Still fails on 4.2.1 (both regular and retro). Looks like the Debian bug has been fixed. Maybe Puppy 5 will fix it too.

Correct, it is the tdfx driver. It also needs libglide3 to get acceleration.

I've had continuing failures with Puppy 3.01 and 4 beta to get X.org working with a Cyrix CPU. It segfaults The video card is a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee PCI but I'm stuck with Xvesa on 3.01 but even that doesn't work on 4 beta as I only get a black screen.. X.0.log: Using the vesa driver it initializes a...

New system (tested with Puppy, will use Ubuntu): Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 motherboard AMD Phenom 9550 quad-core CPU, Socket AM2+ 2G Crucial PC2-8500 DDR2 RAM (dual-channel mode) eGeForce 7300GT 256MB PCI-E video card Runs Quake 4 fine with Puppy 4 beta although finding SDL package was a pain (Puppy nee...

I tried instaling Puppy 4beta (3.98) but got the same result. I did reduce it to 2GB (I'm not sure why I set it to 4GB) but it still failed to mount. I tried the GParted 0.3.4-11 LiveCD. While it messed up initializing the video (minimum brightness) I was able to see that the signature on the swap w...

Below is the messages log. I downloaded the Puppy 4 beta and try that later to see if it fixes the problem. Apr 10 22:13:56 (none) syslog.info syslogd exiting Apr 11 18:15:20 (none) syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.6.1 Apr 11 18:15:20 (none) kern.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.6.1 (...

I built a new PC and wanted to test out the hardware before moving my existing drives to it. The Ubuntu Hardy beta 8.04 wouldn't boot for some reason so I grabbed the next CD off of my pile which happened to be Puppy 3.01. It seemed to load quickly enough but I had some problems initially with parti...