Mageia 2-Based Puppies - LAST BETA RELEASE
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
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
LxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
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.
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.
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@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.
@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.
Deleted savefile and added "video=640x480 to the kernel line. Same result.... booted to the point when the various setup wizards should appear but instead get a " monitor out of range" message. Nothing from ctrl/alt/bksp or ctrl/alt/del ..... however repeatedly hitting "enter" results in a reboot.scsijon wrote: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...
Fairly confident it's nothing to do with the monitor since I'm running about 20 Puppy installs plus Mepis,Antix,Slax, Tiny Core ,etc on here with no problems.But since you asked......
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Monitor name: Hanns.G HW191
EDID for output VGA-1
[ 19.588] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Manufacturer: HSD Model: 8991 Serial#: 3547
[ 19.588] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Year: 2010 Week: 34
[ 19.588] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID Version: 1.3
[ 19.588] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Analog Display Input, Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.300 V
[ 19.588] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Sync: Separate SyncOnGreen
[ 19.588] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 41 vert.: 26
[ 19.589] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Gamma: 2.20
[ 19.589] (II) NOUVEAU(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off; RGB/Color Display
[ 19.589] (II) NOUVEAU(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
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# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Upup Precise, version 3.8.3
Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1440x900
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe
Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 exa extmod fb glx kbd mouse record shadowfb
Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes
...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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Hi scsijonscsijon wrote:@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.
My standard booting menu.lst already contains video=640x480....so was already booting that way
Video report (generated on Slacko5.5):
I tried removing video=640x480 to see if this made any difference - it didn't - but it showed another oddity in that pfix=ram on the boot line seemed to be ignored - a savefile was used even though I was booting pfix=ram - I had to rename the savefile to stop it being used.video-info-glx 1.5.1 Thu 25 Apr 2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.5 Linux 3.2.33-4g i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
oem: Intel(r)GM965/PM965/GL960 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)GM965/PM965/GL960 Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GME/GLE x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz
Core 0: @1994 MHz
Regards
peebee
LxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
new backgrounds and splash.
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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 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
Hi, scsijon, here are some variations of last 2 backgrounds, hope you like them.
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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.
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.
new background.
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Puppy linux Warz remasterised works not so bad
Mageia is too big ti live with Puppy's customers
Puppy Warz in enough for me, though menu is quite empty
Puppy Warz in enough for me, though menu is quite empty
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Mageia puppy on test bench
2 years after webrender works. What a chance. very very ligth browser. Bugs fast too
Mageia downloade for test on a virtual machine. Come back soon to feed back opinion
Mageia downloade for test on a virtual machine. Come back soon to feed back opinion
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There is no media player included
No media Player to read my mpeg video.
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- Ah here is is why Puppy Mageia could be a different Puppy
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