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#221 Post by edoc »

Just loaded the realplayer11 PET to a fresh load of Puppy Linux 4.00/Dingo and so far it appears to function flawlessly.

See this thread re realplayer:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 65&t=28022
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Hardinfo - Devices Broken

#222 Post by edoc »

This may have already been reported but in Frugal on my Panasonic CF-28 Hardinfo Devices reports nothing - it doesn't even display categories of hardware.

Summary does but not Devices.
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#223 Post by edoc »

Don't know what I did ... surely it was not intentional ... but Devices is now working!

New challenge.

When I do a warm reboot my "personal file" loads then is followed by purple text saying that hda1 file integrity is being checked and it takes a while.

Is this normal?
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#224 Post by edoc »

Don't know what I did ... surely it was not intentional ... but Devices is now working!

New challenge.

When I do a warm reboot my "personal file" loads then is followed by purple text saying that hda1 filesystem check ....... and it takes a while.

Is this normal?
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Puppy version 4 issues

#225 Post by brucedp »

Though quite satisfied with Puppy 3.01, I decided to try 4.00
I tried both the released 4.0 version and the experimental version ( puppy-4.00-k2.6.25-seamonkey.iso ) with the newer kernel.

-As already posted, the sound did not work. Both 4.00 versions had sound problems.

-I found the new 4.00 dropped direct support for .pup files. Though an error pop up message states a pet-manager tool has to be installed to install a .pup application file. After the installation, the installed pup app did not work (i.e.: puppy2-xawtv-3.95.pup ).

I suppose support for the experimental version of the 4.00 version was dropped for lack of support and that the newer kernel is to be used in a future Puppy version (it is no longer available for down load off the http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/official-releases site but still available as a torrent elsewhere). Oddly the http://www.puppylinux.com/download/index.html page still talks about the experimental version (?).

I assume because it had the newer kernel is why the experimental version saw my dual core processor, saw my Intel DG33FB motherboard's integrated (Maxwell) pata channel, and saw the pata/eide hard drive hanging off it. The standard 4.00 and previous versions of Puppy saw did not see them.

IMHO: I am going to revert back to 3.01 . It works without bugs on all PC hardware I have (old to new). I am surprised 4.00 was released, the support team did test it first right?
A big issue for me is lack of applications that now have to use the .pet file format. I assume there is some advantage to switching to .pet but I find it is a hardship to not have all the .pups converted to .pet and tested before thrusting a .pet only version of Puppy out there. Especially when the pet-manager that is supposed to help install pups does not work (not all installed pups work on 4.00 ).
I will wait until a newer version of Puppy has what I need before I'll consider upgrading.
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#226 Post by linuxcbon »

brucedp please help testing, complaining now is useless.

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#227 Post by ZeNiTRaM »

EDIT: Solved issue.

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#228 Post by maggotspawn »

Lin Win Frugal install Puppy 4.00, Kernel 2.6.21.7, Only other things installed are a Java pet and the Madwifi pet. Acer 5620 Laptop, Pentium Dualcore 1.86 GHz, 3 GB RAM. Very happy my first experience with Puppy and with Linux. Gtkam doesn't work with my HP Photosmart 715 even though it's listed. It isn't even seen as a drive in Pmount. Seamonkey crashes while trying to upload a small jpeg to Photobucket. When I select reboot computer from the menu on the restart the laptop hangs during post. This doesn't happen on the fresh install. Too many calculators. Overall I'm very happy with the experience, thanks for your efforts. :D
Puppy is lean and mean, I love it.

