wilcal Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Following my post in Cooker-snapshot of MDV 2007 available It appears that the initial two releases of 2007 are still short on video drivers. Specifically for ATI and Intel. Seems to me this was the case in the first releases I saw in 2006 in July 05. It took several releases to get all that in there. So when I boot mandriva-one-2007-thor-gnome.i586.iso mandriva-one-2007-odin-gnome.i586.iso It goes through the normal process and screens till it gets to the Y/N GMT time then disconnects from the terminal ( no video driver? ). I've seen some posts in qa.mandriva.com that refer to all of this. :-(( Unfortunately both of my test platforms use either ATI or Intel embedded video boards. Is there any way in the boot sequence for these early snapshots to tell it to just use a generic 1024x960, 800x600 or something? Or I'll just have to wait for the next release and see. Both of my test platforms run 2006, 2005 LE and even older versions of Mandriva/Mandrake just fine. I use removable modular hard drives. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 From what I remember, if you press F1 at the main screen, you can type something like: linux vesa or vga or something to limit the graphics capabilities. You'd have to check the options available on the CD for sure, but they are there. Or at least on a 2006 install CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted August 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 From what I remember, if you press F1 at the main screen, you can type something like: linux vesa or vga or something to limit the graphics capabilities. You'd have to check the options available on the CD for sure, but they are there. Or at least on a 2006 install CD. Kool....thanks bunches....I'll give that a try. Or at least on a 2006 install CD. If you remember the 2006 Cooker was a 3-disk set so lots of room for stuff like video drivers. I'm sure as we get along here they'll build them into "One" or build something in there to download specific drivers. I am still sold on this single Live-CD as against the 3, 4 or even 5 disk set. Same as Ubuntu is doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted August 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 you can type something like: linux vesa or vga or something to limit the graphics capabilities. It's running for me now What worked was: live vga=1024x768 I found another little wrinkle in there in that when asked to set up the time there are two tick boxes and if you don't tick either it crashes. The Evolution 3D effects are great. I've already found a couple more wrinkles and will be in Bugzilla with those. I was able to successfully install it to a HD and successfully used the native partition mananger to set up Swap and ext3 partitions. And that to a HD that was completely Zero's. More to come I'm sure. One is soooooooooo much easier to deal with then the old 3 disk stack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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