John Summerfield wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
I have installed 64-bit SL5.1 on this machine
HP DC7700, Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz, 5 Gbytes,
2x80 Gb (Windows XP on the first).
_That_ is (almost) the worst.
Additionally, I can't change consoles, either with the usual keyboard
magic or, having logged in remotely so as to look around, using the
chvt command.
In fact, the keyboard (an HP USB keyboard no less) seems to be locked up.
I installed the non-Xen kernel and X seemed okay with it, but I didn't
test much. I rebooted to Xen and, again, X _looked_ okay.
I could switch to tty1, but when i switched back X didn't reinitialise
properly. Instead, it flashed between grey and black.
control-alt-BS kills it, but on restarting the flashing resumes. Nor
does this do better:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# telinit 3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# telinit 5
I will now return to the non-Xen kernel and see what's what.
<reboots>
That problem does not occur. However, the login screen is displayed at
800x600. I logged in, and a couple of "xvidtune -next" command had it at
1280x1024 (the screen's resolution), but the desktop was an 800x600
window the viewer's left, top and partly replicated (it extends
off-screen) right, top.
From there, control-alt-BS killed X and it restarted at the correct
resolution!
<reboots>
<shrug>
Didn't happen this time.
OTOH it's back to its flashing behaviour.
I did this:
telinit 3;sleep 20s;telinit 5
and now the bottom of the login screen's at the top, the area from
(about) username and down is light grey and the whole thing's flashing.
I should also mention that every time, when X first starts there's a
area of video corruption at the bottom ot the screen, 3 cm or so,
briefly and then the screen (maybe) comes good.
I have an IBM Thinkcentre with this graphics card:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 02)
as compared with HP's choice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
I copied the Thinkcentre's configuration across, the result's the same.
The vesa driver does not work at all. It gives lots of promising
messages, a few warnings and no errors (EE messages).
the intel driver doesn't support it.
Does nobody have an idea? The system's completely unusable at present.
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Cheers
John
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