Fatdog64-630 & 631 Final (May 12 2014)

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jamesbond · #361 Post by **jamesbond** » Tue 27 May 2014, 15:58

It needs rtl8188efw.bin which isn't in Fatdog.
Detach the given files, gunzip it first (don't simply remove the .gz extension, do a proper decompress with gunzip please), then put it in /lib/firmware/rtlwifi. Then from terminal, "rmmod rtl8188ee", followed by "modprobe rtl8188ee", and then "ifconfig wlan0 up". If things looks good then attempt to Restart the Network connection from Wpa-Gui as instructed before.

Doglover · #362 Post by **Doglover** » Tue 27 May 2014, 17:44

Thank you James,works like a charm. Module is loaded at boot amd wpa_supplicant kicks ass.

Can I buy you a beer?

jamesbond · #363 Post by **jamesbond** » Wed 28 May 2014, 11:44

No worries, cheers!

Doglover · #364 Post by **Doglover** » Thu 29 May 2014, 00:54

Many thanks JamesBond. Where did you find the bin?

Sage · #365 Post by **Sage** » Thu 29 May 2014, 18:43

631:
Still experiencing some issues with BBC iPlayer and FlashPlayer. The installed version has been updated on the Adobe website but only by a small increment. In 32bit Puppies, it's usually a v.10, specifically 10.3.183.18 , for which there is a .pet, that works best. If someone (Slax?) knows how to find/make a 64bit version, does that developer also know how to convert the 32bit one too?

Additionally, getting some freeze-ups with the latest FD version; sporadic and unreproducible, so unable to delineate conditions. Sometimes they unfreeze spontaneously. Mainly, but not only, during Firefox use and with a single tab open?

Otherwise looks very smart indeed.
Probably would like to make Control Panel and esp. Package manager more obvious?

kirk · #366 Post by **kirk** » Fri 30 May 2014, 02:27

In 32bit Puppies, it's usually a v.10, specifically 10.3.183.18 , for which there is a .pet, that works best. If someone (Slax?) knows how to find/make a 64bit version

I'm pretty sure that version was 32bit only. There was a beta version of flashplayer 10 for a while, but I don't know where you could find it.

Sage · #367 Post by **Sage** » Fri 30 May 2014, 18:37

Mint 64 seems to have two files:
mint-flashplugin 2011.10.19 Metapackage for Adobe Flash plugin 28.7kb
and
mint-flashplugin-11 11.2.202.356 Adobe Flash plugin 11 "runs in native 32-bit and native 64-bit."

These, and how they are integrated, are sufficient to run BBC iPlayer.

No idea whether this is useful or not nor how they might be adapted?! Must be someone out there who knows? Well off my pay-grade.

jamesbond · #368 Post by **jamesbond** » Sun 01 Jun 2014, 04:35

Doglover wrote:Many thanks JamesBond. Where did you find the bin?

What bin?

Pavan · #369 Post by **Pavan** » Sun 01 Jun 2014, 10:46

Anyone tried BleachBit with FatDog64?

Great OS by the way , Thinking of getting rid of windows 8 and using this full time.

step · #370 Post by **step** » Sun 01 Jun 2014, 21:47

How can I get privoxy installed and running on FatDog64? It was easy to get it on Quirky Tahr via the PPM from the ubuntu repo. But I'm unclear how to add a package to FD. TIA

step · #371 Post by **step** » Sun 01 Jun 2014, 21:55

I need to report this issue. Firefox nightly freezes after opening 9-10 private tabs. This happens to me all the time. Nightly freezes for 20-30 seconds on each new tab, then eventually ff carries on to open the webpage. so it isn't a total freeze, though it's very annoying.
Has anyone else reported this issue before?

Reproduce: Start ff, press Ctrl+P, go to the puppy forum, middle-click links; when ff gets to 9-10 open tabs each new middle-click freezes....

Sage · #372 Post by **Sage** » Mon 02 Jun 2014, 06:07

Has anyone else reported this issue before?

vide supra - not just multiple tabs.

Yoni · #373 Post by **Yoni** » Mon 02 Jun 2014, 08:44

Be Gentle with me as i'm still a Windows noob.

I'm loving Fatdog64

The only thing i'm finding highly frustrating is that a single click doesn't seem to do anything and a double click opens two windows.

And the Mouse Wheel in FireFox is useless and hardly moves the page scroll.

It's a 5 button Microsoft Optical mouse and another odd thing is if i click the mouse wheel down then it acts like a back button in FireFox.

