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bignono1 · Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 344 Location: New ME

Every time i post a reply with a url from the forum i get a blank page.
I just want to say that a bug reported here on page 5 is to be looked at , the desktop menu bug.

starhawk · Posted: Tue 26 Apr 2011, 22:58 Post subject:

Ya'll might want to know about this one, as its liable to cause some confusion. I just finished installing Lupu 520 to a beige Dell (!!) that I had lying around (local tech shop *gave* it to me cuz it's a P3 Laughing

) -- and guess what?

The Puppy Universal Installer thinks that the internal 250MB ZiP Drive (came with the system) is an IDE HDD!!

Might want to fix that, since again, it's liable to make for some spectacular confusion amongst the n00bie crowd.

bignono1 · Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 344 Location: New ME

The snapshot is showing sdb IOMEGA ZIP 250 , which is the actual thing.

pa_mcclamrock

At least two users have reported a problem with Lucid Puppy not giving them an option to create a save file at the first shutdown: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67226. I haven't had this problem myself, but it appears to be a bug that should be fixed if possible.

starhawk · Posted: Thu 28 Apr 2011, 13:50 Post subject:

scsijon · Posted: Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:53 Post subject:

starhawk, the zip drives act similar to your floppy drives, they show if installed, just get an error if try to use them without a disk inserted. The earliest ones even used the same interface and appeared as drive b:. The later ones just changed the interface to either scsi or ide but still worked with a second interface driver loaded first so not sure if anything short of a firmware upgrade (which didn't exist back then) could change the manner.

?Do you want me to see if I can find a cartridge disc or two, I have some somewhere around in my junk room, whim me if so. But you had best check that the wiper heads inside arn't damaged by being bent first (the usual reason why their damaged and scrapped) as park and loaded were at the opposite positions and a lot of people use to forget to unload before removing the cartridge. Wipers are clearly visable with a light and magnifying glass through the portal.

regards
scsijon

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4377 Location: merriam, kansas

Zip drives are no longer an option with the latest Puppies
according to a message in universal installer in the Wary
I use.

starhawk · Posted: Fri 29 Apr 2011, 17:53 Post subject:

I was simply reporting that it showed up in the wrong place in the universal installer, and that perhaps this was not a good thing.

scsijon, I live in the US, and am what those richer than I prefer to call "indigent". If you can afford to send me a test disk, I'll be glad to take it, but I can't pay you even the cost of shipping -- sorry, I'm just that poor right now.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2533 Location: Ontario

A new version of lupu_Right-click is available
here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67013
It gives more right click options.

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smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

Diamond · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 141

ausvirgo · Joined: 29 Aug 2010 Posts: 10

Had this problem in 4.xx and Lucid 5.25

1) For Toshiba Satellite laptop with RTL8191SE wifi NIC, Auto probe gave heaps of false positives, and for each one I had to go through the same manual sequence to re-start the auto probe.

It would be nice to have the program use flags to automatically go through the steps again when it found "no new network interfaces were detected". With safeguards against endless looping, of course.

2) Auto probe asks to report false positives in the forum - here are some I recorded before giving up and searching the net for a driver:

8139c (from memory - not guaranteed)
8139too amd811 asix at76c50x ath5k ath9k atl1 atl1c atl1e atl2 atmelpci b43 b43legacy b44 bnx2 cassini catc cdc_eem cdc_ether cdc_subset de2104x dl2k dm9601

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2533 Location: Ontario

new version 4.8 of my right click options package
which offers additional right click options for convenience.

I made a few small changes to my Right click package on the suggestion of
smokey01

1) More options for text files and internet files
2) Also a partition can be searched by pfind
3) MIME was changed so that GIMP xcf files can be opened with a
single click

lupu-right-click-4.8.pet size 30k

Go to this thread for details
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=519996#519996

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myke · Joined: 15 Mar 2011 Posts: 101 Location: Québec

I got the following bug when checking Slang library in dependency checking.

If this has been reported, could someone PM me with the fix?

Or if this is a Dependency Check Manager bug (which I have never encountered in puppy before, please PM me and I will redirect.

myke

Rocco · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 27