I have puppy (frugal) and haiku booting on my laptop. Haiku is on a BeFS partition (which Gparted doesn't recognize and Pdisk sees as a Linux partition #83). The relevant lines in my menu.lst are: # Other bootable partition config begins title haiku rootnoverify (hd0,5) chainloader +1 # Other bootab...

Ahmet Ertegun; what an interesting guy. I see your point Dewbie but still feel he was an exception rather than the rule; even the article about him seems to imply this. How many of today's music-industry execs do you suppose are like this? None, which makes your original statement true! And how many...

Dewbie wrote music-industry executives of the past generally viewed their product as art I don't think so. I'm assuming I'm older and cynicaler :lol: than you, Dewbie, but my experience has been that executives (in any industry) are only concerned with the saleability of a product. In past decades a...

Tried this with Lucid 500. Had to run xorgwizard to create an xorg.conf file and then it worked fine.

raffy wrote Maybe a big owl (night bird) ate him, but more likely, it was a python I think the owls in Oz do not prey on animals this size. Most owls in Oz are smaller than the average chihuahua. As to the python: probably not. If she was attacked by a snake it would have been more likely to have be...

aarf wrote i have much respect for this young girls bravery and achievement. (stupidity?) Strange way to show respect, by calling her stupid! For me the stupid ones are people like her grandfather who told the media he's worried that she will have a lot of trouble adjusting back to life on land. Of ...

In xubuntu the xorg.conf file should be in the same place as puppy: /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It seems some of the newer versions of xorg don't create an xorg.conf file in ubuntu so if you cant find it you would have to create one. You can do this by running "xorg -configure" (without quotes) in...

I looked on google too but cant see what kind of touchpad you have. Some things you could try: -boot without the usb mouse plugged in and see if your touchpad is recognized. -if you can still boot xubuntu then have a look at its xorg.conf file and see if it has information about your touchpad. -try ...

DMcCunney wrote And Gates did not kill BeOS Oh yes he did. He used monopolistic practices to force computer manufacturers to only put Windows on their machines and this stopped BeOS being provided free on new machines. Imagine how different the face of computing would be if people had had a choice b...

If you have a Synaptics touchpad then look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You should have section similar to this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Mouse" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev&q...

Same for me. Very impressive.

This iso (http://puppylinux.asia/members/choicepu ... 4312v3.iso) also works well with obscure laptop broadcom wireless chips. (User: puppy, Password: linux)
Forum thread: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50194

You could try this: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52373

luvcview is another simple program you could try.

You probably have some missing libraries/dependencies. Open a console/terminal window. Type "amsn" (without quotes) and hit enter. You should get a message telling you what is missing. From Goole translations: Vous avez sans doute certaines bibliothèques manquantes et les dépendances. Ouvr...

First iso for a while that connects my Broadcom wifi out of the box.
Both network connection apps (Wizard and Barry's) found my wireless lan but Barry's couldn't connect because my ESSID is hidden.

DNS are kept in /etc/resolv.conf.
You can edit it to add the DNS nameservers you want although the file may be overwritten at each boot.
More info here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15464

I was wondering about the dot in the middle of Oz. Too low to be Alice Springs so may be Coober Pedy. Be nice to them if it is because Coober Pedy is the kind of place they put a stick of dynamite thru your front door if they don't agree with you (as the editor of the local paper found out once). Th...

Open /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal in a text editor. Add this line near the bottom: <Key mask="A" key="d">showdesktop</Key> (substituting "d" with whatever key you want to use). Save file and restart jwm (in the Shutdown menu). You should now be able to show the desktop usi...

Pizzasgood wrote

That is, assuming I am not a figment of your imagination.

Actually you are a figment of your own imagination! As are we all...

Don't panic Colonel Panic, I wasn't writing about you. People in this thread are issuing orders, the whole thread is not slagging off DSL and there are plenty of places where others on other forums have expressed their dislike/disappointment with Puppy (obviously you don't get out much).