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rjbrewer
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#106 Post by rjbrewer »

tubeguy wrote:
rjbrewer wrote: Ancillary:
Sennheiser 580 headphones; Headroom Supreme headphone
amp, audio image processor.
(the best investment I ever made)
800$ invested

rjb
Jealous! I've been making do with Grado SR-60's straight out of the jack on my laptop. Still, using Aqualung with the DSP set at medium sinc I get decent sounds.
Nothing shabby about those grados; They've always been "Headroom
Companys" alternate to high buck Sennheisers.

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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creakyjoe
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#107 Post by creakyjoe »

Have been using Puppy for quite a while now, have used loads of linux over the last 10 years, but Puppy kidnapped me and i'm too comfy to go back to bloated distro's, thought i'd best finally join the forums.

As to systems ~

Main linux box - Puppy 4.2.1 - Athlon XP 2800+, 1GB RAM, 64MB GeForce2 MX400 AGP, Soundlbaster Live (CT4620), 120GB Western Digital HDD.

Other boxes (i have quite a few but will only list the ones relevant to linux use) -
Puppy 4.2.0 SMP/Macpup Foxy 3.0/Win7 - Dell Optiplex 745 SFF - E6400 Core2Duo, 4GB RAM, onboard video, Soundblaster Live External (USB).
Puppy 4.2.1 - Dell Latitude P4 2GHz (laptop), 512MB RAM, GeForce2 MX series video.
Puppy 4.2.1 - Toshiba Tecra 8100 P3 600MHz (laptop), 256MB RAM.

Once in a while i run Puppy (4.2.0 SMP) via USB stick on my main Windows machine, Q6600, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD4650, onboard sound, but not often as Puppy runs so well on all the above machines.
Main Puppy (home) ~ 4.2.1 2.6.25.16, Athlon XP 2800+
Main Puppy (work) ~ 4.3.1 SMP 2.6.30.5, E2180 C2D - Both have dual monitors (Xinerama).
Other ~ 4.2.0 SMP 2.6.29.1 /Macpup Foxy 3.0/Win7 - E6400 C2D. 4.2.1 2.6.25.16 - P4 2GHz laptop.

evanzeyl
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Home Brew

#108 Post by evanzeyl »

2 x 74 GIG raptors
4 gig memory (only 2 working at present in Puppy)
2 Nvidia 8800 GTX 768mb cards, (SLI not available yet :( )
Athlon X2 6000

Mainly built for windows, But am now booting with Puppy 5.0

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Lobster
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#109 Post by Lobster »

use menu / system / system status and config / hardware info
(in Lucid) to work out what you have

This is me:
Processor 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Memory 2074MB (159MB used)
I run Puppy from DVD (now) and have Ubuntu clone SuperOS
on the hard disk

Also have Eeepc 700 for running Puppeee
and a Dell Inspiron 3500 (pentium 4) laptop running Puppy 5 (Lucid)

With these meager resources I will conquer time and space
or go crazy (Oh I dun that)
http://tmxxine.posterous.com/
Puppy Raspup 8.2Final 8)
Puppy Links Page http://www.smokey01.com/bruceb/puppy.html :D

LoboGrande
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#110 Post by LoboGrande »

My two P4 machines have recently taken a dump.

Here's what's working right now:
Turbopup Extreme 4.2(switched back from PL 4.3)
Dell Dimension XPS T700r
P3 850mhz with 768mb ram
Quantum Fireball 30gb HD set
SoundBlaster CA106 sound card
ATI AGP 4x video card
Sony CD-RW CRX-140E
Realttek RTL-8139 Ethernet card
HP 2358 keyboard with MicroInv PD430p mouse

The old warhorse
Gateway G6-350 with 600hz Katmai P3with 512mb ram
6gb Western Digital HD
Puppy 4.3(likely switching to Turbopup Extreme)

ncsu1983
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Dell Inspiron 7000

#111 Post by ncsu1983 »

-Computer-
Processor : Pentium II (Deschutes)
Memory : 255MB (82MB used)
Operating System : Lucid Puppy
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ES1968 - ESS ES1968 (Maestro 2)
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
PC Speaker
-SCSI Disks-
ATA IBM-DJSA-205
TORiSAN CD-ROM CDR_U240

