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 Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur! ----- http://maravind.blogspot.com/ Zaheer M K GNU/Linux user #351122 Registered at http://counter.li.org -- See Exclusive Video: 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards http://www.hollywoodlife.net/younghollywoodawards2008/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20080517/e021cc44/attachment.html
