Starting Lucid Puppy in VESA mode for unsupported GPU's
Posted: Sat 11 Feb 2012, 07:37
Hello all,
I've tried Lucid Puppy on a variety of systems (including an ancient P3 Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop & Inspiron 531S desktop, plus an Athlon 64 system with Radeon 9600 graphics.) Overall it's been a pretty good experience compared to other Linux & BSD distros I've tried.
I did have trouble with Lucid Puppy on a few systems recently. I put a GeForce 7300 video card in the aforementioned Athlon 64, and now Lucid Puppy boots into a graphic mode that my monitor doesn't support. I also tried Lucid Puppy on a Dell Latitude C840 and it boots to the standard desktop, but the screen is garbled (the desktop appears divided into four quadrants that are moved from their original positions, and the mouse doesn't want to click on whatever it's hovering over.)
Maybe this is a simple question, but how can I boot into a safe graphics mode (such as VESA) when I boot off the Lucid Puppy CD? It'd be nice to get Puppy running on both the systems I had mentioned, so I can build puplets on the Athlon 64 system and use Lucid Puppy as a daily OS on the old Dell laptop without eating as much RAM as Xubuntu (my fallback option.)
I've tried Lucid Puppy on a variety of systems (including an ancient P3 Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop & Inspiron 531S desktop, plus an Athlon 64 system with Radeon 9600 graphics.) Overall it's been a pretty good experience compared to other Linux & BSD distros I've tried.
I did have trouble with Lucid Puppy on a few systems recently. I put a GeForce 7300 video card in the aforementioned Athlon 64, and now Lucid Puppy boots into a graphic mode that my monitor doesn't support. I also tried Lucid Puppy on a Dell Latitude C840 and it boots to the standard desktop, but the screen is garbled (the desktop appears divided into four quadrants that are moved from their original positions, and the mouse doesn't want to click on whatever it's hovering over.)
Maybe this is a simple question, but how can I boot into a safe graphics mode (such as VESA) when I boot off the Lucid Puppy CD? It'd be nice to get Puppy running on both the systems I had mentioned, so I can build puplets on the Athlon 64 system and use Lucid Puppy as a daily OS on the old Dell laptop without eating as much RAM as Xubuntu (my fallback option.)