Quirky 0.0.5 uploaded

Brief intro to "multimedia special":

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/quirky-005/quirky-005-readme.htm

Download from here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/quirky-005/

The ISO is 92.4MB.

I have put in pizzasgood's latest Retrovol tray volume control and sound mixer.

Note that the boot prompt has reverted to "puppy" prefix instead of "quirky", for example "puppy pfix=ram".

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Comments

prompt name
Username: prehistoric
I have no problem with typing "puppy", my fingers are habituated. What does bother me is getting CDs mixed up and not discovering I've picked up the wrong one until it gets far along. I have a fair number at hand I'm testing right now, and I'm sure I make more mistakes than you do. Shouldn't there be a place for the precise name of a release in that initial boot message? I'm not talking about the splash, which takes more effort to change. With automated tools for generating entire systems, I think including a release/variant name should be easy.

Streaming QuickTime video
Username: Terryphi
"Nice work, Barry. An impressive multi-media Quirky! Sound is particularly good. On the limited tests I've done so far things look pretty good. There are a few snags though: (1)Realmedia .ram files cause browser crash in Seamonkey and Firefox. In Opera player immediately crashes out but Opera survives. (2)I can play streaming QuickTime video in Seamonkey and Firefox but not Opera.

Keyboard setter
Username: ttuuxxx
"Hi Barry I came across this really nice and small gtkdialog keyboard setter that has better setting options than the current one and had clarf convert over the zenity code etc to gtkdialog, So now it works with no extra deps ttuuxxx http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=383630#383630

.ram files
Username: BarryK
"Terryphi, Could you post a URL with one of those .ram files that causes the crash? Also, what video driver are you using (look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf)?

PPM in 005
Username: BarryK
"Note that the Puppy Package Manager in Quirky 005 now lists by default these three repos: puppy-quirky puppy-4 puppy-3 ...that first one hasn't got much in it yet (apart from a heap of SDL games!), but I plan to look through ttuuxxx's Quirky packages with a view to putting them into the Quirky ibiblio repo.

Quirky 005 Forum thread
Username: BarryK
"tronkel has started a forum thread for feedback on Quirky 005: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51529

Mplayer from menu fixed
Username: BarryK
"Mplayer now starts ok from the "Menu -> Multimedia -> Mplayer media player". Get 'mplayershell' script from here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=383808#383808

.ram files
Username: Terryphi
"Barry: here is a .ram file which crashes Seamonkey and Firefox for me: http://www.slp3d.com/ram/slp3d.ram Acording to xorg.conf I am using this driver: "vesa" #card0driver

Streaming QuickTime video in Opera
Username: Terryphi
"Barry: Further to my comment above I now have streaming QuickTime video working in Opera as well as Seamonkey and Firefox. It may just be a coincidence but I found it was working after I applied your mplayershell fix.

.ram crashes SM
Username: BarryK
"Hmmm, yes, it does. I downloaded that .ram file, this is what is inside it: [i]rtsp://slp3d.rmod.llnwd.net/a1430/o16/show/webcast/real/slp3d.rm[/i] It runs fine in mplayer: [i]# mplayer rtsp://slp3d.rmod.llnwd.net/a1430/o16/show/webcast/real/slp3d.rm[/i] and [i]# gmplayer -really-quiet rtsp://slp3d.rmod.llnwd.net/a1430/o16/show/webcast/real/slp3d.rm[/i] So, why does SM crash? Something to do with the mplayerplug-in?

Installing Opera
Username: Terryphi
"Sage: Opera does not need to be in P-compiled format. Just download the .deb file from opera.com: ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1010/final/en/i386/opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb After download click on it and Puppy/Quirky will install it. Make sure you backup the important files from your existing Opera elsewhere: bookmarks.adr, contacts.adr, cookies4.dat, override.ini and wand.dat. You can then copy them into /root/.opera .

Installing Opera
Username: Terryphi
"Sage: I should have added that Opera requires these libraries : libqt-mt.so.3 and libaudio.so.2 in /usr/lib . On my system I have libqt-mt.so.3.3.8 so I created a symlink for it named libqt-mt.so.3 . Similarly I have libaudio.so.2.4 so I created a symlink for it named libaudio.so.2 . If you don't have these libraries, and can't find them elsewhere, I can point you in the right direction.

TV card player?
Username: davids45
"In recent unquirky Pups, I can use my TV card as gxine was set up to watch "free-to-air" digital TV. But where is the 'something' to watch DTV in multimedia Quirky-005 (and listen to FM radio via the same card as well, if possible? I expect analog TV is out of the question.) David S.

portable opera
Username: aarf
"sage: using michalis one-outside-of-the-pupsave install of portable opera10.10 which runs in all quirkies, all custom bookmarks, etc all there on opening. boot up the new quirky click on the opera file and opera is running. also note of the problems with copying in bookmarks from elsewhere noted it the forum thread.

Reported .ram crash problem
Username: BarryK
"It seems that mplayerplug-in crashes and brings down the browser. I have reported this problem to the mplayerplug-in mail list, and asked if they can help to fix it. Their mail-list archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=mplayerplug-in-devel

Reported .ram crash problem
Username: Terryphi
"Barry: Thanks for pursuing the .ram crash problem on the mail list at sourceforge.net. This format does not seem to be greatly used now but for the sake of completeness it would be good to fix the problem.

.ram progress
Username: BarryK
"I have had discussion with Kevin DeKorte, the main developer of mplayerplug-in, and we have isolated the cause of the crash. It should be easy to fix. Kevin has been very helpful and will probably put the fix into the version control system soon :happy:

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