How do I tell RH9 not to start pcmcia on boot, it hangs.

**Bricker** · 06-12-2003

I have an HP ze4145 laptop and installed RH9 and it just hangs on

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starting pcmcia

during the boot seqeunce. I don't have any pcmcia cards and just want to keep it from trying to start that so my system will boot hopefully.
Thanks

**Dolda2000** · 06-12-2003

Press I to enter interactive startup. Then you can tell it not to start pcmcia. Then, when your system has booted, you can remove pcmcia completely from the startup sequence with this command:

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rm -f /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/S??pcmcia

**Bricker** · 06-12-2003

Ok, When it says to hit 'I' to go into interactive mode I do and it doesn't listen. It just prints an I to the screen everytime I hit it. I'm using Grub to load with. It seems to be recognizing the key press of the I but it isn't going into interactive mode.

**Dolda2000** · 06-12-2003

OK, that's strange. It is supposed to print an I everytime you press it, and still enter interactive mode. You should be pressing I _before_ it prints "entering runlevel 5".

**Bricker** · 06-12-2003

I'll look for the line. Maybe I'm pressing it at the wrong time.

**Bricker** · 06-12-2003

Ok, I got to the interactive and bypassed it then it says it cannot start the Xserver.

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No devices found

It tries to run it again and it is using the driver for the video I specified but i noticed on the display parameters that it says

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none

for the vertical and horizontal refresh rates.

I am currently sitting at the prompt logged in as root.

**Bricker** · 06-12-2003

By the way I specified ATI Radeon UI which is to my knowledge the right driver and Generic Laptop screen 1024x768 during install.

**Dolda2000** · 06-12-2003

Try running xf86cfg to configure your X server.
Or, run "X -configure" and follow the instruction it will give you to see if that produces a usable configuration.

**Bricker** · 06-12-2003

Ok.

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xf86cfg

Gives an unrecognized command message.

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X -configure

Takes me to a black screen and does nothing and my caps lock light is blinking. I cannot issue any commands. ctrl-alt-del, etc.

**Bricker** · 06-12-2003

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ddcprobe returned bogus values

Is what I get right before

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Name&#58; Color LCD
HorizSync&#58; None
VertSync&#58; None

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