(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Hello
i have an old toshiba laptop, and i've never been able to run puppy into it due to problem with Xvesa, ubuntu runs fine on it, with 800x600 video and vesa driver..
so i tought the new xorg driver would help me..
but it didn't..
xvesa gets locked always at "starting X with video mode 0x0111 and mouse psaux"
xorg instead gives me a black screen with a blinking cursor..
i gave a look at xorg.conf and saw he sees a trident chipset, i tried many times to edit by hand it, putting vesa, but it simply doesn't start..
in ubuntu the fastest way to run it was "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" which asked me a few question and let me change what i wanted..
now i don't know how to do..
does anyone have an idea about how to fix this problem and finally run puppy?
i have just 4Gb hdd and i can't spend 3 of them for ubuntu!

You could try to use the full xorg.conf from Ubuntu.
Also try to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Mark

and how can i do that?
i've no clue how to take it out from ubuntu into pup...
pop001 is a bit file i can't just open it like an archive and copy xserver.xorg into it..
oh how can i look into xorg.log? i've to delete pup001 and make a new one with xorg in order to reach busybox...since xvesa is completely locked..

I think you can mount the ubuntu-drives.
Type
probepart
to see the partitions.

Then:
mkdir /mnt/hda1
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
if ubuntu is on hda1.

Then
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-my-backup
cp /mnt/hda1/etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xwin

To see the log:
mp /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Mark

on Xorg.log i get a few parse error (line101)
and a fatal error:
no screens found.

now i try xorg.conf from ubuntu..
thanks

update:
i am able to mount only Boot partition
i will copy xorg.conf on it from ubuntu then pick from puppy...
seems the only way..

then i I had to see your xorg.conf and the full(!) logfile to find the error.
But try the ubuntu if possible.
Mark

Puppy also has "xorgconfig", which is another setup script.
If you can boot to the commandline, type:
# xorgconfig

i tried ubuntu one and got a few errors also...
xf86Openserial :cannot open /dev/input/mice no such device
configured mouse: cannot open input device
preinit failed for imput device "configured mouse"
no input driver matching "synaptics"
no core pointer registered
couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to preXKB keymap
no core pointer

fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices

and again to busybox...

ok, so try xorgconfig as Barry suggested, or take the input-device-lines from the backuped xorg.conf.

That works quite well with the "mp"-editor.

Mark

Thanks MU and barry!!!!
i am on puppy now
xorgconfig did the trick..as well as copying the file from ubuntu!
i reboot and see if retains the settings now..
what about WIFI does it work on puppy?

great

I have no wifi, so no idea, but there are many threads about that in the forum.
It works,but you must search for details.

Mark (going2bednow)

every time i reboot now goes to busybox, with an error msg..
then i type xwin and x starts normally..
how can i override this?

I feel like this thread is quite important, but confusing!

Nevermore, please write up what you have learned so far, in a form that would be as helpful as possible to someone else with problems like you had. Please post here, and maybe as a HOWTO Forum post. And maybe in the wiki, too!

Ok
this is the way i made everything work, i completely deleted pup001 and started from scratch.

first of all xorg must be selected, as xvesa doesn't support my hardware.
then i let it autoprobe and get hang.
i ctrl-alt-del reboot and get to busybox
at busybox i do: xorgconfig
and is important to choose VESA as chipset, 2048kb of video mem
and monitor is 800x600@56hz with vertical rate 50-70
; edit all the video mode to 800x600 with no bigger than visible screen.

doing this xorg works fine, and i don't get the error window anymore!
using xorg.conf from ubuntu works also, but every time i have to start x manually by xwin, since i get busybox instead of x.

i copy user.cramsf to hda1 and now is a swift to boot puppy.

ONE THING i couldn't find is this:
where is the battery monitor????
i can't do w/o it on a laptop

and also, installing dillo from pupget isn't a good idea, leaves a N icon in the menu and doesn't work, uninstall it, and install from doptup gives a working patched dillo, but damn the N icon is still there...
also, linneightborhood doesn't work properly, doesn't retain the ip of the machines i give, doesn't even save the userid-password for samba windows access....
cheope net browser doesn't discover win machines..
a stuff like wifiradar would be really nice, a wifi autoconfigurating device, for surfing in airports and so on..
that's all.
it works GREAT and fast!only every time i reboot i get that pup001 was not cleanly umounted so check forced...strange no?
my pup is 768Mb now since i installed quite a bunch of stuffs..
AMULE is needed!!!! as well as thunderbird!