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
Toshiba laptop video probing fails [solved - work around]
Toshiba laptop video probing fails [solved - work around]
Last edited by Billcnz on Tue 02 Jan 2007, 01:57, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Video hardware probing not working on some older hardwar
Hmmm, that's not so easy, as xorg.conf needs to have a hardware profileBillcnz 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?
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.
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
xorg.conf (relative parts only)
Cheers
Bill
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
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#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)
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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
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "trident" #card0driver
VendorName "Trident Microsystems"
BoardName "Cyber 9525"
BusID "PCI:0:4:0"
EndSection
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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubsection
EndSection
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#PuppyHardwareProfile=trident_9525_TOS5082
Bill
Barry, I am running into the same problem, BUT my Toshiba display does NOT come up in XVesa eitherBarryK 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.
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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