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Using xorg geode driver on Jetway J8F9
- The Jetway J8F9 working in a box as public internet access in Weltcafe Dresden, Germany
After the Xubuntu upgrade to 8.10, I wanted to use the geode xorg driver to launch the xserver. But this didn't worked as in 8.04. Before spending too much time to find a working solution, I decided to upgrade to Xubuntu 9.04 using the xorg-1.6 server and xorg-geode-2.11.1 driver.
Again with 9.04 the fbdev driver worked fine but the geode driver startet with 800x600 instead of WXGA (1440x900). I tried a lot to force the driver to use another resolution. But no success. Then I added the Option "NoPanel" "true" and ... it worked! But like Martin-Eric wrote on the xorg-driver-geode mailinglist, it's prefered to not add any options to the xorg.conf. And indeed: in my BIOS there is a menu to choose CRT and/or Panel. After setting it to CRT, it works with the default xorg.conf! Great!
Being happy to use the geode driver another problem occurred: The active button of dialog boxes and some tabs in programs had black boxes as background. Not very useful with black text on it. There seems to be a bug but unfortunately nobody has time to fix it :-(
There are two workarounds:
- add the Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" to the Device section of your xorg.conf. This disables parts of the accelleration.
- use a different theme in Gnome. MurrinaStormCloud (the default) is quite slow. Human doesn't work either. I use Xfce-b5 at the moment. But there remains still some strange effects but this is not so important
Updating Xubuntu on Jetway J8F9 Nano-ITX Board
For half a year, I have a Jetway Nano-ITX Board (J8F9) running with Xubuntu 8.04 on a CF-card. This Board is very slow with an AMD Geode but 100% silent and consumes only about 3 Watt. It's the perfect internet client for my cafe.
One problem was the right setting for the display (quite cheap monitor with 1440x900 pixels). Before updating to 8.10 I had to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manually and set:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
#Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Driver "fbdev"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
# Virtual 1440 900
Modes "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
The Xorg-Version is:
X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.
Current Operating System: Linux cafepc 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:5
Build Date: 13 June 2008 01:08:21AM
After 5 minutes download and about 6 hours (!) packages replacements, the system was ready to reboot. But... it ends up in a kernel panic! And before booting, the install-tool deinstalled the old kernel. Very stupid.
So I removed the CF-card and modified the boot/grub/menu.lst. Xubunto forgot to add the initrd-line below the kernel:
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-14-generic