Porteus

Thank you, thank you , thank you to all behind Porteus

After trying over 25 Linux distros, finally, the only one that works out of the box for me is PORTEUS. It took me quite a while to find it, but now I have, I will stick with it so long as my vye can handle it.

I think that the vye s18 mini is a strange little beast for various reasons, not least the AMD Geode LX processor. I still have not got the onboard wifi figured as yet but at least my mini usb wireless dongle was picked up immediately.


Thanks again to all involved.

Welcome sande. That's very good to hear!

It was OK with version Porteus-v1.2-i486 but with version 2, there is not the same options on boot to allow me to select vesa, unless I am missing something? The desktop is far too big. Any ideas as I would really like to upgrade to the latest version.

You can try using the cheatcode autoexec=vesa-mode

For permanence please open boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg and add this string to your chosen boot line.

brokenman wrote:You can try using the cheatcode autoexec=vesa-mode

For permanence please open boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg and add this string to your chosen boot line.

Hi, thamks for the reply.

When and where do I use the cheatcode to test it?

Just press TAB when you have boot menu or add it into porteus.cfg file for permanent use.

i think 'autoexec=vesa-mode' wont work as (as far as i remember) i have removed this script in 2.0 (never suspected that one may prefer VESA driver over native one).
please boot to text mode -> login as root -> run
'cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf' then 'init 4'

if that's ok then please run
'cp --parents /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa /mnt/sdXY/porteus/rootcopy'
and this config will be used during every next run.

Hamza wrote:Just press TAB when you have boot menu or add it into porteus.cfg file for permanent use.

I tried this with TAB and it worked OK when on cd boot, but when I installed it to the hard drive, the loading stops at the screen when trying to load sound icon. It simply goes back to the start of loading the icons stops again on the sound.

fanthom - I will try your suggestion.

When using v.2 in " text mode" from the cd, USB or hard drive, I still get the same problem, does not get past the loading sound icon. Then after someflashing, it goes back to login screen.

If I change to LXDE in the "menu" the same happens re the sound icon but it loads the desktop, but from the limited functionality, nothing past the first icon in "installing system etc" works.

Form the "start" icon, bottom left, it just shows "Run" and "Logout".

I can open google from the lower taskbar icon though and terminal but not "files" or "System".

@sande
did you try in 'always fresh' mode?
are you booting XFCE edition or Standard one? is it Porteus-2.0 or 1.2?
(for me it looks like it's a fault of old caches from porteus-1.2 or some unreliable module)

if 'always fresh' wont help then please boot to text mode and run 'psinfo' utility as root -> save /root/Desktop/psinfo.txt on writable media -> boot any other OS and upload raport to pastebin.com -> post URL here.

Hi, time to revive my old thread ;-)

Porteus-LXDE-v2.1-i486 -

fanthom - I have tried the following in text mode on 'cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf' then 'init 4' which works great when logging in but I have no option to add 'cp --parents /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa /mnt/sdXY/porteus/rootcopy' as it boots straight into porteus correctly. I have to do the first line at every boot time.

I tried to add the second line in text mode and via a terminal but it will not accept it stating that "cp: with --parents" the destination must be a directory.

How can I force it to be permanent on every boot.

Thanks

/rootcopy is explained well in our documentation:
http://www.porteus.org/tutoriels/26-gen ... ctory.html