I'm trying to install a newly downloaded Centos 5.4 on an older Dell PowerEdge 300. Unfortunately, it came with one of those ATI Rage 2.0 video cards. The install screens show fine, and the initial screen does fine, but once it starts the "firstboot" section, where I'm supposed to select the firewall and such, I get two thirds of the top of the screen and a repeat of the top third on the bottom. Hence I don't get the bottom third where all of the selection buttons are.
Anybody have a clue how to get around this?
Steve Campbell
Steve Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to install a newly downloaded Centos 5.4 on an older Dell PowerEdge 300. Unfortunately, it came with one of those ATI Rage 2.0 video cards. The install screens show fine, and the initial screen does fine, but once it starts the "firstboot" section, where I'm supposed to select the firewall and such, I get two thirds of the top of the screen and a repeat of the top third on the bottom. Hence I don't get the bottom third where all of the selection buttons are.
Anybody have a clue how to get around this?
You mean R300 ? Try installing using a serial console.
nate
nate wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to install a newly downloaded Centos 5.4 on an older Dell PowerEdge 300. Unfortunately, it came with one of those ATI Rage 2.0 video cards. The install screens show fine, and the initial screen does fine, but once it starts the "firstboot" section, where I'm supposed to select the firewall and such, I get two thirds of the top of the screen and a repeat of the top third on the bottom. Hence I don't get the bottom third where all of the selection buttons are.
Anybody have a clue how to get around this?
You mean R300 ? Try installing using a serial console.
nate
nate, thanks but...
R300?
Don't have or know what a serial monitor is also.
I found a link to something on google that sort of suggests it's a problem with the xorg.conf file and the monitor, not the video adapter. I'll see if I can't get it resolved and report back.
steve
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 14:44 -0500, Steve Campbell wrote:
nate wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to install a newly downloaded Centos 5.4 on an older Dell PowerEdge 300. Unfortunately, it came with one of those ATI Rage 2.0 video cards. The install screens show fine, and the initial screen does fine, but once it starts the "firstboot" section, where I'm supposed to select the firewall and such, I get two thirds of the top of the screen and a repeat of the top third on the bottom. Hence I don't get the bottom third where all of the selection buttons are.
Anybody have a clue how to get around this?
You mean R300 ? Try installing using a serial console.
nate
nate, thanks but...
R300?
Don't have or know what a serial monitor is also.
I found a link to something on google that sort of suggests it's a problem with the xorg.conf file and the monitor, not the video adapter. I'll see if I can't get it resolved and report back.
If your only problem is that you can't get to buttons on the bottom of the screen, try "alt-left-mouse-button" to drag the window around on the screen to see the parts that are hidden.
steve
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Ron Loftin wrote:
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 14:44 -0500, Steve Campbell wrote:
nate wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to install a newly downloaded Centos 5.4 on an older Dell PowerEdge 300. Unfortunately, it came with one of those ATI Rage 2.0 video cards. The install screens show fine, and the initial screen does fine, but once it starts the "firstboot" section, where I'm supposed to select the firewall and such, I get two thirds of the top of the screen and a repeat of the top third on the bottom. Hence I don't get the bottom third where all of the selection buttons are.
Anybody have a clue how to get around this?
You mean R300 ? Try installing using a serial console.
nate
nate, thanks but...
R300?
Don't have or know what a serial monitor is also.
I found a link to something on google that sort of suggests it's a problem with the xorg.conf file and the monitor, not the video adapter. I'll see if I can't get it resolved and report back.
If your only problem is that you can't get to buttons on the bottom of the screen, try "alt-left-mouse-button" to drag the window around on the screen to see the parts that are hidden.
steve
I think I fixed it. The problem seems to have been a problem with the "Monitor" section not being created in the xorg.conf file during installation due to it not being detected properly. I copied a section from an older Centos 3 XF86Config file and it seemed to do just fine.
This problem has been around since 5.0, as far as I could determine
steve
Steve Campbell wrote, On 11/09/2009 03:40 PM:
Ron Loftin wrote:
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 14:44 -0500, Steve Campbell wrote:
nate wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to install a newly downloaded Centos 5.4 on an older Dell PowerEdge 300. Unfortunately, it came with one of those ATI Rage 2.0 video cards. The install screens show fine, and the initial screen does fine, but once it starts the "firstboot" section, where I'm supposed to select the firewall and such, I get two thirds of the top of the screen and a repeat of the top third on the bottom. Hence I don't get the bottom third where all of the selection buttons are.
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I found a link to something on google that sort of suggests it's a problem with the xorg.conf file and the monitor, not the video adapter. I'll see if I can't get it resolved and report back.
<SNIP>
I think I fixed it. The problem seems to have been a problem with the "Monitor" section not being created in the xorg.conf file during installation due to it not being detected properly. I copied a section from an older Centos 3 XF86Config file and it seemed to do just fine.
This problem has been around since 5.0, as far as I could determine
steve
And is probably still around in Fedora 12, so if we want CentOS 6 (and the upstream provider's version 6) to have it right, we should probably hit the hardware with some live CD's and BZ the results. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00106.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532842 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493441
I would have piled on, with info from a live CD, but my bugzilla account has gotten buggered by some .mil address protection schem.
Steve Campbell wrote:
R300?
Dell PowerEdge R300
Don't have or know what a serial monitor is also.
Null modem cable from the serial port to another system running a terminal emulator, and installing via text mode.
You could also try editing the grub config from the boot menu and disabling any vga options in there, also you could boot to single user mode and make sure X doesn't load on boot by setting the runlevel to 3 in /etc/inittab
nate
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