Btw, a wary, quirky, racy puppy live-cd boots on this laptop & can get to X.. but I don't keep it running.. just as a test
seems to use just 1 core that gets in the thermal zone .. overheating

Hello Bigpup & the Puppy community, some feedback .. HP 17 envy 17 intel I7-2630 QM CPU @ 2.00GHz 8Gb ram The bios is latest/last bios from hp F.1C brand Insyde H2O ver 3.5 this bios is very cut down, reminds me of some custom bioses it auto-detects all devices & probally updates the escd on...

HP envy 17 notebook cpu intel I7-2630QM @ 2Ghz X-64bit RAM 8GB 1920*1080 32bit depth All downloads are from NLUUG & md5 sum checked before burning Boot from live CD & no pup-save files .. fresh/new run Tried Xenialpup 7.5 64bit / also the 32bit version Also tried Tahrpup 64 diff versions Sym...

I think Flash was talking about an initial burn-in period of the RAM :run a looping ram test prog for a week or 2. makes sense -> usually used in servers. My mistake , been in france visiting, brought some 220V power supplies with me with continent plug adapters (aus/gb/us): laptop,usb charger,oscil...

live-cd running now, tried playing an mp3 song : minimp3 /mnt/data/Small-mem-card/Music/Can I go now.mp3 Error: cannot open `/mnt/data/Small-mem-card/Music/Can'! file name with spaces gives an error (truncated), there was a small puppy tool for this situation ' -_' (space,hyphen,underline) minimp3 /...

test bed hp xe4100 laptop 1.2Ghz 792Mb ram fr-ch-latin1 kbd, yea a fast laptop to test under these circumstances. /var/log/messages -> pupngo user.warn kernel: Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1 fixed by modprobe nls_iso8859-1 (btw is nls_cp437 built into the kernel? not displayed in lsmod output)...

hi goingnuts, would like to try out the latest version on some older hardware catching cobwebs. just downloaded it from your mediafire link -> http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?34szetetgso0fet no cookies necessary/javascript necessary ~54KB/s .. just wondering if the console calculated md5sum is...

For a faster download of precise-5.4.1-retro http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/ Warning! This site doesn't appear to have downloaded precise-5.4.1 properly ---> It shows a size of only 31 meg when it should have a size of 165 meg ________________________________________ Hi don, the ...

Bonjour a tous et a toutes,
Je n'arrive pas a taper des caracteres correctement dans la console de démarrage "puppy pfix=ram,nox" (X ne demarre pas)
.. ce clavier 'ch' n'est pas dans la liste, et FR ou DE n'est pas exactement le bon choix.

Compaq EN series SFF 350Mhz 256 RAM o/b snd chip ESS1869 full-install snd module es18xx As I'm away from the computer for about 10 days while visiting family, won't be able to test moving up sleep line. I was hoping to post output from 'cat /tmp/pup_event_module_devpath_log*' but brought the wrong u...

booted the wary-503 live-cd, the md5sum of the live-cd zdrv.sfs is the same as you posted, tried it 5 times in a row with umounting the cd in between, othewise is uses the cache. I have fixed my problem of snd pcm levels muted/reduced after ~2-3 reboots on full-install of wary-503 have warm/cold reb...

wary-502-uni live-cd Compaq EN series EFF 350Mhz, working o/b sound chip es18xx module (now detected as isapnp device) Live-cd : ran alsawizard (/var/tmp snd card database is populated) and runs as expected, many thanks to all involved. full-install: ran alsawizard for sound, on 2nd boot retrovol pc...

I was a bit vague in my last post so did a bit of digging, hope this bit of feedback will help some others. Compaq deskpro EN series SFF 350Mhz, working o/b snd chip en18xx (alsa isa legacy card detection) Wary-500 live-cd and no sound: ran alsawizard (aka alsaconf), it drops to isa legacy detection...

This pertains to a full-install and maybe frugal installs using wary_102 Live CD to full install, compaq slim-line PC (not a laptop) 350 Mhz 64MB ram to full install fs:ext3 internal onboard agp ati 4MB video, 1.44 floppy drv, 2GB laptop HD, CD/dvd drive via flex cable Live-CD, chose 640*460*16 reso...

battery tray icon: doesn't display charge rate or color. Clicking on batt tray icon displays a pop-up box with contents from /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1 and BAT2 slots .. seems that maybe the slot/file info is mixed up in this powerapplet_tray. Tried replacing the file from quirky-13/wary-06, charge rat...

Noticed In Quirky/Wary that pmount has an incorrect translation variable at lines 72 & 75-> $m_34 it should refer to m_31="KILL" line 72-> m_35="If you press the \"$m_34\" button, Puppy will attempt to kill the offending programs for you. Only do this as a last resort. &...

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My big dumb mistake and really very sorry for the inconvenience involved.
Posting a partial/complete fix, and not tested by the puppy community is a rather bad idea, especially in a bug forum
Rather post it in an another part of the forum.

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