Re: Gnome locks machine

[Aaron Brown <abrown redhat com>]

Have you tried disabling the onboard video, and testing with
another video card?  Please enter a bug for that video card,
and include the output from "lspci -v" in the bug description.

-ab


Montleon, Jason wrote:

> I am trying to install RedHat on an HP Vectra VL 6/xxx Series 8.  This 
> is a Pentium II machine running at 350 MHz with 128 MB RAM.  The video 
> card is an MGA 100 Productiva with 4 MB of RAM.  The install goes well, 
> I successfully test X at the resolution I want to run (1024x768 16-bit 
> color.)  But when I reboot and try to start Gnome it locks up the 
> machine solid.
>
> Steps I have done to try and dicern/correct the problem.
> 1.) Removed the sound card to no effect.
> 2.) Went into /root/.gnome/default.wm and changed the Window Manager to 
> twm instead of Sawfish to no effect.
> 3.) Complete clean reinstall (adding KDE to the list)
> 4.) Tried starting KDE, which works great.
> 5.) Upgrade the system BIOS (vid card is built-in and fixes to the card 
> were mentioned), to no effect
> 6.) Upgraded the kernel and all other updates available via up2date, to 
> no effect
> 7.) Changed NIC card slot (only card plugged in now), to no effect
> 8.) Replaced NIC card with a different model, to no effect
> 9.) Installed Ximian Gnome, stilling waiting for this isntall to finish
>
> In all instances when trying to start Gnome on a clean installed 
> machine, or otherwise it gets past the spash screen, says its done 
> loading, and then all I get is a blue screen on which the mouse freezes 
> after a few seconds and keyboard does not respond.  It seems to take the 
> machine out completely as I tried pinging it and that did not work 
> either (no firewalling installed.)  ctrl+alt+backspace does nothing.  
> alt+(F1, F2, F3) does nothing.
>
> Any idea where to look, or what might be causing this?  Should I figure 
> out how to log a bug report and log this?
>
> Jason
> jason montleon arbella com



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