M12 11.9.92

[uncle mark]

Is there any M12 development going on that anyone's aware of?

Don't count on it.

[KrispyKritter]

First try xdrvr=vesa confx at the GRUB boot screen. See here for a howto: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Cheatcodes

If you get to a logon screen we may modify this cheatcode to use an open 3D video driver.

lucky9,

I tried the cheat code and it got past the installation of cupsd. It appears after that there is a video setting change occur and I every thing goes black and it finally comes back with a blinking cuser. I even tried in safe mode. The screen resoulution was different and the results where the same. I did notice that in both cases there is a resolution change about half way to the point of black screen. This is a 2009 vintage Toshiba Laptop with a ATI motherboard (ATI Video card)

Steve

[kmathern]

First try xdrvr=vesa confx at the GRUB boot screen. See here for a howto: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Cheatcodes

If you get to a logon screen we may modify this cheatcode to use an open 3D video driver.

lucky9,

I tried the cheat code and it got past the installation of cupsd. It appears after that there is a video setting change occur and I every thing goes black and it finally comes back with a blinking cuser. I even tried in safe mode. The screen resoulution was different and the results where the same. I did notice that in both cases there is a resolution change about half way to the point of black screen. This is a 2009 vintage Toshiba Laptop with a ATI motherboard (ATI Video card)

Steve

The xdrvr=vesa confx cheats lucky9 posted are from Mepis 11, they won't do anything in Mepis 12. Warren never added the code/scripts to M12 that processes those cheats.

[KrispyKritter]

Well, I guess that is why it really didn't help. Got any more Ideas?

Steve

[kmathern]

Well, I guess that is why it really didn't help. Got any more Ideas?

Steve

Did you try the "Safe Mode" boot option?

[KrispyKritter]

Yes, The Screen Resolutions where different, but when it did what ever it does to the video after the installation of cupsd I got the same results.

Steve

[kmathern]

Yes, The Screen Resolutions where different, but when it did what ever it does to the video after the installation of cupsd I got the same results.

Steve

When you say "installation of cupsd", are you talking about some about message that mentions cupsd that flys by on the screen during the boot process?

Try adding the nomodeset cheat and adding a vga=* setting {try vga=791} to the Safe Mode command options.

[KrispyKritter]

Yes, I was watching what was going on behind the grub screen and reading the messages as to what was occurring. "cupsd" installed with a OK before everything went black.

I tried the nomodeset vga=791 with the same results. I see the vga mode change during the boot sequence. I am wondering if the failure is coming when the log in screen should be coming up. If memory serves me right this will be before "Plymouth" starts.

The DVD keeps getting accessed for a short period of time after the screen goes black and before the cursor starts to blink. Another access into the memory bank says that the blinking cursor signifies that the system is awaiting a keyboard input before going on. The next action would be the log in.

Steve

Its been some time since I have done some troubleshooting.

[kmathern]

The Plymouth splash is disabled when you boot in Safe Mode.

If you have a working linux install on another partition on that machine could you boot into it and post the results of the commands below. And it doesn't necessarily need to be a harddrive install, that same info from a LiveDVD/USB that boots okay might also work

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lspci -vnn | grep VGA

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cat /proc/cmdline

I want some details on the video and if you've needed to pass any kernel options (i.e. acpi related options, etc.) or cheats to it with other linux versions

[KrispyKritter]

Steve@roadblock_cr3-64:~$ lspci -vnn | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] [1002:791f] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Steve@roadblock_cr3-64:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.36-1-mepis64-smp root=UUID=5377e1a0-8154-49a4-9b78-db8d4bd6275d ro quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=640x480-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap

From KUBUNTU 13.10:
steve@steve-Satellite-A215:~$ lspci -vnn | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270] [1002:791f] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic root=UUID=8eb28586-bcdd-4278-8238-b8be7956db4b ro quiet splash


No cheats needed.

Steve