26 Reply by Howard Kaikow

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Re: Live CD is not usable

cmdr wrote:

I did a research within the PCI database of present "GParted" ... and your card is listed (vendor ID 1002; product ID 5159) . There is a generic radeon driver for it (smaller than "Ubuntu's" :102644 Bytes versus 342 816 Bytes).

Is that for GParted or Gparted Live CD?
It's the latter that is being discussed here.
Apparently, that "generic radeon driver" is the problem.

And the same problem for the Nvidia on the notebook.

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Re: Live CD is not usable

Hello Howard,

Is that for GParted or Gparted Live CD?
It's the latter that is being discussed here.
Apparently, that "generic radeon driver" is the problem.

And the same problem for the Nvidia on the notebook.

It's for GParted Live CD (with it's own Debian based Linux system ). If GParted is integrated in other distros (e.g Ubuntu), it uses Ubuntu's graphical environment, i.e it's source code is "neutral" with  respect to the actual graphical system. The drivers are provided by the distro.

Concerning your NVidia hardware: could you indicate its product ID, too ? BTW, what kind of display /monitor/ TFT do you use with the radeon card and what kind of connector (VGA, DVI, HDMI)?

Regards
cmdr

28 Reply by Howard Kaikow (edited by Howard Kaikow 2009-07-31 21:31:48)

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Re: Live CD is not usable

cmdr wrote:

Hello Howard,

Is that for GParted or Gparted Live CD?
It's the latter that is being discussed here.
Apparently, that "generic radeon driver" is the problem.

And the same problem for the Nvidia on the notebook.

It's for GParted Live CD (with it's own Debian based Linux system ). If GParted is integrated in other distros (e.g Ubuntu), it uses Ubuntu's graphical environment, i.e it's source code is "neutral" with  respect to the actual graphical system. The drivers are provided by the distro.

Concerning your NVidia hardware: could you indicate its product ID, too ? BTW, what kind of display /monitor/ TFT do you use with the radeon card and what kind of connector (VGA, DVI, HDMI)?

Regards
cmdr

I've already pointed out that the cards are:

Desktop has a Radeon 7000 series video adapter.
Notebook has an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M Gs.

And thatr GParted displays properly using the Parted Magic Live CD or the Ubuntu 9.04 Live CD or in Ubuntu itself.

Given that the same problem occurs on two drastically different PCs, with very different video cards,amd monitors,  the issue is clearly a software issue in the GParted Live CD.

I've already given the output of

lsmod
lspci -n
lspci

From the old desktop using Ubuntu.

I will not be installing Ubuntu on the Vista notebook until after I add Windows 7 later this year.

This is an issue for the GParted Live CD developers.
When they can respond, I may be able to contribute further.

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Yes, I think the generic radeon from Debian Lenny (5.0) does not support your card. We will try to use newer programs in the future. E.g. switch to Debian Squeeze.
Thanks for reporting this problem again.

Steven.

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stevenshiau wrote:

Yes, I think the generic radeon from Debian Lenny (5.0) does not support your card. We will try to use newer programs in the future. E.g. switch to Debian Squeeze.
Thanks for reporting this problem again.

Steven.

Thanx.

Also the NVidia on the notebook.
Same problem.