Xorg Out of Commission

[ChazZTheSpazZ]

I downloaded the Puppy 4.00 ISO, burned, and booted it. For some reason, Xorg isn't working at all. I tried Xvesa, which works, but I don't know how to get my monitor's native resolution on it (1440x900). I'm pretty sure it's the graphics card, because I had the same card in my Dell and puppy wouldn't start X on it either. The card's an ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250.

[Aitch]

Hi
I can't find anything for puppy 4.00, but loads of Links for earlier versions

http://www.google.com/custom?q=+Radeon+ ... rt=10&sa=N

Sorry had to break up the link, it messed the thread up

Aitch

[BarryK]

Can you boot the older Puppy, with pfix=ram, run the Xorg Wizard, then look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf and find out what video driver gets loaded.

In my case, it's this:
Driver "intel" #card0driver

Then boot the Puppy4 CD, again with pfix=ram, run the Xorg Wizard, again find out what driver loads.
If it's the wrong one, edit the file and change to the correct one, start or restart X, and if it fails, look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look through that to see any errors about anything failing to load.
You can view without X running:
# mp /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Then let me know.

[HairyWill]

@Aitch
try this, Aitch's link.
It is probably safer to provide direct links to the pages you have read rather than the search URL. The google url content is recalculated each time you do the search. In six months time it could easily end up giving a completely different set of results. I appreciate that it is highly likely to be identical later today.

[Aitch]

@HairyWill

Thanks, I take your point

Can you explain how you did that link,
I've seen that done before, just never known how to achieve it

Aitch

[HairyWill]

hit the quote button in my post to see the code

[Aitch]

@HairyWill

Excellent, I think I've got it, but noobdoubt still gets the better of me

[url=myurl[/url]

yes?

I don't see where the 'Aitch's link' comes from?

'blo*dy windoze fear - it might break' aarrgghh

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[HairyWill]

Code: Select all

[url=http://foo.bar]Aitch's link[/url]

[Aitch]

Thanks Will

Got it

I didn't scroll to the end

Nice avatar! Is that your profile?

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