Edit: I'm actually triplebooting Vista/XP and Puppy. Light blue Function keys don't work with Puppy, work in XP/Vista. Not a dealbreaker, but it'd be nice if they functioned. I downloaded something with Petget and it wouldn't uninstall, I believe it was the Java package. Jar files/packages don't open with Java, have to manually set the run action.
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#229 Post by HairyWill »

Sit Heel Speak wrote:3. Having problems with PNethood (I didn't realize there is a version .063--been away, catching up), so I downloaded the old SMB mounter LinNeighborhood through the PET manager. After getting LinNeighborhood's dependency gtk-1.2.10 (and its own dependencies), LinNeighborhood works OK in both k2.6.25 and k2.6.21.7--except for the conversion error message shown here which appears when a drive on the Win98 machine is mounted in Puppy. Despite the error message, LinNeighborhood does work OK on both kernels.
PNethood displays a similar horde of conversion-error messages when started from the command line.
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These iconv error messages have been present in many recent puppy versions. They don't seem to get in the way of it working for me. It would be good if you could reply to this http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 786#217786
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#230 Post by John Doe »

> iconv error messages

In my stumbling I've found that there is libiconv and the kernel iconv option. Some of the big app releases seem to shy away from the libiconv in favor of using the the kernel system. There are many perils in using libiconv. A couple builds can be fixed by using the -noiconv option (or something like that). Just not building it is probably the bet for anyone.

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#231 Post by Pizarro »

This starts off working then stops working. You click and nothing happens. puppy 4.00 on usb and hard disk install.I don't use it, but tried it to see if it works.

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#232 Post by maggotspawn »

Lin Win Frugal install Puppy 4.00, Kernel 2.6.21.7. Hotpup Drive mount won't give me write privileges to harddrives other then the system drive. I have to mount the drive with Pmount. Kind of awkward, as I'm setting up an office PC for my somewhat computer illiterate girlfriend. Manually having to mount the drives sucks.

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#233 Post by Béèm »

maggotspawn wrote:Lin Win Frugal install Puppy 4.00, Kernel 2.6.21.7. Hotpup Drive mount won't give me write privileges to harddrives other then the system drive. I have to mount the drive with Pmount. Kind of awkward, as I'm setting up an office PC for my somewhat computer illiterate girlfriend. Manually having to mount the drives sucks.
If I remember well, advice has been given to use pfind or to install the latest Dingo version (now at 407)
The 400 has a problem and I think it will not be corrected for this version.
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#234 Post by maggotspawn »

Béèm wrote:If I remember well, advice has been given to use pfind or to install the latest Dingo version (now at 407)
The 400 has a problem and I think it will not be corrected for this version.
I try it and let you know how it went. Everything else is working so well I don't want to mess it up. But I've backed up my Pupsave and will give it a go.

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#235 Post by maggotspawn »

Update: I tried out 4.1 Alpha7, fixed the problem. Also fixed a problem I had with choosing reboot from the menu. Unfortunately wifi and ethernet don't work now. I posted the details on Barry's blog.

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#236 Post by maggotspawn »

Double Post :?
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#237 Post by Botanic »

[BUG report]
after setting up a connection with pppoe_gui,
/etc/resolv.conf becomes a symlink to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, itself a symlink to /etc/resolv.conf
thus it becomes impossible to connect to internet
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#238 Post by maggotspawn »

maggotspawn wrote:Lin Win Frugal install Puppy 4.00, Kernel 2.6.21.7. Hotpup Drive mount won't give me write privileges to harddrives other then the system drive. I have to mount the drive with Pmount. Kind of awkward, as I'm setting up an office PC for my somewhat computer illiterate girlfriend. Manually having to mount the drives sucks.
Here's the fix: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=32986

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#239 Post by ttuuxxx »

Lately I've been getting this error message, Basically I can retrieve files but I can't save new files to the hard drive any ideas how to fix this so I can save files again? Without formatting the drive??
running live on puppy 4.0
The other hard drives mount ok.
Just my new one won't.
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#240 Post by Colonel Panic »

I dson't know whether this is a bug, but I'm getting lockups when I've got about 155 MB of RAM in use and two or three apps running (such as SeaMonkey and Osmo). Nothing will move, not even the mouse, and the caps key won't work. The only cure is to turn the computer off and start again.

There's a lot to like about Dingo though, the applications at last have a consistent look due to the GTK2 toolkit and it's possible to use the latest versions of apps such as Firefox 3.0.4.

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