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Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 4:40 pm
by brkurt
Hello everyone...

I've been given two HP Notebooks from a grateful employer, and the only downside is that they both use the Intel chip which has a Linux bug in it, which I didn't notice until I tried to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 (no dice) or 16.04 (no dice here, either). :shock:

I'd be grateful if I could download a working Debian nightly--or even a tar.gz--from 2014 or 2105, so that I could use these new units.

Thanks in advance... :)

Re: Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:51 pm
by Aranuvir
This is kind of a strange request, an outdated nightly of Debian?? Perhaps you could be more specific about this bug: which Intel chip and what happens?

And sorry, this is slightly off topic -> moving it to the latter.

Re: Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:03 pm
by joepal
Maybe you could check out the source code from a given date and run the script for producing a deb file? The requirements aren't all that complex to fulfill. I think most stuff is already installed per default in any debian-based system.

The build script for constructing a deb is available in the "buildscripts" directory: https://bitbucket.org/MakeHuman/makehum ... at=default

Re: Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:18 pm
by brkurt
joepal wrote:Maybe you could check out the source code from a given date and run the script for producing a deb file? The requirements aren't all that complex to fulfill. I think most stuff is already installed per default in any debian-based system.

The build script for constructing a deb is available in the "buildscripts" directory: https://bitbucket.org/MakeHuman/makehum ... at=default


Many thanks Joepal; I will definitely look into to. Trying to debug an Intel video chip bug in Linux is beyond my skill level.

Re: Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 10:17 pm
by Aranuvir
Must have lost my brain today, ... you were talking about a makehuman package for Debian. Sorry for that ... :oops:

Still out of curiosity: How did you perform the upgrades? These where clean new installations of 14.04 and 16.04?

Re: Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:21 am
by joepal
Since brkurt wasn't talking about getting debian, but rather makehuman, I'll move this topic again. :-)

Re: Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 1:55 pm
by wolgade
I'm not sure if I got the problem. Is it the issue I had almost a year ago http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12828?

If so, using an older MH won't help. Something changed with the Intel driver. The only option is to use the older Intel driver. I solved my problem by switching to Debian stable, which is famous for outdated software.

Re: Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 4:02 pm
by brkurt
wolgade wrote:I'm not sure if I got the problem. Is it the issue I had almost a year ago http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12828?

If so, using an older MH won't help. Something changed with the Intel driver. The only option is to use the older Intel driver. I solved my problem by switching to Debian stable, which is famous for outdated software.


My apologies to everyone. I should have typed MH Debian nightly. I only use Debian stable.
It turns out that there were two problems, one is deadly, and one is easy to fix.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)

can be solved by installing: intel-linux-graphics-installer_1.0.1_i386.deb, but it might blow your system up! :o :shock:

the easy one is: gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R image

Just hit TAB to get to the menu. :)

Re: Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 12:46 pm
by wolgade
brkurt wrote:I only use Debian stable.

Ok, but in your first post you wrote about upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04. Ubuntu is Debian based, but Debian stable is a completely different distro.

Re: Does anyone have a Debian Nightly from 2014? 2015?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 12:56 pm
by brkurt
wolgade wrote:
brkurt wrote:I only use Debian stable.

Ok, but in your first post you wrote about upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04. Ubuntu is Debian based, but Debian stable is a completely different distro.


Good point. I should have posted: MH 1.1.0 Nightly on Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04. :geek: