On 09/02/2013 02:00 PM, JM wrote: > 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
But my greatest worry now is the lack of activity on the list :^( It's unusual to find things this silent right before an important milestone. If we've lost some (more) of our core testers then we're in trouble. Lance > > -- > > 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
