Void Linux

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Re: Void Linux

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Amiguy wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:55 am The 5.15 modules make it possible to restore sound. Not wonder, knowing that the module of my Sound Blaster audio card is included.
Great! :-)
Amiguy wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:55 am Internet connection is extremely slow on Mate and does not work on xfce.
That's strange. Please post the output of "ip a" and the output of "dmesg | grep <your active network interface>".

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Re: Void Linux

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Actually the network connection works great on both Mate and xfce. But when using one or the other browser, especially on Youtube, the internal processing considerably slows down the network. No browser is truly reliable.
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Re: Void Linux

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Hi All,

I released a new Void PPC img with a boot and root partition including the void-installer today.

Download: void-live-powerpc-20211007.img.tar.gz 3.3G (Img size: 7.5G)
md5sum: fb46baf2e013a1dfb641345a49132b77

New:
  • Packages updated
  • Added kernel 5.10.39 and the RC4 of kernel 5.15 for the X1000 and X5000 to the small fat boot partition
  • Added initial ramdisks for booting with a label for the X1000 and X5000 to the small fat boot partition
  • Added device tree blob files for the X5000/20 and X5000/40 to the small fat boot partition
  • Added kernel modules for the kernel 5.10.39 and 5.15-rc4
  • Added labels for the two partitions in this img. ("VOID_BOOT" for the small fat boot partition and "void" for the ext4 root partition for booting with a label.)
  • Added "ntfs-3g" for Roland
  • Added WebKit web browser Epiphany
  • Added Eolie WebKit web browser
  • Updated Arctic Fox to version 27.12.0
  • Renamed the libglamoregl.so to libglamoregl.so.bak
  • Fixed the ntpd run script
You can image your USB stick with Void with the following commands (Example for sdb):
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    dd if=void-live-powerpc-20211007.img of=/dev/sdb
    Output:

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    15695871+0 records in
    15695871+0 records out
    8036285952 bytes (8.0 GB, 7.5 GiB) copied, 2364.19 s, 3.4 MB/s
    
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    e2fsck -f /dev/sdb2
You can use GParted for enlarging the partition and resizing the root file system.

Booting Void from a USB stick (Example):

X5000:
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    X5000> usb reset
    Output: ... scaning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found ...
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    X5000> ls usb 0:1
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    X5000> setenv bootargs root=LABEL=void rootdelay=5
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    X5000> fatload usb 0:1 1000000 uImage-5.15
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    X5000> fatload usb 0:1 1c00000 cyrus_p5040.dtb
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    X5000> fatload usb 0:1 2000000 uinitrd-5.10
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    bootm 1000000 2000000 1c00000
X1000:

IMPORTANT: Please connect the USB stick after you have reached the CFE with the f key.
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    CFE> setenv bootargs "root=LABEL=void rootdelay=5"
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    CFE> ramdisk -z -addr=0x24000000 -fatfs usbdisk0:initrd-5.10.img
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    CFE> boot -elf -noints -fatfs usbdisk0:vmlinux-5.15
You can log into this system as amigaone with the password "amigaone".

Installation

You can install Void with the installer (Desktop link) or image the ext4 root partition on the USB stick to a partition on your hard disk with "dd".

For example:

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dd if=/dev/sdd2 of=/dev/sdb6 && e2fsck -f /dev/sdb6 && resize2fs /dev/sdb6 && tune2fs -L void /dev/sdb6
The installer works very well. Please select the bootloader entry "none Manage bootloader otherwise" because we boot Void with U-Boot or with CFE on our AmigaOnes.

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Re: Void Linux

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Thank you very much Christian. It works very well.
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Amiguy wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:16 am Thank you very much Christian. It works very well.
Great! Many thanks for testing! :-)
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Re: Void Linux

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I successfully tested the new Void img with the default X5000 Linux kernel 5.15-rc5 in a virtual e5500 QEMU KVM-HV machine today.

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Re: Void Linux

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How can all the packages be updated in Void? I mean without having to specify each of them manually. I have already made so many customizations to Void that it is not preferable to restart from the new disk image...
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Roland wrote: Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:15 am How can all the packages be updated in Void? I mean without having to specify each of them manually. I have already made so many customizations to Void that it is not preferable to restart from the new disk image...
With xbps-install -Su you can update all packages.

BTW, I tested the GTK+ Pipe Viewer for YouTube on Void today. It works well and it is a good alternative way to watch YouTube videos.

Screenshot of YouTube in action with ViewTube in Interweb and with the GTK+ Pipe Viewer on Void PPC:

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Re: Void Linux

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Very interesting ! I installed Pipe-viewer, but am not able to view the videos. When I select a video in Pipe-viewer, VLC opens in full screen, then closes without playing the video. How to assign the video to Interweb?

(Sorry, apparently I am no longer allowed to attach a screenshot ...)
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Amiguy wrote: Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:27 pm Very interesting ! I installed Pipe-viewer, but am not able to view the videos. When I select a video in Pipe-viewer, VLC opens in full screen, then closes without playing the video. How to assign the video to Interweb?

(Sorry, apparently I am no longer allowed to attach a screenshot ...)
Which graphics card is installed in your X5000?
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