Any quick help that can be provided would be most welcomed!
PROBLEM: After successfully installing FC2 32bit, on reboot, graphical load screen goes awash in colour.
DETAILS: I've just bought a new computer today and was trying to load FC2. Everything went fine on install. No issues. My monitor wasn't initially recognized, but I selected it from the monitor list and proceeded without issue. Graphics were fine on install. Install completed successfully.
On reboot, the Grub graphics screen with kernel was recognized. The system then started to do a text load for a few seconds until it hit the graphical load portion of the boot-up sequence. Then, it went to switch over to the graphical load screen, as it typically does. However, when it got to that part of the boot-up process, the screen went awash in coloured, pixely, uneven patterns across my screen.
This happened on three different install attempts: My FC2 HD from my Celeron was loaded in to my computer and initially did this. I then did an FC2 *upgrade* without issue but on reboot the same thing occurred again. I then did a *clean install* to reformat the disc. Again, all went smoothly until I hit the same problem at the same point, once again.
Help! I'm really partial to Fedora after trying out Mandrake 10, SuSE and Debian Sarge. It's a great distro so I'd love to get it back.
COMPUTER SPECS: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000 Motherboard: K8V SE Deluxe Video card: ATI Radeon 9200 SE Monitor: ACER 54E
Loading FC2 Final 32 bit. My FC2 64bit version discs didn't download properly on to be friend's XP box, so I'm stuck on 32bit for now. My FC2 32bit discs work and were used to install on my old Celeron machine, so that's not the problem.
Please feel free to CC: any responses to rory@childwelfare.ca, as I'm on the digest version. I'm currently typing from the SuSE 9.1 LiveCD, but I'm not a fan of SuSE or Mandrake, so save me! :)
Thanks, Rory
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 20:11, Rory Gleeson wrote:
Any quick help that can be provided would be most welcomed!
PROBLEM: After successfully installing FC2 32bit, on reboot, graphical load screen goes awash in colour.
I have a Radeon 9000 in my K8V Deluxe and it has been running both 32 and 64 bit versions of FC2 T1-3 and now is running FC2 final with no problems...my son has an MSI Neo with a Radeon 9600 in it and it is running 64 bit FC2 without problems also.
First, I would check to make sure that the AGP card is fully seated in its slot and that it is perpendicular to the plane of the MB...a slight tilt can cause odd problems, particularly in a case that isn't very square. Sometimes it is necessary to slightly bend the bulkhead plate to make sure the card is properly seated. Also, make sure the card lock is properly engaged. Remember, pull the plug on the power supply before messing with things in any slot...the motherboard is powered up otherwise even though the processor isn't..the green led in the lower front corner of the mb will be off if the system is completely powered down.
If that doesn't help, I have a suggestion with 2 variations...both involve editing the grub stanza before booting.
When the Grub menu comes up, move the selection to the kernel/system you want to boot (ie Fedora Core) and press the letter e (for edit) and move the selection to the line with rhgb quiet on it...backspace those 10 characters out and then hit escape and then b to boot the system. This will leave you in text mode until the system really needs to go to the graphics mode login screen. This will give you an idea of whether there are other issues preventing the system from getting to the point where it actually needs to do the video mode change into a graphics mode...perhaps you'll get lucky and by skipping the RHGB screen, the problem will go away. If, instead, you don't get a graphical login screen displayed, Alt R Alt R will get the system to reboot if everything other than the video card is really running properly.
At this point, you can do the same thing as above but also add a space and the number 3 after removing the rhgb quiet stuff...this will boot you into runlevel 3 (text mode with networking) where you can log in and look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for any clues about the problem. If you are not familiar with vi or emacs, use less to view the log file and nano to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf as necessary, first making sure to save a backup of the original as something like xorg.orig.conf. Since it seems at least 640x480 graphics are running, you could eliminate all resolutions but that one and see if it plays...anything can run that mode unless it is totally borked. At least that will get you to a point where you can start further debugging.
HTH, KAS
-
kas -
Rory Gleeson