Neomagic problem with 2.13 solved

[cherriepuppy]

hi

sorry looks like i forgot a line should have been

rm -f /usr/X11R7/bin/X
ln -s /usr/X11R7/bin/Xorg /usr/X11R7/bin/X

then xwin

cherriepuppy

[conradcliff]

Hey, thanks for the reply. I thought we almost had it this time. At first I got the same thing as before: "/usr/x11r7/bin/xwin: line 286 syntax error near unexpected token 'fi' " So I went in and commented line 286 out (not sure if I should or not really) and try again and it seemed like it was going to work this time as the screen goes blank for a split second but then it comes back with: "exited from X. type "xwin [fvwm95| jwm] to restart X blah blah blah..." when I try and type: "xwin fvwm95| jwm" t gives me : "error: could not open display"

Whata ya think? Am I just out of luck or what?

[GuestToo]

what you type is:

xwin jwm

X will not start if you have not edited the xwin file properly

[cherriepuppy]

hi

when i had the error "line 286 syntax error near unexpected token 'fi " it was because i had commented out line 260 by mistake "if [ -f /usr/X11R7/bin/Xorg ];then "

cherriepuppy

[conradcliff]

Well, I want to thank you for all your help so far. I really do appreciate it. You were right about that one line, 261 on my machine, I did have it commented out. I did everything all over again and once I hit xwin it asked about the keyboard and after that when it tried to run X it failed and told me that it had exited from X like it had before...curse this free laptop!

[conradcliff]

What do you think? Is this the end for the Toshiba?

[pandobud]

I created a new thread with similar problems for PuppyLinux v3.00 at:

"3.00 Frugal Install from-and-to HDD -- Xorg Probing Trouble"
Subject description: Install process into laptop freeze at Xorg probing stage. Previous fix suggestions didn't work out.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=146452

[DaveR]

Well commenting out the video probing at least brought me to a prompt.
I ran "xorgconfig" and entered the data asked for using the entries from a known good "xorg.conf" generated by Xubuntu on this machine.
Running "xwin" got me "an attempt has just been made to run X at 640x480x16 but it has not worked." I managed to break out using a 3 fingered salute.

I THINK the problem lies in the version of the Trident driver incorporated in Puppy because "xorgconfig" only asked about 640X480 and wouldn't accept 32K video memory. Xubuntu runs the chip at 1024X768 as shown below:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1"
Driver "trident"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-51
VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Anyone have any ideas for me to try?