Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

Nice work Barry.

Thanks for putting in the battery monitor. In order to see the whole battery monitor, /root/.jwmrc-tray line 2 height="26" should be changed to height="28".

Also, The File-Sharing (Pcurlftp) Rox app depends on pure-ftpd. I think you said you were going to include it. Anyway pure-ftpd is a pet package available on Pet-get, but the package has a problem. The folder /root/ftpd needs to have its owner changed to ftp and permissions set to 777 or 755.

Some folks said they had problems with bcm43 wireless. My wife's laptop has a bcm43. It didn't get the module loaded. I ended up having to rmmod the b43 and ssb modules and then modprobe the bcm43xx. If I can get some more time with her laptop I'll try to figure out what's going on.

Flash · Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 23:43 Post subject:

How to make Pcdripper-3.4 work in alpha6? I filled out all the boxes that would let me, but I can't see any way to make it go.

john biles · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 1323 Location: Australia

Hello Barry k,
In testing on a Compaq Presario 1200 Laptop (Windows ME version) when you click the desktop icon for xine media player, it opens and then crashes.
But if you click on a media file in a folder, xine opens and plays it and doesn't crash?
Anyone else had this problem?

vanchutr · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 419

Fast login internet (with AUTO DHCP)
xine plays well.
Can't mount USB Flash. Pmount did'nt found USB port

oli · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 194 Location: Germany, Frankfurt

I run the live cd with the boot option puppy pfix=ram. Testing XOrg hangs up the computer (the screen is totally black) and I had to reboot. Xvesa works fine, but then I cannot use special German characters like äöüß.

oli · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 194 Location: Germany, Frankfurt

I missed Roaring Penguin to configure my DSL. I use a LAN-connection (no router, no DHCP) with dynamic IP from my ISP. Isn't it possible to configure DSL (pppoe) ?

Tui · Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2008, 04:07 Post subject:

Is this another bug? I have plugged in my webcam into a USB
port and loaded the live cd of the latest version, thro' the motions
to check cam, I noticed that all the LEDS' light up when loading
completed. i.e. there are 3 leds each side of lens.

Having used this cam with MS-WINDOWS, where I can control the
number of leds on and off, I have not been able to get to operate
with any Puppy distros'

I have included a screenshot of vendor details

I also reported this problem with previous versions but have
not had any response

Any help for this problem ?

Lobster · Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2008, 04:22 Post subject:

I am having difficulty installing .pets
(downloaded from Iblio or other sources)
The only thing that may be complicating this: Is I am running from CD with data saved on USB and have 31MB of memory free (according to the tray applet)

So I would like to know if others are able to install .pets?

The basic situation is .pet starts to expand. Computer freezes completely. Then have to turn off computer (probably a reset button would do but I do not have one) Ctrl + Alt + backspace does not work.

Complete freeze up

divisionmd · Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 592

Hello All!

Dont know if this should be possible or not but tried it anyway -Upgrading Puppy 2.17 to Dingo.

1. It starts "upgrading" process and the text "* please wait.." scrolls out very very very slowly.

2. Then the upgrade starts working but it fails and crashes.

Best regards,
Johan

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Progress of a sort.
In desperation and with considerable reluctance, after reading of rerwin's experiences, I split open a perfectly good 754 system (also SiS chipsets) presently running Vector64-v7.9 to test D396alpha6 one last time. This box is slightly unusual as I have an IDE-to-SATA caddy system fitted. Same old IDE 4.3Gb HD interchanged.
Alleluja! mount can see it as sda1, so can cfdisk /dev/sda, can do a FULL install and then boot up successfully. So far so good - no need for the retro 2.6.23 version.
Return old HD to 748SiS board, fiddle with jumpers, BIOS, cables - nada. The BIOS sees drive OK.
GRUB not detected. Fiddle with GRUB, change all 'h' to 's' and v.v - nogo. The liveCD no longer finds the drive.
Try same drive on VIA and Intel boards of various vintages - nothing!
All other distros succeed in seeing, mounting, writing, installing, etc. on all boards, all drives. P3.01 ditto.

It is unacceptable that a distro only works properly on highly specific systems. This is the sort of thing we saw right back at the beginning with k0.1alpha1 when an IT degree was necessary. All the other developers have managed the hda/sda transition without this hiatus. Where is the problem? If IT folks give me a clue, I'll try anything, but I need specific instructions. At present I have no idea where to look for the fault.

Tui: you've got picture overflow again!

gray · Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2008, 05:23 Post subject: boot problem

I tried alpha6 on my 5 yr old home computer - booted up fine.
Then tried on my new computer at work - no go.
The live cd gets stuck after searching for puppy files with error message 'cant find puppy_396.sfs'.

This system has a sata hard drive and an IDE DVD-ROM and and IDE DVD RW drive. Puppy 301 works OK on this machine.

Tui · Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2008, 07:28 Post subject:

Hi all,
I just did an upgrade on an Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi
(wide screen) from V2.17 to V396
This upgrade was onto an external USB hard drive and all went
well with it.
The machine uses a German keyboard and here again all went
well.

I like the multimedia player XINE it sure goes well on this machine. I
tested it out using a DVD.

As this machine is on a wireless link this also set up easily,
sad to say I can't get the little antenna down on the tray bottom
right hand side ?

I like the visual antenna better than seeing the two monitors
as this is more positive of a WIFI operation than a LAN connection.

How do I add the antenna in ?

Cheers Tui

Lobster · Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2008, 08:27 Post subject:

I am beginning to suspect - using intuition
as I don't have sufficient neurons for logic
that my problems with xine are memory related.

I enclose info on my running processes under Dingo
just in case they are of use or interest

BarryK · Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2008, 08:42 Post subject:

I've built alpha6 with the 2.6.21.7 kernel from Puppy 3.01. See my blog announcement.

Hopefully, if you had something working in 3.01, it should still work in this build.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Arise, Sir Barry! Multitudinous felicitations.

So now we all know - it's the kernel (colonel?!)

Way out of my depth, but I did note massive inconsistencies in 2.6.24/3 nomenclatures. Sometimes I was reading sda, other times hda - often within the same file. Probably some more homework for for those who know what they're doing.

Thanks a $Am.