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Operating Systems and Porting / Chimera Linux is entering alpha
« on: June 14, 2023, 08:44:35 pm »
As of 2023-06-11, per this post: https://chimera-linux.org/news/2023/06/entering-alpha.html

I booted the live ISO in graphical (RAM) mode on my Talos II, was met briefly with a console login, followed by a GUI which would not respond.  I could change to a console and enter commands, and when switching back to GUI I noticed a background image had been loaded in place of the initial solid blue desktop.  It seems it's only redrawing when I switch away and back; mouse pointer moves but no input produces a response.

I'm just using the VGA output from the AST2500, no GPU, so I'm interested to hear if anyone else has tried it yet.

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Operating Systems and Porting / AST VGA from Debian Installer
« on: June 02, 2023, 03:57:24 am »
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990016 was submitted by Tim Pearson to include ast fb module in Debian installer.  I have tried the Bookworm RC4 installer (released about a week ago, while the bug fix was merged over 2 months ago), but I still get no video from the VGA output.

Am I jumping the gun looking for this change in this RC?  Or is there something else I need to be doing (kernel argument?) to get VGA output?

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