Thank you. I knew the printer was out of ink, but I didn't know which one (there are 6 separate inks). The windows software will tell you when an ink cartridge is empty. I gave up and installed the printer on my husband's windows laptop, just to use the epson status monitor. I was able to identify w...

I used the CUPS printer wizard which comes with Puppy. The printer has stopped working because it's presumably out of one of its inks. I've no way of knowing which one. I downloaded gutenprint.pet from one of the forums, but I don't know how to proceed from there. Typing the commands you suggest jus...

My printer, Epson Stylus Photo R220 is not included in the list. I need to be able to monitor the ink levels and hoped you package would make life simpler. Thanks!

Lucid Pup 5.2

Sir Jasper wrote:Hi,

To find your dictionary go here then keep paging down:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries

Thank you! I've got the spellchecker working now, thank you.

Here is my fix: 1.Put the British English dictionary files en_GB.aff and en_GB.dic in /usr/share/hunspell 2. Replace en_US.aff and en_US.dic with symlinks of the same name to en_GB.aff and en_GB.dic . 3. Spell checker will now actually use the British English dictionary, although it will not say so...

I am experimenting with a frugal-mounted pup411 (2.6.25.16) and am using abiword with english(UK) spellchecker as follows ----- My quick & dirty fix for puppy411 is to put british.hash in /usr/share/enchant/ispell .after deleting the 2 original symlinks. Then make a symlink from british.hash &a...

Yes, it installed to ~/.Abisuite/dictionary, and I copied it to /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/dictionary. But only the American Spellchecker works.

Thank you for the explanations. Being a resourceful old woman, I'm firm friends with Google, and Wikipedia as well, but all those words make my head spin somewhat. Mikeb's instructions suit my learning pace somewhat better; I'll give them a try, though what I'm supposed to link to what to make Abiwo...

What is symlinking? Forgive me, I'm just this old girl. Willing to try anything when I know how!

Yes, American spell checker worked, it seems to default to American spell checking even though I used en-GB to replace the normal template and the default language is UK English. Incidentally I've used Abiword in earlier versions of Puppy without this problem.

That didn't work I'm afraid. By renaming the .awt files in the template folder(s) I have successfully changed the default template to English UK, so the default language is already British English. I would have thought Abiword would default to the British English dictionary as well - however all tha...

I downloaded British English dictionary for Abiword, but I can't get it to work!

Well, I ditched version 4.11 in favour of the retro version - no more sound problems.

Now just have to set everything else up!

Well, strangely enough I was able to play a DVD without sound problems. A CD sounded bad, as did a WAV file saved on my hard drive. Also get bad sound reproduction in TiMidity. The sound is fine in XP, and also good using a live version of Kubuntu, so I don't think there's a problem with the laptop....

Thanks for the replies. It isn't clipping, the sound is playing back at wavering speeds. Tweaking the alsamixer doesn't make any difference alas.

Puppy barks, but when I come to play music the sound quality is wobbly and bad. Running Puppy 4.11 from a live Cd on HP compaq nc4010 laptop, 1,592MHz processor, 480Mb RAM. Alsa configurator identifies soundcard as ali5451. How can I improve the sound?

Thanks, Sarah

An amendment to my last post: yes, I got the same problem happening on the other PC. I edited the file as you suggested, and it worked! Thank you again.

Sarah

Thank you so much for the script. Unfortunately I wasn't able to try it out because Windows died spectacularly the next day and I had to reformat the entire computer...of course Puppy came to the rescue retrieving my husband's files, but I'm now forbidden to bring Linux anywhere near his computer! (...

I'm not shure how you version internally restarts. Maybe it works the "Traditional" way: Hit the keys CTRL-ALT-Backspace to exit X. Then type xwin to start X again. Does that work? If yes, we might look at your scripts to solve the issues there. Mark Yes, that works fine. But if I try to ...

I am running Puppy 3.01 off a live CD and added IceWM. Whenever I try to restart X the whole system crashes and I have to reset the computer. Is there a fix for this?