On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:10:08 -0500 Erick Brunzell <lbsol...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 09/02/2013 02:56 AM, JM wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 02:24:57 -0500 > > however, Graphics are not related to DE, or to window managers, but depend > > on the > > driver provided to work with Xorg. > > That's not entirely true. That VIA P4M800 chip has never worked with > Compiz due to a lack of 3d rendering, so up through Precise Ubuntu would > always fall back to using the Metacity WM. The same was true of GNOME 3 > until they dropped the fallback-session entirely. But Metacity is going > to be maintained by Edubuntu for their LTSP installs. 3D: the driver does not provide 3D for this chipset. The Compiz window manager not being supported is a consequence not a cause, as it depends on 3D to work. (...) > > It seems according to your report that only the progress bar is a problem > > to you. And > > you can't start X from the recovery mode of course, it's an init mode which > > is too > > low for that. > > > > If it is only the progress bar which bothers you: the progress bar does not > > matter. > > You can hit a key before booting (it might be F6, look at the lower part of > > the > > screen to check) and replace "quiet splash" in the kernel command line with > > "noquiet" (leave the '--' at the end of the line) and you will have a text > > mode boot > > instead. Or just ignore what the progress bar looks like and go do > > something else by > > the time the system finishes the boot? > One thing has changed between Alpha 2 and now. Rather than a frozen > progress bar, I now boot the live image directly to a blank screen. > Server installs seem to work OK, as does booting in "text" mode. I'll > try the "noquiet" option rather than "text" and see what happens. Ok, let's see how it goes. > Oh, one thing I tried with Alpha 2 to help rule out a kernel problem was > upgrading from Raring to Saucy and then booting the old Raring kernel > which was still a no-go. Since it effects both the live image and > installed images I believe I should be able to collect info if an Xorg > dev tells me what to do, and what to look for. I am not a dev, but if I can help with ideas where to look at: /var/log/Xorg.0.log /var/log/dmesg (just after a boot, if you can access a tty, cd to /var/log and pastebin the dmesg file to get a copy to a pastebin page on the web) /var/log/syslog All three can be pastebined if you have installed pastebinit (unless it is already in the distro?) Regards, Mélodie -- Linuxvillage http://forum.linuxvillage.net -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
