ASRock 770 based motherboard
2 Sapphire 5830s
1 Gig DDR2 800Mhz Ram
Athlon X2 6000+ 3.1Ghz
MSI P60G wireless adapter.
Topic: LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go. - page 61. (Read 285117 times)
June 03, 2011, 01:22:27 PM
June 03, 2011, 01:13:10 PM
yup working now fine with windows 7 installed to a hdd gotta make me a dummy plug tho to not have to swap the monitor to each card to get it to mine.
Can youpost a full list of your hardware so i can look into this further ?
June 03, 2011, 12:54:43 PM
yup working now fine with windows 7 installed to a hdd gotta make me a dummy plug tho to not have to swap the monitor to each card to get it to mine.
June 03, 2011, 12:44:10 PM
No dice via hdmi, no input at all being shown on the tv, doesn't even seem to POST. I have to stay dvi-vga which limits me at 1024x768. Way too much trouble than what it's worth it seems!
Sounds to me like its not just a resolution issue. Does it work fine using windows ?
June 03, 2011, 12:34:33 PM
No dice via hdmi, no input at all being shown on the tv, doesn't even seem to POST. I have to stay dvi-vga which limits me at 1024x768. Way too much trouble than what it's worth it seems!
June 03, 2011, 11:34:58 AM
June 03, 2011, 11:04:40 AM
All 3 of the monitors I have here give the same errors. I'm really stuck right now. I think at work I have access to an old CRT maybe that would work better? I'll see what I can do about bringing it home just for a night.
June 03, 2011, 10:30:34 AM
Do you have a spare monitor you could use just long enough to get the network working? Oh, get persistence set up first, and then see if you can borrow a monitor to set up networking.
June 03, 2011, 09:51:32 AM
Possibly but without a gui I don't know that I have the ability to connect to the network to even start up a miner.
June 03, 2011, 09:44:01 AM
Can't you just run the miner from the text console (while X is running, but not visible)?
June 03, 2011, 09:40:03 AM
*sigh* still out of range, but the vid cards did spin up to a higher speed. Seems X starts at least wondering if it's possible to mine completely from the this tty1. I tried clinfo and it doesn't seem to work, startmining doesn't either tho.
Oh and after all this I still have to get it onto the wireless network, that should be fun! I'm half debating just installing windows on a small hard drive and giving up at this point.
Oh and after all this I still have to get it onto the wireless network, that should be fun! I'm half debating just installing windows on a small hard drive and giving up at this point.
There's a wireless network manager just click onto the network you want to connect to and click connect !! If you reboot and move into tty1 you can cd over to /opt/miners/yourminer and should be able to start mining from there by typing DISPLAY=:0.* * being the display you want to use. But remember LinuxCoin 0.2a is only for testing so might pay you to move to a windows machine until the final version.
June 03, 2011, 09:31:41 AM
*sigh* still out of range, but the vid cards did spin up to a higher speed. Seems X starts at least wondering if it's possible to mine completely from the this tty1. I tried clinfo and it doesn't seem to work, startmining doesn't either tho.
Oh and after all this I still have to get it onto the wireless network, that should be fun! I'm half debating just installing windows on a small hard drive and giving up at this point.
Oh and after all this I still have to get it onto the wireless network, that should be fun! I'm half debating just installing windows on a small hard drive and giving up at this point.
June 03, 2011, 09:17:09 AM
Try this on tty1 after you've edited the xorg.conf file
Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
startx
startx
June 03, 2011, 09:13:04 AM
No luck with the modeline, as soon as I hit ctrl f7 it goes to unsupported no matter if i try 1024x768, 800x600, or even 640x480. Even on this monitor I'm using to type on here I get the same issues. I don't have a clue what the problem could be.
Also ctrl alt backspace doesn't seem to really do anything.
Also ctrl alt backspace doesn't seem to really do anything.
June 03, 2011, 09:06:47 AM
Leafpad won't do you much good. use nano instead. CTRL-O to save the changes, CTRL-X to exit.
I actually put nano then thought leafpad would suit the average joe due to being the same as any other txt editor. Both will do the same job but one is console based the other is a GUI.
nano is far more useful if the problem you are working on is that you can't get X to run.
