[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd Digest, Vol 64, Issue 2

Wed Aug 11 19:01:06 UTC 2010

I have removed Fedora from ny pc. My clients would find it harder to use than the Kubunto I have currently installed.  That may not make since because the interface is the same; the restrictions on Internet access that are inherent and the SSL Load requirements that are automatic make a Crash reinstall much more easily accomplished with Kubunto.  I have over 500 clients with various Operating Systems and the Fedora Project just lost the opportunity of servicing.
Jerry BabioneCo-Founder, Just Plain Folks Organization, Inc.

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Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 11:24 AM

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Today's Topics:

   1. How to include firefox addons in livecd? (Arun SAG)
   2. Re: How to include firefox addons in livecd? (Mads Kiilerich)
   3. no more git.fedoraproject.org   ? (Marc Herbert)
   4. Backporting livecd-tools to f13? (Bruno Wolff III)
   5. Re: Backporting livecd-tools to f13? (Jasper Hartline)
   6. [PATCH] Fixed buggy [[ "$DEV" =~ "/dev/loop*" ]] tests with
      new isdevloop() function (Marc Herbert)
   7. Re: [PATCH] Fixed buggy [[ "$DEV" =~ "/dev/loop*" ]] tests
      with new isdevloop() function (Marc Herbert)
   8. xforcevesa? (Marc Herbert)
   9. Re: xforcevesa? (Jasper Hartline)
  10. Re: xforcevesa? (Marc Herbert)
  11. Re: xforcevesa? (Jasper Hartline)
  12. Extlinux has no Ext4 support,    nor BTRFS - What about Grub?
      (Jasper Hartline)
  13. Re: xforcevesa? (Marc Herbert)
  14. Re: xforcevesa? (Jasper Hartline)
  15. Re: UDF filesystem for the ISO image? (Marc Herbert)
  16. Fedora is going away in my Office. I'll use    Ubunto.
      (Jerry Babione)
  17. Re: Fedora is going away in my Office. I'll use    Ubunto.
      (Scott Dowdle)
  18. Request to maintainer to commit these patches (Jasper Hartline)
  19. Extlinux has no Ext4 support,    nor BTRFS - What about Grub?
      (Jasper Hartline)
  20. Re: xforcevesa? (Mads Kiilerich)
  21. Re: xforcevesa? (Thorsten Leemhuis)
  22. Re: Request to maintainer to commit these patches
      (Bruno Wolff III)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:14:15 +0530
From: Arun SAG <sagarun at gmail.com>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] How to include firefox addons in livecd?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
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    <AANLkTik4Eujj5fufF1L00_KihfE5C-vyAE7NQbitHWyw at mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,

Is there any way to add some useful Firefox addon's into live cd? Do i have
to create rpm of each and every addon?

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:15:41 +0200
From: Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] How to include firefox addons in
    livecd?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
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On 08/03/2010 08:44 AM, Arun SAG wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to add some useful Firefox addon's into live cd? Do i
> have to create rpm of each and every addon?

That is how I prefer to do it.

You can also just manually copy /usr/lib/mozilla/extensions in a 
nochroot section.

/Mads


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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:52:17 +0100
From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] no more git.fedoraproject.org   ?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <i39af1$2jp$1 at dough.gmane.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hi,

 Until not so long ago, it was possible to get the source code using
the DNS name "git.fedoraproject.org" as explained here:

 <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD#Finding_the_Code>


Not any more today:

host  git.fedoraproject.org. ns1.fedoraproject.org.

   =>    Host git.fedoraproject.org. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)


If this loss is permanent then please fix the wiki page?


Cheers,

Marc


Note: I could fix my old checkouts like this:
 git remote set-url origin git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/livecd



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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:16:27 -0500
From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Backporting livecd-tools to f13?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <20100803151627.GF10972 at wolff.to>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I was asked to get 033 into f13. Since Iam on vacation now and I
think we'll be doing another path rollup in a few weeks I'd rather
wait for that before doing this.
Besides the timing, there is the issue of what we want to backport. The
easiest is to just do an f13 build of the same source. At this point
I don't think there is a problem with that. (If lzma were to become the
default for f14, we wouldn't that in f13.) But we also have the option
to cherry pick stuff.

What are people's views on this?

(Don't be surprised if I don't add much to this conversation until after
I get back next week.)


