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Gobbi · Joined: 09 Mar 2012 Posts: 52

Control Panel / Display Properties is not opening normally... Sad

-Display-
Resolution : 1360x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

Booting with parameters nomodeset pfix=vesa and Display Properties is working ... maximum : 1024x768 pixels

Waitng with patience for ati_catalyst_driver pet to reach better resolution

bark_bark_bark · Posted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 14:09 Post subject:

i didn't test much, but everything I did does.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2630 Location: Earth

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2630 Location: Earth

There is a lot of horse-power exposed by this distro. And, it is obvious that a log of brain-power went into the making of this.

Thanks for the great-great work being done here.

The distro ONLY suffers from a single thing that I think would make every 64bit user (newbies, Apple users, Windows users, experienced users, etc) of this distro START with an immediate feeling of control:

The addition of a FATDOG-600 Localization Screen. This would/could follow in the efforts put forth by the good work of BarryK or Shinobar's version. It opens the first use of the desktop so that the user "SEE's" their local settings with controls for OOTB adjustments.

Experienced Linux users are comfortable searching for this stuff now buried in the Control Panel you provide. BUT, existing new users and exsiting users coming from current PUPs have become comfortable with the technology that is mentioned.

"FATDOG600 Initial User Localization" would be bringing this same kind of ease of use Puppy branding that we've become accustomed to since the changing from text based system starts to today's boot to desktop services we now enjoy.

Please consider the benefit this brings

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Яadiøaktive TΣknik · Joined: 01 Jul 2012 Posts: 22 Location: Orlando, FL USA

Happauge PVR-150 works and shows cable tv. Wireless worked. My wireless chip is RT8187 [Realtek]. The brand is Rosewill USB but I don't think that matters. Other realtek wireless chips probably work.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2630 Location: Earth

Hostname processing would benefit by a logoff. The X desktop restart does some of it, but the logoff addresses all of it that are used by most Linux apps. See results below.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2630 Location: Earth

When I boot live, then Menu>Network>Terminal Server Client;
the dropdown for protocols has XDMCP greyed-out.

Will report on remaster next 2 days.

I am testing the latest version download

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jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1538 Location: The Blue Marble

Gobbi · Joined: 09 Mar 2012 Posts: 52

Would it be possible to keep the nice boot splash image of Fatdog wich appears in the downloaded wersion in the the new custom versions that one rematers Question

It's not so important but if it's not so difficult ... The logo is too nice to be left out , in my opinion...

majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 420 Location: Wish I knew

D/L iso and burned to cd-r

Tried to boot on win 7 64bit computer. Boot process starts but only get black screen - no desktop - I tried several of the Pfix parameters and still no luck

HP Pavillion dm-4-2070 laptop
Intel Core I5, 2.3 ghz 8gb memory
screen resolution 1366x768
Intel HD graphics 3000 with up to 1696 mb shared memory

any ideas as to what my problem might be?

Gobbi · Joined: 09 Mar 2012 Posts: 52

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1496 Location: Ontario Canada

I compiled some programs and did a remaster, I added
qt-482,xinelib-1.22,xineui-0.97,umplayer,smplayer,smtube,MPlayer-1.1,and cmus.
Also the proprietary nvidia driver.
The iso is 328mb
It booted up on another pc which has nvidia graphics card and works
fine on that pc.
I booted it up on a pc with intel graphics and got a black screen but
I entered xorgwizard a couple of times and then xwin, it went to the
desktop and everything is working fine except glxgears doesn't work.
I used gparted to resize the hard drive and added a new partition.then
used the fatdog installer to install to the new partition, logged off
creating my new savefile.
Next boot it offers a choice of savefiles to load, the first partition
has an older fatdog install on it, I chose the new install and it
booted up to the desktop.

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Memory 5965MB (253MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Fatdog64 [54d320f566]
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Wed Jul 4 12:19:02 2012
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Unknown
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
OpenGL
Vendor Unknown
Renderer Unknown
Version Unknown
Direct Rendering No

Apart from the glxgears problem it's working fine.

EDIT: I made another remaster with all of the above programs plus a
few others, minus the proprietary nvidia driver.
The new iso size is 268 mb.
Installed to the hard drive.

OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop
Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.433 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.018 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.020 FPS

Gobbi · Joined: 09 Mar 2012 Posts: 52

Installed ati_catalyst pet , made a remaster.iso and burned it onto a DVD-RW . Now I'm using 1920x1080 pixels resolution . Very Happy

Thank's

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA