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ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 15 Mar 2010, 00:01 Post subject:

Here's a Abiword fix, it contains,
libgnomeprint-2.18.6
libgnomeprintui-2.18.4
wv-1.2.7
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ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 15 Mar 2010, 00:06 Post subject: Subject description: hi

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4738 Location: Kentucky

Abiword works now......thanks for the quick fix. Smile

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 15 Mar 2010, 06:05 Post subject: Subject description: hi

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 15 Mar 2010, 12:50 Post subject:

I also tried building apup but that failed really bad, then I tried spup, and that worked, it has a couple small issues, that I'll look at, but the video drivers work much better than Tpup/Quirky. The iso with all the drivers was 110MB, probably 103MB +/- for a regular version.
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mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

black · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 14

hey ttuuxxx,

Been waiting for an "xorg-7.5" tryout on puppy. Installed from HDD to HDD. On first bootup from HDD, all loaded o.k, but screen/desktop is very dark, nearly un-viewable. Able to access apps with icons so appears stuff is working o.k. Installed to hardrive, on first bootup, same...screen/desktop very dark, again stuff appears working but viewing horrible.

Hardware: gpu, ATI X800XT, Sony KLV-S32A10 LCD (tv as monitor via VGA)

Of interest "Quirky-008" also has the same "darkness" issue and both are using the same base. Have had no such issue with any puppy derivatives or other distros with this hardware setup, including upup and dpup. My main interest here is the latest SMP-kernel and latest Xorg.

Only thing I've tried was disabling "acpi", in case "brightness (for certain LCDs)" was creating problems, but, no-joy there. Any hints/clues/pointers to possible fixes appreciated, otherwise, it's either the kernel or xorg???

black

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 16 Mar 2010, 10:38 Post subject: Re: Very dark desktop

black · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 14

hey ttuuxxx, all,

Fixed! Quirky-base on my hardware doesn't fly right with the standard xorg setup. Dropped in my own "xorg.conf" (full harddrive install) with default depth set > 24 and "tpup" is happy. Installed "mesa", and "tpup" is very happy!

Then went back to "quirky-008" (boot < HDD), tweaked xorg for default depth @ 24, and it came up to desktop with a "brite-smile" also. Darkness issue vanquished!

This may be problematic for noobs, configuring xorg for picky hardware, in a console, but, a good way for noobs to gain 'nix-smarts. Perhaps an addition to the "initial xorg setup" with default-depth selection?

black