Tecra/Protege stops booting at Xvesa and Xorg (SOLVED)

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muggins
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#161 Post by muggins »

Harryc,

good to hear you were successful. I think Richard did all the hard work of getting xorgwizard to recognise the tridents. I'm curious how much RAM you had though? If you open a console and type free, what does it display?

harryc
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#162 Post by harryc »

muggins - I have 128MB of RAM and 256MB swap.

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rerwin
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#163 Post by rerwin »

harryc,
I am pleased that puppy4 worked for you as I expected. It can be made to avoid the ctrl-c game if you can give me a bit of information to include in future puppys.

Could you post the last line of file /etc/xorgoverrides here? I can then have that added to the standard puppy. Thanks.
Richard

harryc
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#164 Post by harryc »

Richard, I skimmed over your post too fast and didn't pay attention to the ctrl-C. I did not have to do that. I just selected xorg, and the LCD and resolution. The last line of /etc/xorgoverrides is;
oem:Trident CYBER 8820.

Tonny
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#165 Post by Tonny »

Hello

harryc or rerwin , can you take a look at my post?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=33188

(problem with Trident Cyber 9382 video chipset)

herrdeh
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#166 Post by herrdeh »

Hi everybody,

I'll try to relaunch this old thread…

Tried to install puppy 5.3.1 slacko today on my girl's Toshiba satellite 1805 with (wow!) 1GB of RAM.

As I expected it would fail when probing the xserver. As I have a working ubuntu (but: no hardware acceleration, that was broken sometimes around ubuntu 7), I mounted the hdd and copied the (known good, exept hardware acceleration) xorg.conf to puppy's /etc/X11. startx or xwin failed both.

I do attach ubuntu's the xorg.conf here - maybe somebody will find something:

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# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# Custom file by Michael Minn

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "Kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protoxol" "ImPS/2"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Trident Microsystems cyberbladeAi1d"
    Driver        "trident"
    BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option "NoDDC"
EndSection

# Section "Device"
#	Identifier  "Card0"
#	Driver      "trident"
#	VendorName  "Trident Microsystems"
#	BoardName   "CyberBladeAi1d"
#	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
# EndSection


Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "ToshLCD"
    Option        "DPMS"
    HorizSync      30-71
    VertRefresh    50-100
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Monitor       "ToshLCD"
    Device        "Trident Microsystems cyberbladeAi1d"
    DefaultDepth    16
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        16
        Modes        "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        24
        Modes        "1024x768" 
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        16
        Modes        "800x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        24
        Modes        "800x600" 
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

AFAIK the

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option "nodcc" 
is crucial on that machine.

As this thread has become very long: I coudnt really get clear where the most recent advice can be found. Could someone give me a hint? - NB.: Is it still valid for 5.3.1?

And another thing: ubuntu needed kernel parameters

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i915.modeset=0 noapic
not to hang during the boot procedure. Looks as if this were not necessary for puppy.

BTW.: Tried puppy on a 160MB RAM PIII today - awesome!!!!

Greetings,

Wolf

herrdeh
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#167 Post by herrdeh »

Finally I ended up to use puppy "wary" - this works out of the box.
Attn.: Do not "upgrade" to Xorg 7.6, as offered by the system. That one did not work on my machine.

HTH,
Wolf

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