Framebuffer + lagging

[jawor123Member]

Hi,

I try to set-up small media player based on GeeXboX and  some quite old P4 IBM desktop, but i encountered some problems.

At the beginning I was testing version 1.2.4 and it was almost ideal, but it has issues with DVD menus

So I switched to 2.0.1(as i would like to install it on HDD), and here are my problems/questions:

It won’t start as LiveCD (I got logo, CD is reading for some time and then i get black screen)
Installation  works fine but just before it starts i got msg that it could not find framebuffer
After installing it on HDD it works so slow that it’s impossible to do anything

All of mentioned problems occur in both 2.0.1 and in the newest devel version.

Unfortunately i can’t provide PC specs right know as it is in another location where i don’t have access to internet. I will check it in few hours and write it down here.

[jawor123Member]

I’ve checked the specs, i hope it will help in finding solution:

Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz
256MB DDR (or 512MB i don’t really remember)
Graphics Intel 945

 

 

[jawor123Member]

Friend of mine just called saying that chipset is probably Intel 915G not 945

 

PS. Why i couldn’t EDIT my previous posts? The EDIT button is on this post  only…

• This reply was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by  jawor123.

[tomlohaveMember]

for the edit button : time elapsed

can you post you Xorg.0.log located in /var/log/

i will rebuild a new iso, there are some updates about xf86-video-intel

[jawor123Member]

Will post as soon as possible.

Must install it one more time, to recreate the circumstances, and because computer is in another apartment i will probably post it late in night or tomorrow morning(Central European time).

To be sure: log is created after each system start?

[tomlohaveMember]

yes, after each xorg start

[jawor123Member]

Had some problems, but here is the log:

http://wklej.to/MuSLj

• This reply was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by  jawor123.

[tomlohaveMember]

logs from 2.0.1, right ?

it uses vesa, so no hardware acceleration …

i’m building latest version

 

• This reply was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by  tomlohave.

[jawor123Member]

I understand that you will post link to the ISO file once you finish building it?

[tomlohaveMember]

Off course

• This reply was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by  tomlohave.

[tomlohaveMember]

please test : http://download.openbricks.org/r15043/geexbox-devel-20120907-r15043-i386.iso (tested only in v-box for me)

(remove / recreate a clean casper-rw before)

and add your Xorg.0.log

[jawor123Member]

I will not be able to test it until Monday

But thank you, I will post log as soon as possible.

[jawor123Member]

Unfortunately, it didn’t help.

Here’s what happens:

When I try to boot LiveCD i don’t get any error massages, system starts normally, after main menu appears i got black screen(i can see main menu for 1-2 seconds) and monitor turns to standby(like no signal is sent from computer).

 

When i try to install, I still get “no framebuffer” error, but it install properly. After reboot it show main menu for 1-2 seconds and again monitor turns to standby and i cant do anything:(

[tomlohaveMember]

please attach your Xorg.0.log

and the result of command line located in journal.txt  :

journalctl -a > /root/journal.txt

and how much size for your ram ?

• This reply was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by  tomlohave.

[jawor123Member]

Can’t do this because system isn’t operational:( it shows black screen and i cant do anything…

When i have some time i will boot another LiveCD  OS and add Xorg.0.log but i’m unable to execute any command on system which doesn’t work

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