Chris Epicier wrote: > The part that lets me stay unsatisfied is, that I cannot boot or install > ubuntu past 7.10. 8.04 emc live cd boots but the screen is garbled, it > finally shows an interlaced screen with the typical brown colour of the > desktop and as mentioned before, If I move the mouse, there is a grey pattern > moving correspondingly to the mouse moves. I conclude: X11 is up but ill > configured. That's for the live cd. > This is clearly a video driver problem, not specifically X11, but obviously the video driver affects what X shows on the screen. > On stock 8.04.1 and later, I could not observe this yet ill but running live > cd. As mentioned before, I can boot 7.10, Knoppix 5.1 and 6.2, all into GUI > directly. This makes me sure that it is not really a kernal or X11 issue. I > guess it has to do with how the initrd is put together. Somehere ther is an > error. I am sure it will show in other systems too for ubuntu. So, I am > determined in getting this solved. Any clues regarding how I can follow up > where exactly the initrd fails? Particularly I am now looking for debig > messages on the serial port. > Compare the video driver used on the 8.04 that works against the EMC live that doesn't. You may have to net into the system to be able to read log files, etc. The file /var/log/Xorg.0.log is the most recent log of the X11 system starting up, and should show the drivers used. It is unfortunately awfully verbose.
initrd has nothing to do with X11 and the video driver. initrd reads and uncompresses the kernel file and starts it, but has nothing to do with other drivers. You probably will have no true "debug messages" as your symptoms of something moving on the screen when you move the mouse indicate X11 is running and THINKS it has produced a proper display. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
