pandian - MARK2

[antisol]

If I'm going to be overruled on stable then using the testing branch would still be an improvement IMHO.

 

[stackshadow]

Back on duty,

i continue working on pandian and play around with fluxbox ( see image below, for further discussion )

next step is creating the debian-packages ( and the source-packages ) and of course write an cpu-settings-tool

 

[Linux-SWAT]

How's the pandian TODO list state ?

 

[stackshadow]

After starting fresh with the normal version, and running `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade`, there is a package that breaks called mpd.

Supposedly this is from the pandian repository.

I have to remove this package in order to allow other upgrades to continue.

Also, would you consider mixing a version of Pandian MARK2 that uses the stable tree?

--

This is a bug in the mpd-package ( its not from pandian-repository )

You need to stop the mpd first before you upgrade:

• Open an terminal
• Login as root
• /etc/init.d/mpd stop
• apt-get dist-upgrade

 

[stackshadow]

the key map has a couple of errors: \ (Fn c) gives #, = (Fn g) gives right tick.  I'm sure this is trivial to fix but haven't tracked down where the key map is defined yet.

Allow me to return to this earlier posted problem and say something about it.

When I am choosing locales, I need en_US.  There exist three en_US locales.  I select all three for installation.

If you read all of the notices on the screen, you will come across a sentence that says "UTF-8 locales should be default".  So, in accordance, I choose the en_US-UTF8 locale as the default.  You should have a UTF-8 locale for your default chosen locale.

This allows for the Fn input options to work for my criteria of locale.

I have, in my experiments, tried dpkg to change locales AFTER installation.  It looks like it works, as it goes through all of the motions, BUT IT DOESN'T.  The corresponding UTF-8 locale has to be chosen as the default upon installation using the startup wizard.  Again, it doesn't work for me any other way.

Okay, ive mentioned this also on fluxbox. Seems some update of debian sid break the locale-settings.

Look here on how to fix it

 

[stackshadow]

How's the pandian TODO list state ?

Take a look here

 

[stackshadow]

Still using Pandian day in, day out, and loving it.


There is still one thing I do not know how to achieve: how can I clock the processor faster than 600 MHz? (I have the rebirth edition Pandora) I'd like 750 or similar which I can do when running the default OS.


Thanks!

There will be an cpu-tool to setup the cpu-speed

 

[ExquisiteCorpse]

Please ignore this post as this is solved.

 

[ExquisiteCorpse]

Please ignore this post.

 

[ExquisiteCorpse]

Please ignore this post also (lol) - redoing the DD on the image got it to boot

OK I copied the image across using DD then booted up my pandora with sd card in left slot and get

INIT: Version 2.88 booting

INIT: /etc/inittabe[1]: id field too long (max 4 characters)

INIT: /etc/inittabe[2]: rlevel field too long (max 11 characters)

INIT: /etc/inittabe[3]: id field too long (max 4 characters)

INIT: /etc/inittabe[4]: id field too long (max 4 characters)

INIT: /etc/inittabe[5]: id field too long (max 4 characters)

INIT: /etc/inittabe[6]: id field too long (max 4 characters)

INIT: /etc/inittabe[7]: rlevel field too long (max 11 characters)

Enter runlevel: _

At which point I can type...

Any help appreciated.

 

[stackshadow]

Oh wow, thats realy strange.

Could you grab the /etc/inittab and post it here ?

 

[stackshadow]

Just an update:

okay, ive finished to do the first test-round with the new packages, which provide mainly some fixes and fluxbox as window-manager.

There are still some problems ( with slim ) but keyboard problems are gone and locale is now correctly set. ( Somehow on debian-sid the locales will not be correctly set anymore after an update, ive fixed this in the pandian packages )

 

[ExquisiteCorpse]

great to hear man.

Any idea when you'll have .pnds up and running? I'm loving full access to debians repo!

Plus its SID as well so bleeding edge packages

 

[stackshadow]

great to hear man.

Any idea when you'll have .pnds up and running? I'm loving full access to debians repo!

