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JASpup wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:24 am Useful hack, yes. Variables after the screen resolution?:

xrandr --newmode "1280x1024_60.00" 109.00 1280 1368 1496 1712 1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync


My goal is a read-only (nosave) boot .iso (CD) with the correct resolution.

Does your .pet work this way? I am new.

PipzDex wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:54 pm Hi JASpup
There's a way but you need edit the main sfs
Maybe i can help you editing the ISO and share the way i made the process

Tellme what puppy are using

Cheers!

JASpup wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:34 am

PipzDex wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:54 pm Hi JASpup
There's a way but you need edit the main sfs
Maybe i can help you editing the ISO and share the way i made the process

Tellme what puppy are using

Cheers!

Hello, great offer!

Lucid Puppy 5.7.1

latest news -

The target machine isn't booting at all. I'm swapping PCI cards and I switched out the HD.

At all meaning the HD or CD-ROMs with Puppy or Windows install disks aren't booting.

It feels like the BIOS doesn't like the HD, even though it recognizes it, and that somehow thwarts the entire system (I'm not that technical).

Proof will be when I re-install the prior HD. If it boots, forcing a video resolution pre-X on CD-ROM is still worthwhile.

My CD doesn't need a multiboot config, but if GRUB4DOS sets a video resolution, that's the only other avenue considered.

Editing the .sfs is better?

bigpup wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:56 am Stop guessing at what this person needs to do.

Please talk about only one specific computer!!!



We need some basic information.

WHAT IS THE COMPUTER?????
Make and model????
Specs if you know them.
What hardware is providing graphics????
Intel, Nvidia, ATI????

What specific resolution do you want to be using????

Why are you trying to use such an old version of Puppy?????

Lucid Puppy 5.7.1.
That name does not seem correct.
The final release of Lucid was Lucid 528.005 and it has a lot of bug fixes from earlier versions.

Unless this computer is very, very, very old and has a processor older than a P4.
You can probably us a much newer version of Puppy.
Graphic hardware support is much improved.

So give use some good information to help you!!

Hardware not being activated by the bios could be several things.
The hardware is just broken and no longer works.
Settings in the bios are wrong.
Connections to the hardware are loose, corroded, bad cables, wrong connection to motherboard, etc......

PipzDex wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:59 am Hi JASpup

One question??

Lucid puppy 5.7.1?
Not Precise Puppy 5.7.1?
http://wikka.puppylinux.com/PuppyPrecise?redirect=no
In any case, I can do the exact same thing in any version of puppy without problems ...
I was struck by the version of the distro only
Well, the idea is that I am going to edit the main sfs to add this pet that I send you (be careful, the pet is to be applied in xenialpup only) and repack it originally and so when you log in, it will change the resolution without having to modify any parameter screen or its tools ...
This is how I handle each test version since for some reason, my pc does not give me more resolution than 1024x768 and the monitor is up to 1280x1024 maximum pixels ...

i uploaded this puppy original with the force resolution screen included, just burn it into cd and thats all

Puppy Precise 5.7.1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/189IUM7 ... sp=sharing

Cheers!

Hi @JASpup
did you solve this problem?
I made a program that solves this problem, in case you are interested
Cheers!!

PipzDex wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:27 am

Hi @JASpup
did you solve this problem?
I made a program that solves this problem, in case you are interested
Cheers!!

I have two old desktop computers, native Win98 and XP, and tinkering with boot options causes kernel panic.

So do I want them still running? Yes.

Would I settle for just Windows? Yes (XP on both at least).

May they work again? Yes

Is it worth the time and hassle to keep tinkering with them? Probably not.

Puppy co-exists easily on my 32 laptops, but desktops won't keep working with multiple os.

I'm more experienced since I posted this thread and can probably hack a fixed resolution, but I appreciate the offer. The 98 box favors Lucid.

JASpup wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:29 am

Puppy co-exists easily on my 32 laptops, but desktops won't keep working with multiple os.

You are playing with 32 laptops? Or is this a typo?

one wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:35 am

You are playing with 32 laptops? Or is this a typo?

32-bit slow machines that work, yes. And they're not rare.

Similar recent:
viewtopic.php?p=23403#p23403

I think Texaspilot runs one too.

It's the big clunky desktops that break.