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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:44:34 -0700
From: Jasper Hartline <jasper.hartline at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Backporting livecd-tools to f13?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID:
    <AANLkTikBCp8Ufm2Q=ci-N6L_0gzb_cfo3S950=_n_4HN at mail.gmail.com>
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I'd be mostly interested in the update to 033-3 to allow people using
Fedora 13 hosts to build
Live media of RAWHIDE/F14a from RAWHIDE or F14 TC1 repositories, and so on.


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> I was asked to get 033 into f13.
> Besides the timing, there is the issue of what we want to backport. The
> easiest is to just do an f13 build of the same source. At this point
> I don't think there is a problem with that.


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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:12:21 +0100
From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Fixed buggy [[ "$DEV" =~
    "/dev/loop*" ]] tests with new isdevloop() function
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <4C583FE5.6060007 at gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15

This was accidentally working in old bash versions, not anymore in
Fedora 13's bash 4.1.7. Now using proper prefix matching instead of
the previous regex matching disguised as pattern matching.


---
 tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh |   13 +++++++++----
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
index f4d0855..846fa73 100755
--- a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
+++ b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
@@ -39,10 +39,15 @@ exitclean() {
     exit 1
 }
 
+isdevloop()
+{
+    [ x"${1#/dev/loop}" != x"$1" ]
+}
+
 getdisk() {
     DEV=$1
 
-    if [[ "$DEV" =~ "/dev/loop*" ]]; then
+    if isdevloop "$DEV"; then
        device="$DEV"
        return
     fi
@@ -65,7 +70,7 @@ getdisk() {
 }
 
 resetMBR() {
-    if [[ "$DEV" =~ "/dev/loop*" ]]; then
+    if isdevloop "$DEV"; then
        return
     fi
     getdisk $1
@@ -94,7 +99,7 @@ resetMBR() {
 }
 
 checkMBR() {
-    if [[ "$DEV" =~ "/dev/loop*" ]]; then
+    if isdevloop "$DEV"; then
        return 0
     fi
     getdisk $1
@@ -124,7 +129,7 @@ checkPartActive() {
     if [ "$dev" = "$device" ]; then
     return
     fi
-    if [[ "$dev" =~ "/dev/loop*" ]]; then
+    if isdevloop "$dev"; then
         return
     fi
 
-- 
1.7.2




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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:36 +0100
From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Fixed buggy [[ "$DEV" =~
    "/dev/loop*" ]] tests with new isdevloop() function
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <i3bh4s$uqs$1 at dough.gmane.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Le 03/08/2010 17:12, Marc Herbert a ?crit :
> This was accidentally working in old bash versions, not anymore in
> Fedora 13's bash 4.1.7. Now using proper prefix matching instead of
> the previous regex matching disguised as pattern matching.

This broke due to a documented change in bash. More details here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/15080

Or better: do not bother reading and avoid advanced, non-portable
and evolving bash features when basic features are enough (= apply my
patch).


Note: even without considering this change in bash, the previous code was
confusing patterns and regular expressions and working by chance.




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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:13:10 +0100
From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] xforcevesa?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <i3bshm$a50$1 at dough.gmane.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8


Hi,

 Is there a Fedora equivalent to the "xforcevesa" boot parameter?

If there is none I will probably need some day to port the Ubuntu
one. Would this of interest to Fedora?

Regards,

Marc



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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 08:35:48 -0700
From: Jasper Hartline <jasper.hartline at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] xforcevesa?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID:
    <AANLkTikptyWKUtf-Z2ABanpe4dx4AD2zj6S8q8cHo1pQ at mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> ?Is there a Fedora equivalent to the "xforcevesa" boot parameter?

Anaconda has xdriver where you can specify VESA, e.g. xdriver=vesa


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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:59:38 +0100
From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] xforcevesa?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <i3c69r$hre$1 at dough.gmane.org>
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Le 04/08/2010 16:35, Jasper Hartline a ?crit :
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  Is there a Fedora equivalent to the "xforcevesa" boot parameter?
> 
> Anaconda has xdriver where you can specify VESA, e.g. xdriver=vesa

Thanks Jasper,

 I am actually only interested in the liveCD where "xdriver" does not seem
to be implemented.

How hard would it be to port xdriver from the installer? Easier than
Ubuntu's xforcevesa I guess?

