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[Guest]

I am pleased to announce that last night I uploaded a version based on 1.0.3 with a very cutdown XFree86-4.4.0 Xserver. This is limited to vesa as no other modules\drivers others than those required have been included. The gfx response is alot quicker than using the framebuffer.

To avoid confusion the boot options are 1, 2 and 5 as per standard puppy.

You must type xwin to start the gui interface after booting

Scroll mouse support is not included yet, but it is a simple matter of editing /etc/X11/XF86Config......I'll have to search my notes for the config values

Hopefully this should work on a wide range of machines, the binaries are the ones available directly for the XFree86 sight, precompiled binaries.

The usr_cram.fs is around about 3MB larger than the standard and the ramdisk (image.gz) is 16MB as opposed to 11-12MB but the madwifi drivers have also been included.

http://www.edgarbrits.net/puppy/cd-puppy-XFree86-4.4.0-atheros.iso

[BarryK]

bladehunter, that's great!
I'm keen to download it, problem is, I'm on dialup right now,
a very slow dialup.
I have to go to my daughter's place to access adsl,
so have to wait until Monday

[pakt]

[Guest]

I'm pretty sure the vesa driver should work for that chipset.


Are you in a position to give an vesa config a whirl ?

[pakt]

[Glitchman]

Since I have an Intel 815 chipset, and the standard Puppy gives me very limited video options, I was naturally curious to try this out. As soon as I typed xwin and hit Enter, my screen went red and had lines everywhere. Fearing that it might damage my monitor, I Control-Alt-Backspaced out. No luck here.

Do I have any other options, or does this only work with an Intel 810 chipset?

[Flash]

[pakt]

[Glitchman]

[Guest]

Ok guys this may work with a known working XF86Config
(ie another distro you may have used on that machine)

Puppy includes the agpgart kernel module, dunno about the int10 module.

I guess you'd modprobe agpgart first before starting the xserver

copy the known good config to /etc/X11/

untar the tarball to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers

then give it a whirl

Failing that I'll try a , ahem, full install of XFree86 from the binary tarballs on the xfree86.org site


BTW ignore the keymap and font errors it should work fine...well my machine does.......

Oh yeah only try the above with my XFree86 version of puppy

[pakt]

Thanks, bladehunter. I've downloaded the driver and am downloading cd-puppy-XFree86-4.4.0-atheros.iso right now using my slooow dial-up. Should have it in 3-4 hours...

I'll get back to you with the results. Keep your fingers crossed.

[Guest]

Cool, if you need any additional stuff just let me know, we'll get ya cooking

[Lobster]

Good luck

How exciting! Really hope it works for you . . .

[pakt]

Progress! We're almost there

It's only running at 640x480x16, but that's because of a (hopefully) small problem.

Checking the XFree86 log, module i810 loads fine. It then loads sub-module int10 OK. Then I get an error:

Unable to open /dev/agpgart (no such file or directory)

I checked and this device is missing in the puppy-XFree86-4.4.0-atheros iso. I compared with Kanotix which does have this device in /dev.

agpgart is the memory manager that 'organizes' the scattered extra memory that int10 has coerced from the BIOS, into linear memory that can be used by the i810 module (Kanotix reports 832KB before agpgart runs - 8MB after agpgart has done its job).

That's what's not happening here - only the pre-allocated 832KB is available, limiting the video mode to 640x480x16.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to 'get' this device. It is a file of 0 bytes...
We're sooo close...anybody know how to fix this

[Guest]

did you modprobe agpgart before starting the Xsession ?


I'd assume if that module isn't loaded the device wont be there ?


If that fails start up a known working distro

#ls -l /dev/agpagart

and relay the output