I'll try to relaunch this old thread…
Tried to install puppy 5.3.1 slacko today on my girl's Toshiba satellite 1805 with (wow!) 1GB of RAM.
As I expected it would fail when probing the xserver. As I have a working ubuntu (but: no hardware acceleration, that was broken sometimes around ubuntu 7), I mounted the hdd and copied the (known good, exept hardware acceleration) xorg.conf to puppy's /etc/X11. startx or xwin failed both.
I do attach ubuntu's the xorg.conf here - maybe somebody will find something:
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# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# Custom file by Michael Minn
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "Kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protoxol" "ImPS/2"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Trident Microsystems cyberbladeAi1d"
Driver "trident"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "NoDDC"
EndSection
# Section "Device"
# Identifier "Card0"
# Driver "trident"
# VendorName "Trident Microsystems"
# BoardName "CyberBladeAi1d"
# BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "ToshLCD"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-71
VertRefresh 50-100
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "ToshLCD"
Device "Trident Microsystems cyberbladeAi1d"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
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option "nodcc"
As this thread has become very long: I coudnt really get clear where the most recent advice can be found. Could someone give me a hint? - NB.: Is it still valid for 5.3.1?
And another thing: ubuntu needed kernel parameters
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i915.modeset=0 noapic
BTW.: Tried puppy on a 160MB RAM PIII today - awesome!!!!
Greetings,
Wolf