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[rjbrewer]

[scruffy]

Frugal install - Graphics card Nvidia MX440
Test1 - first run
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# graphix_test
nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a4)
nVidia
GeForce4
Direct Rendering - No

VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 213
Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: NV18 Board - p119s0nz Chip Rev A2
Driver used by Xorg:
Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:
Test2
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'Lupu recommends' correctly identifies MX440 and suggests that I install XORG High-glx (for Radeon and Intel?)
After installing XORG High-glx I get

Direct rendering - yes
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 213
Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: NV18 Board - p119s0nz Chip Rev A2
Driver used by Xorg:
Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

# glxgears
209 frames in 5.0 seconds
220 frames in 5.0 seconds
235 frames in 5.0 seconds
Test 3
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quickpet->drivers-><test graphics card> directs me to Nvidia website to download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.16-pkg1.run

After resetting permissions I run this and get
ERROR: Unable to find the system utility `ldconfig`; please make sure you
have the package 'glibc' installed. If you do have glibc installed,
then please check that `ldconfig` is in your PATH.
#

(I'm probably doing something silly here)
Test 4
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Install CatDude pet NVIDIA-96.43.16_lupu500-k2.6.33.2.pet
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
4000 frames in 5.0 seconds
4589 frames in 5.0 seconds

Test 5 Upgrade from Lucid 5.0
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Noobie - Spotify works well for me in Wine

213 is still expecting lucisave rather than lupusave file
Gnome Mplayer icon missing from menu
Desktop icons still need rearranging - being addressed later I think
'Lupu recommends' Has a typo - graphcial.

Otherwise all running very well and looking good.

[playdayz]

[playdayz]

[01micko]

scruffy

I made a pet for testing on the previous page, can you install it and run the command "graphix_test"?

It should recommend the correct driver.

Cheers

___________________________________________

Hmmm....

playdayz, I tried on four machines, still have sound

When it says its deprecated in console like that it shouldn't be there. Modules are defined by depmod I think, and there is a file in the kernel folders. I found that out debugging ndis-wrapper awhile ago.

Maybe someone knows better than me

[playdayz]

On the modprobe.conf.

I didn't lose all sound, but I did lose the 2 barks when starting X.

[James C]

oooops....................

[ICPUG]

OK - some more testing results but first to answer Playdayz request about what Barry suggested in his blog. This was posted 25/6/10 16:39 for spup2

quote

I am interested in getting feedback on what needs to be done to get X running for various video hardware. If the proper video driver doesn't work, you can get going with vesa driver, then experiment...

Intel
Create a file /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf:
options i915 modeset=1

Radeon
Create file /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf:
options radeon modeset=1

Nvidia
Create file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf:
options nouveau modeset=1

...the above is a suggested starting point. I read somewhere that this line may be needed also in the .conf file:
install video /sbin/modprobe radeon;/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install video
...to force the ACPI 'video' kernel module to load after the radeon (or i915, etc) kernel module.

unquote

There are reports that it worked in the comments and I believe, although not tested, it was implemented in spup3.

Note: There is no '.' between the i915 and the modeset=1 in the above suggestion.

Now for the testing results:

I'm back with a frugal with my menu.lst having the i915.modeset=1 and video=640x480 (which works to get rid of the small test in terminal mode)

I tested what scsijon did to see if I black screened when I changed resolution. Happily I didn't. It all went well.

My default resolution by xorg autoconfiguring was 1280x800 (which is correct for my laptop LCD screen). I went into the keyboard video changer on first boot and set locale to GB, keyboard to UK and resolution to 800x600. Seemed OK except some icons needed to be moved so the drive icons did not overlap them, When asked I typed the intel driver (be nice to choose from a list and not have to type). It seemed OK so I shutdown the PC and created a save file. Rebooted and things were still OK - no black screen like scsijon.

Now my touchpad tapping had gone and the speed was slower than when Xorg autoconfiguration was in play. In the past I went to setup mouse and ticked enabled touchpad tap. This would alter maxtaptime in xorg.conf and would work. As rjbrewer reported it does not work now BUT ...

... I now had a look at setup - touchpad and I see this calls up flsynclient. I thought this was a GUI front end to parts of Xorg.conf but clearly it isn't. When I set the touchpad tapping here and horizontal scrolling and speed here IT WORKED.

It is interesting. flsynclient creates a hidden file .flsynclient in root's home folder and here are all the touchpad settings. These seem to take precedence over what xorg.conf says. (I read somewhere else that it is not possible to manually edit .flsynclient within X). I hate it when old ways of working suddenly don't work and you have to find out the new magic. Doesn't endear Linux to newbies.

The situation now is that I finally have the setup I want AND you have the direct boot to desktop that you want.

It seems like a win-win at last.

[rcrsn51]

[01micko]

Thanks for explanation rcrsn51..

Is there a way that you know of that can suppress the warning?

Cheers

[rcrsn51]

I suspect that you would have to go into the ALSA setup, find the code that writes to the file /etc/modprobe.conf and change it to write to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf. At the time, Barry mentioned that he would look into it.

[Billtoo]

# graphix_test
For your ATI graphics card, ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics , we think the best add on driver is Xorg_High.pet .
It would be required for some programs and games with high graphcial content and your desktop might seem a bit more snappy. It is available in Quickpet under Drivers
ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
ATI
ATI

#
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 213

Chip description:
ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0
7841 frames in 5.0 seconds
7918 frames in 5.0 seconds
7919 frames in 5.0 seconds
7920 frames in 5.0 seconds
#
OpenGL
Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer Mesa DRI R600 (RS780 9610) 20090101 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 TCL
Version 1.5 Mesa 7.7.1
Direct Rendering Yes
#
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI R600 (RS780 9610) 20090101 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 TCL
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation

[shinobar]

[rjbrewer]

[01micko]

Here is a very simple pet that allows you to browse as user "spot" .. ie <-- not as user "root"

Lots of complaints about that with Puppy, many people are fearful of running as "root".. fair enough. Well this is a partial solution for browsing at least for those folks.

Features

Menu entry
Runs also from command line ("browsesafe" is the command)
Only runs with mozilla browsers, but that state is auto-detected and errors with a message if firefox or seamonkey aren't set as default

NOTE: when you change your default browser, you may need to restart X so the script knows it, it's based around the environmental variable DEFAULTBROWSER, this was intended as to keep the script tiny. (So it's a feature not a bug er a "security" feature )

Try it if you want

Cheers

edit: woops a tiny booboo, doesn't affect functionality though, reuploading