People,
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:32:28 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on June 12th [0].
No-one has been able to offer a solution to the boot problem for my Gateway LT30 netbook - I am still getting similar problems to the ones I got after the Beta and RCs XFCE Live CD version installs to HD - so I am reposting in the hope that someone will see it this time who has a solution.
Booting on the installed system hangs so I:
- boot to single user - OK
- "init 2" - OK
- "init 3" - OK
- "init 5" - Fails with "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does exist) - the same problem as the previous versions.
I want to try F15 on this machine (it currently runs F13) because F14 had a problem with a slow, sluggish mouse but I am not having much success with F15 either so far . .
Xorg.0.log attached and any suggestions about fixes or debugging appreciated . .
Regards,
Phil.
Hi Philip,
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
People,
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:32:28 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on June 12th [0].
No-one has been able to offer a solution to the boot problem for my Gateway LT30 netbook - I am still getting similar problems to the ones I got after the Beta and RCs XFCE Live CD version installs to HD - so I am reposting in the hope that someone will see it this time who has a solution.
Why don't you try preupgrade or yum upgrade? I upgraded from F13 to F15 without any problems. If you have more than 640 MB of RAM, either should work. If you have less RAM, yum upgrade is your option.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Preupgrade
Xorg.0.log attached and any suggestions about fixes or debugging appreciated . .
I could not figure out your graphics hardware from the log file. Do you know what it is? Is it something very new and unsupported by the open source drivers?
This should help you determine your graphics hardware:
$ lspci | grep -i vga
Philip Rhoades
suvayu,
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:21:18 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
Hi Philip,
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
People,
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:32:28 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on June 12th [0].
No-one has been able to offer a solution to the boot problem for my Gateway LT30 netbook - I am still getting similar problems to the ones I got after the Beta and RCs XFCE Live CD version installs to HD - so I am reposting in the hope that someone will see it this time who has a solution.
Why don't you try preupgrade or yum upgrade? I upgraded from F13 to F15 without any problems. If you have more than 640 MB of RAM, either should work. If you have less RAM, yum upgrade is your option.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Preupgrade
If it also failed, I would no usable partition (I am installing to a different partition).
Xorg.0.log attached and any suggestions about fixes or debugging appreciated . .
I could not figure out your graphics hardware from the log file. Do you know what it is? Is it something very new and unsupported by the open source drivers?
This should help you determine your graphics hardware:
$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07)
(It works fine with F13).
Thanks,
Phil.
Hello Philip,
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:31:52 +1100 Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
suvayu,
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:21:18 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
Hi Philip,
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
People,
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:32:28 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on June 12th [0].
No-one has been able to offer a solution to the boot problem for my Gateway LT30 netbook - I am still getting similar problems to the ones I got after the Beta and RCs XFCE Live CD version installs to HD - so I am reposting in the hope that someone will see it this time who has a solution.
Why don't you try preupgrade or yum upgrade? I upgraded from F13 to F15 without any problems. If you have more than 640 MB of RAM, either should work. If you have less RAM, yum upgrade is your option.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Preupgrade
If it also failed, I would no usable partition (I am installing to a different partition).
I guess in that case you are left with few other options. You can do a text mode installation. Did you try that? AFAIR, in earlier versions of Fedora you could select this option by passing "linux text" as an argument when booting the install medium. Not entirely sure its still available though. Note that it has limited partitioning abilities compared to the full feature installer.
The final but probably the most robust option would be to write a kickstart file and do a network based install. This might seem daunting, but it is rather easy to get a basic customised kickstart if you start from the kickstart files used by the Fedora live CDs.
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=tree
$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07)
That is one of those dreaded poulsbo chipsets! I am not sure whether they are unsupported or not. Since it works with F13, this might be a regression bug. I would say its worth filing a report on bugzilla.
(It works fine with F13).
Thanks,
Phil.
I hope the pointers above will get you started. GL.
On 06/24/2011 08:19 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:32:28 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on June 12th [0].
No-one has been able to offer a solution to the boot problem for my Gateway LT30 netbook - I am still getting similar problems to the ones I got after the Beta and RCs XFCE Live CD version installs to HD - so I am reposting in the hope that someone will see it this time who has a solution.
Booting on the installed system hangs so I:
boot to single user - OK
"init 2" - OK
"init 3" - OK
"init 5" - Fails with "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does
exist) - the same problem as the previous versions.
I want to try F15 on this machine (it currently runs F13) because F14 had a problem with a slow, sluggish mouse but I am not having much success with F15 either so far . .
Xorg.0.log attached and any suggestions about fixes or debugging appreciated . .
Regards,
Phil.
All I can offer is that I will try to boot the FC15 live and see what I can glean from it.
Philip Rhoades kirjoitti lauantai, 25. kesäkuuta 2011 06:19:58:
reposting in the hope that someone will see it this time who has
a
solution.
Booting on the installed system hangs so I:
boot to single user - OK
"init 2" - OK
"init 3" - OK
"init 5" - Fails with "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does
exist) - the same problem as the previous versions.
