Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[MDG]

Hello!
I tried running MicroMuppy002 from live CD. Both the options for high resolution and low resolution result in same unreadable display, except for menus. How can I change the display settings?

Am running this on an IBM Thinkpad 310ED (166 Mhz, 64 MB Ram).
640x480x16 has worked in other distro.

Thanks for any help.

MDG

[MU]

In the "startmenu", hit CTRL-C to exit it (you might need to press these keys for several seconds)..


Then type these lines:

[MDG]

MU
THANK YOU!!! Worked like a charm!

Is there a script for doing a backup of these settings?

Now all I need is to download Opera

Thanks again!

MDG

[MU]

to backup:

create your own, customized iso.

You can edit /usr/X11R6/bin/xwin

It is the startmenu, just replace the values for the low resolution with the new ones.

To create an Iso, follow these steps (I write this from my memory, so hope the instructions are correct):
First, copy all files from the CD to a temporary folder like /isotmp.
Unzip image.gz:


cd /isotmp
gunzip image.gz

Now mount it:
mkdir /root/mount
mount -o loop /isotmp/image /root/mount

Now edit with the texteditor:
/root/mount/usr/X11R6/bin/xwin

Then unmount:
sync
umount /root/mount

Then re-compress image:
gzip image

Now create a new iso:
mkisofs -o new.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table /isotmp/

Myself I used a modified version of Pizzasgoods initrd-editor, but the steps above will work, too for small modifications.

Mark

[toddyjoe]

I had the same problem with my Thinkpad 310ED with this Micro Muppy until I did some workarounds with "xwin" as Mark recommends. I am working on getting 800x600x8 to work with Micro Muppy but it is taking some work as the 310ED does not play as well with Xvesa as it does with the bigger Xorg. Somebody provided me with a trick that allows the use of a 800x595x16 resolution on the 310ED with Linux which tests the limits of the 1MB VRAM but would be especially close to 800x600x16 on this old laptop. I will let you know if I can get it to work!

[MDG]

Toddyjoe,
Ilook forward to an update on this!

BTW, do you have wifi working? If so, what card are you using?

MDG

[willhunt]

can this be added

[toddyjoe]

[edoc]

Is MicroPuppy capable of running in 16 or 32MB of RAM?

If not is there a version of Puppy that can?

I have an old Panasonic CF-41 MKiii laptop and it sure would be neat to get
Puppy to run on it.

It does not appear to be capable of booting from CD (and the BIOS is seriously
dumbed-down) so I will have to use the Floppy-to-CD boot workaround.

[raffy]

Barelypup by Pakt is small: http://minipup.info/barelypup

[edoc]

[WiZard]

Hi Edoc,
Noticed your post about your laptop not having a CD boot option in bios. I have worked on a lot of old laptops and desktops with the same problem. Here is a solution. Download the free boot manager program "Smart Boot Manager", just Google, its on Sourceforge. In addition to being a really useful multi boot manager, it uses its own boot stack that allows it to boot the machine from an internal cdrom drive. I used it this week on two old Thinkpad 760's. Ranish Partiton Manager and SBM are my two main tools for setting up drives, they both fit easily on a dos boot floppy.

Hope this can help you.

Gary

[jonyo]

[jonyo]

Had a look at that SBM but havent sorted out makin a floppy. Dunno which one to dwld - tar, gz or what to do with it & think there's one that can be made in win?

[muggins]

jonyo,

if you dload sbootmgr.dsk from here:

http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/rootdisks/sbootmgr.dsk

then in linux do:

dd if=sbootmgr.dsk of=/dev/fd0

or for windows, google for rawrite.exe, then you would do:

c:\rawrite sbootmgr.dsk a: