Re: [gentoo-releng] Catalyst Woes

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 10:23, derek tracy wrote:
> Today is truly a wonderous day.  I just burnt the LiveCD and almost
> everything is working.  I have tried it on 8 machines so far and have
> not experienced the same results from many of them.  This is what I am
> talking about.
> 
> Booted on a Dell Optiplex GX260 everything works great except X.Org
> will only pull up in 640x480.  I tried editing the xorg.conf manually
> and still could not get it to even bring up 1024x768 ( I was hoping
> for 1280x1024 )  I know from previous experiences that X.Org will show
> up fine on this computer.

I would tend to think that it is the monitor not supplying EDID
information.  The mkx86config script doesn't add Modes, but rather
simply sets up the system to load into the highest resolution that X
thinks it can get.  I would try another monitor and see what you come up
with.

> Booted to a Latitude C610 in a docking station, the kernel hard locked.

At what point?  Also, is it a C/Port or a C/Dock that the laptop is
plugged into?  I ask, because this is one of my actual test setups when
I create a LiveCD, so I'm finding it odd that you're having a problem
with it.

Did you use any command-line options at boot time?

> Booted to the same Latitude C610 without the docking station and it
> booted correctly.
> X.Org worked without a hitch.
> 
> Booted to a Latitude C640 and everything went good.
> 
> Booted to a Dell Optiplex GX115 and it crashed trying to create the
> filesystem from cd.

Ahh, yes.  Dell... the bane of my existence.  I will tell you right now
that I am seriously *not* impressed with Dell machines anymore.  I have
had nothing but problems from many of them.  I have a GX110 that I use
as a test machine that seems to work fine, but Dell is known to use some
really crappy CDROMs in their machines.

> Booted to a Dell Optiplex GX300 worked great but no mouse (usb or ps/2)

Odd.  Does your kernel use input device support, or are you relying on
the old-style input interface?

> Booted to a Dell Optiplex GX300 and crashed trying to create the
> filesystem from cd.
> 
> I think that the GX300 and GX115 are crashing because of some problems
> with the cd-rom drive reading from a cd-rw but am still not convinced
> of that because the machines will boot from the cd just not get past
> this point.
> 
> The only one that really bugs me is the GX260 that would not boot into
> anything other than 640x480, do you have any input on this one.
> 
> Again I want to say thank you for all of your help.
> 
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:02:23 -0400, Chris Gianelloni
> <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:49, derek tracy wrote:
> > > I am 99.9% positive that I am re-emerging baselayout in livecd-stage1,
> > > but I will double check when I get home.
> > >
> > > Is that the only thing that would cause this issue?
> > 
> > Well, the auto-login stuff is done by baselayout when it is merged with
> > USE=livecd configured.  I'm actually going to be filing a bug + patch to
> > baselayout to cause it to auto-login on *all* the default consoles.
> > 
> > > Again I want to thank you and everyone else on the development team,
> > > for this wonderful tool.
> > >
> > > A little off subject, do you have or would you like to have a gmail
> > > account?  It would be the least I could do.
> > 
> > I have one already, but thanks for the offer.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:36:23 -0400, Chris Gianelloni
> > > <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:01, derek tracy wrote:
> > > > > My question still remains how would I go about having root
> > > > > automatically logged in as it was before?
> > > >
> > > > You have livecd in your USE in livecd-stage1 and then baselayout takes
> > > > care of it.  You are re-emerging baselayout in livecd-stage1, right?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:01:02 -0400, derek tracy <tracyde@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > The xinitrc can be setup by using the livecd/xinitrc option in
> > > > > > > livecd-stage2 in catalyst 1.0.9 (or better, when it comes).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I do use the livecd/xinitrc to setup the xinitrc file and I love this option.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > > programs wrote a bash script to "inject" the configuration files that
> > > > > > > > I created for openbox, torsmo, pypanel, and the xinitrc.  (menu..xml,
> > > > > > > > rc.xml, pypanelrc).  Created the cd and now when I boot I can't do
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Personally, I just create the files during the fsscript.sh stage of my
> > > > > > > livecd-stage2.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I thought about doing this but my bash scripting skills are something
> > > > > > to be desired and echoing everything to a file just didn't sound like
> > > > > > an apealing solution.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > > anything because it does not automatically log root in.  So I just sit
> > > > > > > > there at the log on prompt because it also auto-scrambles the root
> > > > > > > > passwd.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Well, you can edit the /usr/lib/catalyst/livecd/files/livecd-local.start
> > > > > > > file if you wish before building your CD.  In the future, I think I'm
> > > > > > > going to write up a patch to catalyst so that you can specify the
> > > > > > > local.start in the livecd-stage2 spec file, similar to the xinitrc.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That would be great, anything that allows more configurability out of
> > > > > > the box is awesome.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > > My question is this are there any packages that you have found not to
> > > > > > > > work with catalyst live-cd's because they change certain configuration
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Nope.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >And are there any files that I could edit to make root
> > > > > > > > automatically log in?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Do you have livecd in your USE in livecd-stage1?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, livecd is in my USE flags in livecd-stage1
> > > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > > Chris Gianelloni
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> > > > Games - Developer
> > > > Gentoo Linux
> > > >
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> > > >
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Chris Gianelloni
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Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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