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Thinkpad help

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  1. eldona
    Member

    Hello everybody, excuse my bad english...I installed MacPup Dingo on my old Thinkpad 600 (P II 266, 128 RAM) after trying some other small Linux distros. M.P. Dingo got installed perfectly and seems to run fast and clear, I still didn´t try to browse the internet because I need first to test music and video playing. After surfing the web for several days looking for a solution for the OS to recognize the soundcard I finnally did it and now I can hear audio perfectly but... a simple mp3 song jams and sound appears and desappears all time just like if the computer could't manage the file. I know the PC is powerful enough to play music and video because it did it running windows xp so, what's the problem? I can't play audio files correctly and not even open a video file (videos open for less than a second and then close) Could you please help me? Thank you
    Luis

    Posted 10 months ago #

  2. Prit
    Pritlogger

    Can you please tell us how you installed Macpup - Is it a frugal install or a full install?

    Posted 10 months ago #

  3. eldona
    Member

    Thanks for your answer Prit, it's a full install and there's no other OS sharing, MacPup uses all HD

    Posted 10 months ago #

  4. Prit
    Pritlogger

    Can you try the commands "top" or "free" and see the outputs. This would give the RAM used and available.

    I suspect that it might be either due to lack of enough available memory to play or loading incorrect drivers being loaded.

    I am no expert. You might be able to find better help from the Puppy forum.

    Posted 10 months ago #

  5. eldona
    Member

    I'll try those commands this evening.
    Thanks again for your support

    Posted 10 months ago #

  6. runtt21
    Member

    Eldona when you did your install did you make a swap partition on your hard drive?

    Posted 10 months ago #

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