Got a handme down Server from MIS, it is a Dell PowerEdge 2800 with dual processors 4G Ram and 4 130G SCSI disks. I was able to get it to install Fedora 24 from an USB flash of the Live CD, but was having big issues with the video. Had to add the vga=ask on kernel boot line, and eventually one of the vga modes allowed the installer to go thru, but I had tried a number, so not sure which one worked for that. Install process went thru just fine, and was hoping on reboot it would resolve the video issue. The initial long in screen showed up, but login results in a black screen. Terminal screens work fine, and I can setup a vnc terminal with no problem. Then ran the fedup update to 25, and that also went just fine, but still the regular screen doesn't work. VNC also still works fine with gdm, but switched to lightdm to see if that would fix the regular screen issue, but it didn't, and for some reason, the VNC was just a black screen, switching back to gdm fixed that? Am thinking there onboard video must be something limited, and of course they don't have any info on the machine. Dell's response is that it is an old unsupported machine. Have another Dell 2500 that we have had since 2000, and it still works fine, and has Fedora 24 on it, but the 2800 is a lot different. Not a big deal, but if some might know of settings that would make the screen work, the VNC is fine for most things, and text screen for local stuff. Thanks. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 121236828.288695 ROSETTA 53293465.296328 | SETI 96424152.080904 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
