RH 8.0 X server reconfig problem...

[Andrew Mathews]

tom wrote:
> Greets list, Andrew,
> 
> Well, this just sucks.  I guess this computer I'm working
> on has a either as you mentioned, a bad bios, a hardware conflict,
> or a piece of hardware that does not play nice.
> 
> 
> I took a labtop and installed from the RH 8.0 disks I've been
> using on the destop machine. P 2, 300MHZ, 64M ram, 4 G HD.
> 
> RH 8.0 working fine on this labtop.
> 
> Started GUI, started firstboot, modified the settings of 
> few services after installation.  No problems whatsoever.
> 
> So the installation disks I guess are okay.
> 
> But that doesn't explain why Caldera Workstation 3.1.1 OS
> worked well with the same computer.  There's nothing
> different between the installations.
> 
> Grrr!
> 
> I sorry Andrew, I don't know what is different between these
> 2 OS, other than kernel, software, and Daemons. 

That's quite a bit of difference. <g>

> Is there something obvious I'm missing here?
> 
> 
> ---tm---

RH 8.0 is built using gcc 3.2, which may, or may not be an issue. But 
you're a lot further in the diagnosis now. I'd start looking at swapping 
some pieces such as the network card, modem, and especially the video 
card. There's some issues with DRI causing lockups in certain cards, so 
if you have one you can switch with to test, that would be where I would 
start. Older versions of X may be using SVGA or common denominator 
settings (Caldera) whereas RH may be using a more recent version that 
has some more work to be done.
  Anyway, start by removing everything possible hardware wise, then 
adding back one at a time until it repeats. If you really want to use 
8.0 that is. Have you tried 7.3 on this machine? They're both 2.4.18 
kernels, and 7.3 on XFS is what we're using on production servers now. 
If you have the bandwidth to grab the iso's, get them at:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.1/installer/installer/i386/RH7.3-SGI-XFS-1.1.iso 
for the XFS installer image, and
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc1.iso
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc2.iso
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc3.iso
for the os cd's. Or contact me off list for an alternative method.
Isn't this fun? <g>
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