Hi Woodlark, Yes, Skype works identically well on my frugal pup421 (kernel 2.6.25.16) system as it does on pup431. This is on a Dell Latitude D610 laptop - both pups use Xorg with 1024x768. I should add that my Skype does indeed support video calls (although it doesn't explicitly mention video in th...

I couldn't get my camera working in Xvesa - but it was fine with Xorg

Thank you rjbrewer & moeller88533 for your suggestions. Further to my above message I killed the running process:- 5682 5618 root S 10616 1% 0 0% absvolume -bg #DCDAF5 then left-clicked /usr/bin/absvolume - there was left-shift of open-windows in the taskbar but no loudspeaker icon appeared - ju...

Hi Fernan, Yes the soundcard is working fine - pup431 identifies it as : Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH6 Also, right-clicking the space where the icon should be brings up Zmixer - the Master and PCM sliders control playback sound fom mp3 files and the microphone slider controls input from my exter...

Thanks for the suggestion Beem but running the alsa wizard again has no effect on the icon. Things I've tried:----- ALSA sound wizard - all options Multiple sound card wizard - all options search for mixer icon mention in all :- /root/.jwm/ files /root/.jwmxxxx files puppy google search - only turne...

This is a puzzle more than a problem. I have a grub-booted frugal pup431 on a Dell Latitude D610 laptop which behaves perfectly - BUT - the mini loudspeaker JWM tray-icon next to blinky has gone AWOL. It's missing but left-clicking the blank space gives me a volume-slider (which doesn't contol anyth...

Thank you Downsouth and Beem. I found and installed xbacklight-1.1.pet
(which I attach for anyone interested)

Now xbacklight lets me control my Samsung N110 netbook screen brightness from the command line.

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I have a Samsung N110 netbook which came with WXP installed & which I now use extensively with USB-Flash pup431. The N110 normally uses WXP Function soft-keys to control volume & brightness - but these don't work under pup431. The volume control is no problem because I can use Alsamixer and ...

I have frugal pup431 with converted OpenOffice-3.0-sfs4.sfs (which puts the 6 Openoffice icons on the desktop). I made the Openoffice apps the defaults for doc, xls, database files etc etc by the following method.(I'll use a doc file as an example). Right click on a doc file & select 'set-run-ac...

In my frugal pup431 libgio-2.0.so.0 is a symlink to libgio-2.0.so.0.1800.3 they are both in /usr/lib

Hope this helps

@Eastern Counties I assume you mean physically connected, i.e., you swapped the little plugs that connect into the drives? Yes that's exactly what I meant - the ribbon-cable plugs from the motherboard. For newer PC's if all drives are set to 'Computer-select' - the drive at the end of the ribbon is ...

On my frugal pup431 I can get to the mini icons from /root/puppy-reference/mini-icons. Once there - opening a terminal-window in the folder & typing pwd shows the 'real' location is /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons.

Some of these are the ones in my menu

Good Luck

Thank you seaside for your I exchange files often with my wife's Mac and Puppy using this very simple server setup described here using Python- http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-really-simple-http-server-python Works very well and is easy to setup. Pup431 has python built in and the tip w...

I have a bootable 8G usb-flash made as follows 1) a 5.3G fat32 partition (sdb1) which will be visible to Linux and WXP 2) a bootable 2.3G ext2 partition (sdb2) for puppy431 The size/contents of the sdb2 partition are shown in fig1 The whole desktop is shown in fig2 --- the pup431 folder in /mnt/home...

Read the Skype installation notes here - they suggest you download the static skype for Linux, untar(unzip) the folder & use a symlink. No installation required. Works for me

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 799#332799

Good Luck

I've installed skype onto my frugal puppyLinux 431 by downloading skype_static-2.1.0.47.tar.bz2 from the Skype.com website and using it as described in this message link http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=332799#332799 ie untarring it and renaming the folder to skype, placing the whole...

For what it's worth I had a similar problem with pups 4.1 thru 4.31 on my Dell Dimension 2400 PC which had a CD-RW plugged in as sr0 and a DVD/CD-RW plugged in as sr1. This configuration would never symlink /dev/dvd to /dev/sr1 and I could never get a dvd to play - UNTIL I reconnected both drives so...

You could also check this page for a possibly simpler solution.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37116

Thanks to everyone to wrote in this article and thanks Paddy for your ref to the M'Soft Lifecam VX-700. I had tried a couple of cheapo webcams with no success but this worked out of the box on my frugal pup421 and pup431 - all I had to do was use Xorg rather than Xvesa. I bought the VX-700 for aroun...