On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 01:23, Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 May 2020, George N. White III wrote:
>
> > Have you tried the vga= kernel boot parameter? For Xwindows it would be
> > good to get something other than VESA running, either i915 or by adding a
>
On Fri, 29 May 2020, George N. White III wrote:
Have you tried the vga= kernel boot parameter? For Xwindows it would be
good to get something other than VESA running, either i915 or by adding a
graphics card.
I have now.
No go.
I had a look at the dmesg log on an old system with Nvidia
On Fri, 29 May 2020, George N. White III wrote:
Have you tried the vga= kernel boot parameter? For Xwindows it would be
good to get something other than VESA running, either i915 or by adding a
graphics card.
I'll try that next,
though the problem seems to be that a power that be
seems to
On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 10:56, Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> For whatever reason,
> the persistent overlay does not work for me.
>
> I can get to runlevel 3 with or without nomodeset.
> With nomodeset,
> telinit 5
> brings me to 640x480 .
> Without nomodeset, it
For whatever reason,
the persistent overlay does not work for me.
I can get to runlevel 3 with or without nomodeset.
With nomodeset,
telinit 5
brings me to 640x480 .
Without nomodeset, it fails:
the oh no screen rears its ugly head.
Is there something I can do at runlevel 3
to get a mode other
On Thu, 28 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I don't recall you mentioning which live image you're using. Assuming it's
workstation, edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncomment the line with
"WaylandEnable=false". Then reboot and see what happens.
On Thu, 28 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I don't recall you mentioning which live image you're using. Assuming it's
workstation, edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncomment the line with
"WaylandEnable=false". Then reboot and see what happens.
'Twas only in the first post:
On Sun, 24 May 2020,
On 5/28/20 1:16 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
livecd-iso-to-disk --format --msdos --overlay-size-mb 1024
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.2.iso /dev/sdd
Replace the sdd with your USB drive, this will completely wipe the
drive. Put the name of
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
livecd-iso-to-disk --format --msdos --overlay-size-mb 1024
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.2.iso /dev/sdd
Replace the sdd with your USB drive, this will completely wipe the drive.
Put the name of whatever iso image you're using instead of the
On Wed, 27 May 2020, George N. White III wrote:
https://www.systutorials.com/configuration-of-linux-kernel-video-mode/
has an incantation (from 2015) to display available video modes.
Got it.
vbeinfo notices several resolutions at at least two resolutions each:
1920 x 1440 at 8 or 16 bits
I now have live-cd-tools.
They and the tutorial website will have to wait until tomorrow.
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On 5/27/20 7:45 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Assuming you have another computer available, install the
"livecd-tools" package and run something like this:
livecd-iso-to-disk --format --msdos --overlay-size-mb 1024
On Wed, 27 May 2020, George N. White III wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 02:46, Tim via users
wrote:
On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 18:56 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
VESA notices several resolutionns,
including 1024x768 and 800x600 .
I really do not understand why none of them are allowed.
As a
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Assuming you have another computer available, install the "livecd-tools"
package and run something like this:
livecd-iso-to-disk --format --msdos --overlay-size-mb 1024
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.2.iso /dev/sdd
Any reason /dev/sdd could not
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I'll answer in more detail to the other email, but what happens if you just
run "startx".
I tried it on another virtual console.
It crashed, but I do not remember details.
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On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 02:46, Tim via users
wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 18:56 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > VESA notices several resolutionns,
> > including 1024x768 and 800x600 .
> > I really do not understand why none of them are allowed.
> As a general answer, the system checks out
On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 18:56 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> VESA notices several resolutionns,
> including 1024x768 and 800x600 .
> I really do not understand why none of them are allowed.
As a general answer, the system checks out what the graphics chipset
can produce, and what the monitor
On 5/26/20 7:46 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/26/20 12:24 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Note that since I using a live DVD,
changing a config file and
rebooting is not really an option.
Are you using a physical DVD or a live image put on USB? If
On 5/26/20 7:56 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
If you don't make any changes to the boot command line other than
adding a "3" at the end, does it boot to a login prompt?
