Hello pizzasgood, Thanks for that explanation. I must have come further along than I thought. I could actually follow that explanation and understood everything you said!!!!. I have been saving everything to /mnt/home and working from there. After my first system crash, I was advised to create a dow...

Hello fossil, The only reason I asked about puppy 4.1.2 is that I thought there might be improvements to 4.1.1 that I needed to make my system run a little better. It is not something I am really wanting to do at this point. We have worked out a lot of my problems, and have puppy 4.1.1 working very ...

fossil, Thank you for the information.Every day things become a little bit clearer concerning puppys filesystem. I did find a play icon on my desktop. I opened it and it is gxine. All this time I thought it was for games!!. Concerning the cd's they are all store bought recent. My puppy 4.11 was down...

Hello everyone, fossil, Let me go back to the reason for my original post. I was trying to play music cds from my cdrom in Puppy. Gxine would not work,except in the very limited ability we have discussed. My intent was to use the cdrom to play music. The idea of accessing the hard drive to capture m...

The songs I copied to Puppy were from my windows partition .c:/documents and settins/janice/my documents/mymusic. They were stored in that file. I had previously played them on realplayer and saved the playlists. These are the steps I did: 1. Opened rox-filer and navigated to mnt/home/...../mymusic ...

After my last post, I decided I was going to try one more thing. I used rox-filer, opened /mnt/home/...../my music. I right clicked on the cd title, it gave me the option to copy. I copied to /usr/share/. that is where gxine and Mplayer are found, so I thought I would try it. The files all copied ac...

pizzasgood, I downloaded the link you gave me. I clicked on the file, gxine came up on the screen and played the entire clip. no problem whatsoever. I tried,it with Pmusic, it played just fine. For some reason the system is not correctly reading my music cd. That is the only thing I can think of. Wh...

Thanks for the information. I really had no idea how the memory was allocated in puppy. I did go into my /tmp/ file to see if anything could be cleaned out. There were only a few things I deleted. most of the things I download is to /mnt/home/downloads on my hard drive. A previous post had suggested...

I looked at gxine and turned off visualizations, loaded cd, clicked on cd. It takes about one minute to load the cd, then it runs for exactly 13 seconds and locks up, and memory usage is spiked at the same time. The program will not close. I have to restart the desktop. I just had to completely re-d...

I believe the audio problem on my system is somehow related to Ram usage. I have not been able to download the memtest file that you suggested. The one included in puppy, according to a post that I read, does not work properly, or is that an old issue. I enable top and watch processes, anytime I sta...

This thread is very interesting in the fact that my Puppy 4.1.1 is doing almost the exact same thing!!. My system is locking up and on reboot it goes into "kernel panic". I was going to post the problem when I saw thread. I read all entries from the beginning. I don't have enough technical...

pizzasgood, Thanks for the info. Especially how puppy handles download files, this was driving me crazy trying to figure out what I did wrong. I do know that I am in a severe learning curve, so I am trying not to get discouraged attempting to do things. I absolutely love the way you can run puppy fr...

I just tried to download from this link. Got nothing but gibberish, black and white boxs,etc... the same thing happened to me last night. downloading from seamonkey, totally different link. had to google another download site, then it worked ok. What the heck is going on? I think it is something to ...

I would like to add another issue to this thread. Installing and executing programs. A newbie to linux doesn't have a clue how to execute programs. It seems like files go everywhere after a download. If the download manager doesn't download all components with a menu entry, it is very confusing tryi...

When I looked at this log,one of the first things I noticed, was everything is running in root. Is this right? Also, when I download the gxine files from puppy package manager, some files are set up with menu entry and some are not. Maybe the problem could be missing components that I haven't execut...

Following is the output from Gxine running media-tv-BBC I think I see the problem for myself. It is eating up memory!! I noticed everything is running as root is that right or not? This is from Process Status Output Mem: 219516K used, 3700K free, 0K shrd, 49632K buff, 100640K cached CPU: 1% usr 0% s...

Thanks for the info. I can copy and paste the output like you asked me to. That was one of the first things I learned to do after I joined a forum.very useful when asking for help!! I downloaded flashplayer from adobe and it did come up in archiever. I didn't know that archiever wouldn't install! I ...

Thank you for the reply, That sounds easier than anything I have heard so far. Just copy and paste download address into console. Great!!! After typing the word axel, can you still use wget -c in front of url, or do you need to, since axel will resume download? thanks JanicM PS: Beem, I think after ...

Thanks for the reply, I was thinking the same thing about the cd player, it has nothing to do with dial up. My system is Compaq Presario Sr1403WM, Amd Sempron procesor 1808MHz, memory 256 MB. Running Puppy 4.1.1 from live cd regular boot. I had noticed every time I started one of the Players, my Int...

Beem,
thanks for the reply. I really was thinking it was the dial up. I don't even know what streaming is!!. I have had some problems because of the ram so I wasn't sure which was the culprit. Probably both. Thanks JaniceM