Help: Install on AMD 64 creates display wash

[Jim B]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K. Spearel" <kas11 at tampabay.rr.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: Help: Install on AMD 64 creates display wash


> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 05:59, Rory Gleeson wrote:
> > Still no luck getting rid of the graphical wash when booting Fedora.  Any
> > other suggestions would be really welcomed!
> >
> > To recap, I can load Fedora 2 in full graphical mode on to my new AMD64
> > Athlon/K8V se Deluxe/ATI Radeon 9200SE without any problems.
> >
> > However, when I got to boot it, it will start out fine, Grub appears, the
> > text starts to roll and the Fedora (press "i" for Interactive...) appears
> > and then my screen goes away in colour.
> >
> > As suggested below, I also edited Grub, removing "rhgp quieton."  This was
> > initially helpful, as it brought me past the Fedora (press "i" for
> > Interactive...) text and the text kept rolling along right up until the
> > desktop was supposed to kick in.  Then, the screen went awash, again.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue with the ATI card, as suggested,
> > below.  I can load MandrakeMove, SuSE Live and XP Pro on to the box without
> > any problems.
> >
> > Based on another suggestion, in my K8V bios, I turned off USB legacy
> > support, which now allows me to boot in to another couple of distros that I
> > couldn't before.  As an experiment, I also turned of APM and ACPI but it
> > didn't help.  ACPI 2.0 has always be disabled.
> >
> > I have a feeling this is a very small problem I simply can't identify.
> >
> > I'm a newbie, so this is pushing me to the edge of my skillset already and
> > making me wish I stuck with Intel, to be honest.  I'd really appreciate any
> > tips or possible advice.
> >
> > Tired and spent,
> > Rory
> >
> I guess I need to read closer...I didn't notice in previous posts that
> you had one of these K8V *SE* Deluxe boards...It seems to share specs
> with the plain K8V (ie not Deluxe) which are different from the K8V
> Deluxe that is working fine here.  Is anyone else on the list other than
> Jeff and Rory using either a plain K8V or a K8V SE Deluxe?
>
> I can only speculate that perhaps the change in specs (which includes at
> least a different network controller, a different Promise hardware Raid
> controller and no Firewire) might be the cause for the video problems.
> Perhaps Dave Jones or Alan Cox knows if Asus also made changes in the
> AGP bus that is causing video problems.
>
> Were you able to see if running lower resolutions or running startx from
> runlevel 3 helped?
>
> KAS

I have a K8V SE Deluxe and have been running FC1 & FC2 (all the test versions
also).  I have an NVidia 5200 video card.  The main thing that does not work for
me is the Promise controller.  I can not see two 160 GB PATA disks that are
attached to it using FC2.  I have tried RAID and the extended IDE mode with no
disks found.  SATA_Promise reports no disks are found???

As for your screen wash problem, try putting a 3 on the boot line in grub.  This
starts you in console mode and you can then do a 'startx' to see why your
graphics will not start.  I would guess a configuration problem.  You are also
going to see errors from the ethernet controller, but this seems to be a BIOS
firmware bug.  Most everything else seems to be fine with this MoBo.

Jim