Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[KRuCi8L3]

[bigpup]

KRuCi8L3,

Please do not stop exploring and dive into the world of Puppy Linux.
I just wanted to make sure you had your life jacket on before you got to deep.
Dive in the water is fine.

Yes making a save file is very basic and it should work with no problems. Most of the time it does. When someone has problems, it is hard to figure out what is causing it.

Not all versions of Puppy work on all computers.

We only know what you tell us, so sometimes we offer suggestions on what could be happening. Sometimes your problem is a bug no one has come across before.

The encryption idea was just something to try and see what happens. If it worked or did not, then we would have more info to go on.

[Q5sys]

[gcmartin]

[John51]

System is not recognizing an SD card
Bcrypt isn't accepting passwords
HP nc4400 and MSI Wind120

I've been following Puppy's evolution now for about 3 years. I've tried a few different distros but keep coming back to Puppy. However in that 3 years the biggest improvements I've seen are Frisbee and Wbar. Seems too often the most conspicuous change is the background art. Do we really need several different "breeds" of Puppy, and is there enough expertise and energy out there to support 3+breeds?

[KRuCi8L3]

Thanks bigpup, heaps (no I mean that... really big heaps)! Excellent tips. After work today I plan to try again. Your advice is appreciated.

[James C]

Especially for 01micko.......

[Q5sys]

Another question for the vets. On my past systems the Alt-Tab key combo would be used to cycle the active window. However it always would cycle through the windows from most recent active to the very last used. However on slacko it seems to just change in order of things in my taskbar.
When I have a ton of windows open it was nice to be able to Alt-Tab between the last two active windows.. Instead of having to cycle between every program to just use the last two.
Any way to change this? Ive searched online but havent found much.
Thanks guys.

EDIT:
In some free time today I got Slapt-get up and running with the gslapt interface. Thread HERE

[dawg]

Serial mouse problem here - can't get it working at all in Slacko. It works fine in Lupu (5.2.8) and Wary (5.2), though.

Any ideas?

[bigpup]

[dawg]

Bigpup, actually, I forgot to mention I had tried that and it's the same, but thanks..

So I went and messed with the module priorities, and still no luck.
I then tried messing with the Xorg settings similarly as described here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/serial-mouse-on-slackware-13-a-757321/ But no luck at this point...I might retry again later sometime.

[bigpup]

[01micko]

A Puppy Package Manager bug has been reported that seems to list the entire repo for certain apps as dependencies

I have found that bug and have attached a fix, Barry has been informed and the fix will filter through to woof.

It is recommended that everyone use this patch if you require apps from slackware/salix/slacky repos.

[Jim1911]

Fresh frugal installation on an ext3 partition. Created a 3fs save file upon reboot. No extra progams are installed.

Bootmanager configure bootup gives an error (see below) when you try to choose which extra SFS files to load at bootup. I received the same error message at the opening screen after rebooting to create a save file.
The error message shows if the /mnt/home directory contains too many SFS files. (See /mnt/home directory below.) I did not determine how many SFS need to be present to generate the error, however, when I reduced the number of SFS files to 8, it operates.

Another problem that I've noticed and reported previously is that shutdown reboots instead of shutting power off when installed on an ext4 partition. This problem does not occur with this ext3 frugal installation.

Regards,
Jim

[chrismt]

Please update Pidgin

The latest version is 2.10

The version in the repo is 2.7 and there are a lot of improvements and fixes in 2.10

http://pidgin.im