Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Barburo · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 275

I run many different puppies and other distros on my laptop, but FD601 just hangs - it finds and identifies the vmlinuz file, but just hangs on initrd. I downloaded Fatdog64-601-Firefox.iso from the Greek mirror and checked the md5sum (OK).
I have tried all sorts of parameters like waitdev and various pci parms but nothing happens and there are no error messages. Has anyone else encountered this?
I think it' could be a kernel problem but I have never had any kernel issues with this machine.
Through Grub I run Windows 7, Lighthouse64, Mint 11, Mint Debian, Macpup 528v2, Saluki 021, Racy puppy, which covers many kernels.
I have set up and run with no problems FD600 on my regular 64 bit desktop..
I'm stumped on this one. Any suggestions?

My laptop is Acer Aspire 5810tz-4775 and Hardinfo gives:
Processor: 2x Genuine Intel(R) CPU U4100 @ 1.30GHz
Memory: 3987MB Resolution: 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
SCSI Disks: ATA Hitachi HTS54505 MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ862AS

I use grub to boot everything, and my preferred method for adding a new distro is:
- download the .iso, check md5sum
- open the iso and copy the required files to a directory.
- Add an entry for the new distro to menu.lst
- reboot and test

My existing menu.lst entry for FD601 is:
title Fat Dog 601 (on /dev/sda5 - ext4)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /FatDog601/vmlinuz waitdev=3 pci=nocrs loglevel=7
initrd /FatDog601/initrd

sda5 is an extended partition formatted to ext4, and the two files in /FatDog601 are vmlinuz and initrd.

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

rcrsn51

duke93535 · Posted: Sat 28 Jul 2012, 01:27 Post subject: xcompmgr & JWM

I have JWM working fairly well on Fatdog 601, I like using xcompmgr (for shadowing). The last JWM snapshot that works with it for me is 523. I had to compile it myself.

I have also modified the /usr/bin/jwm_menu_create, first I removed the corner tags (line #353 and #359) and then corrected one line about #391 for the pager styles foreground (This fixes the color tag error).

Reads.

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

Has anyone managed to compile the latest Filezilla for Fatdog-601?

It needs xwWidgets to be installed. So when I try to compile that I get more problems.

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1573 Location: The Blue Marble

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

maddmike · Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 14

Fatdog 600 works great for me. There is just one weird problem I've found. The taskbar entries for open windows don't show the icons for each application; they all look the same. Screenshot attached.

Does anyone else have this behavior? Does anyone know how to solve it? I've seen the same thing on two PCs with every version of Fatdog I've tried, which goes back to 500.

Thanks.
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Barburo · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 275

Thanks to rcrsn51 and jamesbond.
The fd600 version with a small initrd did work for me - I was unaware of that option. Thanks again.
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DC · Posted: Sun 29 Jul 2012, 06:03 Post subject: proverbial DVB

Hi J & K,

Whilst testing DVB with my old twinhan I found the file "dvb-usb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw" was missing. I'd just like to know was it left out / old /not required etc.

FYI I found the file in Fatdog 511 and it works fine.

dc

WillM · Posted: Sun 29 Jul 2012, 10:28 Post subject: Subject description: lxpanel

Hi madmike,

Lxpanel-0.5.9 in the Fatdog64-600 repository will display program icons in the taskbar. It will also change the main menu icons.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 29 Jul 2012, 20:11 Post subject: Re: unused disk space

Fishy · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 195

Fatdog is working flawlessly with the exception of Firefox occasionally shutting down on its own.

Wondering if there is an up-dated transmission compatible with the over-sized dog? Laughing

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1573 Location: The Blue Marble