I installed guest additions from the iso. Seemed to go okay but didn't get the mouse integration when I rebooted. Further checking showed that starting of VBoxClient in .xinitrc failed because there is a test inserted the installer that reads: if 'readline /usr/X11R7/bin/X' == 'Xorg' . This is a che...

Hi Tazoc I noticed that gkrellm and wbar appear in the JWM task bar. Seems like they shouldn't normally be visible, especially wbar which you don't want to be able to kill with an accidental mouseclick. I found out that if you add these lines to /root/.jwmrc then they won't show up. Add after the </...

Thanks ljfr I'll give it a try.

EDIT: works like a charm

I'm using wbar and JWM and I'd like to set desktop margins so that when I maximize an application window, wbar doesn't get hidden beneath the window. Can this be done with some desktop parameter or faked in some other way?

Open ROX-Filer and navigate to /mnt/home (up arrow 'til you can't go anymore, then click mnt and then click home). Put the pup_412browserlinux353.sfs there. Then you have to tell puppy to load it at boot time. Click Menu-> System->BootManager configure Bootup and click the button "Choose which ...

Thanks Gray for the VirtualBox pet. A godsend after I failed to install VBox 3.0.10 manually. :oops: I noticed that after installing the Vbox pet and rebooting, my rc.local file was overwritten by Vbox without my original being backed up first during installation. Not sure if this is "normal&qu...

Hi Abi I'd encourage you to give this a go. I just tried it on a Puppy 431 installation and it went very smoothly and was easy. If you need some more help just let me know and I'll see what I can do. I'd make a copy of your save file first just in case but I don't think there should be any problem. ...

First things first - thanks to everyone who had contributed to this long running thread. I've got wbar running quite nicely and that's a testament to your community spirit. Of course it is my nature to never quite be satisfied :oops: so I'd like to tweak wbar a little bit more. To do that I need som...

Hi Abi perhaps this link will help. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47049 I've installed nvidia drivers from official nvidia sources successfully in Ubuntu and other Linuxes but I haven't tried this with Puppy. Should work if you have the compiler and kernel sources. Iguleder does a...

@gposil - thanks for looking at my xorg problem. I've looked a little further and found a problem with a missing file. Here's what I did. 1. Booted to xorg/xvesa menu 2. Choose xorg and default res -> blank screen 3. ALT-F1 to console and start xorgwizard 4. choose XVesa -> blank screen and no activ...

Hi, just passing by, and thought I would download dpup and try it out. I'm tempted by the puppy look-and-feel with the prospect of access to the debian package repository. Bit concerned about any speed reduction though. Puppy makes my (not too old) hardware feel new again. Downloaded beta four not h...

chris wrote: I tried the new nvidia driver archive you posted earlier. Works with my 8800GT after I added the kernel patch SFS. tazoc wrote: Glad to hear that it works. I wouldn't think the devx or kernel SFS would be needed, unless you're compiling the drivers directly from the nVidia website. jus...

I wanted to report a success, a problem and also ask a couple of questions. Success: I tried the new nvidia driver archive you posted earlier. Works with my 8800GT after I added the kernel patch SFS. Problem: I downloaded LHP443-mariner iso since I wanted mariner anyway. I assumed this iso comes wit...

Hiya tazoc, nice work. Have a small problem with connecting via wireless, get the error as per attached. I am using a Linksys Usb adapter that uses the RT73usb driver. Am working on fixing it myself but any help appreciated. cheers Jason I had the same problem with a D-Link PCI WiFi adaptor which w...

OK, in case anyone else has this problem, here's what I did to get this to work. 1. Started fresh so I first thing was clean the partition I want to save to (sdc3 in my case) 2. Reinstalled puppy from CD. Frugal install to hard disk partition sdc3. KEY POINT ... the installer suggests a sub director...

No ideas from anybody? :o Well perhaps I'll have to "save to file" rather than "save to partition". In that case can anyne tell me: a) Is there a file size limit if the file is written to a Linux ext3 partition? (I thought there was 4Gb limit on FAT32 partitions) b) Is the whole ...

I'm new to puppy (although I looked years ago) and like what I see but I'm having a really frustrating time trying to get my session changes saved. I guess the problem must be unique to me because I can't find much in the way of other references to the problem. My system is a reasonable gaming syste...

Just want to add my voice to this. Forcedeth driver doesn't load for me either. I'm using an ASUS A8N-SLI mobo. This applies to Puppy 2.16 (didn't try with 2.15CE yet).

Willing to try and investigate a solution if I can get some pointers on how.

Hi tempestuous ... thanks. I found that link previously and already downloaded the nvidia .pup. But since I couldn't get into any X window display yesterday without keyboard or mouse lockups, I couldn't use the .pup file from the CLI. However now I know that I can unzip .pup from the CLI so I should...

zenwalk failed to configure X true. I had to install NVidia drivers via CLI vector != vector ??? Do you mean "Oils ain't Oils"? (Vector SOHO != Vector Std). What you said about VectorLinux SOHO is true. VectorLinux Std Gold (version ? ... latest) failed like Zenwalk so I installed drivers...