problem starting Puppy Slacko 5.6 4G non-PAE

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problem starting Puppy Slacko 5.6 4G non-PAE

#1 Post by mahaju »

I have it frugally installed on an ntfs usb
if I try to boot it up normally it doesn't boot up (shows an attempting to kill SIGTERM or something similar at one point)
If I press F2 at the puppy logo, then use

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puppy pfix=nox,ram
then it boots up, but once I run xorgwizard and then xwin, it gets stuck at the initial quick setup screen
Clicking on anything in this window doesn't do anything
Hovering over the command buttons in this window changes the colour of the button so the user interface is responding, but nothing happens if I click anywhere
moreover, cliking on any icons on the desktop or the puppy "start" menu doesn't do anything either, nor does trying to kill the window from the puppy taskbar
I have got this version of puppy running on othre computers except this one
I have to get this particular version of puppy to run, as I need to use it to share this computers ethernet through it's wifi
Why is this problem occuring and how do I solve this?

PS: I have attached a screenshot of the window I am talking about

PS2: Computer is Samsung Sens NC 108 Notebook
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#2 Post by chapchap70 »

There are two things I can think of which may or may not help.

First, the video might be acting wacky; try to boot to the commandline and type "xorgwizard". (I thought the puppy pfix=nox command you posted was how to do it but maybe I am mistaken.) Follow the instructions and hopefully you'll find a configuration that works.

If that doesn't work, reformat your usb stick to Fat32 instead of NTFS if you need to store windows stuff outside the Linux savefile. I understand that NTFS doesn't play nice with Linux. If you don't need part of the USB stick for anything besides Linux, reformat it to Ext2, Ext3, or Ext 4.

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#3 Post by bigpup »

If I press F2 at the puppy logo, then use
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puppy pfix=nox,ram

then it boots up,
If you have a save file on this USB device, that was made on a different computer, trying to use it could cause your boot problem.
Save files contain configuration settings specific to the computer they are made on. Sometimes they work on other computers, depending on how close the hardware matches.
You proved this by using the boot option pfix=ram, which keeps save file from being used and it booted.

Your after boot problems look like the graphic driver issues.
Try this:
from Slacko 5.6 release notes

for intel cards:
i915.modeset=0

ATI/AMD radeon cards:
radeon.modeset=0

nvidia cards:
nouveau.modeset=0


Those strings must be placed after (example) "puppy pfix=ram i915.modeset=0" for live boot or on the kernel line of extlinux.conf, syslinux.conf, menu.lst, lilo.conf
Old nvidia N3x cards (mx440, fx5200 and some others) often do not render properly.
For those use this string in a similar fashion to above:
nouveau.noaccel=1

If you have an Intel® Brookdale graphics controller you must enable 8 MB of memory to the graphics in the BIOS of the computer.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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#4 Post by mahaju »

Which files exactly should I delete, to remove everything related to the older save file?
And I can't exactly understand the command line parameters
I need to tell others on how to fix this computer, so I won't be in front of it and i don't think it will be easy to tell them how to add all these command line parameters
Do you think anything can be done through xorgwizard?

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#5 Post by bigpup »

The specs I found for this Samsung Sens NC 108 Notebook computer say it has Intel graphics.

So to see if it will boot to a working desktop.
press F2 at the puppy logo, then use

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puppy pfix=ram i915.modeset=0
Report back results.
Do you think anything can be done through xorgwizard?
You could try and specifically choose the Vesa driver as the driver to use.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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#6 Post by mahaju »

Thankfully the GUI problem was solved with a simple solution. It turned out that pressing on the touch pad area didn't register as a click and I had to press on the button instead of the touch pad area. Thank you for your help.

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