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 Message 7738 
 Benny Pedersen to Alan Ianson 
 it's too easy 
 25 Feb 23 21:26:38 
 
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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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