Will the next choicepup use 4.3 as a base?

I'm very happy to report that 4.3-beta2 works on my weird toshiba. (It was a Best Buy deal.) 1. Running Xorg out of the box. woof would also run, but 4.2 was DOA for both Xorg and Xvesa. 2. iwlwifi needed the new intel firmware plus the pupscan-2 pet, as reported by others here and in the blog. The ...

You need a CLI version of the network setup utility.
Without that, the browser is useless.
Good luck!

Staying for both, in spite of my icon

The .so's are usually a symbolic link to an actual file that includes the version. For example, libfoo.so => libfoo.2.4.3.so, or libfoo.so.2.4.3. The easiest command is "ls -l libfoo.so"; that's lower-case LS -L. The libraries are usually in /usr/lib. I found a really cool visualizer but i...

I was fighting with bad intel video drivers. X wouldn't come up at all, even in Xvesa. This was due to two different sets of bugs (both known problems), but the net effect was no puppy on my new laptop. javascript:emoticon('')
woof came to the rescue in March/April. javascript:emoticon(':D')

If you don't like s5, try slidy.

The problem is that most of the setup scripts have X-related dialogs in them, and will not run successfully from a pfix=nox startup. If puppy configures correctly for you w/o any user input at all, you might be okay. I went hunting for an old TUI library, but didn't find anything that looked like it...

1. download the firmware from intel site http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads Use the 5100 package. The firmware isn't in puppy. 2. tar -xzvf <whatever> -C /lib/firmware Unfortunately, the tarball creates a subdirectory, so 2a. cd /lib/firmware/lwl* 2b. mv * .. 3. reload iwlagn a. modprobe...

Barry - Sorry about the delay; I thought I'd replied to this. Yes, the upgrade (not install) seems to work fine. It was from upup-012, not a mainline puppy. I thought the desktop was supposed to be monochrome. Easier on the eyes, actually. But I got it back by manually setting the desktop background...

Thanks!

My upup-015 frugal upgrade was successful.
It looked like no one's reported this yet.

Well, I thought it was running nicely. /tmp/xerrs.log says "Could not load i910_dri.so; using SW acceleration". I checked /lib/modules and /usr/X11R6/lb and couldn't find it. devx and extramodules didn't have it either. Any ideas? I'm building apup right now. As soon as it finishes, I'll s...

Sorry, I didn't realize there were two different lists. It was the WPA list. The wizard said the module only supported WEP. I dug around and found out that could be due thttp://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=284437#284437o an out-of-date /etc/networkmodules. I tried to add an entry manual...

iwlagn and maybe iwl5100 is missing from the network wizard DB.

EEE 900A - upup runs very nicely. It found the non-std atheros wifi out of the box - yay! one less pet. gparted fails due to missing libgtkmm-2..4,so.1; used fdisk. Probably what extra-modules is for. lI loaded the roxfiler pet - thanks! Toshiba Satellite E105 - my new lappy Still no joy on Intel vi...

From Puppy 3 xorgwizard-errors.log:
FATAL: Module evdev not found.
Intel chipset detected. However, 915resolution was unable to determine the chipset type.
Chipset Id: 2a408086

The generated xorg.conf uses vesa. Rebooting to test under 1.1 with Driver "intel".

xvesa works out of the box with my laptop's intel 4500 chipset. I've tried at least 10 other 4.x puppies, and they all go into an infinite loop hunting for a valid mode.

xorg displays the "If you can see this, X is working." but goes black on exit. I think this is fixed in 2.6.2.

The build times can be improved considerably, if your HW is up to it. 1. Add make to the environment 2. Replace the slow serial for loops with make -k <n_jobs>.. Put n in the config file. I'll refactor the scripts over the weekend, since make wants to call scripts. No luck with upup; I haven't been ...