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Topic: Norhtec Microclient Jr, getting video 'n' sound to work

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curaga

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Posted: May 02 2008,13:15

There are two extensions with "full" X, so you can set whatever refresh rates you want - Xfree86 and Xorg

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Posted: May 02 2008,13:39

Well, the Xorg extension sounds promising; that's what worked with Puppy. I'll give that a shot, and I'll try XVesa if that doesn't work. Thanks for the tip.

Is TinyX just smaller (diskwise) than Xorg, or is it faster as well? Disk space isn't really a problem -- I plan to run this on a 4Gb CF drive -- but speed and memory are rather constrained on this device. It's got 128Mb of RAM w/ a 200MHz processor.

Of course, I've already got Puppy set up for this thing, and it's using Xorg, so it's definitely do-able. It's just that I prefer DSL to Puppy.

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Posted: May 02 2008,15:07

It all depends on your hardware. TinyX is simpler, and is nothing but a single executable of about 1mb.
X.org is loads of files taking about ~60mb space, since it isn't meant to be self-contained.

Xvesa has no acceleration; some tinyX servers have 2d accel. X.org has full 2d and 3d accel. You will get more speed, at the expense of more disk space and a little longer startup time.

Edit: of course you will get infinitely more configurability with X.org too.

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Posted: May 03 2008,06:19

Looks like Xorg works. I took the auto-generated xorg.conf from my Puppy installation and loaded the xorg UCI, and now I've got a 1024x768x24 display. Thanks very much.

Now I just have to get that sound module complied . . .

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Posted: Feb. 01 2009,14:22

I have this same unit, and it's running DSL great. I wouldn't recommend Puppy on it.

My question is, has anyone gotten the sound to work properly? I was able to get it working just once (downloading some of the Alsa files in myDSL), but I haven't been able to duplicate it since I had no idea how it started working.

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