Lucas, Thanks for the reply.
I should have noted in my original email that my video card on this machine is an Nvidia GeForce 6800. I eventually found this page: https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/Afterboot#Known_Issues where it says Nvidia cards are "problematic" (my word). I cannot try running the two commands you suggest (at least with the Nvidia card installed), as the screen is unreadable from the very start. I see the boot messages scroll up the screen, and then when the extra-special GoboLinux font kicks in, I get "nothing" as described in my last email. I now know what the screen is *supposed* to look like, as I stuck an old PCI bus video card (Matrox Millenium II) in the machine (no on-motherboard video) and got as far as the text prompt where one is prompted to either run startx or Installer. startx fails as the Xorg on the DVD does not like my ancient Matrox video card. I tried the commands you suggest with the Matrox video card. That also failed to get an X session up. I then edited the xorg.conf.new file so that it had video driver set to "vesa" and now, finally, I have X and "awesome" up and running. So far I can't say I'm real impressed with "awesome", at least not with the Goth "purple on black" theme, and no apparent way (at least from the GUI) to change the theme, wallpaper, window focus rules, etc. I tried "Config" and that put me in a nano session editing a text file, but without significant documentation, I'll not be changing anything in there. I did look, and there appears to be only the one theme installed on the machine. Is it possible to run Mate window manager in GoboLinux? Finally, somebody should update gobolinux.org to fix the search link. The page that needs fixing is this one: https://gobolinux.org/community.html Again, thanks for your help. Bill Dudley retired software developer This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real <[email protected] > wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:50 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I've tried two different monitors, and both of them don't work with >> GoboLinux 016 DVD. >> >> The Dell just tells me that the video is out of range, and try to use >> it's native 1600x1200. >> >> The (newer) Viewsonic just shows flashing vertical colored strips. Good >> thing I'm not >> an epileptic. >> >> Is it possible to boot the DVD up in "safe" mode at some "normal" video >> resolution? >> > > Hi Bill, > > Could you try running the two commands below? > > $ Xorg -configure > $ startx -- -config xorg.conf.new > > You may also make changes to the generated xorg.conf.new, as documented > here: > https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/Running-under-VirtualBox > > >> I'd have tried searching the archives, but the search link on the >> gobolinux web site, to >> search.gmane.org, doesn't work, Firefox says search.gmane.org doesn't >> exist. >> >> ping search.gmane.org >> ping: unknown host search.gmane.org >> >> > gmane.org has been shut down recently: > https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/ > > As an alternative, you may use the following resource to search the > mailing list archives: > http://marc.info/?l=gobolinux-users&r=1&w=3 > > Lucas > > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users > >
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