(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Hi all

From here - looking very good - all the basics seem to work.

And for me on my old Acer laptop, RC++ with k2.6.39.4 runs
faster, smoother and cooler than RC with k2.6.37.6 (unexpected).

Manual frugal to sda2, ext3, 256mb ram, 2.5Ghz celeron proc.
and 800mb swap partition.

Many thanks to all for a fantastic OS.

Very best regards - Ray

Hmm, after rebooting, it seems my wireless settings are reset. I previously got the ath9k_htc driver for my TP-Link TL-WN821Nv3 USB WiFi dongle working with Tempestuous' extra firmware for Three-Headed Dog, but now it's back to square one.

EDIT: Tried SlackoRC++, and the firmware must be included in the newer kernel since my USB Wifi was detected directly using the Network Tool. Sound issues same as in SlackoRC though. Gnome MPLayer doesn't save changes to settings after closing and restarting the program (this is without a reboot or restart of X).

I have booted it but was lazy and reused old save file.
Worked good.

got a hunch that network wizard and sns balk when there are too many signals. frisbee manages under many signals though. could be somethings else stopping network wizard and sns but at this one location they see to have a problem (18 wifi signals ).

No expert here, but was fed up of seeing SIOCSSFLAGS error when I first got into networking. Fortunately had a relative who was a field engineer in networking.
This one is your best advice:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/VALinux-kb/si ... error.html
but don't forget you may have to use the router's config to get things compatible and talking.
By far the best advice is what you plan to do, though!
Rip up the floorboards and wire the house with ports.
99% of folks using wi-fi have little idea of the risks they are taking. This was demonstrated on TV recently by an 'insider' with a scanner sitting in his van in the road. He then knocked on the doors of his victims and told them their passwords, bank balances and addressbooks...
Wi-fi is for the guys who really know what's what. There are more than a few around here, but they do NOT speak for the great unwashed.

Stripe wrote:hi all

@jim3630,

with my laptop I had to choose the analog option, then the internal speaker works, but not the earphone and mike jack plugs.

I know its not perfect (yet) but it is working, hope this is of some use to you

don

@don,

thanks for the effort. oob starting a movie file the gnome mplayer (default player) will output the sound to the laptops speakers. which is the analog option by default. don't have earphones handy to try but my gosh darn it and then some external digital HDMI cable to the tv that is the problem.

multiple sound card wizard flashes the msg need to reboot for changes to take effect and although that has not been needed for the changes to take effect in 5.29.6 and in other pups but doing so here immediately does not save the chosen settings.

Thanks for the advise of JAva. I installed it.

It would be great if someone told me what is this SCSI version? Whats the difference? And, also this ++ version...

Thanks

chrismt wrote: ... It would be great if someone told me what is this SCSI version? Whats the difference?

There was an experiment among Puppylanders on how to get 32bit Puppy to access all of the RAM your PC could have. In doing so, it was discovered that the experiment not only was able to access all of your RAM, but, was doing so with no negative system impacts. That experiment became a working model. That model has now moved to production as BarryK and 01Micko are putting together working official PUPs that allow the OS to embrace and use all of the RAM available on your running PC. Now, as a result, 32bit PUP users can add as much RAM as they want with the assurance that PUPs will embrace that into the filesystem.

Up until the experiment, 32bit PUPs were limited in how much of RAM it would actually use.

Hope this helps

Edited: This post pertains to a JRE PET for SLACKO. Needed for Live media SLACKO users.

JRE was a problem months ago with Puppy 5.25+. @Pemasu provided a solution in the form of a PET which worked fine. I was able to use it on the Live CD, it worked without rebooting, and upon save-session, it carried over without issue(s).

I noticed that under SlickPET>More PETs>Java we are taken to a webpage. But I do NOT see the @Pemasu version available. Should it be available? Does it work in SLACKO?

Thanks in advance.

