Re: ibm server black screen console

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:20:42 -0400, Joey wrote in message
<CAK3ER7uFqifbOu2xr-W9iZfqGpEO5VxTqG0=1Z71u2Nevr9PYg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

None of these revealed anything of use to me.
Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ?

..me, no. Are you saying booting with "verbose" instead of "quiet"
doesn't give you any more output in dmesg or in the logs???

With the RSA board ?? I really feel that the console is being sent to
that board and not to the regular vga port.
Just have no way of confirming this.
Can anyone else offer some advice ?
thanks
mjh

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Arnt Karlsen <arnt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:04:31 -0400, Joey wrote in message
<CAK3ER7uRmYeZ59SRrghGVcUmuRaGBzMhkKeCmOGr=OLTtUo+qA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Looking at the messages above, you have an ATI Radeon-based video
card. 'lspci' should confirm that.


Thanks for your quick response ...i got the following back -

01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev
02)

But do not know where to go from here.
People are working on the server right now - so can not reboot it.

my current grub line is this:

      linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
root=UUID=8f86f3f1-b453-4801-ac5c-a5a86135256f ro  quiet

..drop the "quiet" and boot, if that doesn't tell you enough,
try another boot with "verbose" instead of "quiet".


you would like me to change it to:

      linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
root=UUID=8f86f3f1-b453-4801-ac5c-a5a86135256f ro  quiet
video=radeon:off

am I right ?


But I have googled the issue - it is out there - there are some
suggestions about doing stuff with Xorg.conf file - but do not
understand at all.

Can you or anyone give me some pointers -- if your earlier
suggestions does not work ?


thanks
mjh




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