Brilliant - thanks, Barry and a Prosperous New Year to you (but vide infra!).
Well, G, nobody on this Forum can have escaped my observations on the evils of capitalism, the brainwashing from birth practiced, especially, by a certain nation, etc. Conspicuous consumption should become a criminal offence?
Respect the planet, recycle, renew as a last resort.
Puppy 2.12 live-cd booting problems ... text is messed up!
With all this banter about laptop and Xorg issues, decided to fire up my old and heavily modified Presario 863MHz/256Mb, which normally sits unused in a dark corner, with P2.13beta2.
Sure enough, gives the totally black screen syndrome after choosing parameters from the XOrg menus. No dummy start up procedures worked, no keystrokes were active, no boot codes worked. A thousand curses on XOrg and laptops!
The biggest single problem seems to be that Barry has removed the XVesa option from the menu. I reached the XVesa selection, which works perfectly, by selecting a crt monitor, then hitting the <Fix> button to access the XOrg/XVesa choice - there may be other ways of doing this, but I see laptops as an utter waste of time and intellectual effort, so anything that works will do. I suspect that XOrg might work if crt choices are used, but why bother - XVesa is all that is need for a basic Puppy OS.
Laptop manufacturers deserve to DIE!
Sure enough, gives the totally black screen syndrome after choosing parameters from the XOrg menus. No dummy start up procedures worked, no keystrokes were active, no boot codes worked. A thousand curses on XOrg and laptops!
The biggest single problem seems to be that Barry has removed the XVesa option from the menu. I reached the XVesa selection, which works perfectly, by selecting a crt monitor, then hitting the <Fix> button to access the XOrg/XVesa choice - there may be other ways of doing this, but I see laptops as an utter waste of time and intellectual effort, so anything that works will do. I suspect that XOrg might work if crt choices are used, but why bother - XVesa is all that is need for a basic Puppy OS.
Laptop manufacturers deserve to DIE!
Laptop OEM oddities aside - Vesa always works - IF the kernel makefile was edited to include compatible frame buffer modes !
If/when any glitches arise - generic Linux methods and full CLI power should be available
OR how any LInux variant has deviated to be able to apply altered trouble shooting methods
(As does knowing what is happening. behind scenes minus any wizardy that fails).
If/when any glitches arise - generic Linux methods and full CLI power should be available
OR how any LInux variant has deviated to be able to apply altered trouble shooting methods
(As does knowing what is happening. behind scenes minus any wizardy that fails).
We read this morning that Barry has reverted to his earlier, more rational video mode selection procedure for v2.13-final. I note your comments in another thread, G, about BIOS settings and PNP. Like I said, a thousand curses on laptops and their manufacturers. What does it take to stop folk wasting their personal wealth on these monstrosities?! If the company wants you to have one, that's their problem.....