I want to try F15 on this machine (it currently runs F13)
because F14
had a problem with a slow, sluggish mouse but I am not having
much
success with F15 either so far . .
Xorg.0.log attached and any suggestions about fixes or
debugging
appreciated . .
Regards,
Phil.
I had quite similar situation. What I did, I booted into rescue mode, with network, chrooted /mnt/sysimage and run yum update, I quess, update brought some missing things, because after update I could boot into X. This Is wild quess... Think, no harm anyway...
Jarmo
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:19:58 +1100 Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
...snip...
- "init 5" - Fails with "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does
exist) - the same problem as the previous versions.
Thats actually a cosmetic thing and not the real error. ;)
I want to try F15 on this machine (it currently runs F13) because F14 had a problem with a slow, sluggish mouse but I am not having much success with F15 either so far . .
Xorg.0.log attached and any suggestions about fixes or debugging appreciated . .
Do you have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? whats in it? If you move it away does it start working?
Also, yeah, knowing the card would be helpful:
lspci | grep -i vga
kevin
Kevin,
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:09:42 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:19:58 +1100 Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
...snip...
- "init 5" - Fails with "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does
exist) - the same problem as the previous versions.
Thats actually a cosmetic thing and not the real error. ;)
Cosmetic?
I want to try F15 on this machine (it currently runs F13) because F14 had a problem with a slow, sluggish mouse but I am not having much success with F15 either so far . .
Xorg.0.log attached and any suggestions about fixes or debugging appreciated . .
Do you have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
No.
whats in it? If you move it away does it start working?
Also, yeah, knowing the card would be helpful:
lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07) (It is working fine with F13).
Thanks,
Phil.
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:33:46 +1100 Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
Kevin,
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:09:42 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:19:58 +1100 Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
...snip...
- "init 5" - Fails with "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does
exist) - the same problem as the previous versions.
Thats actually a cosmetic thing and not the real error. ;)
Cosmetic?
Everyone gets this message. it's a minor bug that doesn't affect it working or not. ;)
Do you have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
No.
ok
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07) (It is working fine with F13).
I'm very sorry. ;(
So, this is the video adapter that intel subcontraced out the writing of the driver for, and never open sourced it. ;(
You have 2 choices:
1) You can run in 'vesa' mode. It won't be great, but it should work at least. Boot the installed with 'linux xdriver=vesa' or choose 'basic video mode' at the boot up prompts from the media.
2) There's a repackaging of the binary only driver in rpmfusion. (rpmfusion.org). However, it doesn't exist for f15, so you would be stuck on an older release. ;(
Sorry.
kevin
On 27 June 2011 21:33, Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07) (It is working fine with F13).
While I can't offer you a solution (I've never used that Chipset), I can tell you that this is what the problem is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Controller_Hub http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA_500#GMA_500
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GMA 500 support on Linux is not optimal. The driver is developed by Tungsten Graphics, not by Intel, and the graphic core is not an Intel one, but is licensed from PowerVR. This has led to an uncertain mix of open and closed source 3d accelerated drivers, instability and lack of support. Ubuntu supports GMA500 (Poulsbo) through the ubuntu-mobile and gma500 repositories on Launchpad. Support is present for 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 and in an experimental way for 10.04 and 10.10, but the installation procedure is not as simple as other drivers and can lead to many bugs.[76] Joli OS, a Linux based OS optimized for netbooks, has a driver for the GMA500 built in. PixieLive, a GNU/Linux live distribution optimized for GMA500 netbooks, it can boot from USB Pendrive, SD Card or HardDisk. Intel releases official Linux drivers through the IEGD (Intel Embedded Graphic Driver) supporting some Linux distributions dedicated to the embedded market. GMA500 is capable of running well in Ubuntu 9.10 with Compiz visual effects activated.[77] In November 2009, the Linux Foundation released the details of a new, rewritten Linux driver that would support this chipset and Intel's other upcoming chipsets. The Direct Rendering Manager and X.org parts would be free software, but the 3D component (using Gallium3D) will still be proprietary.[78]
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Poulsbo doesn't have good support, because it's one of the few non-intel Intel-branded GPUs and it's not supported by the intel driver.
On 06/24/2011 08:19 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:32:28 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on June 12th [0].
No-one has been able to offer a solution to the boot problem for my Gateway LT30 netbook - I am still getting similar problems to the ones I got after the Beta and RCs XFCE Live CD version installs to HD - so I am reposting in the hope that someone will see it this time who has a solution.
Booting on the installed system hangs so I:
boot to single user - OK
"init 2" - OK
"init 3" - OK
"init 5" - Fails with "/dev/fb0" does not exist errors (it does
exist) - the same problem as the previous versions.
I want to try F15 on this machine (it currently runs F13) because F14 had a problem with a slow, sluggish mouse but I am not having much success with F15 either so far . .
Xorg.0.log attached and any suggestions about fixes or debugging appreciated . .
Regards,
Phil.
I finally got around to installing and booting F15. I had none of the problems you report about init level 5.
Cheers,
JD
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