I was recently gifted a hp/Compaq nx6125 laptop (1.6GHz, 1.37 GB RAM, 40GB HDD) with an ailing XP installation that I think would be a fine candidate to be Puppyfied. I have managed to defrag the drive in preparation for installation. It has various usb boot options in BIOS (usb floppy, superdisk, C...

Using xorgwizard, try the demo. By demo, do you mean using the "test" button after selecting screen resolution? That gives a quick flash of a grey screen and then goes to a report screen that shows 0 Hz for both horizontal and vertical frequency. I know that if a resolution is successful,...

My desktop (Dell 2.2Ghz Celeron, 640 MB, 40 GB HDD) is now hanging up starting X. It get as far as the black screen, with an "X" that I can move with the mouse but won't go any further . This is a full install that I have been using for more than an year. I have tried running e2fsck on the...

Hi You might try copying the pup_202.sfs file from the CD to your hdd. Put it in / or c\ (top level) HTH - regards - Ray Now this is unethical, immoral and so devious ... why didn't I think of that! I love it! It works! I used Win2K to copy pup_412.sfs from the 4.12 Retro Live-CD to the C:\ directo...

Your machine is quite old, so try 4.12 Retro, and perhaps 4.3.1 Retro: Just tried 4.12 Retro. Same old story: "Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives...pup_412.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console... /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off" What puzz...

I have been using Puppy almost exclusively for a couple of years on various machines, and have never had this much trouble booting from a piece of hardware. The machine: DELL Latitude LT laptop 266 MHz, maximum of 64 MB, 6 GB hard drive, booting from an external CD connected to the PCMCIA/CardBus sl...

What I do is boot from the live cd... If only it were that simple. Having now tried 2.14X, I can report that it fails to completely boot, just like all the other versions. I have now a swap partition via Deli Linux (Thanks, zenfunk), and things seem to be booting okay, "Loading kernel modules,...

I'm D/Ling RC5 now. What kind of chance of this working on this: Dell Latitude LT: 266 MHz MMX, maxed at 64 MB RAM, 6GB HDD, with external CD, no floppy, and a BIOS that won't allow USB boot. I've tried various Live-CDs from 4.3 down to 3.01(2.6.18 something kernel). They all hang up at "Search...

Getting it to be work with WPA was giving me fits. I found a guy in the Gentoo forum who solved it by going to a newer kernel from 2.6.25.x to 2.6.26.x, I believe it was. Since I was running TurboPup Extreme with the 2.6.25.16 kernel, I tried LuPu 5.0 Live with the 2.6.33.2. Network Wizard didn't au...

Good call on the rndis_wlan module, thank you, tempestuous. After verifying device ID, Network Wizard was happy with rndis_wlan, and saw available networks and connected and negotiated DHCP properly.... as long as the network was unencrypted. Now, WPA stops everything. The wizard times-out during th...

I've had good luck running various PCMCIA wireless network cards on Puppy on this machine, but I'm evaluating this USB card for future use. This usb network adapter, Linksys WUSB54GSC, is giving me trouble. Apparently version 1, it appears to have the Broadcom BCM43xx chipset, not the Ralink as in t...

I'm trying out different versions of Puppy and want to do it without using a CD. I have a CD drive on a docking port/base station for this laptop, a Toshiba Portege 7020CT, but I don't like to carry it around. It also doesn't have a CD burner, so I have to use another machine anyway. Instead, I down...

Try the "ldconfig" command. Now THAT'S service, 8 minutes!! Thanks, ldconfig worked like a charm. What does that command do (yeah, I ought to look it up myself)? Does it make use of PKG_CONFIG_PATH? Again thanks, rcrsn51. I hope I won't be a n00b forever. Edit: I think this post belongs u...

I'm trying to download pictures from my Canon A710 IS . gtkam recognizes the camera, but attempting to download gives... Could not get file list for folder '/store_00010001' and from the commandline, gphoto2 --list-files gives ... Loading camera drivers from '/usr/l... | \ 0.0% Loading camera driver...

Still no luck with WPA on the Linksys WRT54g v4. (with dd-wrt) and D-Link wireless card combo. Further research seems to indicate the D-Link doesn't have the hardware to negotiate WPA-AES (WPA2). Any ideas to try out? So far, in summary, with the D-Link card, OK with either router when unencrypted, ...

Now that I have retried connecting using the same commands that were successful on the Westell 327W router, they still don't work on the Linksys54g router. This makes me think the problem may be as much how the Linksys router works, rather than just being the D-link wireless card problem. Just for t...

Just an idea: My puppy connects only using WPA2 and not WPA, even if the router says it supports WPA and WPA2. ... An interesting idea,though when I tried it, the D-Link wouldn't work with WPA2 while the Belkin worked with both WPA2 as well as WPA. I think I had no luck with WEP with either card th...

I'm having problems establishing a wireless connection with a D-Link DWL-650+ A1 CardBus wireless card, supposedly with a TI ACX100 chipset, to a WPA-PSK encrypted access point. I have good connection when the encryption is turned off. The(ancient) hardware: Toshiba Portege 7020CT (PII 366 MHZ, 196 ...

mikeb wrote:try deleting /root/.fonts.cache.... might help

mike

Mike, I have now deleted this, to no avail(actually it was /root/.fonts1.cache). What else might I try?

Thanks,
H.J.

I'm currently running 4.2 full install and had a crash while trying to configure a wireless card. Rebooting, I had problem starting X. I recovered X by booting from the LiveCD with pfix=ram and copying the xorg.conf to my hard drive /etc/X11. So far, so good. ... Until I noticed that my files have O...