passwd -d Typed in the terminal can delete a password, IME this means only having to supply root as the username. I cannot really give much advice on why the xwin script fails to terminate. I would start, though, by seeing if X and xwin etc have really terminated. NB the virtual terminals still wor...

I had a similar problem recently with Puppy Tahr after trying to remaster the puppy_tahr frugal install SFS. The SFS seemed fine, but on reboot the proper modules were not loading. Xorg would run with the vesa driver. On attempting to exit to the command prompt, the terminal would hang. In such a si...

I can only advise that the package (32 bit) at https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.1/slackonly-i486/wmctrl-1.07-i486-1_slack.txz.html Works for Puppy Tahr (32 bit). I have found in the past that slackware binaries have a fairly good track record of compatibility with puppy linux. There is a 64 bit equival...

It is rather frustrating. I have posted about a similar problem in these forums, namely that I do not get "notify me when a reply is posted" emails. It could be that some of the antispam systems in the network are triggered by murga-linux email headers. It could be that murga-linux is usin...

I'm not sure if I understand the question correctly. The issue is the small font on the console as the system boots? I once had an issue with the smallness of the framebuffer console fonts. There are a couple of ways to deal with this. One way is to pass "nomodeset" as part of the kernel b...

As per other posts a USB modem is not normally in modem mode when plugged in. Unfortunately devices like these tend to be a bit Windows-centric. The idea being there is a Windows driver on the device. If Installed already then modem mode is auto activated. If not the device driver is installed and t...

The setxkbmap [2 char country code] works for me. I do tend to use it if trying a live CD/DVD because, believe it or not, it is simpler to call up a console and execute the command setxkbmap gb Than to trawl through the menus looking for the commands to change the keyboard layout. setxkbmap also wor...

Mike Walsh Fri 26 Jul 2019 10:40 I want to replace the 'Blade' with something a bit more 'solid'. The Blades are amazingly good value for their price (I've been using them for years), but the construction is not very good. The plug end is simply a continuation of the body moulding, and is made of p...

try export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose in a terminal window, then run a program such as glxgears export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxgears The configuration file , /etc/X11/xorg.conf may, for certain hardware, need the line "load glx" included in it (in my configuration glx is loaded automatically so th...

I had one of these freezes a few days ago. It wasn't lack of RAM - I had two GB of it free, and in any event have 4GB available in a dedicated swap partition. In my experience if the screen remains lit, then the system eventually comes out of the freeze if you are patient enough to wait. My best gue...

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="067b", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2303" KERNEL==ttyUSB*", SYMLINK+="Modem" According to https://askubuntu.com/questions/471821/pl2303-attached-to-ttyusb0-change-it-to-ttys its something more like SUBSYSTEM=="tty" AT...

Unfortunately, I just received a reply from one of the developers at wineHQ, and he says that what I need can't be done in wine. If you are referring to Bob Wya's reference to tapi32.dll being stubs - that post is correct insofar as a lot of WINE's minor or less system central DLLs use a lot of stu...

I'm using a broadband wireless modem and it works flawlessly with WINE, of course the modem emulates ethernet and so is handled by dhpcd daemon all natively and in the background by linux. So WINE just deals with any network communication in the application layer. I'm no expert in this accessbase so...

I cannot comment reliably on freenet itself (I don't use). I am getting similar stale file handle message when I UMOUNT for example a USB thumb drive. I tend to ignore them as I am assuming stale file handles are orphaned entries which will not interfere with the system. What I would say on killing ...

I have the pcspkr module built into the kernel (Puppy Tahr) so that annoying beep can't just be rmmoded. For those of you wanting another idea to get rid of the beep once and for all ( and even before Xorg runs) - the pcspkr module, even if builtin, can still be unbound. This command works for me: e...

In my own experience the most problematic FS I ever worked with was VFAT (with floppy drives). Pulling a Floppy Disk out of the drive bay before the FileSystem is properly synced definitely will not help. Then there was USB drives and I used to have trouble with them, but in more recent years USB th...

Good Afternoon, Mike The strace command I must have downloaded, I can't rember precisely when as its been so long ago. I'm surprised it isnt a standard include in Puppy distros as it is one of my "must have" diagnostic tools. I believe it is (fairly) kind as regards requirements for depend...

I used to use Upup-Raring, and I can't say I had issues with alsamixer but then again, I only used one soundcard at a a time. It might be possible to remove an unused sound device from the kernel by echoing "1" to its appropriate remove file find /sys -name remove And see if that cures the...

It has been quite a few years now since I last received a reply notice from the Murga Forum. I have no way of checking if my email provider (GMX) is bouncing the email as that would be in the domain of the Murga-Linux forum site administrator. NB GMX offers site/email whitelisting and murga-linux.co...

IIRC --I'm currently too lazy to search for my prior post written after researching the specifics-- the maximum size of a partition which can be managed as an Ext3 partition is 16 Terabytes. I don't have any drive anywhere near that size. Again, suspecting that using Ext4-32-bit will require more c...