[SOLVED] video problems booting antiX 17.2 via PlopKexec
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:33 am
hi. Sorry for the lack of details (no INXI), I'm using a different computer now...
Here's my problem: I have my home pc with a nvidea card, with antiX 16.2 and I would like to upgrade to 17.2 full 64 bits. It does not boot via USB and I have no way of burning a DVD (I have a DVD player/CD-rom recorder only).
I looked around for options and found out about Plop (at https://www.plop.at). People on youtube seemed to be able to use it to boot to USB on pc's that did not have that boot option on the BIOS.
No luck, it, for some reason, freezes up when I select the option to boot to usb. The same ingenious guy that came up with Plop also did PlopKexec. I burned the iso of his linux (a 32bits version that presented the option to boot to a linux kernel via the menu).
I boot into plopkexec. it displays several options that looked like:
[USB device name]: antiX 17.2...
[USB device name]: costume 9 Outober ...
[USB device name]: safe video mode ...
[USB device name]: antiX 17.2...
[USB device name]: costume 9 Outober ...
[USB device name]: safe video mode ...
I have no option to enter any boot parameters as far as I can see...
It seems to repeat these options twice.
I clicked on all options and I always end up in a "working" 1024*768 screen resolution, but with several problems: the desktop image seems to be in something like 16 colors and if I open any window most of it's contents have so many graphical glitches that they are almost impossible to read. The window title bar has horizontal thin colored scratches (it seems like a bad graphics card I've seen long ago). Text inside Dillo's window seems to display fine...
Xrandr shows only this one screen resolutions and does not name the video output device (the installed antiX 16.2 calls it VGA-1). I logged into my installed antiX, copied the working Xrandr parameters and tried in the live USB. no luck, the video device was not found, the video resolution was no available...
Choosing "safe video mode" presented me with a cli only (I wonder if it's safe to try installing from the terminal or the video glitches will carry over to the hd instalation?)
So, will I have to ask a friend burn me a antiX 17.2 Dvd or do you have any idea how to solve this?
Thanks in advance for any insight about this situation
P.
Here's my problem: I have my home pc with a nvidea card, with antiX 16.2 and I would like to upgrade to 17.2 full 64 bits. It does not boot via USB and I have no way of burning a DVD (I have a DVD player/CD-rom recorder only).
I looked around for options and found out about Plop (at https://www.plop.at). People on youtube seemed to be able to use it to boot to USB on pc's that did not have that boot option on the BIOS.
No luck, it, for some reason, freezes up when I select the option to boot to usb. The same ingenious guy that came up with Plop also did PlopKexec. I burned the iso of his linux (a 32bits version that presented the option to boot to a linux kernel via the menu).
I boot into plopkexec. it displays several options that looked like:
[USB device name]: antiX 17.2...
[USB device name]: costume 9 Outober ...
[USB device name]: safe video mode ...
[USB device name]: antiX 17.2...
[USB device name]: costume 9 Outober ...
[USB device name]: safe video mode ...
I have no option to enter any boot parameters as far as I can see...
It seems to repeat these options twice.
I clicked on all options and I always end up in a "working" 1024*768 screen resolution, but with several problems: the desktop image seems to be in something like 16 colors and if I open any window most of it's contents have so many graphical glitches that they are almost impossible to read. The window title bar has horizontal thin colored scratches (it seems like a bad graphics card I've seen long ago). Text inside Dillo's window seems to display fine...
Xrandr shows only this one screen resolutions and does not name the video output device (the installed antiX 16.2 calls it VGA-1). I logged into my installed antiX, copied the working Xrandr parameters and tried in the live USB. no luck, the video device was not found, the video resolution was no available...
Choosing "safe video mode" presented me with a cli only (I wonder if it's safe to try installing from the terminal or the video glitches will carry over to the hd instalation?)
So, will I have to ask a friend burn me a antiX 17.2 Dvd or do you have any idea how to solve this?
Thanks in advance for any insight about this situation
P.