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bitbytebit:
If you have the network enabled, then just running `scp -C /file root@host:` should allow you to transfer them, or mount the USB stick and copy them to it. I mostly think I know what's going on with things now, except just not sure why exactly that xorg.conf doesn't exist and what /proc/cmdline contains that would not allow it to be created with the startup script. It sounds odd it's using the default modes, acting as if the 'c' option isn't on the command line but it should be, so possibly seeing /proc/cmdline output and doing some of the other stuff I mentioned might help figure it out.
bitbytebit:
New .iso images are up which should work with usb booting now hopefully, also has the change to possibly fix the bad fuzzy resolution for some PAL modelines, and have removed the 'e' part of the boot command for PAL mode (so no longer have to edit the grub config for it). Let me know how the USB goes and if X Windows acts any better too, and how the new modelines work.
Quinny:
--- Quote from: bitbytebit on December 07, 2010, 11:09:43 pm ---New .iso images are up which should work with usb booting now hopefully, also has the change to possibly fix the bad fuzzy resolution for some PAL modelines, and have removed the 'e' part of the boot command for PAL mode (so no longer have to edit the grub config for it). Let me know how the USB goes and if X Windows acts any better too, and how the new modelines work.
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Unfortunately it still does not work from a USB stick and gives me the same error that I got above.
So I am using the previous version to test with from a CD (not the latest because I am running low on CDs):
I am using only the monitor with the TV unplugged and using PAL mode from the GRUB menu, since I would expect the monitor to display nothing (out of range) and it's easier for me to get the logs and show why it isn't changing resolutions.
cat /proc/cmdline shows:
real_root=/dev/loop0 looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs initrd udev nodevfs cdroot dodmraid video=768x576ec
I don't see anything in /home/arcade/.gentooarcade/
/home/arcade is writeable
create_xorg.pl: command not found
I have attached the logs you asked me to attach earlier.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: Quinny on December 08, 2010, 08:26:48 am ---
--- Quote from: bitbytebit on December 07, 2010, 11:09:43 pm ---New .iso images are up which should work with usb booting now hopefully, also has the change to possibly fix the bad fuzzy resolution for some PAL modelines, and have removed the 'e' part of the boot command for PAL mode (so no longer have to edit the grub config for it). Let me know how the USB goes and if X Windows acts any better too, and how the new modelines work.
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Unfortunately it still does not work from a USB stick and gives me the same error that I got above.
So I am using the previous version to test with from a CD (not the latest because I am running low on CDs):
I am using only the monitor with the TV unplugged and using PAL mode from the GRUB menu, since I would expect the monitor to display nothing (out of range) and it's easier for me to get the logs and show why it isn't changing resolutions.
cat /proc/cmdline shows:
real_root=/dev/loop0 looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs initrd udev nodevfs cdroot dodmraid video=768x576ec
I don't see anything in /home/arcade/.gentooarcade/
/home/arcade is writeable
create_xorg.pl: command not found
I have attached the logs you asked me to attach earlier.
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I'll have to get a USB stick and test with that to figure out how that works, have gotten the disk drive install mostly working so that'll eventually work. Could in theory install to a USB stick I think, I'll have to look into that, wondered if there was something different going on. Yeah I understand about the CD issue, I got a few rewritable ones and have been testing with those, so far have been pretty cool having many writes on them and still only using the two original ones for 32/64 bit testing.
The create_xorg.pl command is at /root/create_xorg.pl so you'll need to reference it by the full path actually. Did you go through the setup menu, the .gentooarcade/ directory will get those files after a run through the setup menu actually. You can probably run through it remotely, if you run /root/startup.pl -rs it will bring up the setup menu. Choosing option 5 will re-run the first setup, and there's other options there too.
I'll have to look at the logs more, thanks. The latest .iso you have mainly has a difference in not using the 'e' which I suspect will make it work better in your case, but I also think that when editing that at the grub command line something happens different to the /proc/cmdline file and it doesn't work with my parsing stuff to know it's a PAL setup.
bitbytebit:
Also how exactly is the TV connected, what output type used from the AVGA card and what in between that, and the connection to the TV?
I think I need to do the same as Soft15Khz does and basically say the first connector (at least DVI one most likely) will be the arcade output, because otherwise it seems things are not going to work (since only the first output actually is going to be used for X Windows anyways).
Try these command line options (with the TV connected to the first output, nothing on the second):
video=DVI-I-1:768x576ec
and:
video=TV-1:768x576ec
That will effectively force the first output of the card (I'm still not sure if DVI or TV is needed here) and leave the rest alone, which shouldn't be connected. If it doesn't work well with one output, try the other, I'm not totally sure the cards order is always right in the DRM layer. Also additionally, only if the above don't work, try to add a 'D' into the mix up there 'eDc' possibly. Here's some more detail on how the command line should work, my 'c' option for CGA is an addition to this...
--- Code: ---A mode can be forced on the kernel command line. Unfortunately, the command line option video is poorly documented in the DRM case. Bit and pieces on how to use it can be found in
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/tree/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
The format is: video=<conn>:<xres>x<yres>[M][R][-<bpp>][@<refresh>][i][m][eDd]
<conn>: Connector, e.g. DVI-I-1, see your kernel log.
<xres> x <yres>: resolution
M: compute a CVT mode?
R: reduced blanking?
-<bpp>: color depth
@<refresh>: refresh rate
i: interlaced (non-CVT mode)
m: margins?
e: output forced to on
d: output forced to off
D: digital output forced to on (e.g. DVI-I connector)
You can override the modes of several outputs using "video" several times, for instance, to force DVI to 1024x768 at 85 Hz and TV-out off: video=DVI-I-1:1024x768@85 video=TV-1:d
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