(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[JFB]

Forgive me for having nothing to really contribute... But I wanted say, somewhere, that Puppy Linux is great! In my case, It's Tahrpup 6.0.5 that is so great. I've messed around with AntiX, Bohdi, and a few others, looking for a lightweight OS to use on my old 32 bit netbooks, but nothing really seemed to work out until I tried Puppy. As I see the desktop computer world losing its mind (Windows 8 / 10, Gnome 3, Ubuntu Unity, SystemD), I'm glad that I found Puppy... That's it... See you soon... JFB

Edit: I now read this post sober, and I'm kinda embarrassed; but it's still true...

[cthisbear]

" I now read this post sober, and I'm kinda embarrassed; but it's still true... :oops: "

Can this be a case of Truth is stranger than Diction.

Over 10 years a user myself and I still feel the Doggie love as well.

Cheers matey....Chris.

[belham2]

[nic007]

Unfortunately I will have to burst a few bubbles. I agree that Puppy is a very good allround system, good enough for daily general tasks. However, it seems that Puppy and Linux in general make mostly use of generic drivers. When I installed Windows XP, I had to download system specific audio and video drivers from the manufacturers site. These drivers ultimately renders a far superior audio and video experience. I listen a lot to high quality music and also watch a lot of HD movies. The difference in quality on my Windows machine is very noticeabe compared to Puppy (using the same software, VLC in case of the movies). So, in my case, I tend to use Windows XP most of the time for a superior quality listening and viewing experience.

BTW - I'm still trying to figure out how to disable screen blanking in Tahr 605. Unlike other Puppys, this one refuses to accept anything I've tried so far (and I've tried a lot of things).

[version2013]

[s243a]

[p310don]

I used to have an issue with audio in Puppy vs Windows on the same machine.

I figured out that you need to turn up *all* of the audio controls and it is great.

[Burn_IT]

Quite a few manufacturers supply Linux drivers as well as Windows ones.
Finding and installing those will make a difference in most cases.

[Sailor Enceladus]

It sounds to me like nic007 is running some sort of sound filter on Windows. I remember having one called "Chamber" I think, I increased it's effect so much in an experiment that everything was echoing like crazy apparently, then I bought another laptop and forgot about it, then tried that laptop again a few years later, thinking my speakers or sound was broken for a few days because of the tin sounding crazy echo before realizing I added this "effect", probably for the lolz and forgot about doing it.

[nic007]

[bigpup]

Not sure about audio, but unless this computer has some kind of strange graphics hardware.
I know there are manufactures graphics drivers.
For sure, Nvidia hardware has Linux drivers, made by Nvidia.

[nic007]

[bigpup]

HP web site is probably not going to have them.
Have to go to a hardware manufactures web site.

Retrovol full window settings are usually preset.
Always need to adjust.
PCM setting has big affect on sound volume.

Right click on tray speaker icon.
Select full window.

I can not guess at the graphics hardware
So, what is it?????????

[nic007]

Couldn't find linux drivers for my compaq 6720S on HP's website.

[bigpup]

The compaq 6720S specs I looked at says it is using a Intel graphics.
Kind of stuck with the Linux kernel version of Intel driver.
A Puppy version using one of the newer kernels may give better results.
Xenialpup maybe.