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Post#1
by peebee » 15 Mar 2014, 23:10
[SOLVED] - my error - many thanks for the help and support
Hi there
Trying to boot Porteus V3.0 LXDE edition on my HP550 laptop with graphics:
Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
oem: Intel(r)GM965/PM965/GL960 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)GM965/PM965/GL960 Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
Tried lots of vga= boot codes but am unable to achieve a full 1280x800 display - all I can get is 1024x768 display.
Booting off a usb stick using grub4dos with the following boot lines:
title Porteus
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /porteus-boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
kernel /porteus-boot/syslinux/vmlinuz vga=791 changes=/mnt/sdb1/porteus-linux/porteussave.dat
initrd /porteus-boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
Any pointers on how to get a full 1280x800 display gratefully received.
Thanks.
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peebee on 16 Mar 2014, 19:04, edited 2 times in total.
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Post#2
by francois » 15 Mar 2014, 23:40
Welcome on porteus forum peebee!
You can fix that with xrandr command:
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root@porteus:~# xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800
root@porteus:~#
Just try it to see if it works. If it does you just have to write a script (.sh file type with execute permission) that could be placed in the autostart folder ~/.config/autostart so that it is effective at bootup.
If not, please give us the output of your xrandr (the following output is mine in dual display):
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root@porteus:~# xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2806 x 900, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1366x768 60.2*+
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 59.9
VGA1 connected 1440x900+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 410mm x 257mm
1440x900 59.9*+ 75.0
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1280x960 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
root@porteus:~#
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Post#3
by peebee » 16 Mar 2014, 00:02
francois wrote:Welcome on porteus forum peebee!
You can fix that with xrandr command:
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root@porteus:~# xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800
root@porteus:~#
Just try it to see if it works.
Hi francois
Many thanks for the suggestion - sadly

it does not seem to work for me:
root@porteus:~# xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
warning: output LVDS1 not found; ignoring
root@porteus:~# xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 61.0*
800x600 61.0
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Post#4
by fanthom » 16 Mar 2014, 07:54
please boot to GUI and generate 'psinfo' report then upload somewhere and link here.
thanks
Please add [Solved] to your thread title if the solution was found.
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Post#5
by peebee » 16 Mar 2014, 11:43
fanthom wrote:please boot to GUI and generate 'psinfo' report then upload somewhere and link here.
thanks
psinfo here -
http://peebee.5gbfree.com/share/psinfo.txt
I am wondering whether it is something to do with the way that I am booting Porteus......
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Post#6
by francois » 16 Mar 2014, 11:58
You probably have the wrong display driver. Fanthom is unbeatable at fixing this type of problem, and in fact any type of problem. You should have a solution quite soon.

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Post#7
by fanthom » 16 Mar 2014, 13:14
i guess you must have older (3.0 rc1/rc2?) porteus linux installation on /dev/sda2 while trying to boot from usb stick (/dev/sdb1). kernel version mismatches and no kernel modules are loaded (thus no sound and VGA). please add:
cheatcode to your porteus.cfg to force booting from usb stick and everything will be ok. please also remove vga=791 as is not necessary.
if Porteus is unpacked to /mnt/sdb1/porteus-linux then from will have to look like:
Please add [Solved] to your thread title if the solution was found.
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Post#8
by peebee » 16 Mar 2014, 19:03
fanthom wrote:i guess you must have older (3.0 rc1/rc2?) porteus linux installation on /dev/sda2 while trying to boot from usb stick (/dev/sdb1)
Very many thanks - that was indeed the problem - I'd forgotten that I'd installed an earlier version to the hard disk as you correctly analysed.
So sorry to have wasted your time with my error.
Has left me feeling very positive about the Forum though - excellent support and help.
Cheers
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Post#9
by francois » 16 Mar 2014, 19:07
We are glad to read that. A friendly and supportive environment is one of our objectives.
We hope you will be able at some point to do the same for other newcomers.
Salut!
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