Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1534 Location: The Blue Marble

How to make amdcccle (AMD/ATI control center) work - well at least display the window ((I haven't tried whether the feature in the control panel actually works ...) but it's better than seeing a segfault. This is only applicable for you who install the ATI driver (ati_fglrx_9.2.pet).

Create a file named "users" elsewhere in your path (I choose /usr/bin).
The only purpose of this file is to print the word "root" to the screen. (For actual use of users, please read here http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/users/ - puppy only have one user, root)

This is how I do it - open terminal and type this exactly, pressing Enter key at end of every line

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

Wow, thanks 007! I spent some time looking for the source for "users", but then I got sidetracked doing something else. Should have thought about doing that. I've updated the fglrx 9.2 pet package and re-uploaded.

Thanks for the other bug fixes too.

gabe · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 85 Location: Minnesota, USA

How do you have OpenOffice 3.1, and one released in February to boot, when 3.1 isn't even out yet in mid-April?

eztuxer · Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 461 Location: Belgium

I tried again to install 412 on USB stick, and got the same black screen syndrome as with 410 & 411. Sad

Why is this happening only on netbook Aspire One ???
This sucks big time as I like the way it works on the CD.
I'll try to run from the CD on a desktop and make the USB install with this machine to see what happens.

techtype · Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Posts: 181

Thanks for all your work on this!! Access to the devx is forbidden on your link, while the mirror has the old devx.

Caneri · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1565 Location: Canada

Ok this works now..just permissions were set rw-----now are rw-r--r--
http://puppylinux.asia/tpp/kirk/Fatdog/iso/112/devx_112.sfs

Eric

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

Thanks again Eric. I forgot again. I've been sick. I'll blame it on the meds Embarassed

Yes, It's OO 3.01. I'll edit the first post.

Eztuxer, I don't know why that would be. How much ram do you have? Fatdog needs more ram than 4.1.2 ( I assume you've tried it with 4.1.2). Even if you boot with pfix=noram, on the first boot Puppy will still copy the main sfs file to ram. Only after there's a pup_save will the pfix=noram option work. If you don't have a lot of ram, the pfix=noram is a good idea, you really need the ram to run programs, not for storage. Oh, never mind, you said the CD works, I think it does the same thing with ram.

Raffy, I would be a little concerned about using NTFS for the pup_save file with Puppy. Puppy 2 and up has a problem, it can't quite unmount the partition the pup_save file is on at shutdown. I've never had this cause a problem, but I use a ext3 partition. Maybe someone will chime in and say they have been using NTFS for the pup_save file for sometime without problems and make us all feel better.

eztuxer · Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 461 Location: Belgium

Installed it on USB from desktop computer and plugged it into Acer Aspire One: Same old crap. Sad

This netbook has 1.5GB ram on it, and runs @ 1.6 GHz.
I'm running pupitup based on 412 for over 3 months now, and your pupplet is the only one among the many I've tried that has this bug.
I like Xine better than Gxine, do you have a .pet of it ? (& Edit PDF too please).
Also, I was listening to a podcast with Xine for almost an hour when everything froze, had to cold reboot it.
That was running from CD on desktop Fujitsu Siemens P4 @ 2.6 GHz with 512 MB ram.

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1534 Location: The Blue Marble

@kirk
No worries kirk, glad to contribute though only a little bit Smile

Get well soon Smile

@caneri
Thanks for fixing the permission and of course for hosting all this Very Happy

@raffy
Back in 2.15ce days I used to have pup_save in NTFS, dual booting with Windows. The only problem I had is, if Windows didn't shutdown correctly. NTFS was left is an unclean state and puppy would refuse boot because it can't mount pup_save file R/W (ntfs-3g will refuse to mount r/w if NTFS isn't clean). The pup_save file itself was intact, though. This wasn't good for my purpose at that time (puppy was meant rescue Windows - it's no good if puppy can't boot after a Windows crash!) - so in the end I created a dedicated ext3 partition for the pup_save.

Fast forward to present, I now have fatdog 111/112 running on 2 machines with pup_save in NTFS partitions. They have been running for about 1.5 months now w/o problems.

cheers!

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4622 Location: GB

tlcstat · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 79

Greetings,
This is just a FYI. My Dell went south last week so I bought this Toshiba laptop from Best Buy for $378. It is actually a great computer for a real cheap price.
Problem is my puppy cd's wouldn't load the Intel 4 video and didn't support the Atheros WIFI. I actually couldn't get anything newer than Puppy 4.0 to boot, but then I had no internet.
When I ran across this thread, I decided to give it a try. Fatdog 112 works just great on this computer. In fact this is the first time that a puppy CD has loaded my WIFI without any setup. I did run DHCP but it found my access point on boot. Also, the Intel video support in this derivative is just plain beautiful. If you are new to linux you have just got to see the Openbox WM on this video card. I have tried a lot of distros but this Fatdog beats them all. At least on this platform.
Thanks
tlcstat

Dpup · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 52

I bought the "Other" best buy Special, a Compaq CQ60-211DX Notebook for $379.95, and tried installation with a number of Puppy versions. Got several recent versions up to 4.2 beta 2 test to work, but then I tried Fatdog 112. To my surprise, it was the only one that would boot quickly from the CQ60 internal DVD and directly create bootable USB flash drive with the Puppy Universal Installer. And as a second surprise, boots in less than half the time of the other Puppy versions that I tested !!! It is working fine with my Dlink and Airlink wireless routers with WPA2 TKIP and WPA2 AES security, and auto reconnects on reboot.

Dpup

tlcstat · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 79

Greetings,
I just put this Fatdog on a 3Gig Ext3 partition, full install with
Grub in MBR. The installer works just fine and the Grub works properly also. I have a few horror stories about Grub so I did a MBR backup first.
Anyway, this edition is very fast on on the Intel 4 platform. Wifi and all else working fine. I did have to re-setup my email and bookmarks. I didn't see an option to move the settings from my thumbdrive. If there is a way to migrate the settings I would appreciate the feedback.
Thanks
tlcstat

tlcstat · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 79

Greetings,
After this full install my openoffice sfs isn't loading. I have the required _112.sfs in the file name. The bootmanager doesn't see the file. Any suggestions.
tlcstat

tlcstat · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 79

Greetings,
Well, looks like I will need the pet package for my full install.
Oh, well! Back to the download manager.
tlcstat
PS This dog could use a full install sfs loader. The frugal install doesn't lend itself to the word "fat" very well :) frugal /= fat.