No X on F9/F10 with Intel 82915G/GV/910GL

[Jos Vos]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:14:56PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:

> Very strange.  What kind of display is it?  Are you using an SDVO card
> (pseudo-PCIE looking thing with a tiny chip on one side and a DVI or
> whatever connector on the other)?

It's a completely integrated system with a 15" LCD display (with serial
Elo touchscreen option), the IBM SurePOS 565:

http://www-03.ibm.com/products/retail/products/pos/500/specs_eu.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/products/retail/products/pos/500/prodview.html

AFAIK the graphic chip is on the mainboard, but I'm not sure.

On RHEL4 (currently used in production) and RHEL5 (tested a few times)
I had to do some small tweaking to make it all work, like specifying
"nofb" as kernel option, turning off acceleration ("NoAccel" "yes"),
turning of acpi (mainly because of disk/USB problems), etc.

I didn't try all combinations of tweaks yet, but AFAIK I never had a
full black screen in RHELx, only other strange effects (like a display
that 30% shifted vertically).

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