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#16 Post by JustGreg »

Here is the lspci information for your use. I have tested also Dougal's changes for 800 x 480 resolution with Puppy 2.14R 1.01 and had some success.
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#17 Post by Lobster »

BarryK wrote:Lobster, would you mind doing a little test.

1. Boot Barebones Dingo alpha4 with "puppy pfix=ram" boot parameter, then
2. choose 'Xvesa' for the video (not Xorg).
3. Place the attached file (gunzip it first) at /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
4. Exit from X, run 'xorgwizard'.
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there was no
/modules/drivers/
in
/usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/
. . . so put it in
/usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/
and created /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
and put in there too

Find out if it works with the 'nv' driver. I mostly need to know if that driver will work as-is or whether it needs any other file. You can find out about this by examining the Xorg log file at:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.
no such file created

-- it will report if it tried to load something that is missing.
Also, if 'nv' was successfully chosen, then /etc/X11/xorg.conf will have it, as per your previous post
when running xorgwizard no horizontal or vertical hz was set

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#Special base config file used in Puppy Linux.

# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this  section  is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

    Load        "dbe"  	# Double buffer extension

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection

# This loads the font modules
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"

# This loads xtrap extension, used by xrandr
    Load       "xtrap"

# This loads the GLX module (if present)
    Load       "glx"

# This loads dri module (if present)
    Load       "dri"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Files section.  This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

    RgbPath	"/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)

    FontPath   "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"

# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><Fn> VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12).  This allows clients to receive these key
# events.

#    Option "DontVTSwitch"

# Enables mode switching with xrandr
# There is a report that this can cause Xorg not to work on some
# video hardware, so default is commented-out...
# but i want to use it in xorgwizard so leave on...

    Option "RandR" "on"

EndSection

#everything past here is auto-generated by Puppy's Xorg Wizard...


	

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

#PuppyHardwareProfile=NVIDIAAOCa780
that last bit is wrong
#PuppyHardwareProfile=NVIDIAAOCa780
it is NVIDIAAOCa940 (something like that with a 9 in it) :oops:
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#18 Post by raffy »

Just back from trip. JustGreg's dmidecode is identical to what I got, but for lspci, i used "lspci -v" only (verbose option), attached.
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#19 Post by BarryK »

there was no
/modules/drivers/
Lobster,
Oops, sorry, I made a mistake in my instructions. You needed to have the 'xorg_xorg_base' and 'xorg_xorg_servers' packages also installed.

Well, I'll put the 'nv' driver into the 'xorg_xorg_servers' package, so you can test the next release of Dingo and find out if the nv driver works okay, without having to install anything extra.
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#20 Post by Lobster »

:D The Dingo is Wild!

added the two xorg files
and running in Firefox (had to add that from the .pet package installer) at 1024x1280 in Alpha 4 using xorg

enclosed xorg0 file
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#21 Post by Dougal »

BarryK wrote:Dougal has suggested that 'dmidecode' be used to identify the Classmate and the eeePC.

However, Intel have used a standard BIOS without any product or vendor information, so dmidecode does not return anything that can be used to identify it as a Classmate.
What about biosdecode? nothing from that either?
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#22 Post by Lobster »

If thinking of adding another set of icons for Dingo Beta . . .
Warren has reminded me of the stylish and background independent
glass icons . . .
http://puppyfiles.org/dotpupsde/dotpups/Icons/
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#23 Post by JustGreg »

Here is the bios decode text file from the ASUS Eee PC running Puppy 2.14R 1.01 for anyone use. It has been gzipped for posting to the forum.
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#24 Post by BarryK »

Lobster, excellent! I've been stingy, only putting in X servers that I have tested, now also the 'nv' driver. So, /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers now has these (in the xorg_xorg_servers PET package):

i740, intel, neomagic, nv, sis, trident, vesa.

Anyone else want their Xorg server included for the next Dingo release?

Note, if Xorg cannot find a specific server for the video hardware, it falls back to 'vesa', but that lacks hardware-acceleration, meaning your display will be a bit sluggish -- which you might not notice on a fast CPU.

Dougal, no, I don't see anything from biosdecode that is helpful either.
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#25 Post by pakt »

BarryK wrote:Anyone else want their Xorg server included for the next Dingo release?
Please add 'nsc' and 'amd' (if available) for the StarBox thin clients.
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#26 Post by nic2109 »

BarryK wrote:Anyone else want their Xorg server included for the next Dingo release?
I think that vesa is sufficient for those of us "blessed" (!) with an ATi card that needs their propriety driver. But is there a solution to this screen resolution conundrum?

Before installing fglrx (via MU's 3DCC) all Puppies I have tried behave the same: the video probe detects that the correct resolution is 1440x900, it buils xorg.conf correctly but then displays at 1024x768!

Is this inevitable? Or is there something that might improve it?

The fact that things are bigger than they should be isn't as big an issue as the impact that the wrong aspect ratio has. I appreciate that until the correct driver is used that there'll be no acceleration, but looking right out of the box would be a real winner.

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#27 Post by linuxcbon »

Can you also add driver "ati" ?

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#28 Post by BarryK »

Okay, I've added 'nsc' and 'ati' and 'atimisc' -- I don't know what that last one is for, but it seems something to do with ati.
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#29 Post by zygo »

In the help page I have converted all the selection items to link anchors so that when javascript is not available they can be seen. When js is avaialble then it converts the anchors into a selection control as the original help page had. It works in opera, seamonkey, netsurf, dillo, elinks.

Elinks is now much more advanced than elinks-0.11.1.pet. Could some kind soul make a pet please.
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#30 Post by mcewanw »

BarryK wrote: So, /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers now has these (in the xorg_xorg_servers PET package):

i740, intel, neomagic, nv, sis, trident, vesa.

Anyone else want their Xorg server included for the next Dingo release?
I don't know anything about video driver/needs really, but from your list of included drivers I might be lucky already! I'm hoping to download Dingo soon in order to test some software I'm developing.

The three pretty much ancient laptops my family use for everything (DVD playing, program development, whatever...) are:

Compaq Armada 110 with Trident Cyberblade il / AGP 2x
Dell Latitude CPx and CPt with NeoMagic 256ZX
IBM Thinkpad 240 with (I think) NeoMagic 128XD

So I guess the neomagic and trident Dingo inclusions should work?

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#31 Post by Dougal »

BarryK wrote:Okay, I've added 'nsc' and 'ati' and 'atimisc' -- I don't know what that last one is for, but it seems something to do with ati.
the "ati" driver is not actually a driver: Xorg uses it to find out which of the different ATI driver should be used -- radeon, atimisc, r200 (or whatever) etc.
You should probably add all the ATI related drivers if you add "ati".
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#32 Post by BarryK »

Okay, I've added 'r128' and 'radeon' drivers, so the complete list so far is:

ati, atimisc, i740, intel, neomagic, nv, r128, radeon, sis, trident, vesa.

I know this is still being too stingy.
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