cgs@cgs-Satellite-L755D ~ $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Complex 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device 9647 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D...

Yesterday I burned a CD with 5.7.1 and tried to boot my laptop. Got just some varied horizontal lines during its attempt to load.
Is this a driver problem?

Thanks. I'll be careful.

I'm running Puppy on an old laptop which I occasionally take out to my cabin in the woods. I'd really like to leave it there and avoid transporting it, but worry about the effect of cold weather on the machine.
Is it safe to leave a computer in a dry, cold place where the temp might go below zero?

I could not find an Ubuntu audio driver for this old machine, so before doing anything drastic, I booted Puppy 5.25 and opened 'pcd cd-audio player'...and it works!
Woof!

In Puppy I could not open grub.conf, but did in Ubuntu.....but the header warns "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE".
There must be some way.

The new Puppy 5.25 looked so good that I added it to my laptop, along with W7 and Ubuntu (many thanks to the developers!). When the computer starts and wants to load a system, GRUB offers identity for the first two but calls Puppy "unidentified" and I can't find a way to edit that situatio...

Many thanks.

I'm setting up an old (P3; 194 meg RAM) computer for use in the waiting room at a children's counseling center, so the kids can play while waiting. I plan to remove almost all the default desktop icons and then install icons for those games, so that they are not distracted by things like 'install' a...