[Solved] Netbook booting to command line

[Member NarfBoy]

Hi All

I’m trying to get an old netbook going with antiX and I’m stuck on a graphics issue. I’ve searched around but I’m struggling to figure out the problem. When I Installed the OS I got the following message:

Undefined video mode number: 317
Press <ENTER> to see video modes available...

The netbook’s screen is 1024×600 which I suspect has confused things.

If I try to start graphics via antiX-cli-cc it crashes out back to the command line. Attempting to install the graphics driver does nothing to my knowledge

Any thoughts gratefully received.

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Have you installed antiX to hard drive or are you running it ‘live’?
Did you try Safe Video Mode or Failsafe options at boot menu?
You need to give us more details about your hardware.
Which version of antiX have you tried?

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[Member NarfBoy]

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It’s installed to the SSD and booting to command line

Version: antiX-19.2_386

Safe video mode & Failsafe live boot result in the same 317 response and then boot to the command line log in.

Sorry for my lack of detail earlier I hope this helps:

Hardware:
ASUS Eee PC 901

inxi Reports the Graphics as:

Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Grathics
vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: N/A
bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: server: No display server data found. Headless machine?
tty: 80x25
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.

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• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by NarfBoy.

[Moderator caprea]

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NarfBoy wrote:

Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing

Looks like mesa-utils is not installed.The next conclusion is,you have neither antiX-full nor antiX-base installed.
Probably core which does not include X.

[Member NarfBoy]

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Thanks for your excellent comments and help. I have concluded the issue lies with the idiot behind the keyboard who down loaded the core iso not base iso. Hardly surprisingly I can’t get X to work.

Doh!

[Member PPC]

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No worries, it wasn’t the first time and probably won’t be the last… Please mark this thread as [Solved] that will probably help if someone with the same problem that searches the forum on how to solve it…
And welcome to antiX. the full version is great… antiX began as a somewhat ugly and complex OS to use, but in the last couple of years it went a long way, with helper GUI’s for most of the essential stuff, and looks much better… It’s a fine time to begin using antiX

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[Member NarfBoy]

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I have to say I’m loving the light weightness and antiX-cli-cc is excellent. I’ve been away from Linux for a bit, it’s certainly a bit of a change from CentOS of old.

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