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

Wed Apr 10 11:06:12 CEST 2013

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+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.
+> 
+> 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 went through the following steps again:
+1) Boot the rescue system
+2) drvinst
+3) mount your root as /mnt
+4) do a "mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
+5) do a "chroot /mnt"
+6) do a "mount -t proc none /proc"
+7) do a "mount -t sysfs none /sys"
+8) do "XFdrake"
+9) choose the x11 VESA or VGA driver (way down at bottom of list)
+
+except that this time I chose the Other:VESA (generic) driver.  On
+closing XFdrake I got
+
+ioctl EVIOCGBIT failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
+
+Is this to be expected?  Anyway, on reboot it was exactly the same as
+before.
+
+Starting afresh, I followed the steps up to running XFdrake (but not
+running XFdrake yet).  I tried 'ifup eth0' but 'Running in chroot.
+Ignoring request'.  After "exit" this changed to "Running in chroot.
+ignoring request. ./network-functions: line 260: cd:
+/var/run/netreport: No such file or directory.
+
+Incidentally, how do you reboot or shutdown when in chroot - and/or
+how do you reverse the chroot?
+
+So - I'm back in console, without running any of the steps yet.  Can
+you give me the command to add the non-free source and tell me how to
+get eth0 working?
+
+Anne
+
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