<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">it's almost umbelivable, but it's in front of my eyes :-)<br>as i formerly wrote , i tried daily build 20110916 , and reported no changed behaviour, in my local console graphic crash..<br>
<br>yesterday i discovered the official 0.8 release :-) <br>
so i plugged keyb mice and monitor to my htpc , for the last disk cloning before new release,<br>forgot to enter the bios, Voyage started and...HEY, IT WORKS ! O_o<br><br>local console is no more crashing! <br>it ever stays into a real 80x25 text environment, never switch to simil-char graphic console, and i don't have /dev/fb0 anymore...<br>
<br>i don't exactly know what i did (except that all my attempts were reported here) i presume the attempt to install ATI driver, which crashed early for lack of an X server...<br><br>i will check with a fresh official 0.8 release :-)<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2011/9/16 Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:punkytse@punknix.com" target="_blank">punkytse@punknix.com</a>></span><br></div><div><div class="h5">
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Hi Marco,<br>
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I would recommend you to try out the daily MPD to see if the problem is resolved. If not, I will try if there are further work to do for this before 0.8.0 is released.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Punky<div><br>
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On 9/16/2011 12:32 AM, mad qwerty wrote:<br>
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Hi list, it's my first post here..<br>
1st of all, HUGE Thanks to Punky-tse and all contributors for this GREAT project :-)<br>
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i'm very rookie with Linux in general, so i anticipate my excuses,<br>
try to be more simple as possible, when helping me (thanks in advance)<br>
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I'm using Voyage MPD 0.7.5 onto an AMD E-350 platform (exactly this : <a href="http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_CPU_on_Board/E35M1I_DELUXE/" target="_blank">http://www.asus.com/<u></u>Motherboards/AMD_CPU_on_Board/<u></u>E35M1I_DELUXE/</a> )<br>
and had some tests on different notebooks, and VMware.<br>
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It seems that Voyage starts booting with a real 80x25-char text console, then, at a certain time, it changes the screen output into a graphic "simil-text" console (i read somewhere the correct name of this "simil-text" but i can't remember now)<br>
you can clearly see monitor going off for a while, then come back with a graphic "simil-text" behaviour, with more line & rows char width and length.<br>
<br>
This operation goes OK on older notebooks,<br>
but into an almost-modern HP EliteBook 6930p, and into my reference platform (AMD E350) this operation leads to a graphic failure,<br>
screen filled of random pixels, and there's no way to get local console resetting or working,<br>
i can't switch tty virtual consoles, nor "clear" or "clear_console" commands reset this crash.<br>
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SSH sessions via IP connection are available, as Voyage continues to boot without worries.<br>
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i searched info by googling the web :<br></div>
- similar problem here : <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.jp%2F%7Ett%2Fjournal%2F531820&act=url" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/<u></u>translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&<u></u>prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=<u></u>2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%<u></u>2Fslashdot.jp%2F~tt%2Fjournal%<u></u>2F531820&act=url</a> <<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.jp%2F%7Ett%2Fjournal%2F531820&act=url" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/<u></u>translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&<u></u>prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=<u></u>2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%<u></u>2Fslashdot.jp%2F%7Ett%<u></u>2Fjournal%2F531820&act=url</a>> but no solution provided (if i well understood the translation)<br>
- AMD driver doesn't install because it needs an X server ( <a href="http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=390&threadid=145785" target="_blank">http://forums.amd.com/forum/<u></u>messageview.cfm?catid=390&<u></u>threadid=145785</a> <<a href="http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=390&threadid=145785" target="_blank">http://forums.amd.com/forum/<u></u>messageview.cfm?catid=390&<u></u>threadid=145785</a>> )<div>
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- i tried installing "fbset" , and i was able to change /dev/fb0 width and height on working hardware, but no change or variations in not-working hardware<br>
- i tried vga=nnn parameter onto kernel row on /boot/grub/menu.lst, but it changes the behaviour only for the period from startup to the crash (change to "simil-text" console will always perform)<br>
<br>
can someone help me,<br>
is there a way to avoid this "simil-tex" switch, and remain into a real 80x25 text console,<br>
or where i can control and set this graphic "simil-text" behaviour ?<br>
<br>
another curious thing :<br>
if i take an image of the Voyage disk running with AMD E350, and restoring it into a virtual environment, the switch from real 80x25 text console to "simil-text" graphic console doesn't happen,<br>
and the virtual voyage doesn't have /dev/fb0 framebuffer! of course, also fbset won't work..<br>
it seems like VMware tells Voyage about a very basic video hardware, and Voyage responds with a very basic-default video driver, with no framebuffer support (and no graphic crash also)<br>
<br>
Can be a possibility to replicate / impose this use of a very basic-common video driver,<br>
also into my real E350 environment ?<br>
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Strong thanks in advance to all of you,<br>
best regards,<br>
Marco<br>
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