> I'm trying to set up Red Hat Linux 7.3 on an A7N266-VM mainboard, which > as the nForce-220D chipset with integrated graphics, sound and LAN. > Installation worked just fine, but: > > 1. Boot using GRUB fails with message: > 28 : Selected item cannot fit into memory > Fortunately, "syslinux" boot floppy works just fine, and so does LILO. > 2. apmd seems to cause problems (so I've disabled it for now.) > 3. When I try to start XFree86, the whole system hangs - screen goes > black, and there is no response to *anything*. > > Any help would be appreciated. Especially on 3., of course 1. and 2. I > can live with. OK, I got it up and running eventually. I was able to start the X server using the "nvidia" driver downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com - I didn't realise at first that this was different from the "nv" one distributed with XFree86. It turned out, however, that this was not essentially an X problem. In fact the system would still hang when logging in after the update. gdm-login worked just fine, though, and I could also run a failsafe X-term session and even start various applications from it.
So what was the problem? Well, to make a long story short, the answer lies in 2) above: Power management calls would freeze the system completely. You might wonder what this has to do with X, but it's all very simple: When logging into a GNOME session, or indeed running 'startx' or test setup in Xconfigurator, the GNOME panel starts, and with it (in the default config) a nice little utility called "battstat_applet", which obviously uses apm calls. Or rather: I think the panel might do some apm stuff first to figure out whether the system has a battery, and load the applet if it does, but whichever way, this was enough to lock up my system. Once I figured this out, the rest was simple: It was just a matter of hacking the default panel setup so that the applet wouldn't be loaded. I still don't know what's wrong with apm, though.. - Toralf -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
