Puppy On Laptops

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Okeh
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Puppy on two Toshiba laptops

#241 Post by Okeh »

Hi

I'm new to the forum and to Linux. I've fiddled with computers for a long time [since the days of DOS] and never been particularly happy with any version of Windows or the insanely huge programs foisted on the public. Anyway, my first experiment with Puppy is on an ancient Toshiba Tecra 8000 vintage 1998. It had been upgraded to Windows 2000, was in the habit of crashing and was incapable of internet browsing with a current firewall and anti-virus program. It has 256 megabytes of ram. I put the current MacPup on it, switched to the JWM interface and it runs beautifully. It will surf the net, boots quickly, runs wireless and is an unqualified success. Pretty good for a 14 year old computer that was close to inoperative.

I then installed the current Wary puppy on my wife's Toshiba U-300 NS1. I gave it to her in about 2008. It came with Vista, which she hated, so a friend put XP on it. The laptop never ran that well after that, and she gave it back to me. The windows installation is hopeless corrupted, boot times impossible etc. I partitioned the drive and installed Wary Puppy. It is now lightning fast and the machine is totally transformed. It has 1 gig of ram.

Both laptops have full installations to the hard drive. I am writing this on the ancient Tecra 8000.

Okeh
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Further on the Toshibas

#242 Post by Okeh »

I should add that the Toshiba Tecra 8000 is running Macpup 528, and the Satellite U300 is running Wary 522

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#243 Post by vtpup »

Acer Aspire 5349 - 2635 dual processor 1.6gHz Celeron, 4G Ram, 320GB HD, Intel Sandybridge graphics chips

Frugal install in an ext2 partition. Used BSDEdit in Win 7 to set up dual boot.

Puppy OS's tested:

Lupu 528 v5 -- Took an upgrade to the ath9k wireless driver module to get it to recognize the wireless chips. But sound also doesn't work due to older ALSA driver. And a decision not to provide an upgrade for this problem according to developer. Shutdown problems, too.

Sulu -- (Super Lupu) Wireless works and sound works, but developer reports he won't provide active support or further development. Special function keys don't work

Upup Precise -- Sound and Wireless work and some special function keys. Others can be configured with the included xbindkeys-config. But developer reports he has limited time to support this project in future.

3-headed dog -- Wireless doesn't work out of the box but would probably respond to the fix mentioned for Lupu 528 above. Sound does work.

Racy53 -- Best graphic performance of all tested puppies on this machine. by far. Sound and wireless work out of the box. Some function keys work, others can be configured by installing xbindkeys and xbindkeys-config. All around best puppy for this machine -- particularly for intensive graphics, like Google Sketchup 3D CAD under Wine. (Update: I've now added scripts to Racy that monitor battery level and provide warnings at intervals before initiating a proper automatic power down, plus suspend on lid close, and suspend or powerdown after a set interval of mouse or keyboard inactivity. Scripts and description of customizations located here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76894)

Saluki -- Wireless and sound worked out of the box, but great stylistic differences in operation, file naming, and programs meant it would be difficult for me to transition to this very nice OS. Probably best for someone new who hasn't been working in Puppy for years. In fact probably easier to transition to this from Windows than from other more standard Puppies.

Racy won the race for this machine's new OS. :D
Last edited by vtpup on Mon 04 Jun 2012, 13:22, edited 21 times in total.
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minesadorada
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#244 Post by minesadorada »

ADVENT 5711 laptop

CPU Intel Celeron Dual Core T1600 (1.66GHz)
Chipset Intel GL40 Express
Memory 1GB DDR2 667MHz SODIMM (1 Memory Slot. Max 2GB)
Hard Drive 160GB
CD Drive TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633A
Screen 15.4" Widescreen TFT (1280x800)
Video Card Integrated Intel GL40 Express Chipset Family
Webcam Built in
Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio (7.1)
Network Card Realtek RTL8102E (Onboard)
LiteOn WN6302L Wireless LAN

Windows wiped, and repartitioned with 2 equal ext2 (main and backup) and a swap partition.

Full install of slacko, with a frugal install of Lazy 2 as the default boot.

Wireless WPA2 via Frisbee and everything else works fine. Puppy success.

