Bionicpup only boots to console (Solved)
Bionicpup only boots to console (Solved)
I have installed bionicpup 64 on usb flash stick.
Works fine with my laptop, but when I try to use it with my desktop it I end up at console without X running.
I suspect it is to do with GPU?
It is: GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER StormX 4GB Graphics Card
My attempts to play with xorgwizard didn't make any difference.
Any suggestions please?
Works fine with my laptop, but when I try to use it with my desktop it I end up at console without X running.
I suspect it is to do with GPU?
It is: GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER StormX 4GB Graphics Card
My attempts to play with xorgwizard didn't make any difference.
Any suggestions please?
Last edited by bambuko on Sun 15 Mar 2020, 19:30, edited 1 time in total.
- Mike Walsh
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- Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Hi, bambuko.
I've recently purchased a GeForce GT710 (the one with the 'passive' heatsink; no fan), and am also having issues with Bionicpup64. If I have the card installed (just using the kernel's 'nouveau' driver), everything runs fine, except for the fact that I always end up with a weird external IP address, and have no internet.....until I reset the router, and re-connect, and then DNS/DHCP work correctly.
Your issue obviously sounds to be related to the nouveau driver, too.....though your card is a bit more of a 'beast' than mine!
You might have to try using the NVidia driver, I suspect, though whether that would fix the issue is anybody's guess. For now, that's about the only thing I can think of to suggest.
In my case, if I remove the GPU and allow the system to use the Pentium G5400's 'on-die' GPU (using the Intel kernel driver), everything's tickety-boo, and functions as it should do.....
You could, perhaps, also consider a kernel-swap. I know rockedge has compiled a number of alternative kernels, some of which, by all accounts, work very well. Maybe it's the version of the nouveau driver in Bionic64's default kernel that's at the root of the issue? Just a thought.....
All:- Anybody else having 'nouveau' issues with Bionic64.....or is it just bambuko and me?
Mike.
Huh. You and me both, mate.bambuko wrote:I have installed bionicpup 64 on usb flash stick.
Works fine with my laptop, but when I try to use it with my desktop it I end up at console without X running.
I suspect it is to do with GPU?
It is: GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER StormX 4GB Graphics Card.
I've recently purchased a GeForce GT710 (the one with the 'passive' heatsink; no fan), and am also having issues with Bionicpup64. If I have the card installed (just using the kernel's 'nouveau' driver), everything runs fine, except for the fact that I always end up with a weird external IP address, and have no internet.....until I reset the router, and re-connect, and then DNS/DHCP work correctly.
Your issue obviously sounds to be related to the nouveau driver, too.....though your card is a bit more of a 'beast' than mine!
You might have to try using the NVidia driver, I suspect, though whether that would fix the issue is anybody's guess. For now, that's about the only thing I can think of to suggest.
In my case, if I remove the GPU and allow the system to use the Pentium G5400's 'on-die' GPU (using the Intel kernel driver), everything's tickety-boo, and functions as it should do.....
You could, perhaps, also consider a kernel-swap. I know rockedge has compiled a number of alternative kernels, some of which, by all accounts, work very well. Maybe it's the version of the nouveau driver in Bionic64's default kernel that's at the root of the issue? Just a thought.....
All:- Anybody else having 'nouveau' issues with Bionic64.....or is it just bambuko and me?
Mike.
- Mike Walsh
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- Location: King's Lynn, UK.
I'm not entirely certain that's going to be an option with this particular 'use-case', Nic. I distinctly remember from a post of his some while back that bambuko runs a highly-customized set-up with pNp 'hot-swappable' hard drives.nic007 wrote:Revert to an older computer and Puppy.
(*shrug*)
Unless, of course, this is a more conventional machine.....
Mike.
Yes, hot swappable drives - it's me
Still works perfectly well afaic (win10, win7 and various shades of puppy with "mechanical" multiboot)
found the driver for my card:
https://nvidiageforcedrivers.com/nvidia ... for-linux/
(which gives NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.26.run)
or here:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx
(which gives NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.64.run)
I guess the latter should be better...
just need to learn how to update the kernel with this driver (or something like this... bit vague in this department)
Off to my DuckDuckGo to search for an answer
Still works perfectly well afaic (win10, win7 and various shades of puppy with "mechanical" multiboot)
found the driver for my card:
https://nvidiageforcedrivers.com/nvidia ... for-linux/
(which gives NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.26.run)
or here:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx
(which gives NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.64.run)
I guess the latter should be better...
just need to learn how to update the kernel with this driver (or something like this... bit vague in this department)
Off to my DuckDuckGo to search for an answer
Last edited by bambuko on Sat 14 Mar 2020, 15:49, edited 1 time in total.
well...
there is this (which I am trying to grasp at the moment):
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=974663
and
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405
there is this (which I am trying to grasp at the moment):
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=974663
and
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405
Last edited by bambuko on Sat 14 Mar 2020, 17:02, edited 1 time in total.
