Re: Graphical boot gone awry

Sorry, I should have been more specific. The problem is just with the grphical boot. X works fine after the machine boots up. I recently installed FC2 on a spare partition to give it a try. It booted with the "graphical" boot, showing a splash screen during much of the boot process. That made me remember that my FC1 also had a graphical boot originally. Somehow I lost the splash screen at some point, only getting a blank screen with the X-Windows X cursor in the middle. I'm pretty sure it's a problem with rhgb. I suspect rhgb has lost contact with some configuration file. However, I cannot find much information on rhgb, such as what configuration files it tries to access. I'm hoping someone can give me some hints in that direction.

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson

Sylvain Raybaud wrote:

I have got an GForce 200 MMX video card and the nvidia-6106 driver, and rhgb works fine, with or without OnBoard Legacy Audio enabled in bios.  The only problem is that it will open the window displaying messages whatever I do.

it is rather basic, but did you check in your inittab file that init mode is set to 5 ?
you should also check in your init/rc.n directory (or something like that) to check the programs launched at boot time (in these directories are symlink to the programs, just create/destroy symlink observing syntax to have them launched or not) .

Andrew Robinson wrote:

My graphical boot (rhgb) has somehow gone awry. Instead of either the
image of the workstation or the window showing the boot messages, all I
get is a black screen with the X-Windows "X" cursor in the center. It's
like the graphical boot program has lost a configuration file and it
doen't know what to display. My attempts to troubleshoot the problem
have run into a sort of brick wall. There does not seem to be much
information on rhgb available. Can someone offer a suggestion as to what
I might have done or how I might find out what I've done?

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson

Hello.
Putting the problem that way, is hard to say.

Does your system boot (and goes to X), if you, in the kernel line remove the rhgb parameter?
did you install any driver for your graphics card ??

i had the same problem a days before: installed latest drivers for NVIDIA, and disabled on-board sound-card . my motherboard is MSI with NFORCE2 chipset.

dont know why, but if on-board sound disabled, X dindt start !!! Odd .....
anything to do with NVIDIA driver ???? perhaps !!!

just try to be more specific !!!

Cheers

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