Beta 6 is out everyone!
Barry's a bit crook and probably forgot to announce here.
Anyway, I did a cheat frugal using
Lilo on my slackware box which has a SiS card. Getting a bit long in the tooth now and res is not correct on first boot with widescreen monitor, native res of
1360x768, it boots to 1280x800 which shits it left and the taskbar is out of view. I tested the thing in quicksetup but I knew it would fail with the 1280x720@75Hz because older flat panels usually only handle 60Hz. So I tested with xrandr and 1280x720 works, so I adjusted the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it's now all good.
Report Video 1.3 - Tue 11 Sep 2012 on Precise Puppy 5.3.93 - Linux 3.2.28 i686
Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
oem: SiS
product:
X Server: Xorg Driver used: sis
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1280x720 pixels (342x191 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes
...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
679 frames in 5.0 seconds = 135.726 FPS
759 frames in 5.0 seconds = 151.743 FPS
745 frames in 5.0 seconds = 148.989 FPS
# export vblank_mode=0
# glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
714 frames in 5.0 seconds = 142.695 FPS
735 frames in 5.0 seconds = 146.940 FPS
766 frames in 5.0 seconds = 153.081 FPS
Summary
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-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz
Memory : 1001MB (192MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Tue Sep 11 12:39:03 2012
-Display-
Resolution : 0x0 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - SiS SI7012
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA WDC WD800JB-00JJ
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H44N
Seagate STT8000A
Operating System
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-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.2.28 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 10:19:45 GMT-8 2012
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.15 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution
-Current Session-
Computer Name : puppypc11327
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown
-Misc-
Uptime : 9 minutes
Load Average : 1.04, 1.19, 0.68
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Just a note
The graphics in this thing are problematic with wary/racy and vesa always gets chosen, often resulting in "out of range" messages on the monitor. Since KMS seems to be working right now, there is much better performance and it at least boots to a usable desktop. Perhaps if I were using an old CRT ,which may be a better match for the card, I'd get even better performance. So don't take the above as a complaint, I am happy I get a semi-usable desktop
Thanks