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   Message 7,738 of 8,232   
   Benny Pedersen to Alan Ianson   
   it's too easy   
   25 Feb 23 21:26:38   
   
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   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 :)   
      
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