(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Shep wrote:

Dave_B wrote:I have a frugal install of Fluppy 13 (sure works great on my dinosaur laptop) and the package manager doesn't have any packages or pets to install. When I refreshed the list, I see an error in retrieving the package file. How can I fix this?
Dave

Were you online when you clicked?

I was. I have two laptops with the exact same issue.
Looking through the .packages directory & files, all seems in order. I'm stumped.
Dave

Dave_B wrote:

Shep wrote:

Dave_B wrote:I have a frugal install of Fluppy 13 (sure works great on my dinosaur laptop) and the package manager doesn't have any packages or pets to install. When I refreshed the list, I see an error in retrieving the package file. How can I fix this?
Dave

Were you online when you clicked?

I was. I have two laptops with the exact same issue.
Looking through the .packages directory & files, all seems in order. I'm stumped.
Dave

Same with me.

tatamata wrote:

Dave_B wrote:

Shep wrote: Were you online when you clicked?

I was. I have two laptops with the exact same issue.
Looking through the .packages directory & files, all seems in order. I'm stumped.
Dave

Same with me.

If you're looking for applications, look here:
http://www.puppeee.com/files/sfs
and
http://www.puppeee.com/files/pet

Dave

Any news about Moonlight (Linux version of Silverlight) for Midori, please?

Might running this risk breaking Midori and/or other apps?
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx

Moonlight should work on any modern 32bit and 64bit Linux distributions under Firefox versions 3.0 through 4.x, as well as Google Chrome, from both stable and dev channels

We make sure that the plug-in available from this site works on the following platforms: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, openSUSE 11.x, Ubuntu 9.10, and Fedora 12.

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/faq.aspx

I found this reference to it:

Web Application Support

Many of you may be thinking “looks fine and all, but can it run Flash/Java/HTML5/AJAX?

jemimah wrote:WLM is short for Windows Live Messanger which replaced MSN messager years ago.

If you read the link, you will see the the msn-pecan plugin is a replacement for the msn plugin. There's no reason to have them both.

Just try it with your normal MSN credentials and see if it works. There's not continuity because these are alpha/beta/experimental releases. I change stuff around to see what works best.

Hello, dont know if you are aware but:

Microsoft changed things in the WLM protocol and pidgin cannot connect now using pecan.

the MSN protocol in pidgin connects just fine.

Thanks for pupeee and flupy BTW very mature and nice looking !

Hello,

I've just done a frugal install of Fluppy 13 on an Aspire One D260.
Of course it's very fast compared to the Windows Starter edition that came with the machine, which is exactly why I told my friend we should try Puppy on her machine. She was pretty impressed with the responsiveness.
Fluppy detected the wifi card fine, and flash being already provided was a bonus too, as she's mainly a heavy browser user.

Now about the big issue that remains before having Fluppy take over.
The fn (function) key is always active, which means that any key providing an alternate symbol with the fn key will print that symbol instead of the normal one unless fn key is pressed.
This is a real showstopper for someone who writes a lot of news and articles on the internet.
Keyboard layout is set to french Belgian. I tried to change the keyboard config several times, including using the xorg method, but the function key remains active.

sorry double post....

It sounds as though it may be an error in the Belgian version as I have Fluppy on several laptops and netbooks and it does not occur in English.

Hopefully someone will be able to duplicate your problem, identify where is the coding error, and repair it quickly.

It is wonderful news that Fluppy has impressed your friend as a superior replacement for a MS version of windows.

Thanks for helping edoc.

I tried US keyboard which worked, then rebooted with a clean Fluppy. At reboot I remembered the enable CapsLock option was selected the first time I configured Fluppy.
This time I didn't select it and now the keyboard works as expected with Belgian layout

Now there's just one little issue left, I couldn't remember it when writing the first post.
I'd like to have the mouse pointer move a bit faster but couldn't find how to do that in the mouse configuration.

