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