Hello,
I am trying to install linuxmce10.04 from ISO CD, during installation everything looks good, but I have issue with AVWizard:
1) AVWizard does not run automatically on the first startup after installation -> linuxmce window is small (800x600)
2) AVWizard does not start also by pressing Shift during reboot.
3) AVWizard does not start from linuxmce apps
No idea what is wrong. I am using integrated graphic card "AMD Radeon HD 6550D" in CPU (AMD A8 X4 3850).
Can someone help me?
Martin
What is "going on" is that I have almost 0 intel and ati testers, as we have had pretty much "nvidia only" for 5 years.
The first issue you have... avwizard should absolutely run. I do not understand how it would not. The small size... if it is in avwiz, should be resolved when you choose a resolution. I would recommend moving your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to a backup location and rebooting, and seeing if it does not "just work". I have recently re-allowed that particular chipset to use fglrx. If this still is not happening in a way we are happy with, I can show you how to get it to use the radeon driver (which works pretty well actually) or you can help me getting the fglrx working the right way... but be forwarned, it is time intensive.
Second issue... I haven't done that in so long... chances are if you cant load avwiz EVER even removing your xorg.conf, something else is going on, and we will have to troubleshoot it.
Third verse, same as the first. You SHOULD be hitting avwizard. If NOTHING works (including the script sudo /usr/pluto/bin/RebootWithAVWizard.sh) I will need your help troubleshooting it.
If you have a /var/log/pluto/AVWizard_Run*.log file... I want to see it. Please use pastebin. I also want to see your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file in a pastebin.
We can fix this.
Hello,
I just tried to reboot via script sudo /usr/pluto/bin/RebootWithAVWizard.sh. What it did? It restarted computer, BIOS was loaded, then some script from linuxmce - last what I saw was info "/etc/X11/xorg.conf is missing, AMD Redeon HD6550 driver will be used", then black screen and then bluse screen with message "Failed to setup X".
Now I reboot again by the same script (sudo /usr/pluto/bin/RebootWithAVWizard.sh) and during to boot I pressed the Shift key -> I got the screen where I could select normal mode or save mode -> I selected save mode -> there was some script -> the script stopped with "Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue)".
Control-D to continue does not work. It looks keyboard does not work. Just soft reset works -> ctrl+ald+del -> it will restar the computer.
Pls let me know if this above somehow help.
I am going to download you requested.
Martin
I made new installation of linuxmce and xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/ dir is missing.
This is probably source of issues.
I had a problem with the AV Wizard on an Asus B202. The wizard screen was huge and I could only see the upper left quadrant. Followed l3mce's advice above and renamed the xorg.conf on the md. Rebooted and it worked perfectly.
Sorry to jump in. Thought it was worth mentioning as it is an Intel GMA950 and l3mce needed testers.
Ironic that a missing xorg.conf solved my problem!
Barney
Thank you for input Barney.
I have opposite experience: when I did not have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, the AVWizard did not start (in any way).
When I created "xorg.conf" (by command: Xorg :1 -configure) and restarted computer, the AVWizard started, but it is blinking and is too huge (it looks like the HD 6550 driver in linux 10.04 is not correct).
I am going to reinstall the graphic driver by new one from ATI and let you know the result.
Martin
So finally there is a list if issues, which had to be solve:
1) xorg.conf was missing from linuxmce installation -> I had to create new one
2) ATI driver from linux installation is wrong -> screen is blinking -> this driver has to be removed and new on from ATI web pages has to be installed -> blinking disappered.
I am not linus advance user, my friend was doing this -> I was not able to upload any file (pastebin did not work), you l3mce was asking for -> sorry.
Martin
The behavior is, currently, a lack of an xorg.conf attempts to FORCE avwiz to run, to create one. At worst, you should get a "failed to setup X" window, which we could begin to troubleshoot. The idea that an xorg.conf is needed to GET to avwiz is counterintuitive.
The fglrx driver we use is the fglrx in the repo and for an HD6xxx series card should absolutely work. In fact, moving to the newer fglrx drivers in the repo will only drop support for the HD2xxx - HD4xxx series, while adding support for some of the newest chipsets. In general this is not recommended to overlay on our system without making certain changes. What usually ends up happening is that you get a blended version of the driver because our detection scheme will absolutely insist on the .deb package being installed... which is what has happened. Most likely the config from the newer version is what fixed the modeset, which is what is almost certainly at fault for the blinking screen.
Anyway... glad you are up and running. In the future, please come find me in IRC so that I can troubleshoot this so that it works out of the box for everyone. Downloading the eternally support dropping newest version from ATI is not an option.
Thanks b4rney!
There are a couple of issues I have personally noticed and made tickets to try and fix as well. The first boot of ANY Intel, under any circumstance, locks up. Reboot solves. I have no idea why. Also, depending on selected resolution the entire UI is shifted a few pixels up. This baffles me as well. Please confirm or deny those two behaviors.
