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dalderton · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 176

I have been through the xorgwizard route but it still would not give me the required resolution. Once previously when I tried Saluki it would boot to the screen but It would not respond to the mouse clicks so I gave up on it . Then last week when I tried it igot the aforementioned problem with resolution.
All very strange but I guess thats why we continue to try these things.
Regards Dennis.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5371 Location: GB

antiloquax · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 405

Here's my .pet for pygame in Python2.7.
You'll need the Saluki Python2.7, python-tk, tk, tcl, and all the SDL bits.
Pygame for Python2.7.2

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2964

Since the early Racy builds I had issues with the 7.6 xserver.
It may has to do with the way was build (as a replacement for the 7.3 xserver of Wary).
It may worth recompiling for Saluki or use the one from Luci (certain components I tried work fine). I believe the Racy/Saluki version is build from the Ubuntu 10.04 sources anyway.

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1304 Location: UK

Sage

You make a good point about the appearance of blank screen with some hardware. It is very offputting to the average user. There were two aspects to worry about - dealing with kernel mode setting and the introduction of the automatic X-Org trying to dispense with user defined parameters.

A lot of time was spent when Lucid was developed in solving these problems because boot to desktop was a requirement of this puppy.

Barry, who likes to do things his way, then created an alternative way of dealing with the automatic X-Org.

The trouble with the Puppy development model is that every other developer has to get the knowledge somehow and knowledge transfer between developers is not great. Initially, Mick01 failed to get Slacko to boot to desktop and just gave up trying for a while. I think it has improved a bit since. It seems Jemimah has decided not to fight the automatic X-Org problem.

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 380

What kind of hardware (monitor, etc.) are you running Saluki on. The reason I ask is that if you look at Saluki’s mission statement, from post #1 of the Saluki forum (The suggested target hardware is computers less than 5 years old), this doesn't seem to be an issue. If you're using Saluki on hardware older than the suggested target base, then you're kind of on your own as far as support goes. I myself am using a cheap laptop that's two years old that I purchased from Walmart. I haven't experienced any of these issues. As a matter of fact, I haven't experienced any issues on my cheap-o AMD laptop. I could be wrong, and if I am, please forgive me for my ignorance, but for the most part these complaints haven't been an issue on newer hardware to date.

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 815 Location: Toronto

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5371 Location: GB

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky

I'm just relieved to know that these old boxes that I built in 2010 , not elcheapo either, are not new enough to boot to a desktop in Saluki. Knew I shouldn't have chosen to build with something as uncommon as Nvidia graphics either. Laughing

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 815 Location: Toronto

antiloquax · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 405

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

I could blacklist the nouveau driver and let the nv driver handle nvidia. I don't know if this would cause more harm than good though.

I've never owned any nvidia hardware myself so (helpful) feedback and patches are welcome!

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5371 Location: GB