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.