Is there a way to by-pass the xorgwizard? Or at least force Puppy to try MY xorg.conf file - I want to edit the Puppy file based on Ubuntu's works-nicely xorg.conf? Or whatever else needs altering or could be. Checking Puppy's xorg.conf after my failures to boot into X, I see the xorg.conf driver is...

Another week-end at Gunn & Fames. Began Friday evening with many attempts to run the 2.12 zdrv Live CD on my old HP desk-top with the SiS 5597 chipset, trying all sorts of boot instructions added to "puppy". Q1. Is there a list of all possible commands of the pfix type somewhere? My at...

G’day again. Over the week-end I tried Live Puppy CDs of bare-bones and 2.12-zdrv iso. Neither would run past trying to start X on my old HP Pavilion desktop, but both Live-CDs ran on newer computers (desktop & laptops). Choosing Vesa caused a black/blank screen on the HP with both. I have looke...

G'day Barry, I am using Puppy_2.12_seamonkey_iso. In looking through the forum sections for other similar problems, there seem to be quite a few with old lap-tops having what to me look like very similar Xorg config difficulties. I was going to try some of the solutions posed there, and also try a b...

Slide another video card in a PCI slot and use it instead. I hope this helps. Thanks for that idea, but the two PCI slots are filled with 2 Netgear network cards. My next problem no doubt will be to get these working with Puppy, particularly the Netgear WG311v3 - works well with ndiswrapper with Ub...

I am trying to run Puppy on an old HP Pavilion 4404 desktop (256MB RAM) which has a Sis5597 chipset. I cannot get X to display correctly. Depending on the vga option selected, I get nothing (Xvesa), vertical green stripes of different heights, pointilist horizontal bands, or a re-boot (various Xorg/...