Moat · #374 Post by **Moat** » Mon 02 Jun 2014, 13:44

Hey Yoni - I'm a bit of a noob, too, so take this FWIW... do you have another mouse to try? Sounds to me like it might be a driver issue, specific to that particular mouse.

Bob

jamesbond · #375 Post by **jamesbond** » Mon 02 Jun 2014, 14:48

Anyone tried BleachBit with FatDog64?

Not me. Perhaps others.

step - how big is your RAM? I routinely runs with 20 tabs permanently open, and never encounter that. There are *some* toxic websites that can slow down FF due to their excessive javascript, but I quickly learned to avoid those sites. Perhaps you need to add swap file?

Yoni - Moat is right. I used to have problem with a certain model of MS mouse on a certain HP laptop, when running Fatdog64. The mouse worked fine on that laptop when I run Windows, the laptop worked fine with other mice, the mouse worked fine when I plugged it to another laptop - but the particular combination of Fatdog, that laptop, and that MS mouse --- no go. My solution was to get another mouse.

chapchap70 · #376 Post by **chapchap70** » Mon 02 Jun 2014, 15:16

Two things; Don't know if they had been touched on before.

First one turned out to be minor but I found out about it quite by accident.

On this particular netbook, X loads but it seems to be in sleep mode so booting into 630/631 got me a blank screen. I had been reverting back to 620. Closing the lid then opening it after booting gets me the gui screen like the previous versions.

Second; Is getting Flash in Slimboat hard with Fatdog? I copied this from the Slimboat thread; I suspect it is easy for those that know but I am not one of those.

"I tried slimboat for the first time the other day with the old 1.1.43 SFS and flash didn't work. The new one enabled flash to work so I was watching youtube videos, etc in Slacko 5.6 and LuPu 5.2.8 version 6.

Nice little browser.

I got a weird error when I tried it in Fatdog. I expected a wrong Elfclass error but I got:

Code:
/usr/bin/slimboat: line 2: /usr/lib/slimboat/slimboat.sh: No such file or directory
#

I mounted the SFS and manually copied the /usr/lib/slimboat (sfs) to my /usr/lib

Slimboat now works in my Fatdog 621 but with no flash so no videos.

I also had to load the slacko 32 bit sfs.
Last edited by chapchap70 on Today, at 11:06; edited 3 times in total"

Thanks

neerajkolte · #377 Post by **neerajkolte** » Mon 02 Jun 2014, 15:41

Pavan wrote:Anyone tried BleachBit with FatDog64?

Thanks for reminding me. I was going to try it, but then forgot about it.

Thanks
- Neeraj

step · #378 Post by **step** » Mon 02 Jun 2014, 19:21

jamesbond wrote: step - how big is your RAM? I routinely runs with 20 tabs permanently open, and never encounter that. There are *some* toxic websites that can slow down FF due to their excessive javascript, but I quickly learned to avoid those sites. Perhaps you need to add swap file?

4GB RAM here. The site in question is this site, this forum. I have a swap file. @Sage's reply to my post seems to point to other reports of the same or similar issue running firefox on FD64.

[noob]Do I need to compile from source to get a working privoxy for FD64? Please advise, TIA.[/noob]

jamesbond · #379 Post by **jamesbond** » Tue 03 Jun 2014, 02:50

step wrote:4GB RAM here. The site in question is this site, this forum. I have a swap file. @Sage's reply to my post seems to point to other reports of the same or similar issue running firefox on FD64.

Okay, 4GB RAM is more than enough.
1. Does the sluggishness happens only in firefox? (ie, when firefox is sluggish, can you do something else, like opening terminal window, launching rox window, etc etc)?
2. How about keeping a terminal window open, with htop running in it, and then you notice the sluggishness, please look at htop and notice:
a) which application consumes most %cpu time (it should be the first one in the list)
b) how much memory is used (top left corner).
3. How about trying to use seamonkey to browse the sites, and observe whether you get the sluggishness as well?
That will hopefully pinpoint the cause.

As for Sage's comment - my Latin leaves much to be desired

[noob]Do I need to compile from source to get a working privoxy for FD64? Please advise, TIA.[/noob][/quote]
Yes you will have to compile it, or ask for someone to compile it for you.

Yoni · #380 Post by **Yoni** » Tue 03 Jun 2014, 03:02

Thanks JamesBond & Moat

Can anyone suggest a Mouse Brand that has good linux support or drivers as i've only ever used Microsoft optical and wouldn't have a clue what to look for.

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Fatdog64-630 & 631 Final (May 12 2014)

firefox nightly freezes after opening 9-10 private tabs