This is a problem I've had for years on all sorts of Pups, 32 & 64, on different machines, but I'm using Bionic 64 rn so I'll raise it here: If I plug in a SD card to the builtin reader, Puppy simply doesn't see it. I can't mount it, even parted doesn't see it. If however I boot the pup with the...

YAY! Thanks. I just deleted and remade the links as I am both impatient and had already installed the virtualbox deb. Built without error, and I can run virtualbox fine. However I have now discovered that I can't run 64 bit OS in vbox as tho this old machine has a 64bit processor, it doesn't have th...

OK cool.
I'll have a look at this & try myself tonight

F U Z Z Y ! hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaa! I used ( a very long time ago) to run a software house tech support group, and I bashed into them the mantra "ONLY CHANGE ONE THING AT A TIME THEN TEST THEN YOU'LL KNOW WHAT FIXED IT". Unfortunately, like you I don't take my own good advice :D :D :D I...

So far as I can see, the problem lies in the "build" link in the /lib/modules/4.19.25-rt16/ directory which points to a non-existent directory in dev_save. The link comes from mounting the kernel sources sfs I think? It looks like it might be a hangover from your build harness & has go...

@rockedge Just tripped over a problem with the configuration of the kernel sources sfs for (at least one of) your rt kernels. I'm running Bionic64 with the4.19.25-rt16 kernel. devx & kernel-sources sfs are loaded. I'm trying to install virtualbox, which requires we compile some modules using the...

I haven't looked at Ub for years, but I'm feeling the need to again as Puppy's quirkiness is causing me headaches in compiling some complex applications. What's the way to go about this? I have Puppy (Bionic64) installed as a frugal (with save directory) on a single partition ext3 disk, booting with...

this is literally the first result from googling `rsync parent` :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184 ... irectories

Probably we need to see the whole script and a fuller description of the requirement to make appropriate suggestions.

But my first thought is that you might do better to investigate rsync which is built for recursive copying & can certainly create directories on the fly during a copy

Not sure of *all* the details here, & not sure how many people this might affect, & not sure it is only a Bionic64 issue, but it has been a head-scratcher here for a few days now. It boils down to this: In order to compile & run Carla (an audio application for - amongst other things - LM...

@rcrsn51
nope, no other BT devices on the machine;
hard to find out much about these old chipsets, but maybe they're different revisions, or maybe it's just a mystery.

I found an old BCM4312 adapter and put it in a Bionic64 machine. I installed the firmware package attached. Remove the fake .gz extension and click-install it. The adapter was detected by SNS and connected to my WiFi router. It worked fine on a brief test. :lol: :lol: :lol: Ok so this worked, I boo...

Bionic should run blazing fast with the kernel Xenial64 7.5 4.9.58 & Xenial zdrv since the firmware fits the machine. You should see some good performance with Bionic in this configuration. Unfortunately I'm seeing some quite weird things with this combo. The machine, apparently randomly, start...

If you don't know about them already, there are Dada bots and poetry bots and so on all over Twitter and Mastodon.

AI and ML art (including poetry) is red-hot at the moment.

Check out the retweets by @botwikidotorg and also have a look out for Janelle Shane, aiweirdness.com

Also investigate GPT2

Bionic should run blazing fast with the kernel Xenial64 7.5 4.9.58 & Xenial zdrv since the firmware fits the machine. You should see some good performance with Bionic in this configuration. heh :) I was also going to try one of your low-latency/RT kernels as I'll probably be running LMMS with a...

I've been niggling away at this for years, on and off, and I've never found a way to make it work.

Other Linuxes manage it, of course.

Just dropping in to say that LMMS 1.2.1 AppImage from the LMMS home site works perfectly (for me) in both xenial64 & bionic64. You'll probably need Jack to get it working most effectively, but it'll make noises even with ALSA. When it moans about running as root, you can either spot it, or - muc...

@philb666 hi paulh177, i can't check this myself at the moment as i'm on a limited internet connection. but now you've loaded xenial64s kernel look to see if there's /lib/firmware/b43/lp0initvals15.fw if there is, just copying that over when bionicpups kernel is loaded may fix it (or if not, copy th...

that's what i mean...using an older kernel the firmware that goes along with it will be older and likely have the support for the b43 try the kernel from Xenial64 in Bionic64..might work yep, I'm writing this in Bionic64 using the Xenial64 7.5 4.9.58 kernel & Xenial zdrv booted immediately, see...

So, I found an hour to dick about with drivers this morning first, o/p from dmesg: b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/lp0initvals15.fw failed with error -2 b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode15.fw failed with error -2 b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode15.fw fai...