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darkstrike · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 22:05 Post subject:

Ah, just noticed your new post!

Thanks, I'll take a look in a second, no worries. I'd run a newer version of Puppy on this machine, but something tells me it wouldn't run too well, and as for tinkering, it's fun to try and get stuff working Smile

(I do have Puppy Stardust 013 and Lupu 5.1 in VMs on my Win7 desktop though!)

I was just noticing that FirePup is telling me it is missing a mass of dependencies, any idea where I could get them from?

sinc · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 523 Location: Tampa, FL USA

darkstrike · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 22:19 Post subject:

Ok, cool, I gave it a try and it did work fine, thanks! Seems to run a little faster than Firefox, but it was probably a little slow the first time around as I configured stuff.

No luck on the icons yet, but I will keep trying.

sinc · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 523 Location: Tampa, FL USA

i edited my other post, i'm not sure if you saw it or not but try menu>desktop>desktop mountpoint settings and set it to perm.

did you rerun xorgwizard?

darkstrike · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 22:33 Post subject:

Nope, it's old enough hardware (ATi 3D Rage 2mb card) that I have to use Xvesa.

I'll check the mountpoint settings though.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 23:26 Post subject:

darkstrike · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 23:30 Post subject:

Oh, great, thanks a lot Ttuuxxx! I'll reinstall it now Smile

As for the CD-ROM icon issue, still no luck, I messed with settings in the Mountpoint settings and it still has that problem of copying the CD-ROM icon every time X restarts or first starts...not a big issue as I can just delete the new one, but it is a bit of an irritant!

Also, I find that my CD-ROM won't eject CDs when I push the eject button on it sometimes under Puppy. This is even when the drive is unmounted. I usually have to restart and then eject it during the boot sequence...is this a glitch in my 2.14 RC5 install, or an issue with my CD-Rom drive itself? I know it worked fine under Win95 back when it used to run that.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 23:30 Post subject:

I'm also pleased to see we hit another milestone page 250 Smile

soon I bet we'll hit 300 once I release the next big suprise for 2.14X Smile

that I've been working on 16hr+ perday for the last 3 days Smile

maybe in a week or so.
stay tuned
ttuuxxx

darkstrike · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 23:32 Post subject:

Looking forward to it! Very Happy

EDIT: Just noticed another slight issue if anybody is willing to help a Linux newbie...I can't get my floppy drive to work. I know it does work because my Aptiva doesn't support boot-from-CD so I have to use PLOP to run live-CDs, but for some reason, the Floppy icon doesn't show up in my desktop under Puppy 2.14X and if I go to the /mnt folder and try and mount it there, it just tells me "Mount failed. There was one error."

Considering the thing only has one USB 1.0 port, I may need to use the floppy in some cases to transfer files, so it would be nice if I could get it working as well! Teething problems Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 23:45 Post subject:

Sorry darkstrike my pc doesn't have a floppy, maybe someone else could test it on the forum, I'm sure it works.
hmmmm 2.14x works out the box on all my pc's, some boot with acpi off as a option on older boxes. It also might fix your cd issues
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57809&sid=c4ba2e9e19c9779bf88d99c17907a278

ttuuxxx

darkstrike · Posted: Thu 19 Aug 2010, 23:48 Post subject:

No problem sir, I know very few people even have them in their boxes anymore...I only really do as it's nice to have it for when those few massively periodic occasions arise when you still need them, hehe Smile

I even have one in my Win7 box, sad eh?

I've heard of that option, so I'll have to try that out, although I may wait until tomorrow for that. It's 15 minutes to 1am here and I have work in the morning! I do have to boot some of the LiveCDs with the ide=nodma option as well...

Also, in the link you just posted, which file is it that I will find these settings if you'd be so kind?

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 20 Aug 2010, 00:00 Post subject:

examples are found here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=343908#343908
ttuuxxx

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Wasn't sure I could find anything with a floppy drive either but......214x rc5 shows the floppy in my dual-core.See screenie.

I'd forgotten that this only uses one core......... Laughing

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Edit:
Floppy shows up in PMount and Mut too.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

darkstrike · Posted: Fri 20 Aug 2010, 00:21 Post subject:

Yup, thanks Ttuuxxx! I figured it out on my own Smile

James C - Good to know that it's certainly just my case...I know IBM mobos and software back from the time this box was manufactured used some pretty unique-to-IBM structures and the like (I'm thinking the Mwave stuff here as an example). Hopefully I can get it to work!

I added the "ide=nodma" and "acpi-off" (without the quotes of course) and the Floppy icon is still not showing up on my desktop, nor is it mounting by double clicking on it in /mnt, nor is it showing up in Pmount, or Mut2. Oddly enough, in the Mountpoint settings, it is set to show the icon all the time, even when there is no floppy inserted or mounted...would Puppy just not be showing it because it isn't detecting the drive in the first place? (Btw, I checked the Sysinfo program, it doesn't list the floppy there at all! But, like I said, I know the drive physically works and I use it all the time on the system for booting from CD when testing potential Puppy LiveCDs!)

In other news, all is now well on the CD-ROM front, aside from that persistent CDROM-icon-keeps-copying-itself-on-X-start issue! Props to you on that one! It is detected and mounts fine from double-clicking on the icon on the desktop, or the one in the /mnt folder, as well as through Mut2 or PMount.

For now, however, I am off to bed, thanks for your help and I shall see if I can look at it any more in the morning, if not, I will be posting here again for any more suggestions Smile

Cheers and g'night until then!

EDIT - I should also mention that the one USB 1.0 port has always worked flawlessly in terms of storage...mind you I've only tested it with Flash drives (particularly a cheapy 512mb affair I had been given for free awhile back, never any devices like a webcam or all that jazz.)