ATI_fglrx_Pup4.1-8.5.pet screwed up my set up

[aoiyamoto]

after installing it both my usb mouse nor my compiz refuse to work.

Anyone know what files I have to reconfig to get my usb mouse working again? I've tried useing a default xorg.conf, but that didn't work.

[MU]

Hi aoiyamoto,
Please change the title of the thread.
A virus would be a very serious issue, so the title is really misleading.

Compiz based Puppys use a fairly complex setup of the X Window System.
Pets are usually designed to be installed on a simpler standard Puppy.
I think, the pet was incompatible with your complex setup.

What pet did you install?
The mouse is set in xorg.conf, and /etc/mousedevice (you could remove that file and run xorgwizard and cfwizard again).

But to help in detail, it really would help to know, which pet you installed.

Mark

[aoiyamoto]

Alright, deleting the mousedevice file and re running mouse wizard worked for fixing that. I don't think it was actually a virus, but I needed a way to fix my mouse ASAP as my other one was extremely unresponceive.

Anyway, I'm still working on getting compiz to work again, and Conky seemed to magicly fix it's self. Anyway, the pet was ATI_fglrx_Pup4.1-8.5

I had to run it wiith out a back up because pupy wouldn't let me create a remastered CD for some reason.

Anyway, when I redo the steps for configureing xorg.conf to run compiz for puppy 4 I get a "no screens found" error or something like that.

Also, since I'm on a full hdd install, how can I back up without remastering?

[MU]

thanks.

Please backup, then delete xorg.conf, then run again
xorgwizard
cfwizard

This sometimes fixes the screens error.


A full installation is not so easy to backup, this is one reason, why I prefer frugal.

If you have a drive with enough space like for example on hda5, you can create a copy like this:


mkdir /mnt/hda5/backup
cd /mnt/hda5/backup
tar -czvf backup.tgz /

The Ati fglrx pets overwrite several settings from cfwizard, and so break it.
Fglrx from Ati is somewhat dangerous, Ati does have own "standards", that easily can cause problems with Xorg.
And cfwizard again includes own files, that overwrite a fglrx installation.
This is a clash, and not easy to combine.

Mark

[aoiyamoto]

One thing though. I don't have a cfwizard. If I type cfwizard I get a command not found. I used wizard wizard's mouse wizard for what I did the post above.

Does cfwizard go by another name? or am I missing something?

[MU]

as you use compiz, I thought you use Tigerpup or wNop2 instead of the original Puppy.
They include /usr/sbin/cfwizard.

It sets up your xorg installation for compiz, and includes own, customized versions of fglrx and nvidia drivers.

I use cfwizard, too, in my Puplet Muppy0084.
I replaced the cfwizard fglrx-driver 7.11 with 8.4x, but had one report, that it does not work.
It might with other Ati-cards, but I have no modern one here for tests at moment.
I made my patched version available here, but that still contains the 7.11 driver, the newer one is only available in Muppy:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31939

However, that should be ONLY tested on a system, that is backuped before.
And it was made for Xorg 7.2 (Puppy 3), NOT Puppy 4.
You might run it for tests on a system booted from a LiveCD without savefile though.

Mark

[MU]

I just see in the thread I mentioned, a reason, why xorgwizard does not work for you:

On my system, xorgwizard gets wrong info and creates a corrupt xorg.conf, when fglrx_drv.so is installed.
Also if I want to use the freeRadeon-driver.

So you might have to delete:
fglrx_drv.so

It should be in /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ , or a similar folder.
Or in /usr/lib/.
That depends on the fglrx you installed.

Mark