Re: [GParted-Devel] GParted 0.30.0 is planned for Release on Oct. 10, 2017

[Curtis G. <ge...@gm...>]

Hi Steven,

Thank you for confirming the issue with X failing to start on Acer
Aspire One laptops with Intel GMA 950 graphics.

Fortunately I am able to work around the problem with the following choices:

  At boot screen select:

    Other modes of GParted Live
      -> GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga=normal)

Hopefully this minor issue will be resolved before we make the official
GParted Live release next week.  Otherwise I can add a note to the
GParted Live announcement for this older display card.

Curtis

On 2017-10-05 08:56 PM, Steven Shiau wrote:
> Hi Curtis,
> 
> I have tested GParted live 0.30.0-beta1-1 on my Acer Aspire One, and
> yes, same problem. The X failed to start due to it crashed. However, the
> same version worked on my IBM thinkpad X61 which also uses Intel VGA
> card. Therefore apparently only some specific hardware has this issue.
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
> On 10/6/2017 AM 01:45, Curtis Gedak wrote:
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> Thank you for the new GParted Live image.  I noticed you compiled it
>> with the previous options and included the same patches.  :-)  Thanks
>> for doing this.
>>
>>
>> I tested gparted-live-0.30.0-beta1-1-i686.iso and it worked correctly on
>> all my computers, except one.
>>
>>
>> NAME   MOTHERBOARD            PROCESSOR                         RAM
>> ----   --------------------   -------------------------------   ------
>> acer   Acer Aspire One Netbk  Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz             1 GB
>>
>>     CD/DVD DRIVE                       VIDEO CARD
>>     --------------------------------   ---------------------------
>>     None                               Intel GMA 950
>>
>>
>> On my Acer Aspire One netbook, the image booted and accepted my
>> responses for keyboard, language, and display.  After that it failed to
>> bring up the desktop and remained at a black and white screen with the
>> following last two lines on the display:
>>
>>    Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
>>    permitted by applicable law.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you test to see if you encounter difficulty with booting on older
>> Intel graphics hardware?
>>
>>
>> If you need more details then please feel free to ask.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Curtis