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666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1230 Location: wales

hi jemima

i was given an 'acer aspire one 722 64bit, with amd radion hd 6290 graphics' netbook as a present, and have been trying to get saluki running on it.

saluki boots to the correct resolution, and i go through the set up, location/time etc, but when it restarts x the screen then gets shifted (so the right and left screen edge appears in the centre!) if i try to ctrl/alt/backspace back to prompt, the screen gradually turns to white, and i can't do anything.

just wondering if you had any ideas about why this is happening.

dpup, racy, precise, slacko, fatdog & lighthouse all exhibit the same turning to white problem. The only puppy that sort of works is lucid, but that doesn't have the correct resolution.

cheers

666philb

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

I believe you will need ati proprietary driver. Have you tried with pfix=nox and choose vesa driver. And then with it compile the ati proprietary driver...which will probably still need the patching for kernel fglrx module to compile.

I have that problem with lucid puppy if I switch to ati graphics of my dual graphics.... ati hd 5650. It works only with ati proprietary driver in lucid puppies.

The console state behavior was same for me....

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1230 Location: wales

cheers pemasu.... unfortunately the driver didn't compile, it had errors. i'll give your solution a go in a few of the other puppies i tried

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Yes...it wont compile straight. Flglrx source needs patching. The guide to do that has been posted several times in this thread and there is guide in how to section also....

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

Yeah I need to remember to dig that up and repost it on the first post.

shevan · Joined: 01 Mar 2012 Posts: 25 Location: Moldova

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=621970#621970

mikeslr

As I am not certain to which Puppy, or even to any Puppy, the problems I've experienced pertain, I discussed them in detail in the User's thread.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=624726#624726
This is just to call attention to that discussion.

Thanks,

mikesLr

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

Hi there

Can someone tell me which kernel the latest iso is using ie *.021?

I saw that it was based on Wary 5.2, and that is an older kernel compared to Lucid 528.

Also I would like to know how to update the kernel if possible and where I can find the necessary files?

Finally, having tried this out yesterday for thte first time I was impressed and would like to have a go at compiling some applications for this build.

Is the " --prefix=$HOME " to become

" --prefix=/usr "

or the default

" --prefix=/usr/local/ "

Thanks in advance!

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 311 Location: UK

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1230 Location: wales

thank shevan and pemasu

i followed the directions from shevans link, but still no joy, after applying the patch and choosing the fglrx driver , x won't start. start x any other way results in the same behavior as before.

thanks anyway

shevan · Joined: 01 Mar 2012 Posts: 25 Location: Moldova

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1230 Location: wales

hi shevan

this is the error log from compiling the driver before patching

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

Is there a suitable Firefox 12* sfs yet?

shevan · Joined: 01 Mar 2012 Posts: 25 Location: Moldova

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1230 Location: wales

hi shevan

it seems to patch succesfully, although there's a few lines after doing ./make.sh