hi rg66 having always been a big fan of Gray's puplets I decided to try this on my Aspire One but the trackpad isn't working out of the box - is there a quick way to enable this without having to permanently resort to a mouse? Edit: Ignore this - I rebooted and tried again and the trackpad works fin...

Having always been a fan of gray and the NOP releases I now find myself disappointed :cry: - not a criticism of the release but the fact that I can't run this version on my laptop - as it is based on Racy it requires a processor with pae support but that means the centrino family (or at least the on...

Hi WarMocK K9 is a very nice puppy all seems to be polished off very well and running sweet on my Dell D400 even though it's still a work in progress. Can't seem to see the Screenlets though - it seems the SFS is loaded in the bootmanager (got others in there which work fine - go-oo32, googleearth5....

Hi Dingo I tried this recently (aware that most virus threats appear to be targeted on holes in Adobe Reader and that this one is suppsoed to plug a serious one in 9.3) in gray's excellent NOP431. Works fine (loads and works great) but seems to disable the shutdown/restart buttons (i.e. these are gr...

Hi Gary thanks for the info - I think you were partially right with the hardware issue although I think the drive itself might be ok - I replaced it with the 30gb drive but had a torrid time trying to get it to work. The design of the small interconnector between the IDE drive and the m/b creates a ...

I bought one of these laptops (thinkpad 240x) off ebay as a cheap alternative to a netbook (it's a PIII 500Mhz 128Mb model and has a 10.4" screen@800x600 and a cheap PCMCIA Wifi card) for use on holiday/traveling etc. I stuck in a 20Gb drive and loaded puppy 4.1 although recently changed this t...

hi runtt21 yep, I know about that derivative - I already have an early incarnation and would certainly consider using it as a basis for a development machine. I guess what I'm really asking is; is this the right process as opposed to just considering which tools would be best for the job? I suppose ...

Quite often I find myself compiling from raw sources to try to install the later versions of repository based applications (like RDP now at 1.6) or stuff that's just not there (Wine 1.18, Lazarus, Cisco's VPN client etc). Some just work without any assistance like the RDP compilation but Wine (obvio...

hi cmerlyn I got around this one by changing the permissions on the file to let all users read it the file, locate the file using ROX and just right-click and change the permissions to let everyone read/write/execute it. The other thing you may need to do is add a windows user on the printer path, s...

hi gyro made some test SFS files and tried loading and unloading and changing the order but something not right somewhere (sometimes the SFS files would appear in the filesystem sometimes they wouldn't) - also regularly got into a muddle with the /dev/loopx files, and couldn't then load or unload th...

gerry/ttuuxx re-printing to a window shared printer, I pointed this out the other day in the RC1 thread - looks like it's a permissions thing on the smb.conf (does CUPS run as nobody and samba as root?) I did a chmod 666 on smb.conf and the problem goes away. You still need to put a valid Windows us...

Hi Gyro, Yes, very much agreed, very useful - a minimal distro that could load/unload sfs files would be perfect. I have a really small low-end sub-notebook (IBM 240X PIII 500Mhz, 10.4" screen with 128Mb+swap) that I use for hols and travelling etc - you could call it a "poor man's netbook...

Being able to dynamically mount sfs's seems like a really good idea but I was wondering if there's an order issue when you load several one after another. e.g. if one SFS has a version of a library in it and another SFS has a later version of the same library, doesn't the order in which they are vir...

Update on RC1 printing to Windows shared Canon Pixma MP160. Ok started again - straight from ram based boot (not from CD but without loading a saved 2fs file) Setup locale and network, Installed Samba from PET4 repository, added the symbolic link and restarted CUPS. Added the printer as; smb://192.1...

Gerry said . I used a Puppy 4.12 pup-save file to see how update happened. I set up my printer in cups, using smb as the printer is attached to a Windows machine. I get a cups message saying there is a syntax error in smb.conf, use testparm to debug it. We don't have testparm do we? (Yes, I know- w...

I don't think you'd be able to use the Puppy Live CD as it won't have the development tools installed (the devx_xxx.sfs needs to be loaded to get access to various utilities to compile programs - C/C++ compiler, make, linkers etc.). These are deliberately taken out of the Puppy ISO's to save space. ...

Downloaded 4.2 Alpha and really liked the first impressions, congrats to all involved so far. I remember some discussions several weeks back about what the default desktop image should be although at that time the images being suggested were of an Australian origin/flavour (not that that is an issue...

HI BPSoftware I've posted a reply on how I managed to install it here... http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,6016.0.html main problem is it's a gtk1 application so you need to install the old gtk1 library (from Puppy3) and create some symbolic links to various libraries. It's also pr...

Thanks Technosaurus

I had a quick look at the diff functions but not had time yet to explore more fully. I'll certainly look at the scripts in 215 (no point in re-inventing the wheel if it's already been done).

Thanks again

Chris

I've managed to get Lazarus (Linux Delphi equivalent) working on Puppy 4.1 through installing the sources and adding the various missing libraries and symbolic links. It was a bit messy to do but it worked well (I've since screwed my save file up and had to revert back to a saved backup 2fs file). I...