EasyOS version 3.0 released

[snoring_cat]

Hi Barry,

Here are some of my install tests

Virtualization

• Qemu 5.1. running on FossaPup 64 loads the EasyOS .img correctly with it's 2 internal partitions

• Virtualbox 6.1.26 on FossaPup 64 loads EasyOS works when the .img is converted to .vdi. When using RDP to display, I am having a problem with seeing the bottom menu bar, even with scaled display mode

Barebones Bootloader
Modifying my grub2dos menu.lst to use the extracted vmlinuz and intrd files from EasyOS img fails. The vmlinuz and initrd are on the bood drive that is formatted as ext4. Problems with this method make a bit of sense, since EasyOS was not expecting ext4, and can't find a second partition layout as what is inside the .img file.

Personally, I have customized syslinux, grub, etc configurations where I normally just add vmlinuz, initrd, etc. references manually I prefer it over using something like Ventoy, or reformatting my USB (losing all of the installed OS images on it). Even though EasyOS fails to boot via this method, I can still evaluate it via virtualization methods just fine.

[3guesses]

Hi again,

OK, so similarly to my Asus T100TA I have "installed" version 3.0 on my Microsoft Surface tablet (also alongside version 2.2.5).

Disappointingly, version 3.0 still does not recognise the Surface's wifi adapater, so like 2.2.5 its functionality is pretty limited - can anyone point me in the right direction for getting it working?

Also, despite listing 5 devices (3 of which I think are to do with the micro-HDMI connector) the sound doesn't seem to work. Any pointers in fixing this would be greatly appreciated too.

Ditto the battery

Cheers,

3g

[Keef]

The only significant problem for me is that some programmes run slowly due to missing nouveau_dri.so:

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# ./LibreWolf-78.0.1-1.x86_64.AppImage 
MESA-LOADER: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib/dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau

This is also the same for Palemoon (which runs even more slowly than Librewolf).

Celluloid has the same problem. This is the output of glxgears:

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# glxgears 
MESA-LOADER: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib/dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
653 frames in 5.2 seconds = 124.875 FPS
622 frames in 5.0 seconds = 124.304 FPS
703 frames in 5.0 seconds = 140.440 FPS
707 frames in 5.0 seconds = 141.336 FPS

Seamonkey runs like a charm though, even with video content (ie youtube).
Not such a big deal for me, but might affect others with an NVIDIA card.

Mine is a Quadro FX 770M.

[FeodorF]

@Keef
Hi Keef,

EasyOS Buster 2.6.2 has the missing .so file in:
easy_2.6.2_amd64.sfs/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so
This file is huge 12381592 Bytes.

Have you checked if this version of EasyOS would work fine with your NVIDIA card?

[Keef]

I recently had a bit of a disc clean up and deleted EasyOS Buster as I was not using it anymore. I don't think I had any problems with it, and I'm sure I would have tried Palemoon on it.

[BarryK]

The only significant problem for me is that some programmes run slowly due to missing nouveau_dri.so:

Code: Select all

# ./LibreWolf-78.0.1-1.x86_64.AppImage 
MESA-LOADER: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib/dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau

This is also the same for Palemoon (which runs even more slowly than Librewolf).

Celluloid has the same problem. This is the output of glxgears:

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# glxgears 
MESA-LOADER: failed to open nouveau (search paths /usr/lib/dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
653 frames in 5.2 seconds = 124.875 FPS
622 frames in 5.0 seconds = 124.304 FPS
703 frames in 5.0 seconds = 140.440 FPS
707 frames in 5.0 seconds = 141.336 FPS

Seamonkey runs like a charm though, even with video content (ie youtube).
Not such a big deal for me, but might affect others with an NVIDIA card.

Mine is a Quadro FX 770M.

Some mesa drivers are missing because I did not have libllvm when compiling in OpenEmbedded. It is a massive library, I think around 60MB stripped, and I was very reluctant to include it in EasyOS. The Buster-series does have it.

Need to reconsider that. Have put it on the to-do list to consider a recompile in OpenEmbedded, with libllvm.

EDIT:
It is now done, expect nouveau_dri.so in EasyOS 3.1, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202110/mesa-rec ... ivers.html