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grump
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#245 Post by grump »

grump wrote:I seem to have Slacko 5.3.1 running on a HP Mini 2140. The Broadcom 4322 wireless did not work until I got the wl driver and did more or less what it says in the 1st post here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=344002

HP Mini 2140
2Gb RAM
160Gb HDD

Edit to add - the wireless only worked once. .....
Pleased to report that Slacko 5.3.3 seems to work well on the Mini - picked up the wireless first time. But I've only tried once - so we'll see if it still works when I try again.

Edit to add - tried later and it still works (after a hickup when it looked like all the settings etc were lost) on the HP Mini.

I meant to say that it works perfick on the old Toshiba A200 too.

ravenxau
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#246 Post by ravenxau »

Compaq Presario 1685
- 64 Meg Ram
- 4 Gig HDD
- Puppy swap file
- boot from live cd with save file.
- Xircom Net Adapter

- Puppy 2.16

Netsurf browser, Hv3 browser, VLC media player 0.8.6

The 'lightweight' apps run well due to the low ram - Seamonkey will work but is very slow. DosBox works well enough to play Wolfenstein3D (286, pc speaker for sound)

For internet surfing and Instant messaging the system runs great.
Compaq Presario 1685 - 64 MB - 380 Mhz - Puppy 2.16

capicoso
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#247 Post by capicoso »

Just bought an used HP Elitebook 8440p.

HP Elitebook 8440p:
Processor: Intel Core i5 vPro M520 @ 2.43gHz
Graphics: Intel GMA HD
SDRAM: 4gB DDR3 1333mHz
HDD: 250gB 7200rpm
Optical Drive: hp CDDVDW TS-L633R Lightscribe
Display: 14" LED 1360x768

Tested on Lucid Puppy 5.28.
Had to boot with puppy pfix=nox, if xorg was auto loaded screen would be black. Run xorg-setup, select vesa and resolution. Then install intel driver and all ok with xorg.
Optical drive works.
Sound card works.
Ethernet works.
Wireless, had to install iwlagn-firmware-update-k2.6.33.2.pet. Then it works.
Pointstick works
Touchpad works(scroll, tap, all ok)
Card reader works
Something that surprised me was the support for multimedia keys. It has a touch sensitive multimedia keys and all except one worked out of the box. Volume control, mute, wireless, and quickweb worked out of the work.
I have to test bluetooth, firewire, displayport

edit: Bluetooth works. WEBCAM works
edit2: Thanks to Karl Godt now i can set the brightness of the screen! With this http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78718
So now i could say it works 99%? Only light sensor is missing, maybe with this script i could make it work...
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#248 Post by _MegadetH_ »

After trying a lot of puppy's distros, finally I found one that works great with my netbook. Puppeee is the perfect choice for my netbook. It runs very fast and everything works fine, because it has all the drivers included.
This is my system:

Netbook Acer aspire one A110
CPU 1.6 GHz Intel Atom 1.66 GHz Intel
Ram Memory: 512 MB
Storage memory: 8/16 GB SSD


Now I'm looking for a distro for another notebook:
Hp 550
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.40Ghz
Ram 3Gb
Hd 160GB

I've Windows Vista on it. I've tweaked a lot to run faster, I use it for games. I want to run a frugal install of Puppy Linux when I just want to surf on internet, chat. I don't know yet which Puppy version choose, I'm downloading Racy 5.3. I hope it will works fine I will let you know.
Please give me any suggestion if you know a Puppy version compatible with drives of Hp 550 notebook.

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#249 Post by rokytnji »

Please give me any suggestion if you know a Puppy version compatible with drives of Hp 550 notebook.
I have a different dual core laptop with approx. the same specs. I have more ram and bigger hardrive. You might try out what I posted as working good on my unit.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 015#565015

You can try them on a pendrive with Unetbootin first to see if you have everything working to your satisfaction first.

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#250 Post by dk60902 »

capicoso wrote:Just bought an used HP Elitebook 8440p.

