Tinycore swapping between vesa and nvidia at boot
Hi
This is how to successfully choose different graphic setups, mainly for a vesa and nvidia setup for an USB stick. Intel setup is for a different computer so not shown.
BOOTLOADER config - grub-legacy
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default 0
timeout 3
color cyan/blue white/blue
title NV
kernel /boot/vmlinuz tce=LABEL=usbp1 home=LABEL=usbp1 opt=LABEL=usbp1 waitusb=8:LABEL=usbp1 snd=/opt/nv.sh lst=nv.lst tz=UTC-8
initrd /boot/477.gz
title INTEL
kernel /boot/vmlinuz tce=LABEL=usbp1 home=LABEL=usbp1 opt=LABEL=usbp1 waitusb=8:LABEL=usbp1 snd=/opt/intel.sh lst=intel.lst tz=UTC-8 video.allow_duplicates=1
initrd /boot/477.gz
title VESA
kernel /boot/vmlinuz tce=LABEL=usbp1 home=LABEL=usbp1 opt=LABEL=usbp1 waitusb=8:LABEL=usbp1 snd=/opt/vesa.sh lst=vesa.lst tz=UTC-8
initrd /boot/477.gz
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I have more boot options than above.
The partitions need to have LABELs setup. Not covered in this thread. I have full persistence for home/ opt/ tce/
so I have no backups in my .profile
bootlocal.sh contents
Quote:
#!/bin/sh
# put other system startup commands here
RUNME=""
for i in `showbootcodes`
do
case $i in
snd*) RUNME=${i#*=} ;;
esac
done
[ -n "$RUNME" ] && $RUNME
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Above is the "secret" to use different bootlocals for each graphics type.
nv.sh contents
Quote:
#!/bin/sh
# put other system startup commands here
/bin/cp /opt/xorg.conf.glx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
/bin/cp -f /opt/shadow /etc/
/usr/local/sbin/alsactl -f /opt/asound.state restore
/usr/local/etc/init.d/dbus start
/usr/local/sbin/basic-firewall noprompt
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd
/bin/cp -f /opt/ppd-epson/* /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd/
/bin/cp -f /opt/printers.conf /usr/local/etc/cups/
/usr/local/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 5353 -j ACCEPT
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As you can guess, as I have no backups in mydata.gz I rely on script to copy from a persistent folder to the file system
If you leave one of the xorg.confs in a traditional backup you may
bork your next boot of something different.
vesa.sh contents
Quote:
#!/bin/sh
# put other system startup commands here
/bin/cp -f /opt/xorg.conf.vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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Now the TCZ lists
nv.lst contents
Quote:
Xprogs.tcz
mc.tcz
LXDE2.tcz
vlc.tcz
xarchiver.tcz
mtpaint-3.21.tcz
iptables.tcz
alsa.tcz
mylocale.tcz
lxterminal.tcz
leafpad.tcz
Xorg-7.6.tcz
nv.tcz
fsarchiver.tcz
xfburn.tcz
nano.tcz
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Not all of these--you are going to want....they are my preferences
vesa.lst contents
Quote:
Xvesa.tcz
Xlibs.tcz
Xprogs.tcz
flwm_topside.tcz
wbar.tcz
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I won't show the contents of the vesa xorg.conf as thats standard
to the distro
nvidia xorg contents
Quote:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 310.32 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-09) Mon Jan 14 15:46:49 PST 2013
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/X11/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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works for me for version 4.7.7
5.x is not yet ready for this to work for different reasons, not shown here.
good luck |
