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Posted: Mon 16 Mar 2020, 11:16
by rcrsn51
The Starter Kit and X video
The Starter Kit is pretty good at finding the right video driver for your hardware. However, Debian has dropped support for some old video cards. In this situation, X may automatically fall back to using the VESA driver (which is contained in the ISO) and boot successfully. This may also happen if you need to disable the kernel modesetting driver.
But not all video cards support VESA. If all else fails, here is a possible solution that uses framebuffer video instead. This for 64bit Buster.
1. Download the attached squashfs module and remove the fake .gz extension.
2. Starting with a bootable flash drive, put the module in its "live" folder.
3. Boot off the flash drive.
4. If X starts, install the Starter Kit to your hard drive as usual using the stretch-live-frugal-install tool.
5. Copy the framebuffer module to its "live" folder.
6. Reboot off the hard drive.
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Posted: Tue 17 Mar 2020, 12:18
by rcrsn51
NVIDIA Updates
Buster k4.19.0
a. The Stretch .deb package
here appears to work OK in Buster.
b. If it does NOT support your video card, the best option is Method A.
c. I cannot get Method B to work with this kernel.
Buster k5.4.0.bpo - Method A
a. Add the following line to the file /etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
b. Run: apt update
Hint: Make sure that your time zone and clock are set correctly.
c. Follow the regular procedure but use
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apt install -t buster-backports nvidia-xxx
a. You may need the NVIDIA 440-series source package with this new kernel.
b. Update your sources.list as above.
c. If you make your own mini-devx module, build it as usual.
d. Install two extra packages: pkg-config libglvnd-dev
e. Follow the regular procedure. At the end, ignore the error message about "nvidia-drm".
f. Reboot
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Posted: Wed 18 Mar 2020, 16:20
by rcrsn51
How to build a squashfs module for Zoom video conferencing
This will be a third-party build with a guest user and an extra package. Read the instructions for the Google Chrome browser on Page 2.
1. Go to the Zoom site and download zoom_amd64.deb.
2. Download and extract the attached zoom-guest-setup script.
3. Run: repo2sfs zoom_amd64.deb
4. Include the extra packages: libnss3
5. At Pause B, open another terminal and run the setup script.
6. The module puts an entry in the Internet menu which starts a launcher in the system tray.
This has only been tested as far as the Zoom login screen, so I don't know how the audio/video works.
Posted: Thu 19 Mar 2020, 13:45
by rcrsn51
How to make a GRUB2 bootable flash drive
You may need GRUB2 to boot certain ISOs using a loop-mounting technique. There are two procedures depending on the machine that you plan to boot with the flash drive.
A. If the target machine is UEFI, the setup is easy. Read
here and go to Step 5. This UEFI bootloader uses GRUB2.
B. If the target is BIOS, you need to install GRUB2 yourself.
1. Using repo2sfs, make a squashfs module of the Debian package "grub2".
2. Activate the module.
3. Format a flash drive as ext3/4. Make additional partitions as required.
4. Mount the flash drive. We will assume that it is device sdb.
5. Run these commands. As usual, make sure that you select the right device!
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mkdir /mnt/sdb1/boot
grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/sdb1/boot /dev/sdb
6. Your grub.cfg file will eventually go in /boot/grub of the flash drive.
Posted: Tue 24 Mar 2020, 08:11
by rcrsn51
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Posted: Wed 25 Mar 2020, 12:31
by ethplorer
Can you please tell me what should be my parameters to boot this?
here is what i did. but didn't work.
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#
title DebianStretch
root (hd0,0) <-- GRUB legacy, ex: hd1,0
uuid ed452e03-b2ce-4e0f-8428-263348161af0
kernel /DebianStretch/live/vmlinuz1 pmedia=atahd psubdir=DebianStretch
initrd /DebianStretch/live/initrd1.xz
#
Posted: Wed 25 Mar 2020, 12:33
by rcrsn51
Install it using the stretch-live-frugal-install tool. It will automatically generate the correct menu.lst entry.
There is a link on Page 1 for the tool. See #2.
Posted: Wed 25 Mar 2020, 16:40
by dancytron
ethplorer wrote:Can you please tell me what should be my parameters to boot this?
here is what i did. but didn't work.
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#
title DebianStretch
root (hd0,0) <-- GRUB legacy, ex: hd1,0
uuid ed452e03-b2ce-4e0f-8428-263348161af0
kernel /DebianStretch/live/vmlinuz1 pmedia=atahd psubdir=DebianStretch
initrd /DebianStretch/live/initrd1.xz
#
You are mixing in Puppy parameters.
Try
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title DebianStretch
uuid ed452e03-b2ce-4e0f-8428-263348161af0
kernel /DebianStretch/live/vmlinuz1 noauto from=/DebianStretch/ changes=EXIT:/DebianStretch/
initrd /DebianStretch/live/initrd1.xz
Which I cribbed from my working:
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title ChromeDog64NoNvidia from=ChromeDog64NoNvidia/ changes=EXIT:/ChromeDog64NoNvidia/
uuid 74b29a4d-f300-424c-8c48-d91a7xxxxxxx
kernel /ChromeDog64NoNvidia/live/vmlinuz1 noauto from=/ChromeDog64NoNvidia/ changes=EXIT:/ChromeDog64NoNvidia/
initrd /ChromeDog64NoNvidia/live/initrd1.xz
Or use the install program as rcrsn51 recommended.
