On Friday 11 August 2017 01:45:03 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Le 11/08/2017 à 07:38, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Thursday 10 August 2017 14:48:52 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am not sure I understand your mail in details. What I can say is > >> that we tried building against gtk2 and it works. It is just a > >> build option switch to change. Why do you think Debian package will > >> not do it? > > > > It hasn't played a video, except some commercials in front of the > > video in several weeks. I can't download the binary from mozilla > > because its built against gtk3, and the dependency's it needs are > > not available in the wheezy repo's. I haven't tried to build from > > src, no clue where to get it even. > > Wheezy is quite old, is it impossible to switch to Jessie at least?
I have a 5 or 6 machine home network, most of which are running linuxcnc to carve wood or metal. Linuxcnc, generally needs realtime support so that when a machine needs direction as to what to do next, linuxcnc has at the most 10 microseconds to respond. The last truely realtime kernel was built some time back as 3.4-9-rtai-686-pae. The rtai is a very invasive patch in that it takes over the machine and runs the linux kernel as a subtask. No one has built a 4.x.x kernel with that patchkit and has had any real success, the one jessie install I have is on an armhf (respberry pi 3b) but its is running on mesa interface cards which means a 1 millisecond response time is adequate. That machine is running a newer kernel in the rt-preempt flavor, a 4.4.4-rt9-v7+, but while newer builds have been tried, they all ignore the local keyboard to the extent it both unusable and dangerous as it leaves a 300+ kilogram machine moving when it should have stopped when I took my finger off the jog key. That is a pi physical architecture problem that a thought experiment I had might solve but haven't bought the hardware to test the theory yet. I am also following the forum and reviews on pines new rock64 board as a possible replacement of the r-pi. Wheezy is stable, running from power outage to power outage, which might be several months. This particular machine has a UPS, backed up by a 20KW automatic standby generator on a pad behind the garage, and its uptime is 47 days, since the last update that needed a reboot. The generator is needed as the wife is dieing of COPD, and lack of air conditioning may hasten the time of her last breath. Wheezy is an old friend I can get things done with. Jessie could get that way, but I've 3 machines that will need all the interfacing replaced if I made the version jump for all. Its an LTS, so I've 3 years of security updates still. > Anyway, have you reported the problem? > I have not, I understand there is a bug number but I have not found it in the mail morgue here. > > Why should I have to build FF from src, this isn't gentoo or arch? > > I dont say you should, I say it is a working solution and we submitted > it to maintainers of the package. Dont hesitate to reply the bug > report I gave to help us to convince them to rebuild the package > according to this requirement for DebiaN 7 and 8. That would be great, and I'd add my two cents if I knew the address, bug number, and my passwd. > >>>> It is a known bug we reported under number 870719. Ah, there's the bug number, now where is that address? Found it, plea sent. Somehow, the passwd was bypassed. I hope it gets thru. [...] Thanks Jean-Philippe Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
