Tinycore on high res screen

[sihorton]

I have replaced my development laptop with a new machine and so would like to run tinycore on the now old machine. However it has a high resolution (1920 x 1080) when I do Xvesa -listmodes then the maximum it shows is 1280x1024x24. This works but the text looks fuzzy.

Is there a way to get widescreen monitor working easily?

/Simon

[tinypoodle]

Which graphics card?

[sihorton]

It is a sony vaio Z series (VPCZ1) so it has NVDIA GeForce GT 330M card.


/Simon

[curaga]

Use Xorg. That chip may additionally require the binary Nvidia driver.

[sihorton]

I used the app browser in "Download Only" mode to download Xorg-7.6.tcz and graphics-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz. Then selected exit to prompt and then did:

tce-load -i Xorg-7.6.tcz
tce-load -i graphics-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz

It looked like success since the terminal updated and was high resolution automatically. I then typed in

startx

the cursor flashed a couple of times and then the screen was blank. I tried a soft boot and eventually did hard boot but when restarting it was back to vesa layout. I am currently running from the CorePlus iso burned to a usb stick.

/Simon

[sihorton]

Ok reading in the nvidia extensions it says it is not compatible with Xorg-7.6 so that is probably the problem. I can try with 7.5 instead.

[sihorton]

I tried to get this working but failed. The laptop is quite exotic and the problem is clearly in the drivers from  nvidia, the laptop also has a raid 0 array of 4 ssd drives for extreme performance but I somewhat doubt that I can get that running as well. I have another more standard machine I can run tinycore on instead or when I have more time I can play around with the drivers to tweak the config so it works.

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

/Simon

[tinypoodle]

the laptop also has a raid 0 array of 4 ssd drives for extreme performance but I somewhat doubt that I can get that running as well.

Perhaps not more difficult than this:

http://cs.joensuu.fi/~mmeri/usbraid/

[sihorton]

Thanks for the link, it actually has a hardware raid controller in the laptop and has some special drivers from intel to manage the wear on the drives and everything. Maybe intel have released a driver for linux for my model I can go and search on their support sites.

/Simon