I no longer run Tahrpup on the Dell. I used to; it's 2002 vintage, and is lumbered with an awful graphics chip; Intel's 'Brookedale-cored', 'Extreme Graphics' adapter from the same time period. Nothing about it is normal at all; Intel flipped the bird to VESA standards when they built the thing. The original Tahrpup was the first Linux distro I ever found that would run on it without problems.april wrote:Mike Walsh- Off subject Mike but do you run tahrpup on the same machine or a 64 bit job?
I'd tried a few others; Lubuntu, Zorin Core, Mint, a couple of other Puppies.....but all had a common problem. The display (which is 14.1", and 1024 x 768) would always reduce down to 640 x 480, and jam itself into the top left-hand corner. It wasn't until I tried Micko's Slacko 570 again, and read the release notes for it, that I discovered the only cure for it was two-pronged. I needed to upgrade the BIOS, and then employ the 'i915.modeset=0' workaround on the kernel line in Grub4DOS.
The BIOS upgrade proved easy, having found a site (www.bay-wolf.com) who specialise in Dell notebook & laptop BIOS upgrades, supplied as mini-ISO images. Burn it to CD, run it.....two minutes later, all sorted. Went into the BIOS, and set the video buffer up according to Micko's instructions. Installed 570 (again!), edited the kernel line; whooo, it worked..! Ace. This was only a few months ago; ever since, I've just been having fun...
I fitted a 64GB PATA/IDE SSD in early January; the original HDD was only 20GB. She now quad-boots; Win XP, Precise 5.7.1 (which has always been a favourite of mine); rg66's X-Slacko 2.3.2 (570 + XFCE, another favourite).....and ETP's 'Chromebook' Pup, which is Precise 571 with the Openbox window manager and LX Panel (another very neat 'Pup'.
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To get back to your original question, well; I run two instances of Tahrpup, both the 32-bit version, both @ 6.05. One is a USB install, which I keep around for all sorts of fixes & repair jobs. The other, my main one, runs on a 64-bit machine, although it's 32-bit. It's a 10-yr old Compaq Presario desktop PC, made shortly before the HP takeover ( and consequently, far better made), with an MSI Socket 939 board, running the brilliant Athlon 64 (originally a single-core, now using an X2 dual-core).
(starhawk doesn't like these; he reckons they're primitive, heavy on the juice, and barely usable.....he's told me so, too. He's still a 'good ole boy', for all that.
Anyways, it's me who has to use it; and for my use-case, it does exactly what I ask of it...)I've tried a few of the 64-bit Pups, but I just don't like them; personal taste, I guess. The 32-bits run so bloody fast on there, their feet don't touch the ground. 64-bit (with the exception of FatDog), is still in the early stages as far as Puppy's concerned.....and I simply don't like FatDog. The other problem I have with some of the newer developments is that it's becoming popular to dd images straight to a FAT32 partition.....and since upgrading the BIOS to accommodate the dual-core Athlon last year, the Compaq will no longer boot from FAT32. It refuses. Doesn't want to know. Must be the BIOS, 'cos it would happily boot from FAT32 before the upgrade. But I had to use this newest BIOS for that board, to get the support for the dual-core. And it's made a hell of a difference to multi-tasking. I can live without the FAT booting!
@ starhawk:
Fair do's about putting it aside. I was only trawling (as you do) when I came across this thread; in all fairness, it does sound like your CardBus socket's 'up the creek', and I doubt you'll get much joy out of it.
Just out of curiosity, what did you mean when you said that thread was rather premature? You've lost me there.
Mike.
