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Post by donbwolf on Jul 20, 2011 12:22:50 GMT -5
I managed to burn the demo successfully to two discs one cd and another dvd.So far access is about 50% meaning ive tried KNOS on four machines.Two worked well and the other two would load then hang.All were the 64 bit version.On the two that did hang , i would be stuck at the login screen.I was able to type whatever i liked but get no further.
Any ideas?
DBW
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jul 20, 2011 23:12:32 GMT -5
I managed to burn the demo successfully to two discs one cd and another dvd.So far access is about 50% meaning ive tried KNOS on four machines.Two worked well and the other two would load then hang.All were the 64 bit version.On the two that did hang , i would be stuck at the login screen.I was able to type whatever i liked but get no further. Any ideas? DBW Hi there, and sorry for the misadventure there. The reason for the demo is that while we've tested KNOS on lots of toys in the past couple of years and given it the ability to detect pretty much every possible kind of hardware, we've yet to encounter all that's out there. Our demo is designed to let folks test KNOS against their hardware to ensure that the retail version will work for them. Custom builds of course can be built for anything out there once we see what new hardware may require us to customize. And once we've seen surprises like yours, they get worked into our next public builds just to ensure no problems will occur. Since you made it to the login screen without problems earlier on, it sounds like the problem is with kicking KNOS into graphical mode which usually indicates a graphics card or chip that is unknown to the "xorg" infrastructure's hardware detection. If my guess is correct, then the screen should go black there and perhaps bounce back out to that prompt after a second or two before it just sits there. I'd be most interested in what you're seeing when it gets down to that login: prompt. Does it hang with the word "login:" on a line by itself with a white square? And does it go black and come back out or just sit there without doing anything at all? If you give one of those "no go" machines a try once again, and it hangs, see if you can hold down the ctrl and alt keys and hit the F5 key up top. If that gives you another login: prompt again, then I can tell you how to get me some information and perhaps we can get those two working for you as well. If not, I'll get after the "xorg" people once we can find out what your chipset is in there and get it fixed for our next release. But I need to figure out what specific hardware is going sideways to give them a clue. But somehow on those two machines, autodetect is somehow failing to figure out what graphics you've got on there. Be happy to fix it once I know where the "owie" is since there's an endless supply of mine canaries and we pay attention to those when encountered.
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