Screen resolution wrong at every thirrd boot!
Hi there.
I've just installed FC5 on my IBM xSeries 206 eServer. As I'm on a wireless network, I just installed my Netear WG111T wirless network adapter using Madwifi. However, during installation yum also updated my kernal to 2.6.16 The problem is that this kernal seems to hate my graphics card; every time I reboot, it fails to find the correct screen resolution, and so I get 'signal over range' appear on my monitor. If I pull the plug out and restart, I gat the same thing again. However, on the thrid reboot its all fine and dandy. I've looked in my xorg.conf file, and it seems to be listing the correct resolutions, as well as the right hardware. I've no idea why it fine again after every thrid boot; no files should change, should they? uname -r is 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 And the contents of my xorg.conf is; Quote:
James |
Shooting in the dark here (as probably most will since this is an intermittent problem) any chance you have conflicts with IRQ's and the videocard? Check in your server's BIOS to see if you can assign your Videocard it's own IRQ seperate from the others.
HTH Cool |
Hi, thanks for the quick response.
I'd try that, however the problem has now got quite a bit worse, and now I can't seem to boot at all. Is there anyway I can stop xorg from starting at boot? I've done an interactive startup but it doesnt seem to ask me if I want to start x (I'm assuming that that would let me use the CLI to log in). Ill try another couple of reboots (I'm using windows at the moment),and try go check the IRQ's. If that doesnt work I'll try plugging it into my higher resolution monitor downstairs. Thanks again for the quick response. |
ok, I finally got it to boot again by selecting my old kernel from GRUB (2.15.x). I've now rebooted again, and this time when I selected 2.16.x everything was fine! It seems to be a kernel problem, but I really cant understand which files are being changed at boot up!
Also, I can't find a way to change the IRQ of my videocard from BIOS, but I did try rebooting after removing the video card, and booting using my motherboards graphics chip; the problem remained. Any other suggestions would be really appreciated, this is really starting to annoy me now! |
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