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Hi, I have a strange problem with xorg. It's telling me that it has no problem about probing my video hardware but in the end when I enter "xwin" xorg is not starting, I have to run on xvesa.
I think it's cause of the Voodo bridge chipset. I had this problem with vector linux which was recognizing ATI but not seeing Voodo. Finally, I don't remember how, but it worked.
Anyway, I would like to know if there is a way for xorg to fully recognize my hardware.


my specs are (I'm talking of an HDD install of Puppy)
pentium3 450 katmai
128M ram
ATI 128M rage Voodoo2 Chipset bridge (might be 16M but not sure)
9G HDD
Ethernet card....

Ok, thanks.

PS : I would like to know, as well, if there is a relation between running xvesa and the fact that japanese language is not supported in an english version of Puppy 2.16.

Again thanks.

If you chose xorg in the xorgwizard, it should have created a /etc/X11/xorg.conf
It remains also, if you choose Xvesa again later.

So use Xvesa again to get a grafical desktop, Edit this file, replace
driver "ati"
with
driver "voodoo"
or
driver "vesa"

Then exit X, and type these comands: X is just a symlink to Xorg or Xvesa, so you can switch between those two by deleting it and creating a new one.
Like this you don't have to run the xorgwizard again, that would overwrite your modified xorg.conf again.

And yes, xvesa has limitations concerning international charsets.
Xorg should solve that.
Mark

Could you please run this dotpup (download it and then just click on it), then attach here the results, so I can see how the card is recognized and change the xorgwizard to match it?

Thank you.

Thanks for supporting,
attached to this thread, the file you asked.

Thanks, I'll see what I can do.

I've had a look through it and both Xvesa and ddcprobe detect your card as being rage128, which should be used with the "r128" driver.

However, I don't know where that voodoo business comes in, so maybe the problem is as you mentioned you had in Vector...