Puppy On Laptops

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mikeb
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#21 Post by mikeb »

Hey why don't we waste bandwidth and have photies of our lovable lappies with puppy on them :?:

mike

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#22 Post by davesurrey »

Do you mean you show me yours if I show you mine???? :-)

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#23 Post by mikeb »

Do you mean you show me yours if I show you mine????
yes and covered in fingerprints...

I sense a rapid downward trend in the content of this thread....

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#24 Post by gposil »

HP/Compaq Presario C700
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Compaq Presario C700 Specifications:

* 15.4″ WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView (glossy) Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
* Intel(R) Pentium(R) dual core processor T2370 (1.73 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
* 1GB DDR2 System Memory (2x 512MB)
* Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
* Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
* Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ Ethernet
* Fujitsu MHY2120BH 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
* Optiarc DVD RW AD-7560A 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
* UVC Webcam
* AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint
* Multi-card Reader
* 6.4 lbs

Operating System
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Kernel Linux 2.6.30.5 (i686)Compiled#1 SMP Tue Sep 1 15:48:26 GMT-8 2009
C Library GNU C Library version 2.10.2 (stable)
Default C Compiler gcc 4.4.2
Distribution Puppy Linux 4.84 Dpup

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On Dpup484beta3, everything works out of the box, including function keys, brightness control etc...
Webcam works fine, both wired and Wireless networks are picked up out of the box, in fact I can't find anything that doesn't work...yet
[img]http://gposil.netne.net/images/tlp80.gif[/img] [url=http://www.dpup.org][b]Dpup Home[/b][/url]

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#25 Post by CatDude »

Hi

Once again, i thank everyone who has contributed to this thread,
some excellent information being provided.
mikeb wrote:Hey why don't we waste bandwidth and have photies of our lovable lappies with puppy on them :?:
Hello mike, by all means please do. :roll:

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#26 Post by chrissy »

This laptop is an Acer aspire 9304 running 4.3.1 puppy using an external usb hd. This is dual core 1800mhz AMD
The wifi works as well as the ethernet(only Ethernet works on 4.2.1. because of the broadcom chipset issue.
The inbuilt web cam works on Skype but as yet I haven't got the microphone to work too.
Sound plays well .
You-tube played sound once I installed Java.
Still to try to get my dvb-t to work.

EDITED dvb-t now working well just needed to install the firmware that was sitting in the firmware folder all ready to go.


The other lappy that I have tried puppy on is an Acer extensa 6600 which will boot puppy from a usb mp3 player.
I ran teen puppy on that model and was able to play films and connect with Ethernet. I haven't tried the newer teen puppy on it yet. I think that has a 1600mhz intel processor .
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#27 Post by ravensrest »

I run frugal Puppy 4.3.1 on a Dell Inspiron 2650 in a triple boot with DSL and Windows XP on three different partitions. Have also run versions from 4.0 onward. Dell is 1.6 GHz, 512 Meg, touchpad or mouse. Makes a halfway decent book reader and juke box too. Runs flawlessly.

One of the reasons for keeping Windows is that this computer has a built-in analog modem that lets me use standard phone lines when necessary. Never got it to work under Puppy.
BS

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#28 Post by racepres »

CatDude wrote: Please keep them coming.
CatDude
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Are You Sure you want all this?
These are the "Puppified", LapTops that have come thru, or live here. in all cases Puppy is running as desired for the user. I have not included failures. All installs are "Full" Installs, and include swap, unless Noted. I hope that I laid this out in an inteligible way.. But, I can always edit for clarity!
Much of these details are from memory, or lack of!! But can be Verified, and/or Tested if someone needs more info.

