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rfxcasey
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#151 Post by rfxcasey »

Hey thanks for the reply, yes I've got it sorted now and yes I did find the pupdoom script and it is indeed text format. If you read back through my last post I've been having a bit of trouble of a different kind as well and wonder if you might take the time to see if you can help me out.

Here's a link to the thread http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/other- ... r-pup.html
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#152 Post by ampersand »

This hasn't been working to well for me. I copied the contents of the ISO to a folder in my C:\ drive and ran Grub4Dos which means I can boot into PuppyArcade fine but once I'm in hardly any programmes want to run apart form the emulators. I also never got a setup screen :?

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#153 Post by sc0ttman »

ampersand wrote:This hasn't been working to well for me. I copied the contents of the ISO to a folder in my C:\ drive and ran Grub4Dos which means I can boot into PuppyArcade fine but once I'm in hardly any programmes want to run apart form the emulators. I also never got a setup screen :?
just a guess, but do you have any save files for other puppies around on that drive, or even others?
have you tried re-installing puppy arcade by booting a live CD and running the frugal installer? .. you could try booting with pfix=ram to make sure no save files are being loaded..
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#154 Post by sc0ttman »

rfxcasey wrote:Hey thanks for the reply, yes I've got it sorted now and yes I did find the pupdoom script and it is indeed text format. If you read back through my last post I've been having a bit of trouble of a different kind as well and wonder if you might take the time to see if you can help me out.

Here's a link to the thread http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/other- ... r-pup.html
i'm having a look at something similar at the moment (whenever i get time!), but i am no expert at all.. looks like you would know more about ssh stuff than me... but after i have finished with some stuff i will have a look and see if i can help..
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#155 Post by rfxcasey »

i'm having a look at something similar at the moment (whenever i get time!), but i am no expert at all.. looks like you would know more about ssh stuff than me... but after i have finished with some stuff i will have a look and see if i can help..
I've pretty much gotten it sorted out now. For anyone interested or seeking info here is the thread.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/other- ... r-pup.html

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#156 Post by ampersand »

sc0ttman wrote:
ampersand wrote:This hasn't been working to well for me. I copied the contents of the ISO to a folder in my C:\ drive and ran Grub4Dos which means I can boot into PuppyArcade fine but once I'm in hardly any programmes want to run apart form the emulators. I also never got a setup screen :?
just a guess, but do you have any save files for other puppies around on that drive, or even others?
have you tried re-installing puppy arcade by booting a live CD and running the frugal installer? .. you could try booting with pfix=ram to make sure no save files are being loaded..
Yes as a matter of fact; I have my Slacko 5.3 sfs on here. I've not got a CD drive but I'll have a go with a USB stick.

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#157 Post by ampersand »

Ok I had a go with the USB and not loading a save file but my problems persist. I suspect it's a compability issue with this Amilo 1645 laptop, I've run into a few of them already on Slacko :?

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#158 Post by Semme »

Scott- compatible binaries from which version distro.. Slackware*, Ubuntu*?

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#159 Post by sc0ttman »

Semme wrote:Scott- compatible binaries from which version distro.. Slackware*, Ubuntu*?
debian lenny, puppy arcade is based on puppy 4.2...
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#160 Post by Semme »

Thanks Scott- that'll work.

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#161 Post by eric.perdue1 »

hello everyone
my name is eric and im a first time poster and very new linux user i actually found arcade puppy looking for a os i could run off a usb drive since i was given i desktop pc w/o a hard drive on which i intended to use strictly for emulating so puppy arcade is perfect and absolutely brilliant thank you so much scott however i can not get the play station or nintendo 64 emulators to work im sure im not doing something right im just not sure what it is here is my computer and what i have done so far

computer:
nascar pc by cisnet
processor-amd athlon 64 bit 2.0ghz 3200+
chipset-radeon xpress 200
graphics-ati radeon x300

steps taken:

after installation i expanded the storage file to 2 gb ( b/c previously i had recieved a message about the ati catalyst not having enough space to be uncompressed and thought this was my problem)

installed firedog browser

then in order to get xorg working i downloaded the xf86-video-ati-6.12.4-i486.pet xorg driver

wasn't sure if i should get xorg_xorg_dri mentioned in the earlier pages of the forum so i downloaded that for good measure

(xorg worked and the nes and snes emulators are functioning properly now)

then i thought i might need the ati-catalyst-9.3-K2.6.29.6-puppy4.3beta1.pet to get opengl working to allow me to play the playstation and nintendo 64 emulators (but when i tried to open them it said that there was not enough storage space to uncompress it but that i could use something in the menu to correct this however i could not figure out how to do that and i decided to start over from scratch and take the first step above)

now i have no clue what to do to get the emulators working now and thats why im on here looking for help im not sure if i have everything i need and im not using everything correctly, if there is something im missing, or something i am doing incorrectly any help would be greatly appreciated (also upon downloading larger playstation roms i received a storage space error not sure if correcting one thing will correct the other but any insight on this also would be wonderful)

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#162 Post by Deacon »

eric.perdue1 wrote:hello everyone
my name is eric and im a first time poster and very new linux user i actually found arcade puppy looking for a os i could run off a usb drive since i was given i desktop pc w/o a hard drive on which i intended to use strictly for emulating so puppy arcade is perfect and absolutely brilliant thank you so much scott however i can not get the play station or nintendo 64 emulators to work im sure im not doing something right im just not sure what it is here is my computer and what i have done so far

computer:
nascar pc by cisnet
processor-amd athlon 64 bit 2.0ghz 3200+
chipset-radeon xpress 200
graphics-ati radeon x300

steps taken:

after installation i expanded the storage file to 2 gb ( b/c previously i had recieved a message about the ati catalyst not having enough space to be uncompressed and thought this was my problem)

installed firedog browser

then in order to get xorg working i downloaded the xf86-video-ati-6.12.4-i486.pet xorg driver

wasn't sure if i should get xorg_xorg_dri mentioned in the earlier pages of the forum so i downloaded that for good measure

