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James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6706 Location: Kentucky

Got it halfway working on the Nvidia box. Manually made a savefile and copied the xorg.conf from a working Raring install. Did boot to a desktop (1280x1024) using the Vesa driver instead of 1440x900 with Nouveau as specified in the xorg.conf file......but at least it's working. Xorgwizard still won't even appear. I'm wondering if this xorg is too new for this old card.

# report-video
Mage2, version 0.12.07 on Sun 21 Apr 2013

Chip description:

oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: # vesa

X.Org version: 1.11.4
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (412x260 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#

EDIT:
Answered my own question ........THINSlacko has a newer xorg and uses nouveau with no problems.

scsijon · Posted: Sun 21 Apr 2013, 06:53 Post subject:

thank you james c.

A quick response is that I have no idea what's wrong as the mage nouveau driver should work happily with any nivida card, at least in a basic mode.

I shall have a think!!!!

?Can you tell me the make/model specs on the monitor that you are having problems with please.

The only thing at the back of my mind at present, is maybe a frequency problem. I did have that earlier with a few, and that did give an out of range error, but it was fixed by a change in the source. I may have a one-off pet for you to try when I can find the notes on what I did that would reverse that in case that is what the problem is.

In the meantime could you start it up clean boot please, adding video=640x480 to end of the boot line, as I have set it in the kernel to run 800x600 by default so more is visable if there is a problem. This should not be effecting things, as it is only being used by the pre-x stage, but...

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3199 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a manual frugal install to an HP desktop pc which has an Nvidia
GeForce 430 GT graphics card.
On first bootup it went through the 2 setups and was using the nouveau
driver, I downloaded and installed the proprietary Nvidia driver.
I installed all the pets that I made a few days ago and everything is
working well.
EDIT:I've been able to download applications using ppm as long as I stick
to the older groups such as mageia-2-core but even after updating ppm
I can't get applications from mageia-2-coreupdates.
Otherwise this beta is working great.

scsijon · Posted: Tue 23 Apr 2013, 21:59 Post subject:

@Billtoo, there is a problem at ibiblio affecting a lot of the mirrors at the ibiblio end.

In this case, the mageia2 "index" has been updated (naturally) but some of the packages have yet to be, as the rsync update is continually timing out so considerably slowing the update and some just abort until the rsync restarts.

They know about it!

Sorry, but we all just have to be patient until ibiblio 'can get their act together again' and work out how to fix the problem, as it's even affecting uploads to them from the source distributions including puppy.

peebee · Posted: Wed 24 Apr 2013, 04:52 Post subject: Mage2 experiences

Hi scsijon

Tried Mage2....

First the good news -

- I was able to load the Broadcom wl multi-kernel pet successfully and connect by wifi (I noted that there are a few delta files in /opt/broadcom-wl that don't need to be there but this is just being tidy)

- I was able to load and use LXDE (although I did need to make a link to libffi.so.6 in /usr/lib before pcmanfm would work)

The REALLY BAD NEWS -

On initial boot I just got a completely black screen - this is unheard of for this very bog-standard Intel graphics laptop - by hitting the Return key multiple times (6 I think) eventually a very large scale screen appeared and then I was able to run xorgwizard to get to the correct 1280*800 screen - however even after doing this, the black screen continued to appear on subsequent reboots after the 3 lines of initial boot info but a single press of the Return key got me to a working desktop.

Screenie attached taken when working under LXDE.

If there is any diagnostic info I can send you to help investigate the unprecedented black screen behaviour just let me know.

Cheers
peebee

p.s. also missed having no sfs-load-on-the-fly

anikin · Joined: 10 May 2012 Posts: 945

Hi scsijon,

A nice build, "feels at home" on my eeepc1000 (atom n270/945GME). Smooth, responsive and runs very cool. I learned about Mageia from this thread, by the way. Below is font rendering, "augmented" a little bit.

scsijon · Posted: Thu 25 Apr 2013, 00:18 Post subject:

@peebee, a make and model may help me. I think that this is the first intel video that has caused those problems. However you could try booting with video=640x480 on the boot line and let me know if it's the problem as i'm thinking of rebuilding the kernel without the 800x600.

@anikin, thanks, that's another I can tick off as ok.

@All, after a release build, I'm thinking of adding the va-api and see how the extra video accelleration works with mage2, we use most of the dependancies anyway.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6706 Location: Kentucky

peebee · Posted: Thu 25 Apr 2013, 04:51 Post subject:

futwerk · Joined: 07 May 2011 Posts: 339

new backgrounds and splash.

scsijon · Posted: Sat 04 May 2013, 07:53 Post subject:

sorry folks, just a little busy with a network problem elsewhere, back at it asap.

@Futwerk I do like to latest backgrounds, can you do the design of the last two also with bright green, purple and dark blue backgrounds with maybe the flash at the bottom with a few silver sparkles? I'll pick a few of those you've done so far and add in the basic set and put the rest in a pet so they can be grabbed for anyone to use, if you don't mind.

regards to all

futwerk · Joined: 07 May 2011 Posts: 339

Hi, scsijon, here are some variations of last 2 backgrounds, hope you like them.

scsijon · Posted: Fri 17 May 2013, 03:03 Post subject: rc1

I have finally built a working rc1 without apparent problems on a Woof of 16 May.

I will be testing this next week with my closed group. If nothing serious is found it should appear about the 25th for some wide user testing.

Gotta say, futwerk's backgrounds are magic (excuse the pun)!

I'm using it now and barry's fixes for xorg are great.

futwerk · Joined: 07 May 2011 Posts: 339

new background.