Re: Strange screen cause the system to hang during boot
From: Peter (pethunholm_at_msn.com)
Date: 04/06/04
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Date: 6 Apr 2004 03:02:09 -0700
rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks.com (Rod Smith) wrote in message news:<qb7s4c-
> A text-mode "localhost login:" is a Linux text-mode login prompt. When
> the screen clears, chances are the system is TRYING to start X, and when
> the "login:" prompt returns, the attempt to start X has failed. Normally,
> after a few tries most distributions give up and give you a text-mode
> login, but it sounds like something's gone badly wrong and corrupted your
> video card's text-mode display by that time.
>
>
> Ordinarily at a "login:" prompt you should be able to type your username
> at the keyboard to log in. If you can't, then chances are either the
> computer's hung or the keyboard's not working. If you haven't tried
> typing your username, though, do so. Ctrl-Alt-F1 is what you type to
> bring up this very prompt, so if you've done nothing but type
> Ctrl-Alt-F1, it's not surprising that nothing's happened. ;-)
>
> > Since the computer doesn't have any original USB card there is a PCI
> > usb card installed. Maybe this causing problem for linux? During boot
> > sequensy linux say that it's installing USB keyboard and USB mouse, so
> > therefore it causing the system to hang or maybe not only takes
> > command from the keyboard at the login prompt?
>
> Are you saying you've got a USB keyboard? On the x86 platform, those are
> pretty rare. Still, I'd expect RH8 to be recent enough to have decent USB
> keyboard support, but maybe not... Does your USB card have a BIOS in
> which you can set options? If so, try fiddling with any "legacy keyboard"
> options it might have. If not, can you try a PS/2 keyboard? Even just
> using one temporarily might let you update your Linux kernel to one with
> better USB keyboard support or add appropriate options to enable better
> support using the provided software, if that's the problem.
>
> Another option is to use another distribution -- either a more recent one
> in the RH line (like Fedora Core 1) or a different one entirely (SuSE,
> Mandrake, Debian, or whatever). Unfortunately, I have no specific
> suggestions for distributions with good USB keyboard support. Also, one
> problem with this approach is that an old 200MHz computer will likely be
> very slow with modern versions of KDE and GNOME. You'll want to stick
> with older versions of these environments or use slimmer desktop
> environments (like XFce) or even raw window managers (like IceWM or
> WindowMaker). You can worry about that later, though; for now, the
> priority is obviously to get you logged in!
Thanks Rod for taking the time to help me.
I dont have any USB keybord but I have a additional PCI USB card
installed so I thought that this caused the problem. I removed the
card and installed RH 8.0 again but still same problem so it's
obviously not the USB card.
However now I found out that I'm able to switch to text mode login
promt by means of hitting Alt+F1 and come back to the blue crashed
screen with Alt+F7. I've learned that this switch between X-windows
and textmode. In textmode I'm able to log in and also able to check my
system files for the graphical card and I been fiddeling around but
I'm rather lost and don't know where to check?
The reason why Linux X-windows crash is the graphical card as you
previously suggested! My graphical card of type S3 86C775 Trio64V2/DX
which caused others problem to! I haven't been able to find any
solution to it. I posted another query to this forum regarding the
trio card also as you maybe have seen. Also I been trying different
drivers but still I cant get it to work? What driver do the
installation disk use?
What do you think is the best way to proceed? Install newer version of
RH like Fedora? Maybe best and easiest way out is to install another
graphical card?
Hope for more help and thanks again.
It's like you said previously
S3 86C775 Trio64V2/DX
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