To recap, I can load Fedora 2 in full graphical mode on to my new AMD64 Athlon/K8V se Deluxe/ATI Radeon 9200SE without any problems.
However, when I got to boot it, it will start out fine, Grub appears, the text starts to roll and the Fedora (press "i" for Interactive...) appears and then my screen goes away in colour.
As suggested below, I also edited Grub, removing "rhgp quieton." This was initially helpful, as it brought me past the Fedora (press "i" for Interactive...) text and the text kept rolling along right up until the desktop was supposed to kick in. Then, the screen went awash, again.
I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue with the ATI card, as suggested, below. I can load MandrakeMove, SuSE Live and XP Pro on to the box without any problems.
Based on another suggestion, in my K8V bios, I turned off USB legacy support, which now allows me to boot in to another couple of distros that I couldn't before. As an experiment, I also turned of APM and ACPI but it didn't help. ACPI 2.0 has always be disabled.
I have a feeling this is a very small problem I simply can't identify.
I'm a newbie, so this is pushing me to the edge of my skillset already and making me wish I stuck with Intel, to be honest. I'd really appreciate any tips or possible advice.
Tired and spent, Rory
==== On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 20:11, Rory Gleeson wrote: > Any quick help that can be provided would be most welcomed! > > PROBLEM: After successfully installing FC2 32bit, on reboot, graphical load > screen goes awash in colour.
I have a Radeon 9000 in my K8V Deluxe and it has been running both 32 and 64 bit versions of FC2 T1-3 and now is running FC2 final with no problems...my son has an MSI Neo with a Radeon 9600 in it and it is running 64 bit FC2 without problems also.
First, I would check to make sure that the AGP card is fully seated in its slot and that it is perpendicular to the plane of the MB...a slight tilt can cause odd problems, particularly in a case that isn't very square. Sometimes it is necessary to slightly bend the bulkhead plate to make sure the card is properly seated. Also, make sure the card lock is properly engaged. Remember, pull the plug on the power supply before messing with things in any slot...the motherboard is powered up otherwise even though the processor isn't..the green led in the lower front corner of the mb will be off if the system is completely powered down.
If that doesn't help, I have a suggestion with 2 variations...both involve editing the grub stanza before booting.
When the Grub menu comes up, move the selection to the kernel/system you want to boot (ie Fedora Core) and press the letter e (for edit) and move the selection to the line with rhgb quiet on it...backspace those 10 characters out and then hit escape and then b to boot the system. This will leave you in text mode until the system really needs to go to the graphics mode login screen. This will give you an idea of whether there are other issues preventing the system from getting to the point where it actually needs to do the video mode change into a graphics mode...perhaps you'll get lucky and by skipping the RHGB screen, the problem will go away. If, instead, you don't get a graphical login screen displayed, Alt R Alt R will get the system to reboot if everything other than the video card is really running properly.
At this point, you can do the same thing as above but also add a space and the number 3 after removing the rhgb quiet stuff...this will boot you into runlevel 3 (text mode with networking) where you can log in and look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for any clues about the problem. If you are not familiar with vi or emacs, use less to view the log file and nano to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf as necessary, first making sure to save a backup of the original as something like xorg.orig.conf. Since it seems at least 640x480 graphics are running, you could eliminate all resolutions but that one and see if it plays...anything can run that mode unless it is totally borked. At least that will get you to a point where you can start further debugging.
HTH, KAS
