[Sobbing, wiping away tears] Installation question

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:06 am

try adding vga=771 at startup

czaba · Post by **czaba** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:34 am

Sorry, it doesn't help. I still have the same:
first have to press 'I' when appear

Welcome to Mandrakelinux 10.1 Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.

and then

zm login:>

I took a good look for displayed informations and noticed somethink like this

Error : Temporary failure in name resolution

Czaba

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 8:02 am

the only time i had had a live cd install not load x is when i have changed the gfx card on the machine. can you login from the prompt or does it kicjk you out. If you can login you can setup x from here (as long as you have fairly normal haerdware) but im guessing it will be easier to start again. I assume this is a fresh live cd install so there is nothing to lose? How did you set your partions?
James

czaba · Post by **czaba** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 8:50 am

I think I know what happened. My graphics adapter is PCI-Express. I logged in using root:qwerty. I started X and found error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(II) Primary Device is PCI 04:00:0
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:4:0:1) found
(EE) No devices detected.

I replaced graph adapter to simple PCI and everything looks nice.
Do you know what I should change in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to run with Radeon PCI-Express?

Czaba

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:27 am

christ no lol
sorry i have used zm live cd only with agp cards. The integrated ones based on the new sis chipset seem problematic but xorhg works fine with them I also have an agp radeon 7000 that works perfectly with live cd. I think your problem is that the live cd is based on an old kernel and ross is looking at updating it to allow new hardware to be supported. I want it updated to support the newer capture cards but i assume your problem is also related. I suppose pci x is not supported yet by live cd. Anyone else got any experience with pci x on love cd (i and o changed on pupose)

James

czaba · Post by **czaba** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:56 am

Thaks James,

You help me a lot

btw: I couldn't suppose my new computer will be too new for Linux

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:45 am

linux no it wont be too new for linux. Linux does lag behind in certain things but only cutting edge stuff. The problem is the kernel. (i think) from what i understand the drivers for all this hardware is part of the kernel. New kernels obviously support newer hardware. eg my gfx cards work fine under suse 9.3 but not fully under live cd. Due to the fact that ross has to make a live cd and his chosen distro is manrake/mandriva, us mere mortals are reliant upon him to give us new hardware support. If you try setting up zm the hard way ie using suse fc3/4 whatever you can have up to date hardware support. But basically it sounds to me your hardware is to new for live cd. you could try doenloading the suse live cd and see if it recognises all your hardware that way it will confirm to you that its not a ahrdware issue just an unsupported hardware issue.

BTW this is all theory on my part after playing wih linux for about 3 months now. I could as always be wrong.

Regards James