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BarryK

Now on the 6.12.19 kernel with AVS enabled, I'm interested to know if anyone has audio fail after updating.

The AVS problem was reported here:

https://bkhome.org/news/202502/intel-sound-avs-driver-still-too-immature.html

...which also explains how you can disable AVS, by blacklisting the snd_soc ...

BarryK

6.6.5 released.

Blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202503/easyos-d ... eased.html

BarryK

Have made a start, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202503/sudo-sh-fix.html

EDIT:
fixed empty $rootPW
The fourth problem, might delay looking at it. Get what has been done so far, out in the next release.

BarryK

In a script, when a command starts with sudo , the next command starts almost immediately

To visualize the problem, run-as-spot this script
#!/bin/bash

sudo mkdir /testsudo
touch /testsudo/test

The command touch fails (unless you enter the password very quickly)

Another bug, less important ...

BarryK

Oh God, that stuff is complicated!
Implemented in 2023, ok will have a go at remembering how it was all done.
Thanks for reporting,

BarryK

Barry,

do you need donations for your eye surgery as it took place in a private clinic?

No, that was a pleasant surprise.
As it was a referral from the public hospital, the hospital paid for it.

The private clinic would have charged me if I had private health insurance, but as I don't, the ...

BarryK

So in /usr/local/limine-installer/generate-menu-entry, the lines 29 and 238
PROTOCOL=chainload
must be replaced by
PROTOCOL=efi_chainload

The lines 40 and 228
PROTOCOL=chainload
must be replaced by
PROTOCOL=bios_chainload

Thanks, fixed.

Blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202503 ...

BarryK

I'd like to tell you my long battle for good working floppy drive and using floppy disks daily. I am really into legacy data storage media.
It's my passion and I am on the beginnig of building my three first computers with typical 3,5" 1,44MB floppies working perfectly.

Have you tried ...

BarryK

SteveS wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 3:01 am
Thank you very much Caramel for taking a close look at the limine installer code.
Caramel wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 9:01 am
EDIT3:
If, at boot, the text in the limine menu is too small, you can add a line
Code: Select all
INTERFACE_RESOLUTION=800x600
(Or another suitable resolution)

OK, done.

BarryK

Done it before. This part was easy. Getting rid of password prompt is much worse. I got kernel panic :shock:
I remarked lines 2145 and 2146. It's not working.

You can't get rid of the password prompt if you had entered a password at first bootup, as the password is required to de-crypt folders ...

BarryK

It's true that downloading is not facilitated. I gave up after 20 minutes of clicking and reading and downloaded from Major Geeks. It was kind of embarrassing.

On my blog, you don't have to drill down very far to find the announcement of latest release:

https://bkhome.org/news/tag_easy.html

I ...

BarryK

If you want to edit 'initrd', all that you need to do is click on it to open it up, then click on it again to update.

To make any changes, you need to study the 'init' script and scripts in /sbin folder.

There is a problem; initrd contains /etc/DISTRO_SPECS which is the same as /etc/DISTRO_SPECS ...

BarryK

Clicking on the .img file does not mount it. Gunzip insisted that mount_img.gz is in the wrong format, but EasyDD was acceptable, and I installed to USB to copy to HDD.

Once you are running EasyOS, then clicking on the .img will mount it.
Other distros, such as most of the pups, you will need to ...

BarryK

New "NeoAPT" with simple replacement for the 'apt' package management utility:

https://bkhome.org/news/202503/neoapt-s ... ility.html

This will also work in Easy Scarthgap.

BarryK

Decided, why not do this:

https://bkhome.org/news/202503/neoapt-s ... ility.html

Alright, if you are counting the seconds, it might be slower, and require more button clicks, than the real 'apt', but it works OK.

BarryK

Stay tuned!

BarryK

Have moved back to the 6.12.x kernel, with AVS audio drivers enabled:

https://bkhome.org/news/202503/kernel-6 ... abled.html

BarryK

@ don570 A Pro biker racer was caught with a motor inside the tube that run down to the pedals. Batteries were also in the tubes. Grinder with right angle drive is a good set up. Drill wont last long. I'm attempting a direct drive set up -no reliance on battery power for cruise. It will be fixed ...

BarryK

Perhaps worth mentioning when I powered up this desktop which had been not used for a bit it went to the install screen where it wanted me to choose the keyboard language.

It will do that if a change in hardware is detected. Maybe you changed the keyboard?

EasyOS has "hardware profiling", for ...

BarryK

I've upgraded from the (downgraded) 6.5.5 version to 6.6.4 and the system is back to normal.
Thank you.

It might be a good idea to delete the folder /mnt/wkg/releases/easy-6.6.3

But, 6.6.4 is not much different from 6.6.3, so I don't know why you had a problem with Xorg not starting.

If it ...

BarryK

Sorry, currently there is no way to do that.

Yes, it would be nice to feed in multiple packages on a CLI.

Anyway, it is not something that you have to do often, just once, then compile Unicon.

BarryK

6.6.4 released.

Blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202503/easyos-d ... eased.html

BarryK

Oh yes, that option is written in a line just preceding the one asking for a key to unencrypt some dirs.
Never noticed it.

The system rolled-back to 6.5.5.
I was expecting that only the kernel (+initrd) would roll back, but unfortunately, all my configurations and software that I added in the ...

BarryK

@pp4mnklinux
/mnt/wkg/sfs/settings got created at very first bootup.

It should still be there, somehow you have deleted it.

Well, you can recreate that folder.

BarryK

I can't tell for sure, but I think it was 6.5.5.
As I cannot boot EasyOS anymore, how can I revert to a previous version?

At early bootup, instead of entering the password, just press ENTER and you will get a menu.
There is an option to rollback to previous version.

Note, in your installation ...

BarryK

Thanks very much, fix applied, see blog:

https://bkhome.org/news/202503/limine-i ... e-fix.html

BarryK

Try not doing the automount from rc.sysinit.

Instead, put this script into /root/Startup:

#!/bin/ash
for PF in sdb1:ntfs sdc2:ntfs sdc3:ntfs sdc4:ntfs sdc5:ntfs sda3:ext4 sda5:ntfs
do
P="${PF/:*/}"
F="${PF/*:/}"
grep -q -F "/dev/${P} " /proc/mounts
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
mkdir -p /mnt/$P ...

BarryK

I just tested, mounted a usb partition, and chromium sees it and can look into it, as expected.

Your problem might have something to do with how you have automatically mounted the partitions.
Unmount one of them, then mount it in the normal way, by clicking on the partition icon.
Then start ...

BarryK

Didn't you ask that question once before? Or was that someone else?

Chromium can only download into /files

Unless you give some other folder write privileges for user "chromium"

You can create a folder somewhere, then use the "chown" utility.

Like this:

# chown chromium:chromium <folder name ...

BarryK

I worry about Vovchik. He is from 🇺🇦 and his last post here is from December 2021. He certainly has other priorities now, but I hope that he will be back after all this current madness has ended.

He is till active on the BaCon forum.

He was online there in the last 24 hours:

https://basic ...

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