LILO settings? No VESA controllers found for ASUS Eeepc 1025C
I ran Slackware current on an ASUS EeePC 2G Surf for years and loved it!
Keyboard and trackpad on that box are wearing out now so I got a good deal on a better one, an EeePC 1025C with a Gig of RAM and a 320 G SDD 'hard drive.' Very excited to not have the space restrictions I had on that old 2G Surf. I'm installing Slackware 14 on this new machine but the installer reports no VESA controllers found. While I can get the new box to boot, the screen blanks about halfway through the bootup process, about the time it usually switches video modes. I have LILO requesting Normal VGA console with "vga = normal" but it still blanks during bootup. I can't use it like this. Any ideas? |
I reinstalled and set video mode to "vga=ask". This gives me some modes that work and some that don't.
This is enough to get me in the door anyway. |
I tried running Slackpkg to update me to current, where I really prefer to be and it tripped up during upgrade-all because the supporting libs were too old. Just trying to upgrade too far, I guess.
I had used Slackware 14 because that's what I had handy, so I downloaded Slackware 14.2 and everything is working MUCH better now! I even got startx to bring up KDE which is something I could never do on my old 2G Surf! Please disregard. I now have a whole new Slackware that is handling this new EeePC just fine. Thanks anyway... |
As you found, it is not recommended to skip releases when upgrading. If you are interested in running -current, rather than installing 14.2 and then upgrading, you can use Eric's Slackware -current ISOs.
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"-current ISOs"?? Goodness!!
Naw, I like having the stable 14.2 to start from if only for historical perspective and to use as a rescue disc. I live for Slackpkg updates! |
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