X / video not working

[andybillington]

Hi,
Just installed FC2 on an AMD64 (MSI K8N Neo board, nvidia 5750 graphics, SATA drive) and the installer says "No monitor detecteded, assuming headless". Given that I'm reading that message on the attached monitor - something somewhere is wrong!

Have tried running redhat-config-XFree86 "No Screens Detected", there is no xorg.conf file, and yes I've updated the latest nVidia driver for the GPU.

All suggestions gratefully received !! Pls email andy(at)obusplc.com :confused:
Thanks in advance,
Andy

[bobjunga]

Hi Andy,

I don't have any insight on your problem, but I am about to by the same Mobo as you (MSI K8N) for use with FC2. Have you been able to work through your problems? Would you recomend the MSI K8N now that you have tried it? I am going to use it as a server and will not run X.

I am curious if you got all the peripherals working -- USB, Firewire, GigEthernet, SATA Raid?

--BobG

[andybillington]

Hi Andy,

I don't have any insight on your problem, but I am about to by the same Mobo as you (MSI K8N) for use with FC2. Have you been able to work through your problems? Would you recomend the MSI K8N now that you have tried it? I am going to use it as a server and will not run X.

I am curious if you got all the peripherals working -- USB, Firewire, GigEthernet, SATA Raid?

--BobG

Haven't tried SATA RAID but the single SATA drive - a nice, small 400GB Hitachi deskstar - works just fine. Not got to other stuff yet, trying to fix X problem which it seems is not motherboard related - found another thread with nVidia driver problems.

[tashirosgt]

Do you have the primary graphics adapter set to PCI or AGP in the Bios? I don't know that this would solve your problem, but its worth a try. Was your graphics card working under Windows or is Linux the only try?

Two of my MSI K8N problems were cured by fiddling with the Bios.
First with the "Elixir" brand DDR400 memory chip, I got kenel panics during install. Setting the entry in the "Cell Menu" that put the memory clock from "auto" to 166 fixed the memory problems, as verified by memtest86+ (free from memest.org).

The machine would recognize the Mitsumi PS/2 Scroll mouse but not the PS/2 Optical Mouse. After disabling USB keyboard and USB mouse in the Bios and booting with the optical mouse attached , it worked fine without any further configuration.

Kudzu sometimes detected the external US Robotics modem, but I had to link /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS0 from the command line. The kppp configuration took several tries. I was using a dynamic DNS with Redhat 9, but this doesn't work on the kppp that ships with Fedora. Set the ip addresses of the nameservers manually.

When I had an nvidia Geforce2 based card in the machine, the machine hung frequently, always just after a pop-up menus appeared - for example, as I was trying to register with this forum, it hung. I change the video driver from "nv" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to "mga", put in a Matrox G400 PCI video card, set the primary adapter to be PCI in the bios and have had no system hangs yet.

I haven't tried the WiFi, Sata, or Gigabyte ethernet yet.