Re: [gentoo-catalyst] mkxf86config: Virtualbox experience
Thank you for your help!! I will migrate to my system soon. Cheers, István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. -- http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-catalyst] mkxf86config: Virtualbox experience
Hi, I use virtualbox/qemu to test the livecds. I know, I will not really popular, but I expected that, if mkxf86 could not detect the video card, it left empty the driver, instead of vesa driver. Their video card name is a really strange name. Is that possible to make the default driver to vesa, instead of ? And I have no patch for this, sorry. I try to help this project with my experience to achieve a better-than-any-other livecd, so, sorry for my mails. And I know, to make a criticism is easier than make a solution from scratch, so, I do not need warn about it. I try to ask good questions which could be constructive :) Cheers, István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. -- http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: R: [gentoo-catalyst] producing a DVD
2008. 02. 26, kedd keltezéssel 14.43-kor Lanza Fabrizio ezt írta: Unless catalyst has some magic to figure out to build an image with a UDF filesystem instead of ISO9660 (and I'm pretty sure it doesn't), you can burn a 700MB ISO to a DVD and it will work just fine. That is exactly what I cannot do. I insert a DVD in the CD/DVD drive. I start Nero, choose burn image, I select my .iso, and it ejects the DVD saying that I have the wrong medium, and that it is supposed to be a CD. Every CD/DVD mastering software will check what you are going to burn. If it has a CD project/filesystem, it won't burn it on a DVD. Also, since qemu does not load CDs larger than 700M... there is a Just one thought. One of my friend also had problems with Nero. My opinion, forget it. István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. -- http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-catalyst] mkxf86config: Virtualbox experience
2008. 02. 26, kedd keltezéssel 07.33-kor Andrew Gaffney ezt írta: Pongracz Istvan wrote: Hi, I use virtualbox/qemu to test the livecds. I know, I will not really popular, but I expected that, if mkxf86 could not detect the video card, it left empty the driver, instead of vesa driver. Their video card name is a really strange name. Is that possible to make the default driver to vesa, instead of ? It should already do this. Are you sure you have x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa on your CD? I believe it checks to make sure the driver exists before sticking it in the xorg.conf. Hi, Yes, I am sure, because usually I simply write the vesa inside the xorg.conf to the relevant section and X starts smoothly, without problem and I am able to use X. Videocard: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter Video is InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter, using Xorg Server This is without installing virtualbox-additions to the livecd. The only problem with this, vesa is not the default card in this specific case. Cheers, István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. -- http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst 2.0.6_pre9 mksquashfs hangs building squashfs + solution
Hi, This evening I run into a problem, when I built my custom livecd. It contains an installed and configured postgresql and one of its file had something, which caused to mksquashfs hanged up. So, after I append the -info (mksquashfs argument), I caught a file, which caused the problem several times. After asking my old spanish friend (Manual) and google, I used the -no-sparse argument to avoid hanging mksquashfs. After it I succeed to create the image. I am not sure, but it seems, it is safe to use the -no-sparse argument to avoid some problems. Just my experience. Bye, István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. -- http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-catalyst] Req: non-standard lcd displays
Hi, I use catalyst to create customized livecd-s with preinstalled X, database and web servers to demonstrate open source applications to the public, usually non-technical people. Some of them use laptops and/or non standard LCD displays (1280x800, 1400x900 etc.). AFAIK catalyst uses the x11-misc/mkxf86config tool to detect and setup the X. The main problem is, it cannot setup the dimension properly and the display shows an ugly, stretched image, which is not really looks good on a presentation. Example: the X uses 1024x768 on a 1280x800 display. The result is a working, but ugly X. My question, is that possible to improve it? I read that, the author of mkxf86 knows this issue and he/she is open to improve it, but I do not know his mail :) He wrote, this is hard-wired to make it cross-compatible. Anyway, what about that to look into ubuntu/mandriva, how they solved this issue? I know, for example the i915 chipset has a problem, which needs a bios patch to get it work (it is a crap, I have this on my laptop). I'm pretty sure, this is not a trivial task, but it would be really good :) Regards, István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. -- http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst 2.0.6_pre9 mksquashfs hangs building squashfs + solution
2008. 02. 25, hétfő keltezéssel 15.42-kor Andrew Gaffney ezt írta: . Are you sure it was hung? Was it just trying to squash a very large sparse file? I'm pretty sure: the file is around 237kbyte large and first time about 40 minutes hanging I pushed Ctrl-C (I'm usually patient :) - in fact, I was with my children, I left the machine to do the job...) It was 97% of the total, I was a little bit upset :) Can you give us the URL that gave you the idea to use -no-sparse? Here: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/7280/contributors/40572/commits/15637617 or http://www.ohloh.net/projects/7280/contributors/40572/commits/16718485 Probably the situation is not the same, I did not compared it to my version (3.3). I gave it a try and it solved this issue for me. Cheers, István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. -- http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Req: non-standard lcd displays
2008. 02. 25, hétfő keltezéssel 15.54-kor Andrew Gaffney ezt írta: Catalyst doesn't use anything. You are specifying mkxf86config in your spec, and it's getting run automatically by autoconfig (part of livecd-tools). You are free to use something else. Do you have a patch? Not yet :) . If you're building this CD for a specific computer, use livecd/root_overlay to put a custom pre-made xorg.conf on the CD and remove mkxf86config from the package list. This will solve your problem. It seems a good workaround, I will try that. Thank you for the explanation. Cheers, István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. -- http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-catalyst] catalyst related kernel problem?
2008. 02. 24, vasárnap keltezéssel 11.12-kor Andrew Gaffney ezt írta: lurker wrote: On 21/02/08 05:40, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Hi, I'm new here but I have a little experience building livecd. Today I completed a customized livecd successfully, using: genkernel-3.4.10_pre3 catalyst-2.0.6_pre9 I use ~x86 Before I had some problems with genkernel, but those bugs are solved in the new releases. Cheers, István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. -- http://www.osbusiness.hu -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
