After fresh installing Fedora 6 just after udev starts the screen goes blank and displays the above message. Neither setting runlevel 3 in GRUB nor Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2, etc. restore the screen. I do have ssh access and can even do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and blindly login. So now what? Apparently udev is either causing the video card to set itself to an unusual mode or it's forcing it to use the DVI port (I'm bringing a cable home to test this, but I want to use VGA for my KVM switch). Video card is an ATI Rage 128. I've read through the udev literature for a bit and am trying to understand it's workings. Does anyone have any tips that might speed up the resolution of this problem?
Edward DeMeulle wrote:
After fresh installing Fedora 6 just after udev starts the screen goes blank and displays the above message. Neither setting runlevel 3 in GRUB nor Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2, etc. restore the screen. I do have ssh access and can even do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and blindly login. So now what? Apparently udev is either causing the video card to set itself to an unusual mode or it's forcing it to use the DVI port (I'm bringing a cable home to test this, but I want to use VGA for my KVM switch). Video card is an ATI Rage 128. I've read through the udev literature for a bit and am trying to understand it's workings. Does anyone have any tips that might speed up the resolution of this problem?
First off, it is probably not udev causing the problem. A quick test would be to boot without rhgb in the boot line. This will keep things in the text mood on boot, instead of the pretty graphical boot display. When you edit the grub line to remove "rhgb", you may also want to put a 3 at the end so you boot in the text mode. Then try configuring X again.
Mikkel
On 5/1/07 10:17, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Edward DeMeulle wrote:
After fresh installing Fedora 6 just after udev starts the screen goes blank and displays the above message. Neither setting runlevel 3 in GRUB nor Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2, etc. restore the screen. I do have ssh access and can even do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and blindly login. So now what? Apparently udev is either causing the video card to set itself to an unusual mode or it's forcing it to use the DVI port (I'm bringing a cable home to test this, but I want to use VGA for my KVM switch). Video card is an ATI Rage 128. I've read through the udev literature for a bit and am trying to understand it's workings. Does anyone have any tips that might speed up the resolution of this problem?
First off, it is probably not udev causing the problem. A quick test would be to boot without rhgb in the boot line. This will keep things in the text mood on boot, instead of the pretty graphical boot display. When you edit the grub line to remove "rhgb", you may also want to put a 3 at the end so you boot in the text mode. Then try configuring X again.
Mikkel
I tried what you suggested. However, the video mode is still getting messed up and causing the above message from the flat panel right after the "Starting udev" message. Following is the grub entry being used:
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) Text root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 3 initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
On 5/1/07, Edward DeMeulle ed@demeulle.org wrote:
On 5/1/07 10:17, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Edward DeMeulle wrote:
After fresh installing Fedora 6 just after udev starts the screen goes blank and displays the above message. Neither setting runlevel 3 in GRUB nor Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2, etc. restore the screen. I do have ssh access and can even do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and blindly login. So now what? Apparently udev is either causing the video card to set itself to an unusual mode or it's forcing it to use the DVI port (I'm bringing a cable home to test this, but I want to use VGA for my KVM switch). Video card is an ATI Rage 128. I've read through the udev literature for a bit and am trying to understand it's workings. Does anyone have any tips that might speed up the resolution of this problem?
First off, it is probably not udev causing the problem. A quick test would be to boot without rhgb in the boot line. This will keep things in the text mood on boot, instead of the pretty graphical boot display. When you edit the grub line to remove "rhgb", you may also want to put a 3 at the end so you boot in the text mode. Then try configuring X again.
Mikkel
I tried what you suggested. However, the video mode is still getting messed up and causing the above message from the flat panel right after the "Starting udev" message. Following is the grub entry being used:
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) Text root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 3
Append "vga=791" to the above line. It should set the graphics adapter to 1024x768x64K colors.
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img-- Edward DeMeulle ed@demeulle.org
On 5/1/07 19:27, Kam Leo wrote:
On 5/1/07, Edward DeMeulle ed@demeulle.org wrote:
On 5/1/07 10:17, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Edward DeMeulle wrote:
After fresh installing Fedora 6 just after udev starts the screen
goes
blank and displays the above message. Neither setting runlevel 3
in GRUB
nor Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2, etc. restore the screen. I do have ssh access and can even do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and blindly login. So now what? Apparently
udev
is either causing the video card to set itself to an unusual mode or it's forcing it to use the DVI port (I'm bringing a cable home to
test
this, but I want to use VGA for my KVM switch). Video card is an ATI Rage 128. I've read through the udev literature for a bit and am
trying
to understand it's workings. Does anyone have any tips that might
speed
up the resolution of this problem?
First off, it is probably not udev causing the problem. A quick test would be to boot without rhgb in the boot line. This will keep things in the text mood on boot, instead of the pretty graphical boot display. When you edit the grub line to remove "rhgb", you may also want to put a 3 at the end so you boot in the text mode. Then try configuring X again.
Mikkel
I tried what you suggested. However, the video mode is still getting messed up and causing the above message from the flat panel right after the "Starting udev" message. Following is the grub entry being used:
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) Text root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 3
Append "vga=791" to the above line. It should set the graphics adapter to 1024x768x64K colors.
