GeForce7050PV live 4.0 boot - no luck

[petr]

hi, any advice welcome.
trying to boot AVlinux live DVD 4.0 (tried also 3.1) on AMD dual core, ASUS MB with GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a integrated.
tried normal boot, forced vesa and text-only, no luck anywhere. DVD boots up fine on my very old box.
What I get are yellowish-greenish lines and columns that are evidently derived from the desktop image with panels, installer icon, etc. - they react to mouse movement and clicking with change of pattern.
No idea how I could adjust resolution, dirver, etc, since the system's not installed.
text mode leads only to frozen comp with message Video mode not supported.

Discovered the distro last week fell in love with it on the old box, don't want to give up on the new one.
Any advice, help, hint welcome
thanks

[GMaq]

Hi,

Unfortunately Xorg seems to have a revolving list of troublesome cards with each release, I have intentionally held Xorg's version in AV Linux because it was defaulting the "nouveau" driver for nVidia stuff which was causing more problems than it was solving. I know certain 7000 series nVidia cards can be a headache with Linux (i.e 7200GS) whether your model is one of them I'm not certain. Other than installing a different supported card I don't really know what to advise you to do, Linux' hardware compatibility is amazing but unfortunately not 100%

I'm happy to hear you are using AV on an "older" machine, that is one of the main attributes I'm trying to promote.

[petr]

Thanks for the answer,
I'm looking for a supported card will try ATI for a change, I suppose if the card is listed on X.Org Wiki, then I can give it a try. I'll leave a post here in case somebody else is interested.
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[petr]

just managed to configure xorg.conf in Debian 5.05 so that it works with my integrated GeForce 7050 PV.
Is there any way to get to and rewrite the xorg.conf file in the booted AVlinux live distro to get to the GUI installer?
thanks

[petr]

Success!
Got the AVlinux 4.0 working on the (...bit hard to find the word...) GeForce7050PV integrated.
For anybody who might find it useful, here's my howto:
1. AVlinux live DVD boot led to the VIDEO MODE NOT SUPPORTED msg, i.e. nowhere, I couldn't even get to a legible console.
2. The 'xforcevesa' option led to jubled yellowish mess, after hitting Ctrl+Alst+F2 it provided a console.
Maybe I got to the console from the text-only boot option, actually, but the important thing is that is was somehow possible
3.

Code:

cd /
locate remastersys-installer

found me the installer in
/usr/bin
directory
4. Running the Installer was a pleasure

Code:

/usr/bin/remastersys-installer

5. Then I got the system which I could not see, but booting as single user (catching Grub options on booting with any key after the BIOS splash) made it possible to rewrite the
/usr/share/xresprobe/xorg.conf
file according to the xorg.conf file which worked for me in the Debian 5 lenny
I used

Code:

nano /usr/share/xresprobe/xorg.conf

and then I copied the file to the /etc/X11/ directory

Code:

cd /usr/share/xresprobe
cp xorg.conf /etc/X11/

then I rebooted

Code:

init 6

closed my eyes or made my 1574th coffee
and voila there it was
 
I AM SURE that the procedure was probably unreasonably clumsy, but I am there and straight after next payday I'm on PayPal with my contribution!
As I said I absolutely love the distro (been on planetccrma so far and trying out UbuntuStudio for my students)

If anybody could use more details, post a message pls.

thanks to GMaq for great encouragement and all the work

[GMaq]

Hi,

Glad you got it to work! Thanks for sharing your solution for others to benefit.