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[jemimah]

[dawnsboy]

I recently purchased a new Acer Aspire One D255 netbook with Windows XP Home pre-installed. It features the Intel Atom N450 1.66GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, with webcam, GMA 3150 video adapter. The Windows XP was already optimized for the environment and runs pretty well. So naturally I wanted to put Fluppy on it.

I defragged the hard drive and used gparted to shrink it. I created a new partition at the end of the drive and formatted it for use with Linux. I initially setup the install with Lucid 5.1 as this is the only version of Puppy that will boot from the external (usb) cd. I manually installed Fluppy 010 afterwards.

Fluppy boots just fine. All of the initial setup options were already reflected in the initial boot dialogue. The desktop and selection of applications found in the menu (I scrolled through the menu using the windows key and the arrow keys) look good.

Here is the problem. Fluppy does not detect my external usb mouse, the touchpad, the webcam or any item that I may plug into a usb port such as the cd drive or usb flash drive. I noticed that essentially the same issue exists in Lucid 5.2.


Is there anything I can do about this problem?

[shinobar]

ANNOUNCE: Updated firstrun-1.7
/usr/sbin/countrywizard.qs
Fix change_xrandr was crash with multiple monitors
It does not support 'qc'(Quebec). You can add the entry in the /usr/share/i18n/keymaps as jemimah found.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58312

[magerlab]

i'd like to if new fluppy goes too far from 10 version:)

on eee pc 701 i used puppeee upgrade with the same savefile
and it worked ok

new osd and gtk(?) notifications are looking good

[jemimah]

[jemimah]

[dawnsboy]

Jemimah wrote:

[nooby]

dawnsboy, I ahve both same machine as you have but also the older? D250 and I use Fluppy 8, 9, amd 10 on that one with usb mouse and I write from it now.

But the D255 are much more "touchy" and nervous? but as I remember it did actually accept to use usv mouse. I tested two different makes on it.

Dell and Labtec.

Do you have them attached when you boot up?

Ooops I do frugal boot and you have a full install. Maybe Jemimah knows if that change how it respond to hardware during the script or BIOS doing post? Late at night here so I go silent.

[dawnsboy]

Actually I did a frugal install. The mouse was the least of my worries as the touchpad, webcam and usb ports do not work with Fluppy010. I was able to test touchpad and external mouse simply by attempting to use them. Flash drives plugged into usb ports were not detected. I checked the webcam by pressing the windows key which caused the icewm menu to popup. From there I used the arrow keys to start the webcam application. It reported an error and could not find the webcam.

[nooby]

dawnsboy , we have to ask Jemimah about it. I know too little.

[maxpro4u]

I just tried to do a full install from a remastered fluppy10 CD. The cd boots fine and runs well but when I tried to install it- upon reboot the boot stalls with "sh-3.00". Does anyone know what that means?

[jemimah]

What type of install is it? How far did it get before hanging?

[maxpro4u]

[nooby]

on one old HP/Compaq I had both full install and frugal install and that way I could boot into the frugal to ask things and then go back to the full and test out the suggestions forum members had.

Take very little space to have a say 1GB of frugal install?

[nooby]