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Author: Holger Beetz
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To: dynebolic mailinglist
Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] live boot problems
VGA functionatliy via VESA or simple framebuffer is always available
but the problems start when you want to use 3D acceleration.
VESA or framebuffer provide only a limited functionality for Xorg though.

Regards,
Holger

2012/5/20 Venugopal AK <akvenugopal@???>:
> To my knowledge there is a VGA display available on every computer and a distro can easily make use of this. If I am wrong please correct me.
> Regards
> vg
>
> --- On Sun, 20/5/12, Holger Beetz <holger.beetz@???> wrote:
>
> From: Holger Beetz <holger.beetz@???>
> Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] live boot problems
> To: "dynebolic mailinglist" <dynebolic@???>
> Date: Sunday, 20 May, 2012, 1:31 PM
>
> With the gigantic amount of hardware combinations available it is
> close to impossible that a Linux distribution always works flawlessly.
> It often requires a certain amount of tinkering. I must admit though
> that Trisquel (esp. 5.5) has a pretty nice look and feel. Also it
> worked right out off the box on the few PCs I tested it on.
>
> 2012/5/17 Venugopal AK <akvenugopal@???>:
>> I had faced problem while booting the latest Dynabolic. some thing to do with the display driver. If a distro is not easy to use, people will simply avoid it. As on today there are more than 300 distros available to choose from.
>> Regards
>> vg
>>
>> --- On Thu, 17/5/12, Quiliro Ordóñez <quiliro@???> wrote:
>>
>> From: Quiliro Ordóñez <quiliro@???>
>> Subject: [dyne:bolic] live boot problems
>> To: dynebolic@???
>> Date: Thursday, 17 May, 2012, 7:37 PM
>>
>> Dear Dyne.
>>
>> I am promoting free distros. I would like students to test dyne:bolic 3 but it will not boot.
>>
>> I tested the md5 on the iso file and then made K3B test it upon recording of the DVD. All went OK.
>>
>> I tested md5 on the DVD manually but it did not print the right hash. I used the following commands:
>> umount /dev/sr0
>> md5sum /dev/sr0
>>
>> When I try to boot with the DVD on 4 different otherwise working machines it hangs with no keyboard response (tested with "num.lock" key) after:
>> [...]
>> Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
>> * Setting preliminary keymap
>>
>> Please provide information for correct boot.
>>
>> -- Saludos libres,
>>
>> Quiliro Ordóñez
>> (593)2-253 5534
>> (593)2-340 1517
>> (593)9-675 9641
>>
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