Chris Epicier wrote: > Hi all > > I have X11 now up and running. these two options in xorg.conf helped: > > Section "Device" > ... > > Option "UseModeline" "true" > > Option "FixPanelSize" "true" > ... > EndSection > > Issues remaining are that the bootscreen still blanks out as soon as > initialising the graphics card. I can live with that. However someone else > might not, when running into the same problem as I: lack of console/X11 when > installing is a killer. I got over it as follows: > > The problem is that grub sets up a simple graphical screen as soon as the kernel boots. It is having the same problems as X had with this graphics chip. I'm pretty sure there is an option to the boot line in grub that will tell it to not do that. It would be something like "no-vga" or "no-graphics" or maybe "no-splash-screen". > - Install to the target hard disk on an another box, known working. > - set a distinct hostname, you will need it for sshing into that box > - make sure you have ssh installed, configured and verfied working (was not > obvious to me as I normally work with non ubuntu flavours of linux, where ssh > is up by default) > - transfer the target hd to the target box > - boot and wait, check your lan's dhcpd and/or named > - note ip given by dhcp and ping the host by IP or name, once successful: > - ssh into the box and play with xorg.conf until it works > > Regarding the still not working boot console: this is a ubuntu problem > beginning from 8.04 and up. i tried all falfours of ubuntu that I could get > reasonably get hold of past and including 8.04. None of them worked. I also > tried random distros I know. Knoppix 5.01, 6.2 worjked straight way, boot > console and X11, so did Damnsmallinux and SuSe 9.3. SuSe 11.1 had the boot > console but x didi not automagically work. I did not iterate on Suse 11.1 as > I had console access via ssh in the mean time to emc 8.04. Based on my long > time knowledge with Suse, and the now won knowledge I would guess the same > xorg.conf options or others could probably solve this. > I would do some web searching on your graphics card and "linux" or "ubuntu" and see what comes up. There is an absolutely astounding amount of support list chatter on these sorts of issues. You may have to read 20 or 30 threads before you find one by somebody that actually fixed the problem and gives the exact syntax and how to do it. > Leaving the situation with the boot console is bitter, but I cannot afford > more time into this matter as of now. Actually, My deadline was tonite, if no > solution I would have baught another dustproof box and ditched the one now > working. > Well, glad you got it. It is unfortunate that device support is so scattered and messy. I did some work in this area some years ago, back before EMC2, and was ASTOUNDED to find out that many of these Taiwan graphics card manufacturers changed the combinations of chips (memory, main gfx controller, ramDAC) every TWO WEEKS! So, the poor driver writers needed to modify their code every two weeks, and had to support perhaps 50 combinations of chips on a board that supposedly had the same model number! No wonder MicroSoft had 50,000 employees at one time, and the Linux community is struggling to keep up.
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