unable to set 800x480 on Eee PC 700

[arnid]

I have found a solution with the hint from mini-jaguar.

I am using a Eeepc 2G surf 700. The xorgwizard doesn't detect the 700 only the 4G Surf 701. If Puppy is installed to 701 there is no problem but if installed to 700 you don't get the 800x480 screen only the 800x640. The problem seems to be that the code in xorgwizard which recognises the Eeepc only identifies the 701 not the 700.

My solution was to edit the"xorgwizard" in the Geany editor and change "701" in the line below to "700". In all probability this could be rectified so both the 700 and 701 would be identified in the same line of code but I am not that familliar with coding.

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#recognise EeePC Asus laptop...
[ "`echo "$DMIDECODE" | grep 'Product Name: 700'`" != "" ] && [ "`echo "$DMIDECODE" | grep 'Serial Number: EeePC'`" != "" ] && echo 'timing: 800x480@60' >> /tmp/ddcprobe.txt

Also enclosed is the changed xorgwizard. After unzipping it it could be copied to the directory "/usr/sbin" instead of editing the xorgwizard in situ. After that it is simply a case of exiting to prompt from the shutdown menu and running the xorgwizard from the prompt.

The 800x480 screen is detected and running.

As stated before it seems that this "bug" is present in Slacko 5.4 and Precise 5.4.2 but wasn't there in Puppy 4.2. Perhaps some change has made it in to the xorgwizard at some point in time?