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cagwait
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#112 Post by cagwait »

Currently running Browser linux which is based on Puppy 4.31 on a Fujitsu Siemens Futro A250 thin client picked up New on ebay from a IT supplier disposing of old stock for only £10

specs AMD Geode LX800 processor at 500mhz
256 mb ram
256 mb internal Flash memory

and consumes only about 12 w of power and silent :D

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Nooblet0218
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#113 Post by Nooblet0218 »

got 4 machines i use

my main desktop is

os: ubuntu 10.04
processor: amd64 athlon dual-core 4600+ 3.2Ghz
memory: 2 gb

my laptop is

os: puppy 5.0
processor: amd64 mobile athlon 3400+ 2.2Ghz
memory: 512 mb

and my second desktop is

os: puppy 4.2
processor: intel pentium 4 2.2 Ghz
memory: 512 mb

and my second laptop is

os: puppy 5.0
processor: intel celeron 2.2Ghz
memory: 512mb

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#114 Post by tubeguy »

cagwait wrote:Currently running Browser linux which is based on Puppy 4.31 on a Fujitsu Siemens Futro A250 thin client picked up New on ebay from a IT supplier disposing of old stock for only £10

specs AMD Geode LX800 processor at 500mhz
256 mb ram
256 mb internal Flash memory

and consumes only about 12 w of power and silent :D
Nice! Slick little kit, perfect for Puppy.
[b]Tahr Pup 6 on desktop, Lucid 3HD on lappie[/b]

maxpolaris
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My System

#115 Post by maxpolaris »

averatec 3200 five hndred twelve mb ram mobile sempron one.6 ghz dvd 802g wlan
dead hard drive messed op keyboard
hey this laptop was on my jonk pile for 3 yrs. booted poppy loocid .5 on one gigabyte stick
hahaha. gotta love it so cool. thanx to the pengooinistas.
newby to *nix. i coold not believe it when this thing booted op
got online browsing and downloading and listening to cd's hehehe so cool.

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Nican Tlaca
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#116 Post by Nican Tlaca »

After using Puppy since Dec. 2009, I finally joined the forum.

So here goes:


Old clunker #1

733 MHz emachines (2002)
256 MB RAM
18 GB HDD
USB wireless Internet antenna/adapter
Dual boot: 1) Puppy 5.01 Lucid Puppy & 2) Windows 2000 Pro
currently writing this post from this old workhorse



Old clunker #2

400 MHz Gateway Essential (1999)
256 MB RAM
40 GB HDD
USB wireless Internet antenna/adapter
Dual Boot: 1) Puppy 4.3.1 & 2) Windows 98
Snappy performance and wireless connection runs better than OEM Win98


Old clunker #3

933 MHz Gateway Performance (2001)
512 MB RAM
250 GB HDD
USB wireless Internet antenna/adapter
Triple boot: 1) Xubuntu-LXDE, 2) Puppy 5.01, 3) Windows XP
Puppy runs like a horse on this machine


I'm really surprised to see so many people using fairly new hardware with Puppy. I thought it was going to be a bunch of people with dinosaurs like mine.

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Nican Tlaca
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#117 Post by Nican Tlaca »

cagwait wrote:Currently running Browser linux which is based on Puppy 4.31 on a Fujitsu Siemens Futro A250 thin client picked up New on ebay from a IT supplier disposing of old stock for only £10

specs AMD Geode LX800 processor at 500mhz
256 mb ram
256 mb internal Flash memory

and consumes only about 12 w of power and silent :D

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Too cool, man...too cool.

And all for a sweet price, too.
What next, running Puppy out of a toaster?

The Old Sourdough
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List your system

#118 Post by The Old Sourdough »

Nican Tlaca wrote:After using Puppy since Dec. 2009, I finally joined the forum.

