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jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 2880 Location: The Blue Marble

To remove nouveau (other than deleting the folder as kirk already said earlier) with a single reboot, assuming you boot for the first time:
- first boot
- choose System --> Boot Manager --> Blacklist and add nouveau
- reboot and create a save file
After reboot nouveau will no longer be loaded.

There is a way to remove nouveau without rebooting, but not for 520 (because it requires yet another kernel recompilation...) --> this http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING.html to be enabled. And you need vbetool.

gcmartin,
samba-3.5.6 moved to the main PPM area and should be accessible through PPM now.

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1488 Location: florida

You might be able to unload nouveau and delete it on the first boot if you boot with nomodeset pfix=vesa.

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 2880 Location: The Blue Marble

Ray, assuming you still have windows on it (since you have ntfs) - boot Windows and do chkdsk on that partition. Then try again.

I just tried on my ntfs partition and it works ok, no errors. I didn't put my savefile there though, that ntfs partition is on a usb stick. If you put the savefile on ntfs partition, once a while you will get some corruption (which is okay), all you need to do is to boot windows and run chkdsk on it. Then everything will be good again (for a while). All my fat dogs are unleashed and they run with either ext3 or ext4, but I still have Wary that runs on ntfs and my record so far is about 4 months - every 4 months things start to rot, I need to go to windows to chkdsk the disk and make it happy.

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4829 Location: Manila

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6718 Location: Earth

System appears to running stably. Only issue I have found in shown in the attached reports. This is a low priority issue since it does NOT impact system operation(s). But, it is misleading to someone trying to ID information about their PC.

Please look at the hardcopy report and compare its information with the on-screen report page.

My finding is that the hardcopy shows RAM and MB information while the screen does NOT.

My question is two-fold. Can others post similar info? and who should the issue be addressed by?

Hope this helps

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1488 Location: florida

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4829 Location: Manila

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 25 Aug 2011, 09:47 Post subject:

I am trying to run SFS-load-on-the-fly, but it says that it requires squashfs version 3. I'm sure that this worked in previous Fatdogs.

I looked at the code and it may be related to the change in kernel version from 2.x to 3.x.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6718 Location: Earth

Don't know if this helps on Hardinfo, but notice compilation line from FATDOG64-RC2

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1488 Location: florida

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 771 Location: UK

Hi all

Just a note to say fd64520rc2 is all good now.

My problem running on ntfs solved as suggested.

Many thanks and very best regards - Ray

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5076 Location: GB

Reviewing the video shortcomings reported above, it seems that a text panel pop-up would help to assist neophytes. As far as black-screening is concerned, is it possible to intercept these in SW, even if only to display said panel with options and instructions about which drivers to load/unload, boot codes, etc? This approach has been used successfully for eg network connecting.

There may be a short intermission whilst kirk dodges Irene?!

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6718 Location: Earth

tony · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 322 Location: Montreal.ca

Hi,

How compatible is Fatdog 64 with 64bit programs on Slackware 13-37 with it's 2.6.37.6 kernal?

If they are compatible, how would you install them?

Regards Tony.

Barkingmad · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 135

I've just decided to try Fatdog and wanted to say whats good and what I've found not quite so good, most comments are comparing with Puppy 4.3.1.

A quick system outline.

Pentium D930
Intel M/B with integrated audio and network
ATi X1600 graphics
2GB RAM

I've done a "manual frugal" install to an ntfs partition for now.

Boot up - it "just works" everything is ready to use without setting loads of options for KB, testing video etc.

Network - it finds my wired Ethernet and gets an IP straight off.

Video card - magic I have open GL and DRI on my ATi without any fiddling. I spent ages finding a combination of 4 series kernel and some beta drivers that managed that.

Items:

Browser and e-mail
The Firefox icons both on the desktop and the menu open Aurora the same as the "default browser" menu entry does.

Same as above with Thunderbird, the icons open Miramar.

As a test, "firefox" in a terminal also starts Aurora

Window Manager changing
The option in the menu to change window manager seems "clunky" compared to the rest.

At one point I lost the "taskbar" altogether trying to change to JWM. I resorted to Ctrl+Alt+Backsp then "xwin" + options and got it back without a reboot and haven't managed to reproduce the quirk since.

Apart from these points this seems a great distro and I like it a lot, thanks.

Will

EDIT
Have just realized I think I am using Fatdog 520 RC from this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70771. I hadn't noticed Kirk has a new RCout so we'd better ignore these notes till I've had chance to try the latest release.

Will