Fossapup Tips & Tricks

[666philb]

This post will be pinned to the top of this fossa forum and eventually be populated with tips, tricks & work'a'rounds. This first post will be an index to various tips posted in this thread and elsewhere.

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Graphic Driver Setup Tips viewtopic.php?p=8978#p8978
Add a PPA to fossapup viewtopic.php?p=9261#p9261
Hardware video decoding in MPV & Celluloid video player viewtopic.php?p=9267#p9267
ASCII console color graphics for Fossapup64 viewtopic.php?f=146&t=969

[666philb]

here's some tips on setting up your graphics driver on fossapup64.

fossapup comes with a compositor called picom that can help give a smooth experience OTB with some setups but can also cause some quirks on others.

picom settings can be accessed with
menu>>>desktop>>>jwmdesk>>>window effects or
menu>>>setup>>>screen/graphics wizard>>>picom compositor

first thing to do is find what driver you are using. menu>>>setup>>>screen/graphics wizard>>>report video

Nvidia cards.
install the nvidia driver from quickpet straight away!! quickpet >>> drivers
the open source nouveau driver is poor, low performance and doesn't play well with picom.

once installed setup the nvidia 450 driver for vsync:

1. menu>>>system>>>nvidia x server settings
2. x server display configuration
3. advanced
4. tick 'force full composition pipe line'. (for 340 driver you need to add this manually see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV ... en_tearing)
5. save to x configuration file.
   note the the 5th option re-writes /etc/X11/xorg.conf but fails to preserve you keyboard and language setup. it does however create a backup of the original /etc/X11/xorg.conf and you can copy and paste those settings back in from there.

picom you may need some tweaks
vsync off (as you are using the drivers vsync)
backend xrender (this worked best for me)

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Intel cards.

intel cards should work smoothly OTB with vsync working.
if you are experiencing any oddities in applications (e.g.googlearth not displaying properly)
you can try swapping between the intel and modesetting driver by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf then restarting X

swap modesetting for intel or vice versa

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "modesetting" #card0driver
BusID "0:2:0" #card0busid
EndSection

in picom i found the best settings were
vsync on
backend glx

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Amd/ati

i've only tested the radeon driver and this works well OTB on my setup.
in fact it's the first time i've had vsync working on this old netbook.
anyone that has a more modern amd card i'ld like to hear what works for you.

in picom
vsync on
backend glx

[666philb]

@sc0ttman's pkg allows you to easily add a PPA to fossapup.
here's an example adding and installing the latest kodi stable.

add the PPA (note that if this fails it's probably because there's not packages for this pup ... ie ubuntu focal)

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pkg add-repo ppa:team-xbmc/ppa ubuntu focal

switch to the new repo (pkg rl will list all installed repos)

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pkg repo focal-teamxbmc

install kodi

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pkg get kodi

[Grey]

To enable hardware video acceleration we need do in Celluloid:
Preferences>>Miscellaneous and add a line like this in "Extra MPV Options":

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hwdec=auto-safe

After that, (the video file should play), you can press the "i" key in the player to display information about the decoder. If it worked, then in the upper right corner it will say something like "hwdec: vaapi" for intel or "hwdec: nvdec" for nvidia.

I suspect that it will work from the command line and for the MPV player.

Added. Yes, it works in MPV too.

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mpv -hwdec=auto-safe heresomefile.mkv

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[ETP]

To enable hardware video acceleration we need do in Celluloid:
Preferences>>Miscellaneous and add a line like this in "Extra MPV Options":

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hwdec=auto-safe

After that, (the video file should play), you can press the "i" key in the player to display information about the decoder. If it worked, then in the upper right corner it will say something like "hwdec: vaapi" for intel or "hwdec: nvdec" for nvidia.

I suspect that it will work from the command line and for the MPV player.

Added. Yes, it works in MPV too.

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mpv -hwdec=auto-safe heresomefile.mkv

mpv_scr.png

Hi Grey,

Thanks for your tip which is new to me. I have now included it in my mpv.conf file which
is reproduced below and contains some additional mpv tips/information.

