John Summerfield wrote:
I have installed 64-bit SL5.1 on this machine
> HP DC7700, Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz, 5 Gbytes,
> 2x80 Gb (Windows XP on the first).
>
>
> _That_ is (almost) the worst.
>
> Additionally, I can't change consoles, either with the usual keyboard
> magic or, having logged in remotely so as to look around, using the chvt
> command.
>
> In fact, the keyboard (an HP USB keyboard no less) seems to be locked up.
I installed the non-Xen kernel and X seemed okay with it, but I didn't
test much. I rebooted to Xen and, again, X _looked_ okay.
I could switch to tty1, but when i switched back X didn't reinitialise
properly. Instead, it flashed between grey and black.
control-alt-BS kills it, but on restarting the flashing resumes. Nor
does this do better:
[root@bobtail ~]# telinit 3
[root@bobtail ~]# telinit 5
I will now return to the non-Xen kernel and see what's what.
<reboots>
That problem does not occur. However, the login screen is displayed at
800x600. I logged in, and a couple of "xvidtune -next" command had it at
1280x1024 (the screen's resolution), but the desktop was an 800x600
window the viewer's left, top and partly replicated (it extends
off-screen) right, top.
From there, control-alt-BS killed X and it restarted at the correct
resolution!
<reboots>
<shrug>
Didn't happen this time.
OTOH it's back to its flashing behaviour.
I did this:
telinit 3;sleep 20s;telinit 5
and now the bottom of the login screen's at the top, the area from
(about) username and down is light grey and the whole thing's flashing.
I should also mention that every time, when X first starts there's a
area of video corruption at the bottom ot the screen, 3 cm or so,
briefly and then the screen (maybe) comes good.
I have an IBM Thinkcentre with this graphics card:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 02)
as compared with HP's choice
[root@bobtail ~]# lspci -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
[root@bobtail ~]#
I copied the Thinkcentre's configuration across, the result's the same.
The vesa driver does not work at all. It gives lots of promising
messages, a few warnings and no errors (EE messages).
the intel driver doesn't support it.
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Cheers
John
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