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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: beerstein on October 11, 2009, 12:41:55 PM

Title: where did the bluish desktop go?
Post by: beerstein on October 11, 2009, 12:41:55 PM

HI:
Since 2.4 rc1 that nice bluish "micro GUI" disappeared. I now can only see a black screen.
Can I bring that old look back to the desktop?

Thank you
beerstein

Title: Re: where did the bluish desktop go?
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on October 12, 2009, 03:39:24 PM

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nice bluish "micro GUI"

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black screen

Could you elaborate on this? (esp. to what these are referring to)

Title: Re: where did the bluish desktop go?
Post by: beerstein on October 13, 2009, 06:36:33 AM

Thank you for responding:
when I boot TC on an older machine the display stays black.
I can right click and see the menu, but I have no background
nor a logo - just nothing.
On another PC I have the colored (bluish) background, logo and mini menue.

So I found out in the meantime, that it has something to do with that individual
machine. May be TC does not recocnize the Nokia LCD monitor?

I will play around a little bit more and will post my results.

Have a good day - I thank you for giving me some of your time

Title: Re: where did the bluish desktop go?
Post by: bmarkus on October 13, 2009, 06:38:43 AM

Is it a same with a clean system with 'base nolocal norestore' boot options?

Title: Re: where did the bluish desktop go?
Post by: beerstein on October 18, 2009, 11:34:22 AM

Thank you for your response.
I think was the Pc´s problem. On other PCs I have the bluish background
and "micro GUI"
Now I changed to another old system. (MMX) 233 MHz and here my TC
does not boot at all. It does not accept any input. I just can see the options with F2 and F3.
After any input I get the following error:
"IO APIC resources could not be allocated kernel panic not syncing Attempted to kill init!"

This older PC is an i586 and not a i686

Do you think this might be the problem?

Or does any body have an idea how to fix.

I also copied the /boot from the Live CD into a patition and modified menue.lst
so that I could boot from hd. And here it even starts to boot and I can see a loot of the
lines , but at the end I get the same error message

Have a good day

Title: Re: where did the bluish desktop go?
Post by: Juanito on October 18, 2009, 01:55:45 PM

Quote from: beerstein on October 18, 2009, 11:34:22 AM

After any input I get the following error:
"IO APIC resources could not be allocated kernel panic not syncing Attempted to kill init!"

Does the boot code "noapic" help?

Title: Re: where did the bluish desktop go?
Post by: beerstein on October 22, 2009, 10:15:07 AM

Thank you for responding.
No it did not help. The PC gets stuck completely - it does not boot at all. I have to switch off the system.
In the meantime here in this forum I found a topic where others had the same problem and they went back to the old TC version 1.4 or so.
I digged the old version out and see - here it works.

I have no clou what the problem could be. It must be system specific, because on the other systems the latest version works fine.