Posted: Fri 27 Mar 2020, 17:23
by rcrsn51
How to make a USB boot drive for the Starter Kit
For newcomers to the Starter Kit project, here is a recipe for making an initial USB boot device.
A. You are a current Puppy user:
A1. The target machine is BIOS. There are two choices:
A11. Make an ISObooter flash drive from
here. Use "non-Puppy" mode.
A12. Use the stretch-live-frugal-install tool from
here. It has an option to put the Grub4Dos bootloader on the drive.
A2. The target machine is UEFI. Make a UEFI-bootable flash drive using the instructions
here. Start at Step 5.
B. You are a current Ubuntu/Mint/etc. user:
B1. The target machine is BIOS. See the alternate instructions for ISObooter
here.
B2. The target machine is UEFI. Make a UEFI-bootable flash drive using the instructions
here. Start at Step 5.
C. You are starting from Windows:
C1. The target machine is BIOS. See the alternate instructions for ISObooter
here.
C2. The target machine is UEFI. Make a UEFI-bootable flash drive using the instructions
here. Start at Step 5.
Posted: Tue 31 Mar 2020, 13:38
by rcrsn51
Posted: Sun 05 Apr 2020, 20:45
by rcrsn51
Zoom update
The squashfs module built with the instructions above makes a fully compatible Zoom client.
I didn't try to run it as a meeting administrator.
Posted: Mon 06 Apr 2020, 19:17
by rcrsn51
This is the Buster Starter Kit on an old ThinkPad T61 with a Core2Duo CPU, 2GB RAM and NVIDIA graphics. The video can use either the nouveau modesetting driver or my NVIDIA vendor package from Stretch. It can render fullscreen YouTube video at 720p.
The new backlight control in Touchpad works with both drivers. The Centrino WiFi and Bluetooth audio work as expected.
The machine has a clean install of XP that I want to save for testing purposes. So I split off a Linux partition, flagged it as bootable and put Legacy GRUB Stage1 on the PBS. On a BIOS machine, this continues to be the simplest way to multi-boot without touching Windows.
Posted: Sat 11 Apr 2020, 15:11
by rcrsn51
Posted: Thu 16 Apr 2020, 14:23
by rcrsn51
PeasyPort updated
here.
V3.0 completely removes pnscan in favour of busybox-pscan.
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020, 13:37
by rcrsn51
YASSM Samba share mounter updated
here.
See the
Update notes.
Posted: Mon 27 Apr 2020, 14:11
by rcrsn51
The Samba4 Basic Server package is updated
here.
There are detailed instructions for creating a full multi-user system with individual private home directories.
Posted: Thu 28 May 2020, 09:13
by rcrsn51
Attached below is an update to PeasyScan.
1. PeasyScan now recognizes SANE device names (URI's) that contain spaces. This is required by some next-generation SANE backends that use multi-word device names.
2. The OCR function has been removed in favour of the separate pic2txt app which has been updated
here.
3. V2.16 recognizes the following PAPER choices to use in config files for Auto scanning:
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letter, legal
ledger (11x17)
a3, a4, a5
a6 (4x6 photo)
b6 (5x7 photo)
b7 (5x3 index card)
Custom paper sizes and scan areas can be handled with the OTHER variable:
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export OTHER="-x www -y hhh" #in millimetres
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Posted: Fri 29 May 2020, 15:29
by memo
rcrsn51 wrote:WlanMaker
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To enable Internet sharing, do the following:
The server machine needs the additional package "iptables" via apt-get.
Start the server with: wlanmaker wlan0 ssid passphrase eth0
The fourth argument is the server's Internet-facing port.
Client machines will get an IP address via DHCP and a route to the Internet.
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first I want to thank you for this great addition, it worked on my xenialpup. However I have some questions in regard to how it operates.
1) if my firewall is working, then there is no access to internet. However, I want to keep my firewall operational.how can I achieve this.
2)even though I closed my terminal, it is still operate in the background and I could access internet ( while disabeling the firewall). how to stop it or enable it again?
kindly explain in easy terms as I am a beginner in linux in general and puppy in particular. Thanks again
Posted: Sat 30 May 2020, 09:36
by rcrsn51
memo wrote:kindly explain in easy terms as I am a beginner in linux in general and puppy in particular.
You also sent me a PM. I took the time to find a solution and send you an answer.
You still have not shown the courtesy of a reply.
Posted: Wed 03 Jun 2020, 13:17
by rcrsn51
How to build a squashfs module for the KRITA drawing app
This is a standard repo2sfs build from the Debian repo.
As usual, you may want to stop at Pause B and remove usr/share/mime from the build.
At startup, the program throws some Qt-related messages, but it appears to be working OK.