[wellylug] CCUX install stops at "vesafb"

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2005 08:13, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> 
>>Pete Black wrote:
>>
>>>It sounds more like the problem is that the videocard in your machine is
>>>either non-vesa compliant, or chokes on the default vesa framebuffer
>>>mode.
>>>
>>>try appending the 'vga=ask' argument to the kernel and see if you can
>>>select a mode that works.
>>
>>I'm very new to linux and know nothing about this - I guess google is my
>>friend ...
> 
> 
> I don't use CCUX, but I believe I remember you saying it boots with grub.
> 
> When the boot menu appears, press 'e' for edit.
> Use the arrow keys to highlight the line with the 'kernel' entry.  Press 'e' 
> for edit.
> Go to the end of that line, and space then type in the 'vga=ask' bit (without 
> the ' characters).  An alternative if that doesn't satisfy is to use 
> 'vga=scan' the next try.
> Press 'Esc' to stop editing.
> Press 'b' to boot on the modified entry.
> 
> Depending on what's wrong, 'scan' may provide you with a list of valid modes 
> to choose from.  'ask' may work for you - try first one then the other - it 
> might make it workable, and no matter what happens, it's more information for 
> someone to help you with.
> 
> If CCUX boots with Lilo, I believe you would just wait for the 'boot:' prompt, 
> then enter 'vga=ask' or 'vga=scan' and press Enter.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bret
> 
> 
>>>it's also conceivable that framebuffer would work on your machine given
>>>the appropriate video= driver appended to the kernel, but the correct
>>>args are hardware dependent and can be tricky as hell.
>>>
>>>I have had very similar issues on macs installing PPC Linux, where
>>>framebuffer is mandatory as well. Sorting it out can be an exercise in
>>>frustration, and it is unforutnate that your hardware simply seems to be
>>>incompatible with CCUX's requirements.
>>>
>>>-Pete
>>
>>Guess there's plenty of other distros out there to play with :-)
>>
>>
>>--
>>Rosemary
>>
>>Registered Linux User # 386597  http://counter.li.org
>>"A friend may well be a masterpiece of nature".  Emerson
Thanks for the tips.  I'm hoping to buy a secondhand computer this week, 
for messing about with linux, so will wait until then I think.  I did 
try the "vesa=ask" option, but got sick of booting :-)  It spoils my 'up 
time' on gkrellm :-).
Thanks anyway
Rosemary

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Rosemary

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