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General => Installation issues => Topic started by: F1forHELP on January 01, 2017, 11:36:50 pm
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This happened to me with 12.04, and the behavior is consistent with 14.04.
Build a fresh core using LMCE-1404-20161119175532-i386.iso. Log in via ssh and update everything. When the orbiter times out, I am shown pictures as you would expect.
Create disk less image successfully.
My first orbiter created from the image displays a clock for a screen saver. Three subsequent media directors added to the system display pictures not a clock.
Looking in the web-admin under files & media / screensaver the path is listed as /home/public/data/pictures/flickr/ and the flikr script is active. (It would have to be for the server and two other orbiters) Under advanced / configuration / devices and looking in the tree under Generic PC as MD / Onscreen Orbiter / Photo screen saver the configuration is identical among the four listed orbiters.
All of these computers are using the U1 basic interface.
Thoughts, suggestions for troubleshooting?
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Sounds like the photo screen saver program may not be running or have an error. Check the logs on that MD.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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Looking in /var/log/pluto/56_LaunchPhoto_Screen_Saver.sh.log I found
Cannot init the video mode! (Couldn't find matching GLX visual)
followed by multiple entries similar to below
Failed to load '/home/public/data/pictures/flickr/2017/01/01/31917161801.jpg'
Check the file to make sure it exists from the director
ll /home/public/data/pictures/flickr/2017/01/01/31917161801.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175768 Jan 1 20:22 /home/public/data/pictures/flickr/2017/01/01/31917161801.jpg
Looking at my other media directors I do not have a LaunchPhoto_Screen_Saver log
Checking the installed video (from lspci)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)
Installed nvidia software
dpkg -l | grep nvid
ii nvidia-352 367.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 i386 Transitional package for nvidia-367
ii nvidia-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 i386 NVIDIA binary driver - version 367.57
ii nvidia-opencl-icd-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 i386 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii nvidia-prime 0.6.2.1 i386 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 331.20-0ubuntu8 i386 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
Recommendations on resolving the video mode / GLX issue?
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You could try re-installing the video driver and ensure the appropriate libraries are installed. Is this UI1 or UI2? It looks like it's trying to start the GL screensaver (requiring libgl1-mesa-glx or the appropriate version for the hardware enablement stack on your system, you can check /etc/pluto.conf for the current version).
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Thanks for pointing me in the correct direction.
The installed video card is an
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)
The nvidia-352 driver was installed by default.
Once I loaded the nvidia-304 (correct for this generation of older hardware) driver and rebooted, the photo screen saver started working.
Issue resolved.