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paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 870 Location: ST862228

I've recently upgraded my Acer Aspire One netbook (about 4 years old now) to Puppy 541 (from 431).

I'm extremely pleased with 541 - no tweaks required to make it work with the Acer as I had to with earlier versions, just install and go.

One problem remains, however, that I've had with every Puppy version I've tried with the AOA - putting an SD card into the multi-card slot on the rhs of the machine: Puppy will only recognise the card if it is in the machine when booted. Inserting it after boot, it never gets recognised, how ever many times I refresh Pmount.

I can of course always use a USB card reader, but it would be nice to bottom this once and for all.

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4351 Location: merriam, kansas

paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 870 Location: ST862228

hmm.
my Puppy doesn't have a etc/rc.d/rc.modules

but i created one containing the line /sbin/modprobe acpiphp as per the link you gave, and rebooted, but it still doesn;t work. It doesn't work if I open a console and run modprobe acpiphp from there either.

T_Hobbit · Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 400 Location: Portugal - Lisbon

http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=10313.msg76521#msg76521

paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 870 Location: ST862228

Well OK, but Puppy doesn't have /etc/default/grub ... so should "pciehp.pciehp_force=1" go on the kernel line in menu.lst ... or what?

T_Hobbit · Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 400 Location: Portugal - Lisbon

Did not test yet. My Aspire One seems to be almost death and does not boot this days...
But when installing Puppy, the script gives the line to add to existing grub to boot Puppy. I assumed that you just needed to add that option to that line.

paulh177 · Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 870 Location: ST862228

of coursze I neglected to note some important information that this is a frugal install