jasmac wrote:Hi TazOC,
Well I find myself in a situation where I am no longer going to be able to commit any of my time into helping with this great distro you have created. Life is busy, LHP will always be on my USB and will travel with me. Can I just say that since finding LHP and using it as well as contributing where I was able, it has be a pure joy. Best of luck with the development of your new series, I leave you my final desktop for your perusal. Enjoy life and enjoy LHP.
Cheers
Jason
Hi Jason,
You will be missed and I've very much appreciated your contributions. You have a great talent! I understand other commitments come first and wish you all the best.
Take care,
TazOC
Diggs wrote:It works, but is this supposeed to be the permanent fix? That we need to catch at the boot screen on every boot and manually enter this to avoid kernel panic
Good point! I'm working on some changes to the init script that disable copy to ram unless
puppy pfix=copy or
c or
fc (fsck and copy) is entered at the boot menu. I don't understand why the copy sometimes fails even though I've checked for available memory in the script and tested dozens of configurations in VirtualBox.
Also, using an Radeon HD3850 graphics card there is no way I can get Xorg to run and must use vesa unfortunately as I would like to use the hardware acceleration of that card. (And, I haven't found how/where the proprietary ATI drivers are installed.)
I see. This is a long-shot but try
radeon.modeset=1 (without xforcevesa and without vga=) and choose radeon in xorgwizard. If that gives a blank screen, please try choosing radeonhd in xorgwizard if you haven't already. If still no go, go back to
nomodeset xforcevesa or the least parms that work, use the Video Reporting Tool in the System Menu and attach /tmp/root/report-video-full.gz to a post for me. I don't know if the proprietary Catalyst driver would work or not. It would need to be re-compiled for the new kernel and I haven't had time to try. (That's why you couldn't find it.)
From Googling that card it appears that it is an RV670, a few of which were AGP instead of PCIe. As CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS is not set in the new kernel from Quirky I don't know if there is a way to get acceleration working if the radeon driver doesn't work. But I'd still like to see the report-video-full on this card as there are some other kernel parms for radeon (
modinfo radeon in a terminal) we might try.
Thanks,
TazOC
Jim1911 wrote:trying to set preferences in MPlayer, it freezes on the Subtitles section as shown in the attached photo and will not respond to the mouse or keyboard. Gzine does play the file fine.
Hmm, what happens when you close the Warning message (see taskbar in screenshot)? If you had to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or reset the machine, try opening MPlayer from the menu and then changing the video driver before opening the wmv.
Does Mariner include nv plus other nvidia drivers as in your previous distribution? If so, they aren't being offered as choices.
No, I haven't tried to compile any proprietary drivers yet--it's on my to do list. Instead, try
nouveau.modeset=1 on the kernel line. From modinfo nouveau, there are other parms to try,
nouveau.agp=0 or
nouveau.accel=1 or
nouveau.accel=0Barburo wrote:I echo the comments from ICPUG.
i915.modeset=1 worked for me like a charm....
...selecting Intel as the driver gave me a sharp, properly configured 1360x768 screen. DRI is active and ant-inspect runs at about 43fps.
Hey Barburo, that's very good news! To me that says that Intel i915 KMS is working--with hardware acceleration. Your 3D-Demo frame rate is even better than my radeon setup (~40fps).
I opted for an ext3 save file (the default) and I see that fsck is giving me an error. The fsck.err file appears in /home with the text: sda6,ext3,/lhp5a/spupsave-5a.3fs
That's normal with the new improper shutdown recovery feature from Quirky. The fsck.err tracking file is created at boot up and removed during a normal shutdown. If it is still there at next boot then e2fsck automatically checks both the host part and the pupsave for errors.
-TazOC