Intel mobile 965 chipset on RHEL 5

[dnsanjeewa]

After I successfully installed RHEL 5 on my hp compaq 6720s, I can only log in to text mode only. Video card is Intel mobile 965 chipset. Can anyone help me to login to GUI by configuring Xserver?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Execute this

system-config-display --reconfig

Configure display settings. Execute startx command to check GUI.
In case it doesn't work, try vesa driver instead of intel.

[dnsanjeewa]

Your code didn't start xserver and gives a fatal error saying,

couldn't start x server on Card0
Error failed to start X server


Anyway my xorg.conf is given below.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Screen0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Also with kudzu -p -class=VIDEO gives out,

class : Video
bus : pci
detached : 0
desc : "Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller"
VendorId : 8086
deviceId : 2a03
SubvendorId :103c
SubDeviceId : 30d8
pcitype : 1
pcidom : 0
pcibus : 0
pcidev : 2
pcifn : 1


class : Video
bus : pci
detached : 0
desc : "Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller"
VendorId : 8086
deviceId : 2a02
SubvendorId :103c
SubDeviceId : 30d8
pcitype : 1
pcidom : 0
pcibus : 0
pcidev : 2
pcifn : 0

Have any ideas to fire up GUI, please.

[devils casper]

couldn't start x server on Card0
Error failed to start X server

Is that output of startx command?
Have you tried intel or i810 driver instead of "vesa".

[dnsanjeewa]

using "intel" or "i810" gave no results.Sorry. But after trying several hours finally i was able to fire GUI. Here is my way,

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "LCD Panel 1024x768"
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
	HorizSync    48.0 - 48.0
	VertRefresh  60.0 - 60.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

After I edit the xorg.conf in that way and started

startx

Wow, i'm in GUI and everything working,BUT when i try to shutdown or restart from GUI, system crashes with green screen. Also i couldn't do it using a terminal from GUI. ctrl+alt+backspace or ctrl+alt+F1 also gives no results. Any ideas?

[devils casper]

Are you passing vga parameter to kernel?
Open /boot/grub/grub.conf file and post kernel line here.

Execute this

su -
grep -i initdefault /etc/inittab

Post output here.

[dnsanjeewa]

My out put for the "grep -i initdefault /etc/inittab" is

#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
id:3:initdefault:

[dnsanjeewa]

Couldn't reply in one piece coz i hav no Linux wireless drivers for my Broadcom 4311AG card. Kernel ouput is,

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

Suppose that is not enough.
Thanx.

[devils casper]

log in as root and open /etc/inittab file.
Replace line

id:3:initdefault

with

id:5:initdefault

Open /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add vga=773 at the end of file. Remove quiet and rhgb words.

Start a new thread for Wireless driver problem in Wireless Forum.

[dnsanjeewa]

Your method was not successful. Sorry. It still crashes. I can get in to GUI with booting in to runlevel 5 by editing /etc/inittab, but can't restart or shutdown. Any ideas?