buut paramerers for seeing the verbose boot process

[JD]

On 04/08/2011 07:53 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 04/08/2011 09:04 PM, JD wrote:
>> On 04/08/2011 05:39 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>> On 04/08/2011 04:23 PM, JD wrote:
>>>> On 04/08/2011 12:29 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>>> I looked! I have not rhgb and no quiet.
>>> OK, then you have a different problem then.
>>>
>>>> What happens is at boot, there is a fast scroll
>>>> of text and suddenly, the screen appears as if it got powered off,
>>>> but it also behaves that way when switching from bios text mode
>>>> to graphics mode. It stays blank  (black) for about 2.5 or more minutes
>>>> and then the Gnome login menu pops up.
>>>> I never get to see the output of the boot process,
>>>> so I can see what passed and what failed.
>>> Sounds to me like it may be a video related problem with the card
>>> switching modes during boot up.  Do you have a VGA= on your kernel line?
>> No. Here is the entry in grub.conf
>> title Fedora (2.6.38.2.fc14.i686)
>>           root (hd0,1)
>>           kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.2.fc14.i686 ro root=/dev/sda2
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>           initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.38.2.fc14.i686.img
>>
>>> You might try putting a "nomodeset" and see what it does, but that
>>> option is becoming deprecated as the kernel support for various video
>>> cards improves.
>> I used to have nomodeset. But that had the effect of slowing
>> down switching from one workspace to the next a lot -
>> like it would 2.5 to 3 seconds for the switch-to  workspace
>> would display all it's contents. So, an OP advised me to remove
>> it, and that indeed fixed that problem. So, not sure I would
>> want to get back to that "slowdown" - but I will try it just
>> to test.
> I was only suggesting it as a way for you to see the messages.  I was
> hoping we could try and figure out what was happening when it mode
> switches and the screen disappears....
>
>> It is  the Radeon Mobility 9600 M10.
>> I assume that the F14 Xserver driver is picked
>> automatically. There is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> OK, that should be using the stock "ati" driver.  I'm using the same
> driver for my Mobility Radeon X1600 without the problems you are seeing.
>
> Try and see if you can find a file in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> It is your X11 log file and should contain *much* information that could
> be useful in debugging your problem....
>
I checked. There is no clue there as far as something going wrong
or failing.