On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:02 AM, John BORIS <jboris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I have a SuperMicro SC832S-550 Chassis and I am having trouble getting > Fedora LINUX to boot into Graphical mode. My Mother board is a Biostar > K8M800 AM2 with an AMD Sempron Processor and the RAID controller is a > LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 attached to the Hot Swap backplane. There > are 5 75gb Hard drives in the array which is configured for RAID-5. > > I loaded Fedora 8 64bit version and the system would panic after the > first boot sequence went through and rebooted. Subsequent reboots would > leave the system hang at the GUI startup. > > I did a new install of the i386 version and got the same GUI hang > results. I then got the boot up to stop at GRUB and got the system to > boot to run level 3. The system worked fine, as I could login from a > remote workstation but when I tried to start the GUI , startx. The > system hung at the same screen again , the arrow with the swoosh around > it. The mouse would work but after a long while the system would panic. > I got it to go into run level 3 again and got to snoop in the log files > but didn't see anything that said failure, error . > > > Thinking that it is Fedora 8 I tried Fedora 6 (i386 version from Fedora > 6 Bible DVD). The install went fine. The Graphical install screens came > up (just like it did in Fedora 8) it asked a bunch of questions, I > created a new user and then it said it had to reboot to handle the > changes I made during first boot. As it rebooted I got the normal start > up screens (as I have been getting all along) and then it went to start > the GUI and I was presented with the arrow and swoosh again with nothing > happening. > > > I am starting to think that the Biostar MB's onboard video chip is not > compatible with the setup. I have an email into SuperMicro for > recommending a compatible MB but I don't think I will get the answer I > want. I don't have any docks for the SCSI Array that came with the > Chassis. It is an SCA array and the drives are all Fujitsu 75gb. > > Any pointers or help would be greatly appreciated. > > TIA > > John J. Boris, Sr. You have not specified if the video is on-board or external. If you are using the on-board video search for VIA drivers. There are OpenChrome drivers for F8. They're not install by default. You'll need to use yum to install them. A discussion on the driver can be found here: http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/100370/ If that does not match your situation you should be able to fall back to VESA. Use system-config-display from the CLI.
