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General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: mOrloff on December 15, 2010, 02:31:15 PM

Title: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: mOrloff on December 15, 2010, 02:31:15 PM

I am TOTALLY new to TC (and Linux for that matter :)), and had a buddy help me set up a TC machine.
The issue at hand is that the display is SUPER dim and washed out once TC loads.
During boot, everything looks great. As soon as I get into TC it gets quite difficult to use.

I have tried multiple monitors with the same results.
I also booted this machine to Win2k, and all was well with that.

Any pointers or suggestions?
Anything at all??
Thanks-a-bunch,
~ Mo

Title: Re: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: gerald_clark on December 15, 2010, 03:01:36 PM

You have not told us anything about your hardware.

Title: Re: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: curaga on December 15, 2010, 03:02:51 PM

Your graphics card does not like Xvesa. Install Xorg or Xfbdev.

Title: Re: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: mOrloff on December 23, 2010, 06:16:56 PM

First, thank you.
Being a COMPLETE novice, your suggestion gave me a path to start exploring to trying and figure out how all this works.
(I feel like I'm finally getting a little of traction on the concept  :))

I have gotten it working, but am now up against a new and related problem.
After installing Xfbdev and rebooting, it looks like the graphics engine won't start.
Everytime I try to reboot, it just takes me to a tc@box: $ prompt.

What is currently working is tinycore base xsetup, but I'd like to know how to remove Xfbdev from the OnBoot so that I can get back to my configuration and don't have to use base anymore.
How do I edit my OnBoot options?

Please help.

Title: Re: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: gerald_clark on December 23, 2010, 06:48:58 PM

Mount your tce directory.
Edit onboot.lst.

Title: Re: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: mOrloff on December 24, 2010, 10:46:24 AM

Thanks.
That was my first guess.

I do have hda1 mounted, but for some reason it still isn't showing in the FileMgr.
Am I missing a step somewhere?

Title: Re: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: Juanito on December 24, 2010, 11:21:18 AM

It might be simpler to check from a terminal window, what does this give:

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$ ls /mnt/hda1/tce

Title: Re: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: mOrloff on December 27, 2010, 06:54:46 PM

it returns

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onboot.lst  optional/  wbar.lst

Title: Re: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: mOrloff on December 28, 2010, 12:16:29 PM

Actually, that set me on a good path.
Thanks Juanito.
I was able to find out hoe to get to the OPTIONAL directory, and then just remove the Xfbdev.* files.
I'll give it a reboot, and see what happens.

~ Mo

Title: Re: why is my tincore display so dim ??
Post by: Juanito on December 28, 2010, 12:46:49 PM

You didn't particularly need to delete the Xfbdev.* files, you could have used apps audit to edit the extensions loaded "onboot" or edited /tce/onboot.lst directly to remove Xfbdev.tcz