Hi l3mce,
Can't really answer your questions I'm afraid. I installed last week and didn't notice either of those events as the huge a/v screen got all my attention.
A freeze/reboot would, frankly, have gone unnoticed. I can always delete and recreate the md if you really want it testing. I also didn't notice any shift once I selected my resolution.
One thing I noticed yesterday (but not on my intel md) ..... I re-ran the av wizard on my core (nvidia graphics) to remove the alpha blending, and on the alignment page I had to nudge the display to the right a few pixels to get the arrows right (which is a first), it's usually perfectly aligned. However, once the main UI popped up it was aligned off the screen to the right and I can only see half the alphabet on the media screens.
One major improvement I did notice is that my Asus B202 now runs UI2 very nicely where it only ran UI1 under 0810.
Barney
Forget the glitch with the UI offset. Ran the AV wizard again and it was perfect.
Barney
Has this issue been solved yet?
I obtained the latest iso (10-8-12) and installed it on an Intel spare machine I have here. After installing it as a Core/MD everything went according to plan till it finished listing all the starting devices and regen then a black screen with just the mouse showing and nothing from there. I did notice that upon reboot that it keeps saying "xorg.conf missing. Also, as one post noted when it did run the AV wizard that the AV Wizard screen is shifted to the lower right only showing the top left portion of the wizard. This occured every time I rebooted and attempted to get to the AV Wizard again.
I finally reloaded as a "Headless Core" only. Even upon boot it still shows "unable to find xorg.conf loading Intel driver". I assume that s the correct way. I then went to /etc/pluto and changed the AutoStartMedia=0 to 1, rebooted and the AV Wizard displayed properly and went through the setup process, but then after loading and starting everything and regen it still end up at a black screen with just a white mouse pointer showing, also during AV setup no audio is obtained as was on and earlier version of 10.04. I can move the mouse and see it moves on the screen but nothing else.
Now if I install an Nvida card and set it up that way then pull the Nvida out and turn the on board video back on it at least gets to a point where it pops up a screen stating it could not start x.
Question is there a way to get to a command prompt while it is starting up before it runs the AV so I can change it back to headless core only? Also, I used a laptop and went to 192.168.80.1 and all works fine there. I turned on access to ssl in hopes to just go back in and change it to a headless core but I can't gain access to it through ssl, any suggestions?
Another issue I still have and will work on later is that it won't PXE boot an MD. I thought that the latest version of 10.04 had this corrected. When I attempt to do a /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh it stops with errors stating unable to obtain files from the mirror. That's for another day.
Thanks
Wm.
Question: Did you follow rule #1 when the blackscreen with the cursor appeared?
Quote from: microbrain on October 10, 2012, 08:57:32 AM
Has this issue been solved yet?
I obtained the latest iso (10-8-12) and installed it on an Intel spare machine I have here. After installing it as a Core/MD everything went according to plan till it finished listing all the starting devices and regen then a black screen with just the mouse showing and nothing from there. I did notice that upon reboot that it keeps saying "xorg.conf missing. Also, as one post noted when it did run the AV wizard that the AV Wizard screen is shifted to the lower right only showing the top left portion of the wizard. This occured every time I rebooted and attempted to get to the AV Wizard again.
I finally reloaded as a "Headless Core" only. Even upon boot it still shows "unable to find xorg.conf loading Intel driver". I assume that s the correct way. I then went to /etc/pluto and changed the AutoStartMedia=0 to 1, rebooted and the AV Wizard displayed properly and went through the setup process, but then after loading and starting everything and regen it still end up at a black screen with just a white mouse pointer showing, also during AV setup no audio is obtained as was on and earlier version of 10.04. I can move the mouse and see it moves on the screen but nothing else.
Now if I install an Nvida card and set it up that way then pull the Nvida out and turn the on board video back on it at least gets to a point where it pops up a screen stating it could not start x.
Question is there a way to get to a command prompt while it is starting up before it runs the AV so I can change it back to headless core only? Also, I used a laptop and went to 192.168.80.1 and all works fine there. I turned on access to ssl in hopes to just go back in and change it to a headless core but I can't gain access to it through ssl, any suggestions?
Another issue I still have and will work on later is that it won't PXE boot an MD. I thought that the latest version of 10.04 had this corrected. When I attempt to do a /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh it stops with errors stating unable to obtain files from the mirror. That's for another day.
Thanks
Wm.
ATI is poorly tested. The hd 6k series is now using the fglrx driver, which appears to be the source of the issue. Please give me the output of lspci -nn | grep VGA and I will tell you the piece of code to change that will likely make you happy.
As for headless... if you installed headless from the DVD, you cannot then just change the pluto.conf tag and have it work. Chunks of stuff is not installed.
Sorry for the delay, been out of town..
Thank you both for your responses. After reading some of the posts on here I chose to just reload with a newer version (26551) since 26541 seem to have issues, like no audio, no PXE, a/v to name a few.
