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novellahub · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Shakopee, MN USA

I was having issues with my Toshiba Satellite 1805-S203 laptop booting on the latest Puppy Linux 5.1.1 release. The machine has Trident video graphics. It was booting to a black screen and then stalled. Here is what I did to get around the issue:

1. Boot off of CD with the following option: pfix=nox
2. When the machine comes up, run xorgwizard (Must do this twice in the command prompt for it to come up)
3. Choose to select your own driver ---> Trident
4. Select the default resolution --> 1024X768
5. Select OK to exit the xorgwizard (Do not test resolution or you will be stuck at the black screen)
6. Edit the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/ (I used vi as the editor)
7. Add the following lines in the xorg.conf file:

gilbi · Joined: 11 Nov 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Rome - ITALY

Hi novellahub,
I'm quite new to linux, but I've managed to frugal install lupu 5.1.1 by connecting the HDD of my old laptop with my company laptop through an ide interface, following instruction given by shinobar on his helpful document. That was needed just because the cdrom drive seems to be out of service, as it is the same for the floppy also. At the beginning it was not booting to Win ME nor to Puppy, but after doing some adjustment to Grub4Dos menu, now it can boot in Win ME and in Puppy safe mode (prompt). Please could you be so kind to list each specific step to edit the xorg.conf file? Any help will be very appreciated and welcome.

novellahub · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Shakopee, MN USA

The xorg.conf file is in /etc/X11/ folder. At the prompt enter:

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If you are unfamiliar with the vi editor, go here for more information:

vi editor guide

gilbi · Joined: 11 Nov 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Rome - ITALY

Many thanks Joe, for your suggestions.
I will have a look on that and learn something useful.