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MDG
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 8
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Posted: Thu 01 Mar 2007, 14:32 Post subject:
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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
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MU

Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 13648 Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
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Posted: Thu 01 Mar 2007, 14:49 Post subject:
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In the "startmenu", hit CTRL-C to exit it (you might need to press these keys for several seconds)..
Then type these lines:
Code: | echo "0x0111 640x480x16">/etc/videomode
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Mark
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MDG
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 8
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Posted: Thu 01 Mar 2007, 19:11 Post subject:
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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
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MU

Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 13648 Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
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Posted: Fri 02 Mar 2007, 15:32 Post subject:
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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
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toddyjoe
Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 121
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Posted: Fri 09 Mar 2007, 18:48 Post subject:
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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!
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MDG
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 8
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Posted: Fri 09 Mar 2007, 21:14 Post subject:
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Toddyjoe,
Ilook forward to an update on this!
BTW, do you have wifi working? If so, what card are you using?
MDG
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willhunt

Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 495
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Posted: Tue 17 Apr 2007, 18:39 Post subject:
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can this be added
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USRMORE=""
rm -rf /.usr_more 2> /dev/null
if [ ! "`ls /usr_more.sfs 2> /dev/null`" = "" ];then
mkdir /.usr_more
echo "Mounting /usr_more.sfs file on /.usr_more..."
losetup-FULL /dev/loop4 /usr_more.sfs
mount -r -t squashfs -o noatime /dev/loop4 /.usr_more
[ $? -eq 0 ] && USRMORE=':/.usr_more=ro'
fi
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if so where? or maybe this one
I think micropuppy would be perfect if it had something like the XDG menu system and the puppy icon menu
shazam instant puppy maker!!
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toddyjoe
Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 121
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Posted: Thu 19 Apr 2007, 19:19 Post subject:
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MDG wrote: | Toddyjoe,
Ilook forward to an update on this!
BTW, do you have wifi working? If so, what card are you using?
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Sorry for the late follow-up: The trick I proposed above did not work. The 310ED simply does not like Xvesa. I started hacking an Xorg into the MicroMuppy002 and made some progress but had to give up due to a lack of time to finish it.
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edoc

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 4722 Location: Southeast Georgia, USA
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Posted: Thu 02 Aug 2007, 20:00 Post subject:
Re: MicroMuppy002 |
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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.
_________________ Thanks! David
Home page: http://nevils-station.com
Don't google Search! http://duckduckgo.com
TahrPup64 & Lighthouse64-b602 & JL64-603
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raffy
Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4839 Location: Manila
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Posted: Thu 02 Aug 2007, 20:37 Post subject:
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Barelypup by Pakt is small: http://minipup.info/barelypup
_________________ Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only).
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edoc

Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 4722 Location: Southeast Georgia, USA
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Posted: Thu 02 Aug 2007, 21:07 Post subject:
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raffy wrote: | Barelypup by Pakt is small: http://minipup.info/barelypup |
Thanks! I have read the thread and posted my question there. Here's hoping!
_________________ Thanks! David
Home page: http://nevils-station.com
Don't google Search! http://duckduckgo.com
TahrPup64 & Lighthouse64-b602 & JL64-603
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WiZard
Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 88
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Posted: Fri 31 Aug 2007, 12:38 Post subject:
Laptop wtih no CD boot Subject description: how to get CD to boot |
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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
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jonyo
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2725
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Posted: Fri 31 Aug 2007, 15:40 Post subject:
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edoc wrote: | Is MicroPuppy capable of running in 16 or 32MB of RAM?
If not is there a version of Puppy that can?
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I've got a few ol' laps that I could setup at 32 (or 16) megs a ram (upgraded to 80 now, might check it out, sticks were cheap at ~ 10 -20 bucks a pop) to see what happens. They have p150 & p200mmx. What u have?
Tried out a buncha small & early variants of pup with 32 megs a ram & got to a start screen on some but barely ran at that point (loong story..). Not sure if I managed to get a swap partition on the hd at the time (with 32 megs a ram)..but I can go back now.
If you can add some ram, it's a whole new world. Pup 98 runs great (but have to have win 98 installed) and or opens up all kinda possibilities. I have 2.17.1 running good live cd save file to HD on the IBM (p150) with 80 megs a ram, 160 megs swap partition & boot it with a pup wake floppy.
Even ran 300+meg muppy 007 live cd half decent ..but sticking with smaller meg pup OSs for now.
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jonyo
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2725
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Posted: Fri 31 Aug 2007, 15:56 Post subject:
Re: Laptop wtih no CD boot Subject description: how to get CD to boot |
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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?
WiZard wrote: | 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 |
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muggins
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart
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Posted: Fri 31 Aug 2007, 18:37 Post subject:
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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:
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