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Dougal · Posted: Sun 29 Apr 2007, 08:33 Post subject:

I did not say I have a i810 -- that's the person who asked for that option.

Puppy mainly uses what Xorg probing gives you, especially when it comes to the driver.

My card that doesn't work with the vesa driver is an old ATI.

Gn2 · Posted: Sun 29 Apr 2007, 15:43 Post subject:

Ahh well, Then that info may help whoever does have it
Sorry - your post mentioned 810 - then "you could not test tweaking" = 'cuz: That linking was obvious.
810 has known problems w/frame buffers
ATI doesn't
~ ATI is fully compliant to Vesa standards
= ATI works very well using VESA

One Puppy user fought ATI, (different chipsets/boxes) for weeks using suggested Puppy methods,
several on_the_fly_revamped contributor scripts - until most items worked for him
Conversely, in under 30 Mins, - using S.O.P. CLI - an Nvidia was swapped out, ATI installed & Cfg'd correctly !

Dougal · Posted: Sun 29 Apr 2007, 16:26 Post subject:

Gn2 · Posted: Sun 29 Apr 2007, 16:44 Post subject:

Sorry to hear that - and Plse excuse the O.T erratta on subject
I have no wish to derail this thread.

( If however you would like - open own header - or Cool

we could collaborate privately ?)

Best regards

Dougal · Posted: Mon 30 Apr 2007, 15:22 Post subject:

bostonvaulter · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 269

Okay so I tried the xorgwizard and it seemed to go okay until I tested it . Then it gave this series of errors

Leon · Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 254

I tested xorgwizard from Sat Apr 28, 2007 in Puppy 2.16a and I'm glad to confirm that my problem with unable to get high enough resolution for my ATI SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200SE ATLANTIS 128 MB graphics card and Sony SDM-M51, LCD, 15" monitor is finally solved.
I really like and hope that this fixed xorgwizard will be in next Puppy.
Thank you, Dougal.

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

Dougal · Posted: Tue 01 May 2007, 09:07 Post subject:

Dougal · Posted: Tue 01 May 2007, 09:15 Post subject:

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

Hi,

Well here XFCE runs fine with Xvesa once i have told it to run at the correct videomode. If i run JWM i got video-wizard asking for a video mode, i select 1024x768x24 and then i switch to XFCE => it's OK.

But if, direct from boot, i choose Xvesa (from xorgwizard) and load XFCE it starts in 320x200 and i have no video-wizard asking. I open a terminal, i run video-wizard and i choose 1024x768x24 and it's OK.

So, i think i am really close to a perfect tool. In fact it is all because of you as i am using your XFCE 4232 package Wink

(Many thanks. I was not able to have another most recent version running)

That's why i think, when a user choose Xvesa mode, it would be best while we are in text mode to ask him also if he prefers a resolution and let him choose one ; if he does not care, let's starts at the lower resolution as usual...

By the way, perhaps you could tell me, i wonder if it is possible to have a program loaded when xfce starts, so i could have video-wizard loaded this way ? do you know ? but the above would be far better, because when a user starts in Xorg he does not need video-wizard...

what do you think about it ? would it be possible for you to do it ?

Best regards,
Laurent (having hard time at building a pretty-in-pink girls distro)

bostonvaulter · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 269

@lvds
You could try making sure your session is saved. I use that in XFCE to have conky run when i start xfce.

@Dougal
Well my xorg.conf worked okay before this. And I removed it and tried running the wizard again but it didn't work. Maybe I should have replaced it with the xorg.conf.original file?

Dougal · Posted: Tue 01 May 2007, 16:56 Post subject:

I wrote a simple textual Xvesa wizard.

There's info on how to add it inside.

It seems more sensible to me to have it like this (maybe even inside the xorgwizard -- rename it xwizard or something?) than the way it is now...

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window

Hi,

thanks for your replies

@Dougal
yes, a text xvesa-wizard inside xorgwizard would be best i think, but anyway the result is to have the user choose a graphic mode before he enters into graphic ; i think that is the simplest method and less confusing the user...

another idea i have come to also is when there are multiple window managers,
let the user choose (still in text mode) which window manager he want to run.
this simple method would allow one to boot choose xorg then 1024x768 then xfce ... and at next boot he can choose another thing like xvesa 1440x900 jwm ... being able to have this slections direct inside the text mode before entering graphic are very flexible and very useful.

best regards,
Laurent (in hurry...)

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Near the window