On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 13:09, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 15:48, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've got an old server, that I'm *trying* to rebuild from C6. Our
> >> regular key, with the kickstarts, etc, simply won't boot. Just a blank
> >> screen, and it never goes anywhere.
> >>
> >> So I'm trying to build it from a year-old regular installer.
> >>
> >> 100% of the time, the graphical screen is screwed. Resolution's so big
> >> that I cannot see the right-hand 10% or 15% of the screen. There doesn't
> >> seem to be any way that I've found yet to make it higher res, so I can
> >> read it.
> >>
> >> It's *not* the monitor's fault. It is an ancient Matrox video card...
> >> but I would have thought the VESA driver could handle it.
> >
> > Easiest would be put $20.00 into an old video card to replace the
> > Matrox. Matrox support seems to have degraded in X11 after 2010 or so.
>
> To me, this is a non-sequitur. I'm at work, and was fighting for far too
> long yesterday - hours - to get this system built and up. I got it up -
> that *also* required another USB key with an archived kmod-forcedeth rpm,
> but it wasn't ready to do backups LAST NIGHT. I've gotten it to that point
> this morning.
>
I figured you wanted an answer you wanted to enact within a day.
Anything else is going to take lots of trial and error of whatever
kernel options are needed for your particular card, motherboard, etc
etc. The Matrox X drivers and kernel items were considered end of
lifed sometime after Fedora 12 or CentOS-6. Anything that does work is
considered that the hardware gods smiled on you. If it doesn't, it is
a cost analysis of whether getting the company to pay for a cheap
supported card or you spending 2 weeks and then buying a card.
> To say "spend $20..." does not relate to "have to find a workaround to do
> it *today*", nor to "this is a work system, I'm not driving out to
> Microcenter to buy one".
> >
> > The next solution would be to try the text mode and stick to that.
>
> Oh, right, I tried that. Text mode does NOT allow you to encrypt your
> drive. Missing option.
>
> When I did the second? rebuild, I chose a basic server, after, when I
> tried to install kmod-forcedeth, and realized it needed kernel-devel and
> kernel-headers... and when I tried to install them, it told me there was
> no perl.
>
> Trying to think of what "minimal system" would be used for - a hacked
> Roomba (tm)?
>
> > The third is to find kernel vesa modes on the bootline which may help
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466318
> >
> > vga=0x318
> >
> > looks like an option?
>
> Found that I could put resolution=640x480, or vga=(same). 100% of the
> time, on boot, it came up telling me it didn't recognize anything, but
> gave me about 20 options. I tried several, and it seemed to get a good
> resolution... but after it switched root, it went back to the original
> resolution, and *nothing* - trust me on this, I rebooted at least 4 times
> *nothing* changed the resolution on the GUI installer; it *always* came up
> with the right hand side chopped.
>
> At least the system's doing backups again, now. But I thought I'd be done
> the rebuild before lunch *yesterday*, not fighting it until I left last
> night.
>
> mark
>
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