I'm a spaz lol !! leafpad won't work in tty1 anyway
Ignore me and use nano 
You could use the generated Modeline if it works for you. Probably the best option considering you know more about the monitor than all of us 
Let me know how you get on.I realize that the way LinuxCoin initializes ATI gpu's is very ruff around the edges. Work is being done to make this a lot more user friendly.
June 03, 2011, 08:49:58 AM
Yeah I was just about to say leafpad says something about screen: not being able to be used. I used nano to edit, and upon hitting ctrl alt f7 I still get the out of range/videomode not supported. I think it's the refresh rate that is hurting me. It needs to be set to 60hz. Also upon reboot the xorg.conf file is reverted to the original without my edits.
I'm wondering if i need to set a hard modeline such as
Modeline "1024x768@60" 64.56 1024 1056 1296 1328 768 783 791 807
Under the Monitor option. I generated that one using the XFree86 generator.
From reading up on my monitor it can only handle up to 1024x768 @ 60hz.
I'm wondering if i need to set a hard modeline such as
Modeline "1024x768@60" 64.56 1024 1056 1296 1328 768 783 791 807
Under the Monitor option. I generated that one using the XFree86 generator.
From reading up on my monitor it can only handle up to 1024x768 @ 60hz.
June 03, 2011, 08:47:21 AM
Leafpad won't do you much good. use nano instead. CTRL-O to save the changes, CTRL-X to exit.
I actually put nano then thought leafpad would suit the average joe due to being the same as any other txt editor. Both will do the same job but one is console based the other is a GUI.
nano is far more useful if the problem you are working on is that you can't get X to run.
June 03, 2011, 08:43:01 AM
Leafpad won't do you much good. use nano instead. CTRL-O to save the changes, CTRL-X to exit.
I actually put nano then thought leafpad would suit the average joe due to being the same as any other txt editor. Both will do the same job but one is console based the other is a GUI.
June 03, 2011, 08:40:01 AM
Leafpad won't do you much good. use nano instead. CTRL-O to save the changes, CTRL-X to exit.
June 03, 2011, 08:37:41 AM
There's going to be a HDD installer included on the final version. The reason why I decided not to post instructions on how to install to a local HDD is because of LinuxCoin being in testing. If you really want to you could try formatting you HDD as ext4 then ...
chroot /mnt/hdd gives errorCode:
mkdir /mnt/hdd
mount /dev/sdXX /mnt/hdd
cp --preserve -R /{bin,boot,dev,etc,home,lib,lib32,opt,root,run,sbin,selinux,srv,usr,var} /mnt/hdd
mkdir /mnt/hdd/{media,proc,sys,tmp}
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/hdd/dev
mount -t proc /proc /mnt/hdd/proc
chroot /mnt/hdd
apt-get install grub2
grub-install /dev/sdX
exit
A bit of a hacky way but I have had 100% success rate using this over the years in various situations.mount /dev/sdXX /mnt/hdd
cp --preserve -R /{bin,boot,dev,etc,home,lib,lib32,opt,root,run,sbin,selinux,srv,usr,var} /mnt/hdd
mkdir /mnt/hdd/{media,proc,sys,tmp}
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/hdd/dev
mount -t proc /proc /mnt/hdd/proc
chroot /mnt/hdd
apt-get install grub2
grub-install /dev/sdX
exit
Code:
root@linuxcoin:/mnt/hdd# chroot /mnt/hdd
chroot: failed to run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory
does it require not having a persistent file setup?chroot: failed to run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory
Does /mnt/hdd/bin exist ? No persistence is not necessary.
Hey I was able to hit ctrl alt f1 to get a prompt can u walk me thru editing the xorg file?
Open a root console and enter this command.
Code:
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Look at that file and find the screen section. Here's what mine looks like on one of my boxes
Code:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[1]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[1]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[1]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[1]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
To set my resolution to 1400x900 I would add Modes "1400x900" just below the Depth line for eg.
Code:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[1]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[1]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[1]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[1]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Then go back to the original tty and restart the WDM.
ctrl + alt + f7
ctrl + alt + backspace
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