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Pnethood was failing due to slowness in my network (wireless distance from router issue). After about a dozen tries I was able to find my shares.

Here is my experience with Pnethood and lamesmbxplorer. Because they have to search your network for shares, their speed is affected by how your network is configured (or misconfigured). OTOH, YASSM doesn't do the same kind of searching, so it's always going to be faster.

Who said wary is just for older computers?

With the QT animate setting enabled on things like menus. When running VLC Media Player and right clicking in the play-list. I find some times my mouse cursor gets changed to a circle with a line though it. Nothing responds to my clicks or keyboard presses or hot-keys but CTRL+ALT+Backspace does its job.

cowboy wrote:

zekebaby wrote:...so I basically delete /dev in /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy.

checked into that. ah, how would one go about doing that in the snapmerge? Opened it up, and saw some entries like that which had the # in front of them. Would appreciate any help. Gracias in advance.

All you need to do is uncomment line 106 (i.e. remove the # at the beginning of the line) and comment out line 108 (i.e. add a # at the beginning of the line)

I have been using Wary 5.00 small iso.
I have downloaded wary-500-small.iso_wary-511-k2.6.32.28-small.iso.delta

I can't figure out what to do with it!
How do I use it?

{Edit -- Solution from bkhome.org/blog}
Delta files
If you have already downloaded Wary 5.0 or 5.1, delta files are small files that enable you to generate the Wary 5.1.1 ISO and 'devx' SFS files. This is especially good for people on dialup.

You need to have a running Puppy Linux, and look in the Utility menu and choose 'Xdelta file difference manager'. The GUI is easy to use -- just drag-and-drop the old Wary 5.0 file and the delta file and click the 'GENERATE' button. The GUI has a 'help' button to explain in more detail.

Look in the delta_files directory for the delta files to download:
delta_files/

Note: If you are going to try the alternate ISOs on the same PC, be careful to delete the 'wary_510.sfs' file that may get copied to the hard drive. You will find this file in directory 'w5101102.203' in the same partition that has the session save-file. A problem occurs if the wrong one is used, as it contains kernel drivers for a particular kernel.
You can avoid this problem if you boot with "puppy pfix=ram" so as not to use any save-file and run in RAM only, and decline to save the session at shutdown -- this should suffice to test that particular ISO file and suitability for particular hardware.

Hello don922

don922 wrote:I can't figure out what to do with it!
How do I use it?

If you go in the menu, you will find: Utility > Xdelta file difference manager
that is what you use.

This thread should help you: HOWTO use Xdelta to upgrade isos and apps

Hope that helps
CatDude
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After installing the wary-500-small.iso__wary-511-k2.6.32.28-small.iso.delta and upgrading from wary500 to wary511, I ended up with 4 virtual desktops. Also, the number of desktops could not be changed with the JWM configuration button.

I corrected this problem by making the change to /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal as describedin this post

After this change the number of desktops could be changed with the JWM configuration button.

zekebaby wrote:All you need to do is uncomment line 106 (i.e. remove the # at the beginning of the line) and comment out line 108 (i.e. add a # at the beginning of the line)

zekebaby, thank you, I'll try that right away, in both Wary 5.1.1 and Spup 099. Much appreciated.

Barry Kauler wrote:
Have you tried Simple Network Setup (SNS)?

I tested Barry's SNS with Wary 511, Spup 099 and Luci 525.
Unfortunately, all of them have problems if I log in to my office desktop (Win XP) via vpn. These puppies either refuse to build up ppp connection or lose network connection or even crash X in a few seconds after the rdesktop connection has established (restarting X helps in the latter case).
I have wired ethernet.
I am sure it is not a vpn issue because if I use Dougal's Network wizard, I can vpn for hours without any problem.

Kernel 2.6.31.14 frugal, booting with lilo. 900MHz, upped to 512MB RAM.

This is the only one of at least five computers, most newer, that will boot wary with lilo - the others cannot find the sfs file.
in the wary511 partition on /dev/hda5, with or without specifying it using append (in lilo.conf).

On exit I answer the usual questions about where to save, choose the default /wary511, and it powers off without saving. Repeatedly.
Puppy 4.31 and Pulp 01 (4.1.2 based) work fine.

i810 video (Xorg) works well here, also network setup is easy, but the i810 (?) sound is not working. It works in pulp (except if I boot with vga=791, because framebuffer somehow interferes with sound, also in Basiclinux). I think sound works in 4.31.

I checked mixer settings and nothing is muted or turned down.

Networking and seamonkey work fine. I have not tested the rest except that it freezes at a blank screen if I boot with vga=791. Pulp lets me boot that way and then modprobe fbcon (or in rc.local) once I add the modules. Wary has the modules already.

Back to pulp for a while. Has anyone else tried to boot wary with lilo?
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Here Deadbeef audioplayer and transmission p2p. compiled on 5.1.1
ttuuxxx

Here's 31 different puzzle games, there's a mines game, a Sudoku game called solo etc.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ <--Homepage
ttuuxxx

Many thanks, ttuuxxx. Much respect goes out to you. If I could aquire a quarter of your knowlege about linux, I would be happy.

Tman wrote:Many thanks, ttuuxxx. Much respect goes out to you. If I could aquire a quarter of your knowlege about linux, I would be happy.

Hi Tman

My brother lives in Toronto, Nice City, Sydney Aistralia is nice also.
As for linux, give yourself 1-2 years and you'll know a lot, This forum has tons and tons of help/info pages. Any questions feel free to ask.
ttuuxxx

Happy Easter, folks.

On to the question in hand: if this isn't considered a firefox bug, I reckon it should be.

After a fresh boot, firefox is quite lively on my venerable 560MHz 768MB PIII tower. But after I've listened to a radio station or viewed a video clip and closed down the player, firefox performance remains sluggish and scrolling is slowed. The reason is clear: the mplayer plugin hangs around even after I have closed the player window. And the plugin is one greedy brute!

I find myself regularly going to a terminal and killing the plugin-container, to allow firefox to regain most of the CPU. The obvious question is: shouldn't the plugin process die as soon as it's no longer needed?

In the snapshot here, you can see I have nothing running that needs the media player, but the idle plugin is still hogging 33% of the CPU. Does this happen on all installs? I'd like mozilla to arrange for the process to die when the player is killed.

I'm using Wary 5.1.1 frugal install, and am delighted with it (except for this 'feature' in firefox).

Shep wrote:Happy Easter, folks.

On to the question in hand: if this isn't considered a firefox bug, I reckon it should be.

I don't think that's a FF bug, more of a mplayer bug. hhhmmm try this version on wary 5.1.1 maybe http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 504#516504
VLC is the default mediaplayer and plays videos very fast, vlc search is second to none.
ttuuxxx

Shep wrote:After a fresh boot, firefox is quite lively on my venerable 560MHz 768MB PIII tower. But after I've listened to a radio station or viewed a video clip and closed down the player, firefox performance remains sluggish and scrolling is slowed. The reason is clear: the mplayer plugin hangs around even after I have closed the player window. And the plugin is one greedy brute!

On closer scrutiny, I conclude I have been targetting the wrong offender. True, playing embedded media spawns 3 processes---and 1 of them does hang around after the player tab has been closed, but this surviving process uses < 1% CPU so I'm prepared to overlook that for the present. (Though not in the long term. Each video leaves a gmplayer process occupying 7% of memory, so watching 7 video clips will, until a reboot, reduce my usable ram by 50%.)

The real culprit it seems is the s1soft.com advert at the top of the puppy forum. Even though I kill the plugin, it gets restarted the moment another forum page is loaded.

As an interim measure, I'm trying a script to kill the plugin every few seconds, though this can't be a proper solution. But losing significant CPU resources to an advert is too high a price to pay. I'll have to get rid of that video somehow, hopefully without influencing the other tabs.

EDIT: Adblock Plus came to my rescue.

Re my post on page 9 of this thread.
gdmap crashes in wary 511.

I might have found the problem.

After changing the host name I couldn't print to pdf anymore. So I stumbled upon this thread
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64346
After following Roy's suggestion gdmap in Wary crashed repeatedly.
Finally it dawned on me that the file .Xauthority might be the culprit for this behaviour. And it was. So I undid that and used rcrsn51's method on the same page. Now gdmap works fine again.
Problem solved.