Re: [Morphix-devel] Man! This is awesome ! :)

[Alex de L. <al...@de...>]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 16:07 -0300, Gabriel wrote:
> Hi there folks !
> As much as I deal with morphix more excited I get !!! :)

Great :)

> I also noticed that (just to give a feedback):
>=20
> 1- Morphix loads "nv" driver instead of "nvidia", which makes Nvidia
> cards, starting from Geforce series, use only 640x480 or 800x600. Can we
> make morphix use nvidia driver from nvidia's site ?

Yes, actually the 'official' base releases usually contain an extra
minimodule. This module contains the nvidia driver, and swaps the nv
driver for it when found. As the nvidia driver is closed-source, it
won't end up into the autobuilt-base iso (and it's quite a pain to put
together :)

You could take a look at these minimodules (uncompress and figure out
from /morphix/loadmod.sh what they do :), the CVS might contain the
scripts too (/scripts-mini)

> 2- Morphix could not initialize a serial mouse on some machines even the
> mouse was configured on XF86Config generated by the liveCD.

Could you get me the /etc/sysconfig files for these machines? I've heard
similar reports before, probably an issue with our version of hwsetup...

> 3- On some machines, the liveCD only start by "Safe Mode" from the main
> boot screen. Any other option starts the system, loads the kernel and,
> just after initialising miniroot.gz the screen turns into black and the
> CD-Rom device is turned off ... computer freezes ...

Ouch. To figure out what is going wrong, see if you can narrow down the
options required to get these machines started. "Safe mode" is a
collection of grub parameters, in order to fix this we must know which
parameter makes the livecd work :)

cheers,

Alex

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