On a slightly different note I also found that FC3 crashed during
installation... something to do with the graphics, the xserver crashed. The
machine has a NVidia Geforce 2 graphics card. However rerunning the
installation in text mode went smoothly.
Kevin.
ww.teerhatavaz.org
On Sunday 12 December 2004 14:34, Gareth Eason wrote:
> Hi,
>> I've finally bitten the bullet and upgraded my trusty workstation which
>has been running RedHat 9 for the last $long_time. Since I don't plan to
>upgrade again for a similarly long time, I went with Fedora Core 3 - and
>spent a goodly chunk of last night and this morning fixing it after the
>installer broke stuff. For the world in general, here are the things I
>learned. They may be posted elsewhere, I've not googled, but here they
>are again, just in case :-)
>>Horribly broken display & failed boot
>-------------------------------------
>- If you have a mix of SCSI and IDE drives, the installation process is
> quite likely to put the SCSI drives at the end of the chain when it
> writes the grub.conf file. Upon reboot, however, the SCSI drives go to
> the start - and thus the bootloader cannot find where to boot from.
>- There is a simple fix (thankfully.) If you are booting off SCSI (as I
> was) simply change the following lines to point at the correct disk:
>- "splashimage=(hd2,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz"
> should become --> "splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz"
> (Your numbers might be different, but it's always the first number
> (the disk number) that will be wrong.)
>- title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.681_FC3)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/1
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img
> THE "root (hd2,0)" line should become "root (hd0,0)"
> (Your numbers might be different, but it's always the first number
> (the disk number) that will be wrong.)
>>>>Fails to start X and locks up keyboard and mouse
>------------------------------------------------
>- I run a dual-head configuration, and I discovered that the rhgb
> (RedHat Graphical Boot) breaks this horribly for some reason.
>- It's very simple to turn off. Just remove the "rhgb" from the kernel
> boot line in grub.conf
>- "kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet" should
> become "kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/1 quiet"
>- NOTE: I also removed the 'quiet' since I rarely reboot linux boxen and
> I like to see what they're doing when I do.
>>>Dual Head Configuration
>-----------------------
>- RedHat (bless their little cotton socks) have provided a nice
> graphical tool for configuring dual head setups - but activating
> the dual-head option seemed to deactivate the ability for it to
> write out a config file for xorg. Not too helpful :-(
>- I use 2 x Nokia 446XPro monitors, hung off an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
> 128MB graphics card.
>- Rather than go through the details, here's the config I put together.
> It seems to work well for me. Feel free to adjust to taste, etc.
>>----------[ START - xorg.conf / Dual Head Setup ]----------
>>Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Dual Head Layout"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "Xinerama" "On"
>EndSection
>>Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> FontPath "unix/:7100"
>EndSection
>>Section "Module"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "fbdevhw"
> Load "glx"
> Load "record"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "type1"
> Load "dri"
>EndSection
>>Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
>EndSection
>>Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>EndSection
>>Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Nokia"
> ModelName "Nokia 446Xpro"
> DisplaySize 360 270
> HorizSync 30.0 - 107.0
> VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
> Option "dpms"
>EndSection
>>Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor1"
> VendorName "Nokia"
> ModelName "Nokia 446Xpro"
> DisplaySize 360 270
> HorizSync 30.0 - 107.0
> VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
> Option "dpms"
>EndSection
>>Section "Device"
> Identifier "Radeon 9000 Pro Head0"
> Driver "radeon"
> VendorName "Radeon"
> BoardName "ATI Radeon 9000 Pro"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> Screen 0
>EndSection
>>Section "Device"
> Identifier "Radeon 9000 Pro Head1"
> Driver "radeon"
> VendorName "Radeon"
> BoardName "ATI Radeon 9000 Pro"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> Screen 1
>EndSection
>>Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Radeon 9000 Pro Head0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864"
>"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
>EndSection
>>Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen1"
> Device "Radeon 9000 Pro Head1"
> Monitor "Monitor1"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864"
>"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
>EndSection
>>Section "DRI"
> Group 0
> Mode 0666
>EndSection
>>----------[ END - xorg.conf / Dual Head Setup ]----------
>>> Hope this provides some help for other people who have difficulties
>installing and configuring FC3 on slightly non-standard setups. I'm
>pretty happy with the setup now - most things are back the way I wanted
>them and the 2.6 kernel is treating me well.
>> Usual disclaimers apply, IANAL, YMMV, etc.
>> Best regards,
> -->Gar
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