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PM sent, oz. and thanks.

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Well ozsouth, nope to Mint, it's Puppy for me til I croak. I used Ubuntu back in the Gibbon days hated it and then found Puppy 3 series, and never looked back. To me Mint/Ubuntu is like driving a school bus when you're used to DIY dune buggy. Presently F96-CE v4 with the tweaks I've made does everyt...

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Also: mint@mint:~$ glxinfo | grep Mesa client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI Device: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (RPL-P) (0xa7a0) OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (RPL-P) OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 OpenGL version string: 4.6 ...

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Thanks ozsouth. From the live install ISO on thumbdrive: mint@mint:~$ lsmod > /mintmods.txt bash: /mintmods.txt: Permission denied mint@mint:~$ sudo lsmod > /mintmods.txt bash: /mintmods.txt: Permission denied mint@mint:~$ su Password: su: Authentication failure so irritating..... So I just lsmoded ...

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Gee I wish I had. They must be worth a couple grand, now!

I honestly believe the web will self destruct in a few years, so you may have made wise purchase! Hope I'm wrong, but we'll see....

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The forum is working well here now.

But, I wouldn't be surprised if the internet was totally unusable in five years.

Time to stock up on "Forever Stamps"

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Finally got ti to work after Gparted again, rewriting partition table, formatting to FAT32, then using stickpup in F96CE v4 to write the ISO to stick. Rebooting into v5 alpha3, unfortunately seeing all of the old problems on this new laptop (listed in sig) : no touchpad function (have to use a USB M...

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I can't get the ISO to boot off of a thumbdrive. Tried stickpup, f2stickpup and # dd bs=4M if=~/Downloads/ISOs/F96-CE_5-alpha3.iso of=/dev/sda status=progress oflag=sync It always jumps to main drive Grub and my normal boot screen. Downloaded twice. # sha1sum F96-CE_5-alpha3.iso 79ff5840991aeb8cb666...

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After a full day of use the touchpad is error free. No jumps or freezes. No inadvertent jumps while typing. Let's hope this is the end to touchpad problems on this laptop. I'm pretty confident at this point that we're good to go. I do wonder whether the change from synaptics to libinput is do-able i...

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F96-CE works best on this laptop so far and libinput touchpad is being tested on it now. It's been working perfectly for a day, so far. I also have Bookworm64 along with 6 other pup/dog distros as well as EasyOS frugal installed on this laptop. Bookworm64 does have its own problems, OOTB touchpad: r...

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I'm using the new high powered notebook listed in my sig with F-96 CE v.4. I've installed a late huge kernel (also in sig) to get touchpad working, plus some additional firmware to get its network card working. Problems were to be expected because of the overall newness of the hardware. Issues left ...

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I'm going to try to use libinput instead of synaptics as the touchpad driver. This is accomplished by symlinking /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ . When that is done, it takes precedence over higher numbered configuration files in the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d1...

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I was able to regain touchpad control finally by opening the computer's BIOS manager, and then closing it again without actually changing anything. However, touchpad usage is flakey, sorry to say, on this laptop with F96-CE despite all of the settings I've tried. Things seem to work for a short whil...

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Thanks Mike I've installed the 9.3 Wine portable, and really like it! Is it doing what you wanted it to do ? Most of my own Windoze apps are still 32-bit, though I do find the occasional one that insists a 64-bit is available, and to please install that instead. And then it quits on me..... At leas...

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All was well for a few days, but I started to notice some cursor freeze-ups again last night. Generally I could wrangle my way out of them by left clicking and randomly moving a finger on the touchpad. And then rebooting without saving. BUT this afternoon I tried that, rebooted, unfortunately having...

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I've noticed a few times that when I load an older SFS it doesn't actually appear -- for instance an older 5 series LibreOffice which once loaded should appear in /opt doesn't appear there afterwards. However it is listed in Boot Manager as loading at boot time (though it doesn't) and if I click on ...

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I have one irritating issue with the volume control app on the new laptop in sig, below. It is automatically changing its mute settings based on whether I plug in wired headphones or use bluetooth headphones. If I use bluetooth headphones, all is well, but if later change to wired headphones the hea...

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Thanks Mike, 9.3 works great. AND, it runs old Google Sketchup 7 and 8, which as I probably repeat ad nauseum by now, is my only WINE must-have capability. Nice to be able to move up this far in wine versions and still run the old standby programs from a dozen years or so ago. And in a portable appl...

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Here's FBReader in use. I really like the ability to change fonts, colors, layout and the presentation of the library with this program. Smooth page turning with arrow keys is pleasantly animated, Clean graphics inclusion with epubs, nice tables of content, all around nice formatting. Night reading ...

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SUCCESS! I was able to run Mike Walsh's portable Wine 9.3 from here: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=10955 and load FBReader by the way you worked out mouldy and it works. :thumbup: I wouldn't just install Wine for FBReader, but I do use Wine quite a lot for CAD (old Google Sketchup 7 a...

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Thanks Mike I've installed the 9.3 Wine portable, and really like it!

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I have the portable working well, these days, and I like it quite a bit now. I did not understand it fully before. I get it now.

New different question:
Is it possible set up a wine64 prefix with the portable (presently using the wine 5.11 version) to run a 64 bit win program?

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Hmmm, I'm using day-today a Wine Portable with the v 5.11 Wine appimage in it.

I believe that's 32 bit, and FBReader is 64 bit, or needs a 64 bit wine prefix....

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@mouldy Thanks again. Agree with what you say -- posts crossed..... I'd like to try the Win version on Wine. Which one did you use?

The version I downloaded was a Microsoft .msix file. Not sure how to in install that in Wine....

Whoops, I see you mentioned in your earlier post........

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I just did a little more reading about Anbox. Seems others have found it difficult to implement in Puppy, and looks like it is actually a qemu based emulator under the hood. Since I already have a qemu instance of Windows7 I could probably do the same for an instance of Android. But then this is sta...

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Thanks Flash, I answered that one but somehow managed to erase my own writing while posting. That's an early version, as mentioned, not a 2.x version which is the one of interest. Apologies for the omission.

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Wow, lots of responses so quickly! I'll try to answer briefly: williwaw Thanks, but I do already have Calibre, and my usual format is epub. I just happen to really like the old free FBReader apk I have on a tablet. Seems quite different than the early versions ( v .99 and 1.x) , and is again quite d...

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I've just tried to add my favorite book reader, FBReader to F96-CE v.4 from Puppy Package Manager. Boy, a really ugly ancient version and it crashes. Removed. I've actually only ever used the vastly better, old free Android .apk version 2.0.6 on my tablet. I really love that reader. So I'd like to f...

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After fairly extensive use tonight, I have not had a cursor freeze-up since I made those last changes. Fingers crossed...........so to speak!

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Further study.... Looks like the Synaptics config file only maps out a button area, while pSynclient activates that area as a button. So they don't actually overlap in function. Or shouldn't. With that distinction in mind, I'm trying a new setup now which seems to work to mimic my old touchpad with ...

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