I may be in the wrong forum here but what I get seems buglike to me:

I have a Gateway Solo 5150 laptop - 288mb ram PII M300

Runs Puppy 4.2.1 just fine and most of my pcmcia cards work fine - certainly the pcmcia slots are working OK.

I have a Toshiba MK5002MPL 5Gb pcmcia hard drive and when ...

The laptop in question is Gateway Solo 5150 - I added extra ram so now have the maximum for this machine (256+onboard 32) = 288 mb

The sound from Gxine is now much better - not perfect but acceptable

Ok so having blindly loaded the virtualbox_guest_additions-2.1.4.pet and got file sharing working I am left with the questions:
1) what is this pet supposed to do?
2) It swaps me from xvesa to xorg - why is this a good thing?
3) In xorg it restricts me to 1024x768 when I want 1280x1024 or 1152x864 ...

Sorry - should have all the earlier posts before any reference to shares.

More work to do .........

Hi
following the instructions in the first post and so on I got some really peculiar results. In my case it is Puppy 4.2.1 on Virtualbox 2.2.4 running on a fairly ordinary Windows XP Home installation. I did a FULL installation not a FRUGAL - this may explain what happened ?

All went well until the ...

All the ones in the know are probably saying " we thought you would be back".

Well it is true that various varieties of Unbuntu support the Toshiba MK5002MPL pcmcia disk drive - however they don't not support any of the wifi or 10/100 cards that I have and their Forum is most unsympathetic.

"Get ...

I have had a good go at making Puppy do what I want it to.

However it does not support all my hardware especially this 5GB pcmcia disk. I also loaded it on my main PC and while it runs fine further investigation suggests it too light weight for my purposes.
Great learning experience but I plan to ...

More information regarding this pcmcia 5gb hard drive.

When it is inserted into pcmcia slot 0 the following is recorded by dmesg:

pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
scsi4 : pata_pcmcia
ata5: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0x100 ctl 0x10e irq 3
ata5.00: ATA-0 ...

I would like to add my interest in this topic:
My Toshiba pcmcia Hdd is the 5gb MK5002MPL.

In my case it is on a Gateway Solo 5150 - works fine in Windows XP but not a sniff in Puppy. So far apart from teething problems its the only piece of kit that does not yet work and so far the Puppy has been ...

I can take no credit for this - the need to re-apply alsasetup after each reboot is fixed by:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37800
read it to the end
my thanks to the guys who know a lot more than me.

sound from Gxine playing CD is still intermittent and harsh but Pmusic is ...

After much messing about I can report the following:

1) In The ALSA WIZARD I deliberately reset the sound card to the wrong card type - choosing instead of the correct es18xx the "legacy ISA (non-PnP)"

I let this process complete and of course it failed totally and definitely no WoofWoof

2) I ...

I am a newbie on Puppy but not on computers.
I am running Puppy 4.2.1 from 20gb hard drive on a Gateway Solo 5150 - PII M300 with 228+32 mb ram.
This has a an ESS ES1879 sound card with the following values (read from the dual booting and working Windows XP)

Base I/O address 240 - 24F
DMA channel 1 ...

I cannot play a CD in Pmusic or Gxine or AlsPlayer.

The CD plays but the sound is very poor quality and intermittent.

I tried setting up the AlsaPlayer so that it found my sound card - it did ineed find the correct card and install stuff for it and it rewarded me with a woof on completion ...

I guess I am probably fairly typical of many home computer users - retired but have used the large zoo animals for many years.

I have a network consisting of a main PC running Windows XP (2.4ghz "gb ram) , ADSL broadband connection , two network printers (one on HP Jetdirect and one on Linksys ...

I guess I am probably fairly typical of many home computer users - retired but have used the large zoo animals for many years.

I have a network consisting of a main PC running Windows XP (2.4ghz "gb ram) , ADSL broadband connection , two network printers (one on HP Jetdirect and one on Linksys ...