[Mageia-dev] tests beta2 live

Thu May 12 16:40:51 CEST 2011

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 21:38 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> On 02.05.2011 13:53, Alberto Girlando wrote:
+> > 3) MSI notebook, Intel i7, NVidia GE force GTX 425
+> >    Here the live does not boot, it stops at the moment
+> >    of showing the language choice. I had problems
+> >    also in the installation of mandriva. However,
+> >    there I could get system starting in VESA.
+> >    With other live distro (Ubuntu-based) I could get
+> >    the system working imposing -xforcevesa at startup.
+> >    With mageia this trick does not work.
+> 
+> I can't comment on the actual issue without /var/log/Xorg.0.log and
+> dmesg, but on Mageia livecd you can force vesa with boot option
+> xdriver=vesa
+> 
+
+I was using a live edition, the computer is not
+in my exclusive use. So when the system was
+freezing at boot, there was no way to access
+the info. But with your suggestion I was able
+to boot with X-windows. From the experience
+with Mandriva, good operating conditions can
+be otained once I install the Nvidia
+proprietary drivers (again, I could not make this test
+on the live). Maybe the suggestion xdriver=vesa can
+be put in the help screen.
+
+The live version works well on another old netbook,
+Asus M3000Np (celeron, Intel 810 video). Since
+Mandriva 2009, this computer started to give problems
+with the graphic driver: after a short period in X-window,
+the system, or better, X, was freezing. I could avoid this
+if before entering as user, I put the computer in sleep mode.
+Very strange. I also called for a bug, but since the problem was
+so singular, no one addressed it in mandriva. With the live
+version everything is OK.
+
+Alberto
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