Installation of neomagic magicgraph 128xd nm2160 in live mode and no internet connection

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Installation of neomagic magicgraph 128xd nm2160 in live mode and no internet connection

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Started 11 years ago by pakboy
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pakboy

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Hi to slitaz community! It's my first time here!
Come on!

Hardware: Acer Travelmate 506dx (old laptop) with neomagic magicgraph 128xd (nm2160) and no internet connection
Software: slitaz 3.0 stable and cooking

Mission: i need slitaz in live mode with X (now i cannot install it on hard drive, so i cannot reboot)
Problem: slitaz boots only in text mode and the command "startx" gives error

What i did (by root):
I uninstalled xorg-xf86-video-vesa
I mounted usbdisk with xorg-xf86-video-neomagic-1.2.1.tazpkg and install it
I modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf in the statement Driver changing "vesa" with "neomagic"
I tried "startx"

Result: again error.

I think there were another thing to do....but what? Remember i cannot reboot in the procedure because i want "live mode" so i would lose any change at the new start up

Sorry, i am not very good with linux, slitaz and english! Anyway thank you!

Posted 11 years ago #
pakboy

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Ops...after the change of 60-Device.conf i give "X -configure" and it also gives me error

Posted 11 years ago #
Aleksej

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Try this:
```
HOME=/root
tazx config-xorg 2>/var/log/xorg.configure.log
```
(You can read log with nano text editor, or less pager if you need it).
```
/etc/init.d/dbus start
/etc/init.d/slim start
```
(Found in the /etc/init.d/system.sh here: http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-boot-scripts/file/3dd56819a891/etc/init.d/system.sh#l125 and cropped).
Posted 11 years ago #
gibor

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One similar problem have resolved after download http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/4.0/packages-4.0.iso
create it dvd or key usb and launch slitaz live.
After login as root type tazx and select xorg-xf86-video-neomagic on my case at worked

Posted 11 years ago #
pakboy

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Hi boys...
First of all, i thank you for your replies

Ale, i've tried but no positive result. gibor, the laptop is so old that has no dvd reader and i dont have, in this moment, a usbdisk of that size.

Anyway, controlling /var/log/Xorg.0.log i found error about libdrm and an error about ABI major verson respct to server version, related to the loading module neomagic.
So i thought neomagic driver version (1.2.1) was not compatible with xorg version of slitaz 3.0. In addition i should have to add libdrm package.

Then i tried two ways:
1) i took the right neomagic driver (here http://pkgs.slitaz.org/) for 3.0 slitaz, but when i tried to startx, i got the error "undefined object" about neomagic_drv.so even if i checked that file is present and it's in the right /usr/lib.... subdirectory. obviuosly i also added the libdrm. but nothing. so i tried next way.

2)i thought to install the new xorg!
I removed xorg-server and installed the new version available from slitaz package site wth appropriate lbdrm and neomagic driver.
I also did changes of my first post (removed vesa and modified 60-Device.conf)
I gave startx and finally text mode disappear for the graphics mode but the display rest black! As if x-server was loaded but "empty": black, no mouse, notihng on the monitor. pressing ctrl+alt+canc or ctrl+alt-Fx do nothing, and i have to poweroff phisically.

Any help was welcome

Posted 11 years ago #
gibor

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Hi pakboy...
sorry I have one simple consideration, the tazpkg installer not work correctly on no-online-mode, if you verify on /var/log/tazpkg.log and find error tried during on installation.
All the operation of installation as broken, unique method without the internet access is downloads all repos of tazpkg and set the position from command line
tazpkg setup-mirror and type your position of folder packages, a least tazpkg recharge
if your distro is slitaz-3 find iso packages related, not view other system to do so this.

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