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christophe

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Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

slitaz-just-start-in-text-mode

I have followed the instructions given here

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-just-start-in-text-mode

and my Dell C400 still stays in text mode

After i run tazx i get

list of video drivers

     intel

     vesa

(++) using cnfig file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"

(==) using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"

Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices

   configuration failed

this is a 83830 intel

With the previous (3.0) it was at least startng (though with the wrong definition, which i have not been able to solve either)

Tx

christophe

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Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: slitaz-just-start-in-text-mode

i did some investigations and found here

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/XF86Config-4.c400

an xorg.conf file for  the C400

it should solve a number of issues including, reserving more ram for video shared memory (defaut is 1M which is not sufficient)

i renamed it as /root/xorg.conf.new

then i run tazx to reconfigure (i do not NOT try to load the intel driver anymore at this stage since that prevented from finding the right number of devices)

It does not work as expected

It seems to be taken into account, but then at the very end of the log, it is not (i can tell because not enough memory is reserved, the conf file tries tor reserve about 32MB which is the maximum, whild actually only the default ~800 kb are reserved - see first line of the log)

furthermore, it cannot even start the 640*480 mode (which was working with the previous 3.0 version).

Here is how the xorg.0.log looks like (well the end of it)

[3295779.329] (II) VESA(0): Total Memory: 13 64KB banks (832kB)

[3295779.329] (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 31.50-47.30 kHz

[3295779.329] (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 56.00-59.87 Hz

[3295779.329] (WW) VESA(0): Unable to estimate virtual size

[3295779.329] (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "640x480" (no mode of this name)

[3295779.329] (WW) VESA(0): No valid modes left. Trying less strict filter...

[3295779.329] (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 31.50-47.30 kHz

[3295779.329] (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 56.00-59.87 Hz

[3295779.329] (WW) VESA(0): Unable to estimate virtual size

[3295779.330] (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)

[3295779.330] (WW) VESA(0): No valid modes left. Trying aggressive sync range...

[3295779.330] (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 31.50-47.30 kHz

[3295779.330] (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-59.87 Hz

[3295779.330] (WW) VESA(0): Unable to estimate virtual size

[3295779.330] (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)

[3295779.330] (EE) VESA(0): No valid modes

[3295779.330] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"

[3295779.330] (II) UnloadModule: "int10"

[3295779.330] (II) Unloading /usr/lib/X11/modules/libint10.so

[3295779.330] (II) UnloadModule: "vbe"

[3295779.330] (II) Unloading /usr/lib/X11/modules/libvbe.so

[3295779.330] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

[3295779.330]

Fatal server error:

[3295779.330] no screens found

[3295779.330]

Any hint ?Thanks