Thor & Odin still short on video drivers

[wilcal]

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

[ianw1974]

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.

[wilcal]

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.

[wilcal]

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.