11-09-2024, 10:41 AM
Thank you so much for the info!
I managed to get the AntiX 23.2 runit image downloaded, tried to DD it to flash drive, actually bricked one. Other one I was barely able to revive? Honestly unsure. It'll boot into the bootloader for DSL2024 but picking the first boot option no longer heads into rainbow snow, just flashing cursor in top left. Other boot modes return snow as expected thus far.
Something I can say with certainty is that the netbook will run on a 6.x kernel, as I tested with tinycore 14. It also runs 5.1x kernels on 12 and 13. Obviously they're a bit different but if such tiny packages have the drivers/wiring required to operate the screen
. It also runs on Debian 12.7, albeit unusably slow. I believe that is the newest kernel.
Tiny core 14 uses xvesa, has zero issues. So maybe the issue is with Xorg? Will update more later tonight, still trying to wrangle the different flash drives into working. In older Linux distributions, choice between xorg and xvesa at boot menu was a simple flag, haven't been able to find one for DSL so far. Honestly stumped, especially as to how I managed to brick a flash drive entirely with the AntiX ISO and temporarily brick another as well. Hardware, am I right? 
Thanks again!
EDIT:
After much messing around, managed to get TinyCorePlus15 to boot up and run, using a 6.1.x ish kernel, the plus image having wireless support so that I could install inxi to compare outputs. Oddly enough, the inxi program there recognizes the graphics as the HD6290 yet names the driver as N/A. As for display options, it states TinyX Xvesa, driver: vesa. I believe you are right, and xorg may simply not support the 6000 series. So it's looking like I either need to tear into the DSL iso and reroll, or force use of Xvesa. Resolution will take a bit of a hit at 1024x600 but at least it would run?
Something to do with installing AntiX on the second flash drive definitely did something very strange to it, was able to halfway restore it, can install other images and boot from them successfully, yet the text displayed looks like something straight out of "The Matrix" and is unusable
I have no idea what the cause, brand new flash drive.
I am unsure if swapping the version of X.org and it's dependencies to an earlier version such as the 1.12.4 which was used by Slitaz would be an effective way of fixing the issue, or if that'll just end in dependency clobbering and breaking the whole system. Will attempt and see, possibly try an AntiX kernel from an earlier release, hopefully not lose any more flash drives in the process. I'm running out!
Will update. Thanks again for your time.
I managed to get the AntiX 23.2 runit image downloaded, tried to DD it to flash drive, actually bricked one. Other one I was barely able to revive? Honestly unsure. It'll boot into the bootloader for DSL2024 but picking the first boot option no longer heads into rainbow snow, just flashing cursor in top left. Other boot modes return snow as expected thus far.
Something I can say with certainty is that the netbook will run on a 6.x kernel, as I tested with tinycore 14. It also runs 5.1x kernels on 12 and 13. Obviously they're a bit different but if such tiny packages have the drivers/wiring required to operate the screen
. It also runs on Debian 12.7, albeit unusably slow. I believe that is the newest kernel. Tiny core 14 uses xvesa, has zero issues. So maybe the issue is with Xorg? Will update more later tonight, still trying to wrangle the different flash drives into working. In older Linux distributions, choice between xorg and xvesa at boot menu was a simple flag, haven't been able to find one for DSL so far. Honestly stumped, especially as to how I managed to brick a flash drive entirely with the AntiX ISO and temporarily brick another as well.
Hardware, am I right? Thanks again!
EDIT:
After much messing around, managed to get TinyCorePlus15 to boot up and run, using a 6.1.x ish kernel, the plus image having wireless support so that I could install inxi to compare outputs. Oddly enough, the inxi program there recognizes the graphics as the HD6290 yet names the driver as N/A. As for display options, it states TinyX Xvesa, driver: vesa. I believe you are right, and xorg may simply not support the 6000 series. So it's looking like I either need to tear into the DSL iso and reroll, or force use of Xvesa. Resolution will take a bit of a hit at 1024x600 but at least it would run?
Something to do with installing AntiX on the second flash drive definitely did something very strange to it, was able to halfway restore it, can install other images and boot from them successfully, yet the text displayed looks like something straight out of "The Matrix" and is unusable
I have no idea what the cause, brand new flash drive. I am unsure if swapping the version of X.org and it's dependencies to an earlier version such as the 1.12.4 which was used by Slitaz would be an effective way of fixing the issue, or if that'll just end in dependency clobbering and breaking the whole system. Will attempt and see, possibly try an AntiX kernel from an earlier release, hopefully not lose any more flash drives in the process. I'm running out!
Will update. Thanks again for your time.
Perfect. No, I'm not sure we can assume that its the same firmware in 23.2-core and in RC7 as John is doing a size-based balancing act to support as much as he can in a CD. They _might_ be the same for ATI/AMD but we don't know that yet until we look. I'm still new to this entire tree, myself, so I'm thinking how to get us a diff w/o having to do a frugal install of both a clean RC7 *and* clean 23.2-core. At the moment, I think we need to diff the package lists and find a way to do the same for relevant /usr/lib/firmware for the ATI/AMD GPU stuff.