[SOLVED] Problems getting boot working properly on trimslice

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Ok, something weird going on with my hardware, after booting from power off 3 times, the screen suddenly came up again on Ubuntu.

My ext3 filesystem Arch install became corrupted (The SD card is not recognised by any machine), so I am back to rebuilding the card .. I will do it in ext2 format this time, and see if it is more stable.

By The way, when I do a pacman -Syu in a chroot environment, when it gets to the point of installing the files, I see lot's of these style errors:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '(14/50) upgrading libgcrypt [################################] 100%
/tmp/alpm_5H03p9/.INSTALL: line 7: /dev/null: Permission denied
/tmp/alpm_5H03p9/.INSTALL: line 7: /dev/null: Permission denied
error: command failed to execute correctly')

Does anyone know if this is benign?

[kmihelich]

Because you don't have /dev and other system directories remounted in the chroot. Can be ignored in some cases.

Why are you running in a chroot?

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Because that is what the installation guide tells me to do! .. and I quote ..

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ext, you'll chroot into the installation to update everything and install a new kernel and drivers before you can boot:
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf etc/resolv.conf
sudo chroot .
pacman -Syyu # Say yes to upgrade pacman
pacman -Syu # Also say yes to update everything else
pacman -S kernel26-trimslice # Say yes to replace the current kernel
pacman -S kernel26-headers-trimslice # Yep, here too
pacman -S nvidia-trimslice uboot-mkimage
# Don't exit yet!

[kmihelich]

Thought you were in a chroot for some other reason. I believe HDMI is the primary output, and I've heard that it needs to be active at boot or it doesn't work. Lots of different advice out there. I don't have video hooked up to mine, so I don't have any first-hand ideas.

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Oh, I suspected as much. My test monitor only has DVI-D input or a "DisplayPort" input not HDMI, so does that mean I cannot run Arch on the DVI?

[kmihelich]

You should be able to go HDMI->DVI. You just lose the HDCP crap in the process, which doesn't matter in this case.

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Thanks. Did that, works just fine ..

I have XFCE up and running and it is nice and snappy!

Wanted to try playing a 1080i video to see how it performed. First tried mplayer with all the different -vo options, but I don't seem to have any accelerated video on any of them, played very slow, dropping a lot of frames.

Tried VLC next, but that would not launch, seems to have a pulseaudio dependancy ..

Anyone know the best way to get a video player using the accelerated video ..

Thanks.

[molocia]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bneate', 'I')f you are connecting your display to the trimslice using the HDMI port there is a issue where the port is not enabled until a x server is started up. Since arch doesn't install/start a x server by default you need to do that manually before you can get any display output on the HDMI port. You can either do this when you are in the chroot while installing arch or using a ssh/serial connection when arch is running on your trimslice.