Plus its SID as well so bleeding edge packages

Well, ive fixed slim login for fluxbox. Actually i'am working again on alsa

If alsa is finished, cpu-tool is next and then comes pnd-support

 

[stackshadow]

Alsa is really pain -.- somehow no setting which i used works.. alsa seems do dont take /etc/asound.conf..

( ive tried now tons of settings and reboot every time )

Update:

Okay, even reboot don't help, what help is just running the speaker test who invented this ?

Update:

Yeah, i got it. Alsa is working on my pandora

But, my mic is broken ( long time ago, but i dont need it ), so iam unable to test it

Is somebody out there who is able to fight the alsa-beast to get mic working ?

 

[ExquisiteCorpse]

Sure let me know what you want me to do.

As an aside I tried installing slim via synaptic and get E: /var/cache/apt/archives/slim_1.3.6-1_armhf.deb: trying to overwrite '/etc/slim.conf', which is also in package pandian-lxde 0.4-4
 

Also I tried

nano /etc/slim.conf and setting autologon to yes but that didn't work

 

[stackshadow]

Okay, the slim.conf get fixed in the new packages of pandian which will be coming soon ( tomorrow or at Saturday )

but this will help you:

• just open an terminal and login as root
• dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/slim_1.3.6-1_armhf.deb

slim autologin:

• nano /etc/slim.conf
  
• set default_user to your username: default_user john
• set autologin to yes: auto_login yes

 

[ExquisiteCorpse]

i ran dpkg command OK and it seemed to overwrite. Sadly auto logon is still not working.

My slim.conf is



# Path, X server and arguments (if needed)
# Note: -xauth $authfile is automatically appended
#
default_path /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
default_xserver /usr/bin/X11/X
xserver_arguments -nolisten tcp

# Commands for halt, login, etc.
halt_cmd /sbin/shutdown -h now
reboot_cmd /sbin/shutdown -r now
console_cmd /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue.net; exec /bin/login"
#suspend_cmd /usr/sbin/suspend

# Full path to the xauth binary
xauth_path /usr/bin/X11/xauth

# Xauth file for server
authfile /var/run/slim.auth


# Activate numlock when slim starts. Valid values: on|off
# numlock on

# Hide the mouse cursor (note: does not work with some WMs).
# Valid values: true|false
# hidecursor false

# This command is executed after a succesful login.
# you can place the %session and %theme variables
# to handle launching of specific commands in .xinitrc
# depending of chosen session and slim theme
#
# NOTE: if your system does not have bash you need
# to adjust the command according to your preferred shell,
# i.e. for freebsd use:
# login_cmd exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession %session

# Commands executed when starting and exiting a session.
# They can be used for registering a X11 session with
# sessreg. You can use the %user variable
#
# sessionstart_cmd    some command
# sessionstop_cmd    some command

# Start in daemon mode. Valid values: yes | no
# Note that this can be overriden by the command line
# options "-d" and "-nodaemon"
# daemon    yes

# Set directory that contains the xsessions.
# slim reads xsesion from this directory, and be able to select.
sessiondir /usr/share/xsessions/

# Executed when pressing F11 (requires scrot)
screenshot_cmd scrot /root/slim.png

# welcome message. Available variables: %host, %domain
welcome_msg Welcome to %host

# Session message. Prepended to the session name when pressing F1
# session_msg Session:

# shutdown / reboot messages
shutdown_msg The system is halting...
reboot_msg The system is rebooting...

# default user, leave blank or remove this line
# for avoid pre-loading the username.
default_user pandian

# Focus the password field on start when default_user is set
# Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#focus_password no

# Automatically login the default user (without entering
# the password. Set to "yes" to enable this feature
auto_login yes


# current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to
# randomly choose from
current_theme debian-joy

# Lock file
lockfile /var/run/slim.lock

# Log file
logfile /var/log/slim.log

 

[stackshadow]

Hmm maybe its an init problem.

So maybe we can test it when i finished with testing (of the new packages) and upload the new packages

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Added some info on the Wiki. Feel free to complete.

http://pandorawiki.org/Software_projects#Operating_systems