Hi. While playing with mozilla-mplayer this morning (still trying to find some way to get FIFA videos playing on my box ... Long story), it locked up the video card hard. Couldn't even get to a text console. Great! Time to test out grml. :-)
Hardware is a Compaq Deskpro PIII-733, 0.5 Gb RAM, 10 Gb HD on /dev/hda, 2 Gb HD on /dev/hdc, 52x32x52 CD-RW on /dev/hdd. Video is on-board i810 with 4 Mb RAM.
grml's lovely, or what I saw of it is. Nothing I did would go anywhere near a framebuffer console. "grml-info" replies:
Could not initialize graphics driver fb: Cannot open /dev/fb0.
"fbset 1024x768-70" replies:
open /dev/fb0: no such file or directory
I tried boot options grml lapic vga=791 vga=normal vga=ask fb1024x768
and no joy. Surely I'll find a simple answer in the FAQ, I know. Other things to note include:
- on the F9 boot prompt page:
"Notice: you this bootoption with care!"
s/you/use/
- dmesg reports:
VFS: can't find an ext2 filesystem on /dev/hda
which is a little odd as I'm using it to type this. :-) After fiddling with grml a bit, I also tried the new gparted-livecd-0.2.5-1.iso I downloaded recently. It found all my ptns on both disks.
So, now I'll head off to grml.org and see what the FAQ has to say, but nice job grml guys! I'm looking forward to my next reboot to play with it some more. Have a marvy weekend! :-)
Incoming from s. keeling:
I tried boot options grml lapic vga=791 vga=normal vga=ask fb1024x768
Ah. I used vga=normal, then "grml-x -mode '1024x768' -module i810 fluxbox" and all was well. It's gorgeous! :-) Questions & suggestions (this is all while running from CD, btw):
- How do I get a left-handed mouse? 'xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9"' works but confuses the heck out of already running apps (I've a 3 button ps2 mouse).
- XConsole is one annoying app. Running it from X you get "Couldn't open xconsole". I usually do "su" (no dash) then run it from a root command line, then exit. This (su, no dash) uses the user's ~/.Xauthority. Doing this in grml, trying to exit out of the root login, I get "You have running jobs.", and exit fails. Drat. Do I have to use nohup? Or will one of your brilliant zsh tricks (RUNASROOT) solve this?
- Dillo fires up with the grml start page when logging into X. Re-running Dillo starts up with a Dillo start page. You should change that to go to the grml start page.
- I forgot to check. What's i810rotate do?
- I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to steal your .zshrc :-) Tres cool!
* s. keeling keeling@spots.ab.ca [20060625 19:15]:
grml's lovely, or what I saw of it is. Nothing I did would go anywhere near a framebuffer console. "grml-info" replies:
Could not initialize graphics driver fb: Cannot open /dev/fb0.
"fbset 1024x768-70" replies:
open /dev/fb0: no such file or directory
Well, switching resolution on the fly won't work with vesafb.
I tried boot options grml lapic vga=791 vga=normal vga=ask fb1024x768
and no joy. Surely I'll find a simple answer in the FAQ, I know.
So you just don't get a framebuffer at all?
Other things to note include:
- on the F9 boot prompt page:
"Notice: you this bootoption with care!"
s/you/use/
Thanks, has been fixed in current develrelease already. :)
- dmesg reports:
VFS: can't find an ext2 filesystem on /dev/hda
which is a little odd as I'm using it to type this. :-) After fiddling with grml a bit, I also tried the new gparted-livecd-0.2.5-1.iso I downloaded recently. It found all my ptns on both disks.
What does 'cat /proc/partitions' say?
* s. keeling keeling@spots.ab.ca [20060625 21:10]:
I tried boot options grml lapic vga=791 vga=normal vga=ask fb1024x768
Ah. I used vga=normal, then "grml-x -mode '1024x768' -module i810 fluxbox" and all was well. It's gorgeous! :-) Questions & suggestions (this is all while running from CD, btw):
:)
- How do I get a left-handed mouse? 'xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9"' works but confuses the heck out of already running apps (I've a 3 button ps2 mouse).
Does it work for you if you add it to ~/.xinitrc before running grml-x?
- XConsole is one annoying app. Running it from X you get "Couldn't open xconsole". I usually do "su" (no dash) then run it from a root command line, then exit. This (su, no dash) uses the user's ~/.Xauthority.
You need to have read-permissions for /dev/xconsole.
Doing this in grml, trying to exit out of the root login, I get "You have running jobs.", and exit fails. Drat. Do I have to use nohup? Or will one of your brilliant zsh tricks (RUNASROOT) solve this?
Just run 'exit' once more and you won't get the "You have running jobs" a second time. ;)
- Dillo fires up with the grml start page when logging into X. Re-running Dillo starts up with a Dillo start page. You should change that to go to the grml start page.
Well, people who already know what's grml probably don't need the grml start page anymore so the default is pretty ok IMO. :)
- I forgot to check. What's i810rotate do?
% apropos i810rotate i810rotate (1) - toggle the video output on i810 hardware using i810switch(1)
- I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to steal your .zshrc :-) Tres cool!
Feel free to do so. :)
regards, -mika-
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