Puppy On Laptops

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#321 Post by Deacon »

I mostly use netbooks, and X-Slacko works great on them. My favorite is an HP Pavillion dm1 that runs it like a champ on 1.6GB memory.

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#322 Post by DJ Puppio »

Got 6.0.2 running on a little Dell mini. The screen is about 8 inches wide and 6 inches tall. Has like 700 megs of RAM.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y50 ... f1fh71.png

It's a pretty nice little machine when it's running puppy. It struggles mightily with xp. I didn't buy this, btw. A family member didn't have much use for it and giave it to me. I haven't done much with it; it's just been my last case resort backup.

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Dell Inspiron mini 9-Inch

#323 Post by sheldonisaac »

DJ Puppio wrote:Got 6.0.2 running on a little Dell mini. The screen is about 8 inches wide and 6 inches tall. Has like 700 megs of RAM.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y50 ... f1fh71.png

It's a pretty nice little machine when it's running puppy. It struggles mightily with xp. I didn't buy this, btw. A family member didn't have much use for it and giave it to me. I haven't done much with it; it's just been my last case resort backup.
My Dell Inspiron mini 9-Inch booted OK last time I tried; it was a hand-me-down, came with XP, I think, plus some kind of Ubuntu.
Screen is about 7-3/4 by 4-1/2 inches.

Does anyone know where to find a list of which laptops work with which Puppy Linuxes?

Thanks,
Sheldon
Dell E6410: BusterPup, BionicPup64, Xenial, etc
Intel DQ35JOE, Dell Vostro 430
Dell Inspiron, Acer Aspire One, EeePC 1018P

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Re: Dell Inspiron mini 9-Inch

#324 Post by smokey01 »

sheldonisaac wrote:Does anyone know where to find a list of which laptops work with which Puppy Linuxes?

Thanks,
Sheldon
The link in the first post would be a good place to start.
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyOnLaptops

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Acer Aspire One D270 --DebianDog 64 bit

#325 Post by mikeslr »

Hi All,

I should mention that since my last post about the Acer AspireOne D270, all the Pups published since that post that I've tried have provided acceptable graphics display. Whether or not that means "accelerated" I don't know.

The reason I didn't just edit that post was to bring to your attention that fredx181's 64-bit DebianDog-Jessie for testing booted to desktop, provided acceptable graphics, connected to the internet and did this all only using 110 Mbs of RAM. Opened builtin IceWeasel to Youtube-Music. Flash was already installed (Error, See PS.). Selected a random video. Picture was clear. Singing was clear and discernable after slight sound adjustment. Perhaps a little tinny*. RAM usage increased to 276 MBs, CPU to 21% :o :D Available here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 473#876473

* Could be the selection. Could be the internal speaker. Could be I need my hearing checked. :lol:

Guess I'm gonna hav-ta learn how to make the most of DebianDogs. :D

mikesLr

PS. My mistake. fredx181, publisher of DebianDog64, advises, "- Playing Youtube video from Iceweasel works because of HTML5 support, Flashplayer is NOT included in DD64 iso.
It can be installed however by typing in terminal: Code:

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Or from Synaptic package manager, search for 'flashplugin-nonfree'
- Sound is set very low at first time boot (without changes saved to savefile/folder)
It can be increased from Menu> Multimedia> Alsamixergui or from volume tray icon (Open Mixer)"

Pelo

Medion P7624 16600x900

#326 Post by Pelo »

Medion P7624 16600x900
All puppies since serie 5 run this laptop, I rematerized series 4 with kernel 3.0.25 and the matter is quite closed, i connect wireless, but these dear vintage are deaf an dumb.
I have just succeeding in runing audio by replacing repository /dev by a newest one from ... Tahrpup !
Windows 7 runs the Dolby system of this Medion. Linux doesn't. It's not a real pain, because i connect speakers to the laptop. But if someone should know how to make Dolby vailable for Linux too, i Would be happy.
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When you play Linux, you can smoke some cigarettes,

#327 Post by Pelo »

When you play Linux, you can smoke some cigarettes, to avoid nervous breakdown, but never be drunk ! no alcohol beside the laptop. :)
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#328 Post by Semme »

Amusement? Clean that mess up!
>>> Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities. It helps you live a life less trivial <<<

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#329 Post by Creativian »

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 1800. It's over 10 years old. It's currently running Wary 5.5.

