Desktop Icons and Fonts

[DeltaZero]

Hello All !!
I'm a very newbie of cute puppy linux and linux field, but i had some experiences in bloatfulness windows which now i don't want to use.

Now I installed Puppy 2.1.3 on my notebook. So... I faced some problem as ordinary newbie.

1) My AC97 sound card didn't work.
2) I can't see VCD movie. But I saw as moving shapes.(My display driver is C&T 69000)
3) I don't know how to change desktop Icons. They are too big for me in 800X600 screen resolution.
4)How can I copy my desktop background pictures to background folder.
5) I wanna work my some programmes written by Pascal and VB. How can I run?

Those are some questions of my first experienxe on Puppy and some may coming not too long from now, I think.

Advance Thanks to all !!!

[Todd]

You can add backgrounds by copying your pictures to:

//usr/share/backgrounds/

You can add more fonts to:

//usr/share/fonts/

Todd

[WhoDo]

1) My AC97 sound card didn't work.

Make sure you have the zdrv or fulldrivers version of Puppy and run alsaconf from a command line or Start>Setup>Alsa Sound Wizard. AC97 is among the drivers. All you need do is find it. It may be treated as a legacy card.

2) I can't see VCD movie. But I saw as moving shapes.(My display driver is C&T 69000)

Sorry, can't help with this one. Not my area of knowledge.

3) I don't know how to change desktop Icons. They are too big for me in 800X600 screen resolution.

The icons that ship with Puppy are a fixed size. You can download new icons from http://www.kde-look.org and place them in the /root/.icons directory. They should then be available to use as a second icon them besides the default Rox theme. 32x32 or 22x22 are better on 800x600 screens.

4)How can I copy my desktop background pictures to background folder.

Use drag and drop to place pictures in the /usr/share/backgrounds folder and use Start>Control Panel>Puppybackground desktop image to change.

5) I wanna work my some programmes written by Pascal and VB. How can I run?

??? You need a "guru" here. Linux programs are usually based on C source or something neat like Tcl/Tlk (?). Those programs of yours may run under Wine, a Linux implementation of the Windows API, but I can't be sure that will help. Sorry.

Those are some questions of my first experienxe on Puppy and some may coming not too long from now, I think.

Advance Thanks to all !!!

Questions are easy. Answers may take a little time.

Hope that helps