On 04/08/2011 05:39 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 04/08/2011 04:23 PM, JD wrote:
>> On 04/08/2011 12:29 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> I looked! I have not rhgb and no quiet.
> OK, then you have a different problem then.
>
>> What happens is at boot, there is a fast scroll
>> of text and suddenly, the screen appears as if it got powered off,
>> but it also behaves that way when switching from bios text mode
>> to graphics mode. It stays blank (black) for about 2.5 or more minutes
>> and then the Gnome login menu pops up.
>> I never get to see the output of the boot process,
>> so I can see what passed and what failed.
> Sounds to me like it may be a video related problem with the card
> switching modes during boot up. Do you have a VGA= on your kernel line?
No. Here is the entry in grub.conf
title Fedora (2.6.38.2.fc14.i686)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.2.fc14.i686 ro root=/dev/sda2
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.38.2.fc14.i686.img
> You might try putting a "nomodeset" and see what it does, but that
> option is becoming deprecated as the kernel support for various video
> cards improves.
I used to have nomodeset. But that had the effect of slowing
down switching from one workspace to the next a lot -
like it would 2.5 to 3 seconds for the switch-to workspace
would display all it's contents. So, an OP advised me to remove
it, and that indeed fixed that problem. So, not sure I would
want to get back to that "slowdown" - but I will try it just
to test.
> What is your video card, and what driver are you expecting to be used.
> I ask because Fedora tries real hard to use either nouveau or ati for
> nVidia or Radeon cards and you might want to ultimately be using a
> proprietary driver (you never know until you ask...).
It is the Radeon Mobility 9600 M10.
I assume that the F14 Xserver driver is picked
automatically. There is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> I would see if I could stop the mode switch so that the screen doesn't
> clear. It sounds to me like the screen re-size is "failing" and you
> never see anything else on the screen.
>
> Suvayu's suggestion of looking at the /var/log/dmesg is also useful if
> you can find something there that might point a finger, but until then,
> see if you can keep the screen stable.
I found nothing there to give me a clue!
/boot/log starts with
Starting udev:...
which is what I used to see on the screen, but I see that no longer.
But there was nothing there that would give me a clue why I can
not see that on the boot screen.
>> Thanx,
>>
>> JD
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