Mandiva 2006 Free install question
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From: whonea on 15 Jul 2006 23:58 Got a new laptop (Tosh. A105) that uses a Mobile Intel 945GM Express chipset driving a 1280x800 TFT screen. I'm trying to get Mandiva on it and I'm having trouble with the graphics setup. The install program has no trouble using the video and the default that it uses would be just fine IF I could figure out what it is. The XP factory install says it uses 1280x800 resolution 32bit color depth and further specs the video adapter as "Calistoga Graphics Controller". I tried Ubantu Live CD I have here but it refused to divulge the Xorg settings I need. Anybody got some idea as to what I need to do to set up the graphics environment? Right now, it boots to the point that it loads Xorg then sits there cycling the video or just plain panics.
From: Bit Twister on 16 Jul 2006 00:11 On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:58:50 GMT, <whonea(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Got a new laptop (Tosh. A105) that uses a Mobile Intel 945GM Express chipset > driving a 1280x800 TFT screen. I'm trying to get Mandiva on it and I'm having > trouble with the graphics setup. The install program has no trouble using the > video and the default that it uses would be just fine IF I could figure out what > it is. The XP factory install says it uses 1280x800 resolution 32bit color > depth and further specs the video adapter as "Calistoga Graphics Controller". I > tried Ubantu Live CD I have here but it refused to divulge the Xorg settings I > need. Can you see /etc/X11/xorg.conf on ubuntu? > Anybody got some idea as to what I need to do to set up the graphics > environment? I would get in as root and try /usr/sbin/XFdrake to set something like 15 bit color and 1024x768 just to get where you can play with values in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
From: Aragorn on 16 Jul 2006 01:33 On Sunday 16 July 2006 05:58, whonea(a)yahoo.com stood up and spoke the following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandrake...:/ > Got a new laptop (Tosh. A105) that uses a Mobile Intel 945GM Express > chipset driving a 1280x800 TFT screen. I'm trying to get Mandiva on > it and I'm having trouble with the graphics setup. The install program > has no trouble using the video and the default that it uses would be > just fine IF I could figure out what it is. The XP factory install > says it uses 1280x800 resolution 32bit color depth and further specs > the video adapter as "Calistoga Graphics Controller". I tried Ubantu > Live CD I have here but it refused to divulge the Xorg settings I > need. > > Anybody got some idea as to what I need to do to set up the graphics > environment? Right now, it boots to the point that it loads Xorg then > sits there cycling the video or just plain panics. It only "cycles the video" - as you describe it - because you've set up your system to boot to runlevel 5 - i.e. the graphical login screen, using a display manager - without knowing whether your graphics set-up would really work. In runlevel 5, /init/ tries to respawn the graphical engine automatically when it dies, but /init/ is not equipped to determine what it died *of.* There is a timeout to this respawning. After a while, /init/ will temporarily stop X from respawning. What you need to do is press *Ctrl+Alt+F2* - other functionkeys between 1 and 6 may also work - and log in as root. Then issue... init 3 .... at the prompt. You will have to log in again after this, but it will take you to a character mode login situation without X trying to start up in vain. Log in again as root and issue... XFdrake .... at the prompt. Now configure your X server appropriately. If you cannot find a suitable driver - or if it doesn't autodetect one - you can try the VESA driver; it usually works with most set-ups. You won't have hardware acceleration but at least you'll have a workable environment. After having configured your X server, log out as root and back in as a regular user. Then try starting X by typing... startx .... at the command prompt. If it works, I would suggest that you stick to runlevel 3 - it's recommended over using a graphical login manager anyway. In order to make runlevel 3 the default, open up a terminal window and issue... su .... to become root. Then type the following command... mcedit /etc/inittab .... and in the editor you will be presented with, edit the line that says... id:5:initdefault: into... id:3:initdefault: Save the file by pressing /F2/ and exit the editor with /F10./ Then hit /Ctrl+D/ to exit the root shell and return to your normal user shell. You can close this one as well via /Ctrl+D./ Hope this was useful... ;-) -- With kind regards, *Aragorn* (Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
