[CentOS] install

[Matt Morgan]

On 12/5/05, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/5/05, John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
> > I just complete an install of 2.6.9-11.EL i686
> > On reboot, I get a couple of minor errors:
> > smartd [FAILED]  (not sure what this is)
> >
> > and then an error saying that no X server could be started (I installed
> > using the graphical install and selected 'everything' as a first-time
> > install)
> >
> > The error states:
> > (EE) VIA(0): No valid modes found.
> > According to the detail output, VIA seems to get loaded ok, then funs
> > through every possible video mode and fails with the following two lines
> > repeated for each mode:
> > (II) VIA(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode
> > clock/interface/doublescan)
> > (II) VIA(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (hsync out of range)
> > according to the output, it successfully reads a DEL Model 7004, and gives a
> > max h-image size of horz 31, vert 23 .
> > (it's a 15" display).
> >
> > I'm not sure how to track this down.  Any input is appreciated.
>
>
> What type of computer is it(what's the hardware inside, video card etc)?
>
> Smartd is a disk health monitoring tool. It doesn't work well with
> SATA drives yet, or SCSI drives, so if you have one of these, you can
> safely ignore/disable it.

And if you have IDE, it may just be that smart is disabled in the
computer's BIOS so smartd has nothing to communicate with.