A Puppy as a UTILITY Program
Posted: Sat 16 Feb 2013, 03:18
I had a interesting problem with "Zenwalk" server that refused to
properly register the higher resolution settings on a ATI Rage
128 video card. The program would not list anything higher than
the 800x600 resolution even though the card would read as high
as 1600+ in several Puppys. Of course that resolution is way too
high if you value your monitor. The Lucid Puppy will default
to that setting but when the card is Probed it defaults to
the usual 1924x768 resolution which is ok.
Trying to set higher resolutions on Zenwalk by editing the
'Xorg.conf" file in the X11 directory was not working. That was
probably due to security reasons even at ADM level. I tried the
editing with "Gleany" with no success. I then decided to try
for a backdoor using Lucid Puppy. I knew I was getting results
when the program would crash when posting the hardware settings.
I finally hit on the right setting after a few tries.
It's hard to beat a Puppy when you are having problems getting
a system up and running! There are several issues that I am
working on with Zenwalk. Don't get me wrong the program has a
lot of features and is a solid Linux program and is far more
reliable than the Windows OSs. One thing that I am having an
issue with and concerning a lot of the large Linux releases
is that they do not support the encryped DVD playback of disks.
Guess what operaqting system does? The Puppys do! Especailly
Lucid and Wary Puppy versions. Lucid uses "Xine" and Wary uses
the "Ogle" player. Of 5 versions I know that do support the
DVD format, is listed below:
Wary Puppy
Lucid Puppy
Precise Puppy
Mac Puppy
Windows Puppy (based on Lucid)
If you want a fast little OS for running on outdated equipment
use the Wary Puppy. I have an old 256 M. 300 Mhz machine and
Wary runs good on it. The newer versions will not load. I've
had issues with Ubuntu and if I remember right, it had problems
with DVDs also. The system is slower probably because of the
overhead it has, and that is why I quit using it.
It's hard to beat the Pups especailly with all of the features
they have and the speed at which they execute them! A job well
done by the developers of the Puppys!
--Dennis
properly register the higher resolution settings on a ATI Rage
128 video card. The program would not list anything higher than
the 800x600 resolution even though the card would read as high
as 1600+ in several Puppys. Of course that resolution is way too
high if you value your monitor. The Lucid Puppy will default
to that setting but when the card is Probed it defaults to
the usual 1924x768 resolution which is ok.
Trying to set higher resolutions on Zenwalk by editing the
'Xorg.conf" file in the X11 directory was not working. That was
probably due to security reasons even at ADM level. I tried the
editing with "Gleany" with no success. I then decided to try
for a backdoor using Lucid Puppy. I knew I was getting results
when the program would crash when posting the hardware settings.
I finally hit on the right setting after a few tries.
It's hard to beat a Puppy when you are having problems getting
a system up and running! There are several issues that I am
working on with Zenwalk. Don't get me wrong the program has a
lot of features and is a solid Linux program and is far more
reliable than the Windows OSs. One thing that I am having an
issue with and concerning a lot of the large Linux releases
is that they do not support the encryped DVD playback of disks.
Guess what operaqting system does? The Puppys do! Especailly
Lucid and Wary Puppy versions. Lucid uses "Xine" and Wary uses
the "Ogle" player. Of 5 versions I know that do support the
DVD format, is listed below:
Wary Puppy
Lucid Puppy
Precise Puppy
Mac Puppy
Windows Puppy (based on Lucid)
If you want a fast little OS for running on outdated equipment
use the Wary Puppy. I have an old 256 M. 300 Mhz machine and
Wary runs good on it. The newer versions will not load. I've
had issues with Ubuntu and if I remember right, it had problems
with DVDs also. The system is slower probably because of the
overhead it has, and that is why I quit using it.
It's hard to beat the Pups especailly with all of the features
they have and the speed at which they execute them! A job well
done by the developers of the Puppys!
--Dennis