It seemed silly to keep extending the previous post, so I'm reporting something here that I hope may be helpful to PaulBx1. I found (in the rc.d directory, I think) a readme about the startup process, which mentioned the relevant files and the order in which they run. There are six of them in rc.d: ...

Kent41, I must be saving the pup_save.3fs file each time I shut down, though I'm not conscious of having done anything deliberate to do so. I have Puppy on a bootable compact flash drive and I assume that's sufficient to lead to automatic saving. Yesterday, for instance, I downloaded the Opera web b...

Each time I boot up, I have to click on the Connection icon and then click through a number of other steps before I can use my browser, in spite of the fact that, when I went through it last time, I clicked "yes" when asked if I wanted the settings to be available when next I booted. Is th...

Paul, the bloody thing's just made a liar of me! I turned the computer on a while ago and the mouse worked. I immediately created a document from the output of dmesg, on the theory that if the mouse doesn't work later, I'll be able to compare today's output with the later output to see what's change...

Paul, you were trying to help me with a USB mouse problem in Puppy v 2.12 some time ago and my last post in that thread left me saying that I'd be buying another USB mouse to use with my MicroClient Jr. I did that, but I'm afraid the problem's not been resolved by that new USB mouse. When I got back...

Thanks very much for your reply, Billwho?. I couldn't find a file like the one you mentioned either among the files I downloaded from the ibiblio site or one level up. (Of course, that doesn't mean it wasn't there, but I did try to be careful!) Also, when I clicked on the link you included, I got &q...

I'm trying to follow the steps mentioned under the heading "Download Puppy Unleashed" at http://www.puppyos.org/download/downpage.htm. It was suggested there that one could use gFTP to download the various packages needed. I wasn't familiar with that application beforehand, but I did try t...

Thanks very much for replying, Pizzasgood. Your suggestion to document what you do is so sensible. I can't count the number of times I've done something computer-related and then said to myself, "Well, I won't have to think about that ever again", only to find that I have had to, haven't k...

Thanks very much for replying, John. I hadn't thought of selecting in advance which packages I'd download. I will download them all, but was just curious, not having realised, till confronted with the list of them, just how many packages went into the distribution. I'll leash my curiosity till I can...

I thought of trying to create my own custom version of Puppy 2.12 by using Puppy Unleashed. (I'm keen on using that version because it contains a module needed on my computer for audio.) I've looked very cursorily at all the packages available for download, but didn't notice any information about th...

Paul, I had only one other USB mouse around the house, another IBM one, which I use with my regular computer. It naturally has the same vendor id as the spare one I'd been using (or trying to use) with Puppy. Its product id is, however, 3108 instead of 310b. Using it and trying the same steps as in ...

Paul, thank you very much for your patience over this. I feel that I am getting closer to having things working, but, unfortunately, I haven't got there yet. Here's the best account I can give of my latest attempt, in which I followed your latest post. I boot up and choose the us keyboard map. I nex...

I've just had a chance to get back to this. First, as to my questions about a text-based editor, I realised when I returned to this that I could run the Puppy live cd on my regular computer and find in that way what would be available to me on the Microclient Jr. I found mp and with it was able to e...

Thanks very much for your reply, pakt. Unfortunately, I can't try your suggestions immediately, but will be able to in a few hours--isn't it annoying when work interferes with leisure? However, I have some questions before I even start. To edit xorgwizard, I take it that I need to have booted up wit...

I apologise for the very long time it's taken me to reply to your post, BarryK, but I've been trying in light of the guidance in it to figure out for myself how to get things going. Unfortunately, I haven't succeeded. Before starting, however, I put v 2.12 on a USB flash drive and have been booting ...

Thanks very much for taking the trouble to reply, MU. When I wasn't able to advance any further with the graphical login, I pressed Control, Alt, Delete, after which I found myself at a # prompt. Is it at that prompt that you're suggesting I type "modprobe usbhid" and press "Enter&quo...

I bought a Microclient Jr together with a CF card that had Puppy Linux already installed on it (v 2.11, I believe). I plugged into the box a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse (as well as power, monitor and ethernet cable). When I try to boot up, I get to a stage where the desktop appears and on it a box...

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