You kind of lost me here…do you mean how did I fix the low resolution video problem on Puppy? Because if so…I didn’t. I did manage to fix it with Fedora Core 2 and Fedora Core 3 worked right out of the box.

I never did get the full 1280×768 resolution my screen can do with FC2, but I did get proper colour at 800×600 by using the generic LCD setting (it might be called Laptop LCD). My biggest problem was that my screen was flickering, I was able to ge that fixed as well by making a manual change to my X configuration file. If you have a flicker, let me know and I’ll dig up the information I used to fix mine. If you don’t have a flicker, but just want to see if you can get higher resolution - try your monitor preferences page in whatever control panel type application your distro has. Try the Laptop LCD, or Panel LCD, or whatever you can find that looks LCD-ish. Wait a minute…are we talking about a laptop?

If we’re not talking about a laptop, try this:

With SuSe I had good luck by opening a terminal window and typing system-config-display. It checks your video card and offers you the settings it thinks it can support. If your card can handle it and system-config-display can read it, then you should be able to set the colour and resolution via that application.

Let me know how it goes…I’ll dig up more info if you need it.

Jon

Glad to hear that Puppy was able to get you online. I don’t have anything to do with Puppy, I just review the odd distro now and again for suitability as a distro for beginner Linux users.

Puppy is written by a guy named Barry Kauler. There are Puppy forums at his website and one of the forums is for suggestions. You might want to try posting you request for printer drivers in that forum and see what Barry has to say. The direct link to the Puppy forums is: http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/

Thanks for stopping by!

Jon

Will it be possible for more printer drivers to be included in future releases of Puppy?

I use HP and Epson printers because they support open source and Linux. This release of Puppy does not have drivers for any of my printers.

I must say though that Puppy is a nice distro. It does have the old theme like windows 98 but on older systems that works really well.

If you or whoever is working on Puppy could add drivers for the HP Deskjet 3320 and 3745 and the Epson Stylus PhotoR200
printers as well as more for every one else it would be very cool. I would be able to load it on to my brothers old laptop and some of my older machines and use it as the main OS.

I have always thought Puppy was a good looking yet small Linux distro with a good GUI. By biggest problem was the lack on Internet, now that is solved. Printer support would get it in use around this house as a full time OS.

Keep up the good work. I will be passing this copy around.

I do not have this problem with any other distros. I would like to be able to use it on a few of the older machines I have but like you, No internet means no machine.

Also Puppy needs to have a very easy install program. The developer of Puppy should look at Mepis for the hardware set up and install configuration.
Just my thoughts.

[T]he reviewer says that his cd was a 23 megabyte download, so I am wondering where he got it and how old a version he has. The current Puppy 1.0.3 is 60 megabytes, and includes the full Mozilla suite, Abiword, Planmaker free edition, Scribus, and much more. So if the reviewer was using an old version of puppy, then none of the rest of his review applies.

Jon: The commenter is correct in that I had an older version of Puppy. I’ve discovered why I ended up with a smaller (and presumably older) Puppy Live CD: on the Puppy download page (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/download/downpage.htm) the first link at Biblio timed out on me. So, being the good surfer I am, I scrolled farther down the page and discovered the heading ‘Alternative Download Sites’. I chose the first one (http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/) which claims to be a mirror of Bilbio but in fact, is not. That link points to a directory which contains a bunch of folders named cd-puppy as well as full blown distros. I assumed a Live CD version of Puppy would be in a cd-puppy folder and downloaded an ISO from there. Crazy, eh?

Puppy IS easy to use, is a lot of fun, and has one of the friendliest bunch of people on its user forums that I have ever encountered.

I encourage anyone considering Puppy to download the current version, and judge for themselves, and if they encounter difficulty, then visit the user forums and they will find plenty of help.

Jon: In the face of this new information I will re-evaluate Puppy using a more current version. I thank this commenter for noticing that there was something wrong and bringing it to my attention - however the original first paragraph of your comment was hardly necessary. Just a little tap on the shoulder telling me that something’s not quite right will be sufficient for me to take a second look at something I’ve done.

NOTE: Based on this information, I have re-reviewed Puppy Linux here.