On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:08:57PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Hardware: > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ running at 3 GHz > Video Card: Sapphire Card running ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200] > Motherboard: Asus K8N-E Deluxe with NVIDIA chipset > > Software: > Various Linux Kernels > X.Org version 6.8.2 > > Problems: > The system won't boot properly. It starts normally, and gets as > far as displaying "Initializing hardware... ", and then, when > the screen is reinitialized the display disappears, and is > replaced by a small square of colored vertical lines in the > middle of the monitor. I don't think the keyboard works either, > though it's hard to tell without a display. > > The system will boot properly if given a "linux single" command, > and the X-Windows subsystem can then be started OK using a > "telinit 5" command. > > The above comments apply to kernel versions: > 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 and > 2.6.13-1.1525_FC4 > when starting from a cold (turned off) system. > > They apply sometimes to kernel versions > 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 and > 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 > I think only on an attempt to reboot. Is this using the stock xorg ati driver, or ATI's firegl driver ? Does it still happen if you set your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use the vesa driver instead ? It sounds more like an X driver issue than a kernel issue at first impression. If you have this box networked, can you log into it when the display is garbled ? If so, grabbing the X logs from /var/log/ may yield some clues. You have all the Xorg errata installed I assume ? Dave
