Waldorf development images ready for testing

kelean · 2012-05-03 17:41:40

I have made a usb of waldorf using the dd method. It looks very cool and runs off the usb great on my desktop. I then tried to run it on my laptop. A dell latitude d800. But it will run on it because of the pae kernel. My cpu is not pae enabled:(. This has become a problem with this laptop as many distro's seem to be dropping support for non-pae machines. I can run xubuntu and mint debian.

Great job corenominal!

kozimodo · 2012-05-03 20:15:17

After being away from #! for a few years, I'm back with an install on my netbook. Looking very good!

In terms of why I left in the first place, I got tired of hand editing the menu.xml file whenever I installed a new application. I tried the xfce4 version but it seemed a little buggy to me. The difference for me this time is that at about the same time as the waldorf image was released, archbang came out with a new version. Poking around in archbang's guts, I discovered openbox-menu (http://mimasgpc.free.fr/openbox-menu_en.html) which autogenerates the menu on-the-fly! Any chance of including it by default?

I'll try it on the netbook for a few weeks and if I'm happy I'll install it on my other machines.

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becker · 2012-05-03 20:34:01

I decided to try Waldorf on my eee pc so armed with the 64bit iso I'd torrented earlier with the intention of booting in Virtual Box I created the usb key, a process that went flawlessly and rebooted my eee pc. After 3 attempts and numerous trips through the bios I had a revelation. I was trying to install a 64 bit os to my 32 bit eee pc.

So it installs great to a usb key and when the 32 bit iso finishes downloading in about 30 minutes from now I will finally get to install it and see how well it runs.

VastOne · 2012-05-03 20:36:35

^ Slaps Head Dohhh....

Thanks for sharing that becker...

Milozzy · 2012-05-03 20:41:04

kozimodo wrote:

After being away from #! for a few years, I'm back with an install on my netbook. Looking very good!
In terms of why I left in the first place, I got tired of hand editing the menu.xml file whenever I installed a new application. I tried the xfce4 version but it seemed a little buggy to me. The difference for me this time is that at about the same time as the waldorf image was released, archbang came out with a new version. Poking around in archbang's guts, I discovered openbox-menu (http://mimasgpc.free.fr/openbox-menu_en.html) which autogenerates the menu on-the-fly! Any chance of including it by default?
I'll try it on the netbook for a few weeks and if I'm happy I'll install it on my other machines.

Welcome back on board wink
I suggest you to take a look also at uxdgmenu (https://github.com/ju1ius/uxdgmenu) it comes with a configuration GUI too.
The project is still young and has some bugs, but works ok and it is my favorite auto generating menu.

From the same author comes gtk-logout (https://github.com/ju1ius/gtk-logout) a beautiful application to logout/shutdown/restart/etc
Maybe Philip could look at it as an alternative of cb-exit.

VastOne · 2012-05-03 20:48:05

^ Nice Milozzy...

Thanks for sharing those...

monacelli · 2012-05-03 20:49:17

kozimodo wrote:

Poking around in archbang's guts, I discovered openbox-menu (http://mimasgpc.free.fr/openbox-menu_en.html) which autogenerates the menu on-the-fly! Any chance of including it by default?
I'll try it on the netbook for a few weeks and if I'm happy I'll install it on my other machines.

I was surprised not to see openbox-menu mentioned more on this forum. If you're not in to editing your menu by hand it works really well.

machinebacon · 2012-05-03 21:08:30

http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/configu … ating_menu seems not to work with this version:

/var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml contains the Debian menu entries, but uses ' instead of "

Example:

rc.xml

            <item label="GIMP">
                <action name="Execute">
                    <execute>
                        gimp
                    </execute>
                </action>
            </item>

debian-menu.xml

      <item label='The GIMP' icon='/usr/share/pixmaps/gimp.xpm'>
        <action name='Execute'><execute>/usr/bin/gimp</execute></action>
      </item>

Edit: BTW, it has nothing to do with the change from <menu id="Debian" /> to <menu id="/Debian" />

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jaws222 · 2012-05-03 22:34:11

I downloaded the new version 11 and put it in Virtualbox. The installation was a breeze, no issues. However, There were two things that I couldn't solve:

1. I installed Compiz and it failed to work. My machine is an MSI 6200 Laptop with i3 processor and 8GB DDR 3 RAM so I was quite surprised since I have version 10 running in a VB on a lesser machine and Compiz works wonderfully. Indirect rendering is greyed out under the CCSM options and compiz --replace also does not work. By the way, I tried this after installing the XFCE desktop since I am not a fan of Openbox. I'm not sure if that affects Compiz, I doubt it.

2. I also tried to install the LXDE desktop to see if Compiz worked there, but when I log out there is no option to choose LXDE. There was also no option to choose XFCE but somehow it opened for me.

I'm not sure if these issues are due to VB.

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VastOne · 2012-05-03 22:41:32

^ With Slim, you have to add any new desktop you install to a config file for them to be available.