Me too.

snip

'm really surprised to see so many people using fairly new hardware with Puppy. I thought it was going to be a bunch of people with dinosaurs like mine.
I'm running 4.3 on an old ASUS P5A mainboard/AMD K6-2 533mHz/768 meg PC100 RAM/13.6 gig HDD/Permedia 8 meg PCI video/Soundblaster Live/and an old unnamed NIC that I found in the trash (no kidding!) Runs just fine!
I resurrected most of the machine from the top shelf in the hall closet where it had been gathering dust for a few years. :-)

dogged
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#119 Post by dogged »

I have Puppy 4.1.2 Retro running well on a Thinkpad 760XD that was manufactured in 1997.
It has 104MB of memory, a 166MHz Pentium MMX processor, a modern 320GB hard drive,
and no USB. I did a hard disk install, including a 1GB swap partition.


The good:
Puppy boots my machine in 102 seconds. It has great hardware compatibility.
The display is 1024x768 with 16 bit color. The display is -fast-.
A command like "cat *.c" does not have any trouble writing quickly
to the screen, unlike some other distros.

Networking works fine, I successfully use a 3Com PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet card
and a Cisco Aironet 350. (Like all PCMCIA wireless cards, only WEP
encryption is supported.)

My "5 in 1" PC card reader with a 1 gigabyte memory card works fine.
It is a convenient way to copy files.

I installed the devx_412.sfs package, so now I have a C compiler,
a C++ compiler, Perl, and Bash.

I recompiled the kernel specifically for the Pentium MMX processor.
Recompilation took several hours, but it improved the boot time and memory footprint.

As Wikipedia says, Puppy "is not based on any other distribution."
That's really a plus. Last year I tried many distros on another old
machine, and it seemed like they all had the same bugs. Puppy gives you -new- bugs! :-)

A full backup of the 16gb partition takes 130 minutes. Here is how I do it:
1. Boot from wakePup and the CD
2. Make sure that hda1 is not mounted and that hda3 is mounted.
3. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/hda3/backup.2010.aug2.dd bs=2M
That backup can be mounted using loopback if you ever need to recover
a few specific files.

The Setup icon helped me configure what services I wanted.
I was able to disable cups by renaming the cups file in /etc/rc.d/init.d
and using chmod to make it not executable.

The ftp daemon is easy to use. It gives a good way to copy files back
and forth to my regular PC.

Puppy gives me a familiar Linux environment.


The bad:
The 760XD has a loud shrill fan that turns on after about 30 minutes.
It is very unpleasant.

The 760XD will not boot from CD. Instead, you will need to use
wakePup and an external diskette drive. I used the proprietary 46H5748
Thinkpad drive which has a unique connector.

The BIOS does not support dual boot. I tried a lot of tricks, and
just could not make it work. In fact, the Puppy hard disk install would not
boot until I shrank the hda1 partition to 800mb. Once I got the hard disk install
to successfully boot, I resized hda1 to 16GB and all is well.

The browser works, but this machine is not up to the task of displaying
many of today's web pages. For example, when the browser is already
loaded, it takes almost 30 seconds to load the eBay home page. The mwave sound
card is not compatible with Puppy or any other Linux. With no sound and
a limited video card, any kind of web video is pretty much hopeless.

The disk seems really slow. Thanks to the forum I found out about
hdparm, and discovered that this box does not support DMA! However,
it helps to add this statement to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit right after functions4puppy4:
hdparm -A1 -c3 -m16 /dev/hda

Some of the fonts do not work.

I put the appropriate settings in .Xdefaults, but they do not have any effect
on my favorite editor. Instead, I had to recompile the editor to get all my
favorite defaults. Puppy compiled more than 20000 lines of C in about 5 minutes.
Congratulations Barry, the compilation had no problems with libraries or
external variables.

Nothing in the operating system can really get around the machine's
basic limitations. It's still just a 166MHz processor with 104MB of memory.


Conclusion:
Puppy lets me get the most possible function from this old hardware.

dogged
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#120 Post by dogged »

(duplicate post, never mind)

sindi
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Puppy 4.31 and Pulp

#121 Post by sindi »

Works great on Thinkpad 560x (233MHz, 96MB, using Pulp01) except can't get sound to work.
The laptop no longer boots from any hard drive so I boot to floppy and then use
loadlin from the hard drive.

Works perfectly on Thinkpad 600E (400MHz, 288MB, Puppy 4.31) with dead onboard mouse
which had to be disabled with a hex editor before the laptop would boot. Lilo.

