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. As for why X isn't starting, I'm not sure. it should prompt you to configure it at first boot. Its possible that it can't load the proper modules, but we'd need specifics to know for sure. -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center