Hello all, my nephew and niece very kindly and unexpectedly gave me a new laptop for my birthday. The laptop is a Asus Zenbook 14X OLED. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to run Puppy on it because it's such a recent computer, and have definitely run into problems so far.
Ideally I'd like to run Fossapup on it. I've also tried F96, and Bookworm. Each has its own idiosyncrasies:
I have made up installs on a usb thumbdrive via stickpup and using fresh ISOs downloaded from Ibiblio.
Native resolution for this laptop is 2880x1800
Hardinfo (Bookworm) reports:
Mesa Intel Graphics (RPL-P),
ASUE140D:00 04F3:31B9 Touchpad
ELAN9008:00 04F3:40C3 UNKNOWN
Fossapup: Starts up in 800x600 resolution (okay I can deal with that later) but touchpad is non functional. Will work with a USB mouse. When I go to Keyboard/Touchpad Wizard and click on Touchpad, I get error message "No Synaptics Touchpad Found"
F96: Final stage of Xwindows startup displays black screen, I do hear the dog bark, but see nothing. If I hit CTL ALT BKSP it drops to the normal terminal messages about restarting with xwin, or using the video setup wizard. The wizard does not seem to have a choice for 2880x1880, and other resolutions I've tried like 1440x900 still yield the black screen). Typing XWIN just repeats the above.
Bookworm: Displays full resolution on startup. Touchpad works for scrolling the cursor, but the tap function does not work to select anything. Tried adjusting through the touchpad/mouse wizard but it does not seem to be an adjustment issue. It's just non-responsive to tapping altogether.
I'd REALLY prefer to get this working with Fossapup, if possible, and don't mean to confuse anyone by listing three different pups above. I was just curious to see if any modern pup would work on it out of the box. But Fossapup is the one I'd like as a working pup. if possible.
Help greatly appreciated!