yr1945, Semme made a good point about trying another CD. These players do go bad, sometimes just partially. One of my desktop machines with a CD player that used to boot anything put in it will now boot nothing. Data CDs and music CDs work even if a few bits are corrupt. But, a bootloader is totally...

Uten and LazY Puppy,

Am adding your tips to my next round of tests. Thanks.

Stemsee,

I second your opinion of Makulu Linux 7 xfce. If it had the forum support that Puppy has we would be in trouble. It is now #48 on Distrowatch and climbing. I boot its live CD occasionally just to admire it.

OscarTalks and mikeb, Thanks for joining in. Nouveau certainly has my support. The folks at X.Org Foundation, and freedesktop.org have made and still are making a lot of effort in developing a good free and open solution for our nVidia cards. They have a little program called REnouveau which we can ...

My intent was to install the nvidia-legacy96-driver-43.43.23-k3.9.11.pet from catdude. It matches my nVidia GeForce4 MX440 (NV17) card. I have done this on my Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 full install box although with a slightly different nVidia card and driver, with good success. As mikeb pointed out the nVi...

The nouveau video driver in a full install of Precise 5.7.1 is determined to hang on. The boot manager configuration does not work. I can select "nouveau" in the left pane and move it to the right pane but when I click "OK" it reappears in the left pane and also remains in the ri...

I have verified that ePDFView works as expected when run from the Live CD of Precise 5.7.1. Clicking a .pdf file causes ePDFView to open it properly. Probably removing/replacing ePDFView in my full install will fix it. So, I am marking this post as solved. Starhawk, I tried evince and liked it, too....

In Precise Puppy 5.7.1 full install, clicking on a .pdf file opens a window which goes away immediately. Running it in a terminal like: "epdfview somefile.pdf" shows that the result is a segmentation fault. However, ePDFView works fine when using its File -> Open menu. ePDFView is set as t...

Folks, I have found one possible answer to my own question - PeaZip. It will handle the xz compressed files and create them, too, plus about 15 other formats. I have made a PET of version 5.5.2 and tried it on Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 and 5.2.8.7 and it seems to work quite well. I can post the PET where ev...

XArchive 0.2.8-6 and undeb/unrpm (based on 1.10.18 archive backend) are standard utilities in Lucid 5.2.8 through 5.2.8.7. They cannot handle the .xz format. For that matter, the excellent XArchiver 0.5.2svn-r28705 from code-master ttuuxxx doesn't recognize it, either. .xz is becoming a standard. Wi...

Just downloaded lupusuper4 Puppy and did a full install. The box has a Pentium 4 at 2.4GHz, 1 Gb of ram and 60 Gb hard drive. Everything works as advertised! I am just an unabashed avid user making use of the efforts that you kind folks provide. Puppy has been my OS since the release of 5.1.1 both f...

Oui,

Linux From Scratch has a following and some developers who tend to stick around. I for one have dabbled in it when trying to understand how some part of Linux works. To my own discredit I have not used it to make a full system. That certainly would have advanced me considerably.

Sayhello_to_the_world, We are not being harsh but at least let us know that you saw the responses given here. Replying that the suggested fix did or did not work makes it easier for the next user who is experiencing your situation to know which path to follow. Your posts show that you have some know...

Mystmaiden,

UEFI can be a pain because of the many steps and how easy it is to actually go in a circle accomplishing nothing. Here is how I disabled Secure Boot on a friend's computer:

1. Access the Charms bar with Win+C then click the “Settings

Sanlav, You are probably right in that Puppy was "created in a particular way" and Moat is right in pointing out that this particular way enables more people to enjoy the freedom of Linux with less hassle. I have had more success introducing Puppy Linux to new users that I ever had with Re...

Bananapeal, Welcome to Puppy Linux and to the forum. Being neither a user of Precise Puppy nor a home theater, I'm not offering advice, just encouragement. These Puppies are pretty strong dogs. I've used Lucid 5.2.8 for a few years and the only thing it has not done is cost me money. It is surprisin...

Lobster, Nice to see another Puppy user jumping off the deep end! I have used Cinelerra on Lucid 5.2.8 for quite a while (3 years +) with good results. Some folks have said it is crash-prone but I've only had a couple of crashes, no more than with Adobe Premiere. Cinelerra does not import FireWire s...

Mikeslr,

I also lament the loss of the Well-Minded search. There were some posts at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=92090 on this topic. Some guys there made some useful suggestions. I am trying some of them myself.

EDIT: Sorry, I mistyped your name, now corrected.

Motorcity, Semme has pointed you in the right direction. Firefox does not have a printer driver, nor does any browser. They depend upon the driver software in the operating system. In your case it would be CUPS for Linux. If the CD that you have came from Star Micronics then CUPS will be on it and t...

Tuneturkey, A good first stop for working with MIDI on Linux is http://www.midi-howto.com/ . Some information there will help with MIDI on Linux in general. Most of what appears there will also apply to Puppy 5.2.8. Puppy does not have an intrinsic MIDI handler per se. MIDI gets handled indirectly v...