Cheers,

Marc




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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:07:11 -0700
From: Jasper Hartline <jasper.hartline at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] xforcevesa?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID:
    <AANLkTin6kG6z7PqC+v9u_YOVTFFzQ=SffQmuoiGEncGh at mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> ?I am actually only interested in the liveCD where "xdriver" does not seem
> to be implemented.
>
> How hard would it be to port xdriver from the installer? Easier than
> Ubuntu's xforcevesa I guess?

vga=ask or vga=<code> are kernel VESA BIOS modes that you can use on
the livecds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers

I am not sure what xforcevesa does really so I am not sure if it is an
equivalent
or can be ported. The above would work on any 2.6 kernel presumably.


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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 21:21:05 -0700
From: Jasper Hartline <jasper.hartline at gmail.com>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Extlinux has no Ext4 support,    nor BTRFS
    - What about Grub?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID:
    <AANLkTikK-og=igw8RhU_0c0fHkVLmC5efCYOJp6CH+T0 at mail.gmail.com>
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Anyone have any idea how to handle this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563527

I would like to hear some ideas, especially from the current active
project lead.
It seems May of 2009 is the last time this repository was committed to:
http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/liu/devel.git;a=summary

Which from what I can tell is the head of where Extlinux will support Ext4.
Seems stale.

Have we thought about going ahead and using Grub instead?
We can't ignore this.


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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:14:13 +0100
From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] xforcevesa?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Cc: Jasper Hartline
    <public-jasper.hartline-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at lo.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4C5AAB15.7050403 at gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

> vga=ask or vga=<code> are kernel VESA BIOS modes that you can use on
> the livecds.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers

I think these are ignored by Xorg.


>>  Is there a Fedora equivalent to the "xforcevesa" boot parameter?
> 
> Anaconda has xdriver where you can specify VESA, e.g. xdriver=vesa
> [...]
> I am not sure what xforcevesa does really 


"xforcevesa" forces Xorg to use the VESA driver. Please note and
admire the unusual feat of a terse boot paramater doing exactly what
its name says. You would typically combine this with "nomodeset"

<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions#Installer options (user-land)>

The main visible effect of xforcevesa is to simply generate a dummy
xorg.conf file with a "Driver vesa" line. This happens early, even
when booting in single user mode. Dunno about the rest, if any.

xforcevesa is (part of?) what Ubuntu calls "Safe Graphics Mode",
codenamed https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BulletProofX. Google will find a lot
of pages about it.

xforcevesa applies to (Ubuntu) live images (unlike xdriver=vesa? Disappointing)

Would "Fedora live" have any interest in such a feature? It looks very useful
to me. Especially since Intel increased "commitment" in Xorg.



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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 06:54:38 -0700
From: Jasper Hartline <jasper.hartline at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] xforcevesa?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID:
    <AANLkTimF=4t+qKxpw=tpVcrN3-HDUwx5M=NFRwq=WVQ7 at mail.gmail.com>
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When I said I am not sure what it does, I was referring to it's actual
operations.
Not it's purpose. What software does and it's purpose are sometimes
two different things.
Look at bugs as a good example.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am not sure what xforcevesa does really
>
>
> "xforcevesa" forces Xorg to use the VESA driver. Please note and
> admire the unusual feat of a terse boot paramater doing exactly what
> its name says. You would typically combine this with "nomodeset"


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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:26:31 +0100
From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] UDF filesystem for the ISO image?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <i3el78$e8j$1 at dough.gmane.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Le 30/07/2010 17:51, Bruno Wolff III a ?crit :
>> Now here is the crazy idea: would it be feasible to get the best of
>> both worlds by switching to a read-write filesystem like UDF for
>> instance?
> 
> The os image is imbedded in a squashfs image so you are still stuff with
> read only for that part.

It's OK, I am only interested in writing to the "root" filesystem.


> UDF actually gets used for images over 4 GiB instead of iso8660.

Great, thanks for the tip. I forced UDF unconditionally in live.py
and then hit this problem:
       UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount

Then I found this in "man mkisofs":
       "UDF support is currently in alpha status"

The following quote looks like a good summary:
 http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2006-February/006504.html
       "With mkisofs, I cannot write; with mkudffs, I apparently cannot
        boot. Or is there a way out?




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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:44:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerry Babione <jerry.babione at att.net>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora is going away in my Office. I'll
    use    Ubunto.
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <977561.77750.qm at web83713.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Locking out the places other than Fedora Project links in the initial load is insane. You have to use another PC to get Email including those from the project.? Thanks but no thanks Fedora.
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Message: 17
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 23:40:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora is going away in my Office.
    I'll use    Ubunto.
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID:
    <7040843.68.1281066059021.JavaMail.root at mail.montanalinux.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> Locking out the places other than Fedora Project links in the initial
> load is insane. You have to use another PC to get Email including
> those from the project. Thanks but no thanks Fedora.