Yes.
I'm using it.
I suppose this means that if I knew the right incantation,
I could
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
If you don't make any changes to the boot command line other than adding a
"3" at the end, does it boot to a login prompt?
Yes.
I'm using it.
I suppose this means that if I knew the right incantation,
I could get what I want with startx and the
right
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/26/20 12:24 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Note that since I using a live DVD,
changing a config file and
rebooting is not really an option.
Are you using a physical DVD or a live image put on USB? If you put it on
USB, then you can add an
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
According to modprobe, lsmod and /proc/modules ,
i915 exists and intel_gap does not.
VESA notices several resolutionns,
including 1024x768 and 800x600 .
I really do not understand why none of them are allowed.
Also, I do not understand this
On 5/26/20 12:24 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
How do I get xrandr or something else to do what I want,
i.e. change my resolution to 1440x900
when using the live DVD..
Note that since I using a live DVD,
changing a config file and
rebooting is not
According to modprobe, lsmod and /proc/modules ,
i915 exists and intel_gap does not.
VESA notices several resolutionns,
including 1024x768 and 800x600 .
I really do not understand why none of them are allowed.
--
Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an
On Tue, 26 May 2020, George N. White III wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 16:19, Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
I upgraded from 2GB to 8GB.
liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ lspci | head -3
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q33 Express DRAM Controller (rev
02)
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 16:19, Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2020, George N. White III wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 04:25, Michael Hennebry <
> > henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 26 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >>
>
On Tue, 26 May 2020, George N. White III wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 04:25, Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
How do I get xrandr or something else to do what I want,
i.e. change my resolution to 1440x900
when using the
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 04:25, Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
> > How do I get xrandr or something else to do what I want,
> > i.e. change my resolution to 1440x900
> > when using the live DVD..
>
> Note that since I using
On Tue, 26 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
How do I get xrandr or something else to do what I want,
i.e. change my resolution to 1440x900
when using the live DVD..
Note that since I using a live DVD,
changing a config file and
rebooting is not really an option.
It is what I have on Centos
On Mon, 25 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
[liveuser@localhost-live proc]$ xrandr --fb 1440x900
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 640x480 (desired size 1440x900)
[liveuser@localhost-live proc]$
So I tried these commands:
xrandr
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I tried adding nomodeset grub_gfxmode=1440x900 ,
but still got 640x480 .
cat cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-WS-Live-32-1-6
rd.live.image nomodeset grub_gfxmode=1440x900
[liveuser@localhost-live proc]$ xrandr
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Following the example in Troubleshoot,
I added nomodeset to the boot command in Start.
It booted and it works,
but the screen is only 640x480 .
Is there a way to adjust this?
I tried adding nomodeset grub_gfxmode=1440x900 ,
but still got 640x480 .
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I was more methodical this time:
Start without acpi=off , it goes to the try/install choice
and without waiting goes to the something went wrong screen.
Start with acpi=off does not get that far, kernel panic,
tried to kill idle process.
Test without
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
It gets further.
I get to a GUI that offers run live vs install.
Selecting run live gets me to a declaration
that it could not recover from an error.
I was more methodical this time:
Start without acpi=off , it goes to the try/install choice
and
On Sun, 24 May 2020, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Will try the BIOS update after I calm down.
'Tis my guess that computers do not work
well after being thrown through a wall.
BIOS updated.
Still won't boot.
G.
It gets further.
I get to a GUI that offers run live vs install.
Selecting run live
Will try the BIOS update after I calm down.
'Tis my guess that computers do not work
well after being thrown through a wall.
--
Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a
On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 18:37, Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> I've trying to run Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso
> on my HP Compac dc5800 Small Form Factor.
> It kernel panics with the message that it attempted to kill init
> or that it attempted to kill the
On 24/05/2020 22:36, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I've trying to run Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso
on my HP Compac dc5800 Small Form Factor.
It kernel panics with the message that it attempted to kill init
or that it attempted to kill the idle task.
In the former case, it gives exit code
I have the same problem using an SD card and a USB SD card reader.
--
Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."
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