(xorg worked and the nes and snes emulators are functioning properly now)

then i thought i might need the ati-catalyst-9.3-K2.6.29.6-puppy4.3beta1.pet to get opengl working to allow me to play the playstation and nintendo 64 emulators (but when i tried to open them it said that there was not enough storage space to uncompress it but that i could use something in the menu to correct this however i could not figure out how to do that and i decided to start over from scratch and take the first step above)

now i have no clue what to do to get the emulators working now and thats why im on here looking for help im not sure if i have everything i need and im not using everything correctly, if there is something im missing, or something i am doing incorrectly any help would be greatly appreciated (also upon downloading larger playstation roms i received a storage space error not sure if correcting one thing will correct the other but any insight on this also would be wonderful)
Welcome to Puppy!

My guess is that in fact you need more space on the drive if it's asking for it.

How big is your card? If it's fairly large, all you have to do is look in the System menu for the "resize personal storage file" option. It's not the fastest way, but the easiest.

Puppy resizes a personal storage file once per boot. So if you can select more than 2GB in the first try, do it. If you want to select something substantially higher, this is a two pass process.

1) move the roms and downloaded items to another drive so they aren't lost. Puppy places all your items-- including ROMs-- in the save storage file. What this means is that what you select for your save storage file is the size of your "hard drive". If you download 1.5GB of ROMs on a 2GB install... well, that might be the problem. The good news is that you can move the ROMs to another HD or another flash drive with drag-and-drop ease.

2) If you haven't downloaded many, or don't care about downloading a couple again, or have moved them and want more space anyway-- the easiest way to fix this is to delete the save file you've created altogether. (Note: you should not do this within your Puppy instance because this would be like deleting the Operating System on your hard drive while you're running it-- in theory it can be done, but a lot of the time you end up saving a corrupted file and crashing the system.) From another instance of Puppy or whatever you are using, look at your flash drive and find the save file (it has the extension you gave a name to the first time.) Delete the file. Restart Puppy and -- voila!-- your system remembers nothing, and you can make a new giant save file. (I prefer 4GB to start).

I don't use Arcade Pup (I'd like to try it one day) but all Puppies have strong similarities in their design, so these steps are fairly general. Hopefully it's happy gaming!

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#163 Post by sc0ttman »

eric.perdue1 wrote:hello everyone
Hi... Here's what you need to get OpenGL/DRI (3d acceleration) working for ATI cards in puppy arcade:

http://akita.scottjarvis.com/Ati-Cataly ... .25.16.pet

You shouldn't need any other xorg or ati related packages...

You should start with a 'fresh' install.. I recommend booting without a save file: you can choose "Puppy Arcade in RAM" (or something) in the boot menu...

There is also another, much newer ATI Catalyst package at akita.scottjarvis.com, but I don't think it'll work in Puppy Arcade... (this one: http://akita.scottjarvis.com/ati_fglrx- ... -akita.pet)..

Hope that helps...
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#164 Post by Farris »

Hi.

Having a problem. The system tells me that there are no more space left on my harddrive. Its a 80Gb disk and i used gparted to make a new ext3 volume for a clean puppy10 install. As you can see from my attached image there are no place to even write a romlist. Why is it that rest of the available disk is in directory /initrd/mnt/dev_save ?

Hope anyone has a solution to this.

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#165 Post by starhawk »

Probably that's your browser cache eating everything up. Tell your browser to empty that cache (data, not cookies) and that should clear things up quite nicely. IIRC most browsers support setting a maximum size for that cache -- that would help as well.

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#166 Post by vitti92 »

hello everyone, Dear Scott your Linux Arcade 10 is old but it's fantastic.But I can't start Neogeo emulator. I tried to install your .pet file (gngeo, xgngeo ) but nothing. I have install gngneo, and tried too to install xgngneo from sourceforge and install with python.How I can to install gngeo Frontend emulator? thanks

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puppy arcade wont run on virtualbox, on w7 64

#167 Post by CarlosTheHyena »

Judging from a lack of response to @vitti92, im not sure this thread is still active ... but hey ho, who knows? anyway ...
Trying to run PA as a live disc on virtualbox which is a host running on Windows 7 64, get as far as videowizard, select x.org, then it goes black, and that, is that. If I select vesa, goes grey, and that is that.
Anyone got any ideas at all? Thanks

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#168 Post by puppyluvr »

:D Hello,
The framebuffer menu xorgwizard uses doesnt
show up in Vbox! It functions, but does not display.
Repeatedly pressing enter will get you a 640x480
screen. Memorizing the correct # of "down arrows"
before "enter" can select a proper resolution.
Xvesa should work. Idk why you get grey screen.
Try "enter" a few times!
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Enabling Opengl

#169 Post by ColbaltKobold »

Hello, I'm new here, and have just got puppy arcade 10, however I dont know which .pet to download to enable opengl for my PC, it is a dell optiplex gx520 with an intel gma 950 integrated graphics card

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Re: Enabling Opengl

#170 Post by sc0ttman »

ColbaltKobold wrote:Hello, I'm new here, and have just got puppy arcade 10, however I dont know which .pet to download to enable opengl for my PC, it is a dell optiplex gx520 with an intel gma 950 integrated graphics card
xorg_xorg_dri_full in the puppy4 repo should be the one...
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