Problems Installing Fedora Core 5 on New Server
Jon Shorie
jshorie at medinaco.org
Thu Apr 13 13:07:22 UTC 2006
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:20:59 -0400, Marlin Borsick wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 12:45 -0400, Jon Shorie wrote:
>> I sent this message to the list a few hours ago, but I did not see it on
>>the email list so I am resending it.
>>
>>
>> I am trying to install Fedora Core 5 on our new server. I am getting the
>> following messages:
>>
>> Probing for video card: Unable to probe
>> Probing for monitor type: Optiquest V95
>> Probing for mouse type: Generic PS/2 Mouse
>> No video hardware found, assuming headless
>>
>> I have tried 4 different video cards but problem is still happening.
>>
>> Here is the hardware.
>> Motherboard ASUS P5VDC-MX
>> Chipset P4M800MPro
>> Processor Pentium D 805
>> Memory (2) Corsair DDR2 PC4200 1GB each for a total of
>>2GB
>> Network Card Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop 10/100/1000 Gigabit PCI
>>Adapter
>>
>>
>> Video Cards attempted:
>> Nvidia Geforce MX4000 AGP
>> Nvidia TNT2-M64AGP
>> Matrox Millenium 2 PCI
>> Onboard Video
>> When I try to use the AGP Slot, the onboard vide is disabled.
>>
>> Any Suggestions?
>>
>Sorry for the slow reply <G>
>This is a kernel issue that several of us have been looking into. From
>what dialogue we've had, apparently two slots on the motherboard is
>disabled as the kernel doesn't know how the handle the motherboard. We
>see the problem occurs with sound not working, but did not see until now
>video problems. I am using AGP video, but have been having video
>instability that is probably the same as you are getting though at least
>I get video.
>Within the next several hours when I get the chance, I will make a post
>on both the RH Kernel and Linux Kernel lists to get a resolution started
>with this.
>BTW, we are all using the same motherboard as you are...
Thank you for the reply. I have gotten a text mode install and got the
onboard network card to work. I still cannot get any video card to work on
the server as well as the SATA hard drives or any PCI card.
I will probably put this motherboard in a windows desktop. Does anyone know
of a motherboard that sells for $50-$100 that is Socket 775 and works
properly with Fedora Core 5. I need the pci slots to work as well as both
ide and serial ATA.
Gigabyte, Asus, A-Bit, MSI, or Intel would be preferred. We have had problems
with ECS, PC-Chips, Chaintek, Mercury, and Syntax in the past and I would
prefer to stay away from them.
Thank you
Jon Shorie
Medina County Sanitary Engineers
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