rhgb not working

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:10:27AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:39:24PM +0400, Vano Beridze wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I've got
> > Fedora Core 1
> > NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX400 (Driver from NVIDIA)
> > uname -a
> > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2129.nptl #1 Mon Dec 1 08:46:47 EST 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I rebooted but nothing happens, there is no graphical boot.
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > Have I some package missing?
> 
> Probably not. I hit the same thing with the same card, except that I
> use the nv driver in XFree86. I see the normal POST, etc, then GRUB
> with its screen. Then the screen goes blank. If boot is sucessful and
> I boot to run level 5, I eventually get the login screen. If boot is
> sucessful and I boot to run level 3, or boot fails and hangs up or
> goes into a rescue shell, I never see anything and have to reboot.
> 
> If you install a PCI video card (Matrox Millenium, in my case), you
> should see the system boot to the PCI card normally. My motherboard
> (ASUS A7V8X-X, with VIA KT400, VIA VT8235) selected the PCI card over
> the AGP card for boot, so I did not have to remove the AGP card; yours
> may do the same. That let me get the boot working correctly and time
> it.
> 
> I now boot "blind" but know how long it should take. Gnrrr.
> 
> I did not know about the "GRAPHICAL=yes" line in /etc/sysconfig/init,
> so I have not tried changing it to "no".


Paul Moir found a solution: In your BIOS, turn off APM ("Power
Management:  OFF").

Now, do we file a bug with ASUS?

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