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|    Benny Pedersen to Alan Ianson    |
|    it's too easy    |
|    25 Feb 23 21:26:38    |
      MSGID: 2:230/0 63fa7dcf       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 1:153/757.0 07edae26       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17       Hello Alan!              15 Feb 2023 18:25, Alan Ianson wrote to Maurice Kinal:               >> No kidding. Just ran into a glitch with grub on both uefi and legacy         >> with kv-6.1.12 so rather than downgrade the kernel I opted out for taking         >> a grub-git out for a cruise. It worked!!! I just got it working about         >> half an hour ago and am currently bringing everything back into sync on         >> this overpriced toy.               AI> kv-6.1.12? I'll have to go grab it.              that was yesterday :=)               AI> At the moment LFS has the boot but if I run into trouble I'll boot         AI> with slackware.              so slack does work sometimes ? :)               >> What a pain but I think it'll be worth it.               AI> Yep, I am just working on some depenencies for the desktop. I'm going         AI> to have a go at getting xorg and friends installed tonight. If I         AI> succeed I'll be building an xfce desktop tomorrow.              +1               >>> I just updated the kernel to 6.1.9 earlier today and I see        >>> penguins here on my bios boot machine.               >> No love here yet but closing in on it. I currently have two legacy         >> machines I can try it out on. I figure by the weekend I *should* have a         >> working legacy boot but no promises on boot penguins as both are i915. I         >> may switch one to a uefi later.               AI> I don't see the penguins until the screen goes blank (kernel         AI> modesetting I think) and then they show up after that. I never saw         AI> them until I added the nouveau module.              let the penguins live in south pole :)               AI> I have the boot logo selected in ..        AI> make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Graphics support        AI> It's right at the bottom.              zgrep LOGO /proc/config.gz                      Regards Benny              ... too late to die young :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/6.1.13-gentoo-dist (x86_64))        * Origin: gopher://fido.junc.eu/ (2:230/0)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 15/0 16/0 19/37 90/1 105/81 106/201 114/709 123/130       SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 142/104 153/7715 201/0 203/0 124 412 218/700       SEEN-BY: 221/0 1 226/30 227/114 229/111 112 113 206 307 317 400 424       SEEN-BY: 229/426 428 452 470 550 616 664 700 230/0 240/5832 266/512       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5006 282/1038 292/854 317/3 320/119 219 319 2119       SEEN-BY: 322/0 757 326/101 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848       PATH: 230/0 203/0 320/219 229/426           |
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