/etc/slim.conf (I believe)

See this thread

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … nd-it-was/

machinebacon · 2012-05-03 22:43:57

^ The solution to 2. is http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian#SLIM

VastOne · 2012-05-03 22:45:23

^ Thanks for that link

kozimodo · 2012-05-03 23:04:10

Milozzy wrote:

Welcome back on board
I suggest you to take a look also at uxdgmenu (https://github.com/ju1ius/uxdgmenu) it comes with a configuration GUI too.
The project is still young and has some bugs, but works ok and it is my favorite auto generating menu.
From the same author comes gtk-logout (https://github.com/ju1ius/gtk-logout) a beautiful application to logout/shutdown/restart/etc
Maybe Philip could look at it as an alternative of cb-exit.

Sweet! I'll give it a try.

Tunafish · 2012-05-04 00:03:28

Milozzy wrote:

From the same author comes gtk-logout...

Jul1ius also made marchobmenu some time ago. A great openbox-menu-generator:
https://github.com/ju1ius/marchobmenu

Vansgo · 2012-05-04 07:23:35

Observed:

When pronouncing the word - Wal-dorf - a smiling emphasis naturally accents the second syllable.

sunfizz98 · 2012-05-04 07:49:11

When I heard wheezy release, I'm assuming rolling release with weekly builds?

corenominal · 2012-05-04 08:06:51

Milozzy wrote:

From the same author comes gtk-logout (https://github.com/ju1ius/gtk-logout) a beautiful application to logout/shutdown/restart/etc
Maybe Philip could look at it as an alternative of cb-exit.

Nifty, I'll take a look smile

Milozzy · 2012-05-04 08:10:01

Tunafish wrote:

Milozzy wrote:
From the same author comes gtk-logout...
Jul1ius also made marchobmenu some time ago. A great openbox-menu-generator:
https://github.com/ju1ius/marchobmenu

Exactly! But for what I understand, uxgmenu is a new and improved version, while marchobmenu is dead.

corenominal wrote:

Milozzy wrote:
From the same author comes gtk-logout (https://github.com/ju1ius/gtk-logout) a beautiful application to logout/shutdown/restart/etc
Maybe Philip could look at it as an alternative of cb-exit.
Nifty, I'll take a look

Great! Thanks!

edit: obmenu-generator is a nice project too (written in perl): http://trizenx.blogspot.it/2012/02/obme … rator.html and http://code.google.com/p/trizen/downloa … -generator

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becker · 2012-05-04 11:17:26

13 hours on since writing the image to usb stick and I still haven't finished the Waldorf install on my eee pc.

I decided to encrypt both the root & /home filesystems in this case both ext4 with a seperate non encrypted /boot. Well to do that it seems the installer has to overwrite the entire hard drive (160GB in this case) with data. I don't blame Phillip nor Crunchbang for this insane time frame as I'm sure he had nothing to do with it. It's just the way the installer works. It is a huge disincentive to use encryption however.

I'll be awake for another 5 hours or so today so hopefully Ill get to play with Waldorf before it's time to pack it in for the night.

gcosens93 · 2012-05-04 12:48:10

Love the new release corenominal!! I always used to install pulse audio after a fresh install so that is a welcome addition in my books! Also, compton looks great big_smile

skrite · 2012-05-04 12:58:12

gcosens93 wrote:

Love the new release corenominal!! I always used to install pulse audio after a fresh install so that is a welcome addition in my books! Also, compton looks great

and i was glad to find that removing pulse audio did not break anything. nice work.
smile

Milozzy · 2012-05-04 13:03:04

skrite wrote:

and i was glad to find that removing pulse audio did not break anything. nice work.

Something tell me that you used Bubuntu in the past... smile

vicshrike · 2012-05-04 14:50:55

Have been trying to install the 64 iso of Waldorf, total failure, all fiftyeleven times. Cd,dvd,different burners, different downloads, from #!,Ubuntu and Xp in various combinations,usb-dd-unetbootin, everything fails. Mostly the install freezes at "Detect network hardware". Sometimes it complains about that the cd is not Debian certified, corrupted file, etc... I do not remember everything. Have of course checked the md5 sum and it is OK. Live version works like a charm, no problem at all. I am sorry that I am not more specific about the problems but have been trying and trying and now it is just a blur. I am not asking for help here, this is only to be considered as feedback, even if it not is a success story. Will retry next week and come back to it in the Waldorf section of the forum, this weekend I will be occupied with other things. Though I do hope to have a couple of minutes for myself to check the forum and read up on installation problems. Happy #!ing everybody smile

machinebacon · 2012-05-04 15:25:13

^vic, maybe you could post a lspci so it helps future troubleshooting. smile

es20641 · 2012-05-04 17:42:39

I've been running Waldorf for a couple days now. So far so good. Seems very stable. I haven't had any issues yet.

Thanks for the great work Corenominal!

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