does not start X on AMD Geode LX

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kultex
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
#16
The CD was ok - I burned it new - x4 with DAO - installed it new - stops on the same point with the same massage - sad ....
anticapitalista
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#17
Alert! does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Check your root= boot argument (cat /proc/cmdline)
Check for missing modules (cat /proc/modules), or device files (ls /dev)

What does the installed /boot/grub/menu.lst file show?
You can see it from the livecd (at least that does boot with the correct cheatcode am I right?)
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kultex
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
#18
it was my fault - I did not install grub, because I already had it.
I installed antiX on another computer noticed and changed the grub entry - now it works.

Next problem - the screen was not nice, so I installed the amd driver and took the xorg.conf from Arch

now I get:

(WW) AMD(0) The amd driver didn`t call xf86SetGamma() to initialise the gamma values
(WW) AMD(0) PLEASE FIX THE `amd` DRIVER!
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

does this meen, that the amd driver is broken, or the wrong repostitory?

Thanks for your help
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kultex
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
#19
I tried to reconfigure Xorg

# xorg - reconfigure

(EE) LoadModule: Module ztv does not have a ztvModuleData data objekt.
(EE) Failed to load module"ztv" (invalid module, 0)

Fatal server error:
Cought signal 11. Server aborting

does anybody have any idea, what I can do?
anticapitalista
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#20
In what way was the screen not nice before you used the Arch xorg.conf?

Do you have nvidia or ati drivers installed? For example on my box, I had to use the vesa option for livecd and also to install nvidi drivers to get my screen looking right.
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kultex
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
#21
The pictures are not sharp, the colours are a bit strange, and it is some kind of flicker all the time (I hope, it is understandable - it is hard to express for me in english) - and the Monitor has a resolution of 1600 x 1200 - I only get 1024 x 768 - but this is perhaps a wrong VGA number in the boot options.

with the AMD driver 1600 x 1200 looks good - I was really astonished

and the Usb-Mouse is not recogniced - I have to plug it in again, when the desktop is established - then it works