when you say ok.

[BarryK]

April 6.9.4 note:

I was surprised and excited to see an even newer ABI Word. I tried to load a .docx file which immediately shutdown ABI Word. I thought that was one of their fixes on this version. Not sure if it's a Quirky issue or an ABI Word one but my best guess would be adding +1 to the track record of ABI Word - The program you want to love... but don't....

Slavvo67

Try starting abiword from a terminal, see if it outputs anything useful when it crashes.

[BarryK]

On the topic of Gparted, I think it was gcmartin who reported that the startup popup window text needs to be modified.

It warned about a problem with resizing a partition with Windows Vista in it -- no mention of Windows 7 and 8.

That text is very old. I have updated it to warn about 7 and 8 as well, and not to use Gparted to resize the partition.
Instead Windows has its own resize tool, use that to reduce the partition, that bootup Quirky and can then use Gparted to create Linux partitions in the freed-up space.
...words to that affect are now in the popup.

[slavvo67]

Hi BarryK:

When opening ABI Word in terminal and attempting to open a .docx document, the ABI Word application simply closes and the terminal reads without the quotes or the period "Aborted."

I noted that it does open the older format .doc forms but here it seems to not keep the formatting of the document. It might be a good idea to roll it back to ABI Word 3.0.0 but I'm not sure.

Thanks for the follow-up.

Kind regards,

Slavvo67

[BarryK]

Hi BarryK:

When opening ABI Word in terminal and attempting to open a .docx document, the ABI Word application simply closes and the terminal reads without the quotes or the period "Aborted."

I noted that it does open the older format .doc forms but here it seems to not keep the formatting of the document. It might be a good idea to roll it back to ABI Word 3.0.0 but I'm not sure.

Thanks for the follow-up.

Kind regards,

Slavvo67

Ah, one other thing. I compiled 3.0.1 differently, I think that .docx support is now a plugin, previously it was compile-into the 'abiword' executable.

Run abiword, in the menu there is something for seeing what plugins are loaded.

[pakt]

Ah, I think that I have got wvdial sorted out.

Barry, is there a service pack or pet for the new version you compiled so I can test it?

[ETP]

The above version of Chrome plus the six required dotpets can be found here:

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


In recent versions of Chrome, Google have changed their screen rendering method
and this new method can be problematic with JWM. A change to RADKY's FbBox is needed.

Step 1.
Install the following 2 pets and then switch over to FbBox.

Quirky-libpangoxft-1.0.so.0|libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 from Precise Puppy 5.7.1
FbBox-1.0_32Bit|FbBox desktop environment

Step 2.
Install the Chrome deb file but do not attempt to launch Chrome until all steps
have been completed.
google-chrome-stable_current_i386|Access the Internet

Step 3.
Install the following 3 pets produced by forum member scabz.

Netflix-001|Streaming Media
nspr-4.10.7-i686|no description provided
nss-3.17.3-i686|nss

Step 4.
Install the following pet which contains libs & symlinks not present in April
but required by Chrome. Reboot having done so then launch Chrome.

ChromeLibsForApril_i686|no description provided

[slavvo67]

Hi Barry,

I receive the same "Aborted" problem when trying to install the .docx plugin (tried without terminal first and then tracked the issue, again) I haven't attempted the other two plugins, yet but it seems the .docx is a not currently working.

Kind regards,

Slavvo67

[gcmartin]

Thanks @ETP. Muchly needed.

[don570]

I have uploaded my two devx files ---> a and b
for anyone with a 4 gb card

Available : mydrive.ch

Username: porteus@don570
Password: porteus

[BarryK]

Ah, I think that I have got wvdial sorted out.

Barry, is there a service pack or pet for the new version you compiled so I can test it?

There will be a new build of April64 in a couple of days, with the fixed wvdial in it.

Well, my 3G modem works, but it will need to be tested with other hardware, along with usb-modeswitch, PupDial, etc.

[gschl]

My wlan

([ 11.202158] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
[ 11.228067] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 6, Type 5 (LP), Revision 1
[ 11.228090] b43-phy0: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2062, Revision 2, Version 0
[ 11.241607] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ]
[ 11.252809] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/lp0initvals15.fw failed with error -2
[ 11.252861] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode15.fw failed with error -2
[ 11.252889] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode15.fw failed with error -2
[ 11.252897] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/lp0initvals15.fw" not found
[ 11.252902] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode15.fw" not found)

has been working in all Puppies up to now, but not with Quirky-April 6.94. What happened?

[BarryK]

My wlan

([ 11.202158] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
[ 11.228067] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 6, Type 5 (LP), Revision 1
[ 11.228090] b43-phy0: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2062, Revision 2, Version 0
[ 11.241607] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ]
[ 11.252809] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/lp0initvals15.fw failed with error -2
[ 11.252861] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode15.fw failed with error -2
[ 11.252889] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode15.fw failed with error -2
[ 11.252897] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/lp0initvals15.fw" not found
[ 11.252902] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode15.fw" not found)

has been working in all Puppies up to now, but not with Quirky-April 6.94. What happened?

I am away from home right now, so can't check, but see if this PET has the firmware you need:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... 3.17.4.pet

If not, if you can find it from another pup, that would be great, and I will put it into the PET.

[gschl]

thanks, Barry......
the pet you gave did not work, but copying /lib/firmware/* from Quirky 6.0.5, which I had installed in another Partition, did the trick. I now have internet with my BCM 4312...

[Billtoo]

New install of April to a 128gb usb 3.0 external SSD.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky April, version 6.94

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0166 (rev 09)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1366x768
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: synaptics 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 present synaptics

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

Code:
# Optional increase of "delay_use" for the usb-storage driver; there are hints
# that a recent kernel default change to 1 sec. may lead to problems, particu-
# larly with USB 3.0 ports. Set this to at least 3 (seconds) in that case.
# Does nothing if the current system value is same or higher

#SetStorageDelay=4

Uncommenting #SetStorageDelay=4 caused the SSD to not boot, I moved it
to another pc and commented the line again and it boots fine now.

[gcmartin]

BTW (belated) ... HAPPY Australia Day!

[BarryK]

Code:
# Optional increase of "delay_use" for the usb-storage driver; there are hints
# that a recent kernel default change to 1 sec. may lead to problems, particu-
# larly with USB 3.0 ports. Set this to at least 3 (seconds) in that case.
# Does nothing if the current system value is same or higher

#SetStorageDelay=4

Uncommenting #SetStorageDelay=4 caused the SSD to not boot, I moved it
to another pc and commented the line again and it boots fine now.

Oh dear!

Back to the drawing board on that one then.