Sorry if I seem a bit dumb in this question, but are these virtual
servers going to be used in a production environment or are they test
servers? Also, in my experience, using a GUI on a server is not really
necessary, as everything can be done from the command line. Yes it may
be easier to do it with a GUI, but if you know what you are doing and
what to do it professionally, stick to using the command line and
give the idea of using a desktop the flick.
Regards,
Christopher Hawker
On 10/13/11, Bob Hoffman <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One of the mods requested some data, here ya go..think it is a video
> issue...
>
> I think I am narrowing it down to choking on my ATI ES1000
> controller..which might be causing some issues.
>
> When I did a full desktop, everything worked okay though, but command
> line only or with x windows system video is a complete no go.
> although I can pull up text things like system-config-network, x will
> choke on config/hal: couldn't initialize context: (null) and pop right
> out. Display cannot open.
>
> Its make sense because now and then my ipmi card just gets a blurry
> video image and I have to reset the card.
> Also, it just shuts off (loses connection/video) sometimes and I must
> login again. Thought it was the card...but...
> it only happens when I am installing linux or it is installed. If
> playing in bios it has never happened.
>
> Tried the nomodeset thing, no change.
> SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
>
>
> dmesg of insterest, command line, install with package 'virtual host'
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> ACPI Warning for \_SB_._OSC: Return type mismatch - found Integer,
> expected Buffer (20090903/nspredef-1006)
> \_SB_:_OSC evaluation returned wrong type
> _OSC request data:1 7
> ACPI Warning: Incorrect checksum in table [OEMB] - 96, should be 8B
> (20090903/tbutils-314)
>
> Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control (this was between pci
> hotplug stuff)
> Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
> Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
> Firmware did not grant requested _OSC control
>
> composite sync not supported (with gnome installed there was a ton of these)
> composite sync not supported
> fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
> [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x08 0x30 write failed
>
> [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x09 0x00 write failed
> [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x0a 0x90 write failed
> [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x0c 0x89 write failed
> [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x08 0x3b write failed
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
> drm: registered panic notifier
>
> [drm] Initialized radeon 2.1.0 20080528 for 0000:01:01.0 on minor 0
>
> composite sync not supported ( a couple more of these just appeared a
> few lines lower than the previous line)
> composite sync not supported
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -----------------------------------
> below is a whole section that seems to have dealt with the video card,
> and all seems okay for this (earlier in the boot up than errors above)
> -----------------------------------
> [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
> [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> radeon 0000:01:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV100 0x1002:0x515E).
> [drm] register mmio base: 0xFBAD0000
> [drm] register mmio size: 65536
> radeon 0000:01:01.0: VRAM: 64M 0xD8000000 - 0xDBFFFFFF (32M used)
> radeon 0000:01:01.0: GTT: 512M 0xB8000000 - 0xD7FFFFFF
> [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
> [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=64M, BAR=128M
> [drm] RAM width 16bits DDR
> [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 12299360 kiB.
> [TTM] Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB.
> [drm] radeon: 32M of VRAM memory ready
> [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
> [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
> [drm] Loading R100 Microcode
> platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R100_cp.bin
> [drm] radeon: ring at 0x00000000B8000000
> [drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
> [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
> [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
> [drm] No TV DAC info found in BIOS
> [drm] No valid Ext TMDS info found in BIOS
> [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
> [drm] Connector 0:
> [drm] VGA
> [drm] DDC: 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60
> [drm] Encoders:
> [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_DAC1
> [drm] Connector 1:
> [drm] DVI-I
> [drm] HPD2
> [drm] DDC: 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c 0x6c
> [drm] Encoders:
> [drm] CRT2: INTERNAL_DAC2
> [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_DVO1
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