Oh, if it were only true... if I could just ignore your post and let you wonder off into Ubuntu paradise.  But no... I have to ask you what you are talking about.  So, what *ARE* you talking about?

I'm thinking I really don't want to know.

TYL,
-- 
Scott Dowdle
704 Church Street
Belgrade, MT 59714
(406)388-0827 [home]
(406)994-3931 [work]


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Message: 18
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 03:46:07 -0700
From: Jasper Hartline <jasper.hartline at gmail.com>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Request to maintainer to commit these
    patches
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID:
    <AANLkTi=S-juED9SFH-L9=PaYLyYPxkv324BNY08C6_t0 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hello. Here are two patches which I think could be committed, if
anyone wants to pull git
and patch it up with them and send ACK or failure I think it will help
in speeding up the process for the current maintainers
to be able to commit these changes along with gzip.patch which Bruno
said will be included in the next rollup
of livecd-creator. Bruno, your thoughts?

Here are two that look like they could go in (including gzip.patch
which is already in the SRPM):

BUG: SELinux Bug #519709
PATCH: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=436610&action=diff&context=patch&collapsed=&headers=1&format=raw
RELATED: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575424


BUG: Enable use of NETINST ISO when doing ISO to DISK patch Bug #604942
PATCH: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=424664&action=diff&context=patch&collapsed=&headers=1&format=raw


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Message: 19
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 05:27:35 -0700
From: Jasper Hartline <jasper.hartline at gmail.com>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Extlinux has no Ext4 support,    nor BTRFS
    - What about Grub?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID:
    <AANLkTimotZuAr6XqaFnaKbWskuU5cOFF2Fxst_hyt+ky at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Nevermind.
syslinux 4.02 for F-14 is being built and will make it into F14 most likely.
This will allow us to apply the patches for RFE:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563527


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Message: 20
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:12:49 +0200
From: Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] xforcevesa?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Cc: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4C5EF3A1.9070204 at kiilerich.com>
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  Marc Herbert wrote, On 08/04/2010 06:59 PM:
> Le 04/08/2010 16:35, Jasper Hartline a ?crit :
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Marc Herbert<Marc.Herbert-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   Is there a Fedora equivalent to the "xforcevesa" boot parameter?
>> Anaconda has xdriver where you can specify VESA, e.g. xdriver=vesa
> Thanks Jasper,
>
>   I am actually only interested in the liveCD where "xdriver" does not seem
> to be implemented.
>
> How hard would it be to port xdriver from the installer? Easier than
> Ubuntu's xforcevesa I guess?

I guess that should be a general Fedora feature? Something that 
overrules the automatic driver detection based on the rules in 
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/ ?

How and where is xforcevesa implemented?

/Mads



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Message: 21
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:00:46 +0200
From: Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] xforcevesa?
To: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <4C600A0E.4000101 at leemhuis.info>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Mads Kiilerich wrote on 08.08.2010 20:12:
> [...]
> I guess that should be a general Fedora feature?

In case anybody is interested: I was in the need to foce Vesa in the
past and added below *hack* to a kickstart file somewhere in the
fedora-live-base.ks section between
|cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late << EOF
and
|EOF
to make "xdriver=vesa" work on the livecd.

CU
knurd

P.S.: Yes, it has bugs (hardcoded german keyboard and only works with
"vesa"), that's why I called it a hack earlier ;-)

"""
# configure X, allowing user to override xdriver
if [ "\$xdriver" == "vesa" ]; then
  cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf <<FOE
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by system-config-display
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "\$xdriver"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "Monitor0"
    HorizSync    30-69
    VertRefresh  60-75
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Videocard0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection
FOE
fi
"""


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Message: 22
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:24:14 -0500
From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Request to maintainer to commit
    these patches
To: Jasper Hartline <jasper.hartline at gmail.com>
Cc: livecd at lists.fedoraproject.org
Message-ID: <20100811162414.GA14195 at wolff.to>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 03:46:07 -0700,
  Jasper Hartline <jasper.hartline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. Here are two patches which I think could be committed, if
> anyone wants to pull git

I'll take a look over the weekend. I am still catching up and managed to get
sick after getting back.

We definitely could use another committer or two. (In addition to a lot
more reviewers.)


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