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img-- Edward DeMeulle ed@demeulle.org
That got me back the screen. Thanks! Why does it turn out that both of these lines result in a text boot-up (no pretty boot display)? I tried vga=normal as well as vga=extended. It seems that for some reason the video needs to be set to a graphics mode or udev trashes it. Does this make sense?
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=791 3
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=791 rhgb quiet
On 5/1/07, Edward DeMeulle ed@demeulle.org wrote:
On 5/1/07 19:27, Kam Leo wrote:
On 5/1/07, Edward DeMeulle ed@demeulle.org wrote:
On 5/1/07 10:17, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Edward DeMeulle wrote:
After fresh installing Fedora 6 just after udev starts the screen
goes
blank and displays the above message. Neither setting runlevel 3
in GRUB
nor Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2, etc. restore the screen. I do have ssh access and can even do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and blindly login. So now what? Apparently
udev
is either causing the video card to set itself to an unusual mode or it's forcing it to use the DVI port (I'm bringing a cable home to
test
this, but I want to use VGA for my KVM switch). Video card is an ATI Rage 128. I've read through the udev literature for a bit and am
trying
to understand it's workings. Does anyone have any tips that might
speed
up the resolution of this problem?
First off, it is probably not udev causing the problem. A quick test would be to boot without rhgb in the boot line. This will keep things in the text mood on boot, instead of the pretty graphical boot display. When you edit the grub line to remove "rhgb", you may also want to put a 3 at the end so you boot in the text mode. Then try configuring X again.
Mikkel
I tried what you suggested. However, the video mode is still getting messed up and causing the above message from the flat panel right after the "Starting udev" message. Following is the grub entry being used:
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) Text root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 3
Append "vga=791" to the above line. It should set the graphics adapter to 1024x768x64K colors.
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img-- Edward DeMeulle ed@demeulle.org
That got me back the screen. Thanks! Why does it turn out that both of these lines result in a text boot-up (no pretty boot display)? I tried vga=normal as well as vga=extended. It seems that for some reason the video needs to be set to a graphics mode or udev trashes it. Does this make sense?
You will have to ask the Grub/Xorg experts.
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=791 3
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=791 rhgb quiet
Is there any reason you want to mask the status of the booting process? I, personally, find with the constant churning of packages that "rhgb" and "quiet" get more in the way than help.
-- Edward DeMeulle ed@demeulle.org
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:28 -0700, Edward DeMeulle wrote:
Why does it turn out that both of these lines result in a text boot-up (no pretty boot display)?
The lines you wrote below?
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=791 3
The "3" means to start up in run-level 3, which is without graphics.
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=791 rhgb quiet
That should start up a graphical mode, eventually. I think... I'm not entirely sure of the ramifications of vga=791. I know Kam Leo said it means 1024x768x64K colors, I don't know if it does anything else.
I'd remove the rhgb, it does cause some people problems, and it takes one more thing out of the equation. Taking the quiet option out, as well, will show more details about things while booting. At least, while trying to resolve problems.
On 5/1/07, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:28 -0700, Edward DeMeulle wrote:
Why does it turn out that both of these lines result in a text boot-up (no pretty boot display)?
The lines you wrote below?
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=791 3
The "3" means to start up in run-level 3, which is without graphics.
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=791 rhgb quiet
That should start up a graphical mode, eventually. I think... I'm not entirely sure of the ramifications of vga=791. I know Kam Leo said it means 1024x768x64K colors, I don't know if it does anything else.
I'd remove the rhgb, it does cause some people problems, and it takes one more thing out of the equation. Taking the quiet option out, as well, will show more details about things while booting. At least, while trying to resolve problems.
While you are in runlevel 3 use yum to upgrade your installed packages to the latest versions. You will definitely get updates to Xorg. Once the updates have completed use "system-config-display" to specify your graphics adapter and monitor. Perhaps your monitor problem got fixed. If not choose generic monitor and see if that is workable/acceptable to you.
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 08:38 -0700, Edward DeMeulle wrote:
After fresh installing Fedora 6 just after udev starts the screen goes blank and displays the above message. Neither setting runlevel 3 in GRUB nor Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2, etc. restore the screen. I do have ssh access and can even do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and blindly login. So now what? Apparently udev is either causing the video card to set itself to an unusual mode or it's forcing it to use the DVI port (I'm bringing a cable home to test this, but I want to use VGA for my KVM switch). Video card is an ATI Rage 128. I've read through the udev literature for a bit and am trying to understand it's workings. Does anyone have any tips that might speed up the resolution of this problem?
-- Edward DeMeulle ed@demeulle.org
If you are lucky, you can reboot, and the system will eventually reset to the 640x480 mode and proceed. When it gets to setting up the video, it should give you an error message and ask if you want to look at a log. Answer yes to that and both the next two message boxes. This will bring you to a screen where you can setup the video. Choose the correct driver, select the correct monitor, and then let it finish rebooting. You will probably end up at the wrong screen resolution. If you can get to the display, choose the resolution you wish, with the video card you have (a Rage 128 I believe, and I am running a Rage Pro, which I think is basically the same one. If all goes well, you should be able to select the monitor and card, then log back out and reboot. This will take a bit, but eventually you will have the battery and tjem the hood me out of the store. PiCK, your dislay and proceed.
YMMV. Regards, Les H
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