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helmet2 · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 7

Hi, I have a strange problem with xorg. It's telling me that it has no problem about probing my video hardware but in the end when I enter "xwin" xorg is not starting, I have to run on xvesa.
I think it's cause of the Voodo bridge chipset. I had this problem with vector linux which was recognizing ATI but not seeing Voodo. Finally, I don't remember how, but it worked.
Anyway, I would like to know if there is a way for xorg to fully recognize my hardware.

my specs are (I'm talking of an HDD install of Puppy)
pentium3 450 katmai
128M ram
ATI 128M rage Voodoo2 Chipset bridge (might be 16M but not sure)
9G HDD
Ethernet card....

Ok, thanks. Rolling Eyes

PS : I would like to know, as well, if there is a relation between running xvesa and the fact that japanese language is not supported in an english version of Puppy 2.16.

Again thanks. Shocked

MU · Posted: Wed 27 Jun 2007, 13:49 Post subject:

If you chose xorg in the xorgwizard, it should have created a /etc/X11/xorg.conf
It remains also, if you choose Xvesa again later.

So use Xvesa again to get a grafical desktop, Edit this file, replace
driver "ati"
with
driver "voodoo"
or
driver "vesa"

Then exit X, and type these comands:

Dougal · Posted: Wed 27 Jun 2007, 16:19 Post subject:

Could you please run this dotpup (download it and then just click on it), then attach here the results, so I can see how the card is recognized and change the xorgwizard to match it?

Thank you.

helmet2 · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 7

Thanks for supporting,
attached to this thread, the file you asked.

Dougal · Posted: Thu 28 Jun 2007, 15:48 Post subject:

Thanks, I'll see what I can do.

Dougal · Posted: Sat 30 Jun 2007, 07:47 Post subject:

I've had a look through it and both Xvesa and ddcprobe detect your card as being rage128, which should be used with the "r128" driver.

However, I don't know where that voodoo business comes in, so maybe the problem is as you mentioned you had in Vector...