Hi, I’m having lots of problems getting my Epox-D3VA with two 933Mhz Pentiums to boot correctly with Redhat 7.3. The default canned kernel 2.4.18-3 fails, as does the later 2.4.18-10. I have tried to compile my own kernel with 2.4.19, but using the config files (and updating) from the Redhat 2.4.18 source (this may be a mistake?), but same problem
Basically it boots up to the point where it should start X, and then the X server fails to initialise and it just sits in a loop “flashing” the screen. Output from var/log/messages is as follows:
Sep 2 10:57:01 Desktop kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
Sep 2 10:57:01 Desktop kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
Sep 2 10:57:01 Desktop kernel: agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro chipset
Sep 2 10:57:01 Desktop kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd8000000
Sep 2 10:57:01 Desktop kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 on VIA Apollo Pro @ 0xd8000000 64MB
Sep 2 10:57:01 Desktop kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 0
Sep 2 10:57:01 Desktop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13
Sep 2 10:57:03 Desktop kdm[1257]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay
Sep 2 10:57:03 Desktop kdm[1248]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Sep 2 10:57:03 Desktop kdm[1248]: Display :0 cannot be opened
Sep 2 10:57:03 Desktop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134
Sep 2 10:57:05 Desktop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13
Sep 2 10:57:08 Desktop kdm[1268]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay
Sep 2 10:57:08 Desktop kdm[1248]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Sep 2 10:57:08 Desktop kdm[1248]: Display :0 cannot be opened
Sep 2 10:57:08 Desktop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134
Sep 2 10:57:10 Desktop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13
….repeats…
I tried to recompile my kernel without power saving and joystick (which I think is what might be the problem?), but no change. Curiously an identical kernel compile, but changing the single SMP option works fine.
The biggest clue is perhaps that during bootup, the new hardware thingy pops up and says that my USB mouse is missing, and sure enough in /var/log/messages even the console mouse driver fails to initialise. Could it be that USB mice are somehow not supported under SMP and the missing mouse is causing the X server to fail…?
Other things which were no help: tried disabling all power management in the bios, and changed from MPS1.4 to 1.1
Machine also has an Adaptec card to power a scanner, Creative Audigy soundcard (no drivers installed though), and a Radeon All-In_Wonder AGP graphics card.
Any help appreciated!
Ed W
