Fatdog64-800 Alpha / Beta [20 Dec 2018] [CLOSED]

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proebler · #121 Post by **proebler** » Thu 29 Nov 2018, 11:03

Has anyone used the 'Fatdog64 Remaster Live CD' provided in the Utilities of the Control Panel ?
I have done two re-masters and on both occasions it produced an .iso without vmlinuz !
The remastered initrd was produced correctly, so that I could use it in my frugal install.

Testing on the Acer C720 [Chromebook with SeaBIOS], I can report that the c720_720-120417-x86_64-1.txz package still works. The special keys for screen brightness, sound, browser, become functional. See attachment.

I have installed flSynclient and xf86-input-synaptics which gives me better control of the touch pad than Control Panel > Desktop > Adjust Touch Pad.

I have removed LibreOffice and instead installed the FD-720 abiword and gnumeric + libgoffice packages;
for abiword to function, I made symlinks in usr/lib64 for libical.so.1 , libicalss.so.1 and libicalvcal.so.1 .

I have used the 32bit libraries sfs of/in previous FD versions so that I could run XnView under Wine. Meaning to do the same in FD-800, I discovered that the 32bit libraries sfs appears to have ballooned from 87MB to 212MB [!]. Together with Wine that means a very large overhead to run XnView. As an alternative I found the recent new Linux version of XnView, repackaged it into an sfs [50MB, (40MB with parts removed)] and can now run it in FD-800 without Wine. I had a portable Wine that included XnView, but I could not get it to run in FD-800.

Will there again be a FD-800 package list and builder?

Many thanks to the developers !

Acodin · #122 Post by **Acodin** » Fri 30 Nov 2018, 02:38

Hi! It's me again. I have another problem which is popular on the internet. When I copying larger files, the system hangs. I tried to change the dirty_bytes and dirty_ratio values. Nothing worked. Please help!

MaxPonozka · #123 Post by **MaxPonozka** » Fri 30 Nov 2018, 12:39

Hi,

I have a problem loading sfs-files with the immutable flag set.

Tested:
chattr +i /aufs/devsave/test.sfs
mount -t squashfs -o loop /aufs/devsave/test.sfs /tmp/test
mount: /tmp/test: failed to setup loop device for /aufs/devsave/test.sfs

AND ALSO:
chattr +i /aufs/devsave/test.sfs
losetup -f /aufs/devsave/test.sfs
losetup: /aufs/devsave/test.sfs: failed to set up loop device: Operation not permitted

BUT in 701 it works correctly!

kirk · #124 Post by **kirk** » Fri 30 Nov 2018, 14:26

I suppose it is too late to change to gcc 8 series?

That's correct. Gcc 8 breaks a lot of packages.

It would be helpful if the mksquashfs and cpio paramters used to create the files could be posted somewhere inside the iso file.

If you click on the initrd it will be extracted to /tmp and a window will open in that folder. Inside the extracted initrd folder you will see a script named "repack-initrd". That will repack the initrd and contains the cpio parameters. The sfs files use xz compression, type mksquashfs --help to see how to specify that.

It would be nice to see abiword and gnumeric in the beta test iso or at least provided as a sfs file.

We could never get Abiword to be stable / not crash. It was ok for just viewing documents. I doubt we'll make a Abiword package, but there may be a Gnumeric package. A few comments above this, proebler posted how to install the packages from 720.

A few weeks ago I read somewhere that 4.19.x was supposed to be the next LTS

Yes, 4.19 is a long term kernel.

Testing on the Acer C720 [Chromebook with SeaBIOS], I can report that the c720_720-120417-x86_64-1.txz package still works.

I'll probably update that package at some point. I'll have to dig my c720 out

When I copying larger files, the system hangs.

I'll do some testing. What do you call larger? To be specific:

1) How big?
2) What kind of file? (Video, pictures, text..)
3) Where were you copying from and where to?
4) How did you copy it? (drag and drop, copy and paste, terminal...)

I have a problem loading sfs-files with the immutable flag set...... BUT in 701 it works correctly!

We didn't have AUFS configured to use XATTR, but we do now. That's probably the difference. Of course squashfs files are not writable, at least without corrupting them. So the xattrs were ignored in 701, but not now. You'll have to specify ro on your mount command if you've set the immutable flag.

Acodin · #125 Post by **Acodin** » Fri 30 Nov 2018, 16:39

kirk wrote:
When I copying larger files, the system hangs.
I'll do some testing. What do you call larger? To be specific:

1) How big?
2) What kind of file? (Video, pictures, text..)
3) Where were you copying from and where to?
4) How did you copy it? (drag and drop, copy and paste, terminal...)

1) 599 MB (bytes: 628 963 904)
2) .vid format, but I had a similar problem before when I tried to upgrade the kernel automatically.
3) usb to ssd
4) all methods

kirk · #126 Post by **kirk** » Fri 30 Nov 2018, 17:41

Acodin,

Was that from a usb 3.x drive connected to a usb 3.x port, or was one or both usb 2.0? Also, was it intermittent or every time?

