Comments on: Debian GNU/Linux on my ASUS M5623N

By: asa

asa — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:32:54 +0000

I did indeed!

Were you one of the engineers? I think I remember you…

Good times… lol

Sorry, i only just noticed your comment in moderation since I have far too much spam on my site. Need to upgrade to latest version of WordPress

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:45:59 +0000

Hmmm…. Me thinks you used to work in PC World in Cardiff

By: asa

asa — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:57:23 +0000

How’s things? Email me!

By: Ge3

Ge3 — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:15:24 +0000

HELLO ASAAAAAAA!!!!!

By: John coutel

John coutel — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:25:11 +0000

Hi Asa,
thanks for your answer, I could finish the installation of Sarge. I am very happy.
Do you have any more tips to optomize our favorite Linux into on Asus ?
Thanks, for your great Blog.
Take care, John

By: asa

asa — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:20:24 +0000

I haven't found a way to kill X once it gets into that mysterious green screen state. The only way around it is to avoid getting there in the first place. You need to boot from a lower runlevel that does not invoke X - level 1 (single user mode) should do it. To change the runlevel at boot time you could reconfigure GRUB. A simpler way would be to select "rescue mode" (or similar") from the GRUB menu at boot time. If Debian didn't set this GRUB option up for some reason, try this page. Remember that the way you select the runlevel at boot time is just to add 1 as a parameter. Good luck - let me know how it goes. :)

By: John Coutel

John Coutel — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:03:17 +0000

Dear Asa,
I am a Newbie, I have installed sucessfully on my Laptop Asus M5N > Debian Sarge 2.6.8 from the Linux Format DVD magazine.
But when Linux try to launched the X-server > I got a green screen.
I don’t know how to go back to the prompt as Debian try automatically to start the X server… :(
I know that I have to add in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 the following line :

Section “Device”
Identifier “Generic Video Card”
Driver “i810″
VideoRam 16384
>>>This line Option “DisplayInfo” “FALSE”
EndSection

My question is very simple : How to Kill the X-server or go to the prompt as I have only a green screen at Linux debian startup ?
I have tried Ctrl+Atl+1 > untill Ctrl+Atl+9 > I couldn’t go to the text mode to edit this file. Tried Alt+1….didn’t work either….
I guess I should boot abd select thr run level 3 (instead of 5 I guess) but I don’t know how to do it.
Could you please, help on this. Thank you.

By: H2O Intolerant Ninja

H2O Intolerant Ninja — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:57:41 +0000

just for reference (incase we meet again and i feel the urge to link my iriver):

http://lonelymachines.org/iriver.html

yeah, it always seems so simple when you read it afterwards ;)

By: Werner Heuser

Werner Heuser — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:13:52 +0000

Thank you for this Linux installation report. It will be linked at the
TuxMobil Linux Laptop Survey.