[Voyage-linux] Voyage 0.8.5 linux - problem with video

[Mark Schlegel]

> Am Saturday 29 September 2012 03:01:17 schrieb Mark Schlegel:
>> I've made a mini-itx host based off an Intel D2500CCE board
>>(dual lans ports) and a M-350 case and pico-psu 80 Watt power supply.
>>I  installed Voyage 0.8.5 onto a 8GB CompactFlash card which talks to
>>the motherboard via a Syba CF to SATA adapter (ADA40001).  My target
 >>usage of this is to have it be a cups print server on the network. I 
want to use apt-get
 >> to install cups later on.
>>
>> But upon boot up the video always shows out of range after I get past
>> the grub screen even on my nice HP 2159M 22" LCD display showing:
>>
>> "1920x1080 60Hz out of range"
>>
>> I'm plugging the HP2159M into the VGA port on the motherboard.  The
>> HP2159M says it supports that res and refresh so it's surprising it >does this.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea why this happens?
>
> It may has to do with the new kernel mode setting.
> You can try the kernel parameter 'nomodeset'.
> You can also set the resolution manually with kernel parameter vga=[video
> mode]. As you run a print server the video resolution is not important.


I think I found the real reason, the Cedar View atom doesn't have a 
supported video set. It uses the GMA3600 which is PowerVR based. There 
was a news report that Intel just recently wrote a linux driver for this
so it should eventually be pulled into Voyage from Debian.