Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Sage]

[DaveS]

Guess its time for me to investigate the CORRECT driver for my HP Photosmart instead of the 'close enough' Gutenprint one. I think that means the whole HPlip thing

[darkcity]

what problems are you having with frisbee?

[Volhout]

[nooby]

[rcrsn51]

[mikeslr]

Hi 01micko & All;

rcrsn51 -- Quote:
I just received a PM from a user suggesting that Puppy should include drivers for EVERY printer.
01micko:-- Quote:
Erm, wouldn't that double the size of the iso.. and then some? I don't think an OS that exists can ship with EVERY driver.
Connectivity is needed by almost everyone. I, myself, rarely print anything; I don't even set up printing until I need it and running several Puppies only need it on one. Fixing printing for a few at the expense of connectivity for everyone sound like a poor deal. Having to carry a printing driver whether it is needed or not sounds like a poor deal.
Surely this is arse backwards?
How about treating this problem like we do graphic drivers in some Puppies? i.e., the build-in module which determines which hardware your system has, a suggestion as to which would be the "driver" your system needs with an option to download it?
Note "driver" as used here would have to include everything necessary for it to function.
It would conserve space needed by ISO but, of course, need work by someone who knows what he's doing -- which leaves me out.

mikesLr

[DaveS]

[JonT]

Manual frugal install and first boot of slackob3 went smoothly. Overall, very nice.

I tried pns-tool; it connected fine. I followed the instructions about editing files. On reboot, wlan0 was re-established but the dhcp connection was not made. Should it have been? Perhaps I erred in the file alteration steps. Rerunning pns-tool, not bothering with file editing, worked again. Noted that the editing features are not yet implemented. I have had good luck with SNS, Dougals' and Frisbee - advantages of being behind the times with hardware.

Brookdale black screens appear, sometimes, on reboot, not unexpected; however b3, unlike b2, gives me the the famous MHHP kaleidoscopic patches, sometimes. Disadvantages of being behind the times with hardware.

I notice that right-clicking the networking tray icon gives network status info; it didn't for me in b2 (didn't report it).

Yep, had to use flloopfix to get good synaptics touchpad behavior. It is necessary to run flsynclient first (or create some files manually) and save the settings before running flloopfix, then an X-restart after.

I am not so presumptious to assume I can tell you, 01micko, something that you don't know on any linux subject but you did ask for help.

[majorfoo]

[MinHundHettePerro]

[ecube]

I am having problems configuring jwm.

When I add panel buttons, the buttons at the right corner of the tray disappear (jwm0.jpg).
My new launch buttons show up in a normal way. (jwm1.jpg)

Any suggestion about how to recover the lost buttons will be most welcome.

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[rcrsn51]

[rodin.s]

Something was changed in xorgwizard. I couldn't start X in 4.99.5. (I have integrated i810 and pci savage cards. Savage is active.). I have copied xorg.conf from 4.99.4 to start X.

[JonT]

MHHP,
rerwin asked me do some testing some testing during lupu development. Here is his conclusion and a followup .

He determined that my Brookdale (rev 3) was yet another subversion/subvendor than other rev 3's. It ignored his fixes.

Your efforts have surely been helpful to some; it just may be be a custom fix is needed for each subversion. I think mine is especially uncooperative.

Got excited the other day and thought my laptop was about to die but, sadly, it perked up again.

rodin.s: Your note just appeared. My Intel integrated graphics Brookdale works best with i810 and worked (some) better with b2... maybe you're in the same boat with me! Jon