Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

bigpup · Posted: Sun 11 Sep 2011, 14:24 Post_subject:

This may be the only refresh setting that will work for 1024x768. The 50HZ one.

Computers just do strange things sometimes.
After all the setting and resetting of video settings some file could be corrupted or who knows what.

How about start all over fresh and go from there.
If you boot with the Live Puppy CD
At boot screen hit F2 key
use boot option puppy pfix=ram
That will make it boot and not use the save file.
It will boot just like the first time.

You have a very old video card. Driver support may not be 100%. You now have a good idea how to change settings. So start over with this clean fresh run of Puppy.

This hardware may just not work good with this version of Puppy.
May need to use an older version of Puppy.
Puppy 4.3.1 is a good one to start with.
Or others:
Wary
Classic Pup 2.14X
Lucid Puppy 5.1.1

The NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.15-pkg1.run driver you talked about, may be the answer. You will have to run it as I instructed in earlier post.

leae89 · Posted: Sun 18 Sep 2011, 17:03 Post_subject:

OK. I booted Puppy with "puppy pfix=ram" and did give me a 1024x768@74.55Hz resolution, but it looked like a wrinkled paper.

Now I will use Puppy 431 and see what happens then.

It is all for now.

leae89 · Posted: Sun 18 Sep 2011, 18:11 Post_subject:

Nop. Puppy 431, using Xorg, gave me the same 832x624@75Hz resolution as maximum.
Xvesa gave me an 800x600@60Hz resolution as maximum.

Should I use an older puppy version? Or should I give up and still using Lucid 528?

Perhaps, and only perhaps, my GPU is a very old one.

bigpup · Posted: Mon 19 Sep 2011, 15:37 Post_subject:

leae89 · Posted: Mon 19 Sep 2011, 16:13 Post_subject:

bigpup · Posted: Tue 20 Sep 2011, 17:53 Post_subject:

leae89 · Posted: Sat 04 Feb 2012, 13:36 Post_subject: [Solved] Nvidia TNT2 Vanta LT 8MB

Problem is solved now.

Currently using Puppy Wary; it works great!