Has anyone tried WMA file playback in Audacious? It is failing for me missing ffaudio.so input plugin:

Audacious Boards Link

I was able to get the plug in from my Puppy 5.1.1 install Link but from what I understand, you need to re-compile audacious to load up the plug-in.

How do you disable conky starting up? My laptop I am running on does not have video hardware acceleration (Trident) and is causing high CPU usage and screen flickering. I can get around it by killing conky after everything starts up. Pwidgets uses conky for most of its widgets. If you want to keep ...

How do you disable conky starting up? My laptop I am running on does not have video hardware acceleration (Trident) and is causing high CPU usage and screen flickering. I can get around it by killing conky after everything starts up.

The xorg.conf file is in /etc/X11/ folder. At the prompt enter:

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If you are unfamiliar with the vi editor, go here for more information:

vi editor guide

I was having issues with my Toshiba Satellite 1805-S203 laptop booting on the latest Puppy Linux 5.1.1 release. The machine has Trident video graphics. It was booting to a black screen and then stalled. Here is what I did to get around the issue: 1. Boot off of CD with the following option: pfix=nox...

[quote="Gurglin"]I tried to run the live CD on my 10-year-old laptop compaq presario 14 xl 250 (Trident CyberBlade graphic card), which has always worked with ANY puppy version (latest kernel), including Quirky. With my major disappointment LuPu is the first Puppy Distro EVER which not onl...

See these links for info about getting the ESS1869 sound to work:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13443

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Es18xx

I had some blackouts recently at my work. My Puppy Linux 2.15CE box would come up but would not start X. I got it work by doing the following at the prompt:
There will be a question about this failing after using the command. Just choose "Try Again" and X should start.

You can change the number of workspaces in the"/.icewm/preferences" file.

Edit the the following:

Have you tried the ALSA sound setup in the Wizard Wizard? That takes you to the alsaconfig utility.

Start --> Setup --> Wizard Wizard

I believe that Alsaconf will list it as a AC97 compatible driver.

The recommended method is the "Frugal" one. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Frugal is one recommended method. A full install is another recommended method. I was going by the sticky page on this forum. Maybe someone should change it. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=597 How to do a &...

Ok I have puppy 2.15 whats the best way to put on harddrive? I really don't want nothing of the windows 98 stuff so any good suggestion would be greatly appreciated.... thank you ...Bo The recommended method is the "Frugal" one. See this sticky thread for how to do it. http://www.murga-li...

Download the following rpm file:

http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/xmms-wma-1.0.5-1.i386.rpm

Using Rox, open the rpm file and extract all into /tmp (Or your perferred area)

Copy libwma.so into:
Restart xmms and enjoy!

No problem!

The ALSA wiki has more info here as well:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Es18xx

Here is how I got the ESS1869 ISA sound card to work under 2.15CE:

In Terminal:
Run: and chose ESS1869 as the sound card.

Run: to set the volumes.

- Joe