Tested yacas computer algebra package, should work in slacko
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/e ... 2-i486.pet
Compiled R package in slacko RC
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/e ... slacko.sfs

Are there for this great Slacko packages/pets of Scribus 1.4.xxxx and QT4-Libs...?

(I tried compiling Scribus but without success...)

mave

hi all

@mave there is a QT pet in the PPM there is also a qt_all sfs that can be downloaded from slickpet

hope this helps

Don

Can I install the latest Openshot?
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/openshot

If you update the puppy package manager
by clicking on 'configure' (que?)
new packages will be available
for example xfce which you run by pressing
ctrl + alt + backspace
and typing xwin startxfce4

Well it works but it is too geeky to make sense
Now I need python - used devx (not yet available from Slickpet)
so used the first post in this thread link

Now to add this Ubuntu Openshot 1.4 deb . . .
http://www.openshot.org/download/
. . . Wait a minute that would work on Lucid but we need the compiled Openshot code (not yet available)

Oh Buddha

aarf wrote:got a hunch that network wizard and sns balk when there are too many signals. frisbee manages under many signals though. could be somethings else stopping network wizard and sns but at this one location they see to have a problem (18 wifi signals ).

strange. today ok while past persistent failures.

Hi all, sorry for the confusion in first post, I was on a very tight schedule, thanks for the first few posts which generally got things sorted.

Links are fixed now.

As said., I'll be away from home for awhile. I will be popping in from time to time.

I am posting fom my new(old) laptop and a new huawei-E169K 3G modem through Virgin Broadband Au.. it was a cinch to set up using the new look pupdial.

Cheers

I pimped an old package of GNU Octave with the necessary libraries and this works in slacko RC.

DOWLOAD; http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/e ... 5.29.5.sfs

Oh Bloody 'el! Peasyscan dont work over wifi again! OK on USB. (HP Photosmart)

Edit Re-installed driver and it is fine now

Hi Mick,
thanks again so much !
got both 5.29.5 and 5.29.6 tested too on:
- old PIV Fji-Siemens Brookdale featured: works OTB !
- HP PIV pavillon 5260 desktop : works OTB!
- HP PIV pavillon 5260 desktop + nvidia driver : works OTB!
@ stripe
tested forum member stripe's VLC pet on HP PIV pavillon 5260 desktop + nvidia driver: works nice - no freeze nor hang up upon restart even after a ... popcorns pause ... !
thanks a lot stripe !

Cheers, Charlie

Hi Charlie,
Stripes vlc is in PPM as vlc_standalone, just renamed, that's all ..works fine for me. Strange your siliconmotions issue still as the pet I made for you and Indian is included.

Emil, (and others) thanks for abundance of packages. I have mentioned this before but you may have missed but the danger of including necessary libs is that you could uninstall that package and some unrelated package that you installed may suffer because it may have depended on those libs. The solution is to package with the dependencies referenced in the dependencies field of the pet.specs (provided it exists in slacko, slackware, salix or slacky repo.)
If not then deps can be packaged in a non standard library directory which is in puppy's LD_LIBRARY_PATH. These include /usr/local/lib or /root/my-applications/lib. Or of course, and I'm sure you know this, adjust the lib path as necessary at runtime of the app. The exceptions are QT4 apps which in the standard qt-everywhere package I compiled reside in /opt. So if your apps are QT then /usr/lib is ok. Please ignore this warning as necessary

Anybody who has tried coolpup's java 1.7: working ok? If so I'll repackage and place in PPM. I don't have the bandwidth ATM.

tubeguy, and others with SIOCSIFFLAGS errors.. this is usually missing firmware (afaik). Just see if you can find out which firmware it is from Lupu or Dpup, it may slot right in and solve those issue. Anyone with other ideas?

lobster... after work in the evening tomorrow I shall be hunting red claw

Thanks everyone

lobster... after work in the evening tomorrow I shall be hunting red claw

Some years ago I thanked a Buddhist group (on behalf of crustaceankind) who were symbolically releasing Lobsters back into the wild
However for hunters my message is much simpler.

Good hunting!