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szept

I'm off-topic now. You mentioned "my (your) old PC". There is good reason to believe that the "old PC" will have a longer life that the "hot" PC.

This is a very interesting link:
-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkbgZMCTUyU

I wonder what the life of a "hot" PC (or more correctly) "hot ...

Hello @szept

More info please. For example, do you/if you restart your PC does "X" load and the boot finish?
You wrote that this happened twice in the past month. You seem to be using your PC now.

Suggestions: Re-seat your RAM modules.
Unplug/re-attach cables in your system.

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rockedge & bigpup

About id-ing the version of Puppy I'm using ....

I always use PupSysInfo when I look for the Puppy version, but that is insufficient.
Example: PupSysInfo reported "this" puppy as fossapup64 9.6 (x86_64)
BigPup: "inadequate". Me: "I agree"
However, "FossaPup64_9.6. 4 " would be ...

Thank you @bigpup

The problem - dirt on the scroll wheel.

The solution: (below)

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Topic: . . Puppy Linux and document control.

Recently bigpup Pup (aka the perpetually helpful " Bigpup ") posted a note that said, "If you write to the forum, identify the version of Puppy you use uniquely."

I posted a question and got an unexpected reply from bigpup. "What version of Puppy are ...

Hello All (and woof!)

I have two mice - wireless. I like to move the screen up/down in FireFox and Libre Office using the scroll wheel on the mouse.
The mouse I'm using at the moment is Logitech M235.
My problem is that the scrolling action isn't consistent.
The solution: -> https://www ...

Hello all (and woof!)

Quoting fredx181:
"It's a pity though that the forum isn't much visited, only a handful members online everyday and little feedback on the projects.
Still I think it has it's purpose, so for me it's fine how it is."

This note describes my life with The Puppy and The ...

. . . . . Photo transfer - g24 Motorola mobile to FossaPup HDD by USB cable .
. . . . . my method (after reading replies sent to me in this thread)

Geek3579 ,

o-o-o
o-o-o MY PROCEDURE
I rebooted Puppy Linux - Fossa Pup
then I rebooted my Motorola Android G24
(this may not be necessary ...

Hello Rantanplan

perhaps, "your" answer is here : https://askubuntu.com/questions/1042234 ... or-of-grep

This link is quite helpful (and leads down a large 'rabbit hole').
It explains that the default display colors for grep are inherited from the terminal, but it's possible (I believe) to over ...

Hello all:

I use the program (or command) "grep" every day.
I would like to change the color used to display items shown by 'the switches".
You can see that the file name and paragraph number are presented in mauve and dark green.
It's difficult to read.
I would like to change these colors to ...

Well, bigpup
Thanking everyone is a big problem. I might thank mikewalsh , he's been quite helpful.
Ditto for mikeslr , I use the method he posted on this forum for installation. I guess we humans like things that work and Mike's procedure: "manual installation using the ROX file manager" works ...

Hello bigpup

I have good news and bad news!
The good news : I made the connection and transferred the files.
The bad news : I still don't understand the process - but the problem is clearly "mine" and I should find it and post a solution on the forum.

Clarity Thanks for your tip.
I'll return ...

Hello all and "woof"
I have an android mobile - Motorola.

I wish to transfer photos from the phone to FossaPup.
I made the connection/transfer in the past, but not always.

The problem seems to lie with config. settings in both the PC and phone.

On the PC, I use: Menu Places (lwr LH screen ...

Hello @rockedge:

Interesting post. I have a number of laptops from 2005 .. 2007.
At the moment I run uPupBB on these (or The Friendly Pup).
Can still access the YouTube/internet.
Mostly I watch podcasts about history.

Does KLV-Airedale include a working browser? <-- question

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To: Mr ozsouth , Mr peebee and (of course) the ubiquitious Mr bigpup

It's the end of 2024 (almost) and I'm writing to give a ' big thanks ' to you guys for your help during the year.

My desktop (my main PC) is a Gigabyte mainboard with a BIOS date from 2011. (yes, yes, sad, I know ...)
That means ...

