I just rebooted after the install. The bar at the progress bar at the bottom of the screen is stuck. There is a white, blue, and orange bar and Centos 6.3 is in orange. I did press <alt-d> to watch the startup, and everything seemed to have been progressing OK. Then the bar came back and nothing. I tried <alt-d> again and nothing. So I switched terminals, <alt-F3> and got a login, and am now logged in as root. Nothing is being reported being added to /var/log/messages. Terminals F2-F6 are present; F7 is a blank screeen. hmmmm. I see something intersting in /var/log/Xorg.5.log it says something like: (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa (--) using VT number 7 (EE) The PCI device has a kernel module claiming it, (EE) this driver cannot operate until it has been unloaded. (EE) Try appending "nomodest" to your boot options (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found ... Now what?
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:03 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote:> (EE) Try appending "nomodest" to your boot options-- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!
On 12/05/2012 01:03 AM, Frank Cox wrote:> On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:03 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> (EE) Try appending "nomodest" to your boot optionsHow exactly do I do this?
On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:14:06 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote:> > On 12/05/2012 01:03 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:03 -0500 > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > >> (EE) Try appending "nomodest" to your boot options > How exactly do I do this?Either type e at the grub screen and enter nomodeset, or edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add nomodeset to that. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!
On 12/05/2012 01:24 AM, Frank Cox wrote:> On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:14:06 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> On 12/05/2012 01:03 AM, Frank Cox wrote: >>> On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:03 -0500 >>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>>> (EE) Try appending "nomodest" to your boot options >> How exactly do I do this? > Either type e at the grub screen and enter nomodeset, or > edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add nomodeset to that.This did not work either. So I did a reinstall and selected the Desktop option then added the servers I wanted. The video came up just fine. Obviously I was not selecting all the necessary things to install going the other way. thanks.