Hi,
I am trying to get Fedora Core 2 working on the following system: cpu: P4-2.8E mb: ASUS P4S800D-E DLX S478 SIS655TX DDR ram: DDR 2x512 MB video: ATI RADEON 7000 64M AGP
This will be a linux-only computer. Sorry for the long-winded description below, but I am trying to give as much detail as possible.
The installation procedure went fine (though I have searched the web and found that many have had trouble with the installation on the ASUS 800-series mboards). But when I went for my first reboot, the computer seemed to crash as soon as the boot sequence started, that is immediately after the "Press 'I' to enter interactive setup" message the screen went blank and the computer froze (ctrl-alt-backspace did nothing).
I got rid of the graphical boot loader by dropping "rhgb quiet" from the grub boot paramaters and the boot sequence went well until it came time to load X, at which point the computer crashed again. A message flashed onto the screen before the screen went blank but it was impossible to read. I then logged into single mode by appending "single" to the boot parameters, and managed to get a terminal. Looking through the file Xorg.0.log I found the error message:
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
I searched the web a little, and found that this had to do with the xfs service not running. During the full boot up seqeunce, with the deafult parameters passed to the kernel, it says Starting xfs: [OK] so maybe it is getting killed/stopped somehow? Anyway, when I load up in single mode, xfs isn't started by default, so I started it with /etc/init.d/xfs start And then I tried to run startx, which wouldn't because xauth wasn't in my path. I guess root isn't supposed to start X? After I put the /usr/X11R6/bin directory in my path and ran startx, the system crashed again. I could not find a log file though.
I repeated everything above, and decided to run Xorg instead of startx. This generated a log file, but the log file was not very useful. It is ery short, and ends with
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.7 X.Org XInput driver : 0.4 X.Org Server Extension : 0.2 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
And that's all there is in it. I'm stuck. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
1. Modified /etc/X11/fs/config file. #no-listen = tcp
2. Modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "files" FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100" EndSection
3. $startx
2004-06-01 (화) 12:55 -0400에, Fred Nastos 쓰기를:
Hi,
I am trying to get Fedora Core 2 working on the following system: cpu: P4-2.8E mb: ASUS P4S800D-E DLX S478 SIS655TX DDR ram: DDR 2x512 MB video: ATI RADEON 7000 64M AGP
This will be a linux-only computer. Sorry for the long-winded description below, but I am trying to give as much detail as possible.
The installation procedure went fine (though I have searched the web and found that many have had trouble with the installation on the ASUS 800-series mboards). But when I went for my first reboot, the computer seemed to crash as soon as the boot sequence started, that is immediately after the "Press 'I' to enter interactive setup" message the screen went blank and the computer froze (ctrl-alt-backspace did nothing).
I got rid of the graphical boot loader by dropping "rhgb quiet" from the grub boot paramaters and the boot sequence went well until it came time to load X, at which point the computer crashed again. A message flashed onto the screen before the screen went blank but it was impossible to read. I then logged into single mode by appending "single" to the boot parameters, and managed to get a terminal. Looking through the file Xorg.0.log I found the error message:
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
I searched the web a little, and found that this had to do with the xfs service not running. During the full boot up seqeunce, with the deafult parameters passed to the kernel, it says Starting xfs: [OK] so maybe it is getting killed/stopped somehow? Anyway, when I load up in single mode, xfs isn't started by default, so I started it with /etc/init.d/xfs start And then I tried to run startx, which wouldn't because xauth wasn't in my path. I guess root isn't supposed to start X? After I put the /usr/X11R6/bin directory in my path and ran startx, the system crashed again. I could not find a log file though.
I repeated everything above, and decided to run Xorg instead of startx. This generated a log file, but the log file was not very useful. It is ery short, and ends with
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.7 X.Org XInput driver : 0.4 X.Org Server Extension : 0.2 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
And that's all there is in it. I'm stuck. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
On June 1, 2004 01:11 pm, sangu wrote:
- Modified /etc/X11/fs/config file.
#no-listen = tcp
- Modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "files" FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100" EndSection
- $startx
Thanks, this allowed to me to gain some more insight into the problem, and eventually find a way around it. Turned out that all I had to do was to comment out the "Load dri" command in the configuration file. In the fs/config file I also found a type in the font list. There were two commas in a row (a bug?). I removed one, but I doubt that is what solved it.
Thanks,
Fred
2004-06-01 (화) 12:55 -0400에, Fred Nastos 쓰기를:
Hi,
I am trying to get Fedora Core 2 working on the following system: cpu: P4-2.8E mb: ASUS P4S800D-E DLX S478 SIS655TX DDR ram: DDR 2x512 MB video: ATI RADEON 7000 64M AGP
This will be a linux-only computer. Sorry for the long-winded description below, but I am trying to give as much detail as possible.
The installation procedure went fine (though I have searched the web and found that many have had trouble with the installation on the ASUS 800-series mboards). But when I went for my first reboot, the computer seemed to crash as soon as the boot sequence started, that is immediately after the "Press 'I' to enter interactive setup" message the screen went blank and the computer froze (ctrl-alt-backspace did nothing).
I got rid of the graphical boot loader by dropping "rhgb quiet" from the grub boot paramaters and the boot sequence went well until it came time to load X, at which point the computer crashed again. A message flashed onto the screen before the screen went blank but it was impossible to read. I then logged into single mode by appending "single" to the boot parameters, and managed to get a terminal. Looking through the file Xorg.0.log I found the error message:
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
I searched the web a little, and found that this had to do with the xfs service not running. During the full boot up seqeunce, with the deafult parameters passed to the kernel, it says Starting xfs: [OK] so maybe it is getting killed/stopped somehow? Anyway, when I load up in single mode, xfs isn't started by default, so I started it with /etc/init.d/xfs start And then I tried to run startx, which wouldn't because xauth wasn't in my path. I guess root isn't supposed to start X? After I put the /usr/X11R6/bin directory in my path and ran startx, the system crashed again. I could not find a log file though.
I repeated everything above, and decided to run Xorg instead of startx. This generated a log file, but the log file was not very useful. It is ery short, and ends with
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.7 X.Org XInput driver : 0.4 X.Org Server Extension : 0.2 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
And that's all there is in it. I'm stuck. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
-
Fred Nastos -
sangu