1024x800 is wrong. It should be 1280x800. Sorry. When you are my age, you tend to make these mistakes.
Pablo Manalastas *** --- On Thu, 9/18/08, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [plug] Neo Empriva and Linux > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" > <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 12:24 PM > I can not write everything on my blog, so in case there are > items I forgot to write down, here are some tips. > > I got most distros to work, but you have to boot single > user on first boot, and fix xorg.conf to resolution > 1024x800, Should be 1280x800. > and then remove any vga=791 or similar setting on > the kernel command line in /boot/grub/grub.conf. > > The easiest to install is debian-testing (weekly build or > beta2), because most of the hardware is successfully > autoprobed, except for the video, which is VIA Chrome9. > Instead of VIA, debian-testing will install the generic vesa > driver. At the installer boot prompt, type > > linux vga=771 > > This will solve your installation split-screen problem. > > Just put in the data asked of you. It is good if you have > internet connection when you install, so that deb packages > not in the installer CD/DVD can be downloaded from the > Debian mirrors. > > On first boot, go single user, by editing the grub options > (add "single" to the kernel line). After booting > single-user, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and add the following > sections, if not already there: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "vesa" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Generic Monitor" > Option "DPMS" > VertRefresh 59.9-60.1 > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Device "Generic Video Card" > Monitor "Generic Monitor" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen "Default Screen" > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" > InputDevice "Configured Mouse" > EndSection > > Also in /boot/grub/menu.lst. for the "kernel" > line, remove the options > > rhgb > quiet > vga=xxx > > This will ensure that the native non-gui screen resolution > is selected (80x25? or whatever). I think Neo has problems > going to graphical mode of X-window from a screen resolution > setting other than native. > > The removal of rhgb and quiet will allow you to see all > boot time messages so that if something should go wrong, you > know what went wrong. > > Then, after editing xorg.conf and menu.lst, you are now > ready to do a real graphical first-boot. > > I hope this helps. > > Pablo Manalastas > *** > > > > --- On Thu, 9/18/08, Michael Janapin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Michael Janapin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [plug] Neo Empriva and Linux > > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) > Technical Discussion List" > <[email protected]> > > Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 5:33 AM > > I'm just so disappointed with this laptop. :-) > > All flavors of Linux that I have, vintage to cutting > edge, > > would not > > run! (Gentoo Live 2004, Knoppix 3.3, Knoppix 5.5, > Ubuntu > > 7.10, Ubuntu > > 8.04, Fedora 9) > > Do you think it's hardware related? (Bad PCI Table > or > > something?) > > > > I'll try Slackware 10 later and give it a spin on > this > > thing. > > > > Mhac > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
