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kommisar · Joined: 20 Feb 2011 Posts: 17

I'm booting a vanilla slacko 5.33 frugal install off a usb stick. When I shut down, I'm not given the choice to save back to usb stick. Apparently it just saves without any input from me because changes do persist across a reboot. When I reboot I get an window that says x was not shut down properly and choices to ignore or go to the command line. Any ideas?

bigpup · Posted: Sun 15 Jul 2012, 10:01 Post subject:

How did you do the install to USB stick?

bigpup · Posted: Sun 15 Jul 2012, 10:16 Post subject:

kevin bowers · Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 147

Just did a full install of Slacko 533 on a brand-new i3 system with 8GB RAM, so I used the PAE kernel. Slickpet recommended the mesa driver and downloaded it but it simply won't install. Just a guess, the driver needs to be compiled in this kernel? I'm not sure my abilities are up to it. Volunteers?

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld

ryanvade · Joined: 16 Jul 2012 Posts: 8 Location: Um... I forgot

just installed. rebooted and puppy manager won't start.

kevin bowers · Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 147

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4989 Location: Ontario

Puppy clock in slacko
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73168

I tested new version of puppy clock in slacko and
it works well

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kevin bowers · Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 147

With a lot of help I've gotten GMPlayer to play live TV under Slacko. You need:
--supported TV tuner card (mine is Hauppauge WinTV1850)
--dotpet from http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/Mplayer-1.0rc1/linuxtv-DVB-apps-1.1.1.pet
--Wouldn't hurt to read Paulski's post where I got most of this: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36672
Install the .pet, then go to /root/my-applications and read the readmes. Open a terminal there, and depending on where you are and what hardware you have, scan your channels. In the US:

bigpup

ryanvade · Joined: 16 Jul 2012 Posts: 8 Location: Um... I forgot

Yeah... it's fixed sorry all.

Eldon · Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 110

I like this new 5.3.3 but...

I had a hard time in 5.3.1 getting my bluetooth keyboard to work but I managed it.

Trying the same thing in 5.3.3, I can't do it- because when I type modprobe rfcomm it says:

"fatal: module rfcomm not found"

Same with l2cap.

I tried copying them from 5.3.1 to the appropriate folder, but then it tells me it's an invalid module format.

Do you have to recompile the kernel with those modules, or can you perhaps make a pet so we can install them?

Did you mean to leave them out, or was that by mistake?

Blueman tells me that bluez daemon isn't running, and while I have it installed, I don't know how to get it going. Typing hcidump gives me an "address family not supported by protocol" message.

I love slacko, but I'd really like to see better bt support.
I REALLY want to use my mini bt keyboard with this!

r_j_h · Joined: 07 Aug 2012 Posts: 2

Having used puppy as my live-cd/rescue-cd of choice for several years, I have just done my first frugal install of slacko on an old netbook.

Mostly things work fine - but I have just noticed that I am unable to mount any usb storage as read-write; whether through the desktop icons or through command-line all usb drives mount as read-only.

I have searched as far as time and bandwidth will allow, but I cannot find this mentioned anywhere else in the forums. Is this a common problem - have I made a stupid mistake somewhere?

Thanks, Richard.

kevin bowers · Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 147

Eldon · Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 110