HP Elitebook 8440p:
Processor: Intel Core i5 vPro M520 @ 2.43gHz
Graphics: Intel GMA HD
SDRAM: 4gB DDR3 1333mHz
HDD: 250gB 7200rpm
Optical Drive: hp CDDVDW TS-L633R Lightscribe
Display: 14" LED 1360x768

Tested on Lucid Puppy 5.28.
Had to boot with puppy pfix=nox, if xorg was auto loaded screen would be black. Run xorg-setup, select vesa and resolution. Then install intel driver and all ok with xorg.
Optical drive works.
Sound card works.
Ethernet works.
Wireless, had to install iwlagn-firmware-update-k2.6.33.2.pet. Then it works.
Pointstick works
Touchpad works(scroll, tap, all ok)
Card reader works
Something that surprised me was the support for multimedia keys. It has a touch sensitive multimedia keys and all except one worked out of the box. Volume control, mute, wireless, and quickweb worked out of the work.
I have to test bluetooth, firewire, displayport, vga out.

edit: Bluetooth works.
Congrats. Sounds like you have a winner. What wireless card/chipset is on this laptop?

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#251 Post by _MegadetH_ »

rokytnji wrote:
Please give me any suggestion if you know a Puppy version compatible with drives of Hp 550 notebook.
I have a different dual core laptop with approx. the same specs. I have more ram and bigger hardrive. You might try out what I posted as working good on my unit.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 015#565015

You can try them on a pendrive with Unetbootin first to see if you have everything working to your satisfaction first.
Thanks, I read your thread. I've another notebook similar to yours, mine is acer aspire 5310. I remember in past I tried with puppy 4.0 and 4.1 and it was fully compatible with it.
I've tried macup too. It has cool graphic and is a light system.

Now I tried Racy Puppy 5.3 on my laptop Hp 550 and I'm very satisfied with it! Everything works even the wifi that is hardest thing to work with puppy. I've read that Racy is good with newest cpu and it supports computers with more than 3Gb Ram.

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#252 Post by darkcity »

Hi CatDude

Found a useful site about linux on laptops, don't know if you came across it before?

http://www.linlap.com/wiki

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#253 Post by steve_s »

Moved to a new laptop: got Saluki 21 running on a Compaq Presario C500 and it just screams along, very nice. 8)

Mr. Kimiko
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Puppy Sound Drivers?

#254 Post by Mr. Kimiko »

Hi I am new here.

I have 'Lucid Puppy version 5.2.5' on a Samaung notebook.
I am new to linux. Thats why I am using Puppy.
So can anyone help me with the sound Drivers? Plz?

cthisbear
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#255 Post by cthisbear »

Mr. Kimiko:

Welcome to Puppy.

Please tell us your Samsung model specs.

Might be better off with the newer Lucid 528 version 05.


http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70855

Version 005 released APR 05 2012

Lupu 528.005 ->

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/lupu-528.005.iso

Right-click on volume in system tray and choose Full Window.

Scroll down and make sure that Speaker is checked,

that there is volume in Master etc.

""""""

Mixer Controls

To adjust the following sound inputs or outputs right click speaker icon on right side of taskbar.

Volume
PCM
Speaker
Line
Mic (microphone)
CD
IGain
Line1
Digital1
PhoneIn
PhoneOl
Video

Note: Some controls listed above may not be visible on all computers. Options are hardware dependent. Your hardware may not have these capabilities

http://www.puppylinuxfaq.org/bundled-so ... e/131.html

Under DutchPuppy's post>>> nearly two thirds down the page is

a pic of the mixer.

As stated above....master and speaker may be yours.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78447
""""""""'
Other posts.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79225

Chris.

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#256 Post by rokytnji »


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I am but it is a la[top I am using

#257 Post by sasha »

I have a Dell latitude CPI 366 with 128mgs of Ram 4 gig hard drive for $8 Windows 2000 was on it but busted so I thought I would give a free OS a try. After looking and trying I settled on Wary Puppy as the best bet for the machine, but
I can't install to the hard drive( the best option for what I want to do) I keep getting ext2 ext3 failure, Kernel in panic , not synching all sorts of error messages I followed all the instructions watched the videos etc. I can run it from the CD and can save personal file my setup to a USB flash (4 gig) and it reboots fine in that format. Frugal install doesn't work either maybe my hard drive is to old to support ext files? doesn't work with fat files either also Wary recognizes my wirless card finds my network I put in my wep key but is unable to connect to my network (windows network) but I still should be able to get online I know the card is good because I used it in an XP laptop. It looks great but I can't do anyhting with it. I tried DSL, Slacko, Legacy, lucid. ubuntu won't partition HD so I can't install 5.0 so I guess it's my machine but Wary is suppose to be for older machines Shouldn't and IDE ATA be able to accept EXT files? let me know what I could be doing wrong

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#258 Post by cthisbear »

Why not try Puppy .4.3.1??

http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/pupp ... rimental1/

Or Puppy 4.2.1

http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/puppylinux/

Be aware that Barry had retro versions as well.

