rjbrewer, you can still do that, except change xorg-setup-old to xorg-setup.puppy pfix=nox
xorg-setup.old
vesa
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Thanks.
Both reports of black screen so far are Intel 855. I think. That could be useful info to have.ICPUG wrote:Here is my report of 211 with Intel 855 graphics.
I run my test on a laptop frugal install dual boot with Windows (Lin'N'Win).
As reported by others with other Intel boards you get the black screen of death.
Another issue: When I booted up letting Xorg configure automatically I then decided to change the keyboard settings etc. cos I thought it would be set to US if I didn't. I was a little surprised to have to configure Xorg as well but even worse I did not have an option to let Xorg automagically configure again
Video resolution can be changed with xrandrshell (run xorgwizard from menu) or by using the Video changed from the first run dialog--that runs xorgwizard from a command line).2/ started video (intel) but at the max for chipset /monitor (1600x1200), no questions asked, was unuseable, should be set 800x600 or 1024x768
Thanks; seems vesa is not available.playdayz wrote:rjbrewer, you can still do that, except change xorg-setup-old to xorg-setup.puppy pfix=nox
xorg-setup.old
vesa
xwin
Thanks.
Thanks chrome307Subject description: Supported 830M/MG-845G/GE-852GM-855GM/GME-865G
I have an old laptop which uses the Intel 845g gfx chipset and could only use XVESA however there is a solution so that you can use Xorg.
I found this information on the site, so thanks to the people who submitted this, I have just collated the information and the required file.
Using the pfix=nox and xorg-setup gave me the options forplaydayz wrote:There was no vesa driver? I am puzzled. Or the vesa driver did not work?Thanks; seems vesa is not available.
I tried ICPUGs' i915.modeset=1 suggestion.
Worked fine!
modeset. We are getting the info we need. Thanks.
This is the third black screen and the third Intel 855.Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
I would like to say I will, but here's the deal. I am lazyOn a seperate issue Playdayz, any chance you posting delta files of your new brews of luci and lupu?
I realise this may be the camel's straw, re your post of a couple of days ago.
Experimenting as we are doing can break things. I have done what you described several times and what I do is then boot with the pfix=ram option. You can edit it into the /boot/grub/menu.lst or if you can't boot you can edit it into the boot parameters when grub runs at first. Highlight the Puppy you want to boot and then click 'e' for edit. Then highlight the second line and click e again, add pfix=ram to the end of that line and then click Enter and 'b' for boot.At the moment luci212 is refusing to boot past switch_root it just hangs and hangs. Never seen that before. Before that, I'd got an odd report that I'd filled my savefile - now I had just installed firefox, java, openoffice: but the latter two install to /mnt/home and I also symlink the firefox profile directory there too, so as to avoid filling up the savefile unnecessarily.
So why on earth would puppy announce that I'd run out of room in my savefile (512MB) when I basically hadn't put anything in it? And could this be related to my problem that when I tried to restart it wouldn't get past switch_root?
Any suggestions?
I went ahead and installed VLC as lobster suggested this enabled output file to be transcode after recording and to be played locally - just to test out i have uploaded a small .ogv video recording to youtube but for me when i watch it is unwatchable and all blocky and pixilated. ?playdayz wrote:I am about to start testing "gtk-recordMy Desktop." That is how the developers write it. I sure hope the problem might be in the configs; it seems like a very useful program. I use a similar program named Camtasia for my paying work.
To record from my microphone I did this. I started mhWave-edit and clicked the Record button. At the Record screen I choose a format, and then clicked Launch Mixer. On the Mixer I clicked F4 for Capture. I turned up Capture and Capture 1, arrow to them and then up arrow. I also set Input Sour(ce) to Mic. Then I could see movement on the meters--only the left--my mic is a mono plug. mhwave-edit is just a way to start the alsamixer--you can just open a terminal and enter alsamixer.
Then I shut Mh-wave-edit and opened gtk-recordMyDesktop. I made a recording and it recorded sound from the mic.
The ogv file would not play with gnome-mplayer, but it would play with Smplayer. It would also play with VLC. Somehow I took SMplayer out of the PPM repo. Why did I do that?
Anyway I think music playing on the desktop might be recorded by changing the Input Sour in Alsamixer.
Hm. It's interesting. I did not test mplayer in Quirky but in Slackpup 030/040.
In Luci, if 01micko's ffmpeg is installed, ffplay plays .webm files well and (only with ffplay) both .3gp and .mp4 mobile videos have sound as I wrote in Post 486. Unfortunately, mplayer has failed since 207 (or before).
playdayz mplayer has never worked well for me no matter which computer I use. When it plays MOV video files produced from my HD camera they are quite jerky. VLC is much better. Gxine and xine both work better too.playdayz wrote:
The ogv file would not play with the gnome-mplayer 0.9.9.2 that is installed inluci-212, but it does play in gnome-mplayer 0.9.6 which we are considering using for other reasons also. It also would play with Smplayer. It would also play with VLC. Somehow I took SMplayer out of the PPM repo. Why did I do that? I see, it will be back soon.