John Summerfield wrote:
> 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've tried building Xorg 7.2 from Fedora9 beta. I was pulling in too
much Fedora stuff to satisfy dependencies; when I got to PolicyKit and
ConsoleKit it seemed it was becoming more Fedora then RHEL5-clone.
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Cheers
John
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