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Author: Holger Beetz
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To: dynebolic mailinglist
Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] Questions on dyne:III, installing to HDD and nesting
@jaromil:
Can we hope for an updated noveau drivers for the next beta release of dyne ?
I have attached the version of the working noveau from Knoppix to my
bug tracker entry.

2011/12/6 Holger Beetz <holger.beetz@???>:
> hi there
>
> glad it helped!
>
> if you "enable" the nvidia driver you get no gnome again.
>
> dynebolic does not support the propritary nvidia blob
>
> only the open noveau
>
>
>
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>
> Am 06.12.2011 um 18:04 schrieb Venugopal AK <akvenugopal@???>:
>
>> Dear holger Beetz,
>>                                    Your advise worked like magic. Many thanks. actually I had spend several hours to download the Dyne:bolic 3.0.0 and was disappointed that it didn't work. yes, I am using a Nvidia graphics card.
>>                                    Once again my sincere thanks. What If I want to enable the Nvidia drivers ?
>> Regards
>> VG
>>
>> --- On Tue, 6/12/11, Holger Beetz <holger.beetz@???> wrote:
>>
>> From: Holger Beetz <holger.beetz@???>
>> Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] Questions on dyne:III, installing to HDD and nesting
>> To: "dynebolic mailinglist" <dynebolic@???>
>> Date: Tuesday, 6 December, 2011, 8:55 PM
>>
>> If you have a NVidia card you might want to try this:
>> Edited the grub entry by pressing TAB in the menu and add
>> "nomodeset=1" to prevent Noveau from loading. After pressing F9 to
>> boot the modified entry dyne:bolic should show up the  Gnome desktop
>> without issues. At least when Noveau is the issue.
>>
>> 2011/12/6 Holger Beetz <holger.beetz@???>:
>>> Not shure how this fits with my posting about nesting but I'll try to help.
>>> Could you be a bit more specific about your hardware ?
>>> What graphic adapter do you use ? dynobolic currently sometimes has
>>> issues with the free noveau driver and NVidia cards.
>>>
>>> 2011/12/6 Venugopal AK <akvenugopal@???>:
>>>> I am unable to use the Live Dyne III. After displaying several screens full of scrolling information the screen becomes garbled and hangs. Mine is an AMD 64 Processor. Please help somebody.
>>>> Regards
>>>> vg
>>>>
>>>> --- On Tue, 6/12/11, Holger Beetz <holger.beetz@???> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Holger Beetz <holger.beetz@???>
>>>> Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] Questions on dyne:III, installing to HDD and nesting
>>>> To: "dynebolic mailinglist" <dynebolic@???>
>>>> Date: Tuesday, 6 December, 2011, 7:12 PM
>>>>
>>>> Nice, I had success with a persistent home partition stored on a
>>>> virtual disk (I am currently only experimenting with VirtualBox).
>>>>
>>>> Here are the steps I did:
>>>> 1) Create a EXT3 partition with the label "home-rw"
>>>> 2) Mount the partition "home-rw"
>>>> 3) rsync all stuff from /home to the mounted partition (something like
>>>> sudo rsync -arv /home/ /media/home-rw/
>>>> 4) Reboot dyne:bolic and add "persistent" to the grub entry (you can
>>>> edit grub entries by pressing TAB)
>>>>
>>>> After this you have a persitent home directory. Now I can easily set
>>>> my default keyboard layout to german and the setting is remembered
>>>> after reboot :)
>>>>
>>>> It might be nice if dyne:bolic has the persistent parameter enabled
>>>> per default. At least I can not imagine that this causes a problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2011/12/1 Jaromil <jaromil@???>:
>>>>> On Thu, 01 Dec 2011, Holger Beetz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> AFAIK it is recognized by the partition label "live-rw"
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not shure about this ! I have seen different labels for this on
>>>>>> various page. But sometimes they did not always relate to Debian.
>>>>>
>>>>> yes, it is configurable. However we are branching live-debian (and
>>>>> merging updates upon review) so we have control on this. The name of
>>>>> the label is a simple configuration directive in the live script:
>>>>> see http://ur1.ca/69qia
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> with some time, this could be automated in d:b, with a minimalist
>>>>>>> interface made with glade or so, a'la nesting in d:b.
>>>>>> Would Zenity also be acceptable ?
>>>>>
>>>>> I find glade more comfortable, but in the past also gtk-dialog worked
>>>>> well for simplier tasks, still that lacks value scrollers (for size)
>>>>> and such advanced widgets.
>>>>> I'm not sure about zenity, I've never used it.
>>>>>
>>>>> ciao
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> jaromil,  dyne.org developer,  http://jaromil.dyne.org
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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