thanks!

thanks for checking on that, and yes, 4.3 did the trick, it sometimes crashes, but that could just as likely be the old Linksys wpc11 card starting to show its age.

I'd love to get denemo working on a Puppy 4.3 box; was this package ever updated to the new package manager?

Didn't find a solution, but I did download Puppy 4.3 and found that it boots, it has the RTL8180 driver and it even does a proper shutdown, and that's all I really needed.

my guess is there is some basic incompatibility that was introduced by using the Ubuntu packages.

could anyone possibly compile a kernel driver for me for the 4.1.2 Puppy? The rtl8180 driver for 5.0.1 will work with this Linksys WPC11 card using the LiveCD, but I cannot install 5.0.1 because the grub is uses is incompatible with the IBM hard drive in the Acer Travelmate 330T laptop. 5.0.1 also c...

You can not upgrade most full installs; especially when they have totally different kernels, grub and gparted, and just about everything else. yeah I was surprised that it prompted me; I'd thought the whole advantage to the Frugal method was to have an upgrade path. Seemed worth a shot, and I've re...

Starting from the 4.1.2 installation, I tried to use the Universal Installer on the 5.0.1 CD to upgrade the full installation and in that final dialog opted to keep the existing grub. everything went well, the new system would boot the vmlinuz just fine ... but the X system was broken :( The Shutdow...

4.1.2 is still my favorite since I upgraded from 3.01 a few years ago. Just needs a few .pets to make it equal to 4.3x; and it runs cooler and uses less resources than the new Pups. Maybe that's my route then; low resources is certainly a Good Thing for this machine -- it's an old discard laptop th...

I don't understand how Lucid Puppy could run so well off the CD, something else that may have been significant: the messages file was full of kernel panics due to out-of-memory situations althought I can't tell which apps (likely X because the background and icons are only sometimes present) -- Tha...

I guess Win (XP or ME) is on sda1 so what is on sda2 ? Is it swap or another OS and if it is an OS, does it boot ? yes, it is swap, so nothing interesting there, and as for the menu.lst, as I've already said, it is plain plain plain vanilla exactly as it comes from the defaults in the Universal Ins...

I just did a test install of Lupu 5.01. I did a full install plus a standard GRUB install to the MBR. It ran fine. Formatting the partition to ext3 and ext4 both worked. My only other suggestion is to try another Puppy, like 4.3.1 or Quirky. Maybe there is something in Lupu's version of GRUB that d...

diff reports that the initrd version is different from the version that is installed, That shouldn't be. This is sounding like some kind of hardware flakiness. thanks for the guess, but the hardware ran fine for Puppy3 and for the windows partition, a disk controller or disk media issue seems unlik...

is there a copy of vmlinuz on the CD (or in the initrd) that I could just copy over? Yes there is. thanks ... I did find it last night; once I'd figured out the structure of the initrd path it was just a matter of looking for it -- diff reports that the initrd version is different from the version ...

Could it be a problem with grub or a problem with using the MBR? I find that in the Frugal install, I was also given the Error 13 Invalid Format error, and at the Grub command line, any arguments to the kernel command which would resolve to real files would give the same response (and invalid filena...

I'm using the 5.01 iso for Lucid Puppy and everything goes very well right up to the reboot from the hard drive when I get Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format and the puppy won't boot. I had selected the universal install from the boot-CD menu, installed to /dev/sda3 and written the g...

Ah, here it is, the cheaper version: http://voxin.oralux.net/ Voxin is an easily installable add-on which provides yet another text-to-speech to blind users of GNU/Linux. Voxin includes the IBM Viavoice TTS and several pre-compiled LGPL speech drivers (for i386 architecture). The related softwares a...

I'm almost certain I found it somewhere else even cheaper than this, for the viavoice alone without the rest of the stuff, but nonetheless, here's some current information from off the emacspeak list: > > The premier Text To Speech (TTS) software synthesizer for Linux is now > > available for immedi...

Thanks for all the tips, but from what you say maybe I'll just follow the thread for a bit and try again later -- I had tried the Java-based voice before on this hardware and it is just too slow and too limited for practical use. Right now, it is the only iso and is still highly experimental. I'm wo...

After the announcement in the emacspeak mailing list, I went to http://puppylinux.ca/members/Seeing-Eye-Puppy/speak-pup.iso and tried it out on a Toshiba Satellite that I hope to outfit for a blind friend -- speak-pup boots, but there is no sound; it says it is using FreeTTS (?) and then goes into a...

indeed, I did exactly that yesterday, posted a detailed step by step over at the link cited here earlier and although it gave me one last good scare, it did work just as it should. Except for the fonts. The fonts it used for OpenOffice were, well, humoursly illegible -- I hope that problem can be so...