Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL6.0-SOHO-A1.33

[Newt <gen...@gm...>]

Hello M0E and all,

'gui 2' gets me access to the shell prior to X starting which is what I've wanted
to do - thanks M0E. It doesn't seem like the 'nv' driver is built into the initrd
(X would not start), but 'fbdev' is and it works for this card. I will clean up
some space on one of this systems hard drives and probably attempt the install
later tonight. Thanks again for the 'gui 2' option.

Just thinking out loud here: I'm certain someone else will run into a similar
problem. I wonder, is there some kind of easy solution that would allow a user to
start X using different drivers, if needed, without having to manually edit files
and start X. I'm thinking of some kind of basic script that could be run which
would start X using a different graphics driver (e.g. ./gui-fbdev.sh,
./gui-vesa.sh, ./gui-nv.sh), and those scripts would execute the 'Xorg' binary
using a predefined xorg.conf file (e.g. xorg.conf-fbdev, xorg.conf-vesa, or
xorg.conf-nv, respectively). The scripts could be held in /root such that if a
user needed to use them they could 'gui 2', login as 'root', and run the script
directly - and away they go with the installer.

Cheers, newt

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 12:12:20 PM, you wrote:

ML> @ Newt

ML> Try booting the CD or ISO into text mode by parsing these arguments at boot time

ML> "gui 2"

ML> Without quotes.

ML> Log in as root, and look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see which driver is
ML> being used for X
ML> I wonder if we have the "nv" driver built into the initrd... you might try that.