Re: 4.0 will now load

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if you dont say which video card, its hard to say - may Toshiba Portege
has a Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XP4m32 and it never works out of
the box -  it only works if you just put the correct xorg.conf and it
took me days to find that out

Am Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:38:29 -0700 (PDT)
schrieb Terry Maiden <t.maiden@xxxxxxx>:

> (I am using 4.0 right now. The Midori browser was able to access AOL
> Mail and Yahoo Mail just fine.)
> 
> I was able to get 4.0 to load and run by turning off the Kqemu
> accelerator.  It makes using 4.0 very slow however to run it this
> way.  Another problem has come up though. I would prefer to set the
> VGA=791, meaning a 1024x768 screen.  Xorg is still defaulting to
> 800x600 and I can't seem to get it to change its mind.  I have had
> this same problem with Xorg going back to Slitaz 2.0.  I would prefer
> to use Xvesa because if you tell it you want 1024x768 Xvesa gives you
> that.  Its possible that this Toshiba laptop has a video card your
> Xorg can't deal with.
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 4/18/12, Christophe Lincoln <pankso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Christophe Lincoln <pankso@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: 4.0 will not load
> > To: slitaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 2:20 AM
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > OK I tried what you suggested.  The same thing occured
> > which is the
> > > same thing that has occured with every cooking for 4.0
> > going back to
> > > the beginning.  The linux load proceeds to about the
> > halfway point
> > > and then what looks like a memory dump occurs.  A
> > listing of what
> > > appears to be memory addresses and their contents.  It
> > then freezes
> > > and that's it.  I have brought this up several times
> > previously but
> > > noone seems to have a clue as to what the problem
> > is.  I have gotten
> > > the impression that a Windows QEMU user is not part of
> > the "Club" and
> > > doesn't get much help.
> > 
> > Maybe we dont have so much user and contributors using
> > Windows,
> > personnaly last time I used MS was 3-4 years ago so I can't
> > help. The
> > only thing I see is go head 4.0 and try our new glibc and
> > kernel 3.2.14.
> > 
> > I'm uploading an ISO at the moment (more in next mail)
> > 
> > - Christophe
> > 
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> > 
> > 
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