Control Panel

Software

pupX

Netbook was working good...

installed wbar

and now x do not start, run xorgwizard lets me select vesa or xorg then drops to cursor...

I am sad, fluppy seems like the OS i want but there is no point in spending 2 days setting all to your liking to have it crash like that.

I needed to vent a like bit

Hey CoronelN-
sorry to see you having wbar troubles (on a few threads). I've had similar hassles in the past, and there was a problem identified somewheres regarding a wbar+config pet recently posted. Did you try catdude's remedy here by any chance http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=135? HTH

Whups - just checking that link and it's to a much earlier wbar. Worked for me anyway in stu90's Lucid-lite. Were the instructions here ok for you http://puppylinux.org/wikka/WbarInstall?

I checked little bit, the bar was working then i restarted and i was dropped to #_

ran Xwin it dropped back to
#

Ran xorgwizard the same dropped back to
#

then i gave up, i am really upset as i have had this lappy for 1 week now and instead of using have been trying fluppy and and pemasu's snow but both have crashed on me for no apparent reason.

I suspected bad ram, did several tests and all semms alright..

i am trying Ubuntu 11.04 now it is slow but faster than 7 will see if after 2 or 3 reboots it crashes on me then is either my lappy which is defective or linux is not for me

I bought the thing cause i am writting a book.... have spent so much time trying to make it work that i cant remember now what the book was about...

Hi! I've downloaded a full version of midori web browser and it crashes while watching in youtube.

grimoire wrote:Hi! I've downloaded a full version of midori web browser and it crashes while watching in youtube.

From my experience (not in Fluppy, but in other systems) Midori is vey weak browser. It does not support many features which other browsers do.
Also that depends on version of Midori you're using.

CoronelN wrote:I checked little bit, the bar was working then i restarted and i was dropped to #_

ran Xwin it dropped back to
#

Ran xorgwizard the same dropped back to
#

then i gave up, i am really upset as i have had this lappy for 1 week now and instead of using have been trying fluppy and and pemasu's snow but both have crashed on me for no apparent reason.

I suspected bad ram, did several tests and all semms alright..

i am trying Ubuntu 11.04 now it is slow but faster than 7 will see if after 2 or 3 reboots it crashes on me then is either my lappy which is defective or linux is not for me

I bought the thing cause i am writting a book.... have spent so much time trying to make it work that i cant remember now what the book was about...

Before you completely dismiss Puppy, please try SnowPuppy, it is also very good and suitable for netbooks.

grimoire wrote:Hi! I've downloaded a full version of midori web browser and it crashes while watching in youtube.

There is a fix for that ... although I don't remember what it is. Midori is *very* stable, very versatile, and very small.

I use Midori all the time and the only thing I have found that it doesn't handle is Silverlight apps - which Moonlight is supposed to cover but I don't know if Moonlight works with Midori.

Rats at MS just *had* to create yet another proprietary app. Grrrr.

On one of our laptops the modem keeps connecting and disconnecting.
The hardware connection appears to be intact.

I did observe that Bluetooth wants to be ON every time I toggle it OFF and then reboot, and I seem to recall that there may have been a prior problem in Fluppy where Bluetooth and Wifi collided and Bluetooth needed to be disabled.

I have no idea why Bluetooth is suddenly active as there is no Bluetooth device in this laptop.

WDYT?

UPDATE: The problem appears to have been hardware - the little USB wireless nic has apparently failed. A PCMCIA device has now replaced it.

CoronelN wrote:I bought the thing cause i am writting a book.... have spent so much time trying to make it work that i cant remember now what the book was about...

I believe your book was to be in praise of open-source software solutions.

Shep wrote:

CoronelN wrote:I bought the thing cause i am writting a book.... have spent so much time trying to make it work that i cant remember now what the book was about...

I believe your book was to be in praise of open-source software solutions.

I feel his pain ...

I have two books I am supposed to be working on (OK, really three, but I am trying not to think about how far behind I am) but the distractions of life and finicky-technology seem to swallow-up all of the productive hours of the day!