Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[zekebaby]

[wuwei]

Hope this is the right place to put it:

I found a strange behaviour in Wary 511:

When using gdmap it crashes when I click on the "Open" icon top left.

Terminal has this to say:

[cowboy]

[sindi]

Puppy 4.31 retro 2.6.21.7 and 4.12 (pulp 0.1)
boot on everything with loadlin or lilo. As does
a non-retro Puppy 4.31.

Tinycore boots on everything with lilo but not with loadlin.

Wary 5.11 (with scsi and modem support, about 130MB) boots with lilo
on one 700MHz Toshiba laptop, but not on three desktops,
where "wary_511.sfs not found" whether or not I steer it
to the directory with append= in lilo.conf.
(Loadlin just reboots the computer).

I have vmlinuz and initrd.gz in a FAT32 /dev/hda1
and the .sfs file in /dev/hda6 ext2. Puppy 4 similarly.

It works from live CD on at least one of the desktops.

I used lilo from hd and fd. Anything else to try?

Lupu won't even boot from CD half the time. My desktops
are circa 2001-2002, the laptop around 1999.

[zekebaby]

[cowboy]

zekebaby,

It did work in Wary 5.1.1, though I have yet to test it in spup 099. Thank you so much. Here is my winding process - tried to delete /dev/snd while up and running....no good, as there were hidden files in use that would not delete. So I rebooted as pfix=ram, mounted the warysave file, and deleted /dev/snd using rox. Upon reboot, the sound icon is back in lower right tray and sound is working on machine.

Note that I just deleted /dev/snd and not the entire /dev folder. I'd tried that in spup, and could not get it to reboot at all, so I was concerned about deleting everything in /dev. But I did it will the file was mounted so I'm going to try again, with the pfix=ram method, and see if it works.

Question - have you found this "fix" is persistent, or does the problem return after another four or five reboots?

Thank you very much!

[cowboy]

zekebaby,

I posted about this on the Luci release thread, but a fix rerwin did for some folks that had issues with black screen seizes with the 82845G Intel chip in Luci or Lupu had helped my issue with Wary 5.1.1 See here for rerwin's post, my response is on page 63 of the thread.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=507982#507982

Not sure about your chip setup, but after doing a fresh savefile in Wary 5.1.1, and installing the fix above, I had been able to reboot 15 times without loss of volume. Continuing to test, and I have fingers crossed, but looks good right now.

EDIT: Rerwin's fix HAS stabilized Wary and Spup as far as my cranky chip and screen seizures. Sadly, after one more boot, Spup volume failed. (of course). However, deleting /dev/snd has worked in both Spup and Wary to return volume.

[taca0]

I need Help with Opera Browser .

I download the last version and extract and use it. But not detects the adobe and mediaplayer plugins only the java was detected.

How I resolve that??

Thanks!

[zekebaby]

[Terryphi]

[01micko]

EDIT, this problem is resolved and irrelevant

[broomdodger]

wary511 small problems

XF-Prot-virus-scanner
The dialog box has "Click the close-box..."
but there is no close-box available

glade-3.desktop is missing the ".png"
Icon=glade-3
should be something like:
Icon=glade-3.png

-Bill

[cowboy]

[Billtoo]

Here's the Audacious music player, it plays audio cds too.

You will need to install all 4 pets for it to work.

[Billtoo]

Here's the latest Midnight Commander file manager.

It needs the slang pet installed too.