WhoDo was Project Coordinator for the 4.2 series of Puppy.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42696

"""""

Or its cousins.

Re-done Puppy 4.31

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57371

I uploaded it here.

http://www.4shared.com/file/7sqsvU0p/klp-006.html

""""""""""

Try the early Fluppy by jemimah.

http://www.smokey01.com/menu/

Look under the Mad Scientists = developers >> jemimah.

"""""""

Turbopup

http://puppyisos.org/isos/2009-01-to-06/turbopup4.2/

::::::::::

Guy Dog 5.0.1

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72576

http://tubeguy.org/puppybg/iso/guydog-5.0.1.iso

"""""""""

Akita Linux

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67811

Scroll down for >> Older versions:

"""""""

http://scottjarvis.com/page105.htm

Download links on the page.

Don't be put off by the name....excellent

"""""""
214x-Top10.0 ISO

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42553

Updated Puppy 2 series by ttuuxxx .
Solid releases.

Try some older ones...from 5 up.

""""""

TXZ_pup 4.5

big_bass ...top bloke...smart release.

http://puppylinux.info/topic/txz

http://puppy2.org/slaxer/

""""""

Wary Tiny (81mb)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=68284

http://www.smokey01.com/Tman/WaryTiny.iso

Chris.

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#259 Post by grump »

Edit to say that all is now well after a defrag. Now I have the pain of re-doing re-installs etc etc.
grump wrote:
grump wrote:I seem to have Slacko 5.3.1 running on a HP Mini 2140. The Broadcom 4322 wireless did not work until I got the wl driver and did more or less what it says in the 1st post here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=344002

HP Mini 2140
2Gb RAM
160Gb HDD

Edit to add - the wireless only worked once. .....
Pleased to report that Slacko 5.3.3 seems to work well on the Mini - picked up the wireless first time. But I've only tried once - so we'll see if it still works when I try again.

Edit to add - tried later and it still works (after a hickup when it looked like all the settings etc were lost) on the HP Mini.

I meant to say that it works perfick on the old Toshiba A200 too.
I'm sad to say that Slacko 5.3.3 has cacked itself on my old A200, and I can't revive it. I run it from a CD and save on the HDD. I've even tried starting from scratch - copied off the save file and deleted the slacko sfs, and it runs ok first time but fails to save setting properly at shutdown. It saves something but on restart I have a screen full of caution triangles and it wants to do the initial setup stuff again. Back to Lupo for the time being. I'll defrag the HDD on XP and try again later.

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#260 Post by capicoso »

dk60902 wrote:
capicoso wrote:Just bought an used HP Elitebook 8440p.

HP Elitebook 8440p:
Processor: Intel Core i5 vPro M520 @ 2.43gHz
Graphics: Intel GMA HD
SDRAM: 4gB DDR3 1333mHz
HDD: 250gB 7200rpm
Optical Drive: hp CDDVDW TS-L633R Lightscribe
Display: 14" LED 1360x768

Tested on Lucid Puppy 5.28.
Had to boot with puppy pfix=nox, if xorg was auto loaded screen would be black. Run xorg-setup, select vesa and resolution. Then install intel driver and all ok with xorg.
Optical drive works.
Sound card works.
Ethernet works.
Wireless, had to install iwlagn-firmware-update-k2.6.33.2.pet. Then it works.
Pointstick works
Touchpad works(scroll, tap, all ok)
Card reader works
Something that surprised me was the support for multimedia keys. It has a touch sensitive multimedia keys and all except one worked out of the box. Volume control, mute, wireless, and quickweb worked out of the work.
I have to test bluetooth, firewire, displayport, vga out.

edit: Bluetooth works.
Congrats. Sounds like you have a winner. What wireless card/chipset is on this laptop?
hello. It has Intel Centrino Ultimate-N / Advanced-N 6000 Series 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless LAN module; or Broadcom
b/g wireless LAN module . It looks like it has two adapters, which one i use? i dont know... And i add, with kernel 3x wireless works out of the box. The only thing that doesn't work is lcd brightness control...

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