How do I set 800x600 on an old laptop with neomagic card?

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How do I set 800x600 on an old laptop with neomagic card?

#1 Post by Eddy_yu »

How to boot puppy into 800x600 resolution ??

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#2 Post by Lobster »

Try Start / Setup /Xvesa Setupwizard

This should show you which resolutions are available
- just click on 800 x 600

If not there click on more
make a note of the number of the resolution as you press enter
then type it in and press enter

Does that help?
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#3 Post by Eddy_yu »

Lobster wrote:Try Start / Setup /Xvesa Setupwizard

This should show you which resolutions are available
- just click on 600 x 800

If not there click on more
make a note of the number of the resolution as you press enter
then type it in and press enter

Does that help?
Ehh .... I can't see start button only flashing lines and colors :(
I need to boot in 800x600 to see anything on my display :)
Is it possible and how ???

Thanks in advance :)

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#4 Post by GuestToo »

you could try pressing ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X
then type:

rm /etc/videomode
startx

this will cause the video wizard to run

or you can try typing:

echo -n '0x0114 800x600x16' > /etc/videomode
startx

or you could edit /etc/videomode by killing X and typing:

mp /etc/videomode

don't press enter at the end of the line
you can get the mp editor's menu by pressing ctrl+A

seppi

graphics problems

#5 Post by seppi »

I have the same problem, but killing the X-Window doesn

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#6 Post by danleff »

These sound like older laptops with integrated non-vesa video? Which makes and models are they? Trident chipset for video by any chance?

Puppy Unleashed has the ability to build non-vesa video for these older laptops.
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#7 Post by Eddy_yu »

Now I have 800x600 resolution but only three colors (blue,green & yellow). Other linux distros recognize my neomagic video card without any problems .

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#8 Post by Guest »

OK I'll download the latest puppy and do a write up on the NeoMagic card (crud)......

seppi

solution for neomagic-problems

#9 Post by seppi »

Thank you for your help; a lot of neomagic (DELL-)users will appreciate your efforts !

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#10 Post by Absolute Beginner »

is there an solution yet? Because I experienced the same problem

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#11 Post by Delboy »

I found that the (800x600 LCD) Neomagicgraph 128 video card in my OLD Digital laptop didn't work in any distro I tried using an Xvesa server. It
displays perfectly however in Damnsmall Linux where a framebuffer server selection option is offered at boot. I'm thinking of starting Puppy with this same machine. Is there a framebuffer Xserver in the Puppy CD?

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#12 Post by BarryK »

No, there's a framebuffer server in Unleashed, so you have to build a custom Puppy from the packages.
But, version 1.0.2 is a problem, no framebuffer-enabled kernel.
You would have to use Unleashed for Pup 1.0.1, which does have a 2.4.27 framebuffer-enabled kernel.

For Pup 1.0.3 there will be framebuffer enabled kernels, and Unleashed will allow you to choose either 2.4.27 or 2.6.11.11, but you will still need to go to Unleashed to do this.

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#13 Post by BarryK »

Oh yeah, the reason why we don't include both Xvesa and framebuffer X servers in the live-CD so you can choose at boot, is because each is about 1M.
Xvesa works on the vast majority of PCs and also gives better performance, so that's our default choice.

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#14 Post by Guest »

Thanks Barry for the clear advice. Will look into unleashed a bit more.

dolhop

which build - same problem on thinkpad i1400-2611

#15 Post by dolhop »

Did anyone find a puppy livecd build that works with the neomagic display? I have a thinkpad i1400-2611 model with the neomagic MagicGraph 128XD and I can't get a console or anything X - well, I can sort of see the x-vesa wizard and select different modes, but they all come up with messed up colours and wavy lines - barely visible. I couldn't get knoppix or freesbie livecds to work either.....

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#16 Post by Flash »

Did you see this post?

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#17 Post by dolhop »

I did, but from what I gather, it looks like I'd have to build my own puppy distro in order to get the framebuffer stuff working - which requires unleashed, which requires puppy to be working - which I don't have....I was hoping that a puupy distro with framebuffer support had been released to the download mirrors...

Unless I read that wrong....which is also totally possible....

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