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Billcnz
Joined: 30 Jun 2006
Posts: 215
Location: Wellington New Zealand
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 Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 02:58 Post subject:
 Toshiba laptop video probing fails [solved - work around] |
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Hi All,
I've been absent from the forum for a couple of months due to work pressures and missed a few of the test releases but just downloaded the 2.13beta2 to try. I find though my old Toshiba laptop doesn't like the video probing in the new xorgwizard. Is there anyway to bypass the probing and just use my pre-configured xorg.conf?
Here's where the probing gets stuck:
Probing video hardware, please wait . . .
. . . . . . . .
Calling INT 0x15 (F000:F859)
EAX is 0x5F09
Calling INT 0x15 (F000:F859)
EAX is 0x5F09
Cheers
Bill
Last edited by Billcnz on Mon 01 Jan 2007, 21:57; edited 1 time in total
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
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| Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 07:31 Post subject:
Re: Video hardware probing not working on some older hardwar |
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| Billcnz wrote: | Hi All,
I've been absent from the forum for a couple of months due to work pressures and missed a few of the test releases but just downloaded the 2.13beta2 to try. I find though my old Toshiba laptop doesn't like the video probing in the new xorgwizard. Is there anyway to bypass the probing and just use my pre-configured xorg.conf? |
Hmmm, that's not so easy, as xorg.conf needs to have a hardware profile
placed in it. -- see script /usr/X11R7/bin/xwin.
...if you could do that, then your old xorg.conf could be used.
The problem is, if you place it at /etc/X11/xorg.conf without the hardware profile, Puppy will reject it and run the Wizard.
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Billcnz
Joined: 30 Jun 2006
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Location: Wellington New Zealand
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| Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 21:29 Post subject:
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Thanks Barry,
I commented out a few lines in the file you mention and replaced the HARWAREPROFILE variable with a fixed string so I'm back in business 
This laptops getting a bit long in the tooth so will probably always require a bit of tweaking, (been a good one though).
edited part of /usr/X11R7/bin/xwin
| Code: | #v2.13 video hardware profile (must be same as in xorgwizard)...
# DDCPROBE="`ddcprobe`"
# PROFILECHIP="`echo "$DDCPROBE" | grep '^oem: ' | head -n 1 | cut -f 2-4 -d ' ' | tr ' ' '_' | sed -e 's/[^0-9a-zA-Z]/_/g'`"
# PROFILEMONITOR="`echo "$DDCPROBE" | grep --extended-regexp '^monitorrange: |^monitorid: |^eisa: ' | head -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d ':' | sed -e 's/ //g' | sed -e 's/[^0-9a-zA-Z]/_/g'`"
HARDWAREPROFILE="trident_9525_TOS5082" |
xorg.conf (relative parts only)
| Code: | Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 300 230 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "TOS"
ModelName "5082"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 31.5-48.5
VertRefresh 50-70
#UseModes "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
EndSection |
| Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "trident" #card0driver
VendorName "Trident Microsystems"
BoardName "Cyber 9525"
BusID "PCI:0:4:0"
EndSection |
| Code: | Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubsection
EndSection |
| Code: | | #PuppyHardwareProfile=trident_9525_TOS5082 |
Cheers
Bill
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BarryK
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
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| Posted: Tue 02 Jan 2007, 06:02 Post subject:
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The 2.13-final has restored the first dialog window in the Xorg Video Wizard to the choice whether to use Xorg or Xvesa, like in earlier Pups.
So you can go into Xvesa without doing the probing.
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bobn9lvu
Joined: 11 Jul 2006
Posts: 173
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| Posted: Sat 27 Jan 2007, 12:22 Post subject:
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| BarryK wrote: | The 2.13-final has restored the first dialog window in the Xorg Video Wizard to the choice whether to use Xorg or Xvesa, like in earlier Pups.
So you can go into Xvesa without doing the probing. |
Barry, I am running into the same problem, BUT my Toshiba display does NOT come up in XVesa either 
Could you add an option to boot to prompt, so as to bypass any video setup 
Puppy 2.10 works fine with running xorgconfig from prompt, but it does NOT work in 2.12 or 2.13.. 
How come
I would like to run Puppy Multimedia 2.13v3 on the lappies, but I cannot get the display to work...
Bob 
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cherriepuppy
Joined: 11 Dec 2005
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Location: uk
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| Posted: Sat 27 Jan 2007, 13:14 Post subject:
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hi
this link might help
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14140
cherriepuppy
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bobn9lvu
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Thanks
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maodd
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
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Thanks a lot. I was having the same problem on my Satellite Pro 4200, I had to changed the BUSID from 0:4:0 to default 1:0:0.
Also you might need to delete the auto-generated [screen] section in Xorg.conf file.
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