This is frustrating. I've attempted to get 800x600 resolution by entering the above as a boot parameter in accordance with the help menu and nothing changes. I still get the higher resolution requiring the vision of a bird of prey in order to see. If the instructions are useless so is your CD. How do I get this thing to render in 800x600. Please, God!
Live CD not accepting boot option change slitaz vga=788 (800x600)
(18 posts) (7 voices)- Started 10 years ago by Captain CaCa
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mojo
offlineKey Master5.0-rc2 configuring screen resolution from boot menu is broken.
Adding Modes after generating 70-Screen.conf,fbdev video driver ignores the configuration.
The only solution is to get vesa to auto load instead of fbdev or force it with a manual configuration.Vesa will auto load on my computer if I add nomodeset to boot options.
Applications/Preferences/Monitor settings
Screen is 1024x768 with option for 800x600Posted 10 years ago # -
I tested video=800x600M-32@60 some time ago, and it works. Don't know is it useable not on nvidia hardware.
Described at end of the following page
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting/
example looks like video=DVI-I-1:1024x768@85 video=TV-1:d
For me, it is not correctly without "M". And known nouveau bug is 8-bit default mode, so I just add -32Posted 10 years ago # -
Ceel
offlineAdministrator@Captain CaCa,
Write only
nomodesetin the kernel line; ie:
kernel (hd1,1)/frugal/4.0/bzImage rw root=/dev/null kmap=fr-latin1 nomodeset screen=textPosted 10 years ago # -
mojo
offlineKey Master@Captain CaCa
Boot the live cd
Languages menu =>choose your language with up/dn arrow keys if desired
Hit Enter key
Don't type anything in the next screen.
Hit the Enter key or wait a few seconds...
When you get to the boot menu with the spider in the middle that says:
SliTaz GNU/Linux - 5.0-RC2 20140519on top andPress [Tab] to edit optionsbelow spider.
Use the down arrow on your keyboard to highlightSliTaz core Live
Hit the tab key
The cursor will be after the last entry which is autologin
Make a space by hitting the space bar and typenomodeset
Hit Enter to boot.Posted 10 years ago # -
Captain CaCa
offlineMemberMojo,
Followed your instructions to the letter and they did as you indicated except for one thing: Once I'd reached Preferences/Monitor Settings, had seen the choices in Resolution, had selected 800X600, and hit Apply, what rendered was a black screen with diagonal white lines, gibberish basically, and the machine became unresponsive. I tried it with one resolution settling higher but got the same result. Its almost as though the operation was a success but the patient died. :-)
Thoughts?
Posted 10 years ago # -
mojo
offlineKey MasterWhen you open Preferences/Monitor Settings, what is Resolution:
What is the native resolution of your monitor/screen ?
Open terminal while booted in.
lspci -vvnn > lspci.txt
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log > xorg.txt
Attach lspci.txt and xorg.txt to your replyPosted 10 years ago # -
Captain CaCa
offlineMemberMojo,
Resolution is 1280x1024.
Here's lspci.txt:
If first letter is rendered as the small letter "L" in Xterm - and there is a difference between a small "L" and a "1" in Xterm - I get a prompt. If the first letter is rendered as a "1" in XTerm, I get -sh: lspci: not found.
Here's cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log > xorg.txt:
I get a prompt, nothing else.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Captain CaCa
offlineMemberaz-ua,
Looks like you've got the syntax, az_ua! Although I thought I'd try it first as video=800x600 without the M-16@60 and it worked! The line, video=800X600, was appended to the list of boot parameters, of course. Finally! Now I can see this thing from the vantage point of a human being and not a falcon or an osprey or something. At first blush with the 1280X1024 I thought I'd died and that God was punishing me for my sin. :-)
Now that I can see what I'm doing, maybe you guys can help me get this thing to load web pages. For the last several weeks, I've had trouble with so-called "light" distros or minimalist live CDs getting pages to load in their respective browsers even though I can ping my router and websites without insident. Eth0 is shown to be connected and I'm getting my address assigned by DHCP. In one distro, Puppy, I've even attempted to override the name server numbers with some that were suspected to be more friendly than those of my ISP but that proved folly. Occasionally the pages will load - maybe 5% of the time. Otherwise they struggle and eventually give up the ghost. My Windows setup has no such trouble. The browser doesn't seem to make a difference: I've tried SeaMonkey, Dillo, SurfNet, and the one here with Slitaz and the result is the same, painfully slow if any loading at all. So I have no internet access for all intents and purposes even though I'm shown to be perfectly well connected and accessed. I've spent hours on this problem mainly with Wary Puppy 5.3 and Vector Linux Light and have nothing to show for the effort. Thoughts?
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Aleksej
offlineCoder-hobbyistCaptain CaCa,
Sidini mean that first command disconnects you from internet.
So, became root: type su command and enter root password on prompt (password entering will be hidden, it's Ok).
Next, type Sidini's first command (please, don't type # at the beginning, this symbol only mean that you're in a super-user mode):
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0Now you disconnected from internet. Type second command:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2Wait for command end and then exit from super-user mode by entering command exit or just pressing Ctrl+D. Close terminal or Ctrl+D again.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Sidini
offlineMemberThanks Aleksej! That's exactly what I mean.
@Captain CaCa, this is a step-by-step to you:
1- open a terminal
2- type su and hit <Enter>
3- enter root password (usually it's "root") and hit <Enter>
4- type a command to disconnect your internet (leave the cables connected!). If you use ADSL connection (like me), it's "pppoe-stop " <Enter>
5- type "ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0" <Enter>
6- type "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2" <Enter>
7- re-connect your internet using a command. For ADSL, it's "pppoe-start" <Enter>
8- type "exit" <Enter> to exit from "super-user mode"
9- try to surf on web; it should be working now.If you are new to Linux or Slitaz, please make it clear to us, so we can help you appropriately, ok? :D
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