[PLUG] PCI/AGP Graphics Board Problem

[Derek Loree]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 15:52, plug wrote:
> 
> 
> >> Can you edit /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel from 5
> (X11) 
> >> to 3 (multiuser) and then try booting. The question is, can you
> boot 
> >> to a normal login prompt and then see if the problem is the switch
> to 
> >> X or is the problem happening before the switch to X? 
> 
> Tried it and it didn't work. It stops sending output to the 
> screen just after the Master Boot Record is read. There 
> is something in the kernel that needs to know to send the 
> screen output to the PCI graphics board. The old redhat 
> dist. manages to make it work, but the Suse 8.1 doesn't 
> figure it out, and any install doesn't figure it out. 

The kernel knows where the hardware is, its the video card that can't
handle what the kernel is telling it to do.
> 
> What could be in the redhat 6x install kernel that isn't 
> in the others? 

Frame buffers is my still my guess, but the old 6x kernel _didn't_ have
frame buffers built in.  After a quick search through the kernel help
files, I didn't find a way to turn it off, except for recompiling the
kernel with the option switched off.  You can do this over ssh, no video
required.

HTH

Derek Loree