-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Geirnaert wrote: > Hi, > > Installing 64studio on this box worked, but GRUB didn't install fine > so it made the system unusable. Then I installed UbuntuStudio 8.04 > and GRUB now can boot 64studio. But I get a black screen when I don't > press F2 at loading time. When I do press F2 I get a ramfs terminal > after entering the root password for maintenance. I guess, using this > ramfs terminal, I'll have to use nano to edit /etc/apt/sources.list > and enable the backports repositories so I can "apt-get install > flgrx-glx" to get my graphics working, because that's the driver > UbuntuStudio uses. (I have to check this again to see what version > exactly) Or should I do "apt-get install fglrx-driver" from "stable" > ? Or use the open-source xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd driver? That's > from "lenny" so I'll have to wait until we get 64studio 3. > Or you could just build it from source. The open source driver has been reported to work very well. It only supports the latest round of ATI devices though (which it looks like you have). Ubuntu 8.10 uses the open source driver by default.
Get it here: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd#head-f79351b4e2b19fad40529ce297ac2d2a1e90354c > Also, when 64studio is loading the SATA disks, it takes a lot of time > and fails to read them at 3.0 GBps. This doesn't happen anymore when > I set the BIOS "RAID mode" to IDE. Probably the kernel is having problems with the SATA controller. A newer kernel would likely help. > > I'm playing around with UbuntuStudio now, but any tips on how to get > 64studio working, or tests I could do, are welcome. The new pc is now > in the studio so if I want to apt-get I'll have to bring it back here > close to the internetconnection. > Likely you will need a newer kernel. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJPE15wRXgH3rKGfMRAn2oAJ42kSb7WkLp9VYaeiKcvwDtpIGUhwCeKpKU hzv0JrNwMzLOzhb+W66QAWE= =fjYa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