You can try the nvidia-440... driver pet from QuickSetup
or from http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... -bionic64/
(This is a good place to find out which driver you have to use for your nvidia card:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/)
or from http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... -bionic64/
(This is a good place to find out which driver you have to use for your nvidia card:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/)
hi bambuko,
scroll down to bigpups answer here about disabling the nouveau driver (4th post)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=980928
scroll down to bigpups answer here about disabling the nouveau driver (4th post)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=980928
Bionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331
@ enrique
unfortunately your suggestion didn't work - screen remained black despite being connected directly to motherboard rather than GPU
@666philb
tried
didn't work
but....
went back again to xorgwizard to make sure I didn't miss anything and to my surprise option 4) in choose driver:
allowed me to get xwin going
updated Bionicpup updates and downloaded nvidia 440 driver pet
saved things on exit and tried booting again and...
it all behaved as if I didn't save things on exit (i.e. had to start setting country, language, keyboard etc again)
puzzled, but at least it's some progress
so then I tried saving things on exit without nvidia 440 driver loaded and guess what - when rebooted country, language and keyboard has been saved OK
so the problem seems to be my inability to install sucessfully invidia 440 driver
later edit:
started again (it's easy after all ) and this time when doing Bionicpup update I have noticed that (amongst other details) it says:
just need to "convince" puppy to use correct driver
and... how do I do it good people, please
unfortunately your suggestion didn't work - screen remained black despite being connected directly to motherboard rather than GPU
@666philb
tried
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pfix=ram nouveau.modeset=0
but....
went back again to xorgwizard to make sure I didn't miss anything and to my surprise option 4) in choose driver:
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fbdev (Framebuffer device based X server)
updated Bionicpup updates and downloaded nvidia 440 driver pet
saved things on exit and tried booting again and...
it all behaved as if I didn't save things on exit (i.e. had to start setting country, language, keyboard etc again)
puzzled, but at least it's some progress
so then I tried saving things on exit without nvidia 440 driver loaded and guess what - when rebooted country, language and keyboard has been saved OK
so the problem seems to be my inability to install sucessfully invidia 440 driver
later edit:
started again (it's easy after all ) and this time when doing Bionicpup update I have noticed that (amongst other details) it says:
so it would appear that there is no need to install this driver separately?added nvidia 440 driver ... linuxcbon
just need to "convince" puppy to use correct driver
and... how do I do it good people, please
Last edited by bambuko on Sun 15 Mar 2020, 18:07, edited 2 times in total.
I seems to understood you got Xorg working. That is good, first step. I do not have nvidia. So I am just giving you my best suggestion.
Now you need to trobleshout to find out your system. Do:
The first will tell you your Graphic Adapters details. In particular your drives been used.
The second the firmware your Puppy is been loaded. I thing you need to search for Ubuntus package
Use your PPM and install that one if that is the case. Then reboot and do again
See if that helps. Do not forget that once your Nvidia Adapter is working you need to plug your monitor to it. Hopes it helps.
Now you need to trobleshout to find out your system. Do:
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lspci -kvnn | grep VGA -A 14
dmesg | grep firmware
The second the firmware your Puppy is been loaded. I thing you need to search for Ubuntus package
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nouveau-firmware
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dmesg | grep firmware
thank you linuxcbon
downloaded nvidia 440, no problem, but...
it was only when I tried to download it from PPM that I got the warning about memory size... (quickpet gave no reason for failure)
resized, downloaded and installed correct (nvidia 440) driver
rebooted and exited to prompt, run xorgwizard and set driver to nvidia 440
SUCCESS
downloaded nvidia 440, no problem, but...
later edit:nvidia-440.36_K4.19.23_x86_64.pet failed to install
it was only when I tried to download it from PPM that I got the warning about memory size... (quickpet gave no reason for failure)
resized, downloaded and installed correct (nvidia 440) driver
rebooted and exited to prompt, run xorgwizard and set driver to nvidia 440
SUCCESS
Last edited by bambuko on Sun 15 Mar 2020, 19:26, edited 4 times in total.