[Mailinglist] issue - PCLinuxOS 2007 not logging into GUI / Xserver

[Zaheer Kozhakkaniyil]

 Dear Mahesh,

Thank you for the effort taken. I tried your suggestions.

With the 'vga=none' option, GRUB does not even hand over control to the
kernel. So I tried removing the 'vga' option itself. Didn't log in to X.

'lspci -vv' returns the graphics card as detected.

It is 2007 version. The 2008 version was launched this month. But as I
said in previous mail, the 2007 version itself boots properly into X in
live CD mode. So there are no compatibility or detection issues between
H/W & S/W.

This problem comes only when booting from the harddisk installed version.
So what I feel is that, some command / script which is running in the
live CD mode is not set to run from the installed mode. If we could find
out that, then I guess we should be able to solve the issue.


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Mahesh Aravind"
  To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software"
  Subject: Re: [Mailinglist] issue - PCLinuxOS 2007 not logging into
  GUI / Xserver
  Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 07:14:27 -0700 (PDT)



  --- Zaheer Kozhakkaniyil wrote:

  >
  > 1. 'PCI bus id' not found
  > 2. '/dev/agpgart' not found
  > 3. 'Video RAM' set too low?
  >

  Can you try disabling the framebuffer? Like "vga=none" option as the
  kernel
  parameter.

  It's Core2 Duo right? Has anyone checked i965 chipset with X? It
  could be
  some trouble with not detecting the correct video chipset. I believe
  you can
  access the CLI. What does 'lspci -vv' say?

  BTW, is it the latest version of PCLinuxOS?

  /dev/agpgart not found, means it is having trouble allocating video
  ram. One
  possible trouble could be X was instructed to display using kernel
  framebuffer.
  I'm sorry, I don't currently have an access to my Linux box, but you
  can read
  xorg.conf(5) and disable display of X through kernel framebuffer.

  I remember once installing IT at School GNU/Linux (forgot the
  version), and in the
  end it asked me (after detecting X and all), whether to enable
  display through
  kernel framebuffer. I consented, and that caused me a 3-day of
  trouble-shooting

  Try and run memcheck86 -- just to see that your RAM is ok.

  I guess that might be the problem.. not sure though.

  No worries,

  Mahesh Aravind


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