I'll give it a go when I get home tonight, just want to try to match what you did as much as possible.

rufwoof · #127 Post by **rufwoof** » Fri 30 Nov 2018, 19:15

Acodin wrote:1) 599 MB (bytes: 628 963 904)
2) .vid format, but I had a similar problem before when I tried to upgrade the kernel automatically.
3) usb to ssd
4) all methods

Wondering if could be just running out of memory? i.e. reads quicker than writes and fills up ram (cache) causing a freeze. Do you have swap activated (file or partition)?

Acodin · #128 Post by **Acodin** » Fri 30 Nov 2018, 19:33

kirk wrote:Acodin,
Was that from a usb 3.x drive connected to a usb 3.x port, or was one or both usb 2.0? Also, was it intermittent or every time?

rufwoof wrote: Wondering if could be just running out of memory? i.e. reads quicker than writes and fills up ram (cache) causing a freeze. Do you have swap activated (file or partition)?

2.0 to 2.0

I don't have a swap because I wanted to reduce the weight of the laptop and mount the ssd drive. My ssd disk is on MLC modules, but for fear of its vitality, I did not create a swap. I will try this solution in a moment. Do you have any solution to not burden ssd?

@edit: swap file changes nothing

kirk · #129 Post by **kirk** » Fri 30 Nov 2018, 23:46

I tried copying an 800MB file from usb 2.0 flash drive to a hard drive partition, and copying from the flash drive to /root, and then copying from /root back to the flash drive. No problems. Might be some kernel driver issue that shows up with your hardware. We'll be updating the kernel to the latest 4.19.x for the next release. The alpha release uses 4.19.1, but 4.19.5 is already out, so a lot of bug fixes in there.

Acodin · #130 Post by **Acodin** » Sat 01 Dec 2018, 00:22

kirk wrote:The alpha release uses 4.19.1, but 4.19.5 is already out, so a lot of bug fixes in there.

where i can find that?

kirk · #131 Post by **kirk** » Sat 01 Dec 2018, 14:23

where i can find that?

The next release (Beta?) will have it. The source code is here:

https://www.kernel.org/

, but compiling that is a little complicated. Best to just wait for the next release.

Gordie · #132 Post by **Gordie** » Sun 02 Dec 2018, 02:22

Sigh. No joy. My wireless antenna is not detected. The last release that worked for me was 721. I am not interested in not having wifi or in jumping through hoops to get wifi to work on my Thinkpad. Oh well.

ally · #133 Post by **ally** » Sun 02 Dec 2018, 13:10

similar trouble here on a w520

no device detected whilst trying to scan but iwlwifi shows loaded in hardinfo

sorry didn't get much further

rcrsn51 · #134 Post by **rcrsn51** » Sun 02 Dec 2018, 13:57

You need to identify the specific wifi device.

Run: lspci -nnk and look for the Network Controller

Then run: dmesg and look for error messages about firmware.

I'm guessing that you need the firmware file iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode.

Gordie · #135 Post by **Gordie** » Sun 02 Dec 2018, 16:04

G'morning,
I have Parkinson's Disease. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to type this. Am currently in Slackware and used lshw to find some of what you need. Will boot into Fatdog later and confirm.

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*-network
                description: Wireless interface
                product: Centrino Ultimate-N 6300
                vendor: Intel Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                logical name: wlan0
                version: 35
                serial: 00:24:d7:86:d6:4c
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.4.38 firmware=9.221.4.1 build 25532 ip=192.168.35.10 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
                resources: irq:41 memory:f2000000-f2001fff

Maybe this is enough?

rcrsn51 · #136 Post by **rcrsn51** » Sun 02 Dec 2018, 16:08

You need to boot into Fatdog, run the dmesg command and determine if the firmware file is missing.

Maybe ally will do this for you.

Gordie · #137 Post by **Gordie** » Sun 02 Dec 2018, 16:45

I remember this forum being not so friendly for image uploads. I have booted into Fatdog and took pictures of the screen. Now to type. EGAD!

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Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode failed with error -2
Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-5.ucode failed with error -2
Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode failed with error -2

Hope this helps. Wiping sweat off brow

rcrsn51 · #138 Post by **rcrsn51** » Sun 02 Dec 2018, 16:50

Here is the firmware file. Unzip it and copy to /lib/firmware.

Reboot.

Gordie · #139 Post by **Gordie** » Sun 02 Dec 2018, 16:53

Thank you. Is there any hope it will be included with the release so my wifi will work OOTB?

rcrsn51 · #140 Post by **rcrsn51** » Sun 02 Dec 2018, 16:58

Gordie wrote:Thank you.

Are you confirming that wifi now works?

Is there any hope it will be included with the release so my wifi will work OOTB?

That will be for the Fatdog team to decide. The full set of Intel WiFi firmware is quite large.

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