yellow screen of failure
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Topic: yellow screen of failure
started by: gekkokid
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,10:07
i just get yellow vertical lines, the cd drive is getting a lot of accessing but nothing happens? i selected the lowest video options available under xvesait is my screen has fcuked up or should it be like this?
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,15:33
btw its a laptop with a 1mb neomagic card, i have installed the os onto my hd, creating 2 partitions - swap being 48MB, i have tried xsetup.sh and tried both xvesa and xfbdev but sadly all i get is this mess of vertical lines and pixels, i can see the gui underneath all this mess but not clear enough to make out anything except that their is a browser initialised, i hope this is not tooo confusing, as i tend to waffer on all the time and just cant stop myself, ooo 
help me plz
Posted by cbagger01 on April 02 2004,18:22
xfbdev should work if you were able to boot with a frame buffer (Little Penguin Icon in the upper left corner before text starts scrolling).xvesa probably won't work if your video card does not support the VESA 2.0 standard (probably true if the video card is older than 1993)
Good Luck.
Posted by Dan on April 02 2004,18:45
try fb800x600 at boot
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,19:14
just to clarify things - is boot at startup when i choose the partition i want to load? i.e. Linux or hda3 etc?
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,19:27
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| xfbdev should work if you were able to boot with a frame buffer (Little Penguin Icon in the upper left corner before text starts scrolling). |
Posted by Dan on April 02 2004,19:30
right when you get the boot promptAt 'boot:' type 'fb800x600'
So it looks like this:
'boot: fb800x
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If that works and you get the little penguin be sure to select xfbdev, not xvesa. 600'
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,19:34
can i put the command fb800x600 in some startup file so it executes? i am just not sure when boot is? lmaowhen i start my machine the only chance i get to enter anything is when i am asked for login by prompt.
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,19:35
cheers dan will try now
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,19:38
when i am prompted with boot:i entered fb800x600 and i got:
'No such image [tab] shows a list'
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,19:44
dan got it sorted i tried a fresh install and on boot prompt i enter in what u said and i got the lil'baby pengy thank you
Posted by Dan on April 02 2004,19:47
Oh, you already did a HD install! Then you have to edit your lilo.conf file so that it boots with the right vga options.Check out this thread:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....11;t=1; >
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,19:53
thanks again
Posted by Modrak on April 07 2004,23:06
boot:linux fb800x600
Posted by PhrozenFear on April 09 2004,07:02
You did the HD install, you say ? If so, then do the following:sudo vi /etc/lilo.conf
Now, on the very first line of that file, there should be something that says VGA=798 or something like that. Change that so it says VGA=789. Then quit out of that (:w!q) and then run the command lilo. That'll rebuild the lilo.conf file and the next time you boot, it'll work in 800x600x24bit.
Now, if you're doing it from the CD, then from the boot: prompt, type:
knoppix vga=789 (whatever other options you want)
They both do the same thing, but one's for booting from the HD, the other's from the CD.
Posted by gekkokid on April 12 2004,03:48
thanks no need to waste time anymore i gave up due to the pcmcia problems with not allowing me to do "make config" i am now using vectorlinux 4 - i would happliy come back to dsl - its small size is what i needed