Have some important (I hope) data points Johnny,
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have a newly built drive with 5.2 fresh install (that I will be
cloning shortly) in my DECtop and it is failing with X the same way
the upgrade from 5.1 drive did (not too supprising there).
In 5.1 X worked. I could startx from init 3 and get into GNOME.
Also VNC into the box and have a GNOME screen. With 5.2, I get a
kernel panic. Well I guess it is a kernel panic because once I run
startx from the console, my SSH session to the box from my notebook
is frozen.
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Try 16bit X instead of 24bit (replace the 24 in xorg w 16) and see
if that helps ...
OK. I will try this shortly.
Did this work.
also, you can boot the older kernel from 5.1 and see if that helps.
I did try that on the system I upgraded from 5.1. No difference
still paniced.
If it still panics then it does not seem to be a kernel module issue,
but something else. That would be very strange.
I guess some kind of compile issue in xorg could do this, though not
sure.
I just built a new Centos 5.1 install (I picked up 5 40Gb Hitachi 2.5"
drives last week, tired of not having enough drivers for different tests).
I am using the vesa_drv.so driver. This works just fine on 5.1.
In the Centos 5.2, this driver is unchanged. Same date and filesize.
Now a number of the video driver files are unchanged from Centos 5.1,
but Generic VESA compliant is how Centos is handling the National
Semiconductor Geode video in my DECtops.
I noticed there is a vesa.h file with a filesize of ZERO. But in the
case of the system upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2, it had this file for the
5.1 kernel as well as for the 5.2, so I don't think this is important.
One more fact: When I do a startx, I see some messages, but they are
not written to any file I can find, nor are they visible when the system
hangs.
Other oddities about this system. It has 2 sets of 2 USB ports. In 5.1
you MUST have the KVM USB keyboard plugged into the USB port labled for
the keyboard (otherwise no keyboard detected). This is not necessary
for 5.2. But if you put the keyboard into some other USB port (say the
one with the printer icon), if you do not have the KVM 'focused' on the
system while it is booting, it appears hung with no video (for either
5.1 or 5.2 if it is plugged into the keyboard USB, it can boot while the
KVM is 'focused' on another system). Wierd.
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