From: whonea on 22 Jul 2006 17:37 Aragorn wrote: > On Sunday 16 July 2006 05:58, whonea(a)yahoo.com stood up and spoke the > following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandrake...:/ > > > Got a new laptop (Tosh. A105) that uses a Mobile Intel 945GM Express > > chipset driving a 1280x800 TFT screen. I'm trying to get Mandiva on > > it and I'm having trouble with the graphics setup. The install program > > has no trouble using the video and the default that it uses would be > > just fine IF I could figure out what it is. The XP factory install > > says it uses 1280x800 resolution 32bit color depth and further specs > > the video adapter as "Calistoga Graphics Controller". I tried Ubantu > > Live CD I have here but it refused to divulge the Xorg settings I > > need. > > > > Anybody got some idea as to what I need to do to set up the graphics > > environment? Right now, it boots to the point that it loads Xorg then > > sits there cycling the video or just plain panics. > > It only "cycles the video" - as you describe it - because you've set up > your system to boot to runlevel 5 - i.e. the graphical login screen, > using a display manager - without knowing whether your graphics set-up > would really work. > > In runlevel 5, /init/ tries to respawn the graphical engine > automatically when it dies, but /init/ is not equipped to determine > what it died *of.* There is a timeout to this respawning. After a > while, /init/ will temporarily stop X from respawning. > > What you need to do is press *Ctrl+Alt+F2* - other functionkeys between > 1 and 6 may also work - and log in as root. Then issue... > > init 3 > > ... at the prompt. You will have to log in again after this, but it > will take you to a character mode login situation without X trying to > start up in vain. > > Log in again as root and issue... > > XFdrake > > ... at the prompt. Now configure your X server appropriately. If you > cannot find a suitable driver - or if it doesn't autodetect one - you > can try the VESA driver; it usually works with most set-ups. You won't > have hardware acceleration but at least you'll have a workable > environment. > > After having configured your X server, log out as root and back in as a > regular user. Then try starting X by typing... > > startx > > ... at the command prompt. If it works, I would suggest that you stick > to runlevel 3 - it's recommended over using a graphical login manager > anyway. > > In order to make runlevel 3 the default, open up a terminal window and > issue... > > su > > ... to become root. Then type the following command... > > mcedit /etc/inittab > > ... and in the editor you will be presented with, edit the line that > says... > > id:5:initdefault: > > into... > > id:3:initdefault: > > Save the file by pressing /F2/ and exit the editor with /F10./ Then hit > /Ctrl+D/ to exit the root shell and return to your normal user shell. > You can close this one as well via /Ctrl+D./ > > Hope this was useful... ;-) Very useful - but I think there is a simpler solution IF I can get a little help on how to go about it. The Mandiva Live CD has the intel 945 driver I need - the live CD installs with no video problems but has other issues - so is there a fairly straight forward way to reference that CD during the full install? I would just go ahead and install from the live CD, but it can't find a driver for the intel PRO/100 ehternet card or the PRO/100 wireless. The driver is available from netlabs, but I have no reasonable way to get this @#$% machine to talk to the world - all it installs is the bluetooth stack and it's the only bluetooth device I happen to own. About as useful as talking to yourself. Sorry to be so slow to reply - my normal NNTP source has not updated this group for the last month or so leaving Google groups as my only option.
From: F8BOE on 23 Jul 2006 01:55
Which MDV version? whonea(a)yahoo.com wrote: > Got a new laptop (Tosh. A105) that uses a Mobile Intel 945GM Express > chipset > driving a 1280x800 TFT screen. I'm trying to get Mandiva on it and I'm > having trouble with the graphics setup. The install program has no trouble > using the video and the default that it uses would be just fine IF I could > figure out what > it is. The XP factory install says it uses 1280x800 resolution 32bit > color > depth and further specs the video adapter as "Calistoga Graphics > Controller". I tried Ubantu Live CD I have here but it refused to divulge > the Xorg settings I need. > > Anybody got some idea as to what I need to do to set up the graphics > environment? Right now, it boots to the point that it loads Xorg then > sits there cycling the video or just plain panics. |