Hi all,
I'd like to try Puppy on an Acer Aspire One d270 netbook. Unfortunately, this machine has a graphics card (Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA 3600) that is not fully supported by linux. Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint 14 all boot to a black screen, for instance. Linux Mint 13 works, however.
When I boot Puppy Linux (pangolin - 5.2.4) I get the same scenario as with the distros mentioned above, i.e. when the graphics card is detected and (I suppose) a switch of graphics driver is made, the screen goes black.
I've tried booting with the "puppy pfix -nox" option, but the screen goes black anyway, at the same point in the boot sequence as far as I can tell (the last message is 'loading kernel modules' or something like that).
I boot from a usb flash memory that I have prepared using unetbootin.
How can I disable the non-functioning driver? Or is the problem something else?
How to disable dysfunctional graphics driver? (SOLVED)
How to disable dysfunctional graphics driver? (SOLVED)
Last edited by ixpnu on Fri 14 Dec 2012, 13:07, edited 1 time in total.
The boot option is puppy pfix=noxI've tried booting with the "puppy pfix -nox" option
This should make it boot, but not start X server.
At prompt type xorgwizard.
The very basic video
Choose Vesa driver.
Set resolution to something you know should work.
Finish xorgwizard.
Type xwin at prompt.
Hopefully you will now be at desktop.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
Re: How to disable dysfunctional graphics driver?
I have an Intel graphics card that wouldnt work with any linux until puppy 5.4 came out, try thoseixpnu wrote:Hi all,
I'd like to try Puppy on an Acer Aspire One d270 netbook. Unfortunately, this machine has a graphics card (Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA 3600) that is not fully supported by linux. Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint 14 all boot to a black screen, for instance. Linux Mint 13 works, however.
When I boot Puppy Linux (pangolin - 5.2.4) I get the same scenario as with the distros mentioned above, i.e. when the graphics card is detected and (I suppose) a switch of graphics driver is made, the screen goes black.
I've tried booting with the "puppy pfix -nox" option, but the screen goes black anyway, at the same point in the boot sequence as far as I can tell (the last message is 'loading kernel modules' or something like that).
I boot from a usb flash memory that I have prepared using unetbootin.
How can I disable the non-functioning driver? Or is the problem something else?
'precise' and 'slacko'
The boot option is puppy pfix=nox
Sorry about that, pfix=nox is what I've actually tried, with the results I described before. I know it has to do with the kernel being incompatible with the d270 (I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I guess it's pretty serious). That problem is descibed here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2074161
So with that in mind I've been experimenting with other Puppy versions. Neither pangolin nor slacko works, but lucid does. I guess I'll have to be content with that? Then with lucid there are some wireless driver problems, but that's a topic for antoher thread.
Specs:
http://gdgt.com/acer/aspire/one/d270/specs/
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Bloody Acer...3 different wireless drivers.
And crap support site...no manual.
http://www.acerdriverdownload.com/acer- ... -7-drivers
Wireless(Intel) LAN Driver – Download
Wireless(Broadcom) LAN Driver – Download
Wireless(Atheros) LAN Driver – Download
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Ubuntu says
Wireless card is a Broadcom BCM4313
http://askubuntu.com/questions/174065/w ... e-one-d270
Chris.
http://gdgt.com/acer/aspire/one/d270/specs/
:::::
Bloody Acer...3 different wireless drivers.
And crap support site...no manual.
http://www.acerdriverdownload.com/acer- ... -7-drivers
Wireless(Intel) LAN Driver – Download
Wireless(Broadcom) LAN Driver – Download
Wireless(Atheros) LAN Driver – Download
:::::::::
Ubuntu says
Wireless card is a Broadcom BCM4313
http://askubuntu.com/questions/174065/w ... e-one-d270
Chris.