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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8787 Location: qld

This is an extract from rerwin's reply:

wuxiandianzi · Joined: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 136 Location: china

at least I download newest B43 firmware into /lib/firmware/ and it is sucess to load B43 at boot.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8787 Location: qld

maxerro · Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 65

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8787 Location: qld

maxerro, I'll keep support for k2.6.37.6 as the "RETRO" instead of "MAIN" verion, and drop the scsi tag, that was a boo boo!

peebee

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 4499 Location: Sydney Australia

Dell crapbook boots to desktop.

1280 x 800

Dell Studio XPS.

Does not like being configured differently.

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No wireless....but lan works.

Wired comes up as >>> eth0 >> pci nvidia MCP79 Ethernet

"""""""

No bark....setup icon disappears

Handy feature >>> adjust levels.....master volume was down.

I had already did it in alsamixer....but this is good.
Actually rebooted fresh....
need to run Alsamixer >>> Generic Sound Mixer
and unmute speaker etc.

And 2 testing barks....are very handy.

""""""""""""""

Chris.

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1350 Location: England

Hi 01micko, Jim1911, shinobar, et al,

In response to your post about feature requests, Jim1911 wrote:

"Please consider replacing Barry's shutdownconfig with shinobar's pupsaveconfig which is faster and has more features ie: It makes ext4 internal file system of the savefile as the default if the kernel supports ext4."

and you replied:

Already in planning stages....
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"Already in Planning stages...." sounds complicated to me, - so I just report my brief experiment:

I tried shinobar's pupsaveconfig-2.0.1.pet with Slacko 5.3.1 Main and the save with ext4 was very fast (especially since the flash stick used had only medium/lowish read/write speeds).

I inserted a USB Flash Stick with FAT format and free space
Then I started afresh and used my 5.3.1 CD with "puppy pfix=ram"
Then installed and loaded the pet
Then saved and rebooted
Then used the CD with "puppy pmedia=usbflash".

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UPDATE:
I saw no added option(s) such as "save" or "don't save" on rebooting. That does not matter to me, but I mention it because I was expecting (perhaps mistakenly) to see that option.
and apology - the option to save or not save appeared on my next reboot

Also, I would like to amend the config file so as to avoid typing "puppy pmedia=usbflash" in future if anyone has a suggestion.

My regards

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 4499 Location: Sydney Australia

Bonus.

Got a crappy Comsol 4 gig usb to boot using

>> Grub 4 Dos Config v1.7.2

Hoorray ...lost days on this little piggy.
It's own utility wouldn't recognise it.

Formatted as usual with Fat32.

I'm excited....RIP Big Kev.

Chris.

Icyos · Joined: 28 Jun 2011 Posts: 92 Location: UK

Hi All

Installed to me 8Gb USB Stick and its perfect on a 8 Month old Dell Optiplex 380 PC With Windows 7 & Broadcom network card. Configured card, made save file & rebooted, no issues totally perfect. Great job and you gotta love the Pup.

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majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 449 Location: Wish I knew

Updated 5.3.1.1 to 5.3.2-alpha2 using provided delta file

booted live cd using defaults -
desktop has 1366x768 display
sound ok
auto connected to internet this version solved my connections problems previously reported on 5.3.1.1

looking good - off to do full install

majorfoo

peebee · Posted: Tue 17 Jan 2012, 10:25 Post subject:

sszindian · Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Posts: 807 Location: Pennsylvania U.S.

Something Different!!!

Burned program using 'multi burn' to the CD... Booted with 'puppy pfx=ram'... Installed a few programs then went for the shutdown... Used the 'Save To CD' instead of the HDD this time... 'Went Well !'

Rebooted computer using only the CD Drive... 'Beautiful...' Everything was there as should be.

Went to 'Shutdown' and was presented (again as per the first shutdown) with the option to either 'Save or No Save the current session'... That is really really NICE! It would be great if that feature could be added to frugal and regular save file to HDD on shutdown.

Great job here Mic! Looks to me that 'You Got A Tiger By The Tail' and... it's fast, I mean really fast on my Dell P-4

>>>---Indian------>

majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 449 Location: Wish I knew

Full install completed to ext4 partition.

updated seamonkey to 2.61

added
wbar
evince
aidacious
xscreensaver
roxterm
pupcontrol
pupclockset
shermans aquarium
puppy browser
flashplayer
bibletime
sfsinstal
tcl_tk_plus

all items working well - no problems to report.

Great job as always

majorfoo

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Hello Mick
I am on holiday without internet connection (this internet cafe is ok though...), so I can`t test the new Slacko. But it makes me happy to see you with new energy Smile

Pmusic 2.3.0 is fun stuff ... if streamripper is included. I could not check.
Pmusic 2.4.0 is on its way, but won`t make it for this release. Event-handling is comletely rewritten so it requires a lot of testing. Please, do not be tempted if you see a new release.... we should wait for 2.4.1/2/3 before going official Smile

Sigmund