Also on a Thinkpad 770E (266MHz, 228MB, Puppy and Pulp) which lost its floppy controller
and then stopped booting from any hard drive. I boot to MRCC (?) DOS Clean using
Ultimate Boot CD (a regular DOS boot CD won't do it) and then use loadlin.

These last two required manual setup of CD4237B sound and some adjustments to
BIOS (acpi=off, forget what else but full instructions were online some place).

The two slower models (did not check the 400MHz) crash using Puppy 4.31
mplayer but work with pulp mplayer, which appears to have been compiled
for i586 (PII without MMX2 or AMD-K6-2). The i586 version works on newer
computers and should be standard. (Also mplayer source code was set to
compile for i486 architecture with the i686 cpu - I hand edited when
I compiled my own mplayer).

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DELL D600 - everything works great except the 1.6GHz cpu runs at 600MHz even
with the correct power supply and Speedstep set correctly (I even downloaded
and ran an XP program for the Speedstep bug), and the battery
charges but the computer recently stopped being able to run off it even
fully charged (30 min > 0 min in one day). We had to replace the keyboard.
(Had two dead D600s to rob it from). Typing on it right now.
From a friend who was tired of replacing batteries.
It was running at full speed until halfway through a netflix movie
and has not gone back to full speed since, and keeps complaining about
the DELL 4.6A power supply that we provided it with (OEM, right one)
not being identifiable. Works the same with 3.5A. Lacks a floppy drive.

Another DELL 900MHz (don't have it here) works okay except that if you
use framebuffer console (in Pulp linux - I can't find fbcon for puppy 4.31)
sound disappears. In Puppy and also Basiclinux. It has an odd USB port which I
had to compile a special kernel for in Basiclinux but it works in Puppy.
This came to us because it was running at a crawl with XP and Norton (some
driver conflict). No antivirus needed any more. Sound was turned down
AND muted by alsaconfig but works now. This one only worked with the 2.6.30.5
kernel - with all other laptops I use the retro kernel but the hardware is
screwy in various ways.

A DELL Latitude 300MHz works well with puppy (if you plug in a keyboard,
since the onboard one finished dying over the course of a few days after
it came to me). Sound is crummy but usable. I had to change a BIOS setting
which was causing the CPU to run at very low speed during boot, and we
put black electrician's tape on the mouse buttons so they would stay put.

-----------------

Two Compaq AMD-K6-2 machines which need i586 mplayer:

Compaq Presario 1200 - 475MHz, 32MB onboard memory plus 128MB added and
a 200MHz swapfile. Pulp 01 (I started with 96MB).
Alsa sound works well (oss driver for via82cxxx does not play any sound).
I forget if I chose Xvesa or Xorg. Firepup 4 crashes with illegal instruction
when it loads, Seamonkey crashes with illegal instruction when I try
to access Google Voice, and Opera 9.64 has very scrambled video
(big black areas). I should try the other X. Basiclinux works with
all three browsers (Xfbdev) with no problems so it could be the
video. I will try to find Xfbdev for Pulp (4.12 kernel) or use
DSL linux instead. AMD-K6-2 runs slower than rated speed so
it takes forever to start the browsers anyway. Makes a nice radio
using lynx with lynx.cfg set to use mplayer as VIEWER/DOWNLOADER..
(Oddly enough, this one was given to us with no hardware problems
unless you count only 32MB RAM). 800x600x16 color. It has one
double-thick PCMCIA slot which is perfect for a red NIC card that
takes up the whole space and won't fit in most computers.

Compaq Presario 1675. 380MHz, 64MB onboard, and it recently stopped
recognizing the 128MB added RAM so won't run regular Puppy. It came
with Win2k (very slow boot now) and a power jack that needed to be
resoldered, and I had added Basiclinux, which worked fine except
yesterday the pcmcia port seems to have died (error message about
not finding a bridge) so I copied pulp to hda2 and attempted to
install lilo to dual boot with 2K. I set pulp as default and it
booted to Basiclinux. (I had to copy the bootsector via floppy).
I installed lilo to floppy and it booted partway into Pulp then
'loading kernel modules' and it stopped. Don't know if this is
related to the design or the broken pcmcia. I had hoped to
try with USB wireless. Might try DSL live CD with USB wireless,
or use itas an MP3/CD player with pulp. Sound works fine in Basiclinux.

