Transporting Porteus

Post here if you are a new Porteus member and you're looking for some help.
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Re: Transporting Porteus

Post#16 by hitsware » 16 Jan 2014, 21:55

> For some reason, it morphed into something static.

" MORPH " is right , now that I think about it.
@ first the arrow appeared, but went over to the left side.
I could mouse it back and also get some icons by using
' set panel ' .... Now just the one menu that is partially
responsive . It seemed to build towards badness with
every boot .........
But that would imply it is writing to something that
remembers . BIOS ? What else is there ?
Here's the board :
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ ... 425kt.html

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Re: Transporting Porteus

Post#17 by hitsware » 16 Jan 2014, 22:25

phhpro wrote:Mind me, but you may be way off with that statement. I'm testing all sorts of systems. The same issue occured on some BSD flavours, Slack-a-likes, indy-brews, and even Debian hybrids, Funny enough, it doesn't seem to apply to Debian itself (my default). The exception is, that so far only Porteus accepts the VC hack to open the GUI. Just curious, what's your graphics?
Do you have Atom processor - chipset ?

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Re: Transporting Porteus

Post#18 by hitsware » 16 Jan 2014, 23:27

> Did you hve any success with the shortcuts I mentioned above?

No. First one took me to login screen ..... Second one back to problem .

O.K.......I redownloaded (guest-lxde),different stick (fat32)
and have some success .....
right click on screen brings up a menu >
desktop preferences >
advanced (tab)>
'show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked'
close
THEN
right click on screen brings up the other (foreshown) menu,
but now it responds (thus the screenshot)
STRANGELY !
The icons @ the bottom are on the 'screenshot' ,
BUT
Not on the screen !!!!!!!!!!!! (ain't that something?) ..... :)
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Re: Transporting Porteus

Post#19 by brokenman » 16 Jan 2014, 23:43

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Graphics is an Intel 945GM/GMS
I sympathize with you. My last laptop used this integrated GPU and it gave me nothing but trouble. The i915 driver (older one) didn't cut it for the 945GM and the GPU switching was crappy at the time. Burned out my battery in no time.
How do i become super user?
Wear your underpants on the outside and put on a cape.

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Re: Transporting Porteus

Post#20 by hitsware » 17 Jan 2014, 03:45

> You have the USB formatted with FAT32 then?

Yes .
I tried before going to ext3 (via Porteus installer)
and it made no differance in the way Porteus ran ....

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Re: Transporting Porteus

Post#21 by hitsware » 23 Feb 2015, 02:47

fanthom wrote:@hitsware
really weidr - looks like plain openbox :)
please upload xpsinfo raport to pastebin.com and link here.
thanks

@phhpro
is it the same issue you are experiencing? if yes then we are in troubles.
How may I attain plain openbox ?
Looking back 8)

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