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# This file (mpv.conf) goes in ~/.config/mpv/
# Revised 27th June 2018 to include slang and screenshot-directory (Needed in some Pups when root is not automatically used) - ETP
# Revised 11th June 2020 to correct error in subtitle selection method. - ETP
# Revised 7th  Nov  2020 to add hw acceleration per tip from forum member "Grey" & add note on toggling stats display - ETP
# Additional notes:
#
# --no-border is used within launch scripts. e.g.  /usr/bin/mpv --no-border  [url or path to file/script]
# To quit the TV press keyboard letter q
# To resume later at the same position when viewing a film or video, use instead keyboard letter Q (Upper case)
# To toggle between windowed & full-screen mode press keyboard letter f (Or a fast double left click of the rodent)
# Use numbers 0 (up) and 9 (down) across the top of the keyboard to adjust volume.
# To take a screenshot press keyboard letter s
# Toggle visibility of subtitles (when available) with keyboard letter v
# To pause or resume play use keyboard letter p or the space bar.
# In later versions of mpv keyboard letter "i" will give a quick glimpse of stats. Shift plus "i" will toggle the display on and off. 
#
geometry=50%:50%
slang=en,eng,english
screenshot-directory=/root/my-documents/images/
hwdec=auto-safe

[Grey]

I have now included it in my mpv.conf file

We now have three notes to mention:

1. This line can be added to /root/.config/mpv/mpv.conf file.
2. Hardware decoding does not work with any video (like very old .avi), but with more or less modern ones.
3. Will work with any player that uses mpv as a base.

[Grey]

One of the methods. I did it like this. I connected my faithful 8BitDo M30 gamepad (it can be connected in two ways, both by wire and by bluetooth)

1. "Menu>>Setup>>Remove builtin packages" and remove "bluez".
2. Install from PPM "bluez_5.53".
3. Install from PPM "blueman_2.1.2" (I compiled fresh, but this one is fine too)
4. Menu>>System>>Bluetooth manager
   If it swears at this point about the absence of a daemon, then write and run script:

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   #!/bin/sh
   /etc/init.d/bluetooth start
   bluetoothd &
   blueman-manager

5. Click on the bluetooth icon in the system tray and call up the list of devices.
6. We search for a device, right-click on it, make it trusted and connect it.

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   bt_scr.png (201.34 KiB) Viewed 9283 times

8. The gamepad controls cursor on the desktop. We don't need this, we only need it to work in games and emulators. Therefore, we go to the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ folder and add the lines in 50-joystick.conf file

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   Option "StartKeysEnabled" "off"
   Option "StartMouseEnabled" "off"

   Do Menu>>Exit>>Restart graphical server
9. It's all. I hope everyone will succeed.

[666philb]

One of the methods. I did it like this. I connected my faithful 8BitDo M30 gamepad (it can be connected in two ways, both by wire and by bluetooth)

1. "Menu>>Setup>>Remove builtin packages" and remove "bluez".
2. Install from PPM "bluez_5.53".
3. Install from PPM "blueman_2.1.2" (I compiled fresh, but this one is fine too)
4. Menu>>System>>Bluetooth manager
   If it swears at this point about the absence of a daemon, then write and run script:

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   #!/bin/sh
   /etc/init.d/bluetooth start
   bluetoothd &
   blueman-manager

5. Click on the bluetooth icon in the system tray and call up the list of devices.
6. We search for a device, right-click on it, make it trusted and connect it.
7. bt_scr.png
8. The gamepad controls cursor on the desktop. We don't need this, we only need it to work in games and emulators. Therefore, we go to the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ folder and add the lines in 50-joystick.conf file

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   Option "StartKeysEnabled" "off"
   Option "StartMouseEnabled" "off"

   Do Menu>>Exit>>Restart graphical server
9. It's all. I hope everyone will succeed.

hi @Grey ,
can you test if this can be set up manually using menu>>network>>janky bluetooth
run janky
start bluetooth
and then follow the instructions for pairing and connecting a speaker

if it works i can update the instructions.

also can you test @mistfire 's new bluetooth app viewtopic.php?f=89&t=1135&hilit=mistfire

cheers

[Grey]

can you test

Yes, I'll check. As soon as joystick is recharged and I will find where I put the bt-dongle

[Grey]

can you test

I was able to connect the gamepad with both Janky and pBluetooth. But I will continue to use Blueman anyway.

In Janky, the "scan on" command works very slow, plus this is simply inconvenient for most users. In addition, there is often error " Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.InProgress". It is sometimes there and sometimes not. And why in fossapup the default version of bluez is 5.38, because even in the PPM there is version 5.53?

pBluetooth. I didn't install it, just unpacked and run it as a script. It works. But it also sometimes falls into a stupor and then it is necessary to remove and add the device again. Of course, the Bluez may also be to blame. But for now, Blueman seems to be the most stable.