. SETTING UP Puppy with 1.4Ghz single core Pentium "M" CPU and 1GiB RAM

Hi gychang
Booting Precise Puppy from local (80GiB/5400rpm HDD). to see desktop -> 95 seconds.
Booting TahrPUP 6.0.5 from USB 2.0 thumb drive -> 208 seconds (approx).
The browser for TahrPUP: Pale Moon. To see first (local ...

rcrsn51

In this link -> https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=6674&hilit=forcepae#p6674
you will find I had a long discussion about this topic with the well-known (and almost famous) BigPup .
BigPup is a well informed and very helpful fellow.

The answer to my Q isn't important.
I'm ...

Report on performance of a Pentium M, running Bookworm32 on a 1400MHz clock.

The CPU is busy at 55 .. 100% (idling .. opening Wikipedia)
When the desktop is idle the CPU is a little under 60% busy.
Light is using ~168MiB RAM. Xorg is using ~72MiB.

RAM -> 428 / 990 MiB (with Light running ...

Hello ozsouth
(1) 'catting' & 'grepping' cpu model info -> Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
(2) result of lspci | grep VGA -> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV28M [Geforced Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] rev a1
(3) result of lspci --n | grep etwork
-> 02:03.0 network controller ...

Hello all:

The forcepae command is used with the Pentium "M" series CPU to force compatibility (or bootability) with the Puppy OS.

Dell Inspiron D800 and 8600 laptops use the Pentium "M" CPU.
I used forcepae previously with a Dell 8600 laptop - allowed me to boot an otherwise un-bootable laptop ...

Hello All

I am setting up BookWorm Pup 32 for the first time.
This laptop will go to a new 'home' where people know only a little English .
At the moment the laptop (Dell Inspiron D800) has only 1GiB of RAM.
Never ran a Puppy with so little RAM before. (Will upgrade when I can buy some).

I need a ...

Hello all

Have a Dell Latitude D800 notebook. 32-bit CPU, with screen size that may be 1200 x 800 or 1920 x 1200. Probably the first.
Am presently trying to install a 32-bit Puppy. Some time ago I got Precise Puppy (5.2 I think) installed and working.
Now I am trying to upgrade/boot from a thumb ...

ozsouth

At the moment I am sorting out a related problem - the thumb-drive I booted slack-pup from is 'flakey'.
(By "flakey" I mean "in the bin" flakey.)
When installing/writing to the drive it would hang up, sometimes for a very long time whilst writing.
I'm replacing it now. Will continue with ...

Hello ozsouth

On booting:
Loading zRam failed.

You asked for:
dmesg | grep irmware

The result: 1.314118} acpi PNP0A03:00: [Firmware Info]: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] only partially covers this bridge
[ 1.797011] [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA ...

ozsouth
You: sorry, I assumed you'd used pets - in a running system, click on pet in filemanager to install.

Following your suggestion, the driver is in sdb3/drivers.
I clicked on rtl8814au-32k etc. I got two messages. (1) driver is loaded. Cannot load twice. (2) driver failed to load.

I ...

ozsouth

My progress report at 15:00, Wed Oct 02. In brief, after loading rtl18814au* with cut-down Puppy - no WiFi connection.
Note: I installed the driver using the petget command. I am not familiar with this command.
I discovered I must omit the extension ".pet" to make the command 'run' w/out ...

To all, including ozsouth , Jafadmin , Jassy :

OzSouth sent me three experimental files - two WiFi drivers and one cut-down Puppy iso.
His instructions (to me) were to create a bootable disk with the drivers supplied and see what happens.
I will do that later today.

I'm a novice with Puppy - even ...

ozsouth
Spec sheet accompanying dual band USB adaptor:

- - - - - - - DUAL BAND USB ADAPTOR - - - - - - - -
600 (433+150)Mbps wireless speed with 802.11ac

Specification
Standard IEEE 802.11ac, 11g, 11N, 11b.
Interface USB 2.0
Frequency Range 2.4GHz .. 2.4845GHz, 5.12 .. 5.825Ghz
Wireless Speed ...

ozsouth
You: The source from your disk would be useful for compiling a driver for this one. [/url]

Good news! I found I can read the CD!
More good news: There is zip file with source code and instructions.
Bad new! The zip file is 24MiB and Mr. Rockedge won't allow me to post a file that size ...

Jasper
Thank you for your reply.
Regarding the date of Slacko S-15.
So far as I know, the best way to discover the date is using Pup-Sys-Info.
This is what I see:
Woof - CE build is 2024-09-18
Distro base: slackware 15.0
Distro date Sep 2024.
Is this the date you expected?

Here are the ...