11-08-2024, 09:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-08-2024, 11:40 AM by Cactus2580.
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(10-30-2024, 03:11 PM)grindstone Wrote: Try passing xorg=fbdev
Sorry for the delay in response, been busy lately.
Just tried it.
Unfortunately, this did not work either!
I'm thinking it may just be something to do with the hardware not being compatible with whatever way the software is trying to display things, as I can't imagine something as tiny and driver-poor as KolibriOS having a driver for this relatively old netbook that a modern 700mb Linux would not. Maybe something due to the way the kernel was stripped for small size? Wonder if I can find a way to use xvesa instead of xorg, or if that would even make a difference. I can't say I've ever had the rainbow dance party screen on any distribution of any operating system I've used, ever. Really reminds one of where they're lacking in knowledge
The netbook as is doesn't get much use, so it's not that much of an issue, but my curiosity has gotten the best of me with this one. I'll look into other boot flags, I attempted to tell the bootloader to load a few different Kernels from the several other distributions installed concurrently on the hard drive, which returned a strange error or two and didn't boot. I'm used to being able to hot swap kernels with zero issues, but I'm thinking they might not work the way I think they do on the inside. Maybe I need to go revisit the Linux from scratch documentation!
Oh, also, used DSL2024.R7 as a rescue tool for a family member's very high spec gaming computer with MSI motherboard and all sorts of processing power and ram. It absolutely flew! 0% CPU use during most tasks, 1% on streaming video. Fixed the problem and got to teach them a little about Linux as a bonus! Strangely enough it reported only 4gb of RAM out of 32gb, 32bit limitation? Regardless, can't say enough good things about the new DSL so far. Very glad to see that the project has been brought back to life, so that people can continue to bring older equipment back to life for years to come!
Will update with failures and possible success! Doubt this will be a common problem for others but at least if it's documented it might help someone in the future.
Thanks for the help!
EDIT:
Have tried a number of boot flags, took a list from the AntiX/MX wiki, with zero luck thus far. Have noticed that using the F4 i915 invert option goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner but will go no further. As well, appending nomodeset to the boot flags has a result that -looks- like it would work, but hangs the same way. Tried various combinations, combining multiple graphics flags seems to result in the rainbow dance party every time. Did some reading on the AntiX forums, appears that aspire one netbooks are troublesome with graphics for certain series, and may require using an older kernel? I will look into this further, seems very strange that this particular distribution won't boot on this netbook when everything else I've tried on it will, but it is about 12-13 years old and I've heard the newest Linux kernel depreciated some things. No idea. The Acer aspire one ZG5 is 4 years older and still boots fine. It's a mystery? Will keep updating.
EDIT #2:
Used Slitaz to run inxi -Fx and discovered it to be using the AMD Radeon driver whilst functioning properly. Will look into this. XDRV= Radeon?