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by GigaWatt
Mon 06 Jul 2020, 14:58
Forum: Cutting edge
Topic: TazPuppy 5.0 rc2
Replies: 1185
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I tried with an old beta (58 I believe) and yes, it doesn't load X on that beta. With the latest RC2, it does load X, but the colors are all scrambled and it looks like the graphics timings are of... you get stripes, like on a bad TV channel (back in the analog TV days) and rainbow colors. Maybe a ...
by GigaWatt
Sun 05 Jul 2020, 13:42
Forum: Cutting edge
Topic: TazPuppy 5.0 rc2
Replies: 1185
Views: 347092

@Gigawatt If you boot TazPuppy for the first time then do the following: 1. Login on commandline as root 2. Run the following commands cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /root/ mkdir -p /root/xorg-conf-files cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* /root/xorg-conf-files/ 3. Put /home/tux/xorg-conf-files in a tarball 4. Shutd...
by GigaWatt
Mon 29 Jun 2020, 16:23
Forum: Cutting edge
Topic: TazPuppy 5.0 rc2
Replies: 1185
Views: 347092

Doesn't load X on old VIA Chrome9 HC IGP integrated graphics. Haven't tested with any other VIA Chrome integrated graphics chips.
by GigaWatt
Mon 23 Mar 2020, 22:26
Forum: Cutting edge
Topic: TazPuppy 5.0 rc2
Replies: 1185
Views: 347092

I was tinkering the last few days with the problem I mentioned in my previous post and did a quick and dirty hack :P :D. I noticed this in the init script. #first look inside initrd... echo "Checking puppy files inside initrd..." [ -f /${PUPXXXSFS} ] && PUPSFS="rootfs,rootfs,/...
by GigaWatt
Fri 20 Mar 2020, 15:10
Forum: Cutting edge
Topic: TazPuppy 5.0 rc2
Replies: 1185
Views: 347092

I've been trying to integrate TazPuppy into a multiboot USB/ISO, but I've been having problems regarding real vs. protected mode mounting and what the kernel sees after it loads drivers. This a common problem with distros that use more than just vmlinuz and initrd to load the whole distro into RAM, ...