On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:40:50 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:19:09 +0000 (UTC) I Beartooth wrote:
> Anyway, I suspect the real trouble is misrecognition of the
> monitor. That's an HP w2207h, at 1680x1050; but xrandr reports 800x480.
That much seems now confirmed. Under ssh -Y, I ran yum update,
then xrandr again, and something seems to have helped a little bit :
among the technojabber below, note that 1024x768 is now present, though
still neither right, nor close, nor used.
[root@BBB ~]# xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
0mm x 0mm
1024x768 60.0*+ 60.0
800x600 60.3 59.9 56.2
848x480 59.7
720x480 59.7
640x480 59.9 59.4
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
[root@BBB ~]#
-- but booting still hangs at whatever follows atd.
This is with the KVM switch out of the loop, and the PC connected
directly and alone to all three peripherals.
Try booting run level 3 - that won't try to start the X server.
(edit
/etc/inittab and change the :5: on the last line to :3:).
OK, did that, rebooted; grub found a non-PAE kernel (same
numbers), which wasn't there before; I chose it, and got to a login
prompt, which did at least work.
But what good is running without X going to do me?? I'm
electronically dependent on it, and would be even if *seeing* stuff
weren't a main use of my computers.
I logged in as my userid, ran startx, and got a fatal error.
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and also things called xorg.conf.d both
in /etc and in /usr/share, it says "no drivers available" and also "no
screens found."
You could also look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and see if there
are
any errors that make any sense, but if you are just using it as a
server, maybe you don't need it starting up X anyway.
I must have said it badly. The machine was designed and built as
a server -- and the first thing I had done to it was change that. It's
now just a PC, with two hard drives and very serious fans.
But that's just a misunderstanding, with no blame to you nor
anyone else.
As root via ssh -Y, I did "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|most"; what I
got first included this :
[ 36.234] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Dec 18 $
[ 36.265] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[ 36.265] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 36.265] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg$
[ 36.325] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
[ 36.325] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[ 36.325] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[ 36.325] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 36.325] (==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen Sec$
Using the first device section listed.
[ 36.325] (**) | |-->Device "Videocard0"
[ 36.325] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Se$
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 36.325] (**) Option "AIGLX" "on"
[ 36.325] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 36.325] (==) Automatically enabling devices
The next log page (after scrolling) referred me to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration
-- which appears to be an answer of sorts (bad, very bad; and the only
one, afaik) to protests by several of us here on the list about the
incomprehensible boot messages concerning configuration in recent
releases. It is *not* edifying -- but that's another thread ...
I'll get this much off now, suppressing a rant, and go on looking
through that log for what may look like clues.