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dennis-slacko531 · Joined: 18 Jan 2012 Posts: 103 Location: Oregon

Really incredible distro Barry! Thank You

This might already known, but maybe not. It happens in the SeaMonkey browser & composer. It doesn't happen in Geany for example...

Quite simply selecting text with the <-- --> keys works but does not highlight the text. Same thing with the mouse pointer, it does select it and copy/paste works, but it doesn't show (kind of blindly going at it...but it does work).

Well, I've tried the Mouse/Keyboard Wizard, nothing. It's never been a problem, I'll try more.
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UPDATE & SOLVED: After using SeaMonkey a few days, I see there is indeed some highlighting, it's just very faint.
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mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2981

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland

peebee · Posted: Wed 24 Oct 2012, 02:24 Post subject:

badair · Joined: 24 Oct 2012 Posts: 1

I'll seed for as long as I can! Thanks so much to you other seeders... That saved me over half an hour of download time.

I actually discovered puppy linux today. I've been a casual ubuntu user for awhile, so I'm still pretty new to linux. I'm trying to create a custom multiboot usb with grub4dos right now (I understand there are some issues with puppy, but I'm determined to get it to work).

I may even do away with my HDD ubuntu install and just use puppy. I'm about to load it for the first time in QEMU.

drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 153

I have also had occasional black screens with tool bar on booting. I have followed Shinobar's suggestion and will report back:

smokey01 · Posted: Wed 24 Oct 2012, 05:34 Post subject:

This may help.

http://www.smokey01.com/videos/Puppy_on_Flash.mpeg

peebee · Posted: Wed 24 Oct 2012, 06:13 Post subject: Broadcom wl wifi driver for Precise

The multi-kernel Broadcom-STA wl wifi driver pet has now been modified to directly support Precise 5.4.

Download from:
broadcom_sta_v5.100.82.112_patched_x86_32-multi.pet

boon · Joined: 24 Oct 2012 Posts: 3

Hi, I already posted this in the beginners section.

I got following problem. Trying to do a full install of Precise on my hard drive, Puppy-Universal-Installer crashes after selecting the partition to install to. When I start puppyinstaller from console, I get:

artsown · Joined: 12 Sep 2012 Posts: 276

shinobar and Barry ... concerning the so-called black screen at
bootup issue, I'd be happy to test a modified 5.4 with the larger
wait states on my three PCs here. I would do at least 10 hard
bootups on all three machines.

Art

Blammo2525 · Joined: 24 Oct 2012 Posts: 2

Just playing around with it a bit.Interesting collection of packages defaulted.Fast and smoothe.
Is there a good tutorial on HDD install "along side" like every other Ubuntu derivative offers ?

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5161 Location: Ontario

kooliepup · Posted: Wed 24 Oct 2012, 16:01 Post subject:

Just so Blammo doesn't get too frustrated by being told how Puppy does things, the answer to the question he asked is NO.

For those who have not experienced how Ubuntu and others easily install alongside others by splitting a partition, it is something that would be cool to have in Puppy, but as Puppy was only designed for full installation as an alternative option, it may never happen.

It would be helpful to prospective users to have it brought to their attention some way, that Puppy is meant for frugal install as a first preference.

Blammo2525 · Joined: 24 Oct 2012 Posts: 2

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1157 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day,
Precise-5.4 PAE has failed on my 2GB RAM desktop with a black screen every time I've managed to get it running (some blackies during starting). Only as a manual Frugal (files copied from the mounted iso) on my frugals partition (40GB of 49GB used, ~8GB free). The iso checksum is correct.
Not being able to create a Save file with the Frugal 5.4 (fails on shutting down when I've got that far Rolling Eyes

), I tried copying an existing Save file from an earlier Precise Frugal (.97) which was upgraded to 5.4 during starting up. But this froze after about 5 minutes.
I also tried a forum suggestion to use "vga=normal" in the grub menu but booting this way the 5.4 eventually froze or black-screened.

I have a Radeon HD5450 graphics card which has had lots of Save-file issues with Ubuntu/Debian Frugal Pups such that I regularly replace the default linux radeon driver with the proprietary ati pet. I wasn't able to load up the fglrx driver before getting a black screen with 5.4. And couldn't get vesa to work trying the videowizard route.

I had occasional freezes/black-screens with very recent Precises (.96, .97) but these were as nothing compared to 5.4 on my desktop.

Anyway, slackos, Racys and Exprimos (with flgrx) all work very well (including pemasu's early go at doing a Precise-based Pup), so I don't need the imprecise Precise to play around with.

Pity though.

David S.

PS: Precise54-Retro on the other hand has worked perfectly on my (confirmed) PAE-enabled desktop. Frugal & Full RetroPrecises both installed simply and have operated with no freezing nor black screens.