[lug] ATI Radeon Video Card

[D. Stimits]

Fred Robinson wrote:
> 
> Not sure who suggested ctrl-alt-F1 but that did it, got me out of X!!!!

Don't forget that once you are at the command line, root can run "init
3" or "init 5" to go back and forth between console-only mode and gui
login mode (it does more than just startx if you use gnome or kdm or
xdm). Runlevels assume RH.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Fred Robinson
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> SandCherry networks
> http://www.sandcherry.com/
> 2845 Wilderness Pl.
> Boulder, CO 80301
> 720.272.5201
> frobinson at sandcherry.com
> 
> http://www.ext.colostate.edu/psel/ps0004a.html
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Stimits [mailto:stimits at idcomm.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:44 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] ATI Radeon Video Card
> 
> "Riggs, Rob" wrote:
> >
> > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should kill the Xserver.
> >
> > Xconfigurator is still shipped with Red Hat. You can invoke that from the
> > command line to custom configure your card and monitor settings.
> >
> > You are booting into runlevel 3 and using startx, rather that booting into
> > runlevel 5 and using gdm, aren't you? If not, edit /etc/inittab and set
> the
> > default runlevel to 3 (find the "initdefault" line).
> 
> Another thing that helps in a pinch, if you are in runlevel 5 and set a
> bad setting and it is cycling, the ctrl-alt-backspace will kill the
> current server but still open a new one with the same bad settings. If
> you have a console prompt opened up somewhere, by root, and type in the
> line "init 3", but do NOT hit the return button, it will be ready to go
> to console-only mode with a tap of the enter key. While the server
> starts cycling, you can still do a ctrl-alt-F1 (or whichever console) to
> get to your root console, and hit enter before it cycles back...you'll
> go to runlevel 3 and console.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fred Robinson [mailto:FRobinson at sandcherry.com]
> > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 11:40 AM
> > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject: [lug] ATI Radeon Video Card
> >
> > Questions:
> > I'm having difficulty getting X Windows, GNOME desktop, to launch after
> > installing KRUD 7.2.  I've installed 7.1 and 7.2 approximately 8 times at
> > this point, trying different combinations of ATI Radeon video cards in the
> > list and differing the RAM settings.  In Linux installations in
> generations
> > past this was a problem with refresh rates, etc., but those parameters
> were
> > configurable in the old installation.  Any suggestions on how to tune my
> ATI
> > Radeon card outside of the installation process?
> >
> > Perhaps someone could provide me with a kill instruction to exit X (when
> > X/GNOME fails the system stalls and I'm left with a geometric helter
> skelter
> > colored screen) and configure X from the command line?  It's been a while
> > since I've experienced this behavior, but again in generations past when X
> > failed you were returned to text/command mode.
> >
> > Or, even better, if someone has successfully installed the AT Radeon and
> can
> > advise how they did it, with 7.1 or 7.2, that would be sweet!
> >
> > Fred Robinson
> > Sr. Systems Engineer
> > SandCherry networks
> > http://www.sandcherry.com/
> > 2845 Wilderness Pl.
> > Boulder, CO 80301
> > 720.272.5201
> > frobinson at sandcherry.com
> >
> > http://www.ext.colostate.edu/psel/ps0004a.html
> >
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