Hi. intrigeri <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Olivier, > > Olivier Berger wrote (28 Jan 2016 16:29:07 GMT) : >> I've tested Tails 2 on two relatively recent Dell laptops where I >> experience the same issue : the Gnome session doesn't start, under the >> standard "Live" configuration. I'm redirected again to the "login" >> dialog asking me whether I want persistence and more options. I've >> reported the issue with whisperback. > > Thanks for reporting the bug. I hope our frontdesk folks extract > relevant information from it, so we can do something about this > problem on the dev or documentation side of things (at least > documenting the hardware support problem, and then looking at how we > could fix it). > >> With the second Grub entry (Live "fallback" (?)), the display works, but >> Tails isn't exactly usable on 640x480 : many Gnome dialogs need to be >> moved around to display buttons, etc. > >> I've seen that the working options correspond do nomodeset + vga=normal. > >> I guess the problem lies in the KMS on a specific combination of >> graphics card, but I'm not so sure. > > Sounds plausible. I'll let frontdesk handle it since they have the > details of the hardware involved. > >> Would there be likely options I can try to get a higher resolution while >> still on framebuffer (AFAIU) ? It's probably a Debian FAQ somehow, but >> maybe that could be useful to document ? > > The live-config(7) manpage is where Debian Live -specific boot time > options are documented. The xorg-resolution option documented in there > might be what you want (untested). For the records, the xorg-resolution=1024x768 option seems to have been accepted : at some point I could see a 4x3 ratio display instead of 16x9... but the X session weirdness seems to happen anyway. Maybe the xorg-driver=... could be of some use too here. Will post in case of more progress. > >> I'm afraid this could be a show stopper for many end users [...] > > I concur. Let's take this seriously. > Thanks alot Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
