tightcode
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
Posts: 110
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 Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject: [solved] PCI instead of onboard. No video past boot. |
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Solved: I sure feel silly now. It turned out I had compiled the wrong FB and DRM drivers in, which of course wasn't a problem with Knoppix! I discovered this when I realized without the PCI card the builtin VGA port was displaying the same behaviour so I double checked the kernel config and found the problem ! Cheers everyone !
[note] I accidentally posted this in Desktop Environments so I deleted it there and am reposting it here, sorry if it looks duped [/note]
This seems kind of silly and I search through the forum but I can't find anything similar to my problem. I have an older machine with onboard VGA and two PCI slots (no AGP slots). I wanted slightly better video and had a PCI card laying around so starting setting the machine up. I booted with Knoppix to start the gentoo install and everything worked great. I compiled everything including xorg-x11, kernel, etc... except a desktop environment from within the chroot.
Upon rebooting all is lovely until after grub loads the kernel, no more output is sent to the monitor, the output just freezes. The machine does however continue booting and I am able to SSH into it.
I have never set up a PCI video card before am I missing something ? In the bios it has the option of switching between AGP and PCI, since there is no VGA slot I am assuming AGP refers to the onboard video, so I have PCI selected. And again it works in Knoppix so I know the hardware should be good the problem is merely my trying to configure it.
Here are the results of lspci:
| Code: | root@1[knoppix]# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810 DC-100 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810 DC-100 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
0000:01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
0000:01:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
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You will notice that is from within knoppix. When I do an lspci from gentoo (through ssh) it segfaults.
Any other information you need simply ask for. I am hoping I have just ended up in one of the common pitfalls of configuring things the way I am trying but if it requires more details on my part please let me know.
Cheers,
TightCode |
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