Random Screen Blank on startup all the Time.
by Ragone_Andrew
I have posted to Bugzilla but have not gotten any replies. I am wondering if anyone is familiar with this problem:
Description of problem:
I have an error where the screen blacks out [seems to turn off all
output to the monitor] after a certain period of time whether I am
activly using my system or it is idle. I need to either restart the
computer to regain functionality or SOMETIMES i can Ctrl-Alt-F7 or F8
and it will switch back into the X session I had been running.
Otherwise Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesnt even bring up the shell,
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesnt restart X, and the keyboard seems to not
function [i know this because no keyboard lights go on for Num/Caps
lock]. It occurs after my installation of FC2 x86_64 today and I
origianlly thought it may be the wrong monitor that I specificed, but
I returned to generic and it still occurs. I am running a PCI ATI
All-In-Wonder Radeon [i believe 7000 series] on a FC2 AMD Athlon64
system with x86_64.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
default FC2 x86_64 release
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install FC2 on x86_64
2. Boot up X and logon
3. Use the computer for 10-20 minutes or let it be idle and will find
the screen go blank
Actual Results: Screen goes blank. Usually keyboard is unrepsonsive
to X restart commands or Shell keycodes.
Expected Results: X continue to function normally. No reason for the
screen to go blank. The drivers and config SEEM to be correct as it
takes time for this issue to occue.
Additional info:
Have tried to reconfigure the monitor display. Didnt work.
-Andrew
19 years, 11 months
FAQ Question? Any FC2 programmers read this?
by Marc Lucke
Stupid question - probably an RTFA one at that so sorry in advance -
would this list be looked at by any one of the Fedora coders? There are
many basic Q&As which is good but is there another place for me to ask
or relate my problem/s?
19 years, 11 months
Re: Fedora Core 2 and P4C800 mobo
by Mark Fuller
From: "Lukasz Szelag" <javaguy1974(a)hotmail.com>
> I read about the bug in FD2 release which prevents it from being
> installed on a P4C800 system. I was wondering if there are any solutions
> to this, for example installing FC1 first and then upgrading to FD2?
I believe the problem you read about is with the ASUS P4P800. I have the
"P4C800 E Deluxe" and installed FC2 without any problems.[1]
It might also be important to distinguish between "Deluxe" and "E Deluxe"
for both boards. I don't know if the P4P800's problem is only with the "E
Deluxe" models or not. Or, if it extends to non-"E Deluxe" models of P4C800.
All I know is FC2 installed on my "P4C800 E Deluxe" (Radeon 9000, normal IDE
hard drive (non-raid), Buslink DVD DVRW412RD).
[1] Actually, I had one problem. I upgraded my bios prior to installing FC2.
I also *excessively* disabled everything in the bios. FC2 installed but eth0
(a card, not the built-in lan on the motherboard) wouldn't come up. It
failed dhcp to my router. I reset the bios values to the default and eth0
began working. I'm not sure if the bios upgrade caused the confusion (and
reseting the bios values to their defaults straightned things up), or if I
disabled something in the bios (and reseting the bios values re-enabled it).
I have a vague recollection of a similar bios upgrade being confused until
the bios default values were restored. I'm thinking it was the bios upgrade
(and not resetting the bios values) that caused my problem.
Mark
19 years, 11 months
Topics about VIA VT8235 and Realtek 8139 devices
by john brennan-sardou
Thanks for your posting about sound on the motherboard. I have the same
setup and of course no sound. Not being Alain Cox could you please give
more clear details on how to get sound and get rid of the problem. Like
just where exactly in the modprobe.conf do I put the "index= etc line.
And just what are duplicate lines? Thanks in advance, John Brennan-Sardou.
19 years, 11 months
200 GB Maxtor drive (48bit LBA) ?
by Paul Reilly
I'm trying to install Fedora Core 2 on a system with a Maxtor
200 GB drive. The BIOS detects the 200 GB capacity of the drive,
but the Fedora Core 2 kernel doesn't. This is odd, since RH9 does.
It appears that 48bit LBA is not enabled in the kernel on the FC2
disks. Can anyone confirm this? Whats the best way to workaround it?
Thanks
Paul
19 years, 11 months
Suspend or hibernate - how?
by Leon Stringer
Hi,
With FC2, can you suspend to disk or RAM without any additional patches?
If so what's the command?
I've been searching on this and as far as I can see FC2 includes ACPI
support but no way hibernate.
If there is a way, shouldn't the Battery Charge Monitor applet include
this in the "Suspend command" setting (instead of a command which
doesn't work. i.e. /usr/bin/apm -s).
Anyone got this going reliably with the default install or with patches?
Leon...
(Using FC2 on a Tecra 9000).
19 years, 11 months
Booting from 120 GB USB External Hard Drive
by Rick Bilonick
Is there any way to install Fedora to a 120 GB hard drive and boot from
it? When I try to install, Fedora does not see the USB drive. How can I
get this to work?
Rick B.
19 years, 11 months
Installing Fedora 2
by jli@mail.ratio-it.nl
Hi,
How can I install Fedora 2 making use off a floppy bootdisk.
The Images that I see are extending the size off a floppy.
Can somebody tell what to use the system that I want to install doesn't
support booting from CDRom
Rgds,
John
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19 years, 11 months
RE: FC2 on Intel 440GX (was FC1 on Intel 440GX)
by MW Mike Weiner (5028)
On Behalf Of Florin Andrei
> If i had to rebuild the installer boot disk again for FC2 i'd be
pissed.
> :-)
> Luckily, all you have to do is enter "linux acpi=force" at the FC2
installer boot prompt.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107880
> Don't upgrade, but backup/reinstall. It's your only chance to clean up
the cruft.
> Also, just look at the mailing list archives and see all those horror
stories from people who choose to upgrade instead > of doing a clean
reinstall. Like: "i upgraded to FC2, and now my Gnome menus are all
mangled". Doh, you reap what you
> sow. ;-)
> Upgrade seems to be used as the lazy one's path, instead of being a
last-chance method (when, for really _objective_
> reasons, backup and reinstall from scratch is impossible).
> The only things that i carry over from one version to another,
unchanged, are a few application's directories
> (Evolution) and files (Mozilla bookmarks, Gaim nicknames caches), etc.
The rest gets rebuilt from scratch.
> In an ideal world (people knowing what they do, etc.), upgrade would
be used like 100 times less often than it is now.
Well fortunately for me, these are SERVER installs, and as such, I do
not care about gnome/kde and the like. All I care about are
server-related pieces and as such, those UPGRADE fine almost 100% of the
time with limited nuances. Besides, in my specific case there is no
CRUFT on the box, as it was a CLEAN install of FC1 to begin with, and
all I did was yum upgrade the box to FC2, any CRUFT left over is very
very minimal if not non-existant. And when you are doing over 500
servers, backups are just not feasible, nor a good way to spend my time
- if I loose a box, I simply DD another working server to a new disk,
and whala that bad box is back up and happy - I have a saying ["... Look
ma' NO BACKUPS!!!" mweiner(a)ag.com].
Anyway, the intent of the initial email was NOT to begin a thread on the
proper way to install/upgrade/update an OS, as there are as many methods
to perform this as for any given instance of one's needs. I was merely
probing to see if Greg Wildman had a chance to upgrade or even "think"
about re-doing his original work. Agreed, there is no real need provided
the acpi=force option works 100% of the time - I will soon see.
Michael Weiner
19 years, 11 months