0.63 feedbackForum: User Feedback Topic: 0.63 feedback started by: Delboy Posted by Delboy on April 21 2004,10:11
(old notebook 12.5" tft with pesky Neomagic video chip).Tried 0.63 but went back to 0.62 because hdinstall (standard) does not seem to reboot properly after Mklilo installation - seems to hang. As a result, my fb800x600 video setting set at live boot is not remembered as 'previous settings' and the hdinstall reboot defaults to an unuseable vesa setting. I know this can be corrected by editing the lilo file but it is a shame as it was so simple before with 0.62: Boot disk in, 'fb800x800' live boot parameter, hdinstall and liloinstall, proper reboot straight to correct previous video settings - done. Otherwise: new ABS setting is fine - useable at last. Posted by roberts on April 21 2004,16:48
Delboy, yes, you found a bug. The easy work around is:boot: dsl vga=788 That is the same as fb800x600 Thanks for reporting this. Posted by Delboy on April 22 2004,22:29
It worked - thanks. I thought I might have to enter that at every boot with v0.63 but I only had to enter it once at the first live boot - setting was remembered after that following hdinstall.Unlike v0.62 though, I seem to be missing the box login stage from the boot sequence. On first reboot after hdinstall I entered the requested passwords but on subsequent reboots boxlogin is bypassed straight to desktop. everything else seems fine otherwise. Posted by roberts on April 22 2004,22:59
The "box login" is now an option. Way back, DSL use to boot directly into X after the hard drive install. Then users requested multiple user logins. Like a more traditional hard drive installed system . So we changed it. That is the "box login" as you call it. Then some users wanted direct login again. So, we decided to give users a choice. During the hard drive install, you are prompted for "multi user logins?" If you press 'y' then you will have the "box logon" prompt. Pressing anything other than y will make the system boot directly to X desktop as user damnsmall.
Posted by loupgarou21 on April 26 2004,18:26
I for one am extremely happy you decided to give the option of multiple users or direct login, I like the multiple users approach myself, but I can understand why some people would want the direct login. In fact I would be even more happy if I had the option of when I log in it not even starting x right away, but I'm probably in the minority on that one.
Posted by roberts on April 26 2004,20:07
You can always remove the startx command from the .bash_profile. This works for both hard drive and liveCD. Of course with the liveCD, you would have to add /home/damnsmall/.bash_profile to your filetool.lst and use the backup/restore features.
Posted by loupgarou21 on May 06 2004,18:24
I could do that, but then what fault could I find with dsl?
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