I was able to get working correctly by booting on another machine, commenting out the /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf /modeset=1 line. Did a save then booted on to amd machine with nomodeset option install the amd-fglrx-pet. rebooted without the nomodeset option and now everything works.

In reference to earlier post about distorted display, was able to get the display working by unsquashing the puppy_precise_5.4.sfs file and changing /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf to modeset=0 and resquashing file

Frugal install to usb key by copying files extracted from iso. Dispaly distorted like an analog tv with no signal in both X and console on laptop with amd a8 with ati 6700m hybride grapahics. Have tried the following with no success: nomodeset xdriver=vesa vga=normal video=800x600x60 noacpi pfix=ram...