New subject: [opensuse-factory] Insatllation on Geode systems

28 Apr 2010


      On 27/04/10 23:16, James Mason wrote:
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Richard (MQ)  wrote:
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I've been having lots of problems installing the 11.3 milestones on a
Geode based Panel PC. This is a reasonably recent machine (purchased
2008) albeit low spec - 500MHz CPU, 1G RAM and 8G CF card. Built-in WiFi
and Bluetooth, though the vt6655 module for these seems very buggy
(#597299).
The latest issue I'm facing is that the display auto-configuration gets
it wrong - the text during boot is legible (mode 0x315, display is
800x600 native) but later splits to two different (but possibly related)
problems:
Text consoles (Control-Alt-F1 etc) show just a mass of near-random
colours, like my old Sinclair spectrum did when it overheated. However,
the system hasn't crashed:
Control-Alt-F7 takes me to XFCE (lightweight desktop) which runs OK,
except that the display resolution seems wrong and the title bar of each
window is corrupt.
Looking at /var/log/messages/Xorg.log gives few clues, the Geode LX
video chipset seems to be recognised and at 800x600, but I don't know
where else to look. Nothing obvious in Bugzilla searching for Geode etc.
Has anyone any suggestions before I open another bug?
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what's the output from xrandr ?
- James Mason 'bear454'
Hi James
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~> xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 800
default connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   800x600        60.3*    60.3
   640x480        59.9
   400x300       120.6
   320x240       120.1
I don't know how to interpret this!
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Cheers
Richard


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Re: [opensuse-factory] Insatllation on Geode systems

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