It is totally hung requiring a forced re-boot. This has been very consistent ever week when I go back to it. It has always been hung on one of the photos, but never the same one twice.

Well I placed the machine in the church library three weeks ago. Each week when I returned I found the machine was hung.

AGHHHH!

How do I diagnose the cause of the hang this time?

et. al.

Well it has been running for almost 24 hrs now, no hangs, no black screens, just doing what it was intended to do...YES!

Hello npierce I created the symbolic link per your instructions, tweaked it with the xset s off -dpms script and rebooted. The screensaver kicked up on schedule. It's late and I'm going to let it run overnight to see if it locks up or goes black and let you all know tomorrow evening. Thank you (it's...

et. al. I uninstalled the slideshow screensaver 2.0 and installed version 3.0...now it does not work and the screen goes black on schedule again. The screensaver start up script seems to have been deleted from the startup folder when screensaver 2.0 was uninstalled and version 3.0 did not put one ba...

et.all I sincerely apologize for such an extended absence. I wish I could tell you a real creative excuse but I will have to live with "life tossed me a nasty curve ball" and leave it at that. But I am alive and I'm back. I see that ninety people have already downloaded it and only one pos...

I have a Gigafast USB wireless adapter model WF741-UIC. The Linux Driver can be found here, but I do not know what to do with it. How do I install it so I can use it?

I am having a rough time getting this to work, I keep getting the fatal error must close message each time I start e-sword. I ran the dependencies checker in the package manager and it came back with; File /usr/lib/wine/wldap32.dll.so has these missing library files: libldap_r-2.4.so.2 liblber-2.4.s...

Black screen solution found; I copied the following line from the front end script running Gxine, that BarryK had pointed out, and put it in the screen saver script in the startup folder, then rebooted. xset s off -dpms NOTE: xset s off all by itself did not work, it had to have the -dpms part as we...

npierce Thank you for the link to the power-down solution. I can't believe that I missed that one...I mean look at the thread title, it is everything that I was searching for... this is embarrassing. I humbly thank you for the link, it worked. As for the 10 - 15 second time delay after pressing the ...

et. al. I heard from Jeremy today. He has updated the slideshow to version 1.2 and it now includes a loop feature. YES! He also added some other stuff that he had wanted to do. I've sent MU a note to let him know that the update is now available on Jeremys' web site ( http://www.xmission.com/~jstanl...

Disciple Since all versions of Puppy that I've tried on this machine have always been able to shut down the machine completely without the "system halted" message, I'm pretty confident that the hardware supports the feature. I will search the forums for tips on working with acpi/apm and se...

I have the ethernet adapter working. I brought the machine home and put it on my net. That seems to have done the trick since my net does not require a passwod to get out. Now I've got to figure out how to get to the password screen in order to use this on the church net. success two; I've been able...

Corruption, corruption, corruption...nothing seems to work so I started from scratch with a low level format of the hard drive and followed that with a full installation of 4.3.1. I would like to say that everything is running smoothly, but that would be a long way from the truth. However, I've got ...

Keyboard maping...it worked ... sort of. I do not know which key combination got maped but I got sort of frustrated and just started hitting all the keys and ... bing.... it just sort of poped out of the screen saver mode. Unfortunately I have no clue what key(s) I hit and I have not been able to du...

et. al. I have not yet heard from Jeremy or Mu regarding any progress with the slidshow or screensaver, but I finally succeeded at getting the cat5 installed to the i-opener this weekend. Unfortunately I'm having ethernet driver problems which I had not expected. I will hammer away at it and let you...

npierce et. al. Do not be so hasty to assume that your advice was poor, I'm the non-code warrior here and unfortunately the odds are that I'm the one that messed up the code somehow, fortunately I'm kind of the dogged type and still have not given up. However, I will run the latest test you suggest...

et. al. I have contacted the author of the slideshow and he is willing to fix the loop back issue :D I have also left a message for MU to see if he will incorporate the updated slideshow into the screensaver. I am hopping to hear from MU very soon, and will keep you all posted. With regard to reprog...

et. al. The over night run was frozen on the grey screen with the cursor still present. Puppy 4.3.1 has a file called DarkGrey.jpg in the /usr/share/backgrounds/ directory. Is that one of the images you were using last Thursday? Yes, I also have an image called LightGrey.jpg in the same folder which...

npierce Thank you for the explanation of what is going on, it does raise another issue that I will elaborate on at the end of this missive. I ran the tests as follows; with dpms enabled I waited for a black screen (Note: the cursor went away this time) then without moving the mouse I right clicked ...