I will advise back should I have any probs.
Once again, thank you for your assistance.
microbrain
Well I reinstalled with latest (26551). All went fairly well till I got to the A/V wizard. The A/V display was off centred to the right and slightly down, I went ahead and applied the settings as I knew how they were supposed to be just using the arrow keys, once I hit enter, the A/V aligned it's self as required. I chose VGA-2, 1024X720(4.3) and 60hz. I continued on to the next step of audio, unfortunately I have no audio now. This was the issue with 26541 and not with prior builds. Maybe a suggestion on what to look at?
Other then that the software loaded and generated all the screens. I am still having issues with PXE boot, it does now automatically detect and start loading diskless MD but it gets to the point where it pops up an A/V wizard box that states "Unable to start X" and hangs from there. Upon entering "Ok" it does not respond. Only way out is to manually power down Diskless MD.
Thanks, hope this is helpfull
microbrain
I have been successfully breaking all sorts of stuff I now think I have resolved. From diskless, to audio, to intel.
The failure to setup X is avwizard failing. There is no recovery from that point (ie hitting OK). It means avwizard threw everything it could at it, and it cannot resolve.
What is the MD? Is that the ATI?
Again, if there is an existing xorg.conf (which is created when certain drivers are installed) the original avwiz that shows up is often offset. If it really bothers you, you can just remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf* and reboot.
l3mce,
Don't feel bad, I broke a lot of code I've been working on about three months ago and ended up just walking away from it for about a month.
The MD I'm was trying to use for test is a Dell Optiplex 260 with Intel, no HDD, 1.5 mem, booting with PXE. I would like to try to use this machine as I have about twelve of them sitting on the shelf collecting dust. When I do the PXE, it assigns an IP address, does the complete boot, displays "no xorg.conf file found, loading Intel driver" then does the rest of its boot then get to the hangup of "can't start X". I tried several thinking there maybe a prob with one or two and none would do the X.
I have since set them aside and took one of my spare laptops, a "HP Entertainment Notebook PC Laptop" and set it to PXE boot and it works just fine (except audio), bootup and X. I also took a Fujitsu laptop specifically for gaming and PXE booted it and it does its thingee (again, except for audio).
On all machines Intel driver was loaded. No Xorg.conf files were found at any time.
What do you think the audio issue might be? Can I upgrade to your fixes or do I have to reload the whole server software?
Thanks
microbrain
I use a dell optiplex 260 as an MD. Does fine. Haven't booted it since the new install.
I have fixed most all audio issues. Upgrading should work, and if it doesn't I can fix it.
I will fire up the dell tonight and see what is going on.
Should I do an upgrade from the command line or reinstall a newer version?
If from the command line what command would you recommend?
Thanks for checking it out and your help.
microbrain
The latest snapshot will have everything embedded and current, without the need to run Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh
I expect that will be the path of least resistance if you are willing to reinstall.
Will do and will let you know how it goes.
microbrain
l3mce,
Sir I installed the latest snapshot #26573 today. As before when it gets to the A/V setup scree its still off centered to the lower right. You can only see a portion of the first box on the left and not the center or right boxes. I went ahead a selected with VGA2, 1024 x 720, and 60 hertz and hit enter, then when it reloaded for verifying selection the screen was perfectly located where it needed to be.
I still have no audio and Dell machine I listed still has same problem. HP diskless laptop booted just fine. Now I had installed a Encore Capture card, thinking there may be an issue with it conflicting with audio I took it out and rebooted machine, still no audio, so I reloaded the software again and still no audio.
Thank you sir
That is two snapshots ago :P
latest snapshot is:
LMCE-1004-20121022131926592.iso 22-Oct-2012 14:15 2800101376
http://linuxmce.iptp.org/snapshots/
Now if you get a funky display, press the number button on your keyboard which is appropriate for your output, in your case the number 2, and it should resolve itself.
1: DVI
2: VGA
3: Component
4: Composite
5: S-Video
Q: DVI-2
W: VGA-2
L: LVDS
and after selecting an audio output (analog, coax, optical, hdmi, no audio) if you do NOT have audio, add the following line to /etc/pluto.conf
AlternateSC = 1
press the escape button once, or right click if you have a mouse attached, and it will take you back to that selection screen I just mentioned. Select the audio output again and you SHOULD have sound on really anything.
Please let me know how that works out.
Will do, thanks much
microbrain
There are new things in the works... sort of reversed the process so I could make better guesses, and leave you the ability to change it.
l3mce,
I reinstalled complete, all went well. I now have audio and video as required. I haven't had the chance to try the diskless Dell box mentioned as an MD yet and will try to do that this weekend. HP laptop operating as diskless MD works great.
Now if I can just get my MythTv to work.... That's for another discussion later.
I also have been following other post similar to this one that you have been assisting in and those to have been very helpful. Thank you so much for the help, please advise if there is anything I may do for you.
microbrain