This is not news just a gentle reminder, perhaps, of a persistent old problem with Neomagic graphics chips which, in my experience, is still not remedied by the move to Xorg.. My old laptop chip Neomagic 128V [NM2090] which works fine with a framebuffer server in Damnsmall linux never worked with Xvesa at all. Xorg officially provides full support for the above chip and appears to include a framebuffer video option too in the 'Xconfig' routine. With Puppy 1.07 on this machine, framebuffer option just doesn't load at all - X won't start and with the "Neomagic [Generic]" driver option selected either manually or by autoprobing, the Gui opens up but leaves a little to be desired:
The GUI display, whilst sized/positioned correctly for the LCD panel and without any other obvious errors is still not that great - Menus, toolbars, desktop icons and text all a little oversized and with lack of definition to fonts, lines, edges and colour junctions. Not as good as framebuffer I am afraid. Having spent a week googling, reading and tweaking Xorg I am having to call it day. Hope this gets sorted out some day as Puppy is the ideal distro for my needs on this machine (Digital Hinote).
Xorg no good for Neomagic 128V [NM2090] graphics
Did you install the framebuffer-Kernel modules with pupget?
They are required to run xvesa or xorg in framebuffer-mode.
Also see here:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=4082
Mark
They are required to run xvesa or xorg in framebuffer-mode.
Also see here:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=4082
Mark