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Can't use xorg

#1 Post by Pharisp1 »

XORG won't run and I assume I have some kind of driver problem. Nothing I have researched so far on the forums has helped me. I'm using MediaPup for the live Wine. Whenever I try to run wow.exe it gives me a no suitable display driver message. I know this is because my card is'nt being picked up on XVESA. This Puplet uses 4.1.2 and My card is an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200.
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#2 Post by MU »

you need:
NVIDIA-173.14.12-k2.6.25.16.pet is for newish cards (Gf4 ? - Gf6)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34001

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Thanks

#3 Post by Pharisp1 »

Thanks, Mark
I'll try that and tell you if it works

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#4 Post by Pharisp1 »

Tried that to no avail.
Should I be using the Nvidia driver or should I switch to "vesa" or "nv" ?

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#5 Post by MU »

the pet should offer to modify xorg.conf to nvidia.
If that fails, you need to attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
To get a copy of it, type (before restarting X with a different driver like vesa or nv):
cp -ax /var/log/Xorg.0.log /root/
gzip /root/Xorg.0.log


then attach here /root/Xorg.0.log.gz
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#6 Post by Pharisp1 »

All right, I did that.
So, now I just restart X?
It seems like there may be further instructions.
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#7 Post by Pharisp1 »

It occurred to me that you wanted me to post the log file here as an attachment.
Man I'm dumb sometimes.
Regardless of my inferior intellect I am now attaching the file.
Thanks,
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#8 Post by MU »

ok, you use the retro kernel, so the pet does not work.
this might work:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22272
But it also might not work, as though the kernel has the same versionnumber, it was compiled differently.

If it fails, I would suggest to use the standard Puppy with the pet you downloaded first.

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#9 Post by Pharisp1 »

Thanks for the update I just installed that and I'm about to drop out of x and test it.

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#10 Post by Pharisp1 »

Nope I can't get x to work. But my Standard Puppy doesn't have wine and I need to run this live and to get wine I need to frugal or full install to change the ".sfs"s. If this is hopeless could you help me on running wine live? Thanks for all your help so far

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#11 Post by MU »

try a puplet with everything inluded, like newyearspup midi rc2:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37960

It still is a bit experimental, but maybe you have luck and it works on your computer.
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#12 Post by Pharisp1 »

I will try that and see what happens. I'm currently using the standard Puppy 4.1.2 by the way.
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#13 Post by MU »

for the standard Puppy with kernel 2.6.25.16(not retro), try the first pet:
http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/NOP/NVIDIA ... .25.16.pet
If that fails, it also might help to see the Xorg.0.log.

In case it works, wine might be added as pet package, then you could remaster Puppy.
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#14 Post by Pharisp1 »

Just got the old new pet back(boy that's a mouthful) and I was going to reboot but since I have newyearspup downloading I was curious if seamonkey will resume downloads? If so I'll reboot now ,but if not I think I'll do it later.

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#15 Post by Pharisp1 »

I rebooted and.... no dice.
I will attach the new Xorg.0.log to help you.
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#16 Post by MUguest »

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Undefined Screen "Screen1" referenced by ServerLayout "X.org Configured".
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file
There is something broken in the config.
Please type:
cp -ax /etc/X11/xorg.conf /root/
gzip /root/xorg.conf


Then attach here /root/xorg.conf.gz

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uh oh

#17 Post by Pharisp1 »

Mark, good news and bad news. Good news is that I got Wine to work on my standard puppy. The bad new is for some reason I have lost my internet connection. The wizard no longer detects my hardware. I was hoping your expertise goes as far as to help me with both problems. (the Graphics driver and the internet connection)
Once again thanks for all the help,
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#18 Post by Pharisp1 »

All right I'll try that and get back to you with the attached config,
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#19 Post by Pharisp1 »

All right here is the xorg.conf
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#20 Post by Pharisp1 »

Well... I don't know what the problem was , but I'm back in business from the internet standpoint.
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