----------------------

A 900MHz HP Pavilion N5415 that came to us with dead pcmcia
and some odd controller problems (XP sometimes sees the CD-RW
drive to write to but can always read from it,
and sometimes finds USB headphones). Works fine with Puppy.
Crummy sound unless you plug in speakers or headphone. Does 1280
resolution but with Basiclinux/mplayer DVDs play in the middle
half of it at 800 and won't fill the screen (Xfbdev, Xvesa,
svga, vesa, fbdev).
Gxine (Puppy) and SMplayer (XP) I think do fullscreen.
A few keys are loose but go back on easily. Runs quite hot.

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Winbook XLi -300MHz, upped it to 256MB RAM, comes with both
types of laptop mouse, both PS/2, both recognized by Basiclinux
but Puppy could not find either so I had to plug in serial or
USB mouse. Sound works in Basiclinux but could not make it
work in Puppy. (Crummy sound anyway). Basiclinux keyboard
and mouse freeze up when you do anything graphical due to
some kernel bug in 2.4.31 and earlier. I installed 2K and
everything works, except we had to take apart and repair
the floppy drive.

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Gateway Solo 2000 200MHz 110MB RAM (three slots using some
strange RAM and that is all I could round up), given to us
because video did not work in Win98 with text expansion.
Sound appears to have died (I think it worked with Win98)
but it works okay otherwise with puppy 4.31. High quality
screen and keyboard, quite light especially if you remove
floppy, CD-ROM and battery.

These were all given to us free by friends and other people
whose computers or other things we fixed. The under 300MHz
models are quite slow to load graphical browsers, and semi-
recent browsers need more than 96MB total RAM. So my cutoff
for puppy on the internet is 200MHz 96MB. Lots of those
around free for the fixing. You can even sort of watch
Youtube at 400MHz (a series of stills).

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Moose On The Loose
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Re: List your system

#122 Post by Moose On The Loose »

brymway wrote:If this has been done, can someone please link me to it?

Otherwise....I am always really interested at reading what each of you are running Puppy on.
My EEPC-701 is running pupeee. The pupeee is installed on one of my 3 USB hard drives that I can plug into the 3 USB ports. This means that I have a machine with 4.5T of hard drive. The purpose of this machine is just to show it can be done. I can edit videos on it.

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Re: Puppy 4.31 and Pulp

#123 Post by RetroTechGuy »

sindi wrote:Works great on Thinkpad 560x (233MHz, 96MB, using Pulp01) [...]

Works perfectly on Thinkpad 600E (400MHz, 288MB, Puppy 4.31) [...]

Also on a Thinkpad 770E (266MHz, 228MB, Puppy and Pulp) [...]

DELL D600 - everything works great except the 1.6GHz cpu runs at 600MHz even [...]

Another DELL 900MHz [...]

A DELL Latitude 300MHz [...]

Two Compaq AMD-K6-2 machines [...]

Compaq Presario 1200 - 475MHz, [...]

Compaq Presario 1675. 380MHz, [...]

A 900MHz HP Pavilion [...]

Winbook XLi -300MHz, upped it to 256MB RAM [...]

Gateway Solo 2000 200MHz [...]
:lol: :lol: :lol:

OK, have you been raiding my "technology pile"!!??... :lol: :lol: :lol:

That's an impressive report!
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jabu2
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Puppy on Laptops list elsewhere

#124 Post by jabu2 »

see CatDude's Puppy on Laptops list topic
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 92&t=51474
Last edited by jabu2 on Mon 31 Oct 2011, 02:44, edited 1 time in total.

xKF
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Via Epia 5000 & Puppy 3.01

#125 Post by xKF »

As a 15-year Linux user I've had many systems I've custom built, most of them being ITX-based. I love small and quiet!

My most recent creation was built from old parts. It consists of:

1. Via Epia 5000 motherboard with a Via Samuel 2 533MHz CPU
2. On-board Trident Cyberblade graphics
3. 384MB of SDRAM
4. 20GB 2.5" IDE HDD

I've loaded it up with Puppy 3.01 and can play smooth DivX files with it!

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