Re: ibm server black screen console
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:20:42 -0400, Joey wrote in message
<[🔎] CAK3ER7uFqifbOu2xr-W9iZfqGpEO5VxTqG0=1Z71u2Nevr9PYg@mail.gmail.com>:
> None of these revealed anything of use to me.
> Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ?
..me, no. Are you saying booting with "verbose" instead of "quiet"
doesn't give you any more output in dmesg or in the logs???
> With the RSA board ?? I really feel that the console is being sent to
> that board and not to the regular vga port.
> Just have no way of confirming this.
> Can anyone else offer some advice ?
> thanks
> mjh
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:04:31 -0400, Joey wrote in message
> > <[🔎] CAK3ER7uRmYeZ59SRrghGVcUmuRaGBzMhkKeCmOGr=OLTtUo+qA@mail.gmail.com>:
> >
> >> > Looking at the messages above, you have an ATI Radeon-based video
> >> > card. 'lspci' should confirm that.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for your quick response ...i got the following back -
> >>
> >> 01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev
> >> 02)
> >>
> >> But do not know where to go from here.
> >> People are working on the server right now - so can not reboot it.
> >>
> >> my current grub line is this:
> >>
> >> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
> >> root=UUID=8f86f3f1-b453-4801-ac5c-a5a86135256f ro quiet
> >
> > ..drop the "quiet" and boot, if that doesn't tell you enough,
> > try another boot with "verbose" instead of "quiet".
> >
> >>
> >> you would like me to change it to:
> >>
> >> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
> >> root=UUID=8f86f3f1-b453-4801-ac5c-a5a86135256f ro quiet
> >> video=radeon:off
> >>
> >> am I right ?
> >>
> >>
> >> But I have googled the issue - it is out there - there are some
> >> suggestions about doing stuff with Xorg.conf file - but do not
> >> understand at all.
> >>
> >> Can you or anyone give me some pointers -- if your earlier
> >> suggestions does not work ?
> >>
> >>
> >> thanks
> >> mjh
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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