1]Toshiba 205cds; 75Mcpu, 40Mram, Dual Boot; Win98se/puppy v 1.0.8;
IBM[noteworthy]pcmcia NIC.
2]Toshiba 410; Same as above.
3]Toshiba Tecra 500 cd; 100M cpu,80Mram, Mean Pup 2.0.2; Orinoco
wavelan silver, or 3Com WLAN/Modem combo, pcmcia NIC.
4]Toshiba Tecra 780 cdt; 133M cpu, 128Mram,
Triple boot/win2k/puppy4.1.2/ DSL; Orinoco wavelan pcmcia NIC.
5]Compaq Armada 400; 400M cpu, 128Mram,
Dual boot; win2k/puppy retro 4.2; 3Com pcmcia Modem.
Has used Orinoco wavelan silver NIC.
6]Dell Inspiron 7500; 500M cpu, 256M ram,
Dual boot winxp/puppy 4.2 Retro; cisco 340 pcmcia NIC.
also has 2nd hdd,w/White Fang only;
7]Toshiba Tecra 8200; 700M cpu, 384M ram,
Triple Boot, Geexbox/winxp/puppy 4.1.2; built in LAN/WLAN,
and alltel [cellphone] pcmcia modem.
8]Dell Latitude 400; 1.?g cpu, 768M ram; Triple boot,
Geexbox/winxp/MacPup2; built in LAN/WLAN.
9]Compaq EvoN115; 1.?M cpu, 384M ram, Triple boot,
Geexbox/winxp/Puppy 4.1.2; cisco 350 pcmcia NIC.
10]HP DV1000; 1.7G cpu, 512M ram, Triple boot,
Geexbox/winxp/MacPup2; built in LAN/WLAN.
11]Dell Inspiron 1100; 2.?M cpu, 512M ram; Puppy 4.3 runs from DVD,
save to hdd on shutdown/reboot. hdd has win xp; built in LAN,
Proxim pcmcia NIC.
12]Compaq v6000; 1.7M cpu, 512M ram, Triple boot,
Geexbox/winxp/MacPup3; built in LAN/WLAN.
13]IBM ?? [gotta check] 2.? G cpu, 2G ram; Win7 on hdd, Puppy 4.3
runs from dvd, save to hdd on shutdown/reboot.
Internal LAN/WLAN, [Alltel tethered cellphone, Yet to work]

Again, More info can be had if neede, but, I am a POOR typer!

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#29 Post by abushcrafter »

rjbrewer wrote: Has 2 minor issues:
1. The intel 855gm graphics will only play video "files" with correct
color balance using xvesa on the latest kernels.
Try a different video driver. So if you are using gxine, look at the advanced video options.

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#30 Post by racepres »

ravensrest wrote: One of the reasons for keeping Windows is that this computer has a built-in analog modem that lets me use standard phone lines when necessary. Never got it to work under Puppy.
BS
ravensrest: The modem may be one of those winmodem, software modems.. They aren't too good even w/ windoze..That is why I use the 3Com, pcmcia modems or better yet the LAN/modem combo card.. Puppy uses it no problem.
RP

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#31 Post by walter90 »

mikeb wrote:
Since this laptop has only 5 minutes battery life, power failure is an irritation as the power lead also tends to fall out from time to time. So I figured out how to write a script to run every 30 seconds to monitor the power and pop up a dialog warning of power failure, before the battery gives up. This has saved me on several occasions.
yes I did that too as there is no built in ability it seems.
How do I go about that mike? I'm always afraid when I go messing with making partitions.
If there is a spare usb socket and a spare usb format it as swap and plug it in before booting and see if it gets detected..

now I'm hyjacking thee thread and will get carted off by moderators in white coats whilst screaming I love vista and want bill's babies...

mike
I'll give it a shot mike. Thanks. I'll let you know how it comes out.

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#32 Post by DMcCunney »

Fujitsu Lifebook p2110 circa 2001
867mhz Transmeta "Crusoe" processor
256MB RAM
40GB Fujitsu MHV2040AT UDMA4 HD (21.15 MB/Sec xfer rate)
Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2212
ATI Rage Mobility PCI onboard graphics driving a 16 bit 1280x768 display
Intersil PRISM Wireless LAN PCI card
RealTek RTL8139(A)-based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

Triple booting Win@K Pro SP4, Xubuntu 9.10, Puppy 4.31

The box was a pass-along, from the mother of a friend who had upgraded to a faster machine and wanted to see it go to a good home. As delivered from Fujitsu, it had a 30GB Toshiba drive and Win XP Pro SP2. She commented it was "slow slow slow" Running XP Pro in 256MB of RAM made that no surprise. Win 2K Pro runs a little better in 256MB,. but takes 7.5 to 8 minutes to boot.

Xubuntu runs but is extremely sluggish.

Puppy 4.31 is installed on an ext4 file system, in a full install with separate 512mb swap partition. Puppy itself is fairly sprightly, but third party apps like Firefox 3.6 and Open Office 3.2 are slow loading.

Pretty much everything works. Puppy drives the screen through Xorg, and handles the 1280x768 display that is the best the video will do. (The Windows ATI driver does 1600x1200, but as a 1280x768 window panning over a 1600x1200 virtual screen. I'm just as happy Puppy doesn't support that...)

Net access is normally via CAT5 cable to a port on my router, but Puppy detects my wireless card. It took a bit of fiddling to get it to see my network: the default choices in the Network Wizard didn't see it. Once I told it to look for a broadcast SSID, it saw my router.

Still can't connect via wifi at home, however: Puppy seems to support WEP and WPA, but not WPA2. since I normally connect via cable at home, I don't really care.

The biggest issue with the box is arthritic disk I/O, resulting in slow loading of large programs. I could theoretically up the RAM to 384MB (the max Fujitsu says it will take) and swap in a faster HD, but this is mostly an experiment to see what I can wring out of ancient hardware, and I'm disinclined to spend money on it.

Puppy is a fairly good fit for the low end hardware, and I wasn't expecting a lot, so I'm reasonably happy.
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Dennis

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compaq presario r3000

#33 Post by rdmyofb »

I installed puppy 4.3.1 from live cd on this older laptop. it has (i think) 512 mb ram 800mhz processor w dvd/cd drive. I couldnt get past grub on dvd so i burned a live cd and got it up n running. When i tried to install to hdd it was getting hung with grub something about the way the drive was formatted , if i recall. so after hunting the forums i found the auto installl frugal script that was posted and it worked perfectly. very quick and easy install. I wish the live cd would offer that script it would save MUCH time and HEADACHES. Overall it seems to work very well . I only wanted it for the wife to use for browsing and email on the counter (wired ethernet) .

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#34 Post by rerwin »

ravensrest,
One of the reasons for keeping Windows is that this computer has a built-in analog modem that lets me use standard phone lines when necessary. Never got it to work under Puppy.
BS
Puppy should work with most/all built-in laptop modems. However, 4.3.1-k2.6.30.5 contains an erroneous version of the driver for many (SmartLink) such modems. The k2.6.25.16 version of 4.3.1 contains the correct driver. If you have either the 2.6.25.16 or 2.6.21.. iso, from it copy /lib/modules/all-firmware/slmodem to the same place in 4.3.1-k2.6.30.5.

If the modem is detected as ttySHSF0 but that does not work, there is a way to fix that (but I need particulars) or you can wait for my imminent new modem fix pack, due shortly in the 4.3.1 bugs thread.
Richard

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How do I Drive the External monitor

#35 Post by jprsa »

Hi, mikeb mentioned he is using an HP laptop where he was able to configure Puppy to drive his external monitor.

i would like to know what steps I should do to replicate that.

i am using an old Dell Inspiron B120 laptop running on Puppy 431 via a USB memory card.

I use Xorg and could not get the external monitor to display an extended desktop, like you can in windows. Right no, my external monitor just displays the same desktop displayed on my laptop's monitor.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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My Puppy Laptop

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My Puppy Laptop :D
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#37 Post by mikeb »

Right no, my external monitor just displays the same desktop displayed on my laptop's monitor.
That's what I had....you need to edit or obtain a /etc/X11/xorg.conf to do what you want and google is the place to look. I was lucky as the suse driver and its xorg.conf enable the external screen as puppy only supported vesa.

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External Display

#38 Post by jprsa »

Thanks MikeB, hopefully someone using the same gear I'm using will come up with a solution.

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#39 Post by auriza »

Toshiba Satellite 1800
Processor: Pentium III 1 Ghz (Coppermine)
Memory: 256 MB
Harddisk: 20 GB
OS: Puppy 4.3.1, Ubuntu 9.04

Puppy runs happily on my laptop. Thanks BK!
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Dell Inspiron 1501

#40 Post by ajlec2000 »

I'm using a two and a half year old Dell Inspiron 1501 that I bought cheap a couple of months ago.Part of the deal was that I had to wipe the hard drive. After playing with an XP reinstall that resulted in a cranky Window$ that acted rather like an old man in a nursing home who had been awakened by the nurse so he can take his sleeping pill. Bad move on M$s part as I had been wanting to try a full install of Puppy for awhile now.

So I did.

Puppy 4.31 and Grub installed with no problem. After that I Installed Ubuntu 9.10 in a dual boot.

The laptop has a 1.8 GHz AMD Sempron and 512M DDr2 SDRAM, Broadcom BCM 4311 wireless card, CD RW/DVD Rom drive and a 60G HD split equally between the OSs, 4 (count em! FOUR! Sorry I love flashdrives) USB 2.02 amd a SD card reader.

Etho works fine however I've only tried the wifi twice once successfully on an unsecured network and once unsuccessfully on a public library network. I haven't taken the time yet to sort that out but I suspect operator head space and timing. Interestingly enough Ubuntu wouldn't recognize the wireless until a driver was installed but Puppy found it right off.

I haven't tried either OS on a printer yet.

Sound works just fine.

Puppy recognizes and readily down loads from my Canon Powershot A590. I haven't tried the card reader yet.

Thus far I am pleased with both the laptop and the Puppy install. I'd recommend this machine to other Puppy users.

Good thread, CatDude. I like playing with used equipment and this info will come in handy evaluating potential acquisitions in the future.

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