[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

Tue Apr 9 11:06:06 CEST 2013

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
+Hash: SHA1
+
+On 08/04/13 20:48, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> On 04/08/2013 02:41 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+>> No, it doesn't.  When I ran XFdrake the test did display
+>> colours, though at a resolution I wouldn't want to work with :-)
+>> However, on reboot I still have a backlit black screen.
+>> 
+>> I'm sure you are on the right track.  It's not radeon, though,
+>> it's Intel 810 and later.  I see that listed in XFdrake, but if I
+>> try to use it I'm told that there are no screens.  Not sure what
+>> that means, though.
+>> 
+>> When booting into rescue, I saw several items listed as "Intel 
+>> Corporation:NM10/ICH7 Family" which sounds right to me.
+>> 
+>> So - I need Intel drivers (and firmware).  Can I use the same
+>> rescue processes to get the Internet working so that I can
+>> download them?
+>> 
+>> Odd, though, that even VESA didn't work.
+>> 
+>> 
+> Let me get this straight.  You ran XFdrake for VESA chrooted to
+> your root partition, got a decent test, and the real boot *still*
+> screws up ?  Weird.
+> 
+Yes, exactly that.
+
+> If you follow the process I gave, you should be able to start the 
+> network from within the chroot (provided you were able to start it
+> from the rescue boot), or else it should already be up.  You should
+> then be able to run urpmi from within the chroot to install the
+> firmware packages from nonfree.
+> 
+> You'll need at least kernel-firmware-nonfree.  Here's what else is
+> there:
+> 
+> [root at ftgme2 ftg]# cd /mnt/cauldron/x86_64/media/nonfree/release 
+> [root at ftgme2 release]# ls *firm* 
+> atmel-firmware-1.3-5.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm 
+> bluez-firmware-1.2-9.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm 
+> ipw2100-firmware-1.3-5.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm 
+> ipw2200-firmware-3.1-3.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm 
+> ivtv-firmware-20080701-1.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm 
+> kernel-firmware-nonfree-20130307-1.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm 
+> radeon-firmware-20120322-5.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm 
+> ralink-firmware-20130307-1.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm 
+> rtlwifi-firmware-20130307-1.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm 
+> speedtouch-firmware-0.1-10.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm
+> 
+> If that doesn't work, then it sounds like your TTY configuration
+> is screwed, and if that's the case, I'm tapped out.  Colin would
+> probably be the best one to ask what controls getty under systemd
+> and how it's configured.
+
+I'll try to get these, though in the light of what I saw a few minutes
+ago (see reply to David) I'm not sure that this is going to work.
+
+Anne
+-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
+Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)
+Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/
+
+iEYEARECAAYFAlFj2fwACgkQj93fyh4cnBd0NgCffE7eSBv4MOTORIIgiOazkaq5
+0HcAmQGJcYh2pKTwOBIyS1Syk4py0YpT
+=oh3Z
+-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
+