I have been unable to get the newer distro, tahrpup 6.0.5, to work. I get the black screen. I have tried using the boot command, puppy pfix=nox, so that I can manually edit the xorg.conf file, but the bootup command doesn't work. I've tried other boot commands, and none of them work. Tahrpup appears to ignore all boot commands, which is really stupid IMO.

I also failed to get Lucid Puppy to work. At least Lucid and Wary respond properly to boot commands.

Puppy 4.3.1 also worked, but I wanted to see if I could use something a little more up-to-date. Hence Wary 5.5, but I'm finding it pretty slow, especially on the internet. I may have to go back to 4.3.1.

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#330 Post by Semme »

Welcome Mate.

Are you saying 605 won't boot with Xvesa?

How about your card? Forward these specs using Wary's PupSysInfo.
>>> Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities. It helps you live a life less trivial <<<

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#331 Post by Fossil »

Creativian Welcome. A simple question to kick-off and get the ball rolling - How much memory is available?

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#332 Post by Creativian »

Thanks for the welcome, Semme and Fossil.
Semme wrote:Welcome Mate.

Are you saying 605 won't boot with Xvesa?

How about your card? Forward these specs using Wary's PupSysInfo.
I don't even get the chance to select Xvesa. I don't see the xorgwizard at all. Boom, straight to black screen.

I'm not familiar with PupSysInfo. Where do I find that?

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#333 Post by Creativian »

Fossil wrote:Creativian Welcome. A simple question to kick-off and get the ball rolling - How much memory is available?
Hi Fossil,

506MB (220MB used), according to HardInfo.

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#334 Post by Semme »

Tahr may be a bit much for that amount of RAM.

I suggest you dwnld and try the retro version here..

ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/precise-5.7.1/
>>> Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities. It helps you live a life less trivial <<<

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#335 Post by Gordie »

My main laptop is a 2010 HP Pavilion G6:
* Processor - AMD Phenom(tm) II P960 Quad-Core
* Architecture - x86_64 *64-bit*
* RAM - 6 Gig
* * Hard Drive - 700 Gig
* WiFi /Lan
ANY 64-bit Puppy I try with USB stick works and works well.

My little computer is a 2009 HP MINI 210-1000 NETBOOK:
* Processor - Intel Atom
* Architecture - i686 *64-bit*
* RAM - maxed out at 2 Gig
* Hard Drive - 230 GB
* WiFi /Lan
I have Slacko64 Puppy 6.9.5 frugal installed to the hard drive. Also I have a USB stick with:
Every other latest release of Puppies for 64 bit that I could find EXCEPT FatDog64 which is the only one that cannot detect my wifi card. All works as it should.

EDIT (update below)
As of spring 2017 the above computers have found new owners and now my only laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad W510
* Processor - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
* Architecture - x86_64 *64-bit*
* RAM - 8 Gig
* * Hard Drive - 500 Gig
* WiFi /Lan
ANY 64-bit Puppy I try with USB stick works and works well except for Fatdog64-700 and newer which cannot detect my wifi card
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#336 Post by Creativian »

Semme wrote:Tahr may be a bit much for that amount of RAM.

I suggest you dwnld and try the retro version here..

ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/precise-5.7.1/
I will. Thanks Semme!

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pupjibaro on an Asus 701sd -- Maybe also Tahrpup

#337 Post by mikeslr »

Hi All,

just a link to my post on the pupjibaro thread: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 074#943074.

mikesLr

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#338 Post by RetroTechGuy »

Acquired an HP Pavilion zv6000, XP, 1GB RAM, AMD64 (Athlon64, 3500+ -- I think it's 2.2 GHz).

Got a kernel panic using SuperLupu1. SuperLupu2 came right up (though the built in wireless sometimes comes up, sometimes can't be found -- that might just be an HP issue, it is an old machine).

Dragged my save file from my Sulu1 machine, and dropped it here.

If this works well enough, I might look into upgrading it to 2GB RAM (apparently the max it will handle).
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#339 Post by nic007 »

Creativian wrote:
Semme wrote:Tahr may be a bit much for that amount of RAM.

I suggest you dwnld and try the retro version here..

ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/precise-5.7.1/
I will. Thanks Semme!
With that specs I would stick with Wary 5.5 which you have been using although even Wary will be slightly slower than it should be. You will also struggle to get a newer browser to perform adequately. The Seamonkey browser which comes with that version or older Opera version 12 should be best.

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#340 Post by greengeek »

RetroTechGuy wrote:If this works well enough, I might look into upgrading it to 2GB RAM (apparently the max it will handle).
Hi RTG - good to see you back. You went quiet for a lonnng time!

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