[Gnewsense-dev] Re: new gNewSense/MIPS netboot & archive

[s . boutayeb]

Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:

> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:55:16AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I rolled a new netboot image, and corrected a number of issues in the
> > > archive.
> >
> > Your procedure is successful!
> > I got a working system out of the box with the login prompt in ttyx.
> >
> > I did the post-install of gnewsense-pkgsel-desktop
> >
> > Then, the Xserver crashed, so that I postinstalled the
> > xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion_2.2.8-lemote.r03_mipsel.deb (see
> > http://dev.lemote.com/drupal/node/49) and copied a xorg.conf from another
> > working yeeloong installation.
>
> X should work with stock packages if you set it to use fbdev:
>
>  Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
>         Driver          "fbdev"
>         Option          "Usenks FBDev"              "true"
>  EndSection
>
> this is much less hassle.  I'll see what I can do to automate it.
>
I added the "fbdev" option and downgraded the xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
to the initial 1.1.6.0-1 version from the mips-l repository.

Thanks you again

Samy