Did you use the Virtual Keyboard dotpup I recently posted? If so, thanks! Your Virtual Keyboard is working correctly. Virtual Keyboard makes no sound by itself. It is only a controller, meaning it provides the triggers and the on/off signals for whatever you are using next in the chain to generate ...

There is an unrpm.pup as well that works well with RPMs.

cherriepuppy is 100% correct. Simply edit menu.lst to begin with the line:

timeout=0

The GRUB menu will never pop up.

Dougal, I tried the libfst route before going with DSSI-VST. No matter how many ways I compiled them, I could not get either of the libfst programs -- FST and JACK-FST -- to work correctly. For starters, they did not work with a modern version of Wine. I had to track down some Wine version from 2003 ...

Dougal, both Qsynth and Qjackctl are QT applications. However, I included the necessary QT libraries with both the JACK-Qjackctl and Fluidsynth-Qsynth dotpups. If you already have the QT libraries installed, I believe the dotpup installer gives you the option of keeping your existing libraries or ...

Thank you both for helping spread the word. I am continuing to work on other music related applications for Puppy like Bristol/Brighton, MSS, Rosegarden-4, etc. and will provide new dotpups as they are completed. Thanks again!

As promised in another thread, I have prepared several dotpups for audio/music/home-recording applications. These were created with Puppy 1.0.8rc1 because most of them either require or work best with ALSA. Each dotpup worked on at least three computers I use -- including a lowly, 400MHz/128MB ...

Dougal, are you using one of the GUI front-ends for Ecasound or did you compile a command-line version? I was going to compile my own Ecasound but I have not yet decided between the handful of GUI front-ends that are available (TkEca, EMi, Ecmd, EcaEnveloptor, GAS, Visecas). I suppose Ecasound ...

I have ardour working quite nicely already, if you're interested. It's in the usr_multimedia.sfs extension for Grafpup, but full binary compatibility with Puppy according to all my tests. Only drawback is it will not run without an i686 processor. You know what, I completely forgot about that. I ...

I have several audio/musician dotpups I am working on that should be available in a few days. They include the following: (1) JACK and Qjackctl dotpup The well-known audio connection programs compiled from source. Qjackctl is the graphical interface for JACK that makes it a whole lot easier to use ...

I was one of the guys having problems on a 1997 Thinkpad 310ED with the Chips & Technologies 65550 video chipset (which uses the "chips" driver for Linux). The Puppy Desktop Backgroundsetter that was once a dotpup for Puppy 1 and is now incorporated into Puppy 2 caused problems with my computer ...

Mark, just to follow-up on this thread, I am able to set the background on my Thinkpad 310ED with no problem using gqview found in the gqview.pup. In fact, the resolution of the background pictures using gqview is even better than if I do not use it. Previously, if I used a vanilla Puppy 1.0.8rc1 ...

Rosegarden has some good sequencing stuff in it. If you want to try other programs that work great for MIDI and sequencing, I have recently found two other fine musician programs that work with Puppy: DSSI-VST - A VST plug-in player that allows you to play Windows-based VST instrument plug-ins (dll ...

Darn, I just compiled my own Python 2.4 from source for Puppy last week. I really need to start looking at what dotpups are already available...

MarK, I will gqview tonight to see if that works with both Puppy 2 and the Puppy 1.0.8rc1 after the Puppy Desktop Background dotpup is added. Look for a follow-up from me this weekend.

1MB Chips & Technologies 65550 chipset. What driver does it use in xorg.conf? The "chips" driver. The board is identified as a "F65550" manufactured by "Chips and Technologies" in xorg.conf. Actually, I have an idea what the problem is: the Puppy Desktop Background dotpup that is now incorporated ...

What is the video chipset for that model Thinkpad? I have a 1997 Thinkpad 310ED from around the same era with a 1MB Chips & Technologies 65550 chipset. I have problems with the Xorg for Puppy 2 no matter how I configure it, even though the Puppy 1 series worked fine with Xorg after some tweaking ...

For a quick answer, you might try searching here for some threads in the last few months regarding the use of GRUB to do a non-MBR install of Puppy on the hard-drive. If I recall correctly, there is a lengthy thread involving me, Sit Heel Speak and pekolwin getting GRUB to work. The thread contains ...

I am not sure about sixfthick, but Xvesa is no good on my Thinkpad 310ED because it only allows a setting of 640x480x16 in something akin to a letterbox format. This small screen crops most of the program windows I open and makes it difficult to use, close or even resize most of them. With Xorg, I ...

Xorg in Puppy 2 does not work correctly for my aging Thinkpad computer even though Xorg works on the same computer with Puppy 1.0.8rc1. I even tried copying the exact same configuration files that work on 1.0.8rc1 to Puppy